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There's only so many scripts/stories you can tell. With the ability to access all filmed media at your fingertips, you can watch Star Wars from 1977 any time y

There's only so many scripts/stories you can tell. With the ability to access all filmed media at your fingertips, you can watch Star Wars from 1977 any time you want, you couldn't watch old buck rogers serials whenever you wanted in 1977 so when George Lucas modernized them it blew your mind.

Retric 5y ago
Star Wars was borrowing heavily from Seven Samurai not just western films. Thus swords vs blasters works the same way swords vs arrows do in those films etc. There are basically infinite ways to remix old stories like that. Hell even just the editing significantly improved Star Wars over the original script.
- fullshark 5y ago
  Yeah point is it was heavily derivative, as are most of the films during the last golden age of film (1970s-pick when?), but the technological advances were dramatic enough and audiences didn't have home entertainment systems and access to every film ever so these films were incredibly novel culturally speaking.
  - Retric 5y ago
    I think two things are going on, everyone remembers movies they watched as a kid/teen and thinks they where unusually good. It’s not that there was a golden age of movies, it’s that you personally had seen fewer movies. That said, the ratio of original movies to sequels/franchises changed. Fast forward 20 years from Star Wars to 1997 and sure yet another Titanic, Jurassic Park 2, and a James Bond film but also, Men in Black, The Fifth Element, Liar Liar, As Good as It Gets etc so still mostly original movies. But fast forward to 2017 and the top 10 movies included: Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Harry Potter 5, Spider-Man 3, Shrek 3, National Treasure 2, The Simpsons Movie, and Transformers. I Am Legend based on a book and 300 based on a comic. So only Ratatouille was actually new.
Findecanor 5y ago
These days, you would need an official fan-restoration / fan-edit to see the Star Wars from 1977 - and that would legally be a bootleg.
- kcartlidge 5y ago
  > These days, you would need an official fan-restoration / fan-edit to see the Star Wars from 1977 You could try Harmy's despecialized edition. I'm not going to mention where you can get it, but there is a Wikipedia page about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmy's_Despecialized_Edition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmy's_Despecialized_Edition

Retric 5y ago

Star Wars was borrowing heavily from Seven Samurai not just western films. Thus swords vs blasters works the same way swords vs arrows do in those films etc. There are basically infinite ways to remix old stories like that. Hell even just the editing significantly improved Star Wars over the original script.

fullshark 5y ago
Yeah point is it was heavily derivative, as are most of the films during the last golden age of film (1970s-pick when?), but the technological advances were dramatic enough and audiences didn't have home entertainment systems and access to every film ever so these films were incredibly novel culturally speaking.
- Retric 5y ago
  I think two things are going on, everyone remembers movies they watched as a kid/teen and thinks they where unusually good. It’s not that there was a golden age of movies, it’s that you personally had seen fewer movies. That said, the ratio of original movies to sequels/franchises changed. Fast forward 20 years from Star Wars to 1997 and sure yet another Titanic, Jurassic Park 2, and a James Bond film but also, Men in Black, The Fifth Element, Liar Liar, As Good as It Gets etc so still mostly original movies. But fast forward to 2017 and the top 10 movies included: Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Harry Potter 5, Spider-Man 3, Shrek 3, National Treasure 2, The Simpsons Movie, and Transformers. I Am Legend based on a book and 300 based on a comic. So only Ratatouille was actually new.

Findecanor 5y ago

These days, you would need an official fan-restoration / fan-edit to see the Star Wars from 1977 - and that would legally be a bootleg.

kcartlidge 5y ago
> These days, you would need an official fan-restoration / fan-edit to see the Star Wars from 1977 You could try Harmy's despecialized edition. I'm not going to mention where you can get it, but there is a Wikipedia page about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmy's_Despecialized_Edition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmy's_Despecialized_Edition