LilBambi

I am new to this forum. I have been enjoying the site and am a fan of both great architecture (the Long Room is truly one of the great vistas in architecture), and I am also a movie buff.

Having said that, I have to wonder whether the wise stance is to sue someone over something like this.

Why not take advantage of the positive publicity and enbrace the similarities, regardless of whether it was actually used or not.

Who knows, it may have been that the person who designed the Jedi room for the Star Wars movie had visited or had seen the Long Room in a book at some point in their life. It then left such a lasting lasting and wonderful impression on them that it just came out during the making of this movie.

They may never have realized that the ‘idea’ for it was anything other than than something very beautiful and majestic that was in their mind as the perfect impression for this Jedi room.

This world has become so sue happy in recent years. It is out of hand all over the world, and I sense this greedy path is destroying so much…particularly in my native US.

It seems that it is often easier to take the easy way and sue, rather than take a more positive approach.

Wouldn’t it actually be better to have the publicity be positive?

Why not simply utilize this very positive and actually quite flattering opportunity for some pretty impressive pubicity for the building and its architecture? As the saying goes, imitation is the surest form of flattery.

Just a thought … thanks for listening.