But there is more to the characters' stories. Well, you call that a paint job, but it's pretty ugly. Just beautiful. Its a smart, funny and sensitive film unlike anything else he made before or since. Producer Coppola encouraged Lucas to cast Wolfman Jack as himself in a cameo appearance. [4] Lucas embraced the idea, using his early 1960s teenage experiences cruising in Modesto, California. These include an encounter between Toad and a fast-talking car salesman, an argument between Steve and his former teacher Mr. Kroot at the sock hop, and an effort by Bob Falfa to serenade Laurie with "Some Enchanted Evening". This would allow the studio to advertise American Graffiti as "from the man who gave you The Godfather". : Why did you do that? : : Send me email updates and offers from TMZ and its Affiliates. John Milner United Artists also passed on Star Wars, which Lucas shelved for the time being. John Milner Carol Well, get bent, turkey! [22], The financial success of Graffiti also gave Lucas opportunities to establish more elaborate development for Lucasfilm, Skywalker Sound, and Industrial Light & Magic. [39] All home video releases also included these scenes. Terry represents Lucas's nerd years as a freshman in high school, specifically his "bad luck" with dating. Lucas recalled, "He would have made $30million (equivalent to $183million in 2021)[33] on the deal. "[34] It was the 13th-highest-grossing film of all time in 1977[35] and, adjusted for inflation, is currently the 43rd highest. Is she gonna ride with you? : "George Lucas and I went through thousands of Wolfman Jack phone calls that were taped with the public," Jack reflected. Good-bye! : Later at the airfield, he says goodbye to his parents and friends before boarding the plane. Oh, wait, there's Dee Dee. Terry 'The Toad' Fields : That's great, man, that's really great. December 31, 1964 John Milner Madman John Milner : Yeah, yeah. we know from the end of American Graffiti that Milner dies in a car crash . : [16] Instead, he elected to shoot American Graffiti using two cinematographers (as he had done in THX 1138) and no formal director of photography. Curt has second thoughts about leaving his home with Steve to attend an East Coast college. Yeah, well I'm not surprised, drivin' a field car! During his night of goading anyone he comes across for a challenge, he picks up an emotional Laurie after the argument with Steve that was brewing all night. We see Terry in Vietnam, so desperate to escape that he actually fakes his own death and hides in Europe, hence he's only stated as "missing in action." Lucas uses the soundtrack to emphasize the carefree wonder of the teenagers' current lives and what they will be leaving behind. Yeah. Hey, man, are you all right? What? During the production of THX 1138 (1971), producer Francis Ford Coppola challenged co-writer/director George Lucas to write a script that would appeal to mainstream audiences. Its what he did in Modesto those final nights before heading off to USC. Curt Henderson : [16], In addition to Petaluma, other locations included Mel's Drive-In in San Francisco, Sonoma, Richmond, Novato, and the Buchanan Field Airport in Concord. : Curt is modeled after Lucas's personality during USC, while John is based on Lucas's teenaged street-racing and junior-college years, and hot rod enthusiasts he had known from the Kustom Kulture in Modesto. More American Graffiti is a 1979 American coming-of-age comedy film written and directed by Bill L. Norton, . I'm stayin' right here. [30] Walter Murch assisted Lucas in post-production for audio mixing and sound design purposes. Let's catch 'em at the light. [39] Universal released the film on Blu-ray with a new digitally remastered picture supervised by George Lucas on May 31, 2011. [18] Bob Balaban turned down Terry out of fear of becoming typecast, a decision he later regretted. Affiliation John Milner is the tritagonist of the film American Graffiti. One ten cent coke with ice. Date of death December 31, 1964 Physical description Gender Male Height 5'12" (1,82 m) Eye color blue Behind the scenes Actor Paul Le Mat Our community needs more information on this page! American Graffiti Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. [16] Roos, a former casting director on The Andy Griffith Show, suggested Ron Howard for Steve Bolander; Howard accepted the role to break out of the mold of his career as a child actor. Le Mat, Harrison Ford, and Bo Hopkins were claimed to be drunk most nights and every weekend, and had conducted climbing competitions to the top of the local Holiday Inn sign. I started out as Terry the Toad, but then I went on to be John Milner, the local drag race champion, and then I became