George Lucas A Life by Brian Jay Jones has moved to the top of my reading pile.
It's been sitting there for a while, ever since I bought it for $5 from a second hand shop in Woodville.
I'm not usually one for biographies (give me an autobiography instead) but George is special and Brian Jones does a pretty good job.
It also turns out there are additional pleasures to reading about his life as a student in the sixties. In the age of YouTube - we have access to all* of the films he made as a varsity student:
Herbie (* or nearly all - Herbie is a short film about a car - not that VW beetle one - but it's not on YouTube)
These are fascinating and pretty typical of students' films I guess. I did a Film Studies post graduate masters paper at Auckland University back in the 1980's and made similar types of films, albeit on video. I loved fooling around with cut up images and soundtracks but the passion to continue down that film route didn't exist in me like it did in George.
I love the fact that I can instantly reach those films now. I wonder if George minds that?
Whatever, the force is strong in these short films!
Love and peace - Wozza
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