Check out this ad , which appeared in a 1974 issue of Vogue Magazine . Does it cue you of anything ? Did you sense a faint disturbance in the Force , as if a million Star Wars fans were realize that dead everything in George Lucas ’ seminal classic is borrowed from other reference — even the iconic phrasal idiom about a wandflower far , far away ? If this cartridge ad is real and not photoshopped , then it ’s a enthralling sign of just what a magpie Lucas really was .
Update : Various masses have already pointed out the text crawl is jolly much based on the Flash Gordon serials , which I fairly much hump . Still , it ’s funny to think of Lucas peruse magazines and get phrase stick in his head . [ Deep GlamourviaVirginia Postrel ]
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