BILL MOYERS :
The mesmerizing character for me —
is Darth Maul.
When I saw him, I thought of
Satan and Lucifer in “Paradise Lost.”
I thought of the Devil in “Dante’s Inferno.”
I mean, you’ve really — have brought from —
it seems to me — from way down in our unconsciousness
this image of — of — of Evil, of The Other.
GEORGE LUCAS:
Well, yeah. We were trying to find somebody who could compete with Darth Vader,
who’s one of the most, you know,
famous evil characters now.
And so we went back into
representations of Evil.
Not only, the Christian, but also
Hindu and Greek mythology
and other religious icons and,
obviously, then designed our own —
our own character out of that.
BILL MOYERS:
What did you find when you went back there in — in all of these representations? There’s something …
GEORGE LUCAS:
A lot of — a lot of evil characters have horns.
It’s very interesting.
I mean, you’re trying to build An Icon of Evil,
and you sort of wonder why the same images
evoke the same emotions.
