John
Milius is our birthday-boy for today, April the 11th.
Still from "Marcello, I'm so Bored."
Born
in 1944, in St. Louis, Missouri Milius attended the Los Angeles City
College and the University of Southern California, (just like his
friend George Lucas), where he won first prize with his animated
short: Marcello, I'm so Bored in 1967 (again, just like his
friend George Lucas did with THX 1138 E.B.).
Spielberg, Milius and Lucas
Through
George, John came into contact with Francis Coppola and Steven
Spielberg and became entangled in their careers both as a writer and
as an Executive Producer,in the years to follow.
In
the early seventies he established his name as a writer when he wrote
the screenplays for Dirty Harry and it's successor Magnum
Force. (Until today he still has the original Magnum 44 of the
first film in his possession, as part of his huge gun-collection, a
hobby he shares with Steven Spielberg).
Behind the Scenes Shot of 1941
And
before he became a household name for big time actioners in the
eighties, he helped Coppola with the script for his epic Apocalypse
Now and Steven with the story for 1941 (he even served as
an Executive Producer on that (in)famous comedy as well as on the
next collaboration between Spielberg, Zemeckis and Gale: Used
Cars.
But
the work for which we, Spielberg-fans, will be for ever grateful was
done as a favor to Steven. Milius wrote the 10 page USS Indianapolis
monologue that Quint delivers in Jaws.
Due
to his ill health, he hasn't been able to deliver much work over the
last couple of years, but he has appeared on numerous specials and
making of documentaries (like Hearts
of Darkness, The Making of 1941,
A
Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope,
Jaws
the Inside Story
and, most recently Milius.).
Below
you can check the trailer to Milius,
Happy
Birthday, Mr. Milius (and thanks for the speech)
Ronny.
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