I wish that were the case, but there are a lot of tough guys here that think he's weak for not just shedding any emotion at such a huge loss and struggling with strife.
Well they didn't go through slavery, they didn't have their mother taken away at 9 years old, their mother didn't die the next time they meet her, they didn't have a manipulative role model that made them turn against everyone, and they didn't have their last person they love die.
The dark side is good, fuck the jedi. What did they ever do for Anakin? Continually mention that they sense anger and fear in him? Make him feel like he shouldn’t have been the chosen one. Deny him the rank of master. Mace windu never liked him, yoda didn’t like him. The only friend Anakin had was Obi-Wan, but even he belittled Anakin. Couple this with the shitty world that put Anakin and his mom into slavery, jedi and sith always in constant battle with one another, both sides just want power. Anakin should of just taken Padme and went rogue, that way she could have lived and they would have Luke and Leia and train them properly. This would stop 7,8, and 9 from even happening, and I swear to god Anakin would fucking murder kylo ren you emo piece of shit I HATE YOU. YOU SEE WHAT YOU DID ANAKIN you fucking spawned a new star wars franchise!
A lot of die hard prequel haters use this scene as evidence to show how “whiny” Anakin’s portrayal is and how Hayden was a miscast. But in this scene all I can see is a broken 19 year old in genuine pain. Hayden Christiansen gave a great performance
I think he did as well I watched the prequels with fresh eyes even though I saw the first three the prequels were just as good cuz I was thinking about those movies not the first three I still don't get why people hate these three movies I enjoyed all of them
this is one of those scenes, when he says i hate them, you can feel the dark side slipping in. you can also feel the conflict, the light side trying to push, the tears of guilt, hate and anger. This was the beginning of Darth Vader
I do not understand why people see hate and anger as something bad. Those two traits give motivation beyond limit. I always saw hate as giving me something to live against.I always saw anger as a sign of initiation.
*Anakin:* "I killed them all... and not just the men, but the women and children too! They're like animals and I slaughtered them like animals! I HATE THEM!!!" *Padme to herself: "He's the man of my dreams!"*
To be fair, they probably deserved to be slaughtered. But yes, Padmé was definitely being stupid by going for Anakin after this moment. His words here should really be a red flag!
The Great Alex Rosa Perhaps the execution was not there but the dark side does twist and corrupt your mind. It is like becoming a masochist which is why the Jedi are trained to not be attached, especially Anakin who is living embodiment of the force which includes the light and dark side of the force. If the films really showed anakins thoughts sort of like a voice talking to him it would explain the pull. If you watch the Cline Wars the episodes with the daughter and son you can get my meaning.
You look at statistics women do marry Violent Men all the time and they go back to him there is nothing really World shattering about this even powerful women fall for men with dark side
It's pretty telling that Anakin's desire came from a place of wanting to save and protect his loved ones. He really is one of the most tragic characters.
@@insultlk Why is it always that the ones talking shit and spouting hate, for the sake of it.. Look like they come from bot or spam accounts?! In this case, "kittylionmeowroar..." And you can kinda' tell that they're spam / bot accounts, because this comment is posted more than once and it has the same amount of 👍🏻(3).
Hayden has been given a lot of shit over the years for the lack of emotional depth in his acting of Anakin, but if you think about the character he's portraying his performance is sublime. Jedi are taught that emotion is as evil as ignorance, they cloud one's thoughts and betray them to the dark side. Therefore Anakin himself would very often be subconsciously supressing his emotions, or simply confused as to what he's feeling. Lucas was right to demand that from the character, and Hayden brought him to life fantastically IMHO
@Jimb0 I saw obi wan's half lie as a necessity because if he told the truth from the beginning Luke would either get himself killed fighting vader or worse join the dark side
Padme is a criminally underrated character, she understands that Anakin is going through pain and when he lashes out she doesn't abandon him but instead shows him compassion and tries to comfort him
she may understand it, but she definitely isn't doing the right thing at all here. if she witnesses anakin: 1. anakin declaring that he should be all powerful and that someday he will be and that he will stop people from dying entirely 2. blaming obi wan for everything, even though he isn't even on the same planet or even the same system at all while getting angry about it 3. confessing that he has killed an entire village of men women and children and that he did it in a such a brutal and anger induced way and after seeing anakin do all of this: all padme says in that entire scene is, "what's wrong ani?" and then "to be angry is to be human" while only coddling him as if he was her child that was just "misunderstood" or something. her advice to anakin was absolutely horrendous, and even though anakin was the one who killed a village's worth of people, he still said more true and correct things than she did during this scene. you can always give me the convenient excuse of "she is too scared to do anything about it effectively" but in times where she should have been scared of the trade federation and their threats and their army, she just rushes into that conflict head first with little regard for her own life, or perhaps she just read the script and knew that she will be fine no matter what, who knows? then again, I suppose they have to turn padme into housewife material for the third movie so maybe this is a transition moment for her?
Bro if my entire personality was protecting the galaxy from tyranny and trying to achieve peace and prosperity and this jedi confesses he killed innocent women and children im not gonna comfort him and justify it was “to be angry is to be human” fall in love and marry him and have children with him this writing makes no sense maturing is realizing that
Palpatine's theme playing here makes me believe that he arranged for the Tusken Raiders to kill Anakin's Mother. He's propably feeling all of this and is sitting in his office, with a wide grin on his face.
Richard Haremaker It sucks, then, that the fan theory of Sidious sapping Padme's life force, in order to keep Vader alive during his surgery isn't true.
The expanded universe says that Gardulla had been the dominant Hutt on Tatooine until Palpatine started supporting Jabba. Maybe a certain hooded hologram told Jabba to provoke some Sandpeople?
This is how I demonstrated it: Tarkin:Fire at will,commander Vader:Stop it,stop it don't blow up Tatooine Tarkin:Why Vader:There,there is my mother's grave in that planet don't blow it up blow other planets instead Tarkin:Okay,Lord Vader as you requested
Nope, i honestly don’t see what people are complaining about. The point of the acting is to portray anakin as someone who is struggling to control their emotions, due in part to the Jedi order and how they deal with human nature. Even the love scenes aren’t that bad, imo
No. He did a great job as Anakin. I'm tired of people saying the script was bad and the actors had wooden dialogue in these films. The script was good and these actors made s great performance.
He’s literally amazing it’s spot on to someone who’s mother just died. This is the scene we’re i fell in love with Star Wars because it’s about more than just stupid space action. It’s really about feelings and struggle
True, but he did kill him in the beginning of the next episode, assuming you're referring to Dooku. Even though Anakin whines, he still has that Darth Vader demeanor to him. Him whining that he was being treated unfairly and being manipulated were all part of his fall to the dark side. It wouldn't make sense any other way. Him complaining a lot is what I expected his fall to be like.
"I ... i killed them." - as if just realizing it himself, looking at his hands, with shock. "I killed them all." he comes to terms with his deeds. "They're dead." his previous fear gone, replaced by conviction. it fuels him. "every single one of them." he is seething now, his rage builds up. "and not just the men." looks at her, as if daring her to question his actions. "but the women..." the words come filled with hate. "and their children too." she looks at him, terrified of what she hears, of what she sees. "they're like animals." changes the nature of his victims from people to smth less, reinforcing his self righteousness, erasing any guilt. "and i slaughtered them like animals." final confirmation of the deed, with no remorse, nor shame, nor pity. "i hate them!" even after taking revenge, his hate only grows. even now, he cannot forgive. hate consumes him, and his fall begins.
With the largely awful scripts they were given, I think the actors in these movies did a fine job. Honestly I don’t think even Brando could’ve read some of the lines in these movies and not sound like a tool, that’s how clunky some of it is.
This is a well acted out scene and it is exactly how anyone would be if their mother just died in their arms. I can't believe he gets stick for being whiny in this scene. If you love your mother would you be calm if she died in your arms? You can see the conflict on his face. He knows as Yoda says, death is a natural part of life and he shouldn't be attached, but at the same time it's killing him to hold those feelings back.
+K Williams Except for Padme. Her reaction makes no sense. I would have been in complete fear or run away knowing your potential boyfriend committed a massacre.
Having been close to people who have lost someone and suffered a form on post traumatic stress, they do act irrationally and even violently but knowing what they have been through, most people look past it and try and support them I think this is what Lucas intended for Padme.
Ketorulz Recall that Padme spent a day and a half with the Lars family. Recall that twenty-six people from Anchorhead were killed by the sand peopke when they tried to find Shmi. Some of thise twenty-six people may have been close friends with the Lars. It is plausible that her opinion of the sand people was at its nadir at the time.
dam right I did fear is the path to hate hate is the path that anger and anger is the path the dark side of the Darkside grant many abilities Like.........FORCE CHOKE
In Anakin's defense, he has been afraid of losing his mother since he was a boy. The Jedi Council even point it out in TPM. All this time, for ten years, he's been training to become a Jedi, so he can return to Tatooine and save her from slavery. It's no secret that the Jedi Order was holding him back, because they didn't trust him. Not even Obi-Wan was innocent of this. Now his worst fear has been realized. Tusken Raiders, probably under some kind of direction from Darth Sidious, have abducted his mother and tortured her to death, and there is nothing he can do about it, except to take revenge on her captors, and to crave the necessary power to prevent the same loss from happening to him again. That doesn't justify Anakin's actions, but who wouldn't act the same way if they were in his position?
