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The blaster is a science fictional weapon that appears in ''Star Wars'' media. Lucasfilm defines the blaster as "ranged energized particle weaponry". Blasters have appeared in both the original and the prequel ''Star Wars'' feature film trilogies as well as in the 2008 film spin-off ''The Clone Wars''. The design of the blaster references the real-life Sterling sub-machine gun used by the armed forces of Great Britain over the second half of the 20th century, with changes made by the filmmakers such as alterations to the magazine.〔http://www.originalprop.com/blog/movie-guns/star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope/〕 ==Design in films== In the films, the design of the blaster rifle was based on the Sterling submachine gun. The design of the blaster pistol owned by the fictional character Han Solo was based on the 7.63-caliber Mauser, an early and successful automatic pistol that was used in World War I and World War II. Lucasfilm's prop department added a scope and an emitter nozzle to the pistol. The blaster made for the 1977 film ''Star Wars'' was lost, and a second blaster was made with resin from the cast used for the first one. The blaster was subsequently used as a prop in ''The Empire Strikes Back'' and ''Return of the Jedi''. Functional Sterlings firing blank cartridges were used in some scenes with the laser bolt added later in post-production. These blank cartridges are responsible for the muzzle flash seen on screen and, in some scenes, the cartridges themselves can be seen being ejected from the guns, or the actual sound of the blank cartridge is not dubbed over by a sound effect.〔(Original Prop Blog )〕 Ben Burtt, a sound designer who worked on the ''Star Wars'' films, came up with the sound of blaster fire during a family backpacking trip in the Pocono Mountains in 1976. Burtt hit the guy-wire of an AM radio transmitter tower with a hammer and recorded the sound with a microphone close to the impact. In a chapter of the book ''Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars'', Michael Kaminski, writing about the influence of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa on the ''Star Wars'' films, said that Kurosawa's ''Ran'' influenced the exchange of blaster fire. Like in ''Ran'', color-coding and an "onscreen sense of direction" of blaster fire are used to depict opposing forces. In the ''Star Wars'' original trilogy, rebels employed red blaster fire and often attacked from the left, while the Empire employed green blaster fire and attacked from the right. In ''Attack of the Clones'', the second film of the prequel trilogy, the color and the direction were reversed. In that film, the Republic employed green and blue blaster fire and attacked from the right, while the villains employed red blaster fire and attacked from the left. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blaster (Star Wars)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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