Not to Point out the obvious: but you’re about 20 years too young to understand the cord Star Wars struck in its time and space...you clown.
George Lucas claimed it was for kids after his prequels started to tank...the themes and pacing of the original 3 mostly were not. It was also a commentary on the post 60’s social climate as well...a time of tumult that had to “re-invent” what we found to be compelling and what our new fairy tales would look like.
Now study chapter 12 before next class...you have Internet muscles on this...not real ones
So I’m a newbie here, and I found this thread elsewhere... but sorry I had to reply to this. This notion that Lucas only claimed Star Wars was for kids after the prequels is complete revisionist history.
Conversation with 'Star Wars' creator George Lucas, who reveals the voice behind Darth Vader, where Wookies come from, robots need love too.
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Lucas in a 1977 Rolling Stone interview:
“Right after Graffiti I was getting this fan mail from kids that said the film changed their life, and something inside me said, do a children’s film. And everybody said, “Do a children’s film? What are you talking about? You’re crazy”.
You know, I had done Graffiti as a challenge. All I had ever done to that point was crazy, avant-garde, abstract movies. Francis really challenged me on that. “Do something warm,” he said, “everyone thinks you’re a cold fish; all you do is science fiction”. So I said, “Okay, I’ll do something warm”. I did Graffitiand then I wanted to go back and do this other stuff, I thought I had more of a chance of getting Star Wars off the ground. I had gone around to all the studios with Apocalypse Now for the tenth time and then they said, no, no, no. So I took this other project, this children’s film.”
Lucas Time magazine May 1977:
"It's the flotsam and jetsam from the period when I was twelve years old," says Director George Lucas, 33. "All the books and films and comics that I liked when I was a child. The plot is simple —good against evil—and the film is designed to be all the fun things and fantasy things I remember.”
As far back as a June 1976 interview with the Los Angles Times Lucas described Star Wars as a “kids movie” aimed “primarily at 14 and 15 year olds.”
Lucas in April 1977 American Film Magazine:
“George Lucas does nothing to disguise the fact that Star Wars is for the schoolboy in us all. "I decided I wanted to make a children's movie, to go the Disney route," Lucas explains in his distinctively nervous manner. "Fox hates for me to say this, but Star Wars has always been intended as a young people's movie. While I set the audience for Graffiti at sixteen to eighteen, I set this one at fourteen and maybe even younger than that."
