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- Lucas on the Prequels - "It is a kids’ movie. It’s always been a kids’ movie."
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Lucas is back at it…blaming fans for any of his weaknesses in writing or directing. ???
He still can’t keep his stories straight, either.
• George Lucas on TPM: “It is a kids’ movie. It’s always been a kids’ movie.”
• Also George Lucas on why he made the Prequels, in 2019: “I decided that it would be important to finish it off and do the backstory [the Prequels] because things that I thought would be self-evident about the story, the audience didn’t get. Over the 10 years after Return of the Jedi, I realized people misunderstood a lot – such as where Anakin came from. So it was a way of finishing the whole thing off.”
So George says he made the Prequels as the Original Trilogy “audience didn’t get” things in the years after ROTJ was released, but then made it for kids, many of which weren’t even born at the time in the 10 years after ROTJ? Sounds right!
• Even George admits himself. in 2005, that he wasn’t aware that the six Star Wars “form the biography of Vader” “until 1998”.
• Also:
George Lucas: “Basically I didn’t. I kept it as it was originally intended. You can’t play too much to the marketplace. It’s the same thing with the fans. The fans’ expectations had gotten way high and they wanted a film that was going to change their lives and be the Second Coming. You know, I can’t do that, it’s just a movie. And I can’t say, now I gotta market it to a whole different audience.”
Yet Lucas hyped, marketed and promoted TPM and the coming Prequels like no other franchise before, for that older audience. Only when there was criticism of TPM, did the “It is a kids’ movie. It’s always been a kids’ movie” attempt of a poor excuse occur.
This is despite George also previously stating things like Star Wars “is for forever - for all generations” in promotional spiel:
It appears George really does not take or accept any kind of valid or reasoned criticism well at all.
And quite a stretch to full on straw-clutching with George trying to equate a minority of fans’ dislike of Threepio in the OT, to Jar Jar in the PT. Maybe George forgets that some kids and youngsters also didn’t like Jar Jar, TPM, and the PT.
That adults can also critique any film aimed “for kids”, and it doesn’t invalidate any criticism because of that.
