Star Wars Featurette: The Birth of the Lightsaber
If you’ve seen series like Kirby Ferguson’s Everything is a Remix or, god forbid, you read a book or something crazy like that you’ll probably be aware that George Lucas soaked up and spat out a whole bunch of different influences for the original Star Wars trilogy. In this 15 minute short he, along with Mark Hamill and sound designer Ben Burtt, talks about where he got the idea for the lightsaber from.
Taking inspiration from the pirate and swashbuckling films of the ’40s, which gave a romantic view of fighting, he wanted his characters to have a weapon imbued with the ideals of these earlier heroes, so he thought up a weapon made from colored energy. As you do.
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