Are Ewoks and Minions original creations, or more likely the result of Munchkin evolution?
What other large groups of Little Dudes has Hollywood crafted into their stories? It’s almost as if the entire group of Little Dudes are actually playing the part of one singular character. And I’m wondering if they are evolved from characters such as Stan Laurel.
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Darby O’Gill and the Little People
Celtic & Germanic legend have all kinds of land wights and little people. Western culture derives much from that tradition, such as Santa’s Elves, the Seven Dwarfs, Tolkien, etc.
Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton talked of wights.
They are like dwarfs from the parents of Sasquatch in the Pacific Northwest on Earth.
They’re the bastard offspring of Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland. Tsk, I thought that was common knowledge. Oompah Loompah’s do of course remain the leader’s in their field, or should that be garden?
Ding! Dong! The witch is dead!
The Lollipop Guild sends its regards.
In George Lucas’ original plan for the Return of the Jedi, the Endor moon would be inhabited by Wookies, not Ewoks. The idea was that the high-tech soldiers would be defeated by the primates.
However, by this time in the series everyone was used to Chewbacca’s technological skills, so Lucas changed it from Wook-E to E-Wok. The march of the teddy bears began.
@filmfann Do you know if Lucas ever mentioned them as an evolution from Munchkins? Was there ever a comparison made or tribute paid?
I’m interested in determining if E-Wok (Minion) type characters are all soft plagiarism from Munchkins, or even the Stan Laurel’s of society… though Laurel may be best compared to R2D2.
I haven’t read anything to suggest Ewoks came from Munchkins.
And while R2D2 has a bit of the Laurel/Costello dynamic, Lucas says he took R2D2 and C3PO from The Hidden Fortress
I think R2-D2 (“Reel Two, Dialog Two”) came from Douglas Trumbull’s work in Silent Running (1972)
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