Star Wars Origins: How did George Lucas create Star Wars?

Star Wars Origins: How did George Lucas create Star Wars?

A really insightful article in which the author explores the question of how Lucas was able to brew up the recipe that was Star Wars.

A critic might say "Oh, Lucas combined Flash Gordon with Akira Kurosawa, threw in some science fiction novels, comic books, The Wizard of Oz, and sewed it all up with Joseph Campbell's ideas on the structure of myth." And Lucas did do all those things, but that can't be the final answer.

A good read!