Anakin was… - Raised by a single mother - A child slave - Lived in poverty - Taken to a foreign planet by religious zealots at ten years old - Told he was destined to be the one being out of trillions galaxy wide who would defeat evil And people expected his dialogue to be that of a normal person.
Exactly this . Some people don't understand that he's suppossed to be "awkward" because he literally never experienced love or any basic human emotion before , nor is he allowed to do so due to the jedi code . People always compare him to Han Solo even tho they're meant to be completely different characters . Han is a smuggler who most likely dated multiple women and can pretty much do whatever he wants , Anakin however is a Jedi who's suppossed to follow certain rules but can't because his emotions get the best of him .
@@megatronsroyalemissary382 yea these people back when these movies came out were seriously expecting Anakin to takk *just* like they would in normal life lol smh
Anakin acts exactly how a teenager raised in an all-boys boarding would act around his crush, who is a very beautiful, intelligent and influential woman.
It’s fine Victor. Josh went to an all boys school too I’m sure. I went to a coed mixed gender one myself so I’m less awkward. Please don’t reassign me a nightmarish medical student Josh. They would try to diagnose me with all sorts of problems. It would be a menace and a hindrance. Not romantic like those kdrama garbage. I’m perfectly happy with this arrangement. If you’re frustrated you can send me inappropriate stuff. I will know it’s you. Won’t acknowledge it to protect our privacy but I will allow it. I assure you that if you send it I will find it an encouragement rather than react with disgust
@@LordVader1094 I am sure they were not encouraged to mix romantically. Besides, they were raised together as infants. It's not the same as meeting someone after 10 years.
There are women Jedi. The problem is that a Jedi musn't feel emotions. So, the reaction of Anakin is a bit disproportionnal with Padme. And he is not an adult. He grows up in episode III. Very big contrast. But, to always refusing to express his feelings in a free way, because the Jedi code doesn't like it, it will be easy for Anakin to become Darth Vader. And Palpatine will exploitate habily this weakness.
2:35 I literally just noticed how when Padme tells Anakin to not grow up too fast, she’s looking down at him - as if to imply he’s still a child. But in a stroke of subtle, cheesy, symbolic genius, Anakin stands up in response, towering over Padme - as if to show her that he is in fact “grown up”.
For me, it's like Padme trying to convince herself that Anakin is still the child she knew while Anakin wanted to show her that he is a grown man but the scene just depicts her emotions beautifully in my POV
It just sucks that people geuinely don't understand the romance and for some people who do like it just go with the npc dogma and gaslighting in being like "oh yeah I know x and y is bad but hey that's the point haha please like me and approve of my opinion". It's so pathetic, annoying and insufferable smh. On top of that, some people just love to twist it into something ugly and cheap af which I hate. At the same time, the deleted scenes should've been in the film as it really completes the romance, and shows Padme's pov and her side of the family
Hayden played a shy anxious slave teen boy who was picked up from his mother at the age of 10 and had known no father ever, suppressed feelings and attachment anxiety
@@mrtoxictnd2381 Teens is a growner children while 18+ - adult people, yeah? So how they being teens, if they aren't kids already, dude? So cause 18-19 not a kids & not also a teens, dude.
2:38 - 2:55 - I was only 12 when I saw this and knew jack-shit about love or even having a boyfriend. But oh my God, in this scene, I recall going absolutely weak in the knees because of Anakin. Thanks to him and Jack from Titanic, I am now a hopeless romantic. Goddamnit!
Padme runs towards Anakin ignoring everyone else and hugs him so strong at the end of battle with Dooku...at this point she have been made her choice - to risk everything for him.
I love how as he’s stroking her side at 6:30 he’s observing her reaction very carefully to his touch & looks up at her face when she turns to him to make sure he hasn’t crossed a boundary
People keep hating on the film because of their Romance but according to this video it only last about 20 minutes of this 2 hour and 20 minutes film, 1/7th of the films runtime!
