I hear Lucas talk about Kurosawa's influence on him in about every other interview he does (and on the beginning of the new Criterion "Hidden Fortress" DVD). If this is not giving credit where credit is due, I don't know what is... perhaps subtitled disclaimers whenever he's "ripping" Kurosawa off? Please.
On what grounds do you say that Lucas lied about his motivation ("'Ummm....I meant to do that!' when, in fact, he probably didn't.") from mythology for the Star Wars movies?
If Star Wars borrows something from another mythology, there are not one-to-one mappings, just influences. It's like in LOTR how some people say Sauron is Tolkien's Satan... well no, there are satanic elements, but he's not Satan with a different name.
No, it was a guy named Jonathan Hales, who worked on the Young Indy series with Lucas. I heard Fisher was involved with fleshing out the female characters of EI, but I think that was just gossip.
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I hear Lucas talk about Kurosawa's influence on him in about every other interview he does (and on the beginning of the new Criterion "Hidden Fortress" DVD). If this is not giving credit where credit is due, I don't know what is... perhaps subtitled disclaimers whenever he's "ripping" Kurosawa off? Please.
On what grounds do you say that Lucas lied about his motivation ("'Ummm....I meant to do that!' when, in fact, he probably didn't.") from mythology for the Star Wars movies?
And to be fair to Lucas, Kurosawa borrowed much of his visual style from Eisenstein. There's nothing wrong with borrowing from a master IMHO.
If Star Wars borrows something from another mythology, there are not one-to-one mappings, just influences. It's like in LOTR how some people say Sauron is Tolkien's Satan... well no, there are satanic elements, but he's not Satan with a different name.
No, it was a guy named Jonathan Hales, who worked on the Young Indy series with Lucas. I heard Fisher was involved with fleshing out the female characters of EI, but I think that was just gossip.