... the executives at Universal passed on the idea. He took his ideas to 20th Century Fox, where Alan Ladd Jr. saw Lucas's idea and liked it immensely. "Lucas had many permutations."" Stated Ladd (Baxter 42). Lucas took over nine months to develop the first draft of Star Wars. Lucas originally tried to fit what was to become the Star Wars Trilogy ... ...

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... production of Ran, in which Kurosawa strictly supervised the art director Yishiro Muraki. During the construction of "third castle ", Kurosawa ordered the castle's stone blocks to be painted as Styrofoam blocks based off the photographs he took of actual stones; Kurosawa then ordered the stones to be glued to the castle wall, also known as the "rough-stone piling " process. This enabled ... ...

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