Say what you will about these scenes. In the moments where Hayden's acting is given actually good dialogue its quite beautiful. When he tells Padme his views on love and the Jedi code when they're eating together, its quite poetic, but also shows both the great strength of Anakin, his compassion, whilst also showing his greatest flaw, his unwavering devotion and almost obsession with keeping his loved ones safe. Anakin is a man broken by love, but also saved by it. Which is quite a beautiful story in itself. Its moments like this that make the prequels really shine through its flaws. I think its clear that its Anakin being romantic like this that make Padme fall for him, making his more off-putting lines come across as more romantic than creepy.
who even says he's creepy. He never touches or grabs her, even when he kissed her he just leaned and waited for the silent 'yes'. He never blocks the ways to pass over him and he never follows her when she leaves. After the honest and intimate conversation and after her rejection he kept his promise to never start this topic again until Padme did it herself. He was kinda surprised when she said to him she loved him, because he really had accepted that they could never be together. Could a creep ever accept a rejection? He is just being persistent in getting that particular woman, because he wants her only. He is ambitious himself, so he is ambitious in love. What a stupid thing to say that he is creepy when he is actually ambitious. And his actions are just ordinary
@@nektoincognito5339 that’s what I mean. He’s not creepy at all. In fact he’s very respectful of her feelings. People honestly treated him like he was some whiny incel when he was more than understanding and respectful of Padme’s boundaries.
"He's behaving how an early 2000s lover boy would act" You're sure about that? I don't recall Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker acting like this towards Mary Jane, or Neo acting like this towards Trinity, Harry Potter to Ginny, etc. . Stop making excuses for Lucas's terrible writing.
I'm gonna be hated on, but so be it: i think Hayden Christensen did a good job at playing anakin. His dialogue, yes, sounds like that of a 5 year old, but i think that was intentional. Anakin is immature and cocky. He's emotional. In revenge of the sith, he does mature, somewhat, and his ego shrinks a little. George lucas even said that padme was the more mature one of the two. Just a thought I had, and wanted to share
Yes! I completely agree, and ppl just don't get it. The awkwardness was just him because of lack of experience and that young boyishness, and in rots he's more mature
He’s an awkward teen and immature in comparison to Padme who had to grow up quickly in her role as Queen of a whole planet. She’s his first crush so of course he’s going to be awkward around her when he first sees her again. Their chemistry perfect here. She, on the other hand, probably didn’t have much a serious boyfriend in her life so allowing herself to open up emotionally was probably awkward for her too.
I personally always said that he's not bad as Anakin it's the fact that he's playing opposite Ewan McGregor who is a phenomenal actor. A lot of the time in movies and TV when you're playing opposite someone who is an extremely good actor you often look like crap in comparison. As for the dialouge and the writing I blame that on Lucas not him. Hayden simply worked with what Lucas gave him. You can't be mad about that.
I think Padre enabled Anakin, didn’t hold him accountable. I think the Jedi needed to do some things differently. I think Obi-Wan was too hard on Anakin sometimes. I think Hayden played Anakin perfectly, Anakin was a troubled young man with a huge weight on his shoulders.
It was before she spent several days, weeks with Anakin in Naboo. Eventually Padmé changed her mind after that, because she fell for him in Naboo. He was no longer the little boy from Tatooine. He really has grown. It's true that he didn't give up. He really was in love with Padmé.
@@PhlilipeAlvestrue but I feel like Padme’s always liked Anakin deep inside. That’s why it was so easy for her to fall in love him. It’s only that her feelings for him wasn’t fully ablaze as she was only 14 and he was 9. Plus she was focused too much on her responsibilities/careers. Padmé even says in the novelizations of the movie that she’s been intrigued by him when she met him while he was at 9 years old, or something along those lines.
@@Vigriffnah, I wouldn’t call it a “force bond”, Anakin didn’t even know he had Jedi powers before he met her. Whatever sparked between them was by the Force itself.
I think it's more her way to say I love you (which implies to come safe). Because at that point she already loved him, but she was in denial until Geonosis. Almost everytime she called him Ani when together.
Lol you're not wrong. I grew up with the prequels, so I had always taken it for granted that Darth Vader is Anakin. But for someone who saw the original trilogy back in the 70s and 80s, I can imagine how jarring the prequels would be. Darth Vader is supposed to be this big, bad, terrifying menace, yet here he is awkwardly trying to rizz up a girl😂
Anakin was a normal person. But expected to be someone else. Underrated by even the Jedi’s. No one including Padme at times found a way to relieve his sufferings. Padme adored him through and through, but at times he was alone too.
