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Post #158330

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InfoDroid
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Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side (the TM edit) (Released)
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27-Nov-2005, 5:44 AM
Originally posted by: Commander Courage

And I thought Anakin's goodbye to his mother was excellent.



No offense, but Anakin's goodbye to his mother was a stale, botched example of emotionlessness dressed up as emotion. Everyone was saying what they should've, but it was cardboard, nothing beneath the surface. Anakin and Shmi were just talking heads. And therefore the audience couldn't connect to it emotionally. I'm not sure how you connected to it, but... I think John Williams tried the best he could to inject some emotional music in the scene, but ultimately the scene falls flat.

And the same thing happened in AOTC when Anakin is knelt at his mother's gravesite, just as the music rises and you begin to feel the pain Anakin is experiencing, the scene is abruptly cut short by an annoying C-3PO.

If Spielberg had done it, it would've made us cry.