[rec.arts.movies] Lensman

jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) (10/10/90)

In article <114485@tiger.oxy.edu> wirehead@oxy.edu (David J. Harr) writes:
>Inhis article, ddt@walt.cc.utexas.edu says
>>The awful sense of humor and obvious rip-off of the Star Wars trilogy...
>I hate to tell you this, but the only ripping off done was by George Lucas
>from the original "Lensman" series. The movie Lensman is actually a pretty

Bzzt.  Lucas says that he ripped off Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress".
(Rent it, it's a neat movie.  Kinda like Star Wars in 18 or 19th century
Japan. :-)



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