Movie-making is soaring, because we’re developed digital technology. The equipment is smaller. It’s cheaper. And it’s now becoming democratized, so anybody can make a movie. And this is what’s happening. It’s like writing.
And that’s good, because now, everybody can have a voice. It used to be that only the rich could make movies.
Question: Exactly who’s baby did people think Padmé was carrying?
I’m not sure, she hid it “well” when she was still in the senate and maybe there were rumors, but after she died maybe they just thought nothing more of it or maybe there were rumors about a Jedi Knight and her fraternizing.
Believe it or not, George Lucas actually answered this one:
There’s something I discovered during my relentless quest for Star Wars trivia that I thought was pretty interesting: all throughout the making of the first six Star Wars films, George Lucas couldn’t have biological children, his were adopted.
(God, you can imagine what would have happened if he’d been a cisgender female throughout any of that, we wouldn’t be able to move for ‘how much of Star Wars was Lucas’s reaction to her infertility’ articles…)
Anyway, time and technology moves on and Lucas actually can have children now, but I just find it interesting how Star Wars, a saga that focuses almost entirely on parents and children, was written by someone who in the eyes of many, even now, wouldn’t be considered a ‘proper’ parent. Did that influence his writing of Luke and Leia as the children of adoptive parents? Was he drawing on his own experiences when he wrote the scene where Bail adopts Leia? And is that why, even though Star Wars does put a lot of emphasis on bloodlines and the like, it also has quite a strong ‘family is what you make it’ theme?
(So, uh, how much of Star Wars was Lucas’s reaction to his infertility, is apparently what I’m asking.)
I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life – being a citizen, being part of humanity – to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.
I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life – being a citizen, being part of humanity – to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.
