![]() When the young child Jedi asks Anakin, “What are we going to do?” and then steps backward, eyes widening in horrible understanding, it‘s easily the most chilling and terrible moment in the six-film saga. But while the first stirrings of Anakin‘s turn to the dark side are convincing, things escalate too quickly he essentially kills “younglings” as his opening chore for Palpatine.Īdmittedly, it’s a powerful scene. Palpatine is a cunning conniver, and some of his speeches to the malleable Anakin Skywalker are creepy in their cold persuasiveness. He makes a good point for the Phantom Menace actually being the best of the prequels, and points out flaws in the remaining two that show just how much Lucas mangled the overarching mythology. BLUEHARVEST LEIA HOLOGRAM GIF SERIESMonte Williams has a nice write-up about the Star Wars series in popmatters. Mézières has since been informed that Doug Chiang, design director on The Phantom Menace, kept a set of Valérian albums in his library. ![]() “Oh, we've been hanging around here for a long time!” retorts Laureline. ![]() As a riposte, Mézières produced an illustration for Pilote magazine in 1983 depicting the Star Wars characters Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa meeting Valérian and Laureline in a bar surrounded by a bestiary of alien creatures typical of that seen in both series. Mézières' response upon seeing Star Wars was that he was “dazzled, jealous. * The alien Shingouz and the character Watto seen in The Phantom Menace. * A scene in Empire of a Thousand Planets where one of the Authorities removes his helmet to reveal his burned and scarred face underneath and a scene in Return of the Jedi where the character Darth Vader removes his helmet to reveal the burned face of Anakin Skywalker. * The slave-girl costume worn by Laureline in World Without Stars and the costume worn by the character Leia Organa in the scenes where she is enslaved by Jabba the Hutt in Return of the Jedi * A scene in Empire of a Thousand Planets (L'Empire des Mille Planètes) where Valérian is encased in a liquid plastic and a scene in The Empire Strikes Back where the character Han Solo is encased in a substance called carbonite. * The design of Valérian and Laureline's XB982 astroship and the Millennium Falcon spaceship that appears in Episodes IV-VI of Star Wars. Particular instances of similarities between the two series, which the above have cited, include: ![]() Both series are noted for the “lived-in” look given to their various settings and for the diverse alien creatures they feature. Several commentators, such as Kim Thompson of The Comics Journal, film critic Jean-Philippe Guerand and the newspaper Libération, have noted certain similarities between the Valérian albums and the Star Wars film series. The Wiki page for Valérian and Laureline has this to say about the similarities between V&L and SW: Considering that the Millennium Falcon looks very similar to the spaceship Valérian and Laureline have in the comic, it seems quite likely that it might've served as an inspiration to Star Wars. The bar-of-aliens idea was also used in the French sci-fi comic Valérian and Laureline before Star Wars came out, can't remember in which book though. Michael Kaminski, The Secret History of Star Wars In fact, her husband was Edmond Hamilton, also a noted science fiction author, whose story "Kaldar, Planet of Antares," published in Weird Tales magazine in 1933 and reprinted in paperback in 1965, has been thought to have been an influence in the development of the lightsaber since it features one- Hamilton's version was called a "lightsword." Brackett was brought to Lucas' attention by a friend, who handed him an old science fiction novel and said, "Here is someone who wrote the cantina scene in Star Wars better than you did." ![]() Brackett was a legendary writer of pulp science fiction in the 1940's and 50's, a writer of crime novels, and screenwriter for Howard Hawks- their pairing seemed like a natural formula for success. For Star Wars II, he turned to Leigh Brackett. "Lucas dreaded returning to the writing process, which he has described as painful and tedious. My dad demurred: and sed (re bar-of-aliens and jazz), "This is a very old idea."īut is he right or was he on crack? I can think of no occurrence of EITHER idea in SF prior to this, and these days I sometimes KNOW WHAT I'M'TALKING ABOUT!! BLUEHARVEST LEIA HOLOGRAM GIF FULLI raved to my dad abt the bar full o'aliens and the mutant jazz, shortly after SW came out ? to prove to him that it was the BEST FILM EVER MADE (as I slightly inexplicably tht: I RAN all the way home after first saw it, so hyped wuz I, abt two-three miles ? I had not, admittedly, seen many films at that age). ![]()
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