Star Wars isn’t science fiction. It’s romantic fantasy set in space.
It is not really science fiction, but without it we would not have Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5, and, most importantly, the Star Trek movies may never have been made, nor the Star Trek series’ spawned from the original.
It’s sometimes hard to pin Star Wars down due to the many different genres Lucas took his inspiration from. From the westerns of John Ford to the Japanese Films of Akira Kurosawa. There’s a couple of scenes in the original Star Wars that are lifted almost verbatim trom Kurosawa’s films “Sanjuro and “The Hidden Fortress”.
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