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Then again, that first Star Wars movie is mostly taken from Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_Fortress https://en.wikiped

by hga 12y ago

Then again, that first Star Wars movie is mostly taken from Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_Fortress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_Fortress), right down to the personalities of the robots... I gather The Dam Busters and perhaps other films of that sort (none of which I've seen) get a lot of credit for the end.

olavk 12y ago
"Mostly taken from..." is really stretching it. Yeah he was inspired by those movies, but to say "mostly taken from" is ignoring all the things which is original about the movie. And Star Wars really was an original movie when it arrived. If you look at Shakespeare almost all his basic story lines (and many characters) are taken from history or from other plays or stories. That does not mean that Shakespeares plays are "mostly taken from" earlier sources.