Thank you . He was never free to be himself . Even as Darth Vader . Constantly proving himself throughout the movie . The Jedi’s should have acknowledged him a little more. The tragedy of turning could have being averted
the rizz moments are so realistic it hurts, makes me remember the awkward, intense affections (and attachments) I had back in the day their chemistry on screen is so beautiful too they actually nailed it, acting and even the writing, despite what people say
Anakin : You love me? I thought we had decided not to fall in love. That we'd be forced to live a lie and that it would destroy our lives. Padme : I think our lives are about to be destroyed anyway.
The way everytime he gets her to smile or laugh he smiles back in self victory like “yes I did it again, but she’s also so beautiful 😻” I love anakin he’s so pure for his love for her 😭😭🖤
Especially if a woman turned out to be raised with literal axes and trained SINCE CHILDHOOD. You do NOT wanna mess with my mom for example that's Padme but even more primal than Padme primal when pushed too far
Honestly it's not bad... Anakin is supposed to be awkward, it's the only woman he's ever liked and his first time flirting and talking through those feelings, which is hard enough for a normal person, let alone a slave that was raised as a jedi. In fact, he is actually much more socially capable than he realistically should be. ALSO, Star wars, the prequels in particular are written in a strange way, but I think that's also intentional as it is a long time ago in a galaxy far far away, not the 21st century
This was the love story that I carelessly lived through as a teenager, never having any real life prospects in those years. The Padme of my youth never got past the "Please, don't look at me like that." stage with me.
it’s so hard to believe but i can see why it happened. he had a tough childhood only to loose his wife which he was so scared of losing. “fear is the path to the dark side”.
Hear me out, I know it's the geekyest shit ever BUT we are weirded out by their love scenes because we grew up with earthly love experiences. Apparently, this right here is space love
I used to make fun of the "sand" dialogue Anakin gives but re-visiting this scene as an adult who has been to the beach quite a few times in recent succession I do have to allow that sand indeed gets everywhere. And the poor guy did grow up on Tatooine which was all desert sand pretty much...so fair enough dude, fair enough.
10:03 😳 Omg, how bad attachment to Padmé Anakin had. It’s horrifying. It’s now very clear, why he became a sith. He clarified that the more he loves her, the more he suffers without her. His fear of losing her made him want to sacrifice everything he ever had to save her from death, but he almost killed her when she refused to follow his dark path to power. I find it weird that Padmé still wanted to be with him after he slaughtered the Tuskens. Anakin became much more emotionally mature in The Clone Wars series, but still you can see that his love for her was rotten to the core. The best part is that there are plenty of people who are just like Anakin, unhealthy attached to the one they love. One should learn, that if you put your trust in you happiness through the (current) love of you life, you will be imprisoned to this attachment. If that person will want to go, you will be destroyed. Anakin pointed out directly that he’s aware of the fear of losing Padmé, which is killing him. And when he lost her, his life was over, he began a new one as Darth Vader, but we all know how it went (he actually got over her relatively quickly in the Canon, embracing his new life by being busy for the Empire all the time). If Anakin learned to let go, he wouldn’t fall to the dark side. Just as anyone, wouldn’t fall to the dark if they learned to let go…
anakin: so yeah, I should be all powerful so I can stop people from dying. also, it's all obi wan's fault and he is jealous and holding me back! also also, I murdered an entire village of men, women and children because my mother died. I hate them! and I know I should be better than this, because I am a jedi. padme's words: what's wrong ani? to be angry is to be human... padme's thoughts: I can fix him, also I love him~
I love how here 6:56 when he after initiated the kiss and padme was deepening it he was guiding it so Bentley like he didn’t want it to end so u can see him lightly following her lips with his own 😭😭
I think that with the combined spectacle of space wizard battles, the subtleties of these scenes are really lost on most people. I appreciate them, and how much work is actually put into them. People have complained about walking and talking, but they're clearly set up to be more akin to a play. I'd love to see a live play adaptation of this movie.
Or Ultra Vegito tampering with this universe by killing "Gods" like Anakin, believing that what he does will be the salvation of all mortals like Padme. Tragically Vegito would think that Anakin became the same animal as the Gods and the Tuskens and that he was never designed to look in the mirror. That the biggest sin of all "red flags" like him is existing. Such a colossal lack of empathy from the God Killer to try and put himself on Ani's shoes would potentially backfire on him. Ironically tho Vegito wouldn't do this for the sake of validating some shitass dogma
11:25 idk why but anakin looks so like just out of it here. Like what she said about coming back to the real world really got him thinking. Just looks very funny to me for some reason.
