0 Who Is George Lucas

Who Is George Lucas? By Pam Pollack and Meg Belviso

乔治·卢卡斯是谁？帕姆·波拉克和梅格·贝尔维索著

Who Is George Lucas? In 1977, film director George Lucas invited some friends to his house in San Anselmo, California. He promised to show them an early, unfinished version of the new movie he was making. George had been working on Star Wars for eighteen hours a day for over a year. George settled everyone in front of the screen, where they watched Luke Skywalker battling Darth Vader and the dreaded Death Star. They met the droids R2-D2 and C-3PO. They learned about the Force, the mystical power that Jedi space knights use to control the world around them. When the movie finished, everyone was thinking the same thing: It was a disaster.

乔治·卢卡斯是谁？1977年，电影导演乔治·卢卡斯邀请一些朋友到他位于加州圣安塞尔莫的家中做客。 他答应向他们展示他正在制作的新电影的早期未完成版本。 乔治在一年多的时间里每天为《星球大战》工作18个小时。 乔治让大家坐在屏幕前，观看卢克·天行者与达斯·维德和可怕的死星的战斗。 他们遇到了机器人R2-D2和C-3PO。 他们了解了原力，绝地太空骑士用来控制周围世界的神秘力量。 当电影结束时，每个人都在想同一件事：这是一场灾难。

After the screening, one friend wasn't afraid to tell George what he really thought. Brian De Palma, another young director, teased him

放映结束后，一个朋友毫不畏惧地告诉乔治他的真实想法。 另一位年轻导演布莱恩·德·帕尔马（Brian De Palma）取笑他

relentlessly about the "almighty Force" and the questionable wardrobe choices. "Hey, George, what were those Danish rolls doing in the princess's ears?" he asked about Princess Leia's soon-to-be-famous hairstyle. Even worse than De Palma's teasing was the pity expressed by George's other friends. Always shy and quiet, George simply listened to the criticism. Steven Spielberg thought the movie was good, but George had already accepted that it was a failure. "I figured, well, it's just a silly movie," he said later. "It ain't going to work." After the screening, Alan Ladd Jr., the studio executive who had given George the money to make Star Wars, called Spielberg and asked him what he really thought of the movie. "I think this film is going to make a hundred million dollars," Spielberg said. "People will love it." Spielberg was right. People loved Star Wars. What he didn't know was that Star Wars would

没完没了地抱怨“全能的原力”和有问题的着装选择。 “嘿，乔治，那些丹麦面包卷在公主耳朵里做什么？”他问起莱娅公主即将出名的发型。 比德·帕尔马的戏弄更糟糕的是乔治的其他朋友对他的同情。 乔治总是害羞而安静，他只是听着批评。 史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格认为这部电影很好，但乔治已经接受了这是一部失败的电影。 “我想，好吧，这只是一部愚蠢的电影，”他后来说。 “这没用的。”电影放映后，资助乔治制作《星球大战》的公司高管小艾伦·拉德（Alan Ladd Jr.）打电话给斯皮尔伯格，问他对这部电影的真实看法。 斯皮尔伯格说：“我认为这部电影会赚到一亿美元。” “人们会喜欢的。”斯皮尔伯格是对的。 人们喜欢《星球大战》。他不知道的是《星球大战》会

become much more than a hit movie. It would forever change the way movies were made.

不仅仅是一部热门电影。 它将永远改变电影的制作方式。