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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 21-May-2023 04:48:58 JST Paul Cantrell

   I’d heard in the past that the plot of the original Star Wars was inspired by Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress, and…sure? In some specific ways? If you squint?

   But I just recently read that the costume designers specifically modeled the Imperial helmets after Samurai helmets and…it’s kind of blowing my mind.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 21-May-2023 04:57:24 JST Paul Cantrell

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     The particular source where I found this claim:
     https://dorksideoftheforce.com/2021/09/24/star-wars-inspired-japanese-cinema-samurai-history/

     Can’t tell if it’s speculation there, or originates with costume designers themselves.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 21-May-2023 05:12:26 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Dave Jackson

     @davejackson Bonkers!

     There’s something profoundly sad about that story, really: the mixture of fanboydom, cruelty, and incompetence….

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     Dave Jackson (davejackson@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 21-May-2023 05:12:27 JST Dave Jackson

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     @inthehands
     https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-trending/fedayeen-darth-vader-helmets/
     This will blow it further then. : )

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     SnoopJ (snoopj@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 21-May-2023 05:20:21 JST SnoopJ

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     • danielle kefford

     @inthehands @quephird there are more parallels than it seems on the surface, Lucas has talked pretty explicitly about the influence Kurosawa in general and The Hidden Fortress in specific had on him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEJ6CzG9zVc

     A fun fact that falls out of this is that Lucas originally wanted Toshiro Mifune for Obi-Wan, but Mifune turned him down.