George Lucas On AMERICAN GRAFFITI

George Lucas discusses the making of his film AMERICAN GRAFFITI.

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[jayflo92008]

I hate the studios!!! The crap they push down our throats is even worse now...Thank God for people like Lucas and Coppola!

[13DCH]

THANK YOU, GEORGE !

'American Graffiti' is my FAVOURITE FILM of ALL-TIME !

[jayflo92008]

@cyrus138 Ahaha!!! True.

[cyrus138]

@jayflo92008 You mean thank you YOUNG George Lucas. He's long gone. Fat George ate him.

[FanOfPopCulture]

@13DCH Yeah, me too. The writing is amazing.

[MrBuc128]

@McLarenMercedes Well said I agre

[McLarenMercedes]

@jayflo92008

Please. George Lucas himself has become one of those "studio people" and managed to shov those horrible Star Wars prequels down our throats.

Lucas may have been a rogue, independent movie maker in the 70's, but since then he is all about the money. Like those studios he despised.

Do you blame the studios for Transformers btw? Heck Michael Bay only makes whatever crap kids like to watch.

[XXFUELXX1]

man i love american graffiti and i love how they have tracks going through the movie it gives u a really like good hangout feel and how cruising is gone but its gonna come back and the story is really cool i love the idea of the oler teenagers

[mattavina]

@MrBuc128 so what agfa was trying to say was that the success of American Graffiti inspired the execs at a Television Studio to realize they made a mistake and decided to cash in on the phenomenon.  But the Creator of Happy Days was not inspired by AG, since it didn't exist when they created it.

[fairiegirlga]

This movie moved me in so many ways, I graduated from high school in '74, I always felt that I ws born too late, I should have been a teenager in the early 60's, this movie captured that time in america jut perfectly, there will never be another time like that for anyone, i have always felt I was "cheated" missing out on that era, being a teenager during that time, just being able to view when I like makes it some what bearable, how I miss those days.......

[borisfilmfan]

@shelkamark First of all I totally don`t mean to offend you and respect you having a diffrent opinion, but what do you mean with the studio stepping in when Lucas made A New Hope, They had no involvement in the making of the film what so ever, and Lucas had complete freedom in every sense!!!!!!!! Lucas made many decisions right from the beginning they didn`t like first of all making it sci fi, second blending so many genres, third crete such a complex sophisticated plot, etc....