Curt Henderson, the intellectual who goes off to college, They were all composite characters, based on my life, and on the lives of friends of mine. Zack MethvinBANNEDfrom Longview Texas. Dreyfuss also complained over the wardrobe that Lucas had chosen for the character. : 3 What was the T Bird in American Graffiti? You big weenie! American Graffiti depicts multiple characters going through a coming of age, such as the decisions to attend college or reside in a small town. After leaving the hop, he is coerced into joining a group of greasers called "The Pharaohs", who force him into several tasks including stealing coins from arcade machines and hooking a chain to a police car, ripping out its back axle. "It was overtly sexual and very fantasy-like, with playing chicken and things that kids didn't really do," Lucas explained. 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Hey! John Milner Sweetheart, if the prize is you, I'm a ready teddy. Hey, Laurie, what in hell are you doin' in there? Girl in Cadillac The film features characters intended to be Curt and Laurie Henderson's parents, Roger and Penny Henderson. [76] The registration plate on Milner's yellow deuce coupe is THX138 on a yellow, California license plate, slightly altered, reflecting Lucas's earlier science-fiction film (THX 1138). The yellow Deuce and the white T-bird went unsold, despite being priced as low as $3,000. | : By subscribing, I agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, 2023 EHM PRODUCTIONS,INC. Similarly, it makes perfect sense that the gorgeous blonde (Suzanne Somers) who Curt (Richard Dreyfuss) becomes obsessed with is driving around in a 1956 Ford Thunderbird; a car as beautiful as it is unattainable for a guy like Curt, who is stuck in the backseat of his sisters crummy Edsel. Sort of a cross between piss yella' and puke green, ain't it? Didn't nobody tell ya I was lookin' for ya? American Graffiti evokes mankind's relationship with machines, notably the elaborate number of hot rodshaving been called a "classic-car flick", representative of the motor car's importance to American culture at the time it was made. Eye color [10] Universal presidents Sidney Sheinberg and Lew Wasserman heard about the praise the film had been garnering in LA and New York, and the marketing department amped up its promotion strategy for it,[10] investing an additional $500,000 (equivalent to $3.1million in 2021)[33] in marketing and promotion. 5'12" (1,82 m) Based on 53 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, 96% of the critics enjoyed the film with an average score of 8.5/10. The album contains all the songs used in the film (with the exception of "Gee" by the Crows, which was subsequently included on a second soundtrack album), presented in the order in which they appeared in the film. Suzanne Somers [11], Lucas was dismayed when he returned to America in June 1971 and read Walter's script, which was written in the style and tone of an exploitation film, similar to 1967's Hot Rods to Hell. John Milner While the impact the late 1960s had on the characters is certainly worth expanding on, the beauty of "American Graffiti" lies in its nostalgicpreservation of an optimistic time in America. He gave an amount of the film's profits to Haskell Wexler for his visual consulting help during filming, and to Wolfman Jack for "inspiration". Before the mammoth success of "Star Wars," George Lucasdirected and co-wrote (along with Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck) the 1973 coming-of-age film "American Graffiti." What's that s'posed to be? The night unfolds with drag races, chasing a mysterious blonde in a Thunderbird, and listening to DJ Wolfman Jack on the radio. [56] Another theme is teenagers' obsession with radio, especially with the inclusion of Wolfman Jack and his mysterious and mythological faceless (to most) voice. Carol : Actor John Milner John Milner John Milner You've been number one as long as I can remember. Date of birth Terry Fields : You're talking to the woman I love. Suzanne Somers, Kathleen Quinlan, Debralee Scott, and Joe Spano also appear in the film. Paul Le Mat is best known for playing the drag racing John Milner -- opposite Ron Howard and Richard Dreyfuss -- in the 1973 film "American Graffiti." 1. : [14] The studio, therefore, submitted a long list of over 60 alternative titles, with their favorite being Another Slow Night in Modesto[17] and Coppola's Rock Around the Block. [15] Lucas and Kurtz eventually found favor at Universal Pictures, who allowed Lucas total artistic control and the right of final cut privilege on the condition that he make American Graffiti on a strict low budget. You're gonna hafta do one hell of a lot more than that to scare me! Carol Took the header plugs off, eh? John Milner "The Filming of. Oh, no, no. But he's caught by the car thieves who beat him up until John intervenes. Steve, aware that Laurie was Bob's passenger, rushes to the wreck as she and Bob crawl out and stagger away before the car explodes. 