A Man and his Space Opera

Just A Man With A Space Opera A couple hundred million people are born every year, each of those people have the option to do something amazing with their lives. Statistically, only about eight-thousand of those people make their mark on this world. One of those eight thousand people is the writer, director and executive producer of the Star Wars series, and creator of Lucasfilm and ILM. George Lucas is a man who changed the way movies were filmed and who started a trend that would continue to be in children's hearts for centuries to come. Born in 1944, George Lucas was born into a world of space races, wild westerns, and governmental change. Although most children during this era grew up with these phenomenons, none were influenced more by these events than George Lucas. Lucas is the kind of person who sees beyond the rules that are told to us by institutions. He was the kind of child to take something apart just to see how it works, he liked to inspect every part of a machine to see how each piece interacted with each other. This never ending interest led him to, what was at first, tinkering with cars into driving, cruising and racing them. Without his passion of cars he would have never crashed his car and felt that everyday was a gift. George Lucas would have never thought about his future, or his life and would have never decided what he wanted to do. Lucas discovered his love for photography and filmography in high school, without this fervency he would never have continued onto University of Southern California to produce his first works of art that would put him in the minds of established directors everywhere. In 1967, George Lucas produced a student film entitled Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB. The making of this film lead to the discovery of Lucas’ need to have complete creative control over his projects. Lucas did not work on project that he was not passionate about or did not believe in. Every film he has ever written or worked on has been