Not incidentally, the screenplay seems to share his point of view, describing the light saber of the old Republic as an " elegant" weapon for a more " civilized time." In other words, the past inside the Star Wars universe, and the past of Hollywood history outside Star Wars were both more elegant and civilized than the present of the Galactic Empire/anti-hero cinema.Īfter the opening crawl, Star Wars very much begins to deliberately ape elements and details from Akira Kurosawa’s film, The Hidden Fortress. Not coincidentally, the same decade was the age of growling, violent anti-heroes like Dirty Harry and Paul Kersey (of the Death Wish films).īy commencing Star Wars with a 1930s-era, serial-like crawl, George Lucas effectively renounced contemporary cinema, and reached back to an older tradition, a “golden age” of more innocent fantasy fare.
In terms of the sci-fi genre, Dystopian-styled films dominated the landscape ( The Omega Man, Soylent Green, Logan’s Run, and Damnation Alle y, for example. The disco decade was an era when such swashbuckling adventure films were not in vogue. This was not a small detail in the 1970s.
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