You know you’ve reached next level nerd when your issue with Star Wars isn’t that your a TNG Trek purist…
But more so the fact that it initially totally ripped of Frank Herbert’s Dune.
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SnailTeeth · 36-40
@SnailTeeth that I did not know. Cool.
@SnailTeeth it was actually both it seems.
“Star Wars, too, bears signs of Jodorowsky's influence, and George Lucas clearly took inspiration from the Herbert book in his depiction of the desert planet of Tatooine, with its monstrous sand creatures and tenacious natives in the Tusken Raiders.”
https://www.cbr.com/failed-dune-adaptation-pave-way-sci-fi-biggest-hits/#:~:text=Star%20Wars%2C%20too%2C%20bears%20signs,natives%20in%20the%20Tusken%20Raiders.
“Star Wars, too, bears signs of Jodorowsky's influence, and George Lucas clearly took inspiration from the Herbert book in his depiction of the desert planet of Tatooine, with its monstrous sand creatures and tenacious natives in the Tusken Raiders.”
https://www.cbr.com/failed-dune-adaptation-pave-way-sci-fi-biggest-hits/#:~:text=Star%20Wars%2C%20too%2C%20bears%20signs,natives%20in%20the%20Tusken%20Raiders.
BunnyWarrior · F
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@AbbySvenz No, that’s fair. Joseph Campell’s “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” is probably the most influential book of all of this. It influenced all of it.
@AbbySvenz Flash Gordon movie was a trip. I remember it kinda freaking me out but it definitely showed us what sci fi fantasy could be.
sarabee1995 · 26-30, F
@sarabee1995 Movie, yes. But Frank Herbert's Dune book was first published in 1965.
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“Star Wars, too, bears signs of Jodorowsky's influence, and George Lucas clearly took inspiration from the Herbert book in his depiction of the desert planet of Tatooine, with its monstrous sand creatures and tenacious natives in the Tusken Raiders.”
https://www.cbr.com/failed-dune-adaptation-pave-way-sci-fi-biggest-hits/#:~:text=Star%20Wars%2C%20too%2C%20bears%20signs,natives%20in%20the%20Tusken%20Raiders.
“Star Wars, too, bears signs of Jodorowsky's influence, and George Lucas clearly took inspiration from the Herbert book in his depiction of the desert planet of Tatooine, with its monstrous sand creatures and tenacious natives in the Tusken Raiders.”
https://www.cbr.com/failed-dune-adaptation-pave-way-sci-fi-biggest-hits/#:~:text=Star%20Wars%2C%20too%2C%20bears%20signs,natives%20in%20the%20Tusken%20Raiders.
DunningKruger · 61-69, M
Sure, it took elements from Dune, but those elements are basically a very small element of Star Wars, and not a particularly important part. Luke could have just as easily come from a jungle planet — there's nothing about him, or Anakin, that requires having grown up on a desert world.
@DunningKruger that’s fair… especially at this point in the development of the Star Wars universe. I agree. They are quite different at this point, but yes… a lot was barrowed in the first few films.
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