Biography George Lucas

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I am going to take the opportunity to pay a small tribute to George Lucas and thank him for all his efforts and all the wonders he has brought us.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…. George Walton Lucas was born on May 14, 1944 in the small town of Modesto, in the state of California (USA).

Son of Dorothy and George, the latter, owner of a stationery business. He had three siblings, his parents retailed office equipment, and owned a ranch where Lucas grew up and where nuts were grown. His mother was in poor health, often in bed, throughout Lucas's childhood.

Since he was little he was a rebellious and mischievous child who gave his parents the odd headache, from a young age he became interested in the cinema and went to see movies in the town where he socialized with young people of his age,

In high school he was the complete opposite of an exemplary student who did not have much interest in books. During his adolescence he became interested in mechanics and car racing, even disassembling and reassembling his first car, Lucas, a fan of the world of car racing after having accumulated several traffic tickets and warnings, he planned to be a professional racing driver.

As a young man he was fascinated by auto racing and spent most of his high school years racing the underground circuit at the fairgrounds and in garages.

He got his first real job as a mechanic at the Foreign Car Service.

He had a big accident on June 12, 1962, according to the same no one could have overcome such a spectacular accident, his car crashed into a tree being destroyed, he was miraculously saved thanks to the fact that the belt system came down and Lucas got out fired from your vehicle; She kept him in bed for 4 months and it would cause him an existential crisis. This made him rule out racing cars.

This accident definitely changed his way of seeing life.

Lucas moved to the University of Southern California (USC), where he studied at the School of Motion Picture Arts. USC was one of the first universities in the United States to have a school dedicated to film education.

At first he wanted to enter the United States military service but was rejected for having several speeding tickets, after graduating with a BFA in the cinema he obtained for enlisting in the air forces, however he was rejected a second time for having diabetes.

Lucas is a lover of the Flash Gordon comics, a series of adventures that he fondly remembered in his childhood and has cited Alex Raymond and his work as a major influence on his Star Wars films.

His script for Star Wars was rejected by every one of the big movie studios. In a last attempt, George Lucas approached 20th Century Fox, thanks to Alan Ladd, president of Twenty Century Fox who told Lucas “_I don't understand your films _I don't understand your script _But I think you have talent and I'm going to invest in you. And so began Star Wars.