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Green Lantern - Star Wars (The Connection) Anyone

  • 04-01-2011 1:34am
    #1
    roboshatner
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    Right I am just going to throw this out here maybe Im crazy....

    I watched Green Lantern First Flight the Cartoon Movie I walked into this film not knowing anything about green lantern or anything about the comics or the universe.

    Now saying that I walked the film and it was like watching star wars I don't know how to explain it Jedi kind of thing I don't know it just felt like I was watching Star Wars.

    Anybody else feel that way....
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  • #2
    Mickeroo
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    Nope :)


  • #3
    Jazzy
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    well you have to ask ol georgie pordgie where he got his inspiration from :)


  • #4
    Ridley
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    Jazzy wrote: »
    well you have to ask ol georgie pordgie where he got his inspiration from :)

    Flash Gordon and Akira Kurosawa amongst other things.

    Although the director of the Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern movie reckons his film will have Flash Gordon elements.


  • #5
    krudler
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    well its in space, so clearly the star wars connections are evident, my god, should Lucas be sued?


  • #6
    roboshatner
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    To be honest they all copy off each other.

    Everything is rehashed


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  • #7
    Mickeroo
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    roboshatner wrote: »
    To be honest they all copy off each other.

    Everything is rehashed

    Some of them do, but I dont think so in this case since Green Lantern has been around since 1940. I think the plots are pretty different in fairness. As some one already mentioned the main influence on star wars was Akira Kurosawa movies (particularly the hidden fortress). Now a comparison between green lantern and flash gordon or buck rodgers might be a more valid one.


  • #8
    KerranJast
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    If anything First Flight reminded me of "Training Day" :D which is no bad thing. If only the live action film could be as good as FF. I doubt it though.


  • #9
    roboshatner
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    My point was that jet pilot gets taken out of his normal life and brought off to this far off planet were many different races.

    maybe the cartoon first flight just borrowed from star wars.
    Mickeroo wrote: »
    Some of them do, but I dont think so in this case since Green Lantern has been around since 1940. I think the plots are pretty different in fairness. As some one already mentioned the main influence on star wars was Akira Kurosawa movies (particularly the hidden fortress). Now a comparison between green lantern and flash gordon or buck rodgers might be a more valid one.


  • #10
    KerranJast
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    roboshatner wrote: »
    My point was that jet pilot gets taken out of his normal life and brought off to this far off planet were many different races.

    maybe the cartoon first flight just borrowed from star wars.
    The Green Lantern origin story (pilot finds dying alien, is given power ring and becomes part of Green Lantern corps) has pretty much been the same since the 40s. I don't really see any SW influence tbh, even in First Flight.


  • #11
    roboshatner
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    maybe its just the way I watched it.

    Just felt the young pilot going off to a far off galaxy meets strange looking aliens and he joins (The Force) the green lathern corps that defend the galaxy.

    KerranJast wrote: »
    The Green Lantern origin story (pilot finds dying alien, is given power ring and becomes part of Green Lantern corps) has pretty much been the same since the 40s. I don't really see any SW influence tbh, even in First Flight.


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  • #12
    KerranJast
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    roboshatner wrote: »
    maybe its just the way I watched it.

    Just felt the young pilot going off to a far off galaxy meets strange looking aliens and he joins (The Force) the green lathern corps that defend the galaxy.
    What you've described is a well know trope called The Hero's Journey which is why it might seem so familiar http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitleh1ltpj3ph282?from=Main.TheHerosJourney

    Summary: Hero is plucked from the familiar, has to learn to adapt, returns to save the day.


  • #13
    Skerries
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    yeah The Last Starfighter or Battle beyond the Stars spring to mind
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  • #14
    BlitzKrieg
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    roboshatner wrote: »
    maybe its just the way I watched it.

    Just felt the young pilot going off to a far off galaxy meets strange looking aliens and he joins (The Force) the green lathern corps that defend the galaxy.


    closer to the last starfighter then star wars :D (seeing as luke skywalker isnt plucked completely out of the mundane, he was already aware of the force, jedi and the empire)


    but as already said its a narrative trope


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