Complete transcript of one of Lucas and Spielberg's Raiders Of The Lost Arc story meetings, 1978

[Andrew Reid]

Read this...

 

http://moedred.livejournal.com/2009/03/04/

 

Very interesting to see them discussing how the film should take shape.

 

(thanks James Miller & Ed Moore on twitter)

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George Lucas talks a lot.

[jcs]

Love Spielberg's reference back to Mifune when talking about Eastwood's Man With No Name movies.

 

For those who don't know the history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fistful_of_Dollars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yojimbo_(film)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_with_No_Name

[Leang]

Love Spielberg's reference back to Mifune when talking about Eastwood's Man With No Name movies.

 

For those who don't know the history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fistful_of_Dollars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yojimbo_(film)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_with_No_Name

 

always thought Mifune as the Deniro and Nakadai the Pacino.  Lucas and Coppola have dedicated much of their work to Kurosawa, and you can see it in some of their film aesthetics and choice.  I think the story goes that Twentieth Century Fox owed Lucas a favor from Star Wars and so they helped Lucas help Kurosawa with budget.  In the end everybody won.  I mean Lucas and Coppola believed in Kagemusha so much Kurosawa went on to win the Palme d'Or, which is a particular goal for me or any filmmaker.  

[jcs]

Kurosawa was great- one the best pioneers in filmmaking. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa

Spielberg was also a big fan (Lucas was influenced by The Fortress for Star Wars). Kurosawa thus influenced Raiders.

[jcs]

So the Windows logo is evolving backwards: http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/4/3136851/windows-logo-backwards-evolution

All the way back to 1980! (Kagemusha):

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