Bingowings said:
It's a classic case of the lady and the laddie protesting too much (and the counter opposite of the rubbish romance in the PT)
"You annoy the hell out of me"
"No you annoy the hell out of me more"
"Screw you, you, you delicious she devil"
"You start first and I'll join in later"
I don't know how many people here watch movies that were made before 1977 but a LOT of the Han/Leia interplay in TESB is taken from Gone With The Wind. Watch it if you think I'm talking out of my hat. Heck, the poster for TESB pretty much duplicates Gable/Leigh in the GWTW poster.
Lucas didn't make all this stuff up, he took from all sorts of things:
Flash Gordon (couldn't buy the rights to re-make it)
Hidden Fortress
Dune
Wizard of Oz
Metropolis
and a lot else: himself even. Anyone watch the end of THX1138 and compare it to the chase at the end of Star Wars? Then there's recent events, nods to Vietnam in the CT and GWB in the PT. Don't make this more than it is. George Lucas WAS the OG of sampling.
*** sarcasm mode ON *** You wanna know why SW was a hit in '77? Han Solo = Elvis, Chewie = Bigfoot. The man knows his pop culture stuff and was really good at making movie mashups of it all. that's all. George Lucas is the Phil Retrospector of SF movie mashups, that's it. *** sarcasm mode OFF*** Oh, and adywan deserves an Oscar for his work on E4.
Long time reader first time poster signing off.