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Star Wars is bonkers cause like my guy George sat down in the 70s and watched a bunch of Kurosawa and thought “I should just combine this with Flash Gordon” and not only did it work it worked maybe too well
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A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird
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This is Not Wrong, Gita. (I'm a lifelong Kurosawa fan, and have been dumb about Star Wars since I was 7)
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Zach Rabiroff
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Just stuck every piece of pop culture he enjoyed at age 12, processed it in a blender, served it to the public, and we've been devouring it for 47 years.
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Michael
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I watched the special features of Hidden Fortress a few years back and remember Lucas being dismissive about what an influence it was on Star Wars. Like, c'mon my guy
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Big Bad Butch Gf, Baro Dyke Of Tipperary
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the great liberatory truth about human culture is that every samurai movie will one day be a cowboy movie and every cowboy movie will one day be a samurai movie. With this knowledge alone we will defeat the forces of imperialism
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Shano
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A plus discussion all round but this could used more pod racing.
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joshua caleb weibley
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And every character is named something like “schitt fardle” and no-one minds
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Policy_g
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I think the formula was: Simple iconic story that took itself completely seriously, and absolute 150% devotion to craft up and down the line. I bet even the craft services were excellent.
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Spooky
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that seems to be his takeaway. like yeah he loves being a zillionaire but he's always like "i wanted to make other stuff"
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Matt Hope
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And sampling some Dune for good measure
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Tim Feinstein
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When he wandered over to the Blockbuster section for interwar minstrel shows someone should have tackled him
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Squire Boone
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I maintain that George's contribution is summed up in six or seven visual shots but they are pretty big ones.
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Arash Mohebbi
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It worked so well it became a brain poison
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Meatghost
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People underestimate how often the death of an artistic movement comes from within. Star Wars is peak '70s auteur cinema.
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Nat
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Imagine, Star Wars without the John Williams score, it wouldn’t work half as well as it did.
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Maximilian Ximenez
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George Lucas retaining the merch rights to star wars literally changed the face of western art and people are still not comfortable talking about that
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walpurgis fechtbook
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I think part of the problem with the prequels is he also sat down and correctly figured out that the two best genres to talk about the fall of empires are the Jane Austen Period Drama and the Chinese Historical Drama but sadly had not actually watched a ton of media in those spaces
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Noah Brand
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It worked so well that it ruined his life. He made Episode 1 in an attempt to get rid of all the horrible, horrible fans, and when that didn't work, he just sold the stupid thing to the richest, most evil corporation he could find.
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Hare 🍉
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Imagine if he’d got Toshiro Mifune to play Obi-Wan, like he initially planned.
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Your🐀text🐀here
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Only reason the originals were good was cuz of the team making it and his wife edited all movies so they actually made sense
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Baito
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George Lucas saw Germans getting blown out of the sky and thought "I need more...I NEED MORE!"
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Jonathan
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"Steve Steve Steve stop whatever you are working on and come to my place I got a storyboard for you." "George, you can't just remake a Kurosawa movie." "No no no, this time it has laser swords and aliens."
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Roslyn Reid
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I agree. When I saw the first Star Wars movie, it was a flashback to every one I'd ever seen on Saturday morning TV.
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Oldskoolguitar
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Well put
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@patter.bsky.social
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bits of battle of britain & dambusters for some of the space fighter & death star attack scenes
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Bob Booten
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American Graffiti is his only good movie.
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ESPers
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Throw in a little Damnbusters too. But without Marcia Lucas, I feel like it would just have been loved for its SFX.
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the jEfE
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Valerian has entered the chat. The more you look, the worse it gets.
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Viola Smart
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He read The Hero with a Thousand Faces and used it as a template.
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jon rosenberg
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I would trade every bit of post-Andor Star Wars (and most of pre-Andor SW too) for a proper sequel to Flash Gordon 1980
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junebug
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RASH! aH-maAan!!!
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Rabia
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Never seen either. Maybe I should watch either or both at some point
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As A Dog-man ☭
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George screenwriting the Lament Configuration
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Avram Grumer
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Yeah, basically. He just took everything he thought was cool in movies, and found a way to mash it all up together.
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Dr. Heck
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Real Jurassic park “preoccupied with could; didn’t think about should” situation.
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Walker, wouldBe Wizard
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I listened to his biography last year. Lucas is not a gifted writer, but he would work 8 hours a day, nearly every day at his desk on his screenplays to get it to feel right. I sometimes wish we were in the universe where he directed Apocalypse Now.
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New Leaf
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Also the Tao Te Ching
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Josh Sternberg
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And John Ford! Putting together The Searchers and Seven Samurai. And a little bit — just a little bit — of Nazi iconography. The 70s were fucking nuts.
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Lizardguy64
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Ehh, I disagree. The whole series even back then was so corporate and toy centric that the entire franchise felt like Disney Garbage from day 1.
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