Preproduction for the film had coincided with the casting process for George Lucas's Star Wars, and many of the actors cast in De Palma's film had been earmarked as contenders for Lucas's movie, and vice-versa.

Special editions such as George Lucas's Star Wars films, and Steven Spielberg's E. T.

I Vitelloni inspired European directors Juan Antonio Bardem, Marco Ferreri, and Lina Wertmuller and had an influence on Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets ( 1973 ), George Lucas's American Graffiti ( 1974 ), Joel Schumacher's St. Elmo's Fire ( 1985 ), and Barry Levinson's Diner ( 1987 ), among many others.

George Lucas's Star Wars ushered in an era of fantasy films with expensive and impressive special-effects.

Howard played Steve Bolander in George Lucas's coming-of-age film American Graffiti in 1973.

George Lucas's Star Wars films use many elements of a Western, and Lucas has said he intended for Star Wars to revitalize cinematic mythology, a part the Western once held.

The scene is perhaps the best example of Eisenstein's theory on montage, and many films pay homage to the scene, including Terry Gilliam's Brazil, Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Brian De Palma's The Untouchables, Tibor Takacs ' Deathline, Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box, George Lucas's Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Chandrashekhar Narvekar's Hindi film Tezaab, Shukō Murase's anime Ergo Proxy and Peter Sellers ' The Magic Christian.

If George Lucas and his movie American Graffiti were supposedly about Lucas's own Modesto teenage life, San Fernando Valley teenagers would disagree.

At the same time, Ladd was dealing with similar budget problems on George Lucas's Star Wars.

Founded by George Lucas ' Lucasfilm in 1979 as a special-effects team, it was sold to Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs in 1986 due to Lucas's financial problems related to the failure of Howard the Duck.

" A. D. Murphy of Variety gave a positive review but felt " Close Encounters lacks the warmth and humanity of George Lucas's Star Wars ".

Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction The Matrix, Deep Canvas-pioneering Tarzan, Best Picture-winner American Beauty, critically acclaimed animated works The Iron Giant, Toy Story 2 and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's breakout film Being John Malkovich, M. Night Shyamalan's breakout hit The Sixth Sense, the controversial Fight Club, Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia and the first installment of George Lucas's Star Wars prequel trilogy were released this year.

Campbell's influence is clearly seen in the work of George Lucas's Star Wars saga.

In the first interview, filmed at George Lucas ' " Skywalker Ranch ", Moyers and Campbell discuss the relationship between Campbell's theories and Lucas's creative work.

Twelve years after the making of The Power of Myth, Moyers and Lucas met again for the 1999 interview, the Mythology of Star Wars with George Lucas & Bill Moyers, to further discuss the impact of Campbell's work on Lucas's films.

The current THX was created in 2001 when it spun off from Lucasfilm Ltd. THX was developed by Tomlinson Holman at George Lucas's company, Lucasfilm, in 1983 to ensure that the soundtrack for the third Star Wars film, Return of the Jedi, would be accurately reproduced in the best venues.

ABC replaced MacGyver with The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, a series based on George Lucas's film series and coproduced by Lucas and Steven Spielberg's production companies for Paramount Television.

A second compilation, titled More American Graffiti ( MCA 8007 ) ( and not to be confused with the 1979 film sequel of that name ) was issued by MCA in early 1975, with George Lucas's approval.

The Clone Wars are a series of fictional galactic battles in George Lucas's science fiction saga Star Wars.

On June 9, 2005, Shatner performed a reworked rendition of " My Way " at the presentation of George Lucas's AFI Life Achievement Award, backed by a chorus line of dancers in Imperial Stormtrooper costumes who ultimately picked up Shatner and carried him offstage.

) She was also instrumental in obtaining the rights to publish novels based on George Lucas's then un-released movie Star Wars, which would earn Ballantine / Del Rey several million dollars.

Alternatively, a Star Wars fan who believes that only the films ( with or without Lucasfilm's changes ) reflect George Lucas's universe and that the spin-off novels, comic books and other stories are not continuous or worth consideration can also be called a purist.

The studio has produced not only the films of Coppola ( including Apocalypse Now, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Tetro ), but also George Lucas's pre-Star Wars films ( THX 1138 and American Graffiti ), as well as many others by such cutting-edge directors as Jean-Luc Godard, Akira Kurosawa, Wim Wenders and Godfrey Reggio.

* 1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle.

Following the election of George W. Bush in 2000, observers expected him to avoid any changes to DADT, since his nominee for Secretary of State Colin Powell had participated in its creation.

The " kailyard tradition " at the end of the century, brought elements of fantasy and folklore back into fashion as can be seen in the work of figures like J. M. Barrie, most famous for his creation of Peter Pan, and George MacDonald, whose works, including Phantasies, played a major part in the creation of the fantasy genre.

In 1924, along with George M. Bolling ( Ohio State University ) and Edgar Sturtevant ( Yale University ) he formed a committee to organize the creation of the Society, and drafted the call for the Society's foundation.

* 1919 – Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, which later results in the creation of Remembrance Day.

The Plan was largely the creation of State Department officials, especially William L. Clayton and George F. Kennan.

* May 8-Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, which later results in the creation of Remembrance Day.

* August 7 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit ( or the Order of the Purple Heart ) to honor soldiers ' merit in battle ( reinstated later by Franklin D. Roosevelt and renamed to the more poetic " Purple Heart " to honor soldiers wounded in action ).

* November 25 – U. S. President George W. Bush signs the Homeland Security Act into law, establishing the Department of Homeland Security, in the largest U. S. government reorganization since the creation of the Department of Defense in 1947.

It entailed the creation of the belief in German minds that the Allied force consisted of two army groups, 21st Army Group under Montgomery ( the genuine Normandy invasion force ), and 1st U. S. Army Group ( FUSAG ) ( a fictitious force under General George Patton ), positioned in southeastern England for a crossing at the Pas de Calais.

Many of the scenes unique to the game were conceived by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg during the creation of the movie.

George V and Queen Mary both supported the creation of the National Maritime Museum, and Mary presented the museum with many items.

Lincolnshire Country Council made the decision at the begin of July 2011 that The St Guthlac School will close as part of the creation of the University Academy Holbeach, to be situated on the site of the former George Farmer Technology and Language College in Holbeach.

* George Washington Carver Monument, located at the National Peanut Festival Fairgrounds, pays tribute to one of the nation's greatest educators and agricultural researchers, whose work resulted in the creation of 325 products from peanuts, more than 100 products from sweet potatoes and hundreds more from a dozen other plants native to the South.

* George Ernest Simpson led to the creation of Lake Raystown the original dam was the creation of George Ernest and Warren Brown Simpson

* Warren Brown Simpson led to the creation of Lake Raystown the original dam was the creation of George Ernest and Warren Brown Simpson

For his services during the war, and in addition to his creation as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, Monash was appointed as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George on 1 January 1919.

Director George Hartzog began the process with the creation of the National Lakeshores and then National Recreation Areas.

" His Royal Highness Prince Leonard I of Hutt " is the style which has been used by Leonard George Casley since his creation of the Hutt River Principality.