SW v. Kurasowa

Allan,

Hate to piss off my future game-master (Iridium), but I think your
film comparisons are stretching it a little.  R2D2 and C3PO are not
the ones that save the princess; they're along for the ride.  And how
can you compare the only swordfight in SW to the one in the samurai
movie when the outcome is the opposite.  Does this mean that any movie
that has a sword fight between the opposing leaders is a rip-off of
this Kurasowa movie?

Sorry, but the entertainment industry is my profession, and trust
me, we think about this stuff a lot.  I mean, heck, why not compare
SW to every boy-meets-girl-boy-loses-girl-boy-gets-girl-back plot 
(Luke and Leia, as far as we know at the end of that movie)?

I'm not saying that Lucas' scripts are totally original--nothing is
anymore, but I'm afraid that I must disagree that just because there
are some plot similarities that his movie _must_ either be an homage
or a rip-off.

Okay, I'm putting the flamethrower down.

Aaah. Much better  :)

Out here.

	-monty