Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Weird Idea. The applause was sweeter still because so many people had expressed doubts for so long. Slight and bashful, Lucas hardly fits the image of the Hollywood director, and he had made only two pictures before: THX 1138 and American Graffiti. Though the latter became the eleventh highest grosser of all time, Universal, the studio that financed it, believed that Lucas had gone, well, too far out when he handed in a twelve-page outline for Star Wars in 1973. "I've always been an outsider to the Hollywood types," he explains. "They think I do weirdo films...
...part of Lucas' nature. It was not fun for him to put the fun into Star Wars. He made his first two movies on small budgets and with small casts. Star Wars employed 900 people and forced him to become what he loathes: a big-time Hollywood director. "I found the experience excruciatingly painful," he says, "and I've discovered what I knew all along: I am not a film director. I'm a film maker. A film director is somebody who directs people-large operations. I like to sit down behind a camera and shoot pretty...
...audiences this summer, almost all of them-with much bigger budgets. In the next couple of months, two blockbuster war movies, Mac Arthur and A Bridge Too Far (which cost almost three times as much as Lucas' film), will open with their own galaxies of stars-old-fashioned Hollywood stars. In addition, there will be underwater adventure in The Deep, straight suspense in The Sorcerer (William Friedkin's remake of that wonderful old French movie The Wages of Fear), and devilish terror in Exorcist II: The Heretic...
George Lucas represents a new force in Hollywood-moviemakers who received their training in the film schools, not the studios. With Francis Ford Coppola, 38, as elder statesman heading a core group of four directors, the new artisans form a tightly knit tribe, remarkably-Tree of fraternal competition. Together, they have almost taken over the industry. Coppola scored with The Godfather, Martin Scorsese, 34, with Taxi Driver, and Steven Spielberg, 30, with Jaws, the top-grossing film of all time. John Milius, 33, directed The Wind and the Lion and has written several scripts; Producer Gary Kurtz, 36, produced both...
...film, The World's Greatest Lover, he plays a doltish Midwestern baker who goes to Hollywood and changes his name to Rudy Valentine. When his wife (played by Carol Kane) lets the bathtub overflow in the couple's posh hotel suite, Wilder passes it off as an added luxury of the place and swims laps, to the astonishment of his aunt and uncle. The slapstick is pure Wilder. He not only stars in the film but is also the writer, director and producer-a quadruple task he says "makes me want to go home and cry sometimes." Despite...