Of course it justifies Anakin's actions. Why are you saying killing innocent ppl is totally okay for Tusken Raiders who started it but not Anakin who kills the families who will gladly revel in the blood and sweat of Shmi's slave labor/trade (come on, why else did they capture her alive)? If I rob your stuff and pass them to my children, can I just say "hey man you can't incriminate me, I don't have the loot therefore I'm not a robber!" and my kids "hey I didn't do the stealing myself, therefore I'm not a robber!" ? Now what if it's slavery of your family instead of robbery, and we say this pretending to be innocent all the while benefiting from their slave labor? Anakin just sees what the Tusken Raiders did as Shmi being put back into harsher slavery after her freedom by Lars, of course he hates this development with a passion. Those Tusken Raiders are very likely to have done much harm to others as well, and will continue to do so if Anakin just let them go. That is their way of life. Are you going to let wolves tear your baby apart just because that is their way of life? It is YOUR justified way of life to kill them to stop that. Same with Anakin. Should Jedis just let the Empire take over, be "Zen" about it while the very Republic that paid for millennia all their clothes and temples suffer from tyranny, citing "impartiality" and "being not emotional?" That is negligence and why the Jedi Order was portrayed as flawed (Actually, in WW2, Zen Buddhists taught that killing all non-Japanese frees them to go to the afterlife, and blowing yourself up in holy samurai kamikaze on boats/planes/submarines/manned torpedos/diving suits specifically designed for suicide attacks and nothing else, for the One True God Emperor Hirohito whom you must pray everyday towards his Holy City of Tokyo, gets you to Pure Land Zen Paradise stocked with virgins. It's not just some terrorist cell, but an entire nation officially sanctioning this crazy rhetoric, to invade 20 nations from 1870 to 1945. Nazis are angels compared to these cannibals (2 of 3 million soldiers ate ppl enough that the high command issued orders codifying proper procedure for cannibalizing the "subhuman non Japanese") with their own military brothels where captured girls are given *80-men daily rape quotas* before being executed for unwanted pregnancy just to please the Japanese soldiers, who are just like the "civilians" back home who used to be soldiers too in this over-militarized nation, robbed and lynched foreigners as civilians _(see Kanto Massacre where 6000 Koreans were murdered by Japanese civilians who blamed them for the big Kanto Earthquake, compare that to the nazi Kristallnacht where 91 Jews died)_ . Just counting from 1937 when Japan started WW2, they killed 30 million people by dropping on cities Weapons of Mass Destruction like anthrax germ bombs, and mustard gas chemical bombs produced from Hiroshima, and unlike Nazis, were developing 2 nukes to destroy Asia and America, even scheduling Operation Cherry Blossom at Night, a bubonic plague bomb attack on America for September of 1945, to buy time to finish Japanese nukes. Read, "Zen at War." It is a religion of telling people that has told Japanese peasants that coping with brutal violent samurais with 75% tax rates that funded all their wars is virtuous and manly. Zen has no right to call other religions barbaric while posing pristine. It is an aberration of Chan Buddhism in 6th century China. Japan after all, were the only place in the world whose Buddhist Monks as Sohei warred and killed each other to establish dominance for their decentralized individual temples) _(Actually the entire premise of a Navy-focused xenophobic military with obsession with ineffective huge ships headed by a man with purported supernatural powers called the "Emperor..." is exactly the Japanese Empire, even down to the focus on making big secret flagships, the Yamato-Class, that ended up just large to compensate for something, too large to be effective and getting blown up by little torpedos from tiny planes, being destroyed before being able to do much of anything)_ Soldiers, police, these are not agents of forgiveness to those unrepentant criminals who will gladly harm others over and over again if left unstopped. Those people are agents of necessary vengeance, just by promising vengeance deters a lot of would-be crimes. Negligence of duty can easily be glorified as "forgiveness" ... imagine that being applied to cases where Police refuse to act due to indolence or cowardice (like Uvalde). It has been scientifically proven even in biology, the best defense a creature can give itself against harm is the strategy known as Tit for Tat. In other words, Mutually Assured Destruction. Even a strategy that involves giving everyone a 2nd chance each, just meant all the others getting in cahoots with each other, each having a go at exploiting you for that 1 time freebie. What foolishness naive kindness turned out to be. Naive is the one who believes naive magnanimity will move the hearts of those who are already determined to see you as livestock. Look how magnanimous pigs are, they get slaughtered generation after generation and not a single pig objects! To not retaliate is to become a livestock. As unreactive as a tree that gets chopped down. As unreactive as rocks that get mined. An Eye for an Eye will make the world blind... but the dumb conclusion is not "don't take revenge," but instead, "therefore you should NEVER take out the 1st eye because violent retaliation is a duty of the victim and you too must suffer. The back and forth feud is ENTIRELY on the first perpetrator's shoulders." Actually an Eye for an Eye was an act of mercy, when in ancient times, punishments used to eclipse the original crime. Dumb naive people like you warped this idea to mean "cruel punishment." Even in Christianity (which I don't believe in), the idea of vengeance was not shunned but merely left to God and it was surely promised. "Vengeance is mine." (Deuteronomy 32:35; Romans 12:19) You turn the other cheek because God will mete out vengeance, not humans.
@WaxonWaxoff all this ignores the fact that we as a race have become less and less violent. Retaliatory measures have been greatly reduced to primarily monetary issues. And things like the death penalty has more and more gone by the wayside. And did the world get more violent? No. Opposite. And not even in mutually destructive cases either. Violent crimes have gone down in areas where punishments have been greatly reduced in violence. Because what stops violence in an area is not the punishment, but the likelihood to get caught. Recall the nazis and the japanese empire were taken down. But allowed to stand back up relatively easily and quickly. And both countries became big contributors to the world not even 50 years after ww2. Biggest issue with Anakin and the Raiders is more structure. One would assume tattooine isnt the best law enforcement area lol. Not to mention WHY the raiders are the way they are.
obiwan ghost to darth vader: anakin you lost the woman you love because of this monster, this monster is about to make you lose YOUR SON! darth/anakin: no... nooooo! (throws palpatine to his death)
Tekinen'sLP CZ Girl power!! She can also use all of the force powers and has never really been trained lmao. How long did Luke train with Yoda? Ray comes with everything all ready? Bullshit.
Tekinen'sLP CZ They butchered the whole point of the force and along with the practice of lightsabers. Rey is a joke, they clearly didn’t give a single fuck about the actual series, they just wanted to make more money -_-
1:37 Is probably the most subtle version of the Imperial March ever heard in a Star Wars Film. Damn, John. That was impressive. Never noticed that before now.
This is my favorite scene. The second the imperial march plays, you realize that the dark side slipped in him. Think of young Anikan then think to his future. Pretty deep shit.
Agree. Anakin was tempted already. And even had a power acquisition. That’s why the imperial march was played for a moment. But he’s not turned yet as he’s saying “I’m a Jedi.”
@@SanjuroJoe that one is actually Palpatine's theme in major key and sped up, which symbolizes his victorious ascension to Supreme Chancellor and the first step of his plan to create a Sith Empire
Yeah... and I've always thought it's at this point that Padmé should have left him. After this speach, marrying him makes her somehow to associate with his crimes. I mean, I know Padmé is supposed to be totally good, but here she was able to disengage very easy from him, since they aren't married and neither really dating till now and he's showing to be clearly mentally unstable (even if you endorse vengeance as means of justice in a moment of most understable rage and pain, that couldn't include those who weren't clearly guilty of his mother's murder, such as children, underlining how his lack of control is worst than not just any Jedi's, but any decent man's as well; plus, all his speach about becoming the greater Jedi ever and preventing death is quite delusional, something that shows he has great problems in grasping reality). Her relationship with him is only partially similar to Luke's, since he couldn't choose his father, but she could her husband. Anyway, I don't think that decrease the impact of this scene; on the contrary, I think it adds depth to the story, such as Obi-Wan being good, but sometimes a liar as well :) While regarding Anakin developping into Vader the scene it's really a powerful step.
This is one scene I don't think belonged. It would be one thing to kill the ones responsible for Shmi's death but not the whole village. If this actually happened, realistically, Anakin should've been thrown out of the Jedi Order. This would have made things more interesting IMO as Palpatine could then come find him and reveal himself earlier.
Interesting how Anakin immediately said he was a Jedi when Padmé said that to be angry is to be human. Like being human and being a Jedi are not the same thing for him. Kinda shows something was wrong...
Because anakin is the most human Jedi. He has the faults humans have that’s what makes him the chosen one. The fact that the light and darkness in him make him stronger. Except the power he has isn’t human so the dark side will easily prey on him
It’s because at this point, everyone from Yoda to Obi-Wan have preached to Anakin that he must keep his emotions at bay and in check. He can’t feel fear. He can’t feel anger. He can’t feel hatred. He can’t feel grief. All of these, the Jedi preach, lead to the Dark Side of the Force. The way of the Sith. Anakin has always struggled with this because he was old enough to know these emotions when he first started training with the Jedi. That’s why they prefer toddlers and kids who are young enough to be molded in their doctrine, and why the council didn’t want to train Anakin at first despite his record midichlorian count and his gifts.
Yes. It's more apparent when you watch his conversations with Yoda. Yoda says some crazy non-human stuff to him disguised as wisdom. It's fine for most Jedi because they start as padawans early and become more soldier-like throughout all their actions in life.
I like when says"It's all Obi Wans fault his jealous his holding me back" He thinks Obi Wan is holding him back from learning his true potential because Obi Wan is jealous of his power and if he was more powerful he could have saved his mother, that is why in EpIII he does not hesitate to ask Palpatine is it possible to learn this power.
SSJ It’s very common for people to take out their anger and pain on others, including those they are close with. Anakin knew deep down that it wasn’t Obi Wan’s fault, but he took it out on Obi Wan since there was tension between him and his master at that point.
i know it's an old comment but he actually saved his son from dying so it's true that he learned how to save people from dying from a certain [point of view.
To be honest, he's a young man who suffered the loss of his mother, and has vowed his life to keeping his emotions in check, supressed. No wonder he is freaking out, giving into anger is easy and tempting. "To be angry is to be human... I'm a Jedi, I'm stronger than this."
His acting was amazing here you can see him like he was when he was younger with the tone and how he spoke and how he always wanted to be the person who helped
You forgot to take into account that Tusken Raiders aren't seen as people. So what Anakin did was the equivalent of slaughtering a wolf pack with a samurai sword. You also seemed to have missed that Padmé felt sorry for him and saw how he desperately needed emotional support.
@@donnyannessa654 At worst the Tuskens are brutal bandits, but they're not mindless. They have a culture, code of ethics, and even take care of their own women and children. They're not mindless beasts.
I always found Padme's reaction here a curious reflection on her character. Here is a woman that has dedicated her life to political pursuits in the name of democracy and justice, and yet...she allows her compassion and pity overwhelm her better instincts where Anakin is concerned. You have to wonder how much of her losing her will to live in RotS stemmed from guilt and shame in the role she played in enabling his downfall.
@@rosesrosesandroses1201 the prequels are literally everyone going “something’s wrong with Anakin....ehh, it’ll be fine!” 😂 I don’t mean it as a bad reflection of Padmé, either. I think it makes her interesting. Gives her complexity.
They seem to be similar in some ways: in ROTS Anakin forgets any idea of good and gives himself to the Dark Side for her (i.e., supposedly to save her); at the end of ATOC, in order to marry him, she conveniently forgets him killing children for revenge, showing clear signs of delirium of omnipotence, hinting he prefers dictatorship... all things she was supposed to recognize as really wrong. They both seem to set aside any basic common sense for their mutual feelings until at the end of ROTS, when Anakin's crimes have grown so much that Padmé can't be delusional about him anymore and she didn't follow him.
I think the thing that really made Anakin turn to the dark side was the fact that he couldn't stand the fact of feeling helpless in the face of things that he couldn't control like his mom dying! Imagine being born into slavery with no hope of being free and then finding out you're a force user! You would totally want to use those powers to your advantage to never feel that way again!
Now I know why the Jedi were reluctant to train Anakin as he was "too old". Anakin was old enough to witness slavery and suffering, and it had an effect on his psyche.
"Someday I will be...I will be the most powerful jedi ever. I promise you." - literal chills I don't understand the hate Hayden got all those years ago. This scene breaks my heart for what happens to Anakin and only Hayden could deliver this scene. He is Anakin Skywalker to me.
