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    What If the Star Wars Sequels Were Based on a Kurosawa Movie Just Like the Original Star Wars?
    What If the Star Wars Sequels Were Based on a Kurosawa Movie Just Like the Original Star Wars?
    What If the Star Wars Sequels Were Based on a Kurosawa Movie Just Like the Original Star Wars?
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    What If the Star Wars Sequels Were Based on a Kurosawa Movie Just Like the Original Star Wars?

    By Brilliant Building

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    Fans of Star Wars know full well the debt George Lucas owes to Akira Kurosawa for many of the elements that inspired Star Wars, but few have considered plundering once again from the cave of samurai movies in order to bring back the magic! This thought experiment takes us through that scenario with the point of view that wholesale plagiarism is the key to reviving the franchise.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliant Building
    Release dateJan 7, 2015
    ISBN9781311738097
    What If the Star Wars Sequels Were Based on a Kurosawa Movie Just Like the Original Star Wars?

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      What If the Star Wars Sequels Were Based on a Kurosawa Movie Just Like the Original Star Wars? - Brilliant Building

      What If the Star Wars Sequels Were Based on a Kurosawa Movie Just Like the Original Star Wars?

      by Brilliant Building / Published by Brilliant Building

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2015 Brilliant Building

      DISCLAIMER

      This book has not been endorsed or authorized by Lucasfilm, Disney, or the estate of Akira Kurosawa

      What If the Star Wars Sequels Were Based on a Kurosawa Movie Just Like the Original Star Wars?

      George Lucas has long had an open appreciation for the movies of Akira Kurosawa, and nowhere is that influence felt more keenly than in 1977’s Star Wars, an interpretation of Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress set in space much in the same way that Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars resurrected Kurosawa’s Yojimbo in the Wild West. While it is tempting to see Western appreciation of Kurosawa’s films as exoticism at play, Kurosawa’s movies were domestically seen as having been tainted by the overbearing influence of Hollywood and other foreign influences (Kurosawa’s own Throne of Blood was a sturdy rendition of Macbeth), and so it isn’t so much exoticism, but a sense of underlying familiarity that drew Lucas in.

      People want more of the same, but in new dressing is a truism that not only describes Lucas’ fascination with Kurosawa, but also the popularity of genre sequels, of which Lucas plays no small role in its domination of the average worldwide movie-going experience. The poor fan response to the prequels, however lucrative they may have been, shows that Lucas was not able to execute the same, but in new dressing formula for the Star Wars prequels (or the LeBoufian treatment of Indiana Jones), but perhaps his mistake was in attempting to rhyme with his earlier successes, instead of going back to his source material: Kurosawa movies.

      A Fistful of Dollars proved that a near shot-for-shot remake of Yojimbo could work in a

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