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Stardust1138
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George Lucas's Sequel Trilogy
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20-Jan-2022, 12:56 AM

Johann-500 said:

George Lucas: When writing the movies, I tried to make sure that aliens and droids got killed, but not people.

Paul Duncan: A lot of stormtroopers died.

George Lucas: That’s right, but you didn’t know they were people. We did kill three humans and that was unfortunate. I was always bothered by it.

Paul Duncan: When was that?

George Lucas: On the Death Star, when Han and Luke go into the prison with Chewie to rescue Leia, they shoot three Imperial guys. The guards drew their guns and fired first, but it’s still a shame.

Paul Duncan: Really?

George Lucas: Yeah, we very consciously didn’t kill very many humans in those movies.

Sorry for going a little off topic, but George Lucas’ quotes in the OP reek of him spouting revisionist rubbish yet again! Unless there is yet another Special Edition coming out sometime soon where no humans die in the Original Trilogy?
 

George Lucas: “We did kill three humans and that was unfortunate. I was always bothered by it.”

So it was four human Imperials that were killed on-screen in Detention Block AA-23!:

 

Not forgetting:

 
There are probably more on-screen human fatalities in the Battle Of Yavin, these are just gifs I quickly found.
There are also probably more ‘people’ dying on-screen just in 1977’s Star Wars too, let alone Empire and Jedi.

George Lucas: Yeah, we very consciously didn’t kill very many humans in those movies.

Sure George. Sure.

I love George for creating all this, but how can we believe the things he says given his long history of being loose with facts and the truth, and also making many false claims and retcons.
If he published or released every note, written down idea, scrawls or scripts for the Sequels over the decades, even when he was claiming “there is no VI, VIII & IX. There never has been.”, would anyone believe them without fact-checking or cross-referencing beforehand? Not many would, I think.

He meant human heroes killing many human villains. They very purposely didn’t do it much after A New Hope. It became mainly faceless and non human characters in the later films.

Anakin Starkiller said:

Nah. Star Wars doesn’t have the same Christian undertones as LotR. The Force is modelled more off Eastern traditions.

There’s a lot and more of a Western tradition than you’d think.

The Mortis Gods = Holy Trinity.
Anakin’s Birth = Virgin Mary.
Anakin and Padme Sharing Fruit = Adam and Eve.
Anakin and Luke = Sins and Temptations of the Father and Son.

Etc. Etc.