14 Star Wars Moments George Lucas Wanted You To Forget

2. Jar Jar Binks

Any criticism of Jar Jar Binks to George Lucas would no doubt be met with the same company line defence that he trotted out at the time of Episode I's release: that Star Wars is for kids, and that Binks was brought in as a conscious effort to be childlike. Even when Rob Coleman, the head of the Industrial Light & Magic animation team, warned Lucas that the team thought the character was poor, he was told that Jar Jar was brought in to appeal to children aged twelve and under. And you can't really argue with someone who says their own creation has been interpreted wrong forever, but that doesn't mean that Lucas didn't subtly accept that Binks might have been a misstep. After playing too much of a part in the first film, his appearance in the second is trimmed down considerably (as are his comical "antics") and then in the third, he is mostly cut entirely. Lucas might have some affection for Binks, but his creative choices indicate that he actively chose to write him out of the franchise gradually in a way that contradicted the original expressed intent of the character.
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