News culture Star Wars owes a lot to this film, which was released eight years earlier: some scenes are downright copied
It is known that behind every masterpiece there are a lot of influences – sometimes more or less obvious… This is obviously the case with Star Wars, and here we talk to you about one of its inspirations.
If you only have eyes for Star Wars, you probably know that George Lucas – its creator and director – took inspiration from a whole series of films to create his masterpiece… We can, for example, see the film by Akira Kurosawa (The hidden fortress), Lawrence of Arabia or even Metropolis! But that would mean forgetting war films too The Battle of Britain. Directed by Guy Hamilton and released in 1969, the feature film focuses on a crucial air confrontation in World War II. An ideal basis for Lucas to develop the visual grammar of his X-Wings and “TIE”.
Disturbing similarities
As one Star Wars fan reports in the forum: “The cantina“, we find an excerpt from it in particular The Battle of Britain where two soldiers talk on the radio – very reminiscent of the Rebel Alliance’s exchange during the attack on the Death Star in A New Hope. “War and automobile films shaped George Lucas’ young life in Modesto, California,” the magazine explains The Smithsonian. “Both can be glimpsed in the space battles of Star Wars.” Still in relation to war films, Reach for the sky would have been important too.
Of course, if we can cite the works that influenced Star Wars, we can also reproduce the exercise in the other direction, with the projects inspired by the work of George Lucas… On this point: a whole area of popular culture and science fiction probably wouldn’t exist without the adventures of Luke Skywalker | his friends. For example we can quote Battlestar Galactica, Stargate or (much more recently) the film Rebel Moon by Zack Snyder. All this thanks to a creative who wanted to give dynamism to space battles that were considered too slow at the time. Well done, Lucas.
