It was never done in a way where violence took precedence in a senseless way of being violent for the sake of it.
Actually, Ponda Baba’s bloody arm was added solely so the film would have a higher age rating of PG instead of G. Of course nowadays even PG is hardly ever used. Like why is TFA PG-13?
I was talking about post A New Hope when he became further aware of the impact the stories would have on children. It was actually Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru’s corpses that pushed the rating from G to PG.
It’s hard and not hard to say why The Force Awakens was rated PG-13 but part of me does wonder if it’s due to the backlash the Prequels got for their childlike tone at times. People would assume more with a PG-13 rating that things would be back to the more gritty tone of the first film, and it does have its share of moments in a way like Chewie’s bowcaster and Finn touching his dead friend when the blood shows on said friend’s helmet. It’s also in a lot of ways just as much social and cultural attitudes change. Take how Temple of Doom brought about PG-13 to begin with.
I’m very curious as to how Darth Maul would be portrayed as the “Godfather of Crime”. It sounds like such an interesting hook with the fall of the Hutts and Empire. It only makes sense that someone would try exploiting it to gain control over the Republic which is still very much rebuilding. I’m curious how he’d go about trying to exploit it and everything. We know bits and pieces but not enough to know anything definitive.
What does everyone have in mind for what this would look like?
Boba Fett being a crimelord makes more sense now, lol. The story that at one time, at the filming of Empire, Fett was planned to be the main bad guy for Return Of The Jedi seems cool. With the Emperor planned to be featured in the Sequel Trilogy.
lol, touchė. That’s very interesting. It seems like George evolved and developed the story further but with Darth Maul instead of using Boba Fett. He flipped things around a bit. It’s fun discovering things that were early concepts that got used later in different ways. Like the Lurmen were developed for Revenge of the Sith but instead were in The Clone Wars or the countless amount of designs in Rebels inspired by Ralph McQuarrie. Stories grow and evolve as they change.