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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...
Film is their single frame of reference, the only thing they seem to think or dream about. For them history began about 1900, when the first murky images started flickering on whitewashed walls. Describing Lucas' happy marriage, Coppola can only call it "sort of romantic, like kids picking oranges...
In American Graffiti Lucas did more than that. He worked out his entire adolescence. Set in Modesto, Calif, where he grew up, the film is the perfect image of bored, rootless teen-agers in 1962, the year he finished high school. Says Lucas: "I spent my teen years cruising McHenry...
At U.S.C. he met his wife Marcia, who has become a top film editor. In addition to Star Wars, she has cut Scorsese's Taxi Driver and his upcoming New York, New York. About that time, Lucas also met Coppola, who has become a soul mate. Says Lucas: "We...
Lucas' goal is to be independent enough to make small, esoteric films. Marcia, however, wants him to continue directing movies like Star Wars and Graffiti, that everyone can enjoy. Both may have their way. Star Wars may well make Lucas a rich man, able to work on two levels...