Don't forget about her hair! I want everything Natalie's Padme was wearing and looked like! The hair, clothing design, and makeup departments definitely deserved an award.
That’s what being a former queen does for you. I remember reading Padme’s novels and she even mentions how she has to keep up appearances for the public and hence why she’s always so well dressed and polished.
Anakin really acts like a teenager. I just don’t think it’s believable that Padme would be attracted to him. She’s beautiful, classy, and intelligent. He doesn’t match her in maturity at all. He doesn’t do anything that shows he’s grown up, he just says it and then acts in immature ways.
Anakin felt he was undermined his whole life. Always being seen as less than; finally received trust and authority. It was under the wrong hands via manipulation and deceit. Thats why he trusted Palpatine more. Once he tapped to his anger against those who looked down apon him, he enhanced his anger against the force with power and aggression as Lord Vader.
At 8:35 padme is very disturbed by what he just said & she isn’t stupid, she knows he meant it that’s why they broke into that awkward silence because she picked up on how he didn’t even hesitate or wavered in his belief & he didn’t seem to understand that the way it came out his mouth sounded very careless , & she’s thinking to herself “I really am glad his career is strictly militarily 😅
Thank you so much! You even summarized some of the dialogue which became tedious in the movie and left the beautiful scenes. I do wish you'd have left the wedding scene intact, however.
*Anakin:* I've killed them, I've killed them all. And not just the men. But the women and the children too! They're like animals! And I've slaughtered them like animals! *Padme:* to be angry is to be human. 10/10 writing.
What’s wrong with that? She doesn’t give af about the evil ass Tuskens who killed Shmi. What next? Leia cries for the Stormtroopers when Luke blows up the Death Star? Be real.
What Anakin "didnt understand" is that with his potential and ability, he is going to be held to a higher standard. In martial arts, once you become a higher rank, they do the same exact thing. Its because they see something in you. They are meant to push and challenge you.
There was the sexual chemistry in three generation of Skywalker family: - Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman - Rosario Dawson and Jude Law - Ewan McGregor and Cate Blanchett - Mena Massoud and Natasha Liu Bordizzo - Ryan Gosling and Mary Elizabeth Winstead - Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher - Adam Driver and Daisy Ridley - John Boyega and Kelly Marie Tran - Oscar Isaac and Keri Russell P.S. If they put Kazuda Xiono and Torra Doza in Sequel Trilogy, they would have been BooBoo Stewart and Ella Purnell
If Anakin love Padme so hard, and If Padme feels the same love, cmon Anakin leave the Jedi order and be with her the rest of your life 🤷🏻♂️, Anakin has a lot of skills, virtues and is smart, he can get a good job. F;ck off the Jedi order.
The fact that 95% of the time he was most likely using the force to get a bead on her genuine emotion & she thought she was hiding it but he’s got a literally psyche connection to her emotions 😭😭😭 it’s a good thing she don’t know
He was in love and didn't know how to express his feelings for the girl he loved since his 9 years old. Nonetheless he got the girl, because she fell for him also. 0:18 it's when she starts to fall...
Anakin is her love interest and her friend. Anakin just lost his mother and is pouring out his raw emotions as well as confessing to a mistake he already knows he made. Of course, she is just going to comfort him at that point. He's already beating himself up enough. She doesn't need to pile on him. Are you guys socially inept or something?
What makes you think she isn’t the bad one all along? Anakin was ashamed beyond hell, but Padme couldn’t care less. She was an imperial dictator queen, and was staunchly pro-Republic that was the Empire in all but name, after all.
The way padme smiles at him, it really ain’t hard to understand how she got to be pregnant 😂😂 plus anakin was younger & active so he’s gonna chase after her if she teases him & he thinks she beautiful like an angel ❤
Its crystal clear how arrogant, impulsive, brutal and conflicted he was. Its shocking Obi Wan didnt stop it or the other Council members. He betrayed everyone he knew and doomed the galaxy for 20 years for this chick.
