Why Lucas is such a hack?
>>63611249
At least he had influences, what does jj have?
He's not a hack, but he may have gone too far in a few places.
>>63611282
/thread
>>63611282
Disney bucks
>>63611282
>influences
a direct copy is not really "influences"
> read Dune
> read the Lord of the Rings
> glue them both together and change it around a little
> pocket $4 billion and laugh at the manbabies
>>63611282
>what is the Star Wars original trilogy
>>63611249
>>63611502
cherries for everyone
free picking here
>>63611249
Should this make him a hack? or just well-researched.
>>63611581
>AHHH!
>>63611502
ugh. my sides are turning. i'm gonna be violently ill.
>>63611502
>mfw lucas wanted luke to be a girl
>"No you bumbling flanneled idiot then everyone will know just how much you ripped Dune off"
>"oh ok I guess..."
Star Wars is at its best when it's just ripping off stuff. It's all a bunch of Kurosawa, WWII, westerns, and other junk tied up with The Hero's Journey and presented like Flash Gordon.
>>63611581
No joke, I think she gave me my first erection.
>>63611502
>that one dune fag who thinks Lucas ripped off his book
Seriously stick with stuff we know Lucas ripped off. You don't have to go make stuff up
>>63611502
It's been long time since I read Dune, who was Alia? Was she Paul's sister?
>>63612105
>can't disprove a single point
Why blow yourself the fuck out so hard?
>/tv/ is so obsessed with being contradictory that it's gone full circle and started praising Lucas
>>63612129
The kids here are nothing if not predictable.
>>63612129
how is that full circle at all?
>>63612129
anything is better than jj's boring wars
>>63611502
Is Jedi Bendu a real thing? That sounds dumb as fuck.
>>63611464
Everything is a copy. All ideas are appropriated and evolve over time. Deal with it
>>63611249
Imagine how much she stank. What kind of hair was she rocking? I doubt she shaved lightning bolts for pubes
>>63611282
lens flares
>>63611249cultural appropriation
>>63612124
Way to disprove your own point
>>63611502
http://www.salon.com/2002/04/10/lucas_5/
Overshadowing all of them in terms of influence on “Star Wars,” however, is E.E. “Doc” Smith, whose mastery of galaxy-spanning space operas made him one of the most popular writers of pre-World War II science fiction. Starting in the 1930s, Smith began writing a series of space adventures set against the backdrop of an eons-long war between a race of benevolent aliens called the Arisians and their enemies, the evil Eddorians. During this proxy war, in which civilizations and races are pawns in an infinitely long chess game, the Arisians use Earth and other planets to breed a race of super police, the “Lensmen.”
The central figure in this struggle is Kim Kinnison, the cream of the Arisian breeding program, whose children ultimately deliver the coup de grace against the Eddorians and their multiclawed cat’s paw, the Boskonians.
Like the Jedi, Lensmen enforce order throughout the galaxy with an arsenal of paranormal powers that render them virtually invincible in combat. Where Jedi pay homage to the Force, Lensmen invoke the “Cosmic All.” Lucas’ Jedi get their Force quotient boosted by microscopic entities called midichlorians; Smith’s heroes are turbocharged by “lenses,” collections of crystalline, semi-sentient life forms attuned to their personalities. An early draft of “Star Wars” revolved around the search for the “Khiber crystal,” which sounds an awful lot like one of Smith’s lenses. There are even hints that Lucas has worked a Lensman-style breeding program into his saga, judging from the story of Anakin Skywalker’s immaculate conception in “The Phantom Menace.”
