[Paul C. Jesup]

He often claims to be the inspiration for Raiders of the Lost Ark, but he isn't. And Raiders was written by George Lucas and Phil Kaufman, not Randolph Fillmore.

George Lucas has 'borrowed' more stuff for his movies than almost anyone else. For example the lightsaber idea is basically a ripoff of the biblical 'flaming sword'.

[wideawake]

George Lucas has 'borrowed' more stuff for his movies than almost anyone else.

Lucas is derivative, absolutely - but if Raiders of the Lost Ark is a ripoff of anything, it's a rip-off of the explorer pulps Lucas read as a child.

Vendyl Jones is a crackpot. And a very self-important one.