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I learned do much about this weekend and watched mamy interviews. A truly great man! He graduated with spielberg, copola, lucas, they all turned left and he wouldnt. I know wiki, but the info is true. They black listed one pf the best screenwriters and directors of all time.
Milius studied film at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television, which he chose because it was an elitist school that trained people for Hollywood.[8] His classmates included George Lucas, Basil Poledouris, Randal Kleiser and Don Glut. Milius says he was influenced by his teacher, Irwin Blacker:
He gave you the screenplay form, which I hated so much, and if you made one mistake on the form, you flunked the class. His attitude was that the least you can learn is the form. "I can't grade you on the content. I can't tell you whether this is a better story for you to write than that, you know? And I can't teach you how to write the content, but I can certainly demand that you do it in the proper form." He never talked about character arcs or anything like that; he simply talked about telling a good yarn, telling a good story. He said, "Do whatever you need to do. Be as radical and as outrageous as you can be. Take any kind of approach you want to take. Feel free to flash back, feel free to flash forward, feel free to flash back in the middle of a flashback. Feel free to use narration, all the tools are there for you to use."[9]
Milius says his writing style was influenced by two novels in particular, Moby-Dick and On the Road:
I think Moby Dick is the best work of art ever made … I used to point out the dramatic entrance of characters, how they were threaded through … Moby Dick was a perfect screenplay, a perfect example of the kind of drama that I was interested in. Another great influence on me was … On the Road, which has no tight, linear narrative, but sprawls, following this character. Moby Dick and On the Road are completely different kinds of novels, yet they're both extremely disciplined. Nothing happens by accident in either of those two books.[9]
Milius reflected his "ambitions stopped at B Westerns … I thought that was a good life. I never wanted to be Hitchcock or some big mogul, I didn't want to be Louis B. Mayer. I wanted to be … Budd Boetticher or something … John Ford."[2] His short films at film school included The Reversal of Richard Sun (1966), Glut (1967) and Viking Women Don't Care (1967). He wrote a documentary, The Emperor (1967), directed by classmate George Lucas, who also edited an animated short Milius directed called Marcello, I'm So Bored (1967) with John Strawbridge.
Marcello won best animation at the National Student Film Festival[10] and screened around the country in various festivals; it was praised by Vincent Canby of The New York Times.[11][12] Milius received a job offer to work in animation but he turned it down as he could not see himself "sitting there drawing cell after cell."[13]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milius