From tie fighters having superfortress fronts,Stormtroopers having mg 34's,Han Solo having a Moueser(if that's how you spell it)Rebel Troops having WW2 USN helmets.Thats just what I noticed as a 10 year old who was into history.
I read Asimov for 'O' level in 1973. It was part of a Sci-Fi short story collection. It was much more fun than the dreary other books we had to read by Emily Bronte and Thomas Hardy. Frank Herbert believed that he was ripped off by George Lucas. There are a lot of similarities between Dune and Star Wars.
There are obviously a number of things Dune inspired in Star Wars, such as the power of voice to control another person, the use of swords by the most skilled warriors rather than projectile weapons and spice, which is mentioned in Star Wars. There's also the strong theme of the chosen one character, though this didn't originate with Dune. They are such different types of stories that I can't agree with the idea that Star Wars "ripped off" Dune.
Unfortunately in the Star Wars EU (Both canon and the old legends stuff) They never really tried to work out how the regiments of the Empire worked, but still! @@michaelhart7569
And the shuttle in the same film is called Tiberian; whether that's a reference to the emperor (Tiberius) or the river (Tiber), it's a Roman-flavoured craft.
One author you need to have added to this episode is Edgar Rice Burrows and the first three Mars books. Desert planet, road story, decaying government, swords, sand people, a captured princess, jedi and sith
5:00 I'd like to know who considers this window-dressing. Granted, it may be overstated, but I think the link with Joseph Campbell is more than something you can attribute to an offhand remark. Lucas is consciously mining fairy tales, folklore and, explicitly, mythology and admits that early drafts are influenced by Campbell's books. Campbell's series The Power of Myth is filmed (in the late 80s) at Skywalker Ranch, and Lucas is later interviewed by the same guy, Bill Moyers - in these interviews (all on youtube) they acknowledge each other; Lucas basically describes one of his many themes as 'follow your bliss'. Campbell re-aligns religions into his mono-myth, Lucas re-imagines religion into 'the force'. Which is a crucial - defining - part of his constructed mythology. In those billion interviews he's done, I've heard him talk a lot more about Joseph Campbell than about the Roman Empire - and subsequently what becomes a set-text for Hollywood executives, who are searching for the secret sauce, is The Hero with a Thousand Faces, rather than The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. (Maybe it should be the other way around.) That said, thank you, as always, for the insights. And the Dave Prowse impression. My new favourite channel.
David Prowse played Darth Vader on screen. The voice of James Earl Jones is just as much a part of the character IMHO. Both men deserve credit for bringing the character to life.
30:19 When I was a kid, I probably thought Darth Vader spoke with a British accent. I eventually realized that James Earl Jones spoke with a classically trained and formal, but American accent. Perhaps the formality is the most important aspect.
I always thought Paul Atraides in Dune was inspired more by Lawrence of Arabia than anyone else. The classic film came out a couple of years before the novel.
Battlestar Galactica (1978) was big on Egyptian and Greek mythology. Loony Tunes Marvin the Martin was a parody if Kaiser Bill of Germany, who himself inadvertently modeled himself as an overly earnest Roman Emperor
Its great when I see someone who knows film watch Star Wars - they think it is brilliant. its so much more efficient than movies are today. You are just thrown into a situation and you figure it out as you go along. You are presented with really understandable characters and a really evil villain. The effects were pretty amazing for the day but not so much for today. I can imagine that we have some people who would just glaze over.
26:01 I believe Amidala was elected to a term of queenship (as a teenager) and was later elected to the Senate. Lucas likes to use terms like "queen" and "princess" in confusing ways.
Washington was inspired by the example of Cincinnatus, who came back from war and then went back to farming and didn't try to be a politician. The idea inspired the founding of the city Cincinnati, for example. Augustus is the Roman who could have been Cincinatus but didn't give up power.
What do mean it inspired the founding of the city in Ohio of Cincinnati? What does that mean? I think they just took the name, and that's the only connection. So you meant to say the naming of the city of Cincinnati. Which is not a terribly profound thing.
