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George Lucas says Yoda talks like that so "12-year-olds" will pay attention
Lucas fielded this query at the 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival, where Empire was getting an anniversary screening. His answer, basically, is that audiences, and especially children, are too dumb to understand Yoda’s deep wisdom if you just say it normal-style.
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