American Graffiti

American Graffiti is a 1973 American comedy film, directed by George Lucas (Star Wars), starring, among others, Richard Dreyfuss, Harrison Fordand Ron Howard . Thedisk jockey Wolfman Jack acts in the film as himself. The film follows four school friends in the town of Modesto (California) who spend one last night in 1962 before they split up to study elsewhere in the country.

The film was a huge success in the United States and is often called the first summerblockbuster . The film grossed only $ 115 million in North America – now in 92 times the paltry film budget of 1.25 million dollars. With the profit of American Graffiti could be Star Wars-Lucas project finance. The success of American Graffiti also made it possible for Lucas to a new contract for Star Wars with 20th Century Fox to draw with which he, inter alia, the right to make sequels and also obtained the rights to the merchandising, which later would prove a gold mine.

In 1979 came a sequel movie out, More American Graffiti, directed by Bill l. Norton.



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[hide] *1 Prices and Palmares  ==Prices and Palmares[ Edit] == American Graffiti won two Golden Globes (including best music/comedy movie) and was also nominated for five Oscars in 1974, including Oscars for best film and best director. In 1995, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress because of the "cultural, historical and aesthetic importance" of the film. American Graffiti is at number 62 in the list of the 100 best American films of the American Film Institute (2007). ==Production[ Edit] == The project was originally funded by United Artists, but later taken over by Universal Studios. Universal signed a contract with Lucas in 1971 for two films, American Graffitiand Star Wars what later would be. They found the idea for Star Wars, however, but nothing and left the project soon fall.
 * 2 Production
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 * 4 soundtrack
 * 5 things worth knowing
 * 6 external link

American Graffiti was the second feature film by George Lucas and the last Star Wars film before he began. Filming began in San Rafael, California, but after complaints by a local engineer was asked to leave the town of the filmmakers. The film was then mainly included in Petaluma (California).

When American Graffiti was completed, Universal responded disappointed, despite enthusiastic reactions of test audiences. The film company refused to release the film and threatened the film to scratch mount or as television film back. Francis Ford Coppola, 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures offered to buy the movie, but ultimately decided the film nevertheless Universal itself back. There were three scenes (some four and a half minutes) from the movie cut. ==Division Of Roles<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==

==Soundtrack<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film has a soundtrack of nearly 50 rock 'n' rollsongs from the 1950s, including music of Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino and Buddy Holly. Lucas also wanted to record songs by Elvis Presley in the soundtrack but got no permission by record label RCA. The soundtrack was released on double-LP. ==Things Worth Knowing<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Modesto, California, the town where the fictional events in the film take place, is the place where Director George Lucas grew up in reality.