How did Kurosawa influence George Lucas? What parts of the samurai film did Lucas incorporate into Star Wars? What is the most interesting thing that you learned in this video?
Kurosawa influenced George Lucas as Kurosawa had been raised on Western Films but was a filmmaker during the time of war, thus creating unique, action-packed, films about Samurai in order to slip past war-time requirements of only imperial propaganda being produced in film. The types of films which Kurosawa had created during this time fit the kind of films which a young George Lucas was getting into during his time at film school. Some parts of the samurai film which Lucas incorporated into Star Wars were inspired naming and modeling plot details and scenes after ones in Kurosawa's films. This includes the name of the Jedi, many scenes such as the Cantina scene, characters like the peasants (becoming R2D2 and C3PO), and filmmaking techniques such as the wipe. The most interesting thing that I learned about in this video was the Japanese filmmaking scene both during and after WWII. I had never previously realized that filmmaking was as big as it was in Japan and that there were films being produced and made during wartime.
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