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Inside Star Wars

Dreams of Star Wars | 2

Inside Star Wars

Wondery

Documentary, Film History, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

A young Carrie Fisher meets the paparazzi in the arms of her celebrity mother, Debbie Reynolds. It doesn’t take Carrie long to decide that acting’s not for her. So naturally, an actor is exactly what she becomes. Carrie models tops for Warren Beatty - with and without a bra. Meanwhile, George Lucas has decided to study film. Even though no film school graduate had ever gotten a job in the industry. He quickly becomes a star at USC, determined to make his movies his way, no matter what the rules are. He works day and night on a diet of coffee and chocolate bars. He graduates just as movie attendance is cratering and Hollywood is shutting down. He meets another young cinematic firebrand, Francis Coppola, and they join forces on his first movie, THX1138. Warner Brothers hates the movie and takes it back to cut it themselves. It limps into theaters where one young film buff is left awestruck. His name is Steven Spielberg. Meanwhile Lucas dreams of a movie with heroes and villains, ray guns and spaceships, thrills and adventure beyond the stars.


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0:00.0

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0:05.4

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0:07.0

The following may contain mature content.

0:19.0

From Wundery, I'm Mark Ramsey,

0:21.0

and this is Inside Star Wars.

0:25.0

Part 2.

0:26.5

George Lucas had survived a terrifying car accident that many folks around town agreed should have killed him.

0:37.0

It was a miracle and George knew it.

0:40.0

Every day was now one extra day.

0:44.2

So how would he use that gift?

0:46.7

He would fulfill a dream and go to art school.

0:50.2

I'm not paying for art school, George.

0:51.8

You'll starve.

0:53.0

That was his father.

0:55.0

Dad, what about, what about, what about cinematography school?

1:00.0

What, what is that? It's not art, is it?

1:04.0

Um, no.

1:06.0

And can you make a living at it?

1:08.0

Um, uh, yes.

1:12.0

And so it was that George Lucas convinced his father to support the art school that didn't sound like an art school, the one at USC, the one that made art with film.

1:23.0

What George didn't tell his father

1:25.0

was that virtually no film school graduate

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