On the streets of Los Angeles, California, in 1962, a young man in his early 20s was struggling to do odd jobs.
This bearded young man who looked like an uncle was running around the big city in order to chase his movie dreams, but he unexpectedly touched a nose of ash.
With little money in his pocket, he could only rely on the money of a weekly odd job to live, and he did not dare to spend more than $10 a day.
However, he is still thinking about finding a group of like-minded partners and continuing to enter the film industry.
In the summer and summer, there were a lot of movies in the theater, which was also the main entertainment method for students at that time.
Among the crowds who went to watch the movie, there were three teenagers who were very special.
One of the teenagers, from an early age, wished to be a director.
When he watched the movie "Lawrence of Arabia", which was released at that time, this film brought him a great shock, but also made him question himself.
Can I make a movie like this?
He went in and out of the theater more than a dozen times a week, finally making up his mind.
"I'm going to be a director, and that's going to be my goal for the rest of my life."
The other teenager was very rebellious from an early age, not only did not listen to his parents, but also always caused trouble.
And because of the wide range of interests, I want to learn everything, and I can't always idle, so that my family is very anxious.
However, after the summer vacation, he was like a changed person.
He was no longer always giggling, but was concentrating on a course.
Because he went into the theater and saw the movie made by Akira Kurosawa.
The third teenager, who grew up in a religious family with extremely strict parenting, was not even allowed to go out during non-school hours.
Therefore, he always found an opportunity to sneak out of the house and go to the theater to see a movie.
For him, it was one of the few things he could have made him happy at the time, because he loved the film industry so much.
At the same time, in a middle school in California, another teenager who wanted to become a racing driver drove his car to compete with others in order to celebrate his high school graduation.
Unexpectedly, during the driving process, the opponent violently hit the car several times, which finally caused him to hit a tree, and the teenager's lungs were seriously injured and almost killed.
Lying in the hospital, the teenager felt that racing was too dangerous and began to develop his other interests.
In that year, Sarah Lawrence College in New York established a new professional division for graduate theater students.
At the academy, a boy is being "watched" by girls.
Because at that time, many of the people who studied this drama department were girls, and there were very few boys.
However, the boy did not really care about this, because his goal was to think about how to improve his knowledge of theatrical performance, so as to pave the way for his future career as a director.
In the late '60s, these teenagers invariably entered Hollywood.
Because they have similar interests and have the heart to fight in this industry, they quickly mixed together.
Although some people had already made some achievements between them at that time, outsiders did not look at them very well, jokingly referring to them as "the movie brats" (movie brats)
These teenagers are Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Brian de Palma, John Milieus and Paul Schrader.
There is a saying that when you are integrated into a good group, it often helps to develop your own abilities.
These teenagers were friends at the time, but they were also competitors with each other.
When they make a movie, they ask each other for other people's opinions.
When you see other people making good works, you will not be jealous, you will not doubt yourself, but you will think that you will try harder to catch up with them.
This is called healthy competition.
In this circle, the "movie devils" have also made extraordinary achievements.
Spielberg, a legendary director in the history of cinema.
In 1975, he broke the world box office record with "Jaws", and after two years of being surpassed by Lucas's "Star Wars", he regained the first place in 1982 with "E.T Alien".
No one broke his record for 11 years, so he broke his world record again in 1993 with Jurassic Park.
There are also masterpieces such as "Schindler's List" and "Saving Private Ryan".
In the 1980s, he directed Raiders of the Lost Ark, which laid the framework for modern commercial cinema.
That is to say, the Hollywood commercial film routines that everyone sees now, such as action scene distribution, commercial shots, laughter points, etc., are all created by him.
Spielberg is also one of the very few people to win the Academy Award for Best Director twice.
Francis, the director of "The Godfather", was released in 1972 and immediately became a sensation in the United States.
The "Godfather" series is a classic in the history of cinema, and its status is quite lofty.
And when it was first released, it not only broke the world box office record at that time, but also dominated the rating no.1 after the birth of imDB movie network (later fell to the second place due to some external factors)
Francis, who also won the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director for The Godfather 2.
Lucas, fascinated by the film industry, focuses on the visual impact of film.
In 1977, he created the first super-national IP in the United States, Star Wars.
The world box office record was broken when it was released that year, and the subsequent IP has continued to develop, and it is worth $68.7 billion to this day.
The so-called "father of Star Wars", lucas single-handedly created this IP, the impact on American culture is quite large, whether it is film and television, games and even other entertainment works, more or less can see the shadow of Star Wars.
Brian, who directed Scarface in 1983, had a significant impact on American cultural trends.
Even, a few years later, the GTA Vice City game under the game industry giant R Star is also based on this movie.
In addition, AtangGe's classic spy films and masterpieces, 1996's "Mission Impossible" are also from his hands.
Milieus, the 80s director of Conan the Barbarians, was a commercial success that directed Arnold Schwarzenegger as a Hollywood superstar of the time.
There can be times when, without him, there would be no subsequent glory of the governor.
Paul, later concentrated on screenwriting and film criticism.
He is the screenwriter of famous films, including "Taxi Driver".
Because these "movie little devils" have made various proud achievements, they have also admitted to the media that this group of young people who were not optimistic about themselves at that time have actually ruled the entire Hollywood.
Of course, the so-called Yangtze River back wave pushed forward the wave, and the little ghost leaders of the year have now become the old men of the grandfather's generation.
In the future of Hollywood, we still have to look at the "new little devils".