Fiddle-dee-dee, Han Solo!

[mollyringwraith]

(X-posted to my usual journal...)

Lord almighty. Did everybody else know this already? George Lucas & co. ripped off Margaret Mitchell. Seriously.

I'm reading Gone With the Wind--and finding it totally cool, by the way--and just came across this little scene between Scarlett and Rhett that looked oddly familiar

Comments

[narniadear]

Wow, I never realized they were so close. (I wasn't as familiar with ESB during my Gone With The Wind phase.) That's downright nutty!

[kalquessa]

Well, since it's recently become apparent that George cannot write romantic dialog himself, it just makes sense that what decent romantic dialog he has "written" was fleeced off someone else.

[mollyringwraith]

*giggles at your icon*

Well, yes. I didn't want to say it, but yes. I love you like I'm blind.

[kalquessa]

*wiggles robbo claw*

On the slightly-less-silly side, the concept of a woman falling for a guy because he is a type outside her experience is not exactly unheard of. And once you take that concept and give it to the guy as romantic dialog, there aren't too many other ways it could come out. I'm having a difficult time envisioning George sitting and reading GWTW, but then maybe the fleecing was done by some assistant writer or other in a desperate attempt to keep George from writing that scene in ESB himself...

[mollyringwraith]

a desperate attempt to keep George from writing that scene in ESB himself

LOL
Very likely, anyway, given that there are two other writers credited for the screenplay on that one.

And yeah, Rhett and Scarlett, and Han and Leia, are similar to any number of classically squabbling, wrong-side-of-the-tracks couples. But I think this one defies coincidence...

[leavesoflorien]

My whole childhood has been a sham. *facepalm*

I cry.

[lostrocket]

Mr Lucas has a unique gift.

At least they're better written than the prequels. I'd take plagiarism over crap any day.

[priscellie]

Of course, Lucas only wrote the story. Leigh Brackett wrote the actual screenplay.

Still, I call FOUL, Mr. Lucas!

[mollyringwraith]

I recanted and took the word "plagiarism" out, since it isn't actually plagiarism. "Homage" is fair. Still, homage in the last place I expected it! And at such an important scene in ESB, too.