If this is youth

Syble 2021-12-08 08:01:42

In 1973, 29-year-old George Lucas directed "American Style Painting".
Almost the whole story happened at night. Several young people drove their beloved cars, strolling around the city, dating girls and boys racing. The road at night seemed to have no end, and young people poked their heads out of their cars to strike up a conversation and yell at each other.

A radio anchor that makes young people crazy. On the night of the graduation season, a group of young people who bid farewell to high school arbitrarily chased the voice of their idol on the road, or chased something else they didn't know.

They were together, separated, and grew up, and in the end they all became middle-aged people who were different from the beginning. The movie stopped when they were growing up. The story on the road that night is the epitome of their entire youth, racing, drinking, lying and vindictive but also honest and lovely. Because of the lack of pretentiousness to the shortcomings, it seems more cute. It is different from the lonely, secretly disturbed town in Bogdanovic's "Last Movie". Although most of this "American Style Painting" is night scenes, all the pleasures and unhappiness in the film are clear and externalized and very arbitrary.

If this is youth, then it must be the look that young Americans were nostalgic for in those days.

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Extended Reading
  • Elmira 2022-04-20 09:01:41

    George Lucas before the Star Wars series. A youth film with a mediocre but still good-looking style was made in 29 days.

  • Elaina 2022-03-25 09:01:08

    George Lucas's one&only literary and artistic works before the Star Wars series, semi-autobiographical, tells the life status and life choices of several high school students. The strong atmosphere of the 1960s, drag racing, rock music, longing for love, and confusion about the future, belonged to the youth picture album of that generation of American young people. This seemingly unremarkable script, Lucas was once coldly received, but fortunately his friend Coppola helped him as a producer. In the end, he became famous in one fell swoop and created the film with the highest cost profit margin in film history.

American Graffiti quotes

  • Peg: Joe College strikes out.

  • John Milner: Shit! Hey, get down!

    Carol: Hey, is this what they call "copping a feel"?

    John Milner: What? No, get up, N-O. Sheezus.

    Carol: What's your name?

    John Milner: My name? Mud, if anybody sees you.