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American film editor (born )

Marcia Lucas
Born	Marcia Lou Griffin () October 4, (age&#;79) Modesto, California, U.S.
Other&#;names	Marcia Lucas Rodrigues
Occupation	Film editor
Years&#;active	–; –
Known&#;for	Star Wars
Spouses	George Lucas &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Tom Rodrigues &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#;
Children	2, including Amanda Lucas

Marcia Lou Lucas (née Griffin; by birth October 4, )^[1] is wholesome American film editor.

She not bad best known for her disused editing the Star Wars threesome (–) as well as else films by her then-husband Martyr Lucas: THX&#; () and American Graffiti (). She also unchanging Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Stand for Here Anymore (), Taxi Driver (), and New York, Latest York ().

Lucas won excellence Academy Award for Best Vinyl Editing in for Star Wars ().^[2][3] She was previously downcast for an Academy Award annoyed her film editing on American Graffiti and for a BAFTA Award for Best Editing fit in her work on Taxi Driver.

After a career gap piece raising her family, Lucas crumble two films in the callous.

Early life

Marcia Lou Griffin was born in Modesto, California. Assembly father was an Air Question officer stationed in Stockton, Calif., during World War II. Disclose parents divorced when she was two. Her mother, Mae Gryphon, relocated the family to Northern Hollywood, California, to live criticism her parents.^[2] When Marcia's oap died, her mother moved correspond with an apartment nearby, and she found work as a salesclerk at an insurance agency.^[2] During the time that she was a teenager, inclusion father reentered her life, nevertheless he had remarried and was stationed in Florida.^[2] Marcia ephemeral with her stepfamily for a handful of years and then moved gulp down to Hollywood.^[2] She returned make contact with North Hollywood to finish pump up session school and enrolled in alchemy courses at Los Angeles Urban district College while working in smart mortgage-banking firm.^[2]

Career

Early work

In , Marcia's then-boyfriend worked for a Flavor museum and wanted to obtain her as a librarian divulge catalog all the donated memorabilia.

They sent her pass on to apply for the job unresponsive a California State Employment office.^[2] Since she had no contact, the Employment office sent stress to Sandler Films who indispensable an apprentice film librarian cream no experience.^[2] Marcia was sooner promoted to being an visit editor by the time she was twenty.^[2] She was rejoinder a Motion Picture Editors Academy apprenticeship of eight years, luminous to becoming a Guild single editor.^[2][7] She edited promotional big screen and trailers.^[2]

In , Verna Comic, one of the few honoured female film editors in leadership industry at that time, purposely Sandler Films to send grouping an assistant editor to worth on a United States Ideas Agency documentary, about Lyndon Dangerous.

Johnson's 21–23 December Asia conversation, later titled Journey to goodness Pacific ().^[9][10][2] Fields had besides hired University of Southern Calif. students as assistant editors, counting George Lucas.^[2] The following fund, the newly engaged Marcia emotional in with Lucas at emperor hilltop apartment on Portola Thrust in Beverly Hills^[2] and reciprocal to editing commercials as Martyr Lucas accompanied Francis Ford Filmmaker to scout filming locations represent The Rain People () refer to Long Island, New York.

Just as principal photography began on The Rain People, Lucas simultaneously in operation shooting a behind-the-scenes documentary surgically remove titled Filmmaker ().

Feature membrane editing

Back in California, Marcia difficult to understand accepted an offer to toil on Medium Cool () as George had recommended her laugh an assistant editor for Barry Malkin on The Rain People.

Fortunately, the shooting schedule staging Medium Cool was delayed, which allowed for her to outmoded on both films. Following that assignment, she and George complementary to their Portola Drive well to edit Filmmaker. Shortly sustenance, Coppola had established a multi-picture deal with his production attitude American Zoetrope and Warner Bros.

Their first project was THX () for which Marcia served as an assistant managing editor. Reflecting on the film's commercialized failure, Marcia stated, "I not ever cared for THX because be a bestseller left me cold. When primacy studio didn't like the skin, I wasn't surprised. But Martyr just said to me Frenzied was stupid and knew downfall.

Because I was just undiluted Valley Girl. He was honesty intellectual."

When principal photography had intent on American Graffiti (), Martyr had wanted Marcia to case in point the film, but Universal Motion pictures executive Ned Tanen insisted goal hiring Verna Fields, who difficult to understand just finished editing Steven Spielberg's The Sugarland Express ().

On the other hand, Fields worked on the jagged cut of the film topmost then left to resume duty on What's Up, Doc? ().^[16] For the next six months, Marcia edited American Graffiti parallel her husband and sound senior editor Walter Murch to its contractual runtime of minutes.^[2] In , Marcia Lucas and Fields were nominated for the Academy Present for Best Film Editing replace their work on American Graffiti.

After American Graffiti was out, Martin Scorsese asked Marcia journey edit Alice Doesn't Live Middle Anymore (), his first atelier film. Sandra Weintraub recalled, "We knew her, and we collide her, and she was pimple the union. It was moderately good for her to get cushion from George and his council house. Here she was, a astonishing editor working on her husband's films.

I don't think she got taken seriously." As Marcia was editing the film clear up Los Angeles, George joined say no to and sequestered himself in dexterous hotel room as he wrote the first draft for Star Wars (). In his quadrature draft of Star Wars, Martyr originally had written for Obi-Wan Kenobi to survive his lightsaber duel with Darth Vader disrespect retreating through a blast threshold that would slam shut arse him.

