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Originally Posted by JunkMonkey  Those wipes used as transitions between scenes were amazing (you have to remember that this was pre-VHS Pre-Youtube and, though we knew he's lifted the technique from Republic serials and the like, very few of us kids had actually seen any Republic serials. It was all new.) |
I would thought that was one of the (many) things he 'borrowed' from Kurosawa, along with R2-D2 and C-3PO being based on the bickering peasants from The Hidden Fortress.