Classic sci-fi movie, English movie named Star Wars.

Before the movie Star Wars appeared, the world was a world without mobile phones and personal desktop computers, and no one had heard of the term "Internet". Mankind has just begun to enter space, and the world is facing an oil crisis.

Under such a historical background, the appearance of the Star Wars trilogy not only profoundly influenced a series of sci-fi movies later shot, but also had a great influence on the popular culture of the whole United States and even the world. Its appearance indicates that Hollywood has changed the tendency of making films with complex mental state and political cynicism since 1970s, and turned to making films that are more divorced from reality and pay more attention to special effects, which has also become the trend of leading the mainstream commercial films in the world since 1980s.

It is precisely because of these changes in American society in the mid-1970s, and because the Hollywood studio system has repeatedly lost money in the face of the young-dominated film market, major film companies have begun to pay attention to discovering new young directors. It is in this situation that a group of young and talented directors such as george lucas, Brian De Palma, martin scorsese and Spielberg began to emerge. They brought new production concepts and technologies to Hollywood.

George lucas entered the Film Department of the University of Southern California from 65438 to 0963, and showed his unique talents during his study at the school. During this period, he filmed the black-and-white homework THX 1 138 for 30 minutes, which has already demonstrated his unique imagination and ability to grasp images.

1969 After graduating from the george lucas Film Department of the University of Southern California, he and Coppola jointly established the American peep show film company.

George lucas: At that time, I didn't expect to succeed, but I strongly felt that only in this way could I completely master my own creation and not be tampered with by others.

197 1 george lucas adapted and filmed THX 1 138 according to the school work. And this movie with the theme of the future society suffered a commercial fiasco. Because of this commercial failure, george lucas, who had to set up another film company, made another film, American Style Painting.

This is a light comedy about the life of American teenagers in the 1960s. The film has achieved great commercial success, with the global box office exceeding 1 billion dollars. It is because of the success of this film that george lucas finally started his dream of making a film with the theme of space exploration!

The story of Star Wars comes from the myths and legends of different nationalities, from which we can see that an ordinary teenager, as a descendant of a swordsman, inadvertently found his inevitable fate, full of hardships and dangers, and pursued freedom and glory. Then another swordsman's former professor and guidance, and then a brave struggle, liberated a imprisoned beauty, resisted the tyrannical forces that dominated the whole country, and won the glory of victory. These plot elements and patterns can be integrated into the legends and fairy tales of any nation with a little change.

1In the summer of 973, george lucas finished the script of Star Wars. The most successful sci-fi movie in the 1970s was 200 1 A Space Odyssey, which set a box office record of 24 million. Ordinary sci-fi movies, such as Planet of the Apes and other successful sci-fi movies, generally only have a box office of about 654.38+0.6 million. Therefore, the major film companies in Hollywood are not very interested in investing in a space science fiction film. Finally, 20th Century Fox Company finally found this script and decided to take a gamble.

With the support of 20th Century Fox, george lucas completed the filming script on May 1974. This play is more ambitious than the previous story. There are more than 200 pages at the end of the script, and the whole story has developed into a huge and long clue. In the final story, there are evil and cruel galactic empire, just people gathered under the banner of freedom, plots planned in the secret room, warriors proficient in martial arts and brave and beautiful princesses. The plot includes the break between father and son, the battle between master and apprentice, the romantic love between princess and captain, and the funny robot servant. These wonderful stories and the war between justice and evil broke out in the cold snowfield, boundless desert, vast space, mysterious ocean and dark jungle.

No matter in terms of money or time, it is impossible for george lucas to make such a thick script into a movie. So he decided to take the first shot 1/3. 1In the summer of 975, george lucas got an investment of 8 million dollars to shoot the first Star Wars. The first thing he did was to gather a group of like-minded young people and set up the "Industrial Light Magic" film special effects company. At that time, there was no computer special effects technology in the film production industry. In order to complete the filming of Star Wars, they started the whole film special effects industry. Since then, the legend of the film industry, "Industrial Light Magic" film special effects company officially opened the curtain of the entire Hollywood film special effects industry and changed the concept of film production all over the world.

