Whoops, looks like this thread was already made a while back:
http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=19983
There seems to be some confusion over whether the influence is genuine. Googling "Legend of Zelda" and "Ridley Scott" certainly brings up a lot of hits saying that there was at least some connexion though... I'll leave it up to you.
Maybe someone could ask Miyamoto again. I reckon the film helped him decide on parts of the aesthetic of a gaming genre which he'd already been formulating based on his childhood experiences.
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