pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”: With Luke he’s also recycling the “teen dreams of leaving his small town” plot from American Graffiti

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Star Wars is a four-quadrant movie, which is why George Lucas is a billionaire

The original trilogy gets labeled "kids movies" because Luke, the Main Hero, primarily appeals to 8 year olds' sensibilities. There's a lot more to it, but Luke's ethics are expressed on an 8 year old's level.

And I think this is exactly what Lucas meant when he spoke in the '70s about making it "for young people."

With Luke he’s also recycling the “teen dreams of leaving his small town” plot from American Graffiti

Always funny to me that he made this movie and then when given the option to live anywhere in the world set up shop like 100 miles from his home town

That’s the ultimate fantasy: to leave your hometown then later move back with enough money to bulldoze the whole place if you wanted to

it is, quite sincerely, enough to move out of modesto

I came into this thread to say the very same, as an escapee myself Ironically the state-of-the-art movie theater Lucas helped bankroll there, just in time for Episode One’s premier, was one of the few entertaining places to go as a high schooler…

George Lucas saved your childhood!

Well, your adolescence

Him and the Barnes & Noble with a connected Starbucks that we treated as a library with a sugar/caffeine supply hahaha

Can confirm.

My stepmom was maybe a decade behind George in, I think, one of the same schools, and she moved to Sonoma and then the peninsula, and the minute both her parents were dead, she never set foot in Modesto again.

Oh wow, what's wrong with the place, lol?

“Look at me now” jfc I’ve never lost more respect for anyone so quickly

Or – your dad’s space station? :)

The Death Star is a spaceship

Modesto must have some strange gravity. Jason Lytle of Grandaddy wrote a whole album about getting the fuck out, then moved back a decade later.

Modesto and Point Reyes are worlds apart, though.

The podracing shit in TPM is also absolutely his "I love hotrods" coming out

I can't even hate on it though really I can nitpick it but you can obviously tell that he loves this shit and it's basically the least shitty part of the movie besides the fight with Darth Maul

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