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Imran Siddiqui
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The Potterverse
Jan 1970
time: 00:19
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Saw this on Time.com... it sounds really good!
http://www.time.com/time/sampler/ar...,232440,00.html
Some excerpts:
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He probably thinks it odd to be asked to justify a picture that earned $431 million at the North American box office, behind only Titanic, the original Star Wars and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial as an all-time top grosser. But the writer-producer-director-megamind—who in his spare time runs a film conglomerate that includes the Lucasfilm production outfit, the ILM visual-effects house and Skywalker Sound—says he was always aware of at least one Phantom risk: that Anakin Skywalker, the Jedi knight in training who would evolve into the sinister Darth Vader, was a kid. "I said, 'They're gonna hate this. They're gonna get really upset that I have a 9-year-old as the hero.' But what can I do? That's the story. I can't make him 15. The whole story is about where he came from, who is he? You had to start in the beginning."
Now, with Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones opening May 16, the Anakin fable gets to the middle, the meat, the real story. The past was prologue, a modest prequel, like Tolkien's The Hobbit to his epic Lord of the Rings saga. In Clones, Anakin (Canadian dish Hayden Christensen) is 20, a young man of superior skills and even higher ambitions, chafing under the stern tutelage of his mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), and daring to risk his status in the Jedi Order, which forbids romantic attachments, by pursuing a reckless passion for Senator Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman). They parry with oily, possibly insidious Senator Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) and battle the Jedi rebel Dooku (Christopher Lee) and his droids with an army cloned from scurvy bounty hunter Jango Fett (Maori actor Temuera Morrison). |
Hmmm, admits that PM probably was going have major problems but it was needed for background.
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After seeing a rough cut of the film and reading the script, we can say that Clones seems poised to get the series back on track—and provide an exhilarating two hours of serious fun. It should easily ace the last movie in chills (when two icky centipedal creatures called "kouhuns" crawl into the sleeping Padme's bed) and thrills (when Anakin and Obi-Wan drag-race the changeling Zam Wessel across Coruscant's wonderfully varied urban nightscape). |
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The Anakin of Clones is an attractive fellow, full of a young man's roiling contradictions. He respects the Jedi ethic while squirming to elude its strictures; he loves both his faraway mother and the royal temptation at his side; he does engage in a revenge massacre but feels remorse for it; he is disarming and, finally, literally disarmed. By the end of Clones, Anakin is still a decent, stalwart gent, light-years removed from the malefic Vader. |
I like having a complex Anakin. Of course the protagonist of SW: PM was Obi-Wan and Qui-Jan (sp?)
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In Clones, Lucas goes a way toward answering that question. "That's the issue that I've been exploring: How did the Republic turn into the Empire? That's paralleled with: How did Anakin turn into Darth Vader? How does a good person go bad, and how does a democracy become a dictatorship? It isn't that the Empire conquered the Republic, it's that the Empire is the Republic." Lucas' comments clarify the connection between the Anakin trilogy and the Luke trilogy: that the Empire was created out of the corruption of the Republic, and that somebody had to fight it. "One day Princess Leia and her friends woke up and said, 'This isn't the Republic anymore, it's the Empire. We are the bad guys. Well, we don't agree with this. This democracy is a sham, it's all wrong.'" |
I like this... a little... philisophical, if I can say it  .
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"The next film is really dark," he says. "The issue is, Will people stand for it? But I've got to tell the story. |
Woohoo!
SW2 is looking better and better!! Can't wait!
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Ecthy
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Zhonghuà Rénmín Gònghéguó
Mar 2000
time: 06:19
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I've already forgotten the name of Obi Wan's teacher from ep1
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Originally posted by chegitz guevara
 What a gyp! They require QuickTime Pro to see the damn trailers. |
It's free to download.
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Originally posted by chegitz guevara
QuickTime Pro is $29.95. QuickTime is the free download . . . unless you're talking about warez. |
No. I followed the link from starwars.com and was able to download it for free. I have all the trailers and they don't require Pro.
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MrBaggins
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Anakin looks a complete ****.
He should look awe-inspiring.
They still have that 'couldn't-act-herself-out-of-a-paper-bag' Princess.
God, this will be mediocre.
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Faeelin
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Tau Ceti
Oct 2001
time: 05:19
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Originally posted by MrBaggins
Anakin looks a complete ****.
He should look awe-inspiring.
They still have that 'couldn't-act-herself-out-of-a-paper-bag' Princess.
God, this will be mediocre. |
Shouldn't he look like that? He's supposed to be a pompous teen, not the whiny brat that luke was.
I thought the princess wasn't that bad of an actor, personally.
But then, her only role in the first movie was: "They're attackign our planet. Make the bad men stop."
The comments on how a democracy becomes a dicatorship is pretty interesting, especially as some say the USA is heading towards it. Wow. A star wars movie with symbolism. Hasn't been one of those for about 20 years.
Last edited by Faeelin on 23-04-2002 at 01:57
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MrBaggins
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Originally posted by Faeelin
Shouldn't he look like that? He's supposed to be a pompous teen, not the whiny brat that luke was.
I thought the princess wasn't that bad of an actor, personally.
But then, her only role in hte first movie was: "They're attackign our planet. Make the bad men stop."
*snip* |
One look... I didn't like him. I'm not thinking he's creepy like Vader. I'm thinking he deserves a pool cue in the face.
Regarding the Princess being 'not that bad of an actor (or actress even I guess) there was nothing regal about her. The scenary had more stage presence. Jar-Jar had more stage presence.
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MrBaggins
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Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
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One look... I didn't like him. I'm not thinking he's creepy like Vader. I'm thinking he deserves a pool cue in the face. |
That is the point. I think you are supposed to come out of it wanting to whip that arrogent Skywalker... and no one sees Vader coming out of it.
*snip* |
I thought the point of a film was to have some characters where you actually care about if they live or die.
Ewan McGregor is utterly miscast. He was fantastic as a Scottish junkie in Trainspotting, fabulous as a Scottish reporter in Shallow Grave. Its been downhill since then. His role as a Jedi, is a low point.
Jar-Jar; we want to see it die.
The Princess; I don't care if she dies or not.
Samuel L Jackson is a pretty good Jedi, FWIW.
Christopher Lee is an unknown. Anything will be better than Darth Maul.
Personnally, as far as I can see, I have empathy with one character.
I think Lucas has spent so much effort trying to prove whether he could have this digital universe, he never thought whether he should.
Ten minutes of Pearl Harbor was worth watching. I predict the same from ATOC.
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