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Post #639443

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TM2YC
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General Star Wars Random Thoughts Thread
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Date created
15-May-2013, 5:04 PM

Just had a thought about this "It's stupid that the PT decided that Jedi robes should be like Alec Guiness' costume" discussion. When I first saw photos from TPM I never saw anything strange about the Jedi robes looking like this because...

and

and

Jedi were envisioned as Samurai...

...plain and simple.*

Yes Owen's costume is similar:

But I never noticed this as a kid and if you've got an issue with it it's down to the first OT film. This lady isn't a Samurai for example:

The Jedi look was started in ANH, firmly estabablished in ESB and further cemented in ROTJ. The PT got many things wrong but this isn't one of them.

*Oh and BTW the above epic Samurai pic is from Masaki Kobayashi's 1962 film 'Harakiri'. GO BUY IT NOW!!!

http://www.criterion.com/films/743-harakiri