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Star Wars was the culmination of George Lucas’ influences but the films that influenced the people making Star Wars movies today are Star Wars. Whether this is the fault of the filmmakers themselves or the new corporate ownership whose primary business is merchandise, I don’t know. Judging by the reshoots and edits you can plainly see in Rogue Oneespecially I’d say it’s some combination thereof, but ultimately where the original trilogy remixed samurai films and Flash Gordon, The Force Awakens and Rogue One remixed A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi.
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Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2017/04/on-star-wars-then-and-now/
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