Hello, my name's Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And today we're talking about an up-and-coming director with two feature films under his belt.

It is a Wunderkin called George Lucas.

So I was interested to do this topic when Justin proposed it because I had actually

never seen either of George Lucas's pre-Star Wars movies.

Star Wars? Wait, he made more movies than just THX 1138 in American Graffiti?

We'll get to that later, Justin. I have some shocking developments to tell you about.

Uh-oh.

I had never seen THX 1138.

I'd never seen American graffiti.

I think the reasons for that are that Star Wars looms just so large.

They come to define George Lucas.

And I don't love Star Wars, so I never really saw it out the earlier ones.

But there is a popular

counter-narrative to George Lucas, which is that it's sort of a shame that Star Wars came

along because it turned him into a mogul, it turned him into a businessman. He didn't direct another

movie for 22 years after Star Wars, and that next movie was The Phantom Menace. And in the early 70s, he was

one of those guys, he was one of those Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma. He was in

that crew. He was in that crew of New Hollywood Rebels, guys who were going to overthrow the studio

system or what have you. And he made really interesting movies before he was

tempted over to the dark side. And we lost someone really special. Now, George Lucas, for me,

I was a big fan of Star Wars. I was so excited for, you know, the Phantom Ennis when it came out.

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