But genuinely, Star Wars was great because a really good filmmaker and his really talented friends went out and got real hype about how much they loved WW2 movies, samurai films and Flash Gordon.
Modern Star Wars is made by people making Star Wars
Modern Star Wars is made by people making Star Wars
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Watch Kurosawa films instead.
It’s the same issue creators of most franchises have tbh.
To do the same today would be mean the empire would appear more white trash combined with basement dwelling crypto bros. And the leaders would only cosplay power and ability.
Eating itself.
It's why there's a somewhat common phenomena of people who really love consuming a thing sometimes being bad at making that thing.
The source inspirations are what make something special, not the thing itself.
Mostly commenting on a trend (especially in writing) where exclusively reading one genre often detracts from your ability to actually write compelling stories in that genre.
SW was a team effort.