I recently came across some old dictaphone recordings of myself as a teenager.

I was struck by how little the rhythm of my voice has changed and how the number of words I used back then is pretty much the same as now.

Time has made my voice drop a bit in tone but it's very much recognisably me on there.

I started to think about the rhythm of Hayden and Jake's Anakins and how they compare to JEJ's Vader and Seb Shaw's Anakin.

They just don't remotely match up.

Sure Jake is a little kid and Hayden is playing him as a young man but they both use too many words to say very little.

I wonder how many PT Anakin words could be dropped from his dialogue scenes and still make perfectly good sense and convey what the character is meant to be saying?

I've also been rewatching Buffy.

Seth Green plays a teenager of diminutive stature and yet his vocal style playing Oz matches more the economy of words spoken by Vader in the OT than either PT actor.

It might be an interesting exercise to go through each scene trimming what Anakin says to the barest minimum necessary to still make grammatical and contextual sense.