I’m waiting for that comment that thinks you’re serious.

@Elijah Neil ...You have me intrigued with this baffling concept.

Was shocked to see Peter Cushing in Star Wars 40 years after his performance in Rogue One. Total rip off

But it’s not nearly as good as its sequel. Thankfully a little show called Mandalorian did what this movie tried but much better.

They didn't seem so smart in Rogue One...I don't know why anyone thought they were boffins

That's how storytelling should work.

Pity JJ Abrams didn't approach The Force Awakens with that same philosophy. Better yet new Star Wars filmmakers shouldn't just be asking what George Lucas was influenced by but what influences them too.

@@fightingirish5755 I see this problem much more with TROS than TFA especially after TLJ also had outside influences like Akira Kurosawa's Rana and Rashomon and even the Matrix.

Yea, then he wrote himself into a corner.

Anonymous Human9999 I think it’s because Dune is very...dense in its writing. You are privy to everyone’s thoughts, their history, and their plans. Then you got the fantastical elements. It’s kind of like Watchmen, it had the this reputation of being unadaptable, even though there are adaptations.

Lucas was also totally influenced by Scott Card’s Enders Game (but think about the buggers and the Geonosians) (and yeah, Dune is infinitely better....)

There would have been a proper dune movie if they gave David Lynch full creative control

3 years later and Dune Part 1 + 2 some of the greatest movies of this century lol

Was it started when The Lion King was released at theaters in 1992 when the director claimed it's an original film but they ripped off it from Kimba the White Lion?

@@DigiPen92 The Lion King is also just Hamlet with lions

Watching YMS counts as research these days.

There are. For example, The Last Jedi borrows shot compositions from the throne room in The Wizard of Oz, suggesting that, like the Wizard, Snoke was a red herring, and not the great and powerful wizard we all assumed him to be. So naturally, we had people whining that Rian Johnson plagiarized The Wizard of Oz because he used a visual parallel to a similar story beat from another work, conveniently forgetting that the original Star Wars was a massive pile of homages stitched together in a new and exciting way.

There were a healthy amount of direct homages to Oz in TFA as well. And Lucas has cited the movie as an inspiration for a lot of the aesthetics of Star Wars. I mean just look at 3PO and Chewie and tell me Tin Man and Cowardly Lion weren’t going through George’s head when he came up with their looks.

Now i get why when i watched Nausicaa for the first time i couldn't stop comparing her introduction scene to Rey's

It is also inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Ran.

There were a few WW2 dogfight films that served as not only inspiration, but study and reference material for the Battle of Yavin. All spliced together for the ILM guys to have a better grasp of an air battle.

Absolutely Rashomon, but it's not even it's biggest influence from the works of Kurosawa. That Movie is Ikiru meets Ran with sprinkles of Rashomon and just a pinch of Seven Samurai.

It goes on: the Gungans riding out of the mist on kaadu in Phantom Menace is another direct lift from Hidden Fortress

John Ford's the Searchers was also a direct influence on Anakin's search for his mother and the Tusken camp scene in Attack of the Clones and Order 66 has similiarities to the scenes of assasination at the end of The Godfather.

TLJ is also influenced by The Wizard of Oz for pretty much everything involving Snoke.

Watch it, it's really great and has similiar pacing to Star Wars.

Just watch all Kurosawa.

It's okay to take things from other great movies, but not to copy the story of another Star Wars movie because then it gets repetitive. That's why I didn't like TFA, although I love ANH.

Yeah but Lucas did it well, borrowing from the preceding vocabulary. JJA did a ham fisted remake with nothing new.

People also forget that subtext and themes exist. The subtext and themes in TFA are wildly different than ANH for the most part.

**FACEPALM**

You can't do a shot for shot remake of multiple films lmao. Shot for shot remakes take one film and replicates it which is essentially what TFA did so those people are largely correct.

