George Lucas Suggests That Public Perceptions of Star Wars Were Sanitized & Dumbed Down For Mass Consumption

  

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Below is a clip from an interview that Star Wars creator George Lucas did with Charlie Rose some years ago.

In this clip, he talks about how Star Wars was, for all intents and purposes, dumbed down to make it more marketable. The political message was lost in the mix.

This could kind of change how view the Star Wars phenomenon, no?

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