George Lucas In Love;

   

George Lucas in Love is an independent, live action, parodical short film that started attracting notice in June 1999 when it was passed around Hollywood offices as a filmmaker's "calling card". The film was directed by Joe Nussbaum, a University of Southern California graduate.

In the film, George Lucas is a USC college student in 1967, and he's suffering from writer's block as he tries to write a movie about a young space farmer with a bad crop of "space wheat". Everywhere he goes, viewers see classmates and teachers that either resemble, or will influence the creation of, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Jabba the Hutt, R2-D2, and C-3PO. Lucas is surrounded by inspiration, but he sees nothing. Not even his advisor, who looks and speaks suspiciously like Yoda, is able to help him.

Eventually, young Lucas meets his muse, a young woman (with a very unusual hairdo) named Marion who is "kind of leading a student rebellion". After they meet, everything falls into place for Lucas, as she urges him to "write what you know." His writer's block dissipates and he quickly finishes his masterpiece. However, his shot at romance with the 

girl is blown when he discovers she's his sister.

The sound in this film is mainly the characters having a conversation. At the beginning whilst he is typing on his type writer there is violins and a recorder playing as he looks peaceful. Deep star wars styled music is played when his enemy comes up to the door mocking him and also throughout the short film when tense or big scenes appear.

This film gives me ideas of having a twist within a short film because the shock of how in love the characters are then as they find out they are related the audience is baffled which leaves them remembering the film because of the twist. 

This film also fits in with the post-modern section we are studying because of the characters and the story line.