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Re:Was the Death Star assault scene in the original Star War... by krapp on Friday August 09, 2019 @01:21PM (#20656407)
The Death Star sequence (specifically the trench run) was based on, and sometimes lifted scene for scene from the 1955 movie "The Dam Busters." [0,1].

Substitute these experimental "bouncing bombs"[2] for Luke force-bending proton torpedoes and you have the end of Star Wars.

[0]https://www.starwars.com/news/the-cinema-behind-star-wars-th...

[1]https://youtu.be/lNdb03Hw18M

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouncing_bomb

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Re:Was the Death Star assault scene in the original Star War... by fifteenth on Friday August 09, 2019 @09:03PM (#20659506)
It's noteworthy that two people who worked on Dam Busters also worked on Star Wars 20 years later, as described in link [0] above.
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