'Diegetic Music, Non-Diegetic Music, and "Source Scoring"' in, "Where Were You In '73? On October 14, 2011 By Sam Weisberg In Interviews Paul Le Mat is still most known for the role of John Milner in "American Graffiti," George Lucas' 1973 coming-of-age classic about a group of 1960s California high school graduates, and it's certainly not an unflattering way to be remembered. Debbie is now a hippie who becomes a country-western singer. After Fields's departure, Lucas struggled with editing the film's story structure. [29] Fields worked on the first rough cut of the film before she left to resume work on What's Up, Doc?. We know John Milner (Paul Le Mat) was killed by a drunken driver in 1964, so the movie has to roll back in time to visit him. : . : A soundtrack album for the film, 41 Original Hits from the Soundtrack of American Graffiti, was issued by MCA Records. "[17], Although American Graffiti is set in 1962 Modesto, Lucas believed the city had changed too much in ten years and initially chose San Rafael as the primary shooting location. : I'm sorta' embarrassed to be this close to ya! The studio initially thought that the film was only fit for release as a television movie. Search Birth.Movies.Death. Ha-ha! Wait a minute. John Milner Havin' fun, as usual! : Carol [5], Adding in semiautobiographical connotations, Lucas set the story in his hometown of 1962 Modesto. "More American Graffiti" shows the core group of "American Graffiti" experiencing the cultural upheaval of the women's lib and anti-war movement. Norton sets each sequence apart using different formal techniques meant to capture the chaos and fragmentation of thecounterculture era. [7], After the financial failure of THX 1138, Lucas wanted the film to act as a release for a world-weary audience:[8], [THX] was about real things that were going on and the problems we're faced with. The film received widespread critical acclaim and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Carol : John Milner : You gonna go after him? Because of this, Pauline Kael later accused Lucas of chauvinism. [9] Because American Graffiti's main cast was for younger actors, the casting call and notices went through numerous high-school drama groups and community theaters in the San Francisco Bay Area. [17], The film's lengthy casting process was overseen by Fred Roos, who worked with producer Francis Ford Coppola on The Godfather. An epilogue prior to the end credits reveals that John was killed by a drunk driver in 1964, Terry was reported missing in action near An Lc in 1965, Steve is an insurance agent in Modesto and Curt is a writer living in Canada. [to Carol] Lucas, Katz, and Huyck worked on the third draft together, specifically on the scenes featuring Steve and Laurie. [34], Universal reissued Graffiti on May 26, 1978, with Dolby sound[37][38] and earned an additional $63million (equivalent to $262million in 2021),[33] which brought the total revenue for the two releases to $118million (equivalent to $490million in 2021). Ford was kicked out of his motel room at the Holiday Inn. "[49], Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote, "American Graffiti is such a funny, accurate movie, so controlled and efficient in its narrative, that it stands to be overpraised to the point where seeing it will be an anticlimax. 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We're pitting two of the most iconic movie/tv hot rods of all time against one another. As a result, production was moved to Petaluma. Paradise Road. Yeah, I know what you mean. As a result, Lucas commissioned help from friend Haskell Wexler, who was credited as the "visual consultant". In an attempt to get cruising company for the evening, John inadvertently picks up Carol, a precocious 12-year-old who manipulates him into driving her around all night. In 1972, he appeared in American Graffiti (released in 1973), a coming-of-age film about a group of friends in Modesto, California in the early 1960s. : : John Milner : Curt replies that he is leaving town. : We know John Milner (Paul Le Mat) was killed by a drunken driver in 1964, so the movie has to roll back in time to visit him. What happened to John Milner in American Graffiti? Boy, are you up a creek. Lucas held firmhis was a story about West Coast teenagers in the early 1960s. Height : There's the bestfriends Curt Henderson (Richard Dreyfuss) and Steve Bolander (Ron