@Rocketpig, the original Star Wars movie was a remake of Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress. He took a samurai movie about a small team from a rebel alliance rescuing a princess from an evil empire and escorting her to safety... turned the wacky comic relief characters into robots, and lifted the ending reward ceremony straight from Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will. Yes, the whole movie was stolen from samurais and Nazis.
George Lucas doesn't have original ideas. He stole all the Indiana Jones stuff (like the epic giant boulder scene) from Scrooge McDuck comic books. Then for Indiana Jones 4, he actually turned down a script by Frank Darabont (why anybody would do this, I have no idea, the guy fucking wrote/directed Shawshank for shit's sake, and doctors several of Spielberg's scripts for his other movies), so he could come up with great stuff like hiding in a fridge to survive a nuclear blast without a scratch.
George Lucas is a brilliant editor and marketer, who makes exciting lunch boxes, action figures, T-Shirts, video games, comics, and cartoons. But making movies with great messages... not so much.
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