Academy Award Determination American Beauty & American Graffiti

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Oscar Decision American Beauty & American Graffiti

Academy Award Decision American Beauty

The inspiration for American Beauty came in part from a day in the early 90’s when writer Alan Ball noticed a plastic bag floating in the wind in front of the World Trade Center in Current York. The simple beauty of the bag circling him in the air various times brought Ball to tears. At the time Ball was an art director for a magazine and writing plays at night for a theater company.

Imagery is used throughout the show to illustrate the imprisoned life of Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey). In one scene the filmmakers show his reflection against a computer monitor, which is filled with a column of numbers. Burnham’s look among the columns gives the appearance of prison bars.

Academy Award Honor American Graffiti

Executives at Worldwide Pictures had a problem with the title, American Graffiti, because it sounded like director George Lucas was making an Italian picture or a film about feet. Over 60 alternative titles were suggested to replace it, including “Another Slow Night in Modesto” and “Rock Around the Block.” In the end, Lucas persuaded the studio to keep his inventive title.

International Pictures executive Ned Tanen was not stamped when he first saw American Graffiti, and planned to exemption it as a TV movie. Solitary after repeat period screenings, and positive word-of-mouth, did the studio pressure group its mind.

Employed at the time as a carpenter, Harrison Ford agreed to take the role of Bob Falfa lone if he wouldn’t have to cut his hair. The genre in the early 70’s, when American Graffiti was made, was different that the time moral reflected in the movie. Ford got his way by wearing a Stetson hat to cover his hair.