6 That Science Movie

Chapter 6 That Science Movie When United Artists turned down American Graffiti, they also turned down George's space story, now called Star Wars. They weren't alone. So did every other studio. No one in Hollywood knew what to make of Star Wars. The first sentence of the story treatment was enough to confuse anyone: "the story of Mace Windu, a revered Jedi-bendu of Opuchi who was related to Usby C. J. Thape, padawaan learner to the famed Jedi." Huh? Alan Ladd Jr. at Twentieth Century Fox encouraged George to edit the story, and they made a deal for Star Wars in May 1973. Graffiti was released in August. By November it was a huge hit. But rather than use his new power to demand more money for Star Wars, George stuck to the original terms of the deal. However,

当联合艺术公司拒绝《美国风情画》时，他们也拒绝了乔治的太空故事，即现在的《星球大战》。 他们并不孤单。其他工作室也是如此。 在好莱坞没人知道该怎么拍《星球大战》。 故事处理的第一句话足以让任何人感到困惑：“梅斯·温杜的故事，他是奥普奇的一位受人尊敬的绝地师徒，与乌斯比·C有亲戚关系。 j·塔普，著名绝地武士的学徒。” 嗯?二十世纪福克斯公司的小艾伦·拉德鼓励乔治编辑这个故事，他们在1973年5月达成了《星球大战》的协议。 《涂鸦》于8月发行。 到了11月，它大受欢迎。 但乔治并没有利用他的新权力为《星球大战》要求更多的钱，而是坚持了最初的协议条款。 然而,

he did request sequel and television rights, and rights to the merchandising (the products and toys based on the movie) and sound tracks (music used in the movie). George wanted to control his vision. The studio couldn't believe their luck—what kind of merchandise could Star Wars inspire? They were happy to hand control of those rights over to George. George and Marcia moved to San Anselmo, California. Their Victorian house was also the headquarters of Lucasfilm. While Marcia edited movies for director Martin Scorsese, George worked on his script for Star Wars. It was inspired by the stories he loved as a child and the myths he'd studied in college classes. Nobody else could write it.

他确实要求获得续集和电视版权，以及周边商品（基于电影的产品和玩具）和音轨（电影中使用的音乐）的权利。 乔治想控制自己的视力。 制片厂简直不敢相信他们的运气——《星球大战》能激发出什么样的商品？ 他们很乐意把这些权利交给乔治。 乔治和玛西娅搬到了加州的圣安塞尔莫。 他们的维多利亚式住宅也是卢卡斯影业的总部。 当马西娅为导演马丁·斯科塞斯剪辑电影时，乔治在写《星球大战》的剧本。 灵感来自他小时候喜欢的故事和他在大学里学过的神话。 没有人能写出来。

For eight hours a day, five days a week, George locked himself in his room to write draft after draft on yellow pads of paper. He carried a notebook to jot down ideas. When filming THX 1138, Walter Murch had once referred to a sound tape labeled Reel 2, Dialogue 2 as "R2D2." George gave the name to a droid character. One day Marcia drove home with their Alaskan Malamute, Indiana, in the passenger seat of her car, inspiring the character of Han Solo's hairy copilot, Chewbacca.

每周5天，每天8小时，乔治把自己锁在房间里，在黄色的信纸上写一稿又一稿。 他带着一个笔记本，以便记下自己的想法。 在拍摄《THX 1138》时，沃尔特·默奇曾把一盘名为“Reel 2, Dialogue 2”的磁带称为“R2D2”。 乔治给一个机器人角色起了名字。 有一天，玛西娅开车带着他们在印第安纳州的阿拉斯加雪橇犬回家，坐在她汽车的副驾驶座位上，这启发了汉·索罗（Han Solo）的毛副驾驶楚巴卡（Chewbacca）这个角色。

Finally, in March 1976, George was ready to begin shooting in the North African country of Tunisia and in England. The cast were all unknown actors except for British actor Alec Guinness, who played Obi-Wan Kenobi. George planned for the movie to have great special effects. But he wanted to create and control them. So he had hired his own team, led by John Dykstra, and set everyone up in a warehouse in

最后，在1976年3月，乔治准备开始在北非国家突尼斯和英国的拍摄。 除了扮演欧比旺·克诺比的英国演员亚历克·吉尼斯外，其他演员都不知名。 乔治计划让这部电影有很棒的特效。 但他想创造和控制它们。 所以他雇佣了自己的团队，由约翰·戴克斯特拉领导，把每个人都安排在一个仓库里

Van Nuys, California. He had named the group Industrial Light and Magic, known as ILM. George had promised Fox he'd try to make the movie for $3.5 million, but imagined it would cost closer to $8.5 million. The actors who played nonhuman parts often had trouble with their costumes. Actor Kenny Baker kept falling over inside the R2-D2 costume. Anthony Daniels had trouble walking as C-3PO. Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca had to spend twelve hours a day in a body suit made of angora wool and yak hair. The rest of the cast had trouble with the dialogue. Harrison Ford, who played Han Solo,

加州凡奈斯。他将该组织命名为工业光魔，简称ILM。 乔治曾向福克斯承诺，他将尝试以50万美元的成本拍摄这部电影，但他想象的成本将接近50万美元。 扮演非人类角色的演员经常在服装上遇到麻烦。 演员肯尼·贝克总是在R2-D2的戏服里摔倒。 安东尼·丹尼尔斯扮演C-3PO走路有困难。 彼得·梅休饰演的楚巴卡每天要穿着安哥拉羊毛和牦牛毛制成的紧身衣度过12个小时。 其他演员在对白上有困难。 汉·索罗的扮演者哈里森·福特

complained that you could type lines like his, but you couldn't say them. It didn't help that George didn't particularly like working with actors. His direction mostly consisted of three phrases: "Faster and more intense," "Let's do it again, only this time do it better," or "Terrific." Just before filming began, George changed the name of his hero from Luke Starkiller to Luke Skywalker.

抱怨你可以像他那样打字，但你不会说。 乔治并不特别喜欢和演员一起工作，这对他没有帮助。 他的指示主要由三个短语组成：“更快，更激烈”，“让我们再来一次，只是这次做得更好”，或者“棒极了”。 就在开拍前，乔治把他的英雄的名字从卢克弑星者改成了卢克天行者。