@JonathanRossRogers perhaps if you watch it, you will note the names from Greek Mythology - Adama, Apollo, Athena, Cassiopeia, Sheba etc. Plus their whole fleet setting off on a journey to escape the Cylons is very much Aeneis leading the defeated Trojans survivors in the Aeneid to a new land. The Viper pilots (Apollo, Boomer, Jolly, Sheba, Starbuck) all dress very Ancient Egypt and there is an episode involving the Pyramids
Dominic says the word "legion" is not used in first three films. Not true. In throne room scene Palpatine says, "an entire legion of my best troops awaits them...."
As a small child I misinterpreted the final scene of Star Wars (1977) as a wedding. And now I'm told that this awards ceremony for returning war heroes has a Nazi vibe? I will never look at another wedding the same way...
I think that, in the sixties, Rome was a used as an analogy in popular arts for the politics of the day. The only time I remember Greece being mentioned was for how great the Spartans were.
When I have made playlists of Roman sounding music I find that the Imperial March from Empire Strikes Back fits in perfectly with Miklos Rosza's Ben Hur and other ancient era scores. Not authentic. But certainly stentorian.
Great one, and just to add on to the analogies about Star Wars: Jedis are coming from a planet called Jeda and Jews are coming from the ancient city of Judah.
Ironic that Dom says that George Lucus obviously wasn't reading the Roman historian Sallust - when George in fact virtually uses the name in the dialogue of RotJ: "What of the reports of the Rebel fleet massing near Sullust?"
you guys are great; love your podcasts. However, I have a quibble. Yes, Star Wars does indeed follow a Joseph Campbell-esque "Hero's Journey." But that isn't because Lucas was reading Campbell. Take any basic class in screen writing, and guess what? The basic formula that the overwhelming majority of movies follow looks a lot like Campbell's Hero's Journey. That is just how screen plays tend to be structured.
I have read so much Pope science fiction in my day and I came to realize that virtually all futuristic societies as presented were modeled on the Roman empire. I don't know what that means but it means something
It wasn't "branded" as episode 4, but when Lucas' first script was his original vision of the prequels plus what became the first movie. They told him they couldn't make his entire script so and he picked the most marketable part of the story. Lucas took years to develop what became Star Wars and lots of ideas were floated and shot down. These guys seem to think he just whipped up the first film and then just total flew by the seat of his pants. Their evidence for this seems to be that Lucas made adjustments along the way which is something every single successful movie franchise and tv/streaming show ever has done.
I found the prequels more reminiscent of the American Civil War. You have the Confederacy vs the Grand Army of the Republic, of course. But it also echoes the massive centralisation of the US government under Abraham Lincoln at that time, the suspension of civil rights such as habeas corpus, to the point where opponents of the war even accused Lincoln of starting the civil war in order to give himself an excuse to become a tyrannical dictator.
The Jedi Order's problem is Yoda. No being can wield that kind of power for centuries without becoming complacent at best or corrupt at worst. He has no idea that it's overtaken him; he no longer sees all the little cumulative evils that the Republic tolerates and fosters, from slavery to endless wars, and he never asks, "Why are we not acting to stop this?" Live alongside corruption for too long, and you no longer notice the stench. The Jedi cannot help the slaves of Tatooine, but they can help the slavemasters. -Dooku, to Darth Sidious
Both Nazis and Romans had a republic that went sideways and the emperor and his vizier started to reach out from the core worlds and acquire power by force.
In the 1960s and the 1970s in America there was a revival of Confederate heroes such as the Undefeated and The Outlaw Josey Wales to name just a few. Many people add Lincoln as the dark lord and the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi what is the role of Robert e Lee. Even the and the dark emperor's army was called the Grand army of the Republic. In America where Star wars was made in America is George Lucas the allegory of the outgunned rebel Confederates against the dark lord of the Union army with Lincoln as the dark emperor. You are misreading American movies with the lens of the British movie industry which is completely different in the 1960s and the 1970s.
