Inspiration for star wars names

Yagoda:

leader of stalins political purges during the 20's and 30's. after "clensing" the communist party of nearly a third of its members, he was then targeted by the secret police, and murdered.



a possible inspiration for the star wars name "yoda"


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general Hermann Hoth: Panzer Group 3, 17th Army, 4th Panzer Army

possible inspiration for the star wars name "hoth"



anybody got any others?

 

Reel 2 Dialogue 2 = R2D2
C3 Post Office = C3PO
Lucas = Luke
Gary Vader = Darth Vader
Bob Fett = Boba Fett
Middle-Earth in elvish = Endor
Mitochondria = Midichlorians

 

Middle-Earth in elvish = Endor

Doubt it.

The Witch of Endor = Endor

 

Endor is also a place in Mesopotamia mentioned in the Bible.


Reel 2 Dialogue 2 = R2D2

This is not true. They just came up with a letter/number combination that sounded good. They discussed this myth in the annotated screenplays.

-sj loves kevin spacey

 

Redundant thread, check out this earlier one.

 

this isnt redundant.



your thread is about the meaning of the names.

mines about where lucas got the names from.

 

I thought Hoth was a play on words. Taken from the word "hot", for a snow planet.

Yoda, I thought was from the word "Yoga".

 

[yoda]Dont assume anything. clear your mind must be if you are to discover the real inspirations behind these names[/yoda]

 

Fosh-bantus, how about the possibility of the name Palpatine being inspired by Palatine Hill in Rome? Given that the Empire may just have been inspired by the Roman Empire?

 

This thread seems to be a clone of
http://boards.theforce.net/The_Star_Wars_Saga/b10456/14399908/?38

-Seldon

 

Seldon:

your thread is about the meaning of the names.

mines about where lucas got the names from.


anyways,

The Antilles

a stretch of water off the coast of venezuela.

possible inspiration for the names "bail antilles" "wedge antilles" "captain antilles"

 

I don't know how to spell it exactly, but Tatooine is obviously inspired by 'Tathuine', the location where they shot it in Tunesia.

 

Hoth isn't a play off of 'hot' for a cold planet as Hoth was originally the name for the planet now known as Bespin. Actually, it was ____ Hoth (I forget exactly what), but they dropped the first part and changed what planet it named.

-sj loves kevin spacey

 

Nerd alert!
We all know about the oldies(Skywalker=Norse god, etc.). Everything in Padme's name is Buddhist or Tibetan. Chants, lake, Amidabuddha.
Sebulba= native Meso-American level of Hell; Dooku=Japanese for "poison";Obi-Wan and Yoda are both Japanese;Palpatine is Roman; Lama Su is an Egyptian statuary guard against evil; Corascant is a gemstone; Boba and Jango are Thai,for bad "stuff"...I forget more than I can remember. Having an Artist/historian for a Mom comes in real handy in times like these! A lot of the imagery is borrowed, of course. We all know Amidala's makeup was Mongolian, but

***SPOILER*** (sort of)



The new Queen makeup is from Toltec imagery; it symbolized rebirth after death. It was originally the painted face of the sacrificed worn over the priest's own face.

 

"Yoda" is derived from Hebrew: it means, "I know."