Best of - George Lucas: The Force Will Be With You

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4.6 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

George Lucas’s only dream as a teenager was to race cars, but he went on to create the most popular films in motion picture history. Along the way, while writing and directing Star Wars, Indiana Jones and American Graffiti, he learned life-changing lessons about humility, generosity, and the inestimable value of friendship…. as well as the secret to happiness. A not-too-subtle hint here: it has nothing to do with fame and fortune. *This episode was originally published in 2015. (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2015-2021

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Alice.
0:04.0	Most hardcore Star Wars fans know that George Lucas became a huge fan of Japanese cinema
0:11.0	when he was in film school. If you hold Star Wars up to the proverbial light, you can
0:17.3	easily spot influences from a Kara Kurasawa's masterpiece, The Hidden Fortress.
0:23.0	Fortress.
0:24.0	Well, just a couple of days from now,
0:26.2	there will be a new kind of aesthetic harmonic convergence
0:30.2	when the world of Lucas film and the world of Japanese cinema collide in a television series called Star Wars Visions.
0:40.0	It's premiering September 22nd on Disney Plus.
0:43.6	The nine episodes were commissioned by Lucas Film,
0:47.1	each from a different and renowned Japanese anime studio.
0:50.9	I'm going to be able to work fors. Studio. Each episode will have a different look and each story will stand alone.
1:05.1	To celebrate the lasting genius of Star Wars, the gift that keeps on giving, we decided it was
1:11.2	time to bring back our 2015 episode on George Lucas.
1:17.0	Adam Aye, this child is gifted. And I heard that enough that I started to believe it.
1:25.0	If you have the opportunity not a perfect opportunity and you don't take it you may never have another job.
1:32.0	It all was so clear. It was just like the picture started to form itself there was
1:36.8	no way in which a lie could prevail over the truth darkness over light
1:42.4	death over life.
1:44.0	Every day I wake up and decide.
1:47.0	Today I'm going to love my life.
1:49.0	Decide.
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