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Fictional robots in films | HearLore
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Fictional robots in films
R2-D2George Lucas watched Akira Kurosawa's 1958 film The Hidden Fortress and saw a peasant character named Matashichi. That small, round figure became the visual…
C-3PORalph McQuarrie painted a golden humanoid figure in 1976 that drew directly from the female robot in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis.
Droid (Star Wars)George Lucas first used the word droid in the second draft script of Star Wars, completed on the 28th of January 1975. The term is a clipped form of android…