Very weird galaxy if all it takes to dooming is just 1 guy trying to save 1 girl… I’m pretty sure there’s more to it than that… Like a galaxy wide Empire and Civil War with millions of Clones wrapped in a Holy Religious Warfare between 2 ancient cults… These 2 are just little cogs in the wheel who simply got engulfed in the crossfire. Sure, the implication here is just 1 person can make a difference, but not fair to blame the whole thing on him. I’m trying to say that Jedi were at their own fault and would have been wiped out anyway by the Clones had Anakin & Padme been there or not. So don’t just blame him and say that Jedi should have just gotten rid of him, rather they should have helped him out because he was their best chance against the Sith & Empire; that was the point of Luke & Leia’s characters after all.
@@LilacSreya I think he has the main fault and Jedi tried to help him all the time: they made him knight, made him general of the Republic, gave him responsability and assigned him the duty to rescue the chancellor and defeat Dooku. Yoda gave him good advises, tried to remember him how a Jedi handles pain. He didnt want to listen, didnt want to be helped in a healthy way. Did he deserve the rank of master? No, he didnt. He lacked everything (except combat abilities) a Jedi master need. Without Anakin the Order 66 wouldnt have been successful and the Attack on the Temple would have failed with Windu alive. So yes, I say its Anakin fault. Probably you are just one of the millions Vader/Anakin fanboys who cant accept a fair analysis.
As opposed to siding with a group that didn’t trust or value him? He not only sided with padme but with palpatine. People forget that cause she is so damn cute.
I know he was angry about the treatment and death of his mother, but I'm still a bit surpised at how Padme overlooks the fact he killed women and children. And then acts 😱 in revenge of the sith when she finds out Anakin has killed younglings. I mean 🤦♀️
Hayden did a great job in this movie. Tell me if you can’t feel his anger and frustration he is just great. (I think that the main problem of AOTC Anakin is that they didn’t know which role should he has to play in the movie but Hayden do his part excellent).
Anakin was…
- Raised by a single mother
- A child slave
- Lived in poverty
- Taken to a foreign planet by religious zealots at ten years old
- Told he was destined to be the one being out of trillions galaxy wide who would defeat evil
And people expected his dialogue to be that of a normal person.
Exactly this . Some people don't understand that he's suppossed to be "awkward" because he literally never experienced love or any basic human emotion before , nor is he allowed to do so due to the jedi code . People always compare him to Han Solo even tho they're meant to be completely different characters . Han is a smuggler who most likely dated multiple women and can pretty much do whatever he wants , Anakin however is a Jedi who's suppossed to follow certain rules but can't because his emotions get the best of him .
Fantastic Point 🏆
Are you the guy from family guy?
Besides that, every planet isn’t earth. We can’t expect EVERY human on EVERY planet in the galaxy to have the same social cues.
@@megatronsroyalemissary382 yea these people back when these movies came out were seriously expecting Anakin to takk *just* like they would in normal life lol smh
“I wanna know who’s trying to kill me?” The foreshadowing is literally right in front of you!
Lmao
palpatine tried to kill her
“dark curly hair, dreamy eyes”
explains why later on Anakin had his hair long and curly and a bit more darker than it was.
I loved when we watched it yesterday in theaters and we laughed at his response.
@@BlackDiamond2718how’d you watch this old ass movies in theaters ? Shii I need to be where u at then 😭😭
@@christinahutchinson2884 they were showing it during the may event.
What does that mean ?*
I only recently started watching Star Wars so anything currently is unknown to me
Anakin acts exactly how a teenager raised in an all-boys boarding would act around his crush, who is a very beautiful, intelligent and influential woman.
It’s fine Victor. Josh went to an all boys school too I’m sure. I went to a coed mixed gender one myself so I’m less awkward. Please don’t reassign me a nightmarish medical student Josh. They would try to diagnose me with all sorts of problems. It would be a menace and a hindrance. Not romantic like those kdrama garbage. I’m perfectly happy with this arrangement. If you’re frustrated you can send me inappropriate stuff. I will know it’s you. Won’t acknowledge it to protect our privacy but I will allow it. I assure you that if you send it I will find it an encouragement rather than react with disgust
Except there were plenty of girls and women in the Jedi order, lol
@@LordVader1094 I am sure they were not encouraged to mix romantically. Besides, they were raised together as infants. It's not the same as meeting someone after 10 years.
Love is cringe
There are women Jedi. The problem is that a Jedi musn't feel emotions. So, the reaction of Anakin is a bit disproportionnal with Padme. And he is not an adult.
