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Star Wars is a ripoff of some international (Italian? Japanese? I don't know) movie.
Hidden Fortress by Akira Kurosawa. It’s still enjoyable today IMO, and you can really see how some of the characters are a direct line to Star Wars characters.
Now this information makes "Star Wars Visions: Ronin" look like the the "back to the roots" material.
Akakiri is an even better example.
It also partially explains the Western feeling to Star Wars. Lots of Kurisawa films were made into Westerns.
Seven Samurai became the Magnificent Seven (and Bug's Life!). Yojimbo and Sanjuro became A Fistful of Dollars and A Few Dollars More.
If you watch enough old scifi and adventure movies, you'll learn to welcome the "so that's where Lucas took that idea from" feeling as an old friend. He lifted a lot.
Well, you know the old adage: "Good artists copy, great artists steal"
The sci-fi artists were really all copying each other and building off of one another anyways.
It’s the same with almost all art anyways, it’s “inspiration” by another word.
That just is what all storytelling is. You mix and match characters, tropes, settings, and such from other stories and irl and mix it all together to get something "original"
Well even paintings and music is usually inspired by something as well, it’s not just limited to the medium of story telling.
True, storytelling is just easier to track and what the thread was about
The Hero with 1000 Faces
I also remember many designs and visual concepts were also based on a French scify graphic novel.
Valerian and Laureline
The Vietnam war.
pretty much everything is a rip off of everything.
A fistful of dollars which has become the archetypal western is also just a rip off of yojimbo im addition to the magnificent seven being a rip off the seven samurai which was also directed by kurosawa the same guy who made the movie star wars ripped off.