All-India-Film and Georges Lucas

George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is a four-time Academy Award nominated American film director, producer, and screenwriter famous for his epic Star Wars saga and Indiana Jones films - the latter a collaboration with his friend Steven Spielberg. He is one of American film industry's most financially successful independent directors and produce.
( wikipedia.org)







Professional life
Lucas co-founded the studio American Zoetrope with Coppola — whom he met during the internship at Warner Brothers — hoping to create a liberating environment for filmmakers to direct outside the perceived oppressive control of the Hollywood studio system. From the financial success of his films American Graffiti (1973) and Star Wars (1977), Lucas was able to set up his own studio, Lucasfilm, in Marin County in his native Northern California. Skywalker Sound and Industrial Light and Magic, the sound and visual effects subdivisions of Lucasfilm, respectively, have become among the most respected firms in their fields. Lucasfilm Games, later renamed to LucasArts, was for many years highly regarded in the gaming industry.
Some consider Star Wars to be the first "high concept" film, although others feel the first was Steven Spielberg's Jaws, released two years prior. Lucas and Spielberg had been good friends for some time and eventually worked together on several films, notably the Indiana Jones trilogy, Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).
On a return on investment basis, Star Wars proved to be one of the most successful films of all time. During the filming of Star Wars, Lucas waived his up front fee as director and negotiated to own the licensing rights — rights which the studio thought were nearly worthless. This decision earned him hundreds of millions of dollars as he was able to directly profit from all the licensed games, toys and collectibles created for the franchise. In 2006 Forbes Magazine estimated Lucas' personal wealth at US$3.5 billion. In 2005 Forbes.com estimated the lifetime revenue generated by the Star Wars franchise at nearly $20 billion.
On October 3, 1994, Lucas started to write the three Star Wars prequels, and on November 1 that year, he left the day-to-day operations of his filmmaking business and started a sabbatical to finish the prequels.
He recently announced that he would produce a TV series about Star Wars which would take place between episodes III and I.(wikipedia)











>Student at USC (1965 to 1968)
▪ Freiheit (1965)
▪ Look at Life (1965)
▪ Herbie (1966)
▪ 1:42:08 (1966)
▪ The Emperor (1967)
▪ Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138:4EB (1967)
▪ Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town (1967)
▪ 6-18-67 (1967)
▪ Filmmaker (1968)

[edit]Pre-Star Wars (1971 to 1973)
▪ THX 1138 (1971) (director, co-writer)
▪ American Graffiti (1973) (director, co-writer)

[edit]The birth of Star Wars (1977 to 1983)
▪ Star Wars (1977) (director, writer, executive producer)
▪ The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) (story)
▪ More American Graffiti (1979) (executive producer)
▪ Kagemusha also known as The Shadow Warrior (1980) (Executive Producer of International Edition)
▪ The Empire Strikes Back (1980) (executive producer, co-writer)
▪ Body Heat (1981) (uncredited executive producer)
▪ Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) (co-writer, executive producer, uncredited second unit director)
▪ Twice Upon a Time (1982) (executive producer)
▪ Return of the Jedi (1983) (executive producer, co-writer, uncredited co-director)

[edit]Post-Original Trilogy (1984 to 1994)
▪ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) (co-writer, executive producer)
▪ Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (1984) (executive producer, story)
▪ Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985) (executive producer, story)
▪ Mishima (1985) (executive producer)
▪ Howard the Duck (1986) (executive producer)
▪ Labyrinth (1986) (executive producer)
▪ Captain Eo (1986) (producer, screenplay)
▪ Powaqqatsi (1988) (executive producer)
▪ Willow (1988) (writer, executive producer)
▪ Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) (executive producer)
▪ The Land Before Time (1988) (executive producer)
▪ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) (co-writer, executive producer)
▪ The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992 - 1996) (story, executive producer)
▪ Radioland Murders (1994) (co-writer, executive producer)

[edit]The return of Star Wars (1999 to 2005)
▪ Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) (director, writer, executive producer)
▪ Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) (director, co-writer, executive producer)
▪ Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) (director, writer, executive producer, actor)

[edit]Post-Star Wars (present)
▪ Indiana Jones 4 (2008) (story, executive producer)

[edit]Cameos in films and TV
▪ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) (Cameo as "Tourist boarding plane")
▪ Hook (1991) (Cameo as "Man kissing on bridge")
▪ Beverly Hills Cop III (1994) (Cameo as "Disappointed Man")
▪ Men in Black (1997) (Uncredited cameo as Himself)
▪ Just Shoot Me! (2003 episode "It's Raining Babies" (Cameo as Himself)
▪ The O.C. (2005 episode "The O.Sea") (Cameo as Himself)
▪ Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) (Cameo as "Baron Papanoida")
▪ The Colbert Report (2006) (Cameo as Green Screen Finalist George L.)
▪ Rollin' with Saget (2006) (Cameo at 1:43)
▪ Rollin With Derek Thompson







All-in India

Generic term introduced and used most consistently by critic CHIDANANDA DAS GUPTA to signify mass-produced film formula pioneered by post -WW2 Hindi cinema and duplicated by regional film industries predominantly in Tamil,Telegu,Malayalam and Bengali.




As chronicled by the S.K.Patil Film Enquiry Committee Reporter ( 1951 ) , following the withdrawal in 1946 of the licensing system imposed upon film-making during WW2 and the lifting of restrictions on raw stock : " There was a sudden spurt in both production and exhibition . Theatre equipement imported in the two years 1946-47 and 1947-48 amounted in value to a score of rupees.Studio equipement costing another crore of rupees was also imported and installed .

Within three months of decontrol , over 100 new producers entered the field ...and new films released numbered over 200 in 1946 and 283 in 1947.

The All-India film appropriates aspects both from indigenous popular film and theatre genres and from Hollywood ,subordinating them to an all -encompassing entertainement formula designed to overcome regional and linguistic boundaries .






Das Gupta ( 1968 ) ascribes to this formula the function of a cultural leadership ( that reinforces ) some of the unifying tendencies in our social and economic changes and provides an inferior alternative to a leadership that has not emerged because of the hiatus between the intelligencia,to which the leaders belong ,and masses.
The contention that the All-India India film performs by default an integrating nationalist function similar to the consciously stated aim of AIR and more recenlty Doordarshan ,has had a crucial influence on India' s national film industry 's inability to be financially self - sustaining is usually counterbalanced by its alleged ability to foster a unified contemporary ' indigenous' culture .( Encyclopaedia of Indian cinema )