THANK YOU. I don't know why more people don't discuss this. He just admitted to killing a whole village of people (well, maybe like humanoid like creatures? I mean, under galactic law, killing a Tuskan would be murder no?) including innocent women and children and she's just like "to be angry is to be human." What??????? Then in ROTS comes along it's suddenly a big deal that Anakin killed the younglings......are they trying to send the message that some lives matter more than others?
Jonathan I just finished watching this entire series for the first time and this part confuses the hell out of me, specifically Padme’s reaction. I guess she only cares when younglings are killed.
They raped and tortureded his mother and killed half the people who went to rescue her, leaving his step-father an invalid. I don't think Padme much minded that he slaughtered them, meanwhile the younglings did absolutely nothing to anyone, of course everyone was shocked by that
Jonathan Bradley innocent??!! They tortured and killed a woman for fun it's not like they were nice people also shmi has said it the republic on tattooine doesn't exist. Why do people want sympathy for the tusken raiders when they do this on a regular basis heck even the 30 people that when after her only 4 came back!!
that score man, it really sets that tone of what is to come, his first true steps to the darkside. before the war, before his first saber fight with Count, this was where he started to fall.
Lmao!!!! I was thinking the same damn thing! Kylo did something anakin only dreamed of doing. Even Rey for that matter, saving Kylo from certain death as well.
I grew up with the Original Trilogy FIRST, and watched it LONG before the Prequels EVER came around. But I can't lie, not even to please others. I love the Prequels more than the Original Trilogy, and this is my FAVORITE Star Wars scene of ANY MOVIE. Disney OR Lucas.
I grew up in a household of OT fans and was raised on SWs from a young age (was even taken to the films re-releases back in 97). The thing is though, none of them appealed to me until TPM, where, out of no where, I went form not caring to suddenly loving everything about SWs, to the point I'd obsess over everything based in the old republic, obsessing over the jedi, obsessing over how this galaxy functioned. When I was 9 or 10, I was fascinated with the senate scenes due to how interesting it was, especially with all the different species, and it was really easy to follow.
@@jish55 I'VE FOUND MY PEOPLE!!! The first film I remember from my childhood was TPM and I really liked it. The CGI was okay for me since Toy Story came out 4 years earlier and I loved it then. Then I saw Hayden Christensen as Anakin and I loved it! He was good to me and pretty to look at. Rots was the best obviously but all of it was great. I didn't grow up with the OT so didn't care for it much. Like how some will grow up with ST and not care for both the OT and PT.
These are the scenes Hayden does best. When his anger and hatred bleeds through. It cracks through his insecurity and desire for omnipotence like a fire and it’s so good
@@rimmstinner3519... Nope. Just, nope. Tuskens are a sentient race of people, advanced enough to use projectile weapons. They might be seen as primitive and brutal, but they have language, clothing, villages and technology. Just because they're behind the rest of the galaxy doesn't mean they're animals.
Except the Tuskin Raiders aren't considered equal to intelligent beings, and the fact they were also responsible for killing a rescue party as well as torturing and potentially raping Anakins mom played a major role in her not thinking terribly of it.
You really see into Anakin's soul here. When faced with incredible loss he at first refuses to accept it, then covets at power and strength looking for a way to prevent further misery. He blames those closest to him needing a villain to the story of his life, and finally we see the unyielding rage that consumes him. His is a tormented soul, having lived his entire life as either a slave or a Jedi, he has no control, his decisions are made for him. This is what will turn him to the dark side, his need to control everything around him to spare himself any further pain.
Say what you want about Hayden’s acting, but in emotional scenes like this, he’s clearly putting his heart into it. It’s not his fault the directing sucked.
I think Haydens acting was good and the prequels despite critics are still great. Even in SW originals you have some stuff which is not perfect. I think there are no perfect movies. I like the prequels a lot especially after seeing the SW sequels.
"I'm a Jedi, I know I'm better than this." And thus we see what will always be the ultimate folly of all Jedi. Their fatal flaw has forever been that they think they are above being human/sentient, and that simply has never been the case. Anakin was a troubled soul, the last thing he needed was to be inundated with their stoic philosophies and taught to suppress his emotions. One of the things I love about the PT is that it depicts what really was a perfect storm for the Republic and Jedi to fall, there are multiple tragedies going on in this world beyond Anakin's fall and Vader's rise, and they all intertwine with one another to create a true modern Greek tragedy.
Now that I rewatched this scene now that I am older. This was some amazing acting. Imagine having to act emotionless or detached as a Jedi when you were young. He is feeling all the rage while maintaining a poker face. He knows its wrong but its leaking. He is conflicted so much within. I'd be terrified seeing someone holding such anger back and is slowly failing. Cause thats a recipe of absolute chaos.
This movie premiered shortly after my grandma died of cancer. I was full of rage, pain and anger as a result but I was a young kid and didn’t know how to articulate what I was feeling. I don’t know why, but seeing and hearing Anakin express his rage, sadness, anger and pain…it was cathartic. For once, I had the words I wanted to say. Thank you, Hayden Christiansen and George Lucas, for giving a grieving child words.
"To be angry is to be human." "I'm a Jedi. I know I'm better than this." This is one of my main problems with the Jedi philosophy of dealing with feelings and emotions. They teach that you should just shut them out and not feel anything. You should never feel fear because that leads to anger and all that. You're supposed to hide from certain emotions because of how dangerous they are, even love. They are right in the idea that they are dangerous. Left out of control, they can and will destroy you. But that's why you need to manage these emotions - not push them down and pretend they don't exist. You're going to feel angry sometimes. You're going to feel hatred, love, fear, happiness and sadness. Your emotions should be experienced, and then learned to be controlled, instead of letting them control you. Pushing your emotions down and pretending they don't exist is not the answer. For some, it's a path that leads straight to the dark side. And for the other Jedi who stay with that path, they tend to come out as unfeeling sociopaths. They may do the right thing and be the "good guys", but living under such a strict code and never allowing emotion to seep in makes them more machine than the droids they're fighting.
Am I the only person in the world who completely feels what Anakin feels, especially from the start until 2:33 of the video. Is there anyone else other than me who can fix almost anything and yet feels exactly like this when a pet or loved one dies? The anguish, the anger, the helplessness. God forgive me, but I just can't help it. Anakin is me in my garage tinkering with something just trying to deal with those feelings most will never understand.
I’ve seen the prequels hundreds of times and for the first time I just realized that the “I will even learn to stop people from dying” line, is literally foreshadowing the power that Plagueis learned which would lure him into the dark side. It’s the exact power Sidious promised him.
Fuck haters, this scene was good. The only acting hayden did that was cringy in this film was when they were on naboo. Sure the acting in this scene isn't as good as it could be but I never found the acting to be bad like how people say. He just lost his mother and he is angry. Of course he's going to be whiny. although i do not like Portmans acting at all. I think she's personally worse in this scene
pilar garcia i felt hayden put a little more effort. I think his best scenes are the ones where there is no dialogue present. He gives off strong emotions
0:16-0:19 "Life seems so much simpler when you're fixing things." For all the grief the dialogue in the Star Wars prequels gets, this is my favorite line in any Star Wars film to date.
Honestly the sand one could’ve been a good one as well. It was just worded awkwardly. I get that it was supposed to show how Anakin saw things vs. how Padme, how she associated sand with beautiful beaches and how Anakin saw sand as harsh and unforgiving
Yeah it they added something like this Padme: we use to lay out on the sand beaches by the water. It was beautiful. I miss the times before politics. It was simpler. Anakin: I don’t like sand. Growing up as a slave on tattooine isn’t the beautiful setting as the beaches of Naboo. I’m happy you didn’t have a childhood like mine. Sand to you is home only you see it as peace and I see it as pain.
This scene is so hated for no reason, I love hadens acting here. It’s heartbreaking, suspenseful and becomes terrifying, this is such a huge moment for his character
She never said that she was okay with it. That and the Sand People are a cult that thrive on torture and suffering. They killed 26 of the 30 people sent to find Ani's mum and crippled his step-father. Who cares if he slaughtered them all. Those kids would grow up to kill some more people anyway.
When he talks about the deepest darkness, that his pain sunk him into, and growls about how much he hated the Raiders, even while considering his retaliation was pointless cruelty, I empathised with the intensity of his pain.
@@PHDdad acting your kidding. He’s literally acting his bought look at the emotion on his face you can see utter anger/horror/sadness. People hate the character fine but the hayden is acting exactly how the character would
The reason why I love this scene so much is because it has both Palpatine’s scene (1:44) and the imperial march which signifies the slow birth of Darth Vader. Hayden killed this scene, just like those tuskens 😂
I like how the prequel trilogy slowly introduces the Imperial March. In Phantom Menace there are only slowed parts from the iconic theme. In Attack of the Clones it becomes more and more intense and frequent as Anakin's hate is getting stronger and the Clone Troopers appear. And finally in Revenge of the Sith Darth Vader is born and the Imperial March becomes his theme. :D
Honestly, the only dialogue in this scene that feels out of place to me is when Padme asks, "What's wrong, Ani?" Well, his mom kinda just died in his arms, so what do you think is wrong?
I kinda hate how much of a joke people treat this scene. Anakin is not only grieving, but is filled with regret. In his anger and grief that terrible night, he slaughtered an entire village in revenge because they brutally tortured his mother to death. He hates them but regrets what he did, not just that he couldn’t stop his mother from dying in his arms. What adds to it is the fact that he has power, but what good is that power if he can’t stop bad things from happening, especially to the people you care about. Anakin must have secluded himself before Padmé decided to stay with him this time and comfort him. She’s his rock. A number of these feelings here become paralleled in Episode III when Anakin realizes he could likely lose Padmé to childbirth, too, despite his power having grown considerably since the day he snuck into the Tuskan Raider camp. A number of people still crap on Hayden’s acting or just Anakin’s character here but Anakin is really quite possibly the most Human character in Star Wars, at least in some regards, especially in his flaws.
This scene is powerful, Anakin was more sad about the fact he ended up slaughtering all the sand People and Anakin knows what he did was wrong but it was difficult for him to suppress his emotions after his mother’s death
"I'll even learn to stop people from dying" to know now that that technique is well and truly possible adds some depth to that and especially when he says Obiwan I'd holding him back. The Jedi would have known of this ability but decided to keep it from the chosen one.
The guy lost his mom. He had every right to murder the people who tortured her. Okay, the women and children were much but Anakin was on rage overload. And Anakin confessed to Padme because he can't hold his feelings away from her. And Padme made a bad decision to let this go because in his shoes, she would have probably done the same thing.
Proof Hayden is a good actor. The wooden delivery kinda works here, a boy raised as a slave and then immediately inducted into this world of no emotional connection would make him a bit cut off and awkward.
this is my problem with the sequels, I feel like ALL luke had to do, was look vader in the eye and call him "Anny" and he would bust into tears, but instead vader goes all "Nah Anakin is dead" on us
Charlie Pemberton because by the time he's vader he has killed a whole bunch of younglings, lost his mum and his wife, been left to burn to death by his best friend and mentor and completely embraced anger and hatred. I had no issue with Anakin's character progression from an over-emotional young man to a merciless sith lord, it fits with the entire concept of jedi falling to the dark side because they cant control their emotions.
