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WHAT was the MAIN REASON that Lucas MADE THIS MOVIE?


And please, PLEASE do not say it was to make tons of money.

There MUST'VE been a more tangible reason related to the good of humanity.

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I'm sure that was it, he wanted to uplift humanity.

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He wanted to make money that he could spend making the art movies that he actually wanted to make, independently from Hollywood. He has always admitted this.

And he thought that kids were lacking in old fashioned adventure movies. He later said that all seventies movies were downbeat or had to have an unhappy ending at that time and he felt he needed to buck that trend. (I don't know what kids movies he was watching that made him conclude that though)

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He wanted to get the force out there so people could use it.

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Telling a good story, entertains people and makes them happy. That is good for humans. And a noble goal.

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I'm sure that I read that he was pottering about in his garden back in the 70s when he dug up some strange old tablet on which was scribed the original outline of the story we now know as Star Wars.

Whether that is actually true or not I cannot say...

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“It struck me that we had lost all that — a whole generation was growing up without fairy tales."

"You just don’t get them anymore, and that’s the best stuff in the world — adventures in far-off lands. It’s fun.”

“I wanted a contemporary version of the myth and the fairy tale…. There’s a whole generation today with a great need for fantasy.”

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^^^^^^
This.

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Supposedly he wanted to make a Flash Gordon movie but couldn’t afford to license the characters.

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This is it. He grew up watching "adventure serials" like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers and wanted to bring this to the big screen, but couldn't get the rights and so came up with his own ideas.

The makers of Battlestar Galactica had ongoing legal problems with Lucas / Fox because of its close resemblance to Star Wars. When that show ended they went and got the rights to Buck Rogers and the Lucas camp couldn't do a thing.

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Basically the same thing that happened with Spielberg & Indiana Jones. Spielberg always wanted to make a James Bond film, but they wouldn’t hire him etc etc… So Lucas & him came up with “Raider’s of The Lost Ark”.

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Obviously, he wanted to be a Jedi knight! And that's why he named his hero from Fucknowhere after himself!

Seriously, that's where the whole Fantasy genre comes from, people imagining a version of themselves living in the world they'd like to live in, not the one they're stuck in.

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