Montana Smith said:I think the same might go for modern Disney movies - I'm thinking animations - in which there are nods and winks to the adults in the audience.
Some of them. Even more so the older films. I think the idea is less about nods and winks, which is the contemporary way of handling material intended for an audience of all ages, rather than the older form in which things are legitimately put together to be enjoyed by all ages. That's more or less the founding narrative for Disneyland.
Walt Disney said:Well, it [Disneyland] came about when my daughters were very young and I ? Saturday ? was always Daddy?s day with the two daughters. So we?d start out and try to go someplace, you know, different things, and I?d take them to the merry-go-round and I took them different places and as I?d sit while they rode the merry-go-round and did all these things ? sit on a bench, you know, eating peanuts?. I felt that there should be something built ? some kind of amusement enterprise built ... where the parents and the children could have fun together. So that?s how Disneyland started. Well, it took many years ? it was a ? oh, a period of maybe 15 years developing. I started with many ideas, threw them away, started all over again. And eventually, it evolved into what you see today at Disneyland. But it all started from a daddy with two daughters wondering where he could take them where he could have a little fun with them too.
I think it's a telling quote, actually, in terms of why Disney and Lucas are sometimes mentioned in the same breath. This is slightly more true of the original Star Wars trilogy than of Indiana Jones, but that aim for broad appeal, rather than tailoring certain segments to audiences of varying levels of maturity, is something I'd say the artists have in common.