Legacy Director George Lucas hired Gilbert Taylor, responsible for special effects photography on The Dam Busters, to be the director of photography for the film Star Wars. The attack on the Death Star in the climax of Star Wars is a deliberate and acknowledged homage to the climactic sequence of The Dam Busters. In the former film, rebel pilots have to fly through a trench while evading enemy fire and fire a proton torpedo at a precise distance from the target to destroy the entire base with a single explosion; if one run fails, another run must be made by a different pilot. In addition to the similarity of the scenes, some of the dialogue is nearly identical. Star Wars also ends with an Elgarian march, like The Dam Busters.Ramsden, John. "The Dam Busters." google.com. Retrieved: 7 March 2009. The same may be said of 633 Squadron, in which a squadron of de Havilland Mosquitos must drop a bomb on a rock overhanging a key German factory at the end of a Norwegian fjord.Kaminski 2007, p. 90.
Legacy Director George Lucas hired Gilbert Taylor responsible for special effects photography on The Dam Busters to be the director of photography for the film Star Wars The attack on the Death Star in the climax of Star Wars is a deliberate and acknowledged homage to the climactic sequence of The Dam Busters In the former film rebel pilots have to fly through a trench while evading enemy fire and fire a proton torpedo at a precise distance from the target to destroy the entire base with a single explosion; if one run fails another run must be made by a different pilot In addition to the similarity of the scenes some of the dialogue is nearly identical Star Wars also ends with an Elgarian march like The Dam BustersRamsden John "The Dam Busters" googlecom Retrieved 7 March 2009 The same may be said of 633 Squadron in which a squadron of de Havilland Mosquitos must drop a bomb on a rock overhanging a key German factory at the end of a Norwegian fjordKaminski 2007 p 90