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Shots In The Mirror Crime Films And Society' title='Shots In The Mirror Crime Films And Society' />The Student Films of 2. Famous Directors. Shots In The Mirror Crime Films And Society' title='Shots In The Mirror Crime Films And Society' />Evolution is a term to define only one organism and thats the self. The self is the universe, the self is the alpha and omega, god, and infinity, and. Cheerleader Camp Horror Lucky Number ScrivimiAncora 5 a Day 50K and a Call Girl A Love Story 9. Til Death Til There Was You 500 giorni. IJ7AXKWmWOg/0.jpg' alt='Shots In The Mirror Crime Films And Society' title='Shots In The Mirror Crime Films And Society' />We all have to start somewhere. Before they conquered Hollywood, these famous directors made student films. George Lucas  Freiheit. The creator of Star Wars has become an industry unto himself, but George Lucas had some inauspicious beginnings. He first enrolled at Modesto Junior College in his hometown of Modesto, California, but soon transferred to USCs School of Cinematic Arts where he made Freiheit German for Freedom and credited to LUCAS, a student film about an unnamed man trying to escape an unspecified territory across an ambiguous border. Lucas also made even more abstract student films like Look at Life, which was an assignment for an animation class and is made entirely out of still photos. Then theres Herbie, a three minute black and white short composed only of lights streaking across the bodies of cars set to a lilting jazz piece by Herbie Hancock. When Lucas graduated in 1. USC grad student and eventually made a film called Electronic Labyrinth THX 1. EB, which won first prize at the 1. National Student Film Festival, and was adapted into Lucas first full length film, THX 1. Steven Spielberg  Amblin. Contrary to popular belief, Spielberg did not attend USC with his buddy George Lucas. Instead, Spielberg enrolled at California State University, Long Beach, but he soon focused his attention on becoming a full time, unpaid intern at nearby Universal Studios. He eventually made a short film called Amblin that led to him dropping out of school. The forlorn love story is a silent short that depicts a free spirited hippie couple who hitchhike through Southern California to the Pacific Ocean. Sid Sheinberg, then vice president of production for Universal Television, saw the film and signed the young Spielberg to a seven year contract for the studiothe youngest person ever at the time to receive such a long term contract. Spielberg would eventually name his production company Amblin Entertainment, after the film. Much later, he went on to graduate from Cal State Long Beach in 2. Film and Electronic Arts. Martin Scorsese  Whats a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This Before movie brats like Lucas, Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola went to school and made films on the West Coast, Martin Scorsese stuck around in his hometown of New York and enrolled at NYU in 1. Haig P. Manoogian to whom Scorsese would eventually dedicate his 1. Corrupt File Encountered In Save Game File @ Offset 0. Raging Bull. Scorseses earliest student film is Whats a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This The filmfeatures nascent forms of the directors eventual stylistic trademarks such as staccato editing, direct voiceover, and fluid camera movements. Scorsese went on to make other student films like Its Not Just You, Murrayit seems he had an early preoccupation with grammatical titles in 1. His most notable student effort was the anti Vietnam parable The Big Shavein 1. Robert Zemeckis  A Field of Honor. For his application to USCs film schoolthe only college program he applied tothe eventual Back to the Future and Forrest Gump director pooled together all the money he made while working as a gopher at a local Chicago production company and shot a short film set to a Beatles song something he later alluded to as a precursor to music videos. Zemeckis wasnt accepted, but he called up the department to plead his way in, saying that hed do anything to get his grades up to join the program. His emotional appeal worked. During his time at USC, Zemeckis directed shorts like The Lift, a dialogue free black and white film about a mans mundane struggle with an elevator it also included eventual Back to the Future producer and fellow student Bob Gale as a production assistant. But it wasnt until Zemeckis final student film, a 1. Vietnam War comedy called A Field of Honor, that he was given real recognition. It took home a Special Jury Award at the Second Annual Student Film Awards held by the AMPASthe same organization that gives out the Oscars. It was there that A Field of Honor caught the attention of Steven Spielberg, who would go on to executive produce Zemeckis first two feature films, I Wanna Hold Your Hand a film that expanded the Beatles inspired theme of his USC application film and Used Cars, as well as later efforts like the Back to the Future trilogy and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Zemeckis and Gale would, in turn, go on to write the screenplay of Spielbergs big budget World War II flick 1. Brian De Palma  The Wedding Party. Filmmaker Brian De Palma has the distinction of making a student film that includes the first on screen appearance of Robert De. Niro. The film, titled The Wedding Party, was a joint effort between De Palma, his Sarah Lawrence College film professor Wilford Leach, and fellow student Cynthia Monroe. It was shot in 1. De Palmas third feature, chronologically. In the film, a groom interacts with his fiances family and friends one of whom is played by De. Niro, improperly credited as Robert Denero two days before hes supposed to get married. Aside from the young De. Niro, the film is most notable for its jump cutswhich were a nod to De Palmas infatuation with the Nouvelle Vagueand silent film homages like title cards and sped up comedic gags. You can stream the entire film on Amazon. James Cameron  Xenogenesis. George Lucas Star Wars inspired the then 2. James Cameron to make movies. In 1. 97. 7, Cameron was making a living as a truck driver delivering lunches to schools in Orange County, but in his free time he also wrote sci fi stories and built models like the ones he saw in Lucas movie. To emulateand potentially one up Star Wars, he got a group of Southern California dentists to invest 2. Xenogenesis about a man and a woman who are sent to a sentient starship to search for new life and wind up battling a gigantic robot. While not technically a student film in the strict sense, Cameron essentially taught himself how to make the movie by buying cheap film equipment and spending days on end scouring the USC library to read about film production and special effects. Cameron set up the shoot in his living room, using bright lights and a little track to roll his camera along for dolly shots. The climactic battle between the woman operating her spider like exoskeleton and the robot was meticulously created by Cameron himself using stop motion models. If you look past the low budget cheesiness and bad acting, Camerons brilliant and intuitive inclusion of special effectsthe kind that anticipated his later films like The Terminator, Aliens, and Avatarreally shine through. David Lynch  Six Men Getting Sick Six Times. Nobody makes movies quite like David Lynch, and thats evident from his very first student film, Six Men Getting Sick Six Times. Its a plotless, four minute short depicting a one minute loop of macabre animation created by Lynch that is repeated over and over again. The film was made while Lynch was a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Lynch purchased a 1. Philly and had the staff teach him how to use it, and then rented out a hotel room owned by the Academy to shoot his unorthodox short. With the help of friend and collaborator Jack Fisk who would help Lynch with his debut full length film Eraserhead, Lynch animated single frame shots which would then be projected onto a screen that included plaster casts of heads including one taken from Lynchs own face.