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But here& #39;s more about the role of film, and media, from this interview https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/film/032199lucas-wars-excerpts.html">https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytim...
This is all very Hobbesian if you ask me - the argument is that human nature (excepted those "big men" who stand apart) is violence and war and destruction; as such human nature needs to be kept in check. Again, *this* is the role of mythology (and its successors), says Lucas:
He went even further; here he is saying it& #39;s good for society that "emperors" remake it in the image they chose, including an extremely unfortunate passage about killing people: https://charlierose.com/videos/23471 ">https://charlierose.com/videos/23...
Mythology is also all about morality, according to Lucas, who is very concerned for The Children, as he& #39;s said for decades when explaining why he made #StarWars (3rd quote from Bantha Tracks 8, 4rth https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/19990322monday.html)">https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytim...
Some more from 1977& #39;s Star Wars Album about how the children of the seventies clearly did not have as rich and good a fantasy life as Lucas had in his own childhood; note the continuing use of terms like "wholesome, "clean", "honest", "moral"...
When Lucas says "western" he means a very specific kind of westerns he considers "the last American mythology"; he grew tired of the genre when it started asking itself questions about the way it mythologized the Manifest Destiny era, basically:
(Western became unhip after the Vietnam War, says Lucas; gee, I wonder why the simple appreciation of the American spirit of being a good neighbour wasn& #39;t so hip while the country was busy bombing civilians 
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This isn& #39;t an exhaustive list of quotes; Lucas spent some 40 years talking about the need for film, mythology& #39;s successor and where children apparently get their ethics, to be moral, going so far as to speak positively of censorship.
I don& #39;t think anyone should get their ethics from film; fiction can be an excellent springboard to ask ethical questions, but I am deeply wary of anyone who thinks stories should be moral, especially when they also have good things to say about "benevolent despotism".
