I have no opinion on the Star Wars/Dune debate but that is one fantastic comment. Kudos to the author, brought me quite a smile.
My friend, who has never watched Star Trek, was convinced it was Star Wars ripoff.
My personal faves are the claims that the cybermen are ripping off the borg and that Pratchett’s Unseen University is a hogwarts copy.
And Battle Royale totally ripped off Hunger Games
I was like Star Wars ripped off Dune! Oh wait…
Star Wars is a ripoff of some international (Italian? Japanese? I don’t know) movie.
Hidden Fortress by Akira Kurosawa. It’s still enjoyable today IMO, and you can really see how some of the characters are a direct line to Star Wars characters.
Now this information makes “Star Wars Visions: Ronin” look like the the “back to the roots” material.
Akakiri is an even better example.
If you watch enough old scifi and adventure movies, you’ll learn to welcome the “so that’s where Lucas took that idea from” feeling as an old friend. He lifted a lot.
Well, you know the old adage: “Good artists copy, great artists steal”
Star Wars is the plot of Hidden Fortress, in a universe similar to Dune, in the style of Flash Gordon, but with genius special effects and Jaws level care for every aspect of the production of the film itself.
So, an original work then.
Good artists copy, great artists steal
Bad ones copy and paste into the completely wrong context
Sounds like an AI prompt
Which doesn’t change the fact that the new movies are snoozefest