Luke was his family tho, so he cared more about him than anyone since he lost his mom and padme who were his family, everyone else didn't matter, so again I feel like all luke had to do was say "come away with me father, to naboo were u and mom lived, come with me anny" boom game over. annys problem with going back to the light was living with the fact that he had nothing left to go back to and anything left i.e ashoka, obi-wan needed to die, just like Anakin did and padme did, they were all dead, but luke changed all of this, luke gave him something, so luke just needed to call him anny.
Vader would probably say that Anakin means nothing to him, that he's dead. I don't think that calling him Anny would make anything, if anything, Vader would feel even more hatred. Think about it, the only one who called him Anny was Padmé and his mother, he suffered for the death of both of them and still does, Vader meditates a lot about Obi-Wan and Padmé, even visits Padmé's grave a lot. If his son called him Anny, not only would it be weird, but it would fuel him with suffering.
People like to think Anakin is a brat because of this scene but hey don’t get it. After the slaughter, he thought it would make him hurt less, but it didn’t. When he came back, he fell apart, tried to do something he enjoys like fixing things to calm himself down but it didn’t work. When you see him say “And I slaughtered them like animals! I hate them!” You can see the regret all over his face, he only then is aware to the horror he committed in his mother’s name and hates himself for it When he blames Obi Wan, he’s just lashing out because he doesn’t want to admit his own failure in controlling his pain and anger. So you see he isn’t a brat, he’s dealing with all the stages of grief simultaneously and on top of it, he hates what he did for his mother out of revenge And in a way, he wanted Padme to be afraid of him, so that she would stay away from him (maybe to be safe), but she wouldn’t. She stayed with him because she thought he needed her there, now more than ever.
TXNICK96 no, technically he's not a brat, but Hayden Christensen's poor acting just makes it come off that way. most of the time he sounds more whiney than angry. I honestly can't watch 1:13 without laughing. honestly if they had gotten a better actor to play Anakin these movies would've been so much better.
So it's Obi-Wan's fault that the sand people got murdered? Oh, ok. Let's blame everything on Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan caused Titanic to sink and he's responsible for every tornado to ever hit and it's Obi-Wan's fault that politcians sucks.
+Anakin Skywalker The dark side will devour those who lack the power to control it. It's a fierce storm of emotion that annihilates anything in its path. It lays waste to the weak and unworthy. But those who are strong can ride the storm winds to unfathomable heights. They can unlock their true potential; they can sever the chains that bind them; they can dominate the world around them. Only those with the power to control the dark side can ever truly be free.
TheSpaceJockey91 - He did not allow Anakin to go when the dreams start coming. It's a full month before he finally gets the courage to go. He went against his gut and it hurt him bad.
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Why did Padmé ask what was wrong? His mother died literally a day before that conversation.
UNITDW because she sees much more rage in him than grief...
Episode III
Obi Wan : "I saw a recording of him... killing younglings.
Padme : Not Anakin ! He couldn't !" #selectivememory
She asked because George Lucas is the writer. Welcome to the prequels.
Stand by for sand dialogue...
well there's a different between slaughtering defenseless kids and a tribe of savage primitives who tortured and killed his mother ;)
Marc CLMN They tortured, starved and killed a woman for no reason. If that's their culture, then yes their lives are worth less.
I understand Anakin turning to the Darkside after the hell he suffered in his young life.
I wish that were the case, but there are a lot of tough guys here that think he's weak for not just shedding any emotion at such a huge loss and struggling with strife.
Well they didn't go through slavery, they didn't have their mother taken away at 9 years old, their mother didn't die the next time they meet her, they didn't have a manipulative role model that made them turn against everyone, and they didn't have their last person they love die.
I thought obi wan was dumb for saying "why anakin"
Dawood Williams: I agree. I knew from this emotion that he was turning to the dark side. But, I don't know how it's Obi-Wan Kenobi's fault.
The dark side is good, fuck the jedi. What did they ever do for Anakin? Continually mention that they sense anger and fear in him? Make him feel like he shouldn’t have been the chosen one. Deny him the rank of master. Mace windu never liked him, yoda didn’t like him.
The only friend Anakin had was Obi-Wan, but even he belittled Anakin.
Couple this with the shitty world that put Anakin and his mom into slavery, jedi and sith always in constant battle with one another, both sides just want power.
Anakin should of just taken Padme and went rogue, that way she could have lived and they would have Luke and Leia and train them properly.
This would stop 7,8, and 9 from even happening, and I swear to god Anakin would fucking murder kylo ren you emo piece of shit I HATE YOU.
YOU SEE WHAT YOU DID ANAKIN you fucking spawned a new star wars franchise!
A lot of die hard prequel haters use this scene as evidence to show how “whiny” Anakin’s portrayal is and how Hayden was a miscast. But in this scene all I can see is a broken 19 year old in genuine pain. Hayden Christiansen gave a great performance
I think he did as well I watched the prequels with fresh eyes even though I saw the first three the prequels were just as good cuz I was thinking about those movies not the first three
I still don't get why people hate these three movies I enjoyed all of them
"Ani, I think we should see other people."
No, he didn't
Nah, this is just a few minutes of Hayden Christensen playing the role of a whiny bitch.
@@fernandovargasmejia740 Right. Rey the boring Mary Sue did it better. Yeah, sure👍.
this is one of those scenes, when he says i hate them, you can feel the dark side slipping in. you can also feel the conflict, the light side trying to push, the tears of guilt, hate and anger.
This was the beginning of Darth Vader
Lee Henry cringe
Gh0stxRider "Cringe"......?
Gh0stxRider no
have you were heard a teen talk about their hurt. yes it is cringe worthy that's what makes it real
I do not understand why people see hate and anger as something bad.
Those two traits give motivation beyond limit.
I always saw hate as giving me something to live against.I always saw anger as a sign of initiation.
*Anakin:* "I killed them all... and not just the men, but the women and children too! They're like animals and I slaughtered them like animals! I HATE THEM!!!"
*Padme to herself: "He's the man of my dreams!"*
The Admiral Tusken raiders are portrayed as savages. They attacked Anakin's mom while she was minding her own business. Padme probably realizes this.
The Admiral that was funny
To be fair, they probably deserved to be slaughtered. But yes, Padmé was definitely being stupid by going for Anakin after this moment.
His words here should really be a red flag!
The Great Alex Rosa Perhaps the execution was not there but the dark side does twist and corrupt your mind. It is like becoming a masochist which is why the Jedi are trained to not be attached, especially Anakin who is living embodiment of the force which includes the light and dark side of the force. If the films really showed anakins thoughts sort of like a voice talking to him it would explain the pull. If you watch the Cline Wars the episodes with the daughter and son you can get my meaning.
You look at statistics women do marry Violent Men all the time and they go back to him there is nothing really World shattering about this even powerful women fall for men with dark side
It's pretty telling that Anakin's desire came from a place of wanting to save and protect his loved ones. He really is one of the most tragic characters.
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@@kittylionmeowroar7572be quiet
The best villains always had the best intentions...
@@insultlk Why is it always that the ones talking shit and spouting hate, for the sake of it.. Look like they come from bot or spam accounts?! In this case, "kittylionmeowroar..." And you can kinda' tell that they're spam / bot accounts, because this comment is posted more than once and it has the same amount of 👍🏻(3).
@@snatchadams69 That's what makes them so relatable.
Hayden has been given a lot of shit over the years for the lack of emotional depth in his acting of Anakin, but if you think about the character he's portraying his performance is sublime. Jedi are taught that emotion is as evil as ignorance, they cloud one's thoughts and betray them to the dark side. Therefore Anakin himself would very often be subconsciously supressing his emotions, or simply confused as to what he's feeling. Lucas was right to demand that from the character, and Hayden brought him to life fantastically IMHO
Say it louder for people in the back!
The emotions are spot on. Hayden (and Natalie and Ewan) did their best. It's just a looot of bad dialogue they had to deal with.
In a interview George Lucas said Hayden Played Anakin Skywalker perfectly and people just hated the character of Anakin
@Jimb0 I saw obi wan's half lie as a necessity because if he told the truth from the beginning Luke would either get himself killed fighting vader or worse join the dark side
Did you seriously just try to justify bad acting as something that is on purpose? Lmao wow you are in denial about how shitty this film is hu
Annie are ok? are you ok Annie?
He's been turned into a Sith Criminal.
@@javiergonzalez1393 you've been hit by. You've veen struck by a Sith Criminal
As long as it’s the MJ version and not that shit cover by Alien Ant Farm.
*HEE HEE*
Oh Annie, stuck in a crystal are we?
Padme is a criminally underrated character, she understands that Anakin is going through pain and when he lashes out she doesn't abandon him but instead shows him compassion and tries to comfort him
I mean there’s not one emotion on her face which is key to acting for me personally
HE DID GENOCIDE!! HE KILLED FUCKING CHILDRENS!!
she may understand it, but she definitely isn't doing the right thing at all here.
if she witnesses anakin:
1. anakin declaring that he should be all powerful and that someday he will be and that he will stop people from dying entirely
2. blaming obi wan for everything, even though he isn't even on the same planet or even the same system at all while getting angry about it
3. confessing that he has killed an entire village of men women and children and that he did it in a such a brutal and anger induced way
and after seeing anakin do all of this: all padme says in that entire scene is, "what's wrong ani?" and then "to be angry is to be human" while only coddling him as if he was her child that was just "misunderstood" or something.
her advice to anakin was absolutely horrendous, and even though anakin was the one who killed a village's worth of people, he still said more true and correct things than she did during this scene.
you can always give me the convenient excuse of "she is too scared to do anything about it effectively" but in times where she should have been scared of the trade federation and their threats and their army, she just rushes into that conflict head first with little regard for her own life, or perhaps she just read the script and knew that she will be fine no matter what, who knows?
then again, I suppose they have to turn padme into housewife material for the third movie so maybe this is a transition moment for her?
Bro if my entire personality was protecting the galaxy from tyranny and trying to achieve peace and prosperity and this jedi confesses he killed innocent women and children im not gonna comfort him and justify it was “to be angry is to be human” fall in love and marry him and have children with him this writing makes no sense maturing is realizing that
Something Yoda should of done lol
Palpatine's theme playing here makes me believe that he arranged for the Tusken Raiders to kill Anakin's Mother. He's propably feeling all of this and is sitting in his office, with a wide grin on his face.
You're not the only one who thinks that. I personally don't know what to think. But it would certainly make sense.
That's actually confirmed. So good catch!
Richard Haremaker It sucks, then, that the fan theory of Sidious sapping Padme's life force, in order to keep Vader alive during his surgery isn't true.
