AphxA said:
This movie looks good. I didnt really enhoy episode 2. Not so much the movie. Just the dude who played anakin skywalker. I hope he plays a darker role and not all the whining we heard in episode 2.
Hayden Christensen.
And I think/know the whining was highly necessary in order to accurately portray his frustration as a youth who has been struggling with the fact that he knows he's more powerful than he's being allowed to be, that his training is going by too slowly in his opinion, and that he's better than everyone else which isn't so, especially as a mature person. He's an impatient, angry boy. He used to be scared, but now he's angry.
Its just like Yoda said in TPM "Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you."
Yoda pretty much gave us all a foreshadowing of the phases of Darth Vader and Anakin is now in the hate phase, which, as wel know, leads to his suffering and the suffering of others.
All of these things are dark side tendencies. Without showing his frustration as a youth becoming a man and dealing with his Jedi responsibilities he has no base from which to create a slide to the dark side. If they just gave him a few minutes to complain that wouldn't be enough. Its important we hear what he's going through and whats going on in his mind. Without it, the becomings of Darth Vader are not as satisfying. For him to be a little boy, and then to be a padawan who keeps his mouth shut, and then to finally turn evil makes no sense and its a huge lapse of time without any explaination other than what the action shows and tells us.
A great portion of Star Wars is and always will be an emotional drama thats really a space opera and not a sci-fi movie. Star Trek is sci-fi, Star Wars isn't in comparision.
ROTS especially is the most emotional of all, because its the beginning of the end, and a true trajedy for everyone...well, everyone but one man whose pretty much living his dream and has finally settled an age-old grudge. Lucas couldn't have named it better "Revenge Of The Sith".
But fortunately, we know how things turn out, and a fallen hero, a man who fell from grace, reclaims his soul and bestows the legacy of the Jedi to a new generation.
