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The Little Prince is R2D2!!

posted 15 years ago by roryoryan
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Geoege Lucas must have watched this film, which pre-dates Star Wars. There is a sequence in The Little Prince where the Prince wanders off into the desert, whilst the Pilot is remonstrating with him, aka R2D2 and C3PO on Tatooine. There is then a sequence where they pass through a canyon, which looks exactly like the spot where R2D2 was captured by the Jawa; they then walk past the skeleton of a large creature, and the editing, in which the images change by a sweep from side to side, is exactly the same as the editing in this part of Staw Wars. If I were the producer of The Little Prince, I'd sue Goerge Lucas. I hereby copyrigt this discovery! I am also a lawyer, if The Little Prince produceer does in fact want to sue George Lucas. What does anyone think? Rory O'Ryan

[–] denbeez 15 years ago

Rory....I would think that as a lawyer you would know that you can't copyright the image of a character travelling through a desert.

Hopefully you're being facetous, otherwise we have to sue the makers of "The Little Prince" for ripping of "Planet Of The Apes," "Ben Hur," and "Lawrence Of Arabia."

[–] Sox32086 15 years ago

Obviously this thread is a little old but anyways Lucas made no secret where he got a lot of his inspiration. Watch Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress and you will see the characters that are supposed to be akin to R2D2 and C3PO.