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IS ROTJ the SW film for kids?
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GrandAdmiral_Frank
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7/6 1:14am
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IS ROTJ the SW film for kids?
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I ask because it seems like a lot of fans tended to like ROTJ the best as children and then as they grew up their favorite film shifted to either TESB or ANH. I notice that ROTJ was definitely up there with me as a kid but I always preferred TESB and still do.
Maybe it's because of the Ewoks and the over the top yet epic Skiff Battle and the Rancor. Not to mention the Emperor being more evil than Vader and Luke dueling his father.
However I think it tends to be more of a kids choice. Thoughts?
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voodoopuuduu
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7/6 6:23am
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Yep, the Ewoks were definately targeted towards children. If GL had used nude Twileks instead of Ewoks, it would have been a much more interesting film.
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Fettclone1
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It's still my favorite. It wraps the story up nicely and includes a little bit of everything.
I still don't understand why the idea of the Emperor becoming more prominent was an issue. Vader's character had evolved beyond just 'dark bad guy' by the end of ESB and a memorable character came to life.
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General Kenobi
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7/6 8:24am
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Not that I want to open a can of worms here (especially one better suited to another forum), but I'd list TPM and ROTJ as the more "kid-friendly" of the films. Perhaps ANH to a degree as well.
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JEDIGUNSHIP
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7/6 9:09am
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Well, they had boy Anakin in TPM (a "role model" for kids) and ROTJ wasn't gory (chopped arms, major emotional themes, etc.) and had the moral of redemption. Also, the ewoks are kid-friendly.
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General_Phoenix
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I remember Jabba absolutely scaring me when I was a kid, granted I was fairly young when ROTJ came out, so I would usually close my eyes through the Jabba part - and keep in mind I saw this movie 3 or 4 times in the theater back then.
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drg4
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Funny thing. You'd think ANH would be fancied the most childish of the originals--it's a rather simple story about a squire who rescues a princess and slays a dragon. Yet because it's shot in a matter-of-fact, almost documentarian(?) fashion, the whimsy rarely calls attention to itself, doing much to explain the cross-generational appeal. In contrast, ROTJ seems almost exclusively tailored for children, even though it deals in potentially provocative subject matter, i.e., parricide and atonement. Really, the movie is impossible to take seriously, since the light fare is weaved into every frame. (Even the Throne Room scenes are robbed of much of their power, because the seducer is less Mephistopheles than he is Margaret Hamilton.)
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DarthBoba
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7/6 3:05pm
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No major emotional themes? I guess you missed the sequences with Obi-Wan hastily explaining his previous statements, Vader grappling with his choices, Luke defying the Emperor...:p
This film is full of emotional themes.
And it has the best duel-music ever (The Dark Side Beckons) so it wins for that alone.
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drg4
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7/6 3:31pm
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That's not what I said. I was pointing out why a streamlined, innocent adventure movie like ANH manages to entrance people of all ages, while ROTJ, a comparatively loftier film concerned with Big Ideas, is often derided as disposable children's fare.
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GrandAdmiral_Frank
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One other thing that ROTJ has that no other SW film has is the space battle above Endor. That is the best battle in space and it's even more memorable with everyone's favorite Mon Calamari Admiral Ackbar.
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7/7 3:42am
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I'd say TPM is definitely the most kid-friendly film but ROTJ is a close second. ANH is very accessible to kids, I guess is the right way to put it, I'd say its equally kid-friendly as TPM and ROTJ in that sense, it just doesn't pander to that audience the way those two film does, its written as an adolescent story for adults but told in a way that is inclusive to young audiences.
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GrandAdmiral_Frank
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The problem I've noticed is that some kids can watch ANH but most seem to just get sucked in by ROTJ. I think this is because ANH is older but then again the people who have a problem with older movies don't know what they're talking about.
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I'd say TPM is the most child friendly of the saga with ROTJ in second palce. The ewoks are there for kids to be sure and honestly I've never had a problem with em.
But I have to say when I was 5 I found the scenes with Vader Luke and Palps to be some of the darkest in the saga, still do to be honest.
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I think that although the Gungans and the Ewoks were both geared towards children, the two films as a whole shouldn't be considered that way. For a child, Darth Maul and the Emperor are both very frightening villains and I think that it'd be hard to say that a film with those two in it is geared entirely towards kids.
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TizTiz
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I don't think ROTJ is just for kids. ROTJ is my second fav star wars film. I think that kids do tend to like ROTJ because it has a happy ending and all the characters are happy. In all of the other films the Empire is still at large so the endings are a lot darker. That doesn't mean that the film is just for kids. The ewoks are sort of for kids I suppose but some adults still like them because they lighten the atmosphere.
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BaronLandoCalrissian
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Well, Jedi IS intended to be more kid-friendly, there's no getting around that, it's a totally deliberate thing brought on by the reaction to Empire (and maybe the success of E.T). As time goes by I really appreciate that oddball mix of muppets and potential daddy-murdering that well, you just don't see too often. But then, a consistent tone in a series means zip to me, especially now that the new Star Wars goal is for every last piece to fit together like a giant cohesive puzzle so that...it can all fit together like a puzzle. Hooray.
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