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The World War II Aircraft And Battles That Inspired 'Star Wars'
In 1977, film director George Lucas showed fellow friends in the industry an unfinished cut of a project he'd been working on. What they watched was a strange, jumbled mess of scenes that took the viewer to a futuristic spaceship in one moment, to WWII footage of an intense dogfight or kamikaze attack the next. The viewers were left confused and amused at Lucas' movie and gave him some scathing criticism. However, one viewer, director Steven Spielberg, saw the film's potential. The movie they saw would become the 1977 film Star Wars. The movie they watched was an incredibly rough...
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