TLJ's use of things that inspired Star Wars to inspire it is great. What I really love is who clever it is about it's inspiration. Like ok so a large part of Star Wars is inspired by The Hidden Fortress and George's love of Kurosawa films? Well great. Ok so this film takes place with the classic heroes old now and the last film left off with a young optimistic girl seeking our old hero? OK well Kurosawa litterally has a film about an old man dealing with his own mortality who learns to live again through the help of a young optimistic girl called Ikiru! Great let's use that. Ok well one of Kurosawa's greatest films is Ran which is about an old man who gets consumed by regret and sorrow after his sons betray him... well great that's perfect let's use some of that too! OK but Star Wars is ultimately optimistic and should ultimate preach something positive... ok well let's use Ran as a basis to question the ideals of Star Wars, BUT THEN use Ikiru as a basis for character growth and development with it ultimately certifying the legacy of Star Wars and what it means to people. Then to ultimately express that the final shot of Luke in his last moments can take from the visual style of the endings shots of Ran as a blind man is left alone on a cliff, but flip it by using the positivity of Ikiru's beautiful final shots depicting a man happy and satisfied achieving a purpose as he dies, so Luke's completely uses that in his victory saving the future of the resistance and the galaxy as a true Jedi dying with "peace and purpose". Ultimately it never uses straight 1 source, but rather multiple sources connected to the inspiration of the original while also new pieces and mixing them together in a piece that ultimately is not just inspired by but in some ways is a response to all the previously mentioned works especially Star Wars. I mean I haven't even mention the clear Rashomon inspirations, how the Jedi plot is Kurosawa inspired while Resistance plot is classic Movie serial inspired (Buck Rodgers and Flash Gordon), then the Luke/Ben confrontation is a cross between Seven Samurai and A Beautiful Mind (A movie made by a close friend of George and sat in discussions with both George and Kurosawa). Like I love it so much!!!

spencer o'keeffe hey man, I just wanted to thank for sharing this information here I didn't knew TLJ was this heavily influenced by those films, I mean, knowing this doesn't make the film scale on my personal Top of movies, but I can watch it again with other eyes and appreciate it a little bit more...I just want to jump 10-15 years in the future and see how the younger audience talks about the ST on the internet, just how the PT fans have been vocal about them and their movies Thanks a bunch really, way too interesting to read this:)

@@LuisMasterXDRM97 You're welcome! As someone who loves the film I really can talk about it for ages. I don't get many opportunities to discuss the Kurosawa influences on TLJ except with my friends who just kinda have to put up with it. So I'm really glad you got something out of it. If you're interested in what the film means to me on a personal level I'd be more than happy to share that with you.

spencer o'keeffe in whichever form you are more comfortable to talk to me about it, I will listen. None of my friends are into Star Wars as much as I am, welp, I'm not a fan of TLJ, but I'm definitely open to listen all about it to see if I can learn something new about it:)

Exactly the biggest problem I have with "Disney Star Wars" is that it seems like most of it is not inspired by the ideals of the writers or by other media but just by Star Wars (especially the original trilogy) itself, with the excaption of The Last Jedi and The Mandalorian, which are obviously influenced by Star Wars but still have their own identety (Mandalorian being a western adventure and TLJ being influenced by Kursowa movies like "Ran", "Kagemusha" or "Rashomon"). Solo, Rogue One, TFA and TROS feel like they don't have a unique vision and identety and this feeling is just strengthened by all the references to other Star Wars media. I liked TFA and Rogue One a lot when I first saw them and the refrences didn't bother me because I thought it was just a phase in which they rediscover what Star Wars ment after a long time of not haven new Star Wars movies but it really started to bother me after TROS. We need to let go of the past and make new things (new does not mean that there can not be requiring or that it has to be set in a distent time but that there just need to be fresh ideas, conlficts, characters and suprising elements).

Every film that has the "gathering of heroes" theme from Oceans 11 to the Blues Brothers is ultimately influenced by The Seven Samurai.

Which inspired the whole Luke/Kylo flashback thing in The Last Jedi.

Ayham 4002 it depends on how it directs attention to the properties and make them profitable.

Tom Ffrench huh, that too.

yes I know but im talking about the people who literally say that every character is a rip off, there is a list on YT about people comparing characters that don't match up and saying they ripped off each other and people literally believe them despite there being no evidence

@Tom Ffrench have to admit. Star Wars continues to expand as a Fandom to this day. Same can't be said for other fandoms. Sequel trilogy is a mess though. It's undeniable.

I would 🤚

Rogue Guardian Cool, do you have an email?

Sounds cool, wouldn't mind to see that

Book of Boba Fett and Season 3 say hi

@@matane2465 lol. I wrote that 2 years ago, are you going to to bring this to everyone 😉

Hey, does you name has anything to do with the Canadian city of Matane?

Hidden fortress is a great film. But if you have 7 samurai, just watch that and see how good a film can be

TLJ didn't really rip off anything other than the surface level elements of the OT. But it changed things up a bit with those similarities. TRoS, let's not talk about that.