He grows up in episode III. Very big contrast. But, to always refusing to express his feelings in a free way, because the Jedi code doesn't like it, it will be easy for Anakin to become Darth Vader. And Palpatine will exploitate habily this weakness.
2:35 I literally just noticed how when Padme tells Anakin to not grow up too fast, she’s looking down at him - as if to imply he’s still a child. But in a stroke of subtle, cheesy, symbolic genius, Anakin stands up in response, towering over Padme - as if to show her that he is in fact “grown up”.
**POWER MOVE**
When he proves her point by literally thinking being grown is being taller lmao
@@EughhBrothereughh True, Yeah
For me, it's like Padme trying to convince herself that Anakin is still the child she knew while Anakin wanted to show her that he is a grown man but the scene just depicts her emotions beautifully in my POV
@@najihaanuar7208 That's a Good Point of View Yeah
Imagine obi wan's anxiety letting anakin and padme go alone
Anakin is gone
Obi wan knows as he was once a thing with Empress Satine of Mandalore
@@brittney5771 obi wan know what a youn senator and a young jedi can do with no supervision
@@chudeexiste7329It probably nearly happened to him with Satine while he was young lol. Bro still got the trauma from getting caught.
Wow Obi Wan got 2 Satines one in the star wars world and one in Moulin Rouge 😅
18:20 you can hear the Vader theme playing,probably one of the first signs that Anakin is falling down a dark path
When he says “when I am not with you, I cannot breathe”… the foreshadowing
thats cool your smart
Wow, I never noticed that.
I don’t care what anyone says I love their scenes
Me too and I love them so much ❤
Same, from both Episode 2 and 3, I just like their whole romance story
I will defend Episode 2 with my whole life. I love it deeply even after rewatching in 2024
Me too
It just sucks that people geuinely don't understand the romance and for some people who do like it just go with the npc dogma and gaslighting in being like "oh yeah I know x and y is bad but hey that's the point haha please like me and approve of my opinion". It's so pathetic, annoying and insufferable smh. On top of that, some people just love to twist it into something ugly and cheap af which I hate.
At the same time, the deleted scenes should've been in the film as it really completes the romance, and shows Padme's pov and her side of the family
The costume design, scenarios and cinematography on these three movies are insane
I know right, it was amazing 😍🤩
Compare the costumes here to the Disney movies: drab coats and vests galore!
YEAH. The sequel trilogy really made us appreciate the prequels
Hayden is great. People hate on some of the poetic dialogue in these scripts instead of being grateful. Now we have, "Somehow Palpatine returned."
and let us not forget, "They fly now! They fly now? They fly now."
Wish they have dialogues like in potc
You said it brother 😐
Its outdated, now is "The power of one, the power of two, the power of many"
Don’t forget the “REY REY REY REY REY REY REY REY REY REY REY REY REEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY REEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY”
Y’all might not agree with me but Hayden is a great actor and he did anakin good y’all should blame whoever wrote his scripts
Blame Lucas Also.. he's not a director should of gotten someone else to direct the prequels movies imo
Blame for what?? The movie is awesome.
@@mclovin4495 his team in the originals helped balance out some of the issues like the bad dialogue
Hes always a great actor. Lucas said that Hayden did a great job to match his vision on the character
I liked him...wasn't as bad as people said. I like the Prequel movies alot. Not perfect but... is anything really perfect?
Hayden played a shy anxious slave teen boy who was picked up from his mother at the age of 10 and had known no father ever, suppressed feelings and attachment anxiety
He is not teen. At 2 & 3 movies
@@Darthfermer00he’s supposedly supposed to be 18-19 in Attack of the clones
@@stackupgloshit I know, but on my opinion a teen person at 10-17 age. Not non-minors
@@Darthfermer00dude being a teen isn't a matter of opinion. 18-19 is a teenager no way around it
@@mrtoxictnd2381 Teens is a growner children while 18+ - adult people, yeah? So how they being teens, if they aren't kids already, dude? So cause 18-19 not a kids & not also a teens, dude.
2:38 - 2:55 - I was only 12 when I saw this and knew jack-shit about love or even having a boyfriend. But oh my God, in this scene, I recall going absolutely weak in the knees because of Anakin. Thanks to him and Jack from Titanic, I am now a hopeless romantic. Goddamnit!
