Before becoming a billionaire businessman galaxy that we all now know, George Lucas back in the seventies, was a brilliant and lowly director who left for the history of cinema that great little film that is American Graffiti. An overnight trip by the American teenager in the early sixties, where the Rock'n Roll emergent sounded loud through the modest car stereos, a pillar of youth entertainment. Liquor, music, girls and careers (often to death) were just cruising ons, a move uniquely American concept. As Luke himself says, this was "a unique friendship ritual involving American cars." With the cultural rupture that led to the hippie movement and the gradual disappearance of the phenomenon, this bearded decided in his own words, "to document all this generational experience, that was the way in those days, to meet girls and spend leisure time" .
traveled to 1962, the end of the "last age of American innocence, as noted the last sentence of the synopsis of this vital film business. Three years before Buddy Holly died in a plane crash creating the first myth of rock'n roll ("Nobody has done it again Rock'n Roll since Holly died," he says at one point in the film .) that first episode of "the death of innocent shocked in their day to a society that, at that time, was still living in the dream of welfare and political correctness. A year later, the assassination of Kennedy , who revived this shock at the death of the innocent, would only be the first episode of the three decades busiest recent American history to September 11, 2001. The sixties, the Vietnam War , counterculture and the struggle for civil rights, among many other events, would change forever the "Age of Innocence" American. Being young, innocent and deadly in the USA would never be the same.
American Graffiti tells a fateful night in the life of a group of friends. The last night of his innocence, perhaps. Some very young Richard Dreyfuss and Ron Howard interpreted, respectively, Curt and Steve , Which must catch a plane to college the next morning. While Curt is not sure whether it is worth leaving everything familiar to him and wanted to start a new life thousands of miles from home, Steve is looking forward to new era that is going to play live. So much so that informalize decides her relationship with Laura sister Curt. The gang of friends, Terry complete, the driver of a Vespa with the typical nerd image, and John , the handsome fellow who drives the fastest car in the valley (never been beaten in a race).
The minds and hearts of the players go, that unforgettable night, drifting, swept away by the darkness, the rock'n roll and the smell of gasoline. In the eight hours (time up, time down) in which the action of the film, nothing seemed to come out as planned. The people and circumstances surrounding that evening will shape and change forever the fate of that group of friends. The epilogue imitadísimo mythical Lucas gives us good faith it will.
The side gallery presents Lucas pose a great approach to this culture of cruising. They also will be a vital part in the development of the plot, essential when removing the consciousness of the protagonists. Carol , a fourteen year old girl willing to pose as girl crusing. The band of the Pharaon typical thugs in leather jackets, high speeds and no good thinking. The beautiful Debbie duhama , who wears one of the most iconic hairstyles in film history. alfalfa Bob, played by a novice Harrison Ford, the typical mouths looking down to the valley with his car to beat the machine John. Wolfman Jack, the true radio DJ who became legendary among youth that cruising. And, of course, an unknown and mysterious blonde driving a Ford Thunderbird white and Curt will bring headaches.
For the weaknesses you have one, in terms of music and magic of the radio, Wolfman is my favorite child. All drivers tune their radio show in their cars and enjoy the nights of rock'n'roll magic and flavor of a radio legend that nobody knows anything for sure. In the History section on the site Accurancy Wikipedia entry film, explains the true story of a California radio formula myth. Wolfman his songs are the perfect backdrop for this tale of teens on the verge of the leap to maturity. The perfect child ghost, as the radio voices should always be. Building on the wikifilón, do not miss this post detailing all the songs can be heard in American Graffiti, one of the great soundtracks of all life.
legacy and influence of this movie are not comparable with The Star Wars, which would place four years later and forever, Luke in the firmament of Hollywood unattainable. American Graffiti still sat many of the bases used many teen movies come. Their impact is undeniable. A whole cult movie that records the good films that George could have done without the use of a light saber and the Millennium Falcon . In 1974, George Lucas, like the United States in 1962, lived the last years of his innocence in the world of cinema. Blessed innocence.
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