It was a world of souped-up hot rods and sleek Ford Thunderbirds, closer in feel to the 1950s than to the tumultuous years that lay ahead. George was looking to capture the lost innocence of the cruising culture that he and his friends had enjoyed as teenagers in his hometown of Modesto, 160 kilometres inland from San Francisco in California’s Central Valley. It was so radically different from any other script that I had ever come across, including the fact that it had the word “graffiti” in its title I had to look it up.īut I saw something fresh and gently subversive in the script and was fascinated by the way George Lucas had situated the story in 1962, a mere 10 years in the past, but an eternity ago in terms of social mores, given how fast American culture had evolved in the ’60s. He thought it was too episodic and loosely structured. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text sizeĭad hated the script.
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