Movie Quote/Trivia of the Day Obi-Wan Kenobi - You have allowed this dark lord to twist your mind, until now, until now youve become the very thing you swore to destroy. Anakin Skywalker - Dont lecture me, Obi-Wan! I see through the lies of the Jedi. I do not fear the dark side as you do. I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new Empire. Obi-Wan Kenobi - Your new Empire? Anakin Skywalker - Dont make me kill you. Obi-Wan Kenobi - Anakin, my allegiance is to the Republic, to democracy. Anakin Skywalker - If youre not with me, then youre my enemy. Obi-Wan Kenobi - Only a Sith deals in absolutes. I will do what I must. Anakin Skywalker - You will try. -Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker (Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith) I could have picked The Empire Strikes Back (arguably the best Star Wars films) but Revenge of the Sith seems so much more appropriate because The Emperors plans have been gestating for three films - ever since seeing young Skywalker - by the time the Clone Wars have rolled around, Palpatines in full-on universe-ruling mode, and, like a great villains, is a master at manipulating all those around him. Sure, eventually he does get his comeuppance, but not before wiping out most of the Jedi, creating the Empire and pretty much bringing the entire galaxy under his thumb. Thats about as evil as it gets. Did you know? The original cut of the film ran nearly four hours. The opening battle/Palpatine rescue alone ran over an hour. Originally, a young Han Solo was going to make an appearance in the film, living among the Wookies on Kashyyyk. Samuel L. Jackson requested to have a purple light saber in order for him to accept the part as Mace Windu. In 2007, Dr. Eric Bui, a psychiatrist in Toulouse, France, co-wrote a study that diagnosed Anakin Skywalker as having borderline personality disorder. When the authors reported their findings at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association they stated that Skywalker fit the diagnosis criteria: difficulty controlling anger, stress-related breaks with reality, impulsivity, obsession with abandonment and a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of ideation and devaluation. Actors Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen trained for two months in fencing and fitness in preparation for their fight sequences. The volcanic world of Mustafar was designed to look like George Lucass vision of hell. Anakin was originally supposed to just watch the entire fight between Palpatine and the other Jedi Masters, with Palpatine even having stolen Anakins lightsaber to do so. The entire fight would have had Anakin debating on which side he was going to choose. They even filmed it, but they figured that Anakin simply watching the fight meant that he had already made his choice, so it was refilmed to the current one. Further, the final fight between Windu and Palpatine was supposed to be an all-over-the-place masterpiece, but due to Lucas wanting Ian McDiarmid to do as many of his own stunts as possible, it was reduced to, largely, Windu forcing Palpatine down the hallway and then a bit of a scrap in the office before Anakin showed up and both started talking to him. The Wookiee costumes from this film sport a new arterial system that pump ice cold water to help cool down the actor wearing the suit. For some shots during the birth scene, the infant Luke and Leia are portrayed by an animatronic puppet. As this puppet was operated by Ewan McGregor, the cast jokingly referred to it as Foamy-Wan Kenobi. This is the final Star Wars film to be distributed by 20th Century Fox, which permanently holds the rights to the original Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and hands over rights to the prequel trilogy and the final two installments of the original trilogy to Walt Disney Studios after May 2020, due to the Walt Disney Companys acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012. The battle with Wookiees dates back to the earliest screenplays of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. Originally, the Wookiees were supposed to help the Rebels conquer an Imperial bunker. This idea was the basis for the Battle of Endor in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, but instead of using Wookiees, George Lucas decided to use a smaller furry race and call them Ewoks. The Darth Vader mask for this film was rebuilt from scratch, using a new digital design to computer-lathe the base master, from which molds were made to cast the on-screen costume masks. The resulting masks are, for the first time in Star Wars history, truly symmetrical. Samuel L. Jackson (Mace Windu) said he knew that he must die in this film, so he told George Lucas he would only do the film if Mace Windu goes out in a blaze of glory and not like some sucka. Chancellor Palpatines strategy for maintaining power is known to political scientists, and is called Perpetual War. He comes to power through conflict with the Trade Federation, gains greater privileges through the Clone War, and solidifies his position through war on the Jedi. The climactic fight between Vader and Kenobi took upwards of 70,000 man hours to create - doing the math, this constitutes the work of one man for more than 25 years, given roughly normal hours per day (which probably no one ever did working on this production).
Posted on: Wed, 21 May 2014 23:35:08 +0000
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