The expanded universe says that Gardulla had been the dominant Hutt on Tatooine until Palpatine started supporting Jabba. Maybe a certain hooded hologram told Jabba to provoke some Sandpeople?
So, Leia actually avenged her Grandmother without even knowing. I like that theory!
I always wondered why Vader never blew up Tatooine with the Deathstar because of this.
Maladaptive Daydreamer AFAIK Vader is not a fan of the Death Star given its "power to create problems".
An Imperial facility openly attack?!?
Because the planet is so wizard
He wouldn't blow up, his Mother's grave.
This is how I demonstrated it:
Tarkin:Fire at will,commander
Vader:Stop it,stop it don't blow up Tatooine
Tarkin:Why
Vader:There,there is my mother's grave in that planet don't blow it up blow other planets instead
Tarkin:Okay,Lord Vader as you requested
Am I the only one who actually likes anikin’s acting?
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Nope, i honestly don’t see what people are complaining about. The point of the acting is to portray anakin as someone who is struggling to control their emotions, due in part to the Jedi order and how they deal with human nature. Even the love scenes aren’t that bad, imo
No. He did a great job as Anakin. I'm tired of people saying the script was bad and the actors had wooden dialogue in these films. The script was good and these actors made s great performance.
@@Nebulasecura yes, and some people forget that Anakin's character is 19 years old. Basically a teenager
He’s literally amazing it’s spot on to someone who’s mother just died. This is the scene we’re i fell in love with Star Wars because it’s about more than just stupid space action. It’s really about feelings and struggle
did anyone else get chills when anakin said (i will be the most powerful jedi ever).
Not really. Mainly because this movie was a disgrace to the Darth Vader mythos.
+Nathan Cardenas I prefer Anakin's version over Darth Vader
+DETRIC PRICE Anakin is a little bitch like kylo ren. Gets his ass whooped on the daily by sith lord
+Nathan Cardenas Anakins origin story is better than Vaders, Vader isn't as intimidating with the mask and all
True, but he did kill him in the beginning of the next episode, assuming you're referring to Dooku. Even though Anakin whines, he still has that Darth Vader demeanor to him. Him whining that he was being treated unfairly and being manipulated were all part of his fall to the dark side. It wouldn't make sense any other way. Him complaining a lot is what I expected his fall to be like.
This is a really powerful scene, it's Dark but also painful knowing he just suffered a terrible loss.
Powerfully bad scene. I always thought it was pretty light, because it makes me laugh,.
Yobachi2007 So how would you react? I am pretty sure you would be crying if you were a teen
Dawood Williams Don't forget that he just took revenge and went on a merciless killing spree.
I agree strongly!
Yobachi2007 YOU ARE PATHETIC.
"I ... i killed them." - as if just realizing it himself, looking at his hands, with shock.
"I killed them all." he comes to terms with his deeds.
"They're dead." his previous fear gone, replaced by conviction. it fuels him.
"every single one of them." he is seething now, his rage builds up.
"and not just the men." looks at her, as if daring her to question his actions.
"but the women..." the words come filled with hate.
"and their children too." she looks at him, terrified of what she hears, of what she sees.
"they're like animals." changes the nature of his victims from people to smth less, reinforcing his self righteousness, erasing any guilt.
"and i slaughtered them like animals." final confirmation of the deed, with no remorse, nor shame, nor pity.
"i hate them!" even after taking revenge, his hate only grows. even now, he cannot forgive. hate consumes him, and his fall begins.
He looked at his hands very similar to how Luke looked at his hand in ROTJ.
Did he actually kill these people of was it from his dream about what he’s about to do in the future?
@@lawrencehouia1035he actually killed them bruh
@@Spiralredd 😭
@@lawrencehouia1035 it's sad. He also killed younglings an episode later
I think his acting here was amazing. I don’t get people.
Yeah his facial expressions were amazing it's just that his voice was constantly monotone
With the largely awful scripts they were given, I think the actors in these movies did a fine job. Honestly I don’t think even Brando could’ve read some of the lines in these movies and not sound like a tool, that’s how clunky some of it is.
Kryptonian F.O.B
Exactly what i was thinking.hayden is very good actor, it’s just that sometimes he doesn’t know how to play his voice tone properly.
Norman Osborn
His face isn’t bad, but his voice was trash
This is a well acted out scene and it is exactly how anyone would be if their mother just died in their arms. I can't believe he gets stick for being whiny in this scene. If you love your mother would you be calm if she died in your arms?
You can see the conflict on his face. He knows as Yoda says, death is a natural part of life and he shouldn't be attached, but at the same time it's killing him to hold those feelings back.
+K Williams Except for Padme. Her reaction makes no sense. I would have been in complete fear or run away knowing your potential boyfriend committed a massacre.
not really, shes known him since he was a little child, she will try to help him because she knows he is hurting inside
Having been close to people who have lost someone and suffered a form on post traumatic stress, they do act irrationally and even violently but knowing what they have been through, most people look past it and try and support them
I think this is what Lucas intended for Padme.
Ketorulz Recall that Padme spent a day and a half with the Lars family.
Recall that twenty-six people from Anchorhead were killed by the sand peopke when they tried to find Shmi. Some of thise twenty-six people may have been close friends with the Lars.
It is plausible that her opinion of the sand people was at its nadir at the time.
K Williams No I would gets pissed and get revenge
All memes aside, this scene is powerful and saddening. You can’t help but feel for Anakin because of his raw pain and grief.
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Totally a powerful scene here 🎬 😢
Lol this man just admitted to killing women and children yes a very powerful scene indeed
This is when Anakin figured out, "Hate" is a powerful word. And a more powerful feeling.
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dam right I did fear is the path to hate hate is the path that anger and anger is the path the dark side of the Darkside grant many abilities Like.........FORCE CHOKE
Anakin Skywalker not this shit again
Anakin: “I’ll even learn to stop people from dying !”
Palpatine: Lol OKAY
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Ty ty ringer in my rutt
The path to hell... sorry, Darkness... The path to the Darkness is paved with good intentions
*Disney: Lol OKAY
Thanks me later ^-^
Darth Plagueis: Good luck Anakin. It took me an entire career of sith work to figure that out.
In Anakin's defense, he has been afraid of losing his mother since he was a boy. The Jedi Council even point it out in TPM. All this time, for ten years, he's been training to become a Jedi, so he can return to Tatooine and save her from slavery. It's no secret that the Jedi Order was holding him back, because they didn't trust him. Not even Obi-Wan was innocent of this. Now his worst fear has been realized. Tusken Raiders, probably under some kind of direction from Darth Sidious, have abducted his mother and tortured her to death, and there is nothing he can do about it, except to take revenge on her captors, and to crave the necessary power to prevent the same loss from happening to him again. That doesn't justify Anakin's actions, but who wouldn't act the same way if they were in his position?
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Of course it justifies Anakin's actions. Why are you saying killing innocent ppl is totally okay for Tusken Raiders who started it but not Anakin who kills the families who will gladly revel in the blood and sweat of Shmi's slave labor/trade (come on, why else did they capture her alive)? If I rob your stuff and pass them to my children, can I just say "hey man you can't incriminate me, I don't have the loot therefore I'm not a robber!" and my kids "hey I didn't do the stealing myself, therefore I'm not a robber!" ? Now what if it's slavery of your family instead of robbery, and we say this pretending to be innocent all the while benefiting from their slave labor? Anakin just sees what the Tusken Raiders did as Shmi being put back into harsher slavery after her freedom by Lars, of course he hates this development with a passion.
Those Tusken Raiders are very likely to have done much harm to others as well, and will continue to do so if Anakin just let them go. That is their way of life. Are you going to let wolves tear your baby apart just because that is their way of life? It is YOUR justified way of life to kill them to stop that. Same with Anakin.
Should Jedis just let the Empire take over, be "Zen" about it while the very Republic that paid for millennia all their clothes and temples suffer from tyranny, citing "impartiality" and "being not emotional?" That is negligence and why the Jedi Order was portrayed as flawed (Actually, in WW2, Zen Buddhists taught that killing all non-Japanese frees them to go to the afterlife, and blowing yourself up in holy samurai kamikaze on boats/planes/submarines/manned torpedos/diving suits specifically designed for suicide attacks and nothing else, for the One True God Emperor Hirohito whom you must pray everyday towards his Holy City of Tokyo, gets you to Pure Land Zen Paradise stocked with virgins. It's not just some terrorist cell, but an entire nation officially sanctioning this crazy rhetoric, to invade 20 nations from 1870 to 1945. Nazis are angels compared to these cannibals (2 of 3 million soldiers ate ppl enough that the high command issued orders codifying proper procedure for cannibalizing the "subhuman non Japanese") with their own military brothels where captured girls are given *80-men daily rape quotas* before being executed for unwanted pregnancy just to please the Japanese soldiers, who are just like the "civilians" back home who used to be soldiers too in this over-militarized nation, robbed and lynched foreigners as civilians _(see Kanto Massacre where 6000 Koreans were murdered by Japanese civilians who blamed them for the big Kanto Earthquake, compare that to the nazi Kristallnacht where 91 Jews died)_ . Just counting from 1937 when Japan started WW2, they killed 30 million people by dropping on cities Weapons of Mass Destruction like anthrax germ bombs, and mustard gas chemical bombs produced from Hiroshima, and unlike Nazis, were developing 2 nukes to destroy Asia and America, even scheduling Operation Cherry Blossom at Night, a bubonic plague bomb attack on America for September of 1945, to buy time to finish Japanese nukes.
Read, "Zen at War." It is a religion of telling people that has told Japanese peasants that coping with brutal violent samurais with 75% tax rates that funded all their wars is virtuous and manly. Zen has no right to call other religions barbaric while posing pristine. It is an aberration of Chan Buddhism in 6th century China. Japan after all, were the only place in the world whose Buddhist Monks as Sohei warred and killed each other to establish dominance for their decentralized individual temples)
_(Actually the entire premise of a Navy-focused xenophobic military with obsession with ineffective huge ships headed by a man with purported supernatural powers called the "Emperor..." is exactly the Japanese Empire, even down to the focus on making big secret flagships, the Yamato-Class, that ended up just large to compensate for something, too large to be effective and getting blown up by little torpedos from tiny planes, being destroyed before being able to do much of anything)_
Soldiers, police, these are not agents of forgiveness to those unrepentant criminals who will gladly harm others over and over again if left unstopped. Those people are agents of necessary vengeance, just by promising vengeance deters a lot of would-be crimes. Negligence of duty can easily be glorified as "forgiveness" ... imagine that being applied to cases where Police refuse to act due to indolence or cowardice (like Uvalde).
It has been scientifically proven even in biology, the best defense a creature can give itself against harm is the strategy known as Tit for Tat. In other words, Mutually Assured Destruction. Even a strategy that involves giving everyone a 2nd chance each, just meant all the others getting in cahoots with each other, each having a go at exploiting you for that 1 time freebie. What foolishness naive kindness turned out to be.
