• The_Caretaker@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Star Wars was also based on the Akira Kurosawa film “The Hidden Fortress” (1958) The story follows two peasants (droids) who are roped into helping a princess (Leia) and her general (Kenobi) rejoin her people while they travel together against the backdrop of a civil war.

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        2 months ago

        He was inspired by more things than just the general framework, one of the more blatant being the scene transitions where one scene wipes across the screen to the next one.