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Frank Herbert always thought Star Wars was a Dune ripoff (www.polygon.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Desert planet to include skeleton of wormlike creature

It clearly had a skull and looked like a reptile. It could have been a gorilla skeleton and people would try to tie it to Dune.

Secretive sect of religious warriors with magical powers

Fremen had no magical powers.

Chosen one narrative with a dead dad

Luke stumbles into adventure in Ep4. He's only reinvented into the chosen one later. Paul was the Duke's son and was a target of the Harkonen/Emperor from the start. It was a major plot point that Paul became the Duke at the death of his noble father. Luke didn't strive to become his father and scheme his way into becoming Emperor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

almost every one of these is sort of set dressing and skin deep, and changed drastically in some fundamental way.

I think we're on the same team here, but it would be silly not to view Dune as one inspiration among many. I think Herbert was a being a needlessly salty MFer though. For the second point, I was thinking more the Bene Gesserit than the Fremen, and while "warriors" is maybe stretching things a bit, you wouldn't want to get on the bad side of a reverend mother.