Star Wars Influences: Dam Busters
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Relevance
14/25
Freshness
20/25
Authority
18/20
Brand Signal
6/15
Depth
6/15
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The original Star Wars movie was a mashup. George Lucas and his collaborators pulled from everywhere: westerns, samurai movies, Flash Gordon, and a 1955 war film called The Dam Busters. This video shows just how closely the attack on the Death Star mirrors a scene from The Dam Busters of a group of bombers attacking a dam. The dialogue is identical in places. From the Dam Busters Wikipedia page :
