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Upon hearing this, the astute listener will realize just how much George Lucas lifted from this to build the Star Wars story lines.

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As an avid Asimov reader, I'd be curious what specific elements you're talking about. I'm not as familiar with the Stars Wars universe (I've watched the original trilogy a few times, and the first two from the new trilogy).

Aside from various themes common to storytelling form time immemorial, I don't really see what you're talking about.

Not sure what the grand parent is referring to. The one instance I can think of capital city = coruscant.

On a related note, I recently watched the Dam Busters. I was shocked to see the origins of the death star trench run in an old b&w WWII movie.

As a kid, I thought it was goofy that they had walking talking robots like C3PO, but Luke and Han had to aim the turrets of the Falcon manually instead of it being computer controlled. It made more sense when I learned it was just ripped off from WWII bomber movies.

You need the watch the Akira Kurosawa movie "the hidden fortress". Basically, the parts of the first Star Wars that weren't borrowed from WW2 movies were lifted from this movie. Many story elements, C3-PO/R2 and parts of the musical score are very similar.

Coruscant is Trantor, but that's a pretty minor detail and Star Wars is hardly the only thing to have copied it. Other than that I can't think of much.

I think more was lifted from Dune.

Other than Tatooine (which isn't a desert planet, by the way) and a sand worm (which appears in many stories), what parts of Dune you see lifted for Star Wars?

The whole point of Dune was the vulnerability of the empire to a single resource; spice. Similar to the [our] real world's relationship with oil.

I've read Dune many times. But only watched SW once or twice. I didn't "see" Dune, I was thinking of the old space opera stories - or something like Buck Rogers.

The bene gesserit seem to have have a lot of force like powers.

This article http://moongadget.com/origins/dune.html has a chart comparing story line points. I am unable to locate my copy of the book "The making of dune" in which Herbert considers taking legal action about the similarities, but decides not to.

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