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In a recent program on the BBC (shown to coincide with the re-release of the SW triology) someone stated that the original script of SW did not have the characters of R2D2 and C3PO. George Lucas then saw a film by Kurasawa (can't remember the title) in which the comic relief is provided by two bickering peasants. Lucas immediately re-wrote the whole SW script to revolve around the two bickering "peasants" (androids being the equivalent of peasants in the Star Wars universe).But then, as Kurasawa took a lot of his inspiration from Shakespeare, (Throne of Blood, Ran, etc.) maybe the idea got to Lucas by second hand, as it were.
Posted by Thersites on April 09, 1997 at 01:24:32
In Reply to "star wars" posted by ching on April 08, 1997 at 10:45:41
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