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Post #335891

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Tiptup
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Revenge of the Sith: Awful message
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Date created
10-Nov-2008, 2:13 PM
TheBoost said:
Vaderisnothayden said:
TheBoost said:

Well, Anakin WAS willing to kill a bunch of little kids if it offered him a chance to keep the love he felt he needed.

 

 Which is the bad message of the film -a message of "Love is bad, it makes you kill kiddies."

Or perhaps "If you're willing to kill a bunch of kids rather that let totally natural things like death happen, you really need to work on letting go."

Love didn't drive Anakin to kill those kids. Possessivness, greed, fear, and anger did. You know... the Dark Side.

The fact that either of those messages can be taken from the film shows how George Lucas has changed. Either he's a lot sloppier than he used to be or he doesn't care about clear moral messages for Star Wars anymore. In the latter case, an argument about an intentional message is rather worthless.