He’s been saying it’s a kid’s movie since at least the 1992 box set.
92??? He said it before the dang movie came out in 1977!! Ive been very civil in my rebuttals of folks comments, but the facts are, Lucas had the intent to make this film for kids. Whatever your interpretation of a kid is today, it doesnt apply to 1975-76. Whatever your cynical interpretations of his personality are now, they dont apply to 40 years ago. The guy was broke. He was simply trying to do what he loved to do and maybe, just maybe be successful at it. Its called the American dream, having the freedom to do what you believe in and being able to chase that dream. He dreamt it, he realized it and he made it happen. Yeh, hes a weird dude in some respects, but its his damn movie yall, not ours. Its his dream, his imagination and his drive and hard work thatmade it a reality that we all can experience. Its his perogative in his old age to say what he wants and change what he wants to HIS liking because he created it out of his inflences from his childhood. Yes, Im with most of ya on your opinions of certain things, but damn yall, to question the mans sincerity on his original idea based on what you know now just takes away from why we love this movie.
Again, back to the OP’s thread subject, despite the fact that I agree with many of you on the direction the PT took, I sensed a disturbance in the force the moment folks grew up and became adults and forgot why we love these movies. I dont know one 74 year old guy that saw Star Wars in 77’ that was 33 when he saw Star Wars that still has the passion for these films that we do. You know why? Because it was made for a specific age group. It was made so that a generation, or two, would have something that they could talk about 20, 25, 35 years later and still be relevant, not the adult population of the time. Their time was the 50’s or 60’s.