Hero's Journey and Star Wars


Kurosawa heavily influenced George Lucas. When George Lucas went to film school and saw one of Kurosawa's films (The Seven Samurai) he was instantly inspired, because it resembled the old western films that he used to watch, yet it was vastly different. Lucas incorporated many aspects of the samurai film into star wars, such as: naming the Jedi after the type of film jidai-geki, the "Star Wars wipe" comes from The Seven Samurai, he resembled the stormtroopers and Darth Vader after  samurai in the film, and he made the two peasants in The Seven Samurai into R2D2 and C3PO. The most interesting things I learned about in this film is where "Jedi" came from, and how George Lucas wanted to be a race car driver at first, but a car crash made him change his mind.

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