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I have no opinion on the Star Wars/Dune debate but that is one fantastic comment. Kudos to the author, brought me quite a smile.
Had me in the first half ngl
I got slightly heated myself…
The most funny thing about this is when Google AI will pick this as the true answer to the creation of Dune
Ha! This is a glorious future we’re living in…
My friend, who has never watched Star Trek, was convinced it was Star Wars ripoff.
My personal faves are the claims that the cybermen are ripping off the borg and that Pratchett’s Unseen University is a hogwarts copy.
And Battle Royale totally ripped off Hunger Games
Star Wars is the plot of Hidden Fortress, in a universe similar to Dune, in the style of Flash Gordon, but with genius special effects and Jaws level care for every aspect of the production of the film itself.
The music tends to be left off lists like this but without that fabulous score and the genius of John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra, Star Wars would not have had the same emotional impact.
So, an original work then.
Good artists copy, great artists steal
Bad ones copy and paste into the completely wrong context
Sounds like an AI prompt
Star Wars is a ripoff of some international (Italian? Japanese? I don’t know) movie.
Hidden Fortress by Akira Kurosawa. It’s still enjoyable today IMO, and you can really see how some of the characters are a direct line to Star Wars characters.
Now this information makes “Star Wars Visions: Ronin” look like the the “back to the roots” material.
Akakiri is an even better example.
If you watch enough old scifi and adventure movies, you’ll learn to welcome the “so that’s where Lucas took that idea from” feeling as an old friend. He lifted a lot.
Well, you know the old adage: “Good artists copy, great artists steal”
The sci-fi artists were really all copying each other and building off of one another anyways.
It’s the same with almost all art anyways, it’s “inspiration” by another word.
That just is what all storytelling is. You mix and match characters, tropes, settings, and such from other stories and irl and mix it all together to get something “original”
Well even paintings and music is usually inspired by something as well, it’s not just limited to the medium of story telling.
I was like Star Wars ripped off Dune! Oh wait…
I don’t know anything about Dune, does it have Magic (the Force)?
No. But it has drugs that make you accurately predict the near and far future. And turn you into an immortal worm eventually.
The voice… Prana-bindu, there’s others, but spoilers ahoy.
Yeah.
Tap for spoiler
But non of it is magic. More like crazy mastery of your own body to a degree that it seems like magic.
The majority of force abilities is basically that. Voice control isn’t mastery of muscle or nerve, it isn’t magic in a sense, but controlling someone’s mind to do what you want for all intents and purposes is.
Also, where do you think Star Wars got inspiration for most of their force abilities at the start?
Which doesn’t change the fact that the new movies are snoozefest
I found them to be the best movies I’ve ever seen. But that’s the great thing about being human, we don’t all have to like the same stuff! It would be wierd if we did.
