Posted on 06/01/2005 10:34:25 AM PDT by quidnunc
Vengeance is mine, saith the Sith, whith thoundth like Violet Elizabeth Bott. No such luck. Instead, it’s George Lucas, with what he insists is the final film in the Star Wars sextet. My guess is the first film in the new Star Wars septet will be opening circa 2008. Anyway, Revenge of the Sith is, so Lucas assures us, a ‘tragedy’. It might have been wise to have stationed an announcer at every movie house to announce this fact over the PA system since it eluded the audience I saw it with last weekend. When the Sith hits the fan, the fan bursts out laughing. Oh, to be sure, they were diverted by the opening dogfight and Obi-Wan Kenobi riding a wild four-legged space beast to hunt down General Grievous. But they were howling with laughter through all the so-called ‘tragic’ elements. When Senator-Queen Padmé (Natalie Portman) reveals that she’s pregnant, her secret husband Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) reacts with an eerie glassy-eyed expression as if he’s hypnotised himself trying to remember the next line. Eventually, Lucas prompts him and he utters the words, ‘I’ll have the club sandwich.’ No, wait. That’s just what it sounds like. He actually says: ‘You’re so … beautiful.’
‘It’s only because I’m so in love,’ says Padmé tonelessly, like a spy giving the reply password.
‘No,’ says Anakin. ‘I’m so in love. With you,’ he adds helpfully, just in case Padmé figures it’s the hot-looking Wookie strolling by in the background.
At this, my fellow theatergoers exploded with guffaws of derision. May the farce be with you! The final descent of Ian McDiarmid’s Chancellor Palpatine into Darth Hammitup brought on more laffs, as did the moment when Anakin attempts to talk Padmé into joining him over on the Dark Side: ‘Together you and I can rule the galaxy,’ he snarls. Well, tries to snarl.
‘Obi-Wan was right. You’ve changed,’ says Princess Padmé. ‘I don’t know you any more.’ He used to look like Princess Di flashing those big eyes from under his hair. But suddenly he looks like Princess Di with too much kohl and in a peevish mood. What can this mean?
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They landed on Tantoonine, but were captured while trying to look for Obi-Wan and eventually sold to Luke's family. R2 was still programmed to find Obi-Wan, and took off after Luke removed his restraining bolt. C3PO and Luke went after, thereby encountering Obi-Wan and bringing all the characters together to save the Princess.
The Ewoks were a last minute change.
The original script called for the Moon of Endor to be the home of the Wookies, not the Ewoks. Just before going into production Lucas came to the conclusion that the audience would not accept Chewbacca coming from a primitive civilization, so Ewoks were created to replace the Wookies. Note the similarity of their names.
It was very important to Lucas that the Empire be destroyed by primitives. I think that this give insight to a core belief of most liberals. Technology bad, primitive good. It goes along with wealth bad, poverty good, and educated bad, ignorant good.
I agree. I came home and watched the DVD of A New Hope right after seeing Episode 3 and this added a whole new dimension to Obi Wan telling Luke about his father and the fight between the old Obi Wan and Darth Vader.
Obi-Wan didn't say 'moral', just absolutes. C'mon give Lucas a break on that one: from the moment Yoda appeared on screen, it was clear the Jedi were other-galactic Zen martial arts monks. Let them have the Buddhist 'beyond this and that', and their Taoist bit of yin amid the yang and vice-versa.
Yeah, I liked it too. I liked the way it tied to the original Star Wars at the end.
"Oh, and perhaps there are some who find film documentation of war atrocities to be boring, but frankly, I am not interested in the opinion of such juveniles, and I certainly do not care what such might think of me."
Yeah, you are certainly mature.
Commander Cody,the time has come.
Execute OrderSixty-six....
Such posts as this....
"Profoundly BORING!!!!"
I have done a lot of research and study concerning cinema, and I have studied certain other languages in order to help me understand more clearly the special nuances of the idioms of different languages in order to help me understand the art form. You find that boring and that is fine. Please let us diverge paths now.
Be well!
Well, that's one of the flaws. Also, the theme of redemption by love was secondary in the Leia/Han story.
When Han blasted Credo in the Cantina in IV, you knew he was a scoundrel. But then George went and ruined that too.
Ian Mc Diarmid alluded to that theory in an interview that was part of an article on "Sith"in, I believe, "Entertainment" Magazine
Actually, he just said "absolutes", didn't use the word "moral".
One of the other things I loved about Vader in the first trilogy was that he never rushed anywhere. Same measured tread, same implacable purpose. Seemed to have lost the impulsiveness and 'hot' anger of his youth, replaced it more with the will he shows after crawling up from the lava. He radiated overwhelming, but controlled power, demonstrating his devolpment as a Sith.My favorite scene in Jedi was his talk with Luke on Endor. You could sense his weariness, and his realization that after all the years, he didn't control the Dark Side, it was controlling him.
only in the special edition trilogy.. the original 4-5-6 trilogy it was the weightlifter guy materialized as Anakin's force ghost....
Still, after seeing Sith, I admit that some of Jedi makes a little more sense and has a little more resonance now. Have you read the Darth Side? It's absolutely hilarious, and it looks at the events in Star Wars from Vader's point of view.
That itself is an absolute.
No. Where can I get it?
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