Padme runs towards Anakin ignoring everyone else and hugs him so strong at the end of battle with Dooku...at this point she have been made her choice - to risk everything for him.
@9:03 is the one and only time I've heard Anakin laugh. From here on in, it's anger, sadness, and bitterness with small moments of falling in love.
He laughs in episode 3 a few times before the nightmare
Literally laughs 19 seconds later 9:22
I love how as he’s stroking her side at 6:30 he’s observing her reaction very carefully to his touch & looks up at her face when she turns to him to make sure he hasn’t crossed a boundary
People keep hating on the film because of their Romance but according to this video it only last about 20 minutes of this 2 hour and 20 minutes film, 1/7th of the films runtime!
Say what you will about these scenes. In the moments where Hayden's acting is given actually good dialogue its quite beautiful. When he tells Padme his views on love and the Jedi code when they're eating together, its quite poetic, but also shows both the great strength of Anakin, his compassion, whilst also showing his greatest flaw, his unwavering devotion and almost obsession with keeping his loved ones safe. Anakin is a man broken by love, but also saved by it. Which is quite a beautiful story in itself. Its moments like this that make the prequels really shine through its flaws. I think its clear that its Anakin being romantic like this that make Padme fall for him, making his more off-putting lines come across as more romantic than creepy.
He’s not creepy. He’s behaving how any early 2000’s lover boy would act. Times have changed. That’s why we’re cringed out by it.
Ah yes, the average 2000s male who walks up to his girl and says "I slaughtered all of them. Not just the men, but the women and the children too."
who even says he's creepy. He never touches or grabs her, even when he kissed her he just leaned and waited for the silent 'yes'. He never blocks the ways to pass over him and he never follows her when she leaves. After the honest and intimate conversation and after her rejection he kept his promise to never start this topic again until Padme did it herself. He was kinda surprised when she said to him she loved him, because he really had accepted that they could never be together. Could a creep ever accept a rejection? He is just being persistent in getting that particular woman, because he wants her only. He is ambitious himself, so he is ambitious in love. What a stupid thing to say that he is creepy when he is actually ambitious. And his actions are just ordinary
@@nektoincognito5339 that’s what I mean. He’s not creepy at all. In fact he’s very respectful of her feelings. People honestly treated him like he was some whiny incel when he was more than understanding and respectful of Padme’s boundaries.
@@Lunafroyo why did Hayden have to suffer so much for this role:(
"He's behaving how an early 2000s lover boy would act"
You're sure about that? I don't recall Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker acting like this towards Mary Jane, or Neo acting like this towards Trinity, Harry Potter to Ginny, etc. . Stop making excuses for Lucas's terrible writing.
I'm gonna be hated on, but so be it: i think Hayden Christensen did a good job at playing anakin. His dialogue, yes, sounds like that of a 5 year old, but i think that was intentional. Anakin is immature and cocky. He's emotional. In revenge of the sith, he does mature, somewhat, and his ego shrinks a little. George lucas even said that padme was the more mature one of the two. Just a thought I had, and wanted to share
Yes! I completely agree, and ppl just don't get it. The awkwardness was just him because of lack of experience and that young boyishness, and in rots he's more mature
He’s freakin phenomenal as Anakin
He’s an awkward teen and immature in comparison to Padme who had to grow up quickly in her role as Queen of a whole planet. She’s his first crush so of course he’s going to be awkward around her when he first sees her again. Their chemistry perfect here. She, on the other hand, probably didn’t have much a serious boyfriend in her life so allowing herself to open up emotionally was probably awkward for her too.
Exactly, he was raised a slave and then taken by some religious group, that’s obviously gonna make him a bit awkward
I personally always said that he's not bad as Anakin it's the fact that he's playing opposite Ewan McGregor who is a phenomenal actor. A lot of the time in movies and TV when you're playing opposite someone who is an extremely good actor you often look like crap in comparison. As for the dialouge and the writing I blame that on Lucas not him. Hayden simply worked with what Lucas gave him. You can't be mad about that.
When Padme confessed her love to Ani, it was so beautiful to hear her say those words fr❤
Seeing that at 6 years old made me firmly believe A female has to bebased off of love loyalty or trust
I just noticed how good hayden is at staring at ppl creepily like he’s really in love(i want him to look at me like that)
You want him to stare creepily at you?? 😭
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These are the moments Darth Vader would non stop reminisce whenever he had some free time in the bacta tank or meditation chamber
I think Padre enabled Anakin, didn’t hold him accountable. I think the Jedi needed to do some things differently. I think Obi-Wan was too hard on Anakin sometimes. I think Hayden played Anakin perfectly, Anakin was a troubled young man with a huge weight on his shoulders.
