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17 hours ago, Ish said:

Just gonna leave this here…

 

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Just sayin'.  That argument would work better if the majority of the footage was not from before 1978.  All it's really succeeding in doing is demonstrating that StarWars was unoriginal or at least stole so many of its tropes from prior films.

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30 minutes ago, Duckman said:

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Just sayin'.  That argument would work better if the majority of the footage was not from before 1978.  All it's really succeeding in doing is demonstrating that StarWars was unoriginal or at least stole so many of its tropes from prior films.

That’s actually kind of the point the video was making. Go read the opening scrawl in the video: Star Wars is simultaneously “an assemblage of spare parts” as Pauline Kael criticized it upon release and so influential on later works that Roger Ebert said it “colonized our imaginations.”

Star Wars was basically an homage to the space adventure serials of Lucas’ childhood, mashed up with Westerns of his teens, and the chanbara films he discovered as a film school student. Like Tarantino who takes blaxploitation, Hong Kong action flicks, and other grind house B-movies and mashes them up into something that is both novel and an homage, that’s what Lucas did with Star Wars.

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