"Hidden Fortress was an influence on Star Wars right from the beginning. I was searching around for a story. I had some scenes—the cantina scene and the space battle scene—but I couldn’t think of a basic plot. Originally, the film was a good concept in search of a story. And then I thought of Hidden Fortress, which I’d seen again in 1972 or ’73, and so the first plots were very much like it."
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1970s American filmsBest Visual Effects Academy Award winnersComing-of-age filmsScreenplays by George LucasStar Wars films
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George Lucas, as quoted in The Secret History of Star Wars (2007) by Michael Kaminski, p. 48.
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