Star Wars is bonkers cause like my guy George sat down in the 70s and watched a bunch of Kurosawa and thought “I should just combine this with Flash Gordon” and not only did it work it worked maybe too well

This is Not Wrong, Gita. (I'm a lifelong Kurosawa fan, and have been dumb about Star Wars since I was 7)

Just stuck every piece of pop culture he enjoyed at age 12, processed it in a blender, served it to the public, and we've been devouring it for 47 years.

I watched the special features of Hidden Fortress a few years back and remember Lucas being dismissive about what an influence it was on Star Wars. Like, c'mon my guy

the great liberatory truth about human culture is that every samurai movie will one day be a cowboy movie and every cowboy movie will one day be a samurai movie. With this knowledge alone we will defeat the forces of imperialism

A plus discussion all round but this could used more pod racing.

And every character is named something like “schitt fardle” and no-one minds

I think the formula was: Simple iconic story that took itself completely seriously, and absolute 150% devotion to craft up and down the line. I bet even the craft services were excellent.

that seems to be his takeaway. like yeah he loves being a zillionaire but he's always like "i wanted to make other stuff"

And sampling some Dune for good measure

When he wandered over to the Blockbuster section for interwar minstrel shows someone should have tackled him