Naive is the one who believes naive magnanimity will move the hearts of those who are already determined to see you as livestock. Look how magnanimous pigs are, they get slaughtered generation after generation and not a single pig objects! To not retaliate is to become a livestock. As unreactive as a tree that gets chopped down. As unreactive as rocks that get mined.
An Eye for an Eye will make the world blind... but the dumb conclusion is not "don't take revenge," but instead, "therefore you should NEVER take out the 1st eye because violent retaliation is a duty of the victim and you too must suffer. The back and forth feud is ENTIRELY on the first perpetrator's shoulders."
Actually an Eye for an Eye was an act of mercy, when in ancient times, punishments used to eclipse the original crime. Dumb naive people like you warped this idea to mean "cruel punishment."
Even in Christianity (which I don't believe in), the idea of vengeance was not shunned but merely left to God and it was surely promised. "Vengeance is mine." (Deuteronomy 32:35; Romans 12:19) You turn the other cheek because God will mete out vengeance, not humans.
@WaxonWaxoff all this ignores the fact that we as a race have become less and less violent. Retaliatory measures have been greatly reduced to primarily monetary issues. And things like the death penalty has more and more gone by the wayside. And did the world get more violent? No. Opposite. And not even in mutually destructive cases either. Violent crimes have gone down in areas where punishments have been greatly reduced in violence.
Because what stops violence in an area is not the punishment, but the likelihood to get caught.
Recall the nazis and the japanese empire were taken down. But allowed to stand back up relatively easily and quickly. And both countries became big contributors to the world not even 50 years after ww2.
Biggest issue with Anakin and the Raiders is more structure. One would assume tattooine isnt the best law enforcement area lol.
Not to mention WHY the raiders are the way they are.
My father was right! DARK SIDE FOREVER!!!🖤🖤🖤
@@CrabTastingMan its star wars dude you're reading WAY TOO MUCH into this for typing a damn essay. Relax dude
"I will even learn to stop people from dying."
In Return of the Jedi, he kills the Emperor to stop the one he loved (Luke) from dying.
Not only did he save the one he loved from dying, he also freed himself from Palpatine's control.
obiwan ghost to darth vader: anakin you lost the woman you love because of this monster, this monster is about to make you lose YOUR SON!
darth/anakin: no... nooooo! (throws palpatine to his death)
@@24Pudders when his son begged him please to help i just knew he would help him when he threw palpatine saying no
@@TheGamer2kplays Also because he failed to save his mother and Padme, two people who begged him for help in his dreams.
But somehow Palpatine returned ....
Anakin - actually the most powerful Jedi at the time, dreaming about healing people
Rey - knows how to heal people just for fun
Rey knew the sacred texts. Dumb ass
Tekinen'sLP CZ Girl power!! She can also use all of the force powers and has never really been trained lmao. How long did Luke train with Yoda? Ray comes with everything all ready? Bullshit.
The only thing that keeps me from being mad at this is that she was a palpatine
Rey and the disney trilogy is shit
Tekinen'sLP CZ They butchered the whole point of the force and along with the practice of lightsabers. Rey is a joke, they clearly didn’t give a single fuck about the actual series, they just wanted to make more money -_-
1:37 Is probably the most subtle version of the Imperial March ever heard in a Star Wars Film. Damn, John. That was impressive. Never noticed that before now.
@lucgermain9310 No, it's Vader's theme playing subtlely. Listen to the lighter motifs; that's Vader's theme.
@@SpFlash1523 The Imperial March *is* Vader's theme, you moron.
@@SpFlash1523 first it's sidious theme, after it's vader's
This is my favorite scene. The second the imperial march plays, you realize that the dark side slipped in him. Think of young Anikan then think to his future. Pretty deep shit.
I'd say the dark side didn't take him until Palpatine told him about Plageuis' power of life.
J B
Actually you are wrong
Really? I knew the dark side was in him since 1993.
Agree. Anakin was tempted already. And even had a power acquisition.
That’s why the imperial march was played for a moment.
But he’s not turned yet as he’s saying “I’m a Jedi.”
for me, it started with the sidious theme
Padmé: Whats wrong?
Anakin: Well nothing really my mom only died and yeah so... WHAT THE F*CK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!
I am The Senate
The Senate ı am the senate
Proud Puff u
+PROMETHEUS thats treason then
Loool
“I will even learn to stop people from dying”. And people wonder why he turned to the dark side so quickly when he learned he could save padme.
she's AllWays Been a Good NeckRubber 2:28 , Oh Yeah Baby
I love how the Darth vader theme plays a movie before he actually becomes vader. The foreshadowing in this movie made me love it.
It actually plays all the way back in Episode 1. Anakin's theme has the last four notes of the Imperial March towards the end
@@MariOmor1 so is the last scene of phantom menace except its a happy upbeat celebratory version. Blew my mind when I figured that out.
@@SanjuroJoe that one is actually Palpatine's theme in major key and sped up, which symbolizes his victorious ascension to Supreme Chancellor and the first step of his plan to create a Sith Empire
she's AllWays Been a Good NeckRubber 2:28 , Oh Yeah Baby
I like this scene. The hints of Vaderness are terrifying
Yeah you could hear the theme too
This is where the fun begins! (Happy lightsaber hum)
@@u.v.s.5583 im ded
Yeah... and I've always thought it's at this point that Padmé should have left him. After this speach, marrying him makes her somehow to associate with his crimes. I mean, I know Padmé is supposed to be totally good, but here she was able to disengage very easy from him, since they aren't married and neither really dating till now and he's showing to be clearly mentally unstable (even if you endorse vengeance as means of justice in a moment of most understable rage and pain, that couldn't include those who weren't clearly guilty of his mother's murder, such as children, underlining how his lack of control is worst than not just any Jedi's, but any decent man's as well; plus, all his speach about becoming the greater Jedi ever and preventing death is quite delusional, something that shows he has great problems in grasping reality). Her relationship with him is only partially similar to Luke's, since he couldn't choose his father, but she could her husband. Anyway, I don't think that decrease the impact of this scene; on the contrary, I think it adds depth to the story, such as Obi-Wan being good, but sometimes a liar as well :) While regarding Anakin developping into Vader the scene it's really a powerful step.
This is one scene I don't think belonged. It would be one thing to kill the ones responsible for Shmi's death but not the whole village. If this actually happened, realistically, Anakin should've been thrown out of the Jedi Order. This would have made things more interesting IMO as Palpatine could then come find him and reveal himself earlier.
Everyone makes fun of this scene, but it gives me goosebumps.
There're some scenes where his performance is flat but that's probably due to the script. This scene is actually good.
she's AllWays Been a Good NeckRubber 2:28 , Oh Yeah Baby
My Cat Cried
Who is everyone lol p
he's Good at fixing things , oh ; but Messed himself Up and her Too
Interesting how Anakin immediately said he was a Jedi when Padmé said that to be angry is to be human. Like being human and being a Jedi are not the same thing for him. Kinda shows something was wrong...
Because anakin is the most human Jedi. He has the faults humans have that’s what makes him the chosen one. The fact that the light and darkness in him make him stronger. Except the power he has isn’t human so the dark side will easily prey on him
It’s because at this point, everyone from Yoda to Obi-Wan have preached to Anakin that he must keep his emotions at bay and in check. He can’t feel fear. He can’t feel anger. He can’t feel hatred. He can’t feel grief. All of these, the Jedi preach, lead to the Dark Side of the Force. The way of the Sith. Anakin has always struggled with this because he was old enough to know these emotions when he first started training with the Jedi. That’s why they prefer toddlers and kids who are young enough to be molded in their doctrine, and why the council didn’t want to train Anakin at first despite his record midichlorian count and his gifts.
@@Jeff_Pryce man fuck the Jedi the sound like communists more than democrats
Jedi really aren’t supposed to go around committing mass murder out of emotional distress.
Yes. It's more apparent when you watch his conversations with Yoda. Yoda says some crazy non-human stuff to him disguised as wisdom. It's fine for most Jedi because they start as padawans early and become more soldier-like throughout all their actions in life.
I like when says"It's all Obi Wans fault his jealous his holding me back" He thinks Obi Wan is holding him back from learning his true potential because Obi Wan is jealous of his power and if he was more powerful he could have saved his mother, that is why in EpIII he does not hesitate to ask Palpatine is it possible to learn this power.
TheGOATVegeta tragic :(
DevilTrigger They made him deluded by telling him he was the chosen one. Of course he expects special treatment and to learn things quicker.
I think he means "George Lucas" instead Obi Wan
SSJ It’s very common for people to take out their anger and pain on others, including those they are close with. Anakin knew deep down that it wasn’t Obi Wan’s fault, but he took it out on Obi Wan since there was tension between him and his master at that point.
@@jay01342 Wasn't Obi a Jedi Master at this point? That would make him part of the machine.
The fury, brokenness, and pain in his voice is actually incredible.
he's Good at fixing things , oh ; but Messed himself Up and her Too
I got kinda sad after he said he'd someday be able to stop people from dying.
It gave me shivers. Such emotional content showing that Anakin cares for others so much but he feels that he can only be happy if he gains power.
i know it's an old comment but he actually saved his son from dying so it's true that he learned how to save people from dying from a certain [point of view.
TheNiNjawesome I know :((
@@Elkabeergamer but he couldn't save himself, ironic
Yeah you could feel the pain of his loss...
To be honest, he's a young man who suffered the loss of his mother, and has vowed his life to keeping his emotions in check, supressed. No wonder he is freaking out, giving into anger is easy and tempting.
"To be angry is to be human...
I'm a Jedi, I'm stronger than this."
she's AllWays Been a Good NeckRubber 2:28 , Oh Yeah Baby
@@kittylionmeowroar7572 what does that mean? 😂
he's Good at fixing things , oh ; but Messed himself Up and her Too
His acting was amazing here you can see him like he was when he was younger with the tone and how he spoke and how he always wanted to be the person who helped
she's AllWays Been a Good NeckRubber 2:28 , Oh Yeah Baby
Anakin: "I killed them all!"
Padme: "Be the father of my children!
There are women like that
You forgot to take into account that Tusken Raiders aren't seen as people. So what Anakin did was the equivalent of slaughtering a wolf pack with a samurai sword. You also seemed to have missed that Padmé felt sorry for him and saw how he desperately needed emotional support.
It's more complicated than that. She loved him and he was fighting a war. She was being supportive of someone she loved.
phantasmo9998 That’s being kind to the Tuskens, they’re more intelligent than the wolves so that makes them more monstrous.
@@donnyannessa654 At worst the Tuskens are brutal bandits, but they're not mindless. They have a culture, code of ethics, and even take care of their own women and children. They're not mindless beasts.
I always found Padme's reaction here a curious reflection on her character. Here is a woman that has dedicated her life to political pursuits in the name of democracy and justice, and yet...she allows her compassion and pity overwhelm her better instincts where Anakin is concerned. You have to wonder how much of her losing her will to live in RotS stemmed from guilt and shame in the role she played in enabling his downfall.
