From: mr@sandman.net
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"Your Name" wrote:
> "Sandman" wrote in message
> news:mr-F9C361.16274002022011@News.Individual.NET...
> > Well, think about it, really!
> >
> > Obi Wan says that Anakin Skywalker was Luke's father and a good friend
> > and the best pilot in the galaxy.
> >
> > Obi Wan also says that Anakin was killed by Vader.
> >
> > Obi Wan say vader was seduced by the dark side of the force.
> >
> >
> > So, in the prequels, Anakin and Vader are two different persons.
> > Everything plays out exactly like Obi Wan says - only, it wasn't
> > Anakin that was Lukes father, it was Vader.
> >
> > So, Anakin and Vader, which may or may not go by different names
> > throughout the movies, are rivals in the Jedi order, a lot of tension,
> > and the dark side of Vader is an underlying tone throughout the
> > trilogy until he finally succumbs to it.
> >
> > Both have the same love interest, which could be this Amidala chick,
> > who is pregnant by the last film, but it is never shown just who got
> > her pregnant. The way it plays out, Anakin may be uncertain about him
> > being the father, or certain that he would take care of the children
> > regardless.
> >
> > The rivalry between Anakin and Vader culminates with his realization
> > that he could be the father of children that Anakin will bring up and
> > Anakin is killed in the process.
> >
> > Obi Wan, the mentor of both, have tried to deal with their feelings
> > and when Vader has crossed the lines, hunts him down and kills him, or
> > so he thinks.
> >
> > So the Star Wars saga isn't about the rise and fall of Anakin, it's
> > about the dark side finally overtaking the Jedi temple resulting in
> > the Jedi purge.
> >
> > Heck - Obi Wan might not even KNOW that Vader is Lukes and Leias
> > father. He may assume that Anakin is since he is the one that takes
> > care of them. And Anakin won't say anything about his doubts.
> >
> > This way, the entire hidden relationshop between Palpatine and Vader
> > can be in full force from the first movie. The Jedi council can
> > express their doubts about Vader from the start - just like they do
> > Anakin, but this time around, the doubts aren't supposed to be mixed
> > with the idea that Anakin was a good Jedi and a good friend of Obi Wan.
> >
> > Damn, it could have worked.
>
> Yep, *if* Star Wars was written by hopeless daytime soap writers. ;-)
Well, I disagree. The prequels are in their current form very much
like daytime TV in the way they're shot. I'm talking about the obvious
fact that you have two very distinct type of scenes; CGI shots where
the camera is all over the place and "conversation" shots where you
have two or three characters walking and talking, ending up at a
window or in a sofa. They walk some ten paces and then stop, then we
go to a shot/reverse shot cut of the conversation. This happens about
five or six times, at which point on of the characters turn and walk a
few paces to a window and continues to talk.
This is daytime TV, all day. Look at it. It's shot for efficiency, not
for telling a story with characters that we can relate to. The real,
practical, reason why the scenes are this way is of course that the
green screen walkways were just so long. They can't run down those,
and shooting on location or on a set would mean that George Lucas has
to stop drinking coffee in his chair :)
This has nothing to do with my idea above of course, and my only point
was to protect the integrity of some key scenes of the original
trilogy. I agree that it's a bit like a Days of our Lives story line
(no, *I* am your father, and your brothers sister!) but I think it
could have been done a bit better if a real screen writer would be put
to the job :)
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