George Lucas on Why Jar Jar and Anakin are Ignored on Coruscant in The Phantom Menace

from then on I very purposely kept Anakin sort of on the sidelines the gungan and the boy are always kind of you know outside in the hallway somewhere but that is the way it would be they wouldn't be included in these kinds of meetings they're kind of puzzled by what's going on they're standing on the sidelines it's a little bit a riff on the very first film where the story is told through the point of view of the droids who were sort of the lowliest characters uh and this one I'm doing it through primarily the two Jedi but then the secondary characters are also carrying a lot of the weight when the Jedi aren't around which is basically jar jar and Anakin because the central story is ultimately the Queen's dilemma and the Queen's problem of of the threat to her planet and her people and how is she going toh save them