When all this is ready, george lucas's next step is to start casting.

As the protagonist in the film, Luke's choice directly determines the success or failure of the film.

At that time, Mark Hammer, who was only 24 years old, was a TV actor and was planning to develop in the direction of movies. His lively appearance and easy-going attitude were immediately taken by director george lucas.

Solo, a space smuggler, as another protagonist in the film, directly changed the fate of Harrison Ford, a movie superstar.

At first, Harrison Ford just checked the lines for other actors, but in the process, director george lucas saw his acting talent and gave a brilliant interpretation of Solo's greedy and arrogant character, and finally decided to let Harrison Ford play the role.

The role of Princess Leia was contested by almost all young actresses at that time, and this role required an actress to have a noble temperament and the maturity needed by a leader.

Kelly Fisher is the most suitable person for this role. Although unknown at that time, her temperament Jeangeorges Lucas thought she was the only one.

It is even more difficult to choose the other two protagonists in the movie-robots. At the beginning, the film designed all kinds of real robots, and finally found that people still need to play robots to give these two characters real life.

The actor who plays R2D2 needs a short man with rich performance experience. So the crew finally found a special actor kenny baker who was less than one meter tall. He has rich performance experience, but also has enough physical strength to complete various actions in the metal shell of the robot.

The actor who plays C3PO is the British actor Anthony Dennis. He was trained in pantomime and vividly played C3PO, one of the most popular roles in Star Wars.

1976 In March, george lucas and his crew finished their preparations and started filming in Tunisia, North Africa. At that time, the whole shooting seemed to be a complete disaster. The filming process, which has been seriously overspent and overdue, has been constantly delayed by various unexpected natural and man-made disasters, and everyone is wondering whether the filming can be completed as scheduled.

After the film was transferred to the British studio, the filming progress continued to be delayed. George lucas is getting impatient with the progress of the film.

The most difficult film special effect in shooting is the design of lightsaber.

The filming progress of Star Wars has been seriously delayed, and ILM Industrial Light and Magic Special Effects Company has many problems in film special effects, which puts Jeangeorges Lucas under increasing pressure.

20th century Fox has had enough of george lucas and his ghost science fiction movies. If it weren't for Aaron Ryder's strong support, perhaps Star Wars would have fallen by the wayside.

Star Wars: A New Hope was originally scheduled to be released on Christmas Day in 1976, but the release date had to be postponed to the summer vacation in 1977 due to the shooting delay. The distribution process is also full of difficulties. In the end, Fox adopted a bundling strategy, bundling Star Wars with a blockbuster movie, so that the movie could finally meet the audience.

1On May 25th, 977, Star Wars: A New Hope premiered.

Star Wars premiered in 37 cinemas, breaking the box office records of 36 of them. Then, Star Wars was an unexpected success, and all the audiences were crazy about it. There are long queues outside all the cinemas. Overnight, the three protagonists changed from nobody to household names.

Star Wars: A New Hope soon achieved greater success. At the 1978 Academy Awards, Star Wars: A New Hope won ten nominations, and finally won seven awards, including best visual effect, best sound effect, best editing and best action design. Although Star Wars: A New Hope didn't win the best film award, for george lucas, being nominated was his victory.

As the director of the highest-grossing film in film history, george lucas not only got the right to shoot the sequel, but also got a chance to try it more boldly. Because george lucas didn't tell all the stories he imagined when he filmed the first Star Wars: A New Hope, he decided to complete his dream in the sequel.

Drawing on the experience of the first Star Wars movie, george lucas raised $33 million by himself, thus completely dominating his own movie. In order to raise funds for filming, george lucas not only borrowed $25 million from the bank, but also put all the money he earned from the first Star Wars movie into the filming of the sequel. The Star Wars series and his own success or failure are at stake.

Because george lucas works as a producer at the same time, in order to better complete the film, he stopped acting as a director when filming Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, but hired Ivan Koshuner, his teacher in the film department of the University of Southern California, as a director.

