On 2008-03-27 09:12:58 -0700, mchary@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Michael Alan Chary) said:
> In article <2008032616255716807-kurt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Kurt Busiek <kurt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On 2008-03-26 15:36:21 -0700, Sea Wasp
<seawaspObvious@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
>>
>>
>> I think it's arguable either way. They've both got Indiana Jones on
>> their side, which feels more Lucas-y than Spielberg-y. But if you
>> stack up CE3K, E.T., POLTERGEIST, GREMLINS, GOONIES, JURASSIC PARK and
>> such up against the STAR WARS canon, LABYRINTH, HOWARD THE DUCK, WILLOW
>> and that crowd, you get Lucas having a very strong but concentrated
>> effect (Star Wars and Indy) while Spielberg has more varied successes.
>> Spielberg has been hugely influential as a director and a producer;
>> Lucas is hugely influential as a producer. Lucas may have spawned more
>> attempts to grab his particular brass ring (Disney's THE BLACK HOLE,
>> for instance, is an attempt to do Lucas), while Spielberg, along with
>> Kennedy/Marshall, spawned Chris Columbus, Robert Zemeckis and others.
>>
>> Ultimately, it's gonna depend on what you value. Lucas has had two
>> shatteringly-successful franchises that have made him enormously
>> wealthy and which have spawned lots of imitations and helped blow the
>> doors open for SFX spectacle in Holloywood. Spielberg has has
>> astoundingly successful movies that mave made him wealthy, spawned lots
>> of spiritual and creative follow-ons and also helped blow the doors
>> open for SFX spectacle of a different flavor in Hollywood.
>
>
> Lucas is, also, largely responsible for the nostalgia wave that hit in
the
> 1970's through American Graffiti. While things like Happy Days and
Grease
> were already around (well, I assume Happy Days. I know Grease was.) when
> it came out, American Graffiti really caused the nostalgia movement to
> take off.
HAPPY DAYS and AMERICAN GRAFFITI have an interesting relation****p.
HAPPY DAYS originated as a pilot called "New Family in Town," which
didn't sell, and which got recycled and burned off as a segment on LOVE
AMERICAN STYLE.
Lucas borrowed the "New Family" pilot in lieu of a screen test for Ron
Howard, and then cast him in AMERICAN GRAFFITI. The movie was a hit,
and all of a sudden that unsold pilot was a hot property, and got a new
chance as a series.
So HAPPY DAYS predated AMERICAN GRAFFITI, but AG was directly
responsible for HD happening as a shoe.
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