From: anybody@anywhere-anytime.com

In article , Todd
 wrote:

> Back when she saw Star Wars for the first time, my mom always told me
> it was simply a remake of the Wizard of Oz.
>
> Leia was of course Dorothy.
> R2-D2 was Toto.
> C-3PO was the tin woodsman.
> Chewbacca was the lion (he was a bit cowardly around the creature in
> the trash compactor).
> Obiwan was the wizard.
> Darth Vader was the wicked witch.
> Luke, I guess, was the scarecrow (from a farm).
> Not sure who Han was.
>
> Not sure I've ever actually watched the original movie.  I'm sure the
> book was read to me in school.
>
> My bringing this up was, of course, a result of watching SciFi's Tin
> Man.

Star Wars uses a very basic idea (hero rescues girl, magic, godd vs
evil, etc.) that is also used in MANY other good stories and so you can
draw comparisions with a large variety of stories and fairytales.   :-)

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