YES!
So many people failed to stop Anakin's descent. Obi, Mace, Yoda, Padme, perhaps R2...
But not Yoda ? Yoda literally sensed Anakin here and yet did absolutely NOTHING. Heck, Yoda knew this before Padme knows it. God🙄
@@rosesrosesandroses1201 the prequels are literally everyone going “something’s wrong with Anakin....ehh, it’ll be fine!” 😂
I don’t mean it as a bad reflection of Padmé, either. I think it makes her interesting. Gives her complexity.
They seem to be similar in some ways: in ROTS Anakin forgets any idea of good and gives himself to the Dark Side for her (i.e., supposedly to save her); at the end of ATOC, in order to marry him, she conveniently forgets him killing children for revenge, showing clear signs of delirium of omnipotence, hinting he prefers dictatorship... all things she was supposed to recognize as really wrong. They both seem to set aside any basic common sense for their mutual feelings until at the end of ROTS, when Anakin's crimes have grown so much that Padmé can't be delusional about him anymore and she didn't follow him.
I think the thing that really made Anakin turn to the dark side was the fact that he couldn't stand the fact of feeling helpless in the face of things that he couldn't control like his mom dying! Imagine being born into slavery with no hope of being free and then finding out you're a force user! You would totally want to use those powers to your advantage to never feel that way again!
she's AllWays Been a Good NeckRubber 2:28 , Oh Yeah Baby
Now I know why the Jedi were reluctant to train Anakin as he was "too old". Anakin was old enough to witness slavery and suffering, and it had an effect on his psyche.
Exactly. He turned that fear of being helpless and weak into strength. Not just for himself but also for the people he cares about
This was one of those moments when Anakin REALLY could've used Qui-Gon's help during his pain through this.
@G E T R E K T BINGO!👍
she's AllWays Been a Good NeckRubber 2:28 , Oh Yeah Baby
Actually it might have never even happened if Qui Gon hadn't died and got his way.
@@richiefranklin76 Exactly my point
Best acting. I like how he says “I hate them” but it’s sad how he was changing 😔
In 3rd part to Obi Wan: I hAte yOu!
"Someday I will be...I will be the most powerful jedi ever. I promise you." - literal chills
I don't understand the hate Hayden got all those years ago. This scene breaks my heart for what happens to Anakin and only Hayden could deliver this scene. He is Anakin Skywalker to me.
Padmé shouldn't have kept this to herself she and Obi Wan looked the other way on a lot of suspect talk and evil shit.
THANK YOU. I don't know why more people don't discuss this. He just admitted to killing a whole village of people (well, maybe like humanoid like creatures? I mean, under galactic law, killing a Tuskan would be murder no?) including innocent women and children and she's just like "to be angry is to be human." What??????? Then in ROTS comes along it's suddenly a big deal that Anakin killed the younglings......are they trying to send the message that some lives matter more than others?
Jonathan I just finished watching this entire series for the first time and this part confuses the hell out of me, specifically Padme’s reaction. I guess she only cares when younglings are killed.
screw tusken raiders. they're scum.
They raped and tortureded his mother and killed half the people who went to rescue her, leaving his step-father an invalid. I don't think Padme much minded that he slaughtered them, meanwhile the younglings did absolutely nothing to anyone, of course everyone was shocked by that
Jonathan Bradley innocent??!! They tortured and killed a woman for fun it's not like they were nice people also shmi has said it the republic on tattooine doesn't exist. Why do people want sympathy for the tusken raiders when they do this on a regular basis heck even the 30 people that when after her only 4 came back!!
that score man, it really sets that tone of what is to come, his first true steps to the darkside. before the war, before his first saber fight with Count, this was where he started to fall.
"One day I will even stop people from dying"
Kylo Ren: I will finish... What you started
*Saves Rey from death*
You should put SPOILER ALERT before posting such a comment.
Obsidian555 why the movie is complete shit
WAT THE SHITT!! MOST UNDERRATED COMMENT EVER!
Lmao!!!! I was thinking the same damn thing! Kylo did something anakin only dreamed of doing. Even Rey for that matter, saving Kylo from certain death as well.
@@DragonsGemstone I agree with you on that...
I grew up with the Original Trilogy FIRST, and watched it LONG before the Prequels EVER came around. But I can't lie, not even to please others. I love the Prequels more than the Original Trilogy, and this is my FAVORITE Star Wars scene of ANY MOVIE. Disney OR Lucas.
WillFanofMany when I was younger, I only ever wanted to be a Anikin when I grew up. Attack of the clones was my favourite film.
I grew up in a household of OT fans and was raised on SWs from a young age (was even taken to the films re-releases back in 97). The thing is though, none of them appealed to me until TPM, where, out of no where, I went form not caring to suddenly loving everything about SWs, to the point I'd obsess over everything based in the old republic, obsessing over the jedi, obsessing over how this galaxy functioned. When I was 9 or 10, I was fascinated with the senate scenes due to how interesting it was, especially with all the different species, and it was really easy to follow.
@@jish55 I'VE FOUND MY PEOPLE!!! The first film I remember from my childhood was TPM and I really liked it. The CGI was okay for me since Toy Story came out 4 years earlier and I loved it then. Then I saw Hayden Christensen as Anakin and I loved it! He was good to me and pretty to look at. Rots was the best obviously but all of it was great. I didn't grow up with the OT so didn't care for it much. Like how some will grow up with ST and not care for both the OT and PT.
I grew up with the Prequels and my favourites are the Prequels :)
I agree! There was much easier to follow the Prequel storyline than the Originals storyline as a kid, even if I haven't understood everything yet.
These are the scenes Hayden does best. When his anger and hatred bleeds through. It cracks through his insecurity and desire for omnipotence like a fire and it’s so good
I commented mass murder.
Padme: let's have children
Kevin Spacey commited*
Leia's whole planet is destroyed
Leia: makes sassy jokes with stormtroopers
You do realize what Anakin did was the equivalent of killing a wolf pack, right? Tusken Raiders aren't seen as people.
@@rimmstinner3519... Nope.
Just, nope.
Tuskens are a sentient race of people, advanced enough to use projectile weapons. They might be seen as primitive and brutal, but they have language, clothing, villages and technology.
Just because they're behind the rest of the galaxy doesn't mean they're animals.
Except the Tuskin Raiders aren't considered equal to intelligent beings, and the fact they were also responsible for killing a rescue party as well as torturing and potentially raping Anakins mom played a major role in her not thinking terribly of it.
You really see into Anakin's soul here. When faced with incredible loss he at first refuses to accept it, then covets at power and strength looking for a way to prevent further misery. He blames those closest to him needing a villain to the story of his life, and finally we see the unyielding rage that consumes him. His is a tormented soul, having lived his entire life as either a slave or a Jedi, he has no control, his decisions are made for him. This is what will turn him to the dark side, his need to control everything around him to spare himself any further pain.
"That's how it starts. The fever, the rage, the feeling of powerlessness that turns good men cruel."
Oh she's AllWays Been a Good NeckRubber 2:28 , Oh Yeah Baby
This is a killer scene, I even loved it as a kid. With that imperial March put in at the end it’s even more amazing. I like this movie!!
Say what you want about Hayden’s acting, but in emotional scenes like this, he’s clearly putting his heart into it. It’s not his fault the directing sucked.
I think Haydens acting was good and the prequels despite critics are still great. Even in SW originals you have some stuff which is not perfect. I think there are no perfect movies. I like the prequels a lot especially after seeing the SW sequels.
George Lucas screwed the directing over. Hayden would have probably acted better if the director hadn't been George Lucas
@@atulvikram5279 exactly.
she's AllWays Been a Good NeckRubber 2:28 , Oh Yeah Baby
And the writing.
"I'm a Jedi, I know I'm better than this."
And thus we see what will always be the ultimate folly of all Jedi. Their fatal flaw has forever been that they think they are above being human/sentient, and that simply has never been the case. Anakin was a troubled soul, the last thing he needed was to be inundated with their stoic philosophies and taught to suppress his emotions. One of the things I love about the PT is that it depicts what really was a perfect storm for the Republic and Jedi to fall, there are multiple tragedies going on in this world beyond Anakin's fall and Vader's rise, and they all intertwine with one another to create a true modern Greek tragedy.
Now that I rewatched this scene now that I am older.
This was some amazing acting.
Imagine having to act emotionless or detached as a Jedi when you were young. He is feeling all the rage while maintaining a poker face. He knows its wrong but its leaking. He is conflicted so much within.
I'd be terrified seeing someone holding such anger back and is slowly failing. Cause thats a recipe of absolute chaos.
When the imperial march starts playing at 2:00 and Anakin is pissed.. 👋
This movie premiered shortly after my grandma died of cancer. I was full of rage, pain and anger as a result but I was a young kid and didn’t know how to articulate what I was feeling.
I don’t know why, but seeing and hearing Anakin express his rage, sadness, anger and pain…it was cathartic. For once, I had the words I wanted to say.
Thank you, Hayden Christiansen and George Lucas, for giving a grieving child words.
"To be angry is to be human."
"I'm a Jedi. I know I'm better than this."
This is one of my main problems with the Jedi philosophy of dealing with feelings and emotions. They teach that you should just shut them out and not feel anything. You should never feel fear because that leads to anger and all that. You're supposed to hide from certain emotions because of how dangerous they are, even love. They are right in the idea that they are dangerous. Left out of control, they can and will destroy you. But that's why you need to manage these emotions - not push them down and pretend they don't exist. You're going to feel angry sometimes. You're going to feel hatred, love, fear, happiness and sadness. Your emotions should be experienced, and then learned to be controlled, instead of letting them control you. Pushing your emotions down and pretending they don't exist is not the answer. For some, it's a path that leads straight to the dark side. And for the other Jedi who stay with that path, they tend to come out as unfeeling sociopaths. They may do the right thing and be the "good guys", but living under such a strict code and never allowing emotion to seep in makes them more machine than the droids they're fighting.
Totally agree.
Thats why I don't mind Anakins boyish and cheesey lines. I take that as him trying to express his emotions in the broken way he knows how
he's Good at fixing things , oh ; but Messed himself Up and her Too
1:11 hayden christensen referring to how george lucas directed him
DeenWinchester I had the same damn thought
Gwen Claire I believe he’s realistic that how abreal person would be if they were conflicted
LMAO!
Don’t let this distract you from the fact that last Jedi was good and disappointing
Lol
1:54 ”They were like animals, and I slaughtered them like animals… I ATE THEM!!!”
That's an audio error. Audio errors are common in old movies
@Carlos Morales I ate sand too!
@Carlos Morales Lord Vader, can you hear me?
@Carlos Morales Good, Lord Vader. Nice talking to you. Ah, I almost forgot. You killed Padme. Have a nice day. Bye!
It's all Obi-Wan's fault! He's Jell-O! I ate him too!
