How Star Wars Borrowed From Akira Kurosawa’s Great Samurai Films | Everything open | Scoop.it
From www.openculture.com - May 28, 2014 3:56 PM
Hollywood has a long history poaching from abroad. Ask Orson Welles, who along with cinematographer Gregg Toland, incorporated the look of German Expressionist cinema into Citizen Kane. Ask Quentin Tarantino who cribbed much of Ringo Lam’s City on Fire for his breakout debut Reservoir Dogs.