Absuridity_Octogon OP t1_iufcgn9 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 10:08 PM

Reply to comment by mikeyfreshh in In your opinion, which is better? The original Star Wars Trilogy, or Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy? by Absuridity_Octogon

Star Wars was an adaptation of an existing work(King Arthur) just in a different setting. But yes I agree they shouldn’t really be compared.

mikeyfreshh t1_iufd3qp wrote on October 30, 2022 at 10:13 PM

>Star Wars was an adaptation of an existing work(King Arthur) just in a different setting.

Lord of the Rings probably takes just as much from King Arthur as Star Wars does. If you wanted to accuse Star Wars of adapting anything, you could say it's just 3 or 4 Kurosawa movies mashed together and set in space

>But yes I agree they shouldn’t really be compared.

You're the one that specifically asked people to compare them

Absuridity_Octogon OP t1_iufd8o3 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 10:14 PM

And I said that it was fine if you didn’t want to.

carson63000 t1_iugmmeb wrote on October 31, 2022 at 4:14 AM

That assertion stretches the meaning of the word "adaptation" far beyond breaking point, imho.

Yes Star Wars had its antecedents and influences, but it was not an "adaptation" of the King Arthur story.

Absuridity_Octogon OP t1_iugncyo wrote on October 31, 2022 at 4:22 AM

Yeah now that I think about it, you’re probably right.