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<blockquote data-quote="MechaPilot" data-source="post: 6790850" data-attributes="member: 82779"><p>I think the Anakin character comes off worse in general, but I'm not sure how much of that I'd attribute to whining. Between Lucas' writing (Harrison Ford told Lucas during the original trilogy, "George, you can type this <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> but you sure as hell can't say it") and the direction we definitely didn't get good performances out of many of the actors.</p><p></p><p>Also, my opinion of the portrayal of the Anakin character is skewed due to the fact that most child actors tend to not be very good actors, and the child Anakin was our first glimpse of the character. Hayden was better (which isn't a difficult bar to reach), but George just can't write a believable romance to save his life, and our first glimpse of a more adult Anakin came during the movie where the romance was absolutely pivotal to the development of the characters and their motivations in the following film. Even the more believable Leia and Han romance was aided by actors altering the script; for example Ford ad libbed the "I know" response to Leia's "I love you."</p><p></p><p>For me, it's just a chain reaction of bad writing, bad direction, the use of poop and fart jokes, the racist stereotype aliens (of which Jar Jar is the best example of how bad they are), not so great child-acting as Anakin's introduction, more bad writing and bad direction when Christensen got involved, and actors unwilling to stand up to the then quite powerful Lucas (as compared to how he was when the first trilogy was made).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MechaPilot, post: 6790850, member: 82779"] I think the Anakin character comes off worse in general, but I'm not sure how much of that I'd attribute to whining. Between Lucas' writing (Harrison Ford told Lucas during the original trilogy, "George, you can type this :):):):) but you sure as hell can't say it") and the direction we definitely didn't get good performances out of many of the actors. Also, my opinion of the portrayal of the Anakin character is skewed due to the fact that most child actors tend to not be very good actors, and the child Anakin was our first glimpse of the character. Hayden was better (which isn't a difficult bar to reach), but George just can't write a believable romance to save his life, and our first glimpse of a more adult Anakin came during the movie where the romance was absolutely pivotal to the development of the characters and their motivations in the following film. Even the more believable Leia and Han romance was aided by actors altering the script; for example Ford ad libbed the "I know" response to Leia's "I love you." For me, it's just a chain reaction of bad writing, bad direction, the use of poop and fart jokes, the racist stereotype aliens (of which Jar Jar is the best example of how bad they are), not so great child-acting as Anakin's introduction, more bad writing and bad direction when Christensen got involved, and actors unwilling to stand up to the then quite powerful Lucas (as compared to how he was when the first trilogy was made). [/QUOTE]
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