this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2024
-44 points (18.6% liked)

Memes

45727 readers
1034 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Kata1yst@kbin.social 7 points 8 months ago (2 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

[–] Minarble@aussie.zone 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Kata1yst@kbin.social 7 points 8 months ago

Quora is a lawless and godless place.