4 THX 1138

Chapter 4 THX 1138 At Warner Bros., George was assigned to work on a movie called Finian's Rainbow. The director was Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola was a hero to Lucas. He was five years older and a UCLA graduate. Coppola noticed the "skinny kid" watching him, and the two became friends.

在华纳兄弟，乔治被分配到一部名为《菲尼安的彩虹》的电影中。 导演是弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉。 科波拉是卢卡斯的英雄。 他比我大五岁，毕业于加州大学洛杉矶分校。 科波拉注意到这个“瘦子”在看着他，于是两人成为了朋友。

Unlike George, Coppola was big, lively, and loud. But George found the movie they were working on boring. He decided to hunt down unguarded film stock to use for a movie of his own. "What do you mean you're leaving? Aren't I entertaining enough?" Coppola demanded. "There's nothing to do here," George said. Coppola promised to find him something to do. The two argued about Finian's Rainbow, but Coppola would often give in, saying, "You're a stinky kid, do what you want!" George loved the work enough to work with Coppola on his next movie, too—The Rain People, filmed in New York. Marcia had editing jobs elsewhere. He missed her. When she came to visit him, he asked her to marry him. Coppola wanted to make George's student film Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB into a longer film. He made a deal with Warner Bros. He would bring the studio new ideas, and Warner Bros. would pay him to develop them into movies. George got $15,000 to write a new

与乔治不同，科波拉身材高大、活泼、响亮。 但是乔治觉得他们正在制作的电影很无聊。 他决定去寻找那些无人看管的胶片来拍摄一部自己的电影。 “你说你要走是什么意思？” 我还不够有趣吗？”科波拉问道。 “这里没什么可做的，”乔治说。 科波拉答应给他找点事做。 两人就菲尼安的《彩虹》争论不休，但科波拉总是让步，说：“你是个臭孩子，你想怎么做就怎么做吧！”乔治非常喜欢这部作品，于是他也和科波拉一起在纽约拍摄了他的下一部电影《雨人》。 马西娅在别的地方做编辑工作。 他想念她。当她来拜访他时，他向她求婚。 科波拉想把乔治的学生电影《电子迷宫：THX 1138 4EB》拍成一部更长的电影。 他和华纳兄弟达成了协议。 他会给电影公司带来新的想法，华纳兄弟。 会付钱让他把它们拍成电影。 乔治得到五千元写新诗

script for THX 1138 and direct it. Coppola and George then created their own company, called American Zoetrope, to develop and produce the film. George married Marcia on February 22, 1969. They moved to Mill Valley, California, and Marcia found work as an editor. George got to work on THX 1138. The first step, he thought, was to hire a writer. But Coppola said if George was going to make it in the movie business, he had to learn to write himself. George worked on the script with his USC friend Walter Murch, who would also do sound for the film. Unlike Coppola, who spent money freely, George planned on a strict budget for THX 1138. He had ten weeks to shoot—the same time it took to make his short (fifteen-minute) student film version—beginning September 22, 1969. Rather than build sets, he found places in San Francisco that could pass for a landscape of the future. The movie's final chase scene took place in the half-completed train tunnels for the

THX 1138的剧本和导演。 科波拉和乔治随后成立了他们自己的公司，名为“美国西洋镜”，来开发和制作这部电影。 1969年2月22日，乔治与玛西亚结婚。 他们搬到了加利福尼亚的米尔谷，玛西娅找到了一份编辑的工作。 乔治开始研究THX 1138。 他想，第一步是雇一个作家。 但科波拉说，如果乔治想在电影行业取得成功，他必须学会自己写作。 乔治和他在南加州大学的朋友沃尔特·默奇一起写剧本，他也为电影配乐。 与挥霍无度的科波拉不同，乔治为1138泰铢制定了严格的预算。 从1969年9月22日开始，他有10个星期的时间来拍摄他的学生版短片（15分钟）。 他没有建造布景，而是在旧金山找到了可以被视为未来景观的地方。 电影的最后一场追逐戏发生在尚未完工的火车隧道里

new Bay Area Rapid Transit system. The actors wore simple costumes and little makeup, and they shaved their heads—even the women. Walter Murch created a "sound montage," a collection of noises and voices that played instead of music. George edited the footage at his house in Mill Valley. In the middle of 1970, Coppola showed it to the Warner Bros. producers. They hated it and wanted to break their whole deal with Zoetrope. But Warner Bros. did release the film on March 11, 1971. THX 1138 wasn't a hit.

新湾区快速交通系统。 演员们穿着简单的服装，化着淡妆，剃光了头发——甚至女人也是如此。 沃尔特·默奇创造了一种“声音蒙太奇”，一种代替音乐播放的噪音和声音的集合。 乔治在他位于米尔谷的家中剪辑了这段视频。 1970年中期，科波拉把它拿给华纳兄弟看。 生产商。他们讨厌它，想要打破他们与西洋镜公司的整个交易。 但华纳兄弟公司确实在1971年3月11日发行了这部电影。 THX 1138并不成功。

Warner refused to make any other movies with American Zoetrope. Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas's plans for American Zoetrope were finished.

华纳拒绝与美国西洋镜公司合作制作任何其他电影。 弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉和乔治·卢卡斯的“美国西洋镜”计划完成了。