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.
No, he didn’t. As I quoted George again in my post:
George Lucas: Yeah, we very consciously didn’t kill very many humans in those movies.
The facts in the “movies” (plural) themselves prove they also did do this after Star Wars (1977).
George forgets the title of his films are “Star Wars”, and also the more bloodshed content in them.
He wants to play down some of the violence in them as he aged, had a family, and maybe wants to leave a moral legacy behind.
Looking for justifications for his retcons and false claims is not new to him.I will not derail your thread further as this is about the many differing and changing incarnations of his Sequel Trilogy, including the times George said they did not exist and never existed, other than his previous vague claims and ideas.
“When writing the movies, I tried to make sure that aliens and droids got killed, but not people.”
I think he implied as much. The only human hero to human villain killing after A New Hope were Anakin/Darth Vader and Luke versus Palpatine where Palpatine dies, Mace Windu versus Jango Fett where Jango dies, Anakin and Obi-Wan versus Count Dooku where Dooku dies, and with villain killing - Mace Windu versus Palpatine where Mace dies.
No, George didn’t imply that at all. He clearly states:-
George Lucas: Yeah, we very consciously didn’t kill very many humans in those movies.
The way George says it in the at interview is that it is okay to kill aliens or clones, as they are not people. Which is not great either.
Edit: I see NeverarGreat already talked about it earlier in the thread:-
This is so strange to me. Are aliens and clones not people to George? Besides, what about everyone Luke blew up with the Death Star? I guess as long as we don’t see their faces, their death doesn’t count. And what about the good dozen Rebels gunned down by Stormtroopers in the first scene, or Captain Antilles who had his neck crushed, or crispy Owen and Beru…
Like, I don’t want to say this flippantly, but this seems like an artist in willful denial of the content of his art.
I agree. To the point of it being sad when George continually attempts to do this type of thing.
Johann is correct - if George released everything he has put down on paper about the Sequels since the 1970s it would need to be fact checked or cross referenced to be believed (and also checked for retcons as well).