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Old 12-03-2004, 04:43 AM
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Originally posted by Vodstok
The original Star wars movies were based loosely on WW2. The Evil Empire is based on the Nazis. Both armies called their soldiers "Stormtroopers"

themes also came from the kurosawa film Hidden Fortress (as in Death Star) as well as 2 samurai characters that became the model for c3po and r2d2.
I read that the concept of 'the force' was from another movie i have .. a japanese anime film called 'the Lensman' or something like that where there are a race of people who share a collective conciousness throught these lenses on their hands.
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