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What about Pixar?
by scaryclam 9y ago
What about Pixar?
- martin-adams 9y agoand Star Wars
- dx034 9y agoWhat folk story was Star Wars based on?
- pvg 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell#Film_and_television https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell#Film_and_telev...
- dx034 9y agoI wouldn't call a 1949 book a folk story, though.
- pvg 9y agoYou should probably the entire linked section, Lucas's own quote included. "it came to me that there really was no modern use of mythology...The Western was possibly the last generically American fairy tale, telling us about our values. And once the Western disappeared, nothing has ever taken its place. In literature we were going off into science fiction...so that's when I started doing more strenuous research on fairy tales, folklore, and mythology, and I started reading Joe's books. Before that I hadn't read any of Joe's books...It was very eerie because in reading The Hero with a Thousand Faces I began to realize that my first draft of Star Wars was following classic motifs...so I modified my next draft [of Star Wars] according to what I'd been learning about classical motifs and made it a little bit more consistent...I went on to read 'The Masks of God' and many other books"
- Joeboy 9y agoAside from the monomyth, Star Wars was actually the fruit of George Lucas attempting to do a Flash Gordon film but failing to secure the rights. Edit: This talks about Star Wars's influences, and is also great and everybody should watch it: http://www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/ http://www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/
- xorcist 9y agoI don't think even Kurosawa knows that.