One thing to note; when Star Wars was being made, nobody thought it was going to be a blockbuster. Fox studios was continuously on the edge of pulling the plug during production. When the movie was released (I was 13 in Los Angeles), we had never seen anything like it. Lines upon lines of vehicles at drive-ins and people at the walk in theaters. Everything was Star Wars from that that first week moving forward. Lucas found he had created a monster. We couldn’t get enough of it. Fast forward to now, and we find ourselves needing greater and greater high action and special effects sequences to satisfy our movie palate. We’ve been spoiled. Yes, many Americans are cautious of our republic becoming an autocratic empire. But I’d rather have that versus a Chinese or Islamist one. The interesting parallel is where Rome completely destroyed Carthage in the third Punic war. One of Rome’s senators remarked that Rome will start to become decadent and weak without a peer adversary to always be on guard against. Think “Peace Dividend” after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Just an aside: we do not need any kind of autocratic (Islamist, Chinese, fundmentalist Christian, conservative, liberal,etc) empire. We can choose to continue to have open elections, open discussion and disagreement. It does not make us weaker; to the contrary, it makes us stronger. We can make common sense changes to our country to keep up with changes in the world and in society: oppose dictatorships that invade their neighbors(together with our allies), let people decide their own moral codes and decisions(like whether or not to keep a pregnancy), make wealthy corporations pay more for their privileged position in our country, pay for the education of our people and for their healthcare out of the common funds collected by the government, make all political statements in the public square attributable to the people who make or pay for them(no more hiding behind some made up faux citizens group). These and other common sense rules will allow us to keep moving forward into a successful future. Hitler, Mussolini and co wanted the world to believe fascism was the wace of the future in the 1930's. It wasnt. Neither is autocracy in the 2020's.
Surely the Jedi are the 47 Ronin, rebel Samuai - although they become the Knights of the Round Table or Templars later! Sith - the loyal Samurai, Teutonic Knights, Praetorians?
Great discussion! Here in the US, some often refer to Star Wars as a western in space. Lucas has said he was inspired by 2 Kurosawa movies. Dominic mentioned The Hidden Fortress, and I can't recall the other offhand. The 1st movie came out when I was 17; I saw it a few times in the theater, but I was never Star Wars nerd. It was fun.... Alec Guiness, though he had no idea what the movie was about and hated the dialogue, became incredibly rich from Star Wars, because he took IIRC 1.5% of the profits. Dune is brilliant IMO. The planet is pronounced "uh rack iss". House Atreides....
The Pax Palpatina The Empire did nothing wrong. What Palpatine does is little more than masterful statecraft. Sure he dresses in black and says things like “let the hate flow through you”, and shoots lightning from their fingertips. In Latin, salus populi suprema lex: the sole purpose of government is to sustain the well-being of its citizens. Palpatine was not a perfect man, but he was, indisputably, a truly great man.
I think The Knights of The Old Republic games and the show The Mandalorian are just great Better than the original three movies. I think Kathleen Kennedys decision to make all n 5he Old Republic stuff non - cannon was a mistake.
When- padme say So this is how liberty died with thunderous applause I always feel this is when Keir Starmer introduced labours second referendum for the eu with remain on the ballot paper
When did Peter Cushing ever play Dracula? Dr. Frankenstein, sure, but not Count Chocula. I normally love these podcasts, but I think that the hosts are reaching on this episode.
Americans have an eagle on every flagpole abobe Old Glory. Long before there wvwr was a germamy that is united or a german eagle there was the bald eagle in gold gilt above all Anerican Flags.
I assume there is something funny about the words Grand Moff to the english that Americans dont get? Like how brits akways laugh in the face of Americans named Randy when thwy introduce themselves?
Glad you met David and not Jimmy. Your take on star wars being influenced by Vietnam. Rubbish. It's the American view of the war for independence. The Empire is the British Empire no taxation without representation.
What a terrific episode. I hadn’t appreciated how my interests in history, science fiction, fantasy and film were so closely linked.
From tie fighters having superfortress fronts,Stormtroopers having mg 34's,Han Solo having a Moueser(if that's how you spell it)Rebel Troops having WW2 USN helmets.Thats just what I noticed as a 10 year old who was into history.
I read Asimov for 'O' level in 1973. It was part of a Sci-Fi short story collection. It was much more fun than the dreary other books we had to read by Emily Bronte and Thomas Hardy. Frank Herbert believed that he was ripped off by George Lucas. There are a lot of similarities between Dune and Star Wars.
