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I've heard but cannot confirm that many film wonks see tremendous similarity between Kurosawa's samurai flick, "The Hidden Fortress," and the plot of the original Stars Trilogy, all the way down to the dynamics between the main characters. Which is funny, because Kurosawa's film style and plot generation was profoundly influenced by his love of Westerns, which all confabulates this "what-genre-is-it?" question. Then again, I don't think any film actually perfectly fits within a genre's criterion, to the exclusion of other elements.
Was anyone else completely creeped out by all of the ethnicized aliens in Episode One?
BTW Loz - The Sergio Leone flicks "Fistful of Dollars" and "A Few Dollars More" are based on the Kurosawa film "Yojimbo" - which is an absolutely awesone film if you haven't seen it. Clint Eastwood is consciously aping Toshiro Mifune's style in that film, which is funny, because "Yojimbo" itself self-consciously appropriates from the Western genre (there is even a duel at high noon in the town center, heh) and Mifune, in interview, claimed that he was doing an imitation of his own favorite US actor, John Wayne.
I always thought Jar-Jar Binks was a rather distasteful parody of a Caribbean black male. His speech style is a lot like creoles or patois from the region; his motion in animation resembles a strut in the most 1920s Harlem, Detroit-Red sense of a strut; the fins he has in place of hair boths resemble and move like braids or dreadlocks. |
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