Hey Leute, ich muss einen Aufsatz für Englisch schreiben. Das Thema: "Making a difference". Ich durfte mir dafür eine beliebige Person aussuchen die meiner Meinung nach etwas "verändert" hat. Allerdings bin ich mir über meinen Text nicht ganz sicher.
Wäre jemand so lieb und liest sich den mal kurz durch :)
PS: Ich weiß es ist viel verlangt, aber ihr müsst's euch ja nicht durchlesen. Nur wenn ihr wollt
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A person who made a difference (George Lucas)
I chose the filmmaker George Lucas, because I think that he really made a difference regarding the film industry. He is famous for his Star Wars movie trilogies and the Indiana Jones movies. Though Star Wars initially opened in only 42 theatres, because most people were skeptical about the outcome, the film earned almost $3 million in its first week and $100 million by the end of the summer.
The film won six Academy Awards along with a special-achievement award for accomplishments in sound, and it revolutionized the motion picture industry with its advancements in special effects. Lucas’s effects company, Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) designed a few imaginative alien creatures and mechanical so-called “droids” that populated a variety of exotic locales. Perhaps most impressive, however, were the elaborate space battles with scaled miniatures. The series continued to make remarkable advancements in the field of special effects into the 21st century, and ILM became one of the most successful effects studios utilized by Hollywood.
George Lucas followed the first Star Wars film with two sequels, Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983). The franchise thrived in the 1980s and ’90s through the release of videos, a substantial merchandise line, and the theatrical re-release of the trilogy in 1997.
In the year 2012, he sold the rights for Star Wars to Disney for about 4 billion dollars, which was very painful for him. But, since he was 69 years old at that time, and creating a trilogy takes him about 10 years, he chose “life”. He wanted to spend the rest of his life with his family and his pet passions. Although it kind of hurts him, seeing what Disney made out of his life work, he has been very complimentary about the spin-off series “The Mandalorian”, which made a huge success on Disney’s Streaming Service, “Disney +”. Dave Filony, the creator of this series and of the Clone Wars series thinks that he has enjoyed the show, and Lucas said once that now he gets to watch it as a fan and watch it as a viewer.
George Lucas really changed the film industry back then. With his Star Wars franchise, he created a very enjoyable movie series, which really is a classic.