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The Empire Strikes Back - FROM THE 1950s!

2010-05-19, 4:24 AM #1

Gebohq

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I found out about it here:

http://kotaku.com/5542282/empire-strikes-back-the-1950-production

From the article:

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Quick refresher: The Empire Strikes Back, like me, was released in 1980. Explains the haircuts. And the whole "Luke" thing. If it had been released in 1950, however, it would have looked a little different.

Believe it or not, aside from the on-screen graphics this footage is all from real movies, including instalments from the Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers series, The Phantom, Captain Midnight, Forbidden Planet and Devil Girl from Mars.

It's not hard seeing where guys like George Lucas and artist Ralph McQuarrie got some of the visual cues from for the Star Wars trilogy, especially the little things like the Rebel pilot's helmets.

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2010-05-19, 3:24 PM #2

Tibby

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My god, some of those shots are nearly exact. Like the cockpit of the AT-AT.
Wait what, is that dialogue real or dubbed?

2010-05-19, 7:26 PM #3

DrkJedi82

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some of the dialogue is clearly dubbed

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2010-05-19, 10:54 PM #4

Jin

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Lucas has always said the trilogy was a homage to the likes of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. If you look at the early concept art for ANH, C3PO looked just like the robot in that clip. Only without the... boobs?

With the dubbed audio and subtitles it looks like the concepts were lifted right from these old movies but when they're in context they're not exactly similar.