There are obviously a number of things Dune inspired in Star Wars, such as the power of voice to control another person, the use of swords by the most skilled warriors rather than projectile weapons and spice, which is mentioned in Star Wars. There's also the strong theme of the chosen one character, though this didn't originate with Dune. They are such different types of stories that I can't agree with the idea that Star Wars "ripped off" Dune.
Palpatine uses Legion in Return of the Jedi actually! He says "A legion of my best troops are waiting for them"
Yes. He was a bit casual making that claim. I thought of Roman iconography as much as the WWII guys when I watched Star Wars as a teenager.
Unfortunately in the Star Wars EU (Both canon and the old legends stuff) They never really tried to work out how the regiments of the Empire worked, but still! @@michaelhart7569
Glad i'm not the only one who yelled that at the screen
Haha 😆
And the shuttle in the same film is called Tiberian; whether that's a reference to the emperor (Tiberius) or the river (Tiber), it's a Roman-flavoured craft.
Now I can never unhear David Prowse narrating the Star Wars opening crawl whenever I watch it again, so I thank you for that.
One author you need to have added to this episode is Edgar Rice Burrows and the first three Mars books. Desert planet, road story, decaying government, swords, sand people, a captured princess, jedi and sith
60 yrs old here, huge classic film fan and love European cinema. Star Wars 77 is my favorite film. It is a deep film. It really is.
What a couple of absolute LADS!!!
Kudos to the editor too
The emperors guards in return of the jedi are called the petorian gaurd
5:00 I'd like to know who considers this window-dressing. Granted, it may be overstated, but I think the link with Joseph Campbell is more than something you can attribute to an offhand remark. Lucas is consciously mining fairy tales, folklore and, explicitly, mythology and admits that early drafts are influenced by Campbell's books. Campbell's series The Power of Myth is filmed (in the late 80s) at Skywalker Ranch, and Lucas is later interviewed by the same guy, Bill Moyers - in these interviews (all on youtube) they acknowledge each other; Lucas basically describes one of his many themes as 'follow your bliss'. Campbell re-aligns religions into his mono-myth, Lucas re-imagines religion into 'the force'. Which is a crucial - defining - part of his constructed mythology. In those billion interviews he's done, I've heard him talk a lot more about Joseph Campbell than about the Roman Empire - and subsequently what becomes a set-text for Hollywood executives, who are searching for the secret sauce, is The Hero with a Thousand Faces, rather than The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. (Maybe it should be the other way around.) That said, thank you, as always, for the insights. And the Dave Prowse impression. My new favourite channel.
David Prowse played Darth Vader on screen. The voice of James Earl Jones is just as much a part of the character IMHO. Both men deserve credit for bringing the character to life.
30:19 When I was a kid, I probably thought Darth Vader spoke with a British accent. I eventually realized that James Earl Jones spoke with a classically trained and formal, but American accent. Perhaps the formality is the most important aspect.
I always thought Paul Atraides in Dune was inspired more by Lawrence of Arabia than anyone else. The classic film came out a couple of years before the novel.
It's safe to say that their knowledge of Star Trek triumphs their knowledge of Dun iverse
Battlestar Galactica (1978) was big on Egyptian and Greek mythology.
Loony Tunes Marvin the Martin was a parody if Kaiser Bill of Germany, who himself inadvertently modeled himself as an overly earnest Roman Emperor
Erstwhile readers of the Eagle will remember the the Trigan Empire
Finally a man of taste and culture.
The author of “The Hunger Games” stated the name Katniss Everdeen was inspired by Bathsheba Everdene from Thomas Hardy’s “Far from the Madding Crowd”.
@31:20 Tom sums up the premise of the whole episode in a sentence, but it was fun
Its great when I see someone who knows film watch Star Wars - they think it is brilliant. its so much more efficient than movies are today. You are just thrown into a situation and you figure it out as you go along. You are presented with really understandable characters and a really evil villain. The effects were pretty amazing for the day but not so much for today. I can imagine that we have some people who would just glaze over.
The title blew me away. Listening now!
Roman Empire ✅ Star Wars ✅ Dune ✅
It’s like thus episode was made for me!
