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Ryuji-Dono
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 Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:21 am
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Every country has something that can inspire another to create great pieces of work and vice-versa. Star Wars is no different in this.
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Crabtree1
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Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 10:24 am
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You're going to talk about anime and star wars and not include ginga eiyuu densetsu?
Ok then...
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Top Gun
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Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 1:10 pm
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| Crabtree1 wrote: | | You're going to talk about anime and star wars and not include ginga eiyuu densetsu?
Ok then... |
Yeah, a series with not one but two literal Death Stars probably deserves at least a passing mention. And while we're at it, a shout-out to the legendary Daicon shorts wouldn't have gone amiss.
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BonusStage
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Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 3:42 pm
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You can certain feel the Japanese cinema roots in the original trilogy. The lightsaber duels were no different than a samurai duel. Slow, methodical. One hit, maybe two, and it was over. Every swing counted. Then the prequel came and made them more actiony and spectacle fights with flipping around all over and swinging flashy combos that the series adopted ever since. I don't really prefer one over the other, but it's an interesting thing to think about just how different the original trilogy is compared to everything that came after it.
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Hal14
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Location: Heart of africa
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Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 4:59 pm
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| BonusStage wrote: | | You can certain feel the Japanese cinema roots in the original trilogy. The lightsaber duels were no different than a samurai duel. Slow, methodical. One hit, maybe two, and it was over. Every swing counted. Then the prequel came and made them more actiony and spectacle fights with flipping around all over and swinging flashy combos that the series adopted ever since. I don't really prefer one over the other, but it's an interesting thing to think about just how different the original trilogy is compared to everything that came after it. |
To be fair, that's just action in general. Fights in modern anime (and by modern, I mean even the 90s) have shifted towards speed and flash. Characters hitting swords until eventually, one person hits (and yells) the hardest. The prequel trilogy was just following the trends of action in media around that time.
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John Thacker
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Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 5:09 pm
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krpalmer
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Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2021 5:43 pm
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This is more "anime as brought over here" than "anime in Japan and its influences from other countries," but I've supposed the gap between Speed Racer and Battle of the Planets/Star Blazers closed specifically because people wanted to take advantage of the phenomenon of the original Star Wars, and animation from Japan could be dubbed quickly and put on TV. (When you think about it, the title "Battle of the Planets" does seem pretty much inspired by the title "Star Wars"...) Then, with the original trilogy complete, toy companies started looking for something else science-fictional, and Voltron and Robotech showed up and a critical mass of American anime fans built up...
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Q4000
Joined: 28 Dec 2006
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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2021 10:45 pm
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| Quote: | | In Japan, the works of Kurosawa were classified as jidai-geki films or Japanese costume dramas that also acted as period pieces and many Star Wars fans speculate that this is actually the origin of the word Jedi |
I'm more inclined to think Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars was the main influence of the term, even "Sith" can be found in the books.
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