The Mandalorian and Grogu was inspired by The French Connection’s iconic chase scene

From a certain point of view, A New Hope is more of a collage of other films than an original movie. George Lucas famously clipped in sequences from Battle of Britain when he screened an unfinished Star Wars to his friends, but even the completed movie borrows liberally, recreating visuals and scenes from classic Westerns to samurai movies to World War II epics.