Sunday, January 17, 2016

I wish anakin's story was totally remade

Now that we're seeing star wars get a fresh start to some extent. I'm thinking about like what if they actually kinda remade the prequels or offered an alternative story line you could choose instead of them.

The PT is nonsense. I will never look upon them as legitimate star wars films myself.
They don't play in the same sandbox as the OT and they definitely don't work as a good story. I don't get why any parent would show the whole star wars saga to their kids from the PT to the last movies. The kids will be totally confounded by the major disjointed and awkward shift in quality from PT to OT. It's unfair to them.

If disney was wise they'd make an alternative big 3 hour movie about the journey of Anakin skywalker to becoming Darth vader that you could show them instead of the PT.

I'm all for that myself. Bring back Ian Mcdirmad if you must. You know you have the majority of the OT cast still ready to do it. And offer a well done version of the PT to sort of step away from being beholden solely to those movies if you're a parent and must show the films in order. Unfortunately yes, we won't be seeing episode 1 and 2, but whatever. I'd prefer we get at least something quality out of the pt era that actually isn't an insult to our intelligences.

The main instigator of this whole interest in retelling the story of Anakin is that the one we got blows. It's stupid and delutes every aspect of Darth Vader's original mystique. I mean. From Obiwan's words one would think Anakin deliberately chose to become vader over years and years of dark side seduction, not a quick blink and you'll miss it thing. I'd have liked it and did expect from all the foreshadowing in he TPM marketing that we were going to watch anakin's soul slowly chip away until he fully embraces the dark side. One thing that a lot of people discussed when we were waiting for RotS was that anakin's turn to the dark side was way too quick and like not even his choice. There's no quality of greek tragedy of a good man making poor choices in life and paying the price. It's just punk guy trying to save his woman.

Darth Vader and what he represents is supposed to be MORE than any other Sith that we ever see. He's supposed to be the worst of them all because he's different, he's actually enjoying it. He's full on evil to the core and an arrogant very powerful unstoppable sith lord who only answers to the emperor. We never see vader poke through in anakin's personality at all and we barely get to know vader once he is born in rots. It's way too fast and shows vader to basically be the same shit as maul which is truly wrong. Vader will eat maul alive he's way more complex than that shit stain of a character.

So I'd kill for a full on reboot of the PT that does Anakin and Vader justice moreso than what we got. I keep imagining if I saw like Brad Pitt from Troy over the course of the movie and the political webs being woven choose to side with the wrong crowd and grant them his immense skills. Imagine if that was the case and we didn't see Achilles be mr. hero the whole movie. Imagine if that was anakin's journey, we see him as this great jedi warrior who slowly through his arrogance and incredible power, decides because of circumstances he needs to go dark to get things done better and quicker. Wow, would have been more interesting than what we got.

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