Talk:Roman Kroitor

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Notes from Paul Kroitor (Roman's son)

I haven't adjusted the text, as I feel it might be a conflict of interest, but here are a couple of footnotes / thoughts for future corrections:

1) Roman would certain be better described as a "Canadian Filmmaker", or "Canadian Filmmaker and Inventor", rather that "Canadian Inventor". Although he loved inventing new things, almost all his professional career was as a film director and producer.

2) In the May 2005 issue of Wired magazine, Roman is credited by George Lucas as being the origin the concept of "The Force", as popularized in Star Wars.

"One of the audio sources Lipsett sampled for 21-87 [a film that had a great influence on Lucas] was a conversation between artificial intelligence pioneer Warren S. McCulloch and Roman Kroitor, a cinematographer who went on to develop Imax. In the face of McCulloch's arguments that living beings are nothing but highly complex machines, Kroitor insists that there is something more: 'Many people feel that in the contemplation of nature and in communication with other living things, they become aware of some kind of force, or something, behind this apparent mask which we see in front of us, and they call it God.'"

"When asked if this was the source of "the Force," Lucas confirms that his use of the term in Star Wars was 'an echo of that phrase in 21-87.'"

Filmography

This is very long. I suggest replacing with a selected filmography and an external link to the Internet Movie Database.--Ethicoaestheticist 20:16, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

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