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twooffour wrote: Padme is supposed to be a proactive, caring person - how come she's probably the most boring and emotionless out of all the main characters?
She's proactive, caring and semi-emotional as a Senator. She like most of the characters in the PT is emotionally stunted as an individual. So when she's in the Senate pleading the case about the invasion of Naboo. Portman acts. The scene works. (until you attempt to figure out why no one had a camera and took a picture as proof of the invasion) Padme for most of these movies is shown dealing with interpersonal relationships which she's not good at. She's been playing politico all her life all these characters have. They've been locked in a system and it leads their personal life to faulter. This is a guess, like the camera thing above, you set up a logic system and something simple breaks the system. and there's just so much time to spend trying to rationalize it all.
but having EVERY SINGLE MAIN CHARACTER behave in that way?
George is making some kind of statement. Part anti-organized religionous indoctrination, part anti-life time politicians. Not saying this is right, correct or truth, or if I agree or not. Just a guess.
Um, okay. With that same logic, they could've made Han Solo a complete bore, and the reasoning would be: "well, he just happens to be a rather boring person - smuggles crap for a living. He's bored. What, is that unbelievable?"
Luke was pretty much fish-out-of-the-water when he was suddenly thrown from a relatively dull, routine, maybe somewhat adventuorous life as a farmer on a desert with speeder bikes and cool pilot friends, into an outright WAR ZONE.
Hey, how about you throw some average factory worker into the enemy base with a bunch of heavily armed fanatics at every corner, bet they'll act as light-hearted and laid-back and Luke does throughout the first movie.
Basically, if you write a story in a universe full of dull bores, you'll get a boring movie. And I don't see how any of that aids the movie.
I'll admit that Amidala's speech at the Senate was quite cool, though. Nowhere near Van Damme's in "Streetfighter", but hey.