26:01 I believe Amidala was elected to a term of queenship (as a teenager) and was later elected to the Senate. Lucas likes to use terms like "queen" and "princess" in confusing ways.
Washington was inspired by the example of Cincinnatus, who came back from war and then went back to farming and didn't try to be a politician. The idea inspired the founding of the city Cincinnati, for example. Augustus is the Roman who could have been Cincinatus but didn't give up power.
What do mean it inspired the founding of the city in Ohio of Cincinnati? What does that mean? I think they just took the name, and that's the only connection. So you meant to say the naming of the city of Cincinnati. Which is not a terribly profound thing.
47:09 Battlestar Galactica may have had Mormon inspiration. It also has explicit Roman and Greek references.
Plus a lot of Egyptian influences
@@MarkL-we8uk I guess I didn't notice those as much. What's an example?
@JonathanRossRogers perhaps if you watch it, you will note the names from Greek Mythology - Adama, Apollo, Athena, Cassiopeia, Sheba etc. Plus their whole fleet setting off on a journey to escape the Cylons is very much Aeneis leading the defeated Trojans survivors in the Aeneid to a new land.
The Viper pilots (Apollo, Boomer, Jolly, Sheba, Starbuck) all dress very Ancient Egypt and there is an episode involving the Pyramids
@@MarkL-we8uk Thanks. I guess I need to watch the series again.
Dominic says the word "legion" is not used in first three films. Not true. In throne room scene Palpatine says, "an entire legion of my best troops awaits them...."
I wish you would discuss Derry Girls.
As a yank I'm sure a lot of the subtext went over my head.
I'm so glad you mentioned the Romulans! I might have to do a video about that!
As a small child I misinterpreted the final scene of Star Wars (1977) as a wedding. And now I'm told that this awards ceremony for returning war heroes has a Nazi vibe? I will never look at another wedding the same way...
Great episode guys.
I think that, in the sixties, Rome was a used as an analogy in popular arts for the politics of the day. The only time I remember Greece being mentioned was for how great the Spartans were.
When I have made playlists of Roman sounding music I find that the Imperial March from Empire Strikes Back fits in perfectly with Miklos Rosza's Ben Hur and other ancient era scores. Not authentic. But certainly stentorian.
Could we get an episode on how Roman ideas inspired Putin, please? FASCINATING!
I would say Putin is more inspired by Hitler and Stalin, who were inspired by the Americans wiping out the natives.
🙄
Great one, and just to add on to the analogies about Star Wars:
Jedis are coming from a planet called Jeda and Jews are coming from the ancient city of Judah.
Ironic that Dom says that George Lucus obviously wasn't reading the Roman historian Sallust - when George in fact virtually uses the name in the dialogue of RotJ: "What of the reports of the Rebel fleet massing near Sullust?"
In the Expanded Universe (books) and games. the standard Storptrooper compliment of a Star Destroyer is refered to as a legion (9700 troops for SW).
chewie gets his medal in the book 🏅
Apparenly medals arent important to Wookiees and his family had their own cerenlony for him or something
Lucas may have been a nerd but he still pulled Linda Ronstadt, thereby giving hope to all nerds 😂
Luke Skywalker is rather Percival than Arthur. Else a great episode. Thank you.
you guys are great; love your podcasts. However, I have a quibble. Yes, Star Wars does indeed follow a Joseph Campbell-esque "Hero's Journey." But that isn't because Lucas was reading Campbell. Take any basic class in screen writing, and guess what? The basic formula that the overwhelming majority of movies follow looks a lot like Campbell's Hero's Journey. That is just how screen plays tend to be structured.
Tom is a good actor too!
How do you analyze Dr. Who.?
I have read so much Pope science fiction in my day and I came to realize that virtually all futuristic societies as presented were modeled on the Roman empire. I don't know what that means but it means something
Sanctus Ori! (Stargate SG-1 season 9 and 10 quote)
It wasn't "branded" as episode 4, but when Lucas' first script was his original vision of the prequels plus what became the first movie. They told him they couldn't make his entire script so and he picked the most marketable part of the story.
