Comments on: Star Wars Trivia

By: Fini Alring

Fini Alring — Fri, 30 Nov 2001 00:00:00 +0000

“C3PO or R2D2, can never tell which is which”
- Talk to the hand! I hoped you enjoyed you Star Wars night, and may the force be with you.

By: pierre

pierre — Fri, 30 Nov 2001 00:00:00 +0000

Je te conseil un petit tour sur nanarland.com, pour mater le turkish starwars un grand moment de cinema!

By: dr Dave

dr Dave — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Daryl
Indeed, that was one of the big discussion I had with my roommate. She stood firmly to say that the story sounded much like a Kurosawa movie, but was unable to tell me which one. And since I hadn’t seen Kakushi toride no san akunin (I think the English title is The Hidden Fortress) for ages, it didn’t really come to me.
After looking it up a little bit: it makes sense.
However, according to Lucas (and I would tend to agree), the biggest contribution from Kurosawa’s movie was the use of two minor characters (the two peasants in Fortress became two droids in Star Wars) to recount the story…
Interestingly, what struck me much more was “cultural” details (at least their interpretation by Lucas and the authors), rather than the general story line…

Anyway, I’m hardly an established authority on SW, as you can see… But thanks for pointing that out!

By: Daryl

Daryl — Sat, 30 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +0000

OK, I’m sure you know this already, but you know that Lucs basically admitted to ripping off Kurisawa’s The Hidden Castle and just replacing the japanese lelemtns with sci fi ones right ?

Seriously, watch the Kurisawa film and then watch Star Wars if you really want an overwhelming sense of how close the Japanese and Star Wars is.