Kurosawa and Lucas

[Kzin]

Lucas copied off Star Wars. Here's the proof:

1. Yojimbo -- That whole arm-cutting scene was copied from when Yojimbo cuts off that gangster's arm. The gangster even brags about his death sentence right before he is attacked.

2. Yojimbo -- Hans solo was a ripoff of Yojimbo as well as most of Toshiro Mifune's characters. Most people would say that the tough guy character is common, but why does the public have such admiration for solo if he's common? For the record, even when I was 4, I thought hans solo was boring and common. Yojimbo was cooler, but that's probably because he didn't need a gun.

3. Samurai -- Darth Vader is obviously based on samurai armor. The jedi are the same as the samurai even down to the names (obi-wen kenobi and qui gon). It's also a reference to the Ronin, masterless samurai.

THere's a bunch more, available on this site:

http://secrethistoryofstarwars.com/kurosawa2.html

I'm not trying to start a flame war, I'm just saying that I'm not particularly impressed by Star Wars, never was. The only thing I liked about it was the music, which Lucas did not create, and Vader's helmet. I recently started watching Kurosawa, and I now know what real cinema is.

[suzy1124]

No doubt Kurosawa is amongst the " great ones "