Steve Sansweet has a giant Jar Jar made a of chocolate from 1999 that hasn't melted. It makes you wonder what kind of preservatives they used.
Or Darth Ane...?Darth Ception actually sounds pretty bad*ss!
Steve Sansweet has a giant Jar Jar made a of chocolate from 1999 that hasn't melted. It makes you wonder what kind of preservatives they used.
I´m asking myself what kind of high quality fridge Steven is using for his other food items. The popsicles survived two moves, a power failure or the fridge breaking down are my greatest fears.
Oh, just in case you don´t believe me, OdiWan72 can testify that my claim is true, he saw them with his own eyes. I have a few Pepsis from around that era as well, we plan to open them at the next props and Star wars buddy gathering.
Steve Sansweet has a giant Jar Jar made a of chocolate from 1999 that hasn't melted. It makes you wonder what kind of preservatives they used.
I was just talking with SickleClaw about the cut dialogue in the duel between Vader and Obi-Wan, and how much more compelling it made the story, some of which made it into the comic adaption, movie video game, and Lego game. A big chunk of what was cut was an exchange between Vader and Obi-Wan where Vader basically calls out Obi-Wan for making him feel betrayed along with the Council.
Obi-Wan: “I have failed you, Anakin... I have failed you... but I won’t abandon you to the dark side.”
Vader: “That’s not your decision to make!”
Obi-Wan: "Anakin, Chancellor Palpatine is evil!"
Vader: "The Council turned their back on me! From my point of view, the Jedi are evil!"
Obi-Wan: “Well then you are lost!”
And then a part at the very end of the duel, after Obi-Wan chops of Vader's limbs, where Vader, whose eyes return to being Anakin's blue eyes, begs for Obi-Wan to help him, and Obi-Wan says, "I loved you, but nothing can help you." After which, Vader's eyes instantly revert to their Sith yellow look, and he screams "I hate you!" I remember this dialogue making it into the comic adaption, which I read prior to seeing the movie, and provided some confusion for me when I saw the scene in theaters and some of this dialogue having been cut out. Apparently during the final scene, you can still see Hayden Christensen mouthing the dialogue pleading for help.
There was also a cut bit of dialogue from before the start of the duel, where Vader tells Obi-Wan to surrender. Vader was trying to give Obi-Wan one last chance to just leave and never return. It makes the scene more interesting because in the final cut, the movie makes it look like Vader is just itching for a fight, where as in the extended dialogue version you can hear that Vader's heart is still not totally in the fight until Obi-Wan just leaves him to die, at which point he truly, and utterly hates Obi-Wan for the rest of his life.
Thinking about it, I think this is one of the biggest wrongs with the Duel on Mustafar. George Lucas was still trying to tell this story in black and white, when it clearly no longer was. He tried to make it seem like Darth Vader = bad and Obi-Wan = good, like it was back in 1977. But that ship had long sailed back in 1983. Anakin and Vader had become two sides of the same coin. There wasn't one without the other. Darth Vader had grown beyond being the Black Knight of Arthurian legend, and became this clouded, tragic figure.
Not really Anakin's fall is really all three movies. From the moment he leaves his mother, its setting everything up.The thing is, the main story of the prequels was supposed to be 'the fall'. At about 2:20 per flick, that gives you SEVEN hours to tell a good story of the fall. Yet, they handled it in what? maybe 5-15 minutes of total screen time.
Lucas did keep the shot of Anakin shedding a tear on the balcony on Mustafar. I think we're meant to get the impression that he's feeling somewhat regretful for how far he's let himself take this whole thing. I think the problem with the whole thing is this:While i think it does make it more compelling, i don't see how vader's heart wasn't totally in it. He just came from slaughtering a bunch of kids, some basically toddlers, and teens and adult jedi. he HAD to have known a number of them and none of them did him any personal harm but that was no big deal.
So, sure he could have made things more compelling by not cutting that stuff, but ultimately portraying the turn the way the did with the immediate 'ok' to 'go kill a bunch of kids, etc' without the slightest hesitation is the killer (no pun intended). Sadly none of the omitted material mitigates that portion. If I just killed 100 people of varying ages, i'm not thinking twice about killing someone who i used to call my best friend or mentor.
He wanted to show a story in a black and white mentality, when it clearly has many many shades of gray. He wanted Darth Vader to be the bag guy, but he wanted Anakin to be a good person who was just placed into a bad situation and makes a very bad decision that he finds himself incapable of walking away from. The problem is we never see the good person Anakin was in the course of the movies themselves. We just get Lucas focussing more on Anakin's dark path, and we don't get enough of seeing the powerful, yet compassionate Jedi Obi-Wan remembers in the the OT.The way Anakin is portrayed in the PT makes him look like someone with a neurological impairment. Right from the start in AOTC he's narcissistic, delusional, obsessive and downright creepy. His turn in ROTS makes him pretty much unredeemable, the child murdering is enough for me to lose any shred of empathy I may have had left for the character by that point in the story.
Lucas did keep the shot of Anakin shedding a tear on the balcony on Mustafar. I think we're meant to get the impression that he's feeling somewhat regretful for how far he's let himself take this whole thing. I think the problem with the whole thing is this:
He wanted to show a story in a black and white mentality, when it clearly has many many shades of gray. He wanted Darth Vader to be the bag guy, but he wanted Anakin to be a good person who was just placed into a bad situation and makes a very bad decision that he finds himself incapable of walking away from. The problem is we never see the good person Anakin was in the course of the movies themselves. We just get Lucas focussing more on Anakin's dark path, and we don't get enough of seeing the powerful, yet compassionate Jedi Obi-Wan remembers in the the OT.
While i think it does make it more compelling, i don't see how vader's heart wasn't totally in it. He just came from slaughtering a bunch of kids, some basically toddlers, and teens and adult jedi. he HAD to have known a number of them and none of them did him any personal harm but that was no big deal.
So, sure he could have made things more compelling by not cutting that stuff, but ultimately portraying the turn the way the did with the immediate 'ok' to 'go kill a bunch of kids, etc' without the slightest hesitation is the killer (no pun intended). Sadly none of the omitted material mitigates that portion. If I just killed 100 people of varying ages, i'm not thinking twice about killing someone who i used to call my best friend or mentor.
I think a lot of the perception of Anakin's fall it due to time constraints of the movie. TCW filled in some of that, along with the CW novels (yeah I know they aren't canon), but they couldn't adequately show it on screen. If I was a space psychiatrist I'd say Anakin had some other issues to go full Dark Side than just to save Padme. It's a big leap from "I'll follow this guy to save my wife." to "I'm going to kill some little kids so my wife can survive." Although Yoda did say once you set down that path you're doomed, so maybe there's something else going on where once you take one step, you're sucked in and instantly evil. Some of that may have been Jedi dogma from Yoda, so I'm not sure.
The thing is, the main story of the prequels was supposed to be 'the fall'. At about 2:20 per flick, that gives you SEVEN hours to tell a good story of the fall. Yet, they handled it in what? maybe 5-15 minutes of total screen time.
Not really Anakin's fall is really all three movies. From the moment he leaves his mother, its setting everything up.