“Star Wars:” Kitbashed

Via Indiewire:

Let’s talk about the influences that shaped “Star Wars” for a moment — everyone name checks Joseph Campbell’s “The Heroes With A Thousand Faces,” Akira Kurosawa’s “The Hidden Forteress” and countless “Flash Gordon” serials. Those are certainly among the key touchstones that George Lucas re-imagined into the most influential franchise in movie history, but there are countless other points of reference that shaped the fertile mind of a young auteur. Are they worth cataloging and then editing into an annotated cut of “Star Wars” in an attempt to illuminate Lucas’ creative process and the material he had access to and was engaged with at the time?

An interface director at Squarespace seems to think so: Michael Heilemann has assembled an extensive and impressive Kitbashed cut of “Star Wars” as well an e-book in progress, offering a wealth of material and analysis.

Here is the video:

For those of you unfamiliar with the phrase “kitbashing,” here is the Wikipedia page.

Michael Heilemann’s Vimeo site here.

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