Index4INDEX Card 329: George Lucas

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

-- George Lucas

For more about George Lucas, keep reading....

About the Quote

With so many distractions around us as we work or perform, it's easy for us to lose sight of what we're trying to accomplish. Even success can be a distraction if we let it get out of our control.

Then there are the occasional setbacks and defeats which force us to pause to re-evaluate what we're trying to accomplish. Whether it's being short-handed, accumulating debt, personality conflicts, legal woes, physical injuries, gossip scandals-- any of these is frustrating enough, and the combination can ruin us if we allow that.

Just like we have to keep moving forward because that's how winning is done, we have to focus on what is immediately in front of us and get it done before we move to the next task we need to get done. We keep doing this until there is nothing else needing to get done. By then, we'll have accomplished what we set out to accomplish.

Some (More) Information about George Lucas

Thanks to the profitability and success of American Graffiti, George Lucas was able to finance a passion project close to his heart: a space opera. Until the 1970s, the trend in science fiction movies was to present high-tech dystopias as allegories for whatever the themes of the moment were. Lucas himself did this-- twice-- with THX 1138 and its film school ancestor film.

What Lucas wanted to do this time, now that he had the funds in his bank account, was to make a space opera featuring frontier adventures and swashbucklers as in the days of Flash Gordon and Errol Flynn-era Robin Hood. As an added touch, this movie would include in its cinematic DNA the influence of Akira Kurosawa (specifically, The Hidden Fortress). Instead of presenting shiny and pristine technology and equipment, it would show a culture old enough for its artifacts to display wear and tear from use going back ages. The space opera would also orbit the two themes of political commentary (Empire versus Rebellion) and spirituality (The Force).

Besides directing this space opera, Lucas was also its screenwriter. The characters themselves would come from various mythologies, especially that of Ancient Greece. They would be based on mythological archetypes as studied and described by Joseph Campbell. These mythical archetypes have resonated with people for thousands of years, and they would form the basis for iconic characters right down to the appliances.

The space opera which George Lucas was able to create is known to us as Star Wars.

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