The People vs. George Lucas

Synopsis: Uses a courtroom debate approach to explore the issues of filmmaking and fanaticism around one of the industry's most famous franchises and its creator. The innovative film combines filmmaker and celebrity interviews with fan films - submitted via the film's site - to make this the world's first digitally democratic feature documentary.
Production: Landmark
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
55
Rotten Tomatoes:
72%
NOT RATED
Year:
2010
93 min
Website
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On January 5, 2010, George Lucas

appeared on The Daily Show ...

To speak...

on the launch of historical book.

But Jon Stewart had

other questions in mind.

Does the Senator Organa

takes Leia to Alderaan...

Darth Sidious... and not feel

a disturbance in the Force?

Really. You expect me to make

that can raise Leia on Alderaan...

... And Sith Lords

will not notice anything?

In other words, is Kenobi on Tatooine!

He lives very close!

POETRY NIGH GEORGE LUCAS TODAY

# And now I'll show you, kid

On the genius of George Luc #

Dear George Lucas...

Your followers lost constructed

a monument to your masterpiece...

... And murder its creator

with contempt?

George Lucas ruined

the last years of my adolescence.

Love and hate George Lucas' heart.

One day, he was only

a pastor of nerfs of Tatooine.

It was one of us.

There is something about our love

by Wars ...

That is different...

of our love for others.

It is rare that these films

can upset people.

But you really angry.

Wars is

most important to me.

Do not say it's only a movie.

It's not just a movie!

Without good G.L.,

we would have nothing of this!

Or this!

Stop that ship!

Chewie, get us out of here!

There was something inspiring

in the universe of Wars ...

JOE NUSSBAUM:

Director George Lucas In Love

Children...

the seventies wanted...

... Not just watch and enjoy,

but really do.

What he achieved is a powerful thing...

... Something that touches people...

DARYL FRAZETTI - Anthropologist

Pop Culture Researcher

Drives... and want to generate

changes in their world.

There are certain basic components...

DOUG JONES:

Associate Director of Programming

Film Festival of Los Angeles

Define and... I come from this

movie. They have their own brand.

George Lucas brand is

in these small pieces of my life.

# Sitting in the upstairs room

Looking at her hair up #

I remember realizing

at some point in my teens...

... In a moment of introspection, of

that film had formed my morals.

MC Frontalot

Godfather of Nerdcore Hip-Hop

The highlight

on Star Wars ...

... is that in a release,

There are people queuing...

... and in that queue is

writers, directors...

... composers,

visual effects artists.

Also there are physicists,

astrologers and astronomers, linguists...

People from different...

occupations and environments.

RICHIE MEHTA:

Filmmaker

say " The Wars

inspired me to do this. "

That man and his work sparked

the imagination of a generation.

EPISODE ONE:

A BREEDER OF MODESTO nerfs

George Lucas, creator of

The Star Wars ...

... the story that changed the world...

... a man of ideas

and unlimited imagination...

... George has been in 20 years

what many would achieve in a lifetime.

A shy and retiring individual,

George Lucas is a simple man...

... enjoying the most beautiful

of life as the rest of us.

But within that calm exterior,

someone who has moved...

... to tears to millions

people around the world.

grew up in a small town,

in central California.

not yielded any

what is expected of me...

HOUSE CHILDREN OF GEORGE LUCAS

... it was a typical child

that got into much trouble.

My father said

that my skills would be later.

He always said that.

I was always interested

construction. In my teens...

... I doomed to cars.

THOMAS DOWNEY HIGH

It was a lousy student in high school.

So I had to make a decision.

INFLUENCE ON THE OUTCOME

I had an accident that, in theory,

nobody could have survived.

SCENE:

I said, "I'm here,

and every day is an extra day. "

For the first time I sat down this summer...

... to meditate deeply on

my future and my purpose in life.

I was very excited anthropology,

social sciences and psychology...

... and I managed to improve in photography

until I finally discovered the cinema.

Can you tell us

his young assistant on George Lucas?

It is my assistant, actually.

I like documentaries

cinema verite.

FILMMAKER:

I like symphonic poems...

A DIARY OF GEORGE LUCAS

... no story or characters

which were then in San Francisco.

That was how I wanted to film.

PROJECT CINESTSICO

GEORGE LUCAS:

My first works were oriented

to technique.

FREIHEI LUCAS FILM

were mostly visual exercises.

I based on visual targets.

I'm starting to get interested in that stuff.

He had a promising future

and out of the USC...

BRIAN K. Comerford

Filmmaker

... and then was crushed by the system.

He was hurt, and with that I fall short.

DALE POLLOCK:

Author of Skywalking

I think there was a feeling

of personal outrage.

It's kind of resentment

it feels like to know...

... Whoever has the money, or as

result of it, has the power...

Can make decisions... and aesthetic

direction and script...

... In which no

any business.

In order to project my vision...

I had to learn...

to manipulate the system.

Because the system is designed

to destroy you...

Aside... and let you and your work.

For some reason,

he was so traumatized...

SKYWALKING:

LIFE AND FILMS OF GEORGE LUCAS

... by his experiences with Universal

American Graffiti ...

... with Warner Brothers THX ...

That became...

defining moments for him.

I was lucky to be present

some lord of the industry.

He said:
"I do not see your movies.

I do not understand your script.

But I think you have talent,

and will invest in you. "

- Who was that?

- Alan Ladd Jr. was on Fox..

I did... and so Wars .

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Alexandre O. Philippe

Alexandre O. Philippe is a Swiss film director best known for the documentary films Doc of the Dead, The People vs. George Lucas, and the 2017 post-modern documentary examination of the Psycho shower scene directed by Alfred Hitchcock entitled 78/52 which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Philippe is Creative Director and co-owner of Denver-based Cinema Vertige and his most recent commissioned work for the City of Denver garnered four Heartland Emmy Awards. more…

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