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Have you heard about this wild theory? Apparently George Lucas ripped a Spanish movie for the original Star Wars and later buried it, like, he bought every existing copy of the film and destroyed it. It's all explained in this video

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago

This video is the poster child for "citation needed".

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (3 children)

George Lucas ripped off Dune, and that pretty blatantly. No need to search for more hidden ripoffs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Also Hidden Fortress

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Any more than Herbert ripped off the book Lawrence of Arabia is based on?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

And every Martian novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

All of those images look like ai

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Quora is trash, but this thread has a breakdown of many of Lucas' "inspirations", which show he was always happy to directly copy other's art. Most of it is hilariously blatant.

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-Star-Wars-copied-an-old-French-comic

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They mixed up Han Solo and Luke Skywalker in the article. Surely there are laws against this?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Quora is a lawless and godless place.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

"Dogs in Space?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

What's the bit here? 400 views so I'm guessing this is your content or someone close to you. It says Lucas killed a bunch of people, but I don't really get the joke.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This was great! But why in memes?