Lucas took years to develop what became Star Wars and lots of ideas were floated and shot down. These guys seem to think he just whipped up the first film and then just total flew by the seat of his pants. Their evidence for this seems to be that Lucas made adjustments along the way which is something every single successful movie franchise and tv/streaming show ever has done.
One clear indication that Lucas knew Asimov's work: Asimov coined the name "Han" and used it several times in his works. Thus, Han Solo
Modesto is suburban? Farm country. Way off but good vlog.
I'm getting the impression that their history is spot on, but their geography is less so
I found the prequels more reminiscent of the American Civil War. You have the Confederacy vs the Grand Army of the Republic, of course. But it also echoes the massive centralisation of the US government under Abraham Lincoln at that time, the suspension of civil rights such as habeas corpus, to the point where opponents of the war even accused Lincoln of starting the civil war in order to give himself an excuse to become a tyrannical dictator.
As a child I thought it unfair that Chewbacca didn't get a medal.
Unfair is an understatement...
The Jedi Order's problem is Yoda. No being can wield that kind of power for centuries without becoming complacent at best or corrupt at worst. He has no idea that it's overtaken him; he no longer sees all the little cumulative evils that the Republic tolerates and fosters, from slavery to endless wars, and he never asks, "Why are we not acting to stop this?" Live alongside corruption for too long, and you no longer notice the stench. The Jedi cannot help the slaves of Tatooine, but they can help the slavemasters.
-Dooku, to Darth Sidious
Both Nazis and Romans had a republic that went sideways and the emperor and his vizier started to reach out from the core worlds and acquire power by force.
A fun one 🤩
When do they talk about Dune?
41:55
Christopher Plummer was Canadian.
In the 1960s and the 1970s in America there was a revival of Confederate heroes such as the Undefeated and The Outlaw Josey Wales to name just a few. Many people add Lincoln as the dark lord and the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi what is the role of Robert e Lee. Even the and the dark emperor's army was called the Grand army of the Republic. In America where Star wars was made in America is George Lucas the allegory of the outgunned rebel Confederates against the dark lord of the Union army with Lincoln as the dark emperor. You are misreading American movies with the lens of the British movie industry which is completely different in the 1960s and the 1970s.
The thing I learned today: Nigel Terry played King Arthur as Darth Vader.
Just FYI, American Graffiti harkens back to 1962, not the '50's.
Is Dominic trying to break a record for how many of his books he can put on display? 😂
Not very subtle, is he😂
Good for him. I'd do it, too.
One thing to note; when Star Wars was being made, nobody thought it was going to be a blockbuster. Fox studios was continuously on the edge of pulling the plug during production. When the movie was released (I was 13 in Los Angeles), we had never seen anything like it. Lines upon lines of vehicles at drive-ins and people at the walk in theaters. Everything was Star Wars from that that first week moving forward. Lucas found he had created a monster. We couldn’t get enough of it. Fast forward to now, and we find ourselves needing greater and greater high action and special effects sequences to satisfy our movie palate. We’ve been spoiled. Yes, many Americans are cautious of our republic becoming an autocratic empire. But I’d rather have that versus a Chinese or Islamist one. The interesting parallel is where Rome completely destroyed Carthage in the third Punic war. One of Rome’s senators remarked that Rome will start to become decadent and weak without a peer adversary to always be on guard against. Think “Peace Dividend” after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Just an aside: we do not need any kind of autocratic (Islamist, Chinese, fundmentalist Christian, conservative, liberal,etc) empire.
We can choose to continue to have open elections, open discussion and disagreement.
It does not make us weaker; to the contrary, it makes us stronger.
We can make common sense changes to our country to keep up with changes in the world and in society: oppose dictatorships that invade their neighbors(together with our allies), let people decide their own moral codes and decisions(like whether or not to keep a pregnancy), make wealthy corporations pay more for their privileged position in our country, pay for the education of our people and for their healthcare out of the common funds collected by the government, make all political statements in the public square attributable to the people who make or pay for them(no more hiding behind some made up faux citizens group).
These and other common sense rules will allow us to keep moving forward into a successful future.
Hitler, Mussolini and co wanted the world to believe fascism was the wace of the future in the 1930's. It wasnt.
