Vaderisnothayden said:
Oh yeah, Secret History of Star Wars is cool. It's a great archaeological work. Zombie's done us all a service by writing that book.

I didn't want to respond to this thread until I read Zombie's book. now I did. It was great.

But my point still stands Even if Lucas's early draft was a total 100% rip-off (which it apparently was), his EARLIEST draft was totally different (Journal of the Whills with CJ Thorpe), and the finished product bears only the slimmist vague similarity to the Kurosawa film.

Noting the influence on the early draft is interesting, but to act as if the early and later disregarded influences of "Hidden Fortress" in anyway diminishes the final film is uncritical fanhate bordering in the silly.