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Post #1516339

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Shopping Maul
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How would you restructure Anakin's turn to the dark side in the Prequels?
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22-Dec-2022, 1:03 PM

There was a prequel edit called The Blackened Mantle (which edited all three prequels into one long movie with flashbacks) which had a great take on Anakin’s fall. It basically ditched the Chosen One stuff, as well as the ‘cheating death with Sith magic’ stuff, and hinged the entire premise on Anakin’s reliance on prophecy (against Jedi advice to the contrary). This meant that Anakin, in his desperation to unravel his vision of Padme’s demise at supposedly unknown hands, became the one who facilitated it. It was very powerful and basically showed what the prequels could have been.

For me personally? Well, I’ve become something of a Star Wars/Empire purist in my grumpy old age, and I envisage a hypothetical film in '83 called Revenge of the Jedi that follows the alleged Gary Kurtz model. In that film Luke, before wandering off into the sunset like Clint Eastwood, states that there is no ‘dark side’ - there is simply something called the Force and it’s up to us how we use it. It’s powerful and poignant and no prequels exist. The mystery of Vader’s descent into evil remains…forever…