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Article: Hollywood fights to protect its filth; Dozens of U.S. companies have sprung up, offering families cleaner, more wholesome movies.(editing existing films)
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- The Report Newsmagazine
- Article date:
- December 2, 2002
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Hollywood producer and director George Lucas is most famous for his Star Wars films. In a 1983 lecture to film students at the University of Southern California, he said, "Film and visual entertainment are a pervasively important part of our culture, an extremely significant influence on the way our society operates." The film industry, he noted, did "not want to accept the responsibility they had in the way the world is loused up. The influence of the church, which used to be all-powerful, has been usurped by film." TV and film, he added, tells society "what is right and wrong."
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