Saturday, March 28, 2015

10 Pieces Of Pop Culture That Influenced 'Star Wars'

10 Pieces Of Pop Culture That Influenced 'Star Wars'

4 comments:

Matthew said...

I'm pretty sure Han Solo was based on C. L. Moore's Northwest Smith. Interplanetary smuggler with an alien partner.

Todd Mason said...

Among the hundreds of space operas and other work dumbed down and pompified (THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND BETTER ANTECEDANTS) for the film. Sometimes pretty to look at, but then the antiamusing robots arrive again.

Todd Mason said...

or, even antecedents.

Didn't like the film the first time I saw it, and really loathed CP3O as a device and hoorarious comic infliction.

Matthew said...

I was a fan of Star Wars as a kid, and still have a certain fondness for it, but at a certain point I realized that George Lucas basically took bits and pieces of other works and pasted them together.