The scene and scale of the second film are much larger than the first one, and director Ivan Koshuna is under great pressure, because he knows that if this film fails, there will never be a sequel to Star Wars. Ivan Koshuna successfully added more human conflicts and plot conflicts to the film, making Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back the most successful film in the Star Wars series.

ILM Industrial Light and Magic Company is also growing, becoming more and more mature in the film special effects lens. In this film, the number and effect of special effects shots greatly exceed the first one.

Among the new roles in the second film, the role of Yoda attracts the audience the most. Due to the limitation of film special effects technology at that time, this role was played by a puppet operated by people. In order to show subtle movements more flexibly, this puppet is operated by four people.

One of the biggest secrets in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is that Lord Black is Luke's father. As the climax of the film, this secret is only known by Lucas, director Ivan Keshuner and the producer of Fox Company.

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was released on1May 2, 9801. Sure enough, it lived up to expectations and continued to surpass the box office performance of the first Star Wars. George lucas's investment of $33 million was fully recovered within three months.

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is recognized as the best of the Star Wars trilogy. It not only inherits the amazing imagination in Star Wars movies, but also convincingly and surprisingly expounds the character and fate of the movie hero. At the same time, in terms of film special effects shots, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back also continued to create the highest peak of film visual effects at that time.

George lucas achieved another success, but she didn't stop pursuing her dream. He began to prepare the third Star Wars movie. When he was preparing the third Star Wars movie, he knew that the expectations and criticisms of fans would be more severe. This is a high-stakes gamble, and this time he once again bet all his money on the third Star Wars movie.

When shooting the third Star Wars movie, Harrison Ford has become very famous because of the raiders of the lost ark series, so whether he will continue to shoot the third Star Wars movie has become an important issue.

At the same time, due to the super success of Star Wars movies at the box office, the shooting work has encountered unprecedented difficulties. All the shooting expenses are rising, because everyone thinks the crew is rich. Finally, the crew had to change the title of the film to "Blue Harvest" when shooting.

And the new role in this movie is the villain Jabba. This is a complex and huge puppet, which needs several people to control at the same time.

The most wonderful chase in the film is the car chase in the forest.

When this film was shot, the background picture was shot at one frame per second, and then it was converted to 24 frames per second, so it seemed to move quickly.

After consideration, george lucas changed the title of the third movie of Star Wars from Revenge of the Warrior to Return of the Warrior, and it premiered on1May 25, 983. The film has achieved the expected success, and this day marks the sixth anniversary of the premiere of Star Wars: A New Hope. With the support of fanatical fans, the film broke a number of box office records, including the US premiere box office, weekend box office and total box office.

The Star Wars trilogy has not only achieved unprecedented commercial success, but also made the Star Wars series the most popular trilogy in the world film history. At the same time, george lucas has brought unprecedented revolution to the film production industry itself.

The "Industrial Light and Magic" film special effects company he founded not only completely changed the concept of film production, but also the nonlinear editing technology and equipment he founded changed the way of film editing.

The computer animation department of Pixar, which was founded by him but later sold to Apple, pioneered the computer three-dimensional animation technology and became a new legend in the history of Hollywood animation films. Three-dimensional computer cartoon toy story series has become one of the most successful cartoons in history.

1993 The digital dinosaur created by Industrial Light and Magic Film Special Effects Company in Spielberg's Jurassic Park once again shocked movie audiences all over the world.

From 65438 to 0997, george lucas re-processed the Star Wars trilogy with modern film technology, not only re-recorded the sound effects, but also added and improved some special effects shots due to imperfect technical conditions.

After more than 20 years from 1999, george lucas produced two prequels to the Star Wars series, prequel trilogy: Ghost Crisis and prequel trilogy: Attack of the Clone Wars. These two films used a lot of digital film technology to shoot, which once again impacted and shocked the film production industry with revolutionary new film production concepts.

For george lucas, at first, in pursuit of creative freedom, he single-handedly fought against the whole Hollywood, and finally evolved into a cultural and commercial miracle, and finally achieved a dream country. Although the "Star Wars" series seems to be obviously behind the times today, this movie series was ahead of the times at that time. For the audience of Star Wars movies, this is also a legend that spans 30 years.