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SparkySywer
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What do you think of The Prequel Trilogy? A general discussion.
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8-Jul-2025, 3:20 AM

Dagenspear said:

SparkySywer said:

Not really. Maybe those are the only two scenes where they’re openly conflicting with each other, but in four out of five of the scenes they have together before they’re suddenly making out, Anakin’s being an asshole and pissing her off. I don’t know if that’s what you mean by a “facial feature thing”, but the emotions the actors are expressing convey the intended effect of the scene. Rewatch their first scene together in the movie. It cuts in reaction shots from Padmé, Captain Typho, and Jar Jar (!!) while Obi-Wan is spanking him to communicate to us that Anakin is making the whole room uncomfortable and being a huge dick. The scene uses Jar Jar to tell us to look down on Anakin’s behavior. What does she see in him?

Give me those scenes where he’s actively making her mad and she gets mad. What are they? Because I remember:

Most of those moments between them aren’t angry at all, to me. That’s not even counting the scenes after that, where they talk near the waterfall or the scene and while they’re eating. Even the haunted by the kiss scene isn’t really about anger. Then there’s the tattooine stuff, which is all fairly amicable I think.

What would change your mind? What counts as “actively making her mad”? I think the first scene they have together (starting when they meet, ending when Padmé “retires”) is pretty damning, and that’s why I brought it up like three or four times. Clearly you don’t. What do you think is going through these characters’ minds in these scenes if not a really negative perception of Anakin? Why did George Lucas cut to these reaction shots of everyone in the room being uncomfortable? What was he trying to communicate?

When Anakin makes an inappropriate advance on Padmé within seconds of meeting her for the first time since he was nine, why does she react the way she does? What’s going through her head? And what does her response mean?

It would be one thing if George Lucas was just not very socially gifted and accidentally wrote Anakin in a way that came off as creepy, and an asshole. But the movie seems to intentionally draw attention to it. It’s just baffling. What do you think she sees in him?

Then them walking through Naboo, a fairly amicable scene to me.

I’ll give you this one, I forgot about that scene.