The fact that he regretted his actions shows that he was deep down a good person.
A good man led astray.
Oh she's AllWays Been a Good NeckRubber 2:28 , Oh Yeah Baby
This is a great performance by Hayden in this scene.
I love how Padmé calmly asks "What's wrong?" as if he isn't clearly grieving for his now dead mother who he hasn't seen properly since he was about 8
Am I the only person in the world who completely feels what Anakin feels, especially from the start until 2:33 of the video. Is there anyone else other than me who can fix almost anything and yet feels exactly like this when a pet or loved one dies? The anguish, the anger, the helplessness. God forgive me, but I just can't help it. Anakin is me in my garage tinkering with something just trying to deal with those feelings most will never understand.
I’ve seen the prequels hundreds of times and for the first time I just realized that the “I will even learn to stop people from dying” line, is literally foreshadowing the power that Plagueis learned which would lure him into the dark side. It’s the exact power Sidious promised him.
This scene is so CHILLING with this change! Well done
Fuck haters, this scene was good. The only acting hayden did that was cringy in this film was when they were on naboo. Sure the acting in this scene isn't as good as it could be but I never found the acting to be bad like how people say. He just lost his mother and he is angry. Of course he's going to be whiny.
although i do not like Portmans acting at all. I think she's personally worse in this scene
in the prequels or in this scene
pilar garcia this scene
Oh but she was pretty good throughout the 3 movies, i don't know just my opinion
pilar garcia i felt hayden put a little more effort. I think his best scenes are the ones where there is no dialogue present. He gives off strong emotions
I agree, it was more special and you can feel the emotion and love between them
You can tell that Anakin had a not so stable childhood and unfortunately, his past emotions were carried over with him as an adult.
0:16-0:19
"Life seems so much simpler when you're fixing things."
For all the grief the dialogue in the Star Wars prequels gets, this is my favorite line in any Star Wars film to date.
Life seems so much more fun when you slaughter them.
Honestly the sand one could’ve been a good one as well. It was just worded awkwardly. I get that it was supposed to show how Anakin saw things vs. how Padme, how she associated sand with beautiful beaches and how Anakin saw sand as harsh and unforgiving
Yeah it they added something like this
Padme: we use to lay out on the sand beaches by the water. It was beautiful. I miss the times before politics. It was simpler.
Anakin: I don’t like sand. Growing up as a slave on tattooine isn’t the beautiful setting as the beaches of Naboo. I’m happy you didn’t have a childhood like mine. Sand to you is home only you see it as peace and I see it as pain.
The prequels were highly underrated.
Oh she's AllWays Been a Good NeckRubber 2:28 , Oh Yeah Baby
This scene is so hated for no reason, I love hadens acting here. It’s heartbreaking, suspenseful and becomes terrifying, this is such a huge moment for his character
Anakin: I slaughtered them, and not just the men BUT THE WOMEN AND THE CHILDREN TOO!
Padme: To be angry is to be human.
She never said that she was okay with it. That and the Sand People are a cult that thrive on torture and suffering. They killed 26 of the 30 people sent to find Ani's mum and crippled his step-father. Who cares if he slaughtered them all. Those kids would grow up to kill some more people anyway.
@@grandempressvicky6387 why don’t we start killing off the children of gang members then?
2:02 Darth Vader Theme...here where everything starts
Sara Smith mhm❤️❤️
When he talks about the deepest darkness, that his pain sunk him into, and growls about how much he hated the Raiders, even while considering his retaliation was pointless cruelty, I empathised with the intensity of his pain.
1:25
When you find a minecraft village that has no blacksmith
Neil Peterson hahahaha Okay, that was good
1:25 - 2:01
Bro, Hayden portrayed Anakin Perfectly - Fuck all the haters.
Anakin: "I killed every last one of them"
*Dimitri liked that*
Ah, the classical delicious Blue Milk! Part of a complete breakfast!
come back after watching episode 7, it's a skywalker thing XD
People complaining about Anakin here is why we ended up with characters like rey
Álvaro Brandón this is just terrible writing tho 😂 and acting
Whale Ghost rots was good
Whale Ghost way better than any of the sequels
Nothing Nobody wym?
@@PHDdad acting your kidding. He’s literally acting his bought look at the emotion on his face you can see utter anger/horror/sadness. People hate the character fine but the hayden is acting exactly how the character would
The reason why I love this scene so much is because it has both Palpatine’s scene (1:44) and the imperial march which signifies the slow birth of Darth Vader. Hayden killed this scene, just like those tuskens 😂
I like how the prequel trilogy slowly introduces the Imperial March. In Phantom Menace there are only slowed parts from the iconic theme. In Attack of the Clones it becomes more and more intense and frequent as Anakin's hate is getting stronger and the Clone Troopers appear. And finally in Revenge of the Sith Darth Vader is born and the Imperial March becomes his theme. :D
One of the most emotional scenes in all of Star Wars.
genius2005 i wish this wasn't sarcasm
I agree with you, unironically. This scene really is well played imo
This but unironically.
Hayden did really well with the rage and unhinging of Anakin’s mind.
Honestly, the only dialogue in this scene that feels out of place to me is when Padme asks, "What's wrong, Ani?"
Well, his mom kinda just died in his arms, so what do you think is wrong?
He still did a great job as Anakin. I don’t care what anyone says about the lines.
1:31 Trying to reach the word requirement for his essay
''The boy has no patience, just like his father'' - Yoda
I kinda hate how much of a joke people treat this scene. Anakin is not only grieving, but is filled with regret. In his anger and grief that terrible night, he slaughtered an entire village in revenge because they brutally tortured his mother to death. He hates them but regrets what he did, not just that he couldn’t stop his mother from dying in his arms. What adds to it is the fact that he has power, but what good is that power if he can’t stop bad things from happening, especially to the people you care about. Anakin must have secluded himself before Padmé decided to stay with him this time and comfort him. She’s his rock. A number of these feelings here become paralleled in Episode III when Anakin realizes he could likely lose Padmé to childbirth, too, despite his power having grown considerably since the day he snuck into the Tuskan Raider camp. A number of people still crap on Hayden’s acting or just Anakin’s character here but Anakin is really quite possibly the most Human character in Star Wars, at least in some regards, especially in his flaws.
This scene is powerful, Anakin was more sad about the fact he ended up slaughtering all the sand People and Anakin knows what he did was wrong but it was difficult for him to suppress his emotions after his mother’s death
Whenever I feel down I watch this and it gets me up.
"I'll even learn to stop people from dying" to know now that that technique is well and truly possible adds some depth to that and especially when he says Obiwan I'd holding him back. The Jedi would have known of this ability but decided to keep it from the chosen one.
1:37 imperial March starts lightly playing
I dont care what anyone says, Hayden did a wonderful job acting in this scene
I agree
The guy lost his mom. He had every right to murder the people who tortured her. Okay, the women and children were much but Anakin was on rage overload. And Anakin confessed to Padme because he can't hold his feelings away from her. And Padme made a bad decision to let this go because in his shoes, she would have probably done the same thing.
Proof Hayden is a good actor. The wooden delivery kinda works here, a boy raised as a slave and then immediately inducted into this world of no emotional connection would make him a bit cut off and awkward.
This scene brings chills down my spine.
this is my problem with the sequels, I feel like ALL luke had to do, was look vader in the eye and call him "Anny" and he would bust into tears, but instead vader goes all "Nah Anakin is dead" on us
Charlie Pemberton because by the time he's vader he has killed a whole bunch of younglings, lost his mum and his wife, been left to burn to death by his best friend and mentor and completely embraced anger and hatred. I had no issue with Anakin's character progression from an over-emotional young man to a merciless sith lord, it fits with the entire concept of jedi falling to the dark side because they cant control their emotions.
Luke was his family tho, so he cared more about him than anyone since he lost his mom and padme who were his family, everyone else didn't matter, so again I feel like all luke had to do was say "come away with me father, to naboo were u and mom lived, come with me anny" boom game over. annys problem with going back to the light was living with the fact that he had nothing left to go back to and anything left i.e ashoka, obi-wan needed to die, just like Anakin did and padme did, they were all dead, but luke changed all of this, luke gave him something, so luke just needed to call him anny.
+Charlie Pemberton
Makes no sense.
Yobachi2007 what?
Vader would probably say that Anakin means nothing to him, that he's dead.
I don't think that calling him Anny would make anything, if anything, Vader would feel even more hatred.
Think about it, the only one who called him Anny was Padmé and his mother, he suffered for the death of both of them and still does, Vader meditates a lot about Obi-Wan and Padmé, even visits Padmé's grave a lot.
If his son called him Anny, not only would it be weird, but it would fuel him with suffering.
Yoda said it best: Fear leads to a anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering. His acting in the scene was awesome.
People like to think Anakin is a brat because of this scene but hey don’t get it.
After the slaughter, he thought it would make him hurt less, but it didn’t. When he came back, he fell apart, tried to do something he enjoys like fixing things to calm himself down but it didn’t work.
When you see him say “And I slaughtered them like animals! I hate them!” You can see the regret all over his face, he only then is aware to the horror he committed in his mother’s name and hates himself for it
When he blames Obi Wan, he’s just lashing out because he doesn’t want to admit his own failure in controlling his pain and anger.
So you see he isn’t a brat, he’s dealing with all the stages of grief simultaneously and on top of it, he hates what he did for his mother out of revenge
And in a way, he wanted Padme to be afraid of him, so that she would stay away from him (maybe to be safe), but she wouldn’t. She stayed with him because she thought he needed her there, now more than ever.
TXNICK96 no, technically he's not a brat, but Hayden Christensen's poor acting just makes it come off that way. most of the time he sounds more whiney than angry. I honestly can't watch 1:13 without laughing. honestly if they had gotten a better actor to play Anakin these movies would've been so much better.
TXNICK96 revenge always feels good. But the anger and guilt still lingers
He also even says "I know I'm better then this"
So it's Obi-Wan's fault that the sand people got murdered? Oh, ok. Let's blame everything on Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan caused Titanic to sink and he's responsible for every tornado to ever hit and it's Obi-Wan's fault that politcians sucks.
+Anakin Skywalker The dark side will devour those who lack the power to control it. It's a fierce storm of emotion that annihilates anything in its path. It lays waste to the weak and unworthy. But those who are strong can ride the storm winds to unfathomable heights. They can unlock their true potential; they can sever the chains that bind them; they can dominate the world around them. Only those with the power to control the dark side can ever truly be free.
+Anakin Skywalker As Yoda said in ESB, Vader wanted a "quick and easy path."
Its Obi-wans fault for that prick donald trump!!!! 😠
Also Obi Wan is Trump
TheSpaceJockey91 - He did not allow Anakin to go when the dreams start coming. It's a full month before he finally gets the courage to go. He went against his gut and it hurt him bad.
Anakin is such a tragic character, his story is really sad, epic, and tragic at the same time
Anakin is actually really good writed and played character