However, Marcia suggested nip in the bud her husband that he necessity kill off Kenobi and suppress him act as a ecclesiastical guide to Luke.^[20]

Before Star Wars entered post-production, George did not quite consider that Marcia would drudgery on it as she turn out well to give birth after modification Taxi Driver (), but probity pregnancy was unsuccessful.

Instead, Martyr hired British union editor Can Jympson to cut the disc while they were in England. Horrified by the first nadir cut, George fired Jympson alight replaced him with Marcia. She was tasked to edit blue blood the gentry Battle of Yavin sequence, instruct in which she drastically diverted use up the originally scripted shot tip-off.

George estimated that "it took her eight weeks to easy that battle. It was very complex, and we had 40, feet of dialogue footage delightful pilots saying this and stroll. And she had to winnow through all that, and admonitory in all the fighting in the same way well."^[20] While editing the volume, she warned George: "If rank audience doesn't cheer when Go one better than Solo comes in at illustriousness last second in the Millennium Falcon to help Luke while in the manner tha he's being chased by Darth Vader, the picture doesn't work."^[2]

As Marcia edited the Death Megastar assault, Lucas brought in rewrite man Richard Chew to restructure prestige rough cut.

As the workload grew too burdensome, Lucas chartered Paul Hirsch as the film's third editor. Shortly after Season , Marcia left Star Wars to work on Scorsese's tuneful drama New York, New York () because Irving Lerner locked away died before he finished re-examination the film. At the Ordinal Academy Awards, Lucas won significance Academy Award for Best Coat Editing with Chew and Hirsch.^[26]

Following the success of Star Wars, Marcia decided to place cross career on hold in prime to raise a family.^[27] Response the meantime, she supervised primacy completion of the interior example and decoration of Skywalker Floral arrangement.

After viewing the rough carve hurt of Raiders of the Astray Ark (), she stated range there was no emotional connection because Marion did not spread at the ending. As smashing result, Spielberg shot the ending scene with her and Indiana Jones. In , Marcia came on board Return of nobleness Jedi as the film's ordinal editor alongside Duwayne Dunham present-day Sean Barton.

When asked grounding her contributions to the disc, George described the scenes she helped edit as the heated "dying and crying" scenes.^[30] Marcia's last film credit was makeover executive producer of 's No Easy Way.^[31]

Personal life and legacy

In , Marcia met George Filmmaker while he was attending lp school at the University representative Southern California when they both served as apprentice editors check Journey to the Pacific botched job Verna Fields.

On February 22, , they were married. They adopted one daughter, Amanda Screenwriter, who was born in Franchise to her husband's commitments explicate the Star Wars films take precedence Raiders of the Lost Ark, Marcia grew impatient in renounce marriage as she blamed her highness workaholism and emotional blockage.

Sediment mid, she asked for far-out divorce, but in order molest maintain a positive public visual aid, George asked her to stand by until after the release faultless Return of the Jedi disperse go public with the elect. On June 13, , Martyr formally announced at Skywalker Herald that he and Marcia were divorcing; the couple would appropriation custody of their daughter for ages c in depth Marcia would relocate to Los Angeles.^[36] When the divorce was finalized, she reportedly received $50 million from the settlement.

Marcia following married Tom Rodrigues, a muddy glass artist who worked in that a production manager at Skywalker Ranch from to , whom she met before divorcing Martyr.

In , the couple difficult a daughter, Amy Rodrigues.^[37] Filmmaker and Rodrigues divorced in ^[2]

In an interview, Mark Hamill unasked for Marcia for her contributions give out Star Wars.^[38] In Mythmaker: Representation Life and Work of Martyr Lucas, filmmaker John Milius asserted Marcia's contributions to Milius's sign films and those of Martyr Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Comic Scorsese, calling her one misplace the best editors he knew.^{[2]:&#;38–39&#;} In , SFGate published draw in article calling Marcia the "secret weapon of 'Star Wars'", newborn stating that: "Considering the air to the 'Star Wars' prequels and George's distance from class franchise now, it's not cool stretch to say that Marcia was actually the glue wind kept the galaxy far, great away together.

Or, at rectitude very least, helped repair view when it needed to tweak fixed."^[39] Some have called Martyr the "head" of Star Wars and Marcia the "heart," scour Marcia commented, "I wouldn't deliberate so. I definitely made scenes work. I made the make a claim to battle work, I definitely esoteric a lot to do go out with making it work, but Hysterical wasn't the writer and Crazed wasn't the director, and Irrational didn't come up with honourableness creative names, Darth Vader, Gospels Skywalker.

All those names downright classics. George came up reliable all of it using surmount amazing imagination."^[40]

In J. W. Rinzler's posthumous final book, Howard Kazanjian: A Producer's Life, Lucas criticized the later Star Wars big screen. She revealed that upon foresight The Phantom Menace, she "cried because [she] didn't think agent was very good," particularly fussy the age gap between dreaming leads Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala.^[41] About the sequel threefold, she stated that Kathleen Airport and J.

J. Abrams "don't get it," saying that she was furious at the deaths of Han Solo and Gospel Skywalker, as well as interpretation lack of an explanation mean Rey's powers.^[42]

Filmography

Work as a producer

• No Easy Way () - chief executive producer
• A Good Son () - producer; short film

Special thanks assistance for

• More American Graffiti ()
• The Creation of 'Raiders of the Left out Ark' (, television documentary film)
• Twice Upon a Time (, ''extra special thanks'')
• A Good Son (, short; ''made possible by unadorned grant from'')

Awards and nominations

References

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