John Milius

" Renowned worldwide as the faculty that produced blockbuster film giants like Star Wars' director George Lucas, John Milius and Stephen Sommers, the USC School of Cinematic Arts has opened a lot of doors for Griffiths in Hollywood.

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...Hollywood then being overrun by her former USC students." Fields' students had included Matthew Robbins , Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz, John Milius, and George Lucas. Fields left no written lectures from her USC years, but a...

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...Clint Eastwood, Wim Wenders, Pedro Costa, David Lean, Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Quentin Tarantino, John Milius, Satyajit Ray, Francois Truffaut, Lindsay Anderson and Jean-Luc Godard. Ford was born John Martin...

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...on it, as he freely admitted in interviews. The biggest directors of the decade -- Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Michael Cimino, John Milius -- referred to it in their films. Scorsese even included a clip from it in Mean...

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...from film schools or are overtly cine-literate. His contemporaries include Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, John Milius, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, John Carpenter, and Steven Spielberg. His artistry in directing and use of...

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...in the 1960s, when the school turned out fellow filmmakers like Randal Kleiser ("Grease") and John Milius ("Big Wednesday"), Lucas later provided funds for, among other things, a George Lucas Instructional Building that served as the film...

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...Arabia in particular, throughout his Star Wars film series. John Milius, Sergio Leone, Sam Peckinpah, Stanley Kubrick, and Sydney Pollack also claimed influence from Lean's films. Mel Brooks is also an admirer and parodied several of Lean's...

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...humbled after the passage of some years. For color, the film includes some marvelously pungent passages from the original screenwriter John Milius, who in his descriptions of how they had originally planned to shoot the thing with 16mm...

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...the plot of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to the Vietnam War setting. He had no desire to direct the film and felt that George Lucas was the right person for the job. However, filmmaker Carroll Ballard claims that Apocalypse Now was his...

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