Sunday, July 6, 2008

George Lucas and the Brave New World?

Did George Lucas derive some of the themes in his widely and extremely famous "Star Wars" from outside sources? In Star Wars Ep 2 attack of the clones there are parts that are eerily similar to those written in BNW. Now im not suggesting that Lucas wrote scenes in his books based off BNW or any other novels or books for that matter, but im also not saying that this may be a mere coincidence. Im just giving the facts and telling what ive read in BNW and what i saw in Ep 2 of the Star War series. 
Now to set a little background knowledge, a jedi that had turned on the Jedi order had placed and "order" for an army. This was done behind the Jedi order's back so that when the Sith lord took power of the congress he would have an army awaiting him. Now delving into the similarities between the two. The army that was order had two classes Clones and droids. There are extreme differences between the two mainly being the clones are humans and the droids are robots, but for all intensive purposes they are both created but an outside force to serve a specific purpose. This is much like that of BNW where there are Alphas Betas and so on who are also created to serve a specific purpose in society. 
In both Ep 2 and BNW the genetics are taking from single host and they created for all intensive purposes an entire race. In Ep 2 the genetics were given by the Jedi who had turned his back on the Jedi order. His DNA was taken and modified to create the army while keeping some DNA as is so that they could recreate him as he was. This is similar to what we read in BNW. The lower classes are of a single DNA and then they are broken and split into many thousands of individuals, which the upper levels like Alphas are not split because it could alter the perfection that is.
Furthering the mass production of humans in both the genetics are altered to give the desired affect. In Ep 2 the clone army is dumbed down and is given growth accelerants. The clone army was purposely dumbed down so that they could not use there position with the republic and possibly form a coup. Also the clones were created using growth excelerants so they were able to fight sooner. This tampering and controlling of human genetics is similar to that in BNW where we have the creators depriving oxygen  and giving alchol to the lower classes so that they are not to the same intellect of the higher classes. Also the lower classes are restricted in the things they like so that they are not questioning what they are told/programmed to do. 
These are just some interesting similarities  and correlations i found between the two stories.

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