Neither is autocracy in the 2020's.
Surely the Jedi are the 47 Ronin, rebel Samuai - although they become the Knights of the Round Table or Templars later! Sith - the loyal Samurai, Teutonic Knights, Praetorians?
Great discussion! Here in the US, some often refer to Star Wars as a western in space. Lucas has said he was inspired by 2 Kurosawa movies. Dominic mentioned The Hidden Fortress, and I can't recall the other offhand. The 1st movie came out when I was 17; I saw it a few times in the theater, but I was never Star Wars nerd. It was fun.... Alec Guiness, though he had no idea what the movie was about and hated the dialogue, became incredibly rich from Star Wars, because he took IIRC 1.5% of the profits.
Dune is brilliant IMO. The planet is pronounced "uh rack iss". House Atreides....
The Name Paul Atreides is so signifigant..
Luca$$$$ motivation.
I think maybe the 90 men and 1 woman at Stanford was because they advertised the event with pictures of the WRONG Tom Holland.
Flash Gordon is literally discount John Carter
The first Star Wars film is 90% The Hidden Fortress.
10% westerns including the searchers.
"I enjoyed that far more than was healthy" ❤
The Pax Palpatina The Empire did nothing wrong. What Palpatine does is little more than masterful statecraft. Sure he dresses in black and says things like “let the hate flow through you”, and shoots lightning from their fingertips. In Latin, salus populi suprema lex: the sole purpose of government is to sustain the well-being of its citizens. Palpatine was not a perfect man, but he was, indisputably, a truly great man.
A fun one! We needed a fun one after all those Nazis. 😉
Forget 18th century America, the first paragraph of the Star Wars novelization is describing what is happening in the USA today! (late November 2024)
You're probably old enough to remember Trigan Empire for more Romans in Spaaaace fun
Did Palpatine promise to Make the Republic Great Again?
I think The Knights of The Old Republic games and the show The Mandalorian are just great
Better than the original three movies.
I think Kathleen Kennedys decision to make all n 5he Old Republic stuff non - cannon was a mistake.
When- padme say So this is how liberty died with thunderous applause
I always feel this is when Keir Starmer introduced labours second referendum for the eu with remain on the ballot paper
When did Peter Cushing ever play Dracula? Dr. Frankenstein, sure, but not Count Chocula.
I normally love these podcasts, but I think that the hosts are reaching on this episode.
The Jedi were pretty clearly influenced by Buddhism I would say, which was fashionable in the era George Lucas made the film.
Americans have an eagle on every flagpole abobe Old Glory. Long before there wvwr was a germamy that is united or a german eagle there was the bald eagle in gold gilt above all Anerican Flags.
DUM DUM DUM DO DE DUMMMMM DO DEDUMMMMM😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Queen tity we've got to save space for freedom and equality 😁
So true princess boo boo 😆
OMG ... this reminds me why I've never watched Star Wars / Star Trek.
Episode should be titled “Sci Fi for Beginners”
Star wars gave us anti-anti-hero heroes! .
I assume there is something funny about the words Grand Moff to the english that Americans dont get? Like how brits akways laugh in the face of Americans named Randy when thwy introduce themselves?
(slang) muff = vagina
Glad you met David and not Jimmy. Your take on star wars being influenced by Vietnam. Rubbish. It's the American view of the war for independence. The Empire is the British Empire no taxation without representation.
No, it's not a "period piece." Multiple generations have loved Star Wars. Get your kids off of TikTok and they'll be able to concentrate better.
I keep thinking you're talking about US Republic and Trump of the golden sneakers😂😂
Trump Derangement Syndrome. Shutting down freedom reminds me more of Two Tier Kier and his arresting of tweeters
Poor Tom... How can he be so educated, yet cannot pronounce anything correctly?
Could not Princess Leah's hairstyle be the earphone style of the Twenties?
"A New Hope/Hopi" ... it's a Hopi haitrstyle. Look up "Hopi Women"
It's from 14th century fashion.
Gladiator is an inferior rip off of FOTRE.
Wonder if Trump has seen Star Wars.
Trump isn't the one who wants to shut down free speech.