Howard), the drag-racing John Milner(Paul Le Mat) and the nerdy Terry "The Toad" Fields (Charles Martin Smith). [5], Producer Francis Ford Coppola regretted having not financed the film himself. : A nostalgic slice of Americana pie filmed in a warm, naturalistic style, "American Graffiti" is the simple, wistful story of a group of California teenagers spending one last night togetherafter their high school graduation in 1962. : [5] The film was released in the United States on August 11, 1973[1] to sleeper hit reception. American Graffiti Ending Explained: The Calm Before The Storm. Regardless, Milner does his best to communicate with her. What's a field car? John "Gunner" Gunnell;4743423 said: I'm not sure who owns it, but J. Neal East -- a former auutomotive writer who runs a car book store in So Cal, had his car used to make the sound track. [35] The film had cost only $1.27million (equivalent to $8.2million in 2021)[33] to produce and market, but yielded worldwide box office gross revenues of more than $55million (equivalent to $336million in 2021). Directed by George Lucas, this 1973 classic is filled with cruising-for-a-bruising teens, young love, and all of the feels of the last summer before college. Yearbook-style photos of the four male leads appear in a shot of the sky next towriting that reveals their adult fates. The anniversary of Milner's death is . Aliases [23][26][27], Lucas considered covering duties as the sole cinematographer, but dropped the idea. Paul Le Mat is best known for playing the drag racing John Milner -- opposite Ron Howard and Richard Dreyfuss -- in the 1973 film "American Graffiti." Guess what he looks like now! Listen, are you with him? : And Terry disappeared in Vietnam a year later, so the movie pitches forward again. The yellow airspeeder that Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi use to pursue bounty hunter Zam Wesell is based on John Milner's yellow deuce coupe,[73] while Dex's Diner is reminiscent of Mel's Drive-In. Bob Falfa Girl in Cadillac Terry meets the high-spirited bombshell Debbie (Candy Clark). At The Hop/Artists. The audience at American Graffiti appears to be ecstatically happy condescending toward its own past how cute we were at seventeen, how funny, how lost but for women the end of the picture is a cold slap At the close, it jumps to the present and wraps up the fates of the four principal male characters as if lives were set ten years after high school! That just makes us more depressed than we were before. [23], More problems ensued during filming; Paul Le Mat was sent to the hospital after an allergic reaction to walnuts. [15] As he continued to work on the script, Lucas encountered difficulties on the Steve and Laurie storyline. John Milner : It's an empathetic look at the distances in which our sorrows can migrate.". Bill L. Norton wrote and directed a bizarre sequel entitled "More American Graffiti,"which follows most of the original characters (sans Richard Dreyfuss' Curt)during New Years Eve from 1964 to 1967. Say, I like the color of your car there, man. Alright, boss. However, before Milner died he defeated Bob Falfa (Harrison Ford) in a challenge and performed well in a local competition in Modesto. Ha ha! : Lucas's net worth was now $4million, and he set aside a $300,000 independent fund for his long-cherished space opera project, which would eventually become the basis for Star Wars (1977). Picker decided to give Lucas $10,000 to develop Graffiti as a screenplay. John Milner's foe, Bob Falfa went down in another public, flaming defeat the other day so the American Graffiti crowd may circle the wagons around the yellow deuce coupe known as the "fastest car in the valley". The proposition also gave Universal first-look deals on Lucas's next two planned projects, Star Wars and Radioland Murders. 4 Is American Graffiti based on a true story? [21] Lucas mimicked the filmmaking style of B-movie producer Sam Katzman (Rock Around the Clock, Your Cheatin' Heart, and the aforementioned Hot Rods to Hell) in attempting to save money and authenticated low-budget filming methods. How old are you? : Who sings at the Hop in American Graffiti? Mind your own business, John! : Can you help out? Carol : Station Attendant [47] Roger Ebert gave the film a full four stars and praised it for being "not only a great movie, but a brilliant work of historical fiction; no sociological treatise could duplicate the movie's success in remembering exactly how it was to be alive at that cultural instant". What's that stand for? Technical Specs. Ok, so here's the deal. The interaction causes Curt to desperately search for her throughout the night. 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