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28. Me, too. I saw how derivative it was from films that had proceeded it.

Thu Dec 17, 2015, 11:34 AM

Dec 2015

I was very into film history at the point. The Star Wars plot was taken from a Japanese samurai film, by the great Akira Kurosawa.

I haven't bothered to see most of the Star Wars sequels, even for free on TV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_Fortress

The Hidden Fortress (隠し砦の三悪人 Kakushi toride no san akunin?, literally, "The Three Villains of the Hidden Fortress&quot is a 1958 jidaigeki[2] film directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune as General Makabe Rokurōta (真壁六郎太?) and Misa Uehara as Princess Yuki.

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George Lucas has acknowledged heavy influence of The Hidden Fortress on Star Wars,[6] particularly in the technique of telling the story from the perspective of the film's lowliest characters, C-3PO and R2-D2.[7][8] Lucas's original plot outline for Star Wars also had a strong resemblance to the plot of The Hidden Fortress,[9] which would be reused for The Phantom Menace.

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