Word: thx
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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...
...time, Lucas also met Coppola, who has become a soul mate. Says Lucas: "We are opposites. If Francis says black, I say white. He is impulsive, always on the edge of trouble. I am inherently conservative. We complement each other." When he was only 23, Lucas received backing for THX-1138, an expansion of a science fiction short he had started at U.S.C. Though the movie failed commercially, it was impressive enough to encourage Universal to finance American Graffiti...
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Lucas is a young film maker whose only other feature was THX-1138, a cool, cautionary science-fiction tale released in 1970. It established him as a director of great technical range and resource. Graffiti reveals a new and welcome depth of feeling. Few films have shown quite so well the eagerness, the sadness, the ambitions and small defeats of a generation of young Americans. Bitchin', as they said back then. Superfine. ∎Jay Cocks
...expert at sustaining suspense that they almost disguise The Andromeda Strain's great pretense. Despite its trappings, the plot employs nothing but the conventional weaponry of the grade-B thriller. Andromeda strains for significance and emerges as very modest entertainment. Still, in its darker moments, like THX 1138, it does a thorough job of belittling science as savior...