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ladyhadhafang

Musings Of The Day: Revenge of the Sith (book and movie)

Apr 16, 2011 11:54

It's well-known that the Revenge of the Sith novelization has a lot of Tearjerkers (of course, we can't rule out the original movie itself), but for some reason, there's one exchange that really hurts my heart when I think about it. It's such a simple exchange, between Anakin and Palpatine, after Anakin saves him from certain death at the hands of ( Read more... )

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katsuno_hitomi April 16 2011, 16:07:30 UTC

Very well said, and a lot of interesting points made. Galadriel approves!

ladyhadhafang April 16 2011, 16:08:06 UTC

Yay, Galadriel! :D

And thank you. ^__^

darth_eldritch April 16 2011, 16:16:51 UTC

Oooo, this post is fifty thousand ways of awesome!

You should xpost it on sw_meta so it can get good discussion.

ladyhadhafang April 16 2011, 17:10:18 UTC

Awwww, thanks! :D

*Makes note of it* :)

pronker April 17 2011, 16:32:03 UTC

besides Qui-Gon, was probably Anakin's first experience with death (Obi-Wan: Traumatizing Padawans Since After TPM and Before AOTC.

Good take on the novel and I'm smiling at your second tag up there! As to experiencing death, as a slave little Anakin may have had death around him, but not one as personal as Qui-Gon's, and that's a huge difference, because when you have someone close die, it's not long before you begin to think that 'hey, I'm next in line' and that's a huge shock for anyone. Obi-Wan was leading lil' Ani to thinking about death as an abstraction, doing his 'parental instruction' bit, when lil' Ani was 'it won't happen to me, or anyone I'll ever love.' *sigh* the stuff of good dramas.

ladyhadhafang April 17 2011, 16:35:16 UTC

Awww, thank you! :D

"Good take on the novel and I'm smiling at your second tag up there! As to experiencing death, as a slave little Anakin may have had death around him, but not one as personal as Qui-Gon's, and that's a huge difference, because when you have someone close die, it's not long before you begin to think that 'hey, I'm next in line' and that's a huge shock for anyone. Obi-Wan was leading lil' Ani to thinking about death as an abstraction, doing his 'parental instruction' bit, when lil' Ani was 'it won't happen to me, or anyone I'll ever love.' *sigh* the stuff of good dramas."

*This*! :D Seriously. ^__^

impetusofadream April 18 2011, 08:33:38 UTC

My favorite part of that book is still the very end, his whole inner monologue after Palpatine rescues him from Mustafar and "Darth Vader-ifies" him. That scene breaks my tiny little heart. I haven't read the book in a while but I distinctly remember there being a line along the vein of "So you embrace the darkness. Because the darkness is all you have left." Because that was one of the things that never sat well with me from just watching the movies; why does this kid STAY with Palpatine when all his "reasons" for joining the Dark Sides are now null and void? Granted I still like to pretend that the prequel doesn't even exist *and do not get me started on the rape of the final scene of RotJ* but imo the novelizations really expand, at least for me, the sympathy one has for Anakin. You watch RotS and then ANH and you go: Fuck, you poor bastard you are still in the same place you were 20 years ago, stuck in that suit, doing the Frog King's bidding.

ladyhadhafang April 18 2011, 11:13:36 UTC

Seconded so very much! D: I mean...you'd probably have to watch the climax of ROTJ after reading that, IMHO. :(

impetusofadream April 18 2011, 21:28:40 UTC

I guess it just makes me mad, being a an actor and all the Lucas went back and just totally fucked over that guy you originally played Spirt!Anakin by putting Hayden Christensen over it. That and any good writer knows that you can make any rules you want for your universe, but once you establish them, you can't just arbitrarily dismiss them later for a cool idea and cobble together some half-ass explanation for why you're NOT breaking your own rules.

I might also be a little too invested because the original trilogy is some of the first movies i remember watching.

ladyhadhafang April 18 2011, 22:28:39 UTC

I understand that. :)

*Hugs* ^__^

aikaterini April 18 2011, 19:25:55 UTC

Yes, I remember the Distressed Watcher's reviews of the Star Wars prequels. I thought that he was both passionate and eloquent in his delivery, although I was surprised that he didn't rant about Anakin's miraculous conception. But then again, given how painful the mere mention of midichlorians seemed to be for him, I guess he didn't want to raise his blood pressure even more. XD ( ... )

ladyhadhafang April 18 2011, 19:49:47 UTC

"Yes, I remember the Distressed Watcher's reviews of the Star Wars prequels. I thought that he was both passionate and eloquent in his delivery, although I was surprised that he didn't rant about Anakin's miraculous conception. But then again, given how painful the mere mention of midichlorians seemed to be for him, I guess he didn't want to raise his blood pressure even more. XD ( ... )

firehearts132 July 30 2011, 20:18:30 UTC

Yeah, I think Anakin definitely did want to prove himself; part of the reason why he wanted to save Padme is because he didn't have faith in himself as a husband, and if he saved her life it would mean he had proved himself to be a good husband. Just like he wanted to save Shmi partially to prove he was a good son.

ladyhadhafang July 30 2011, 20:52:24 UTC

Very well-said! :D

And thanks. :)