You shoot your shot.
*You'll always be that little boy on Tatooine.*
OUCH!
The fact he kept shooting shots after that was... Most impressive
It was before she spent several days, weeks with Anakin in Naboo. Eventually Padmé changed her mind after that, because she fell for him in Naboo. He was no longer the little boy from Tatooine. He really has grown.
It's true that he didn't give up. He really was in love with Padmé.
sometimes it takes more than one arrow to get to the target of the bull’s-eye
@@PhlilipeAlvestrue but I feel like Padme’s always liked Anakin deep inside. That’s why it was so easy for her to fall in love him. It’s only that her feelings for him wasn’t fully ablaze as she was only 14 and he was 9. Plus she was focused too much on her responsibilities/careers. Padmé even says in the novelizations of the movie that she’s been intrigued by him when she met him while he was at 9 years old, or something along those lines.
@Lunafroyo I always assumed it was because of a Force Bond that Anakin accidentally made when they first met.
@@Vigriffnah, I wouldn’t call it a “force bond”, Anakin didn’t even know he had Jedi powers before he met her. Whatever sparked between them was by the Force itself.
@1:37 anakin talking obi-wan is soooo "moody teen vs older father" lmaoo
16:14- That's Padme's way of saying: "Please come back alive."
I think it's more her way to say I love you (which implies to come safe). Because at that point she already loved him, but she was in denial until Geonosis. Almost everytime she called him Ani when together.
Crazy to think that Darth Vader was once this guy 😂
😂😂😂😂😂 obi wan cut off his limbs that's why
easy: he's a simp
Lol you're not wrong. I grew up with the prequels, so I had always taken it for granted that Darth Vader is Anakin. But for someone who saw the original trilogy back in the 70s and 80s, I can imagine how jarring the prequels would be. Darth Vader is supposed to be this big, bad, terrifying menace, yet here he is awkwardly trying to rizz up a girl😂
It’s crazy how much Vader looms whenever padme is around
Wym ? Like his alter ego of Vader is drawn to her !
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Anakin was a normal person. But expected to be someone else. Underrated by even the Jedi’s. No one including Padme at times found a way to relieve his sufferings. Padme adored him through and through, but at times he was alone too.
Thank you . He was never free to be himself . Even as Darth Vader . Constantly proving himself throughout the movie . The Jedi’s should have acknowledged him a little more. The tragedy of turning could have being averted
His lil evil smiles are so cute I love him & I love how padme is like “um no, I want a good boy not bad boy” 😂😂
2:43 Anakin gives Padme the lightskin stare 😂
IM LAUGHING MY ASS OFF-😂
OMGGG on top of that he is a Caucasian light-skin too, it just makes it even worse😭😭
Uncool. Quit the racism.
L Rizz
LMAOOO thats what i was thiking
The conversation in the meadow about politics, implications of the Empire to come.
the rizz moments are so realistic it hurts, makes me remember the awkward, intense affections (and attachments) I had back in the day
their chemistry on screen is so beautiful too
they actually nailed it, acting and even the writing, despite what people say
Their love story will always be iconic and memorable in the Star Wars franchise. Love them both in all three prequels.
Their romance was the best part of the movie.
The movie was fine. Only to watch Natalie Portman's beauty and her outfits is enough. 😁
It's the best part because it's the worst part, and therefore the most entertaining.
@@rattis I could never enjoy something I consider to be bad. Nor do I think bad filmmaking is entertaining.
Curious.
The only thing i like about thie movie are the clones
True
Anakin : You love me? I thought we had decided not to fall in love. That we'd be forced to live a lie and that it would destroy our lives.
Padme : I think our lives are about to be destroyed anyway.
AKA, who the fuck cares?
😂😂.
The way everytime he gets her to smile or laugh he smiles back in self victory like “yes I did it again, but she’s also so beautiful 😻” I love anakin he’s so pure for his love for her 😭😭🖤
“please, don’t look at me like that…it makes me feel uncomfortable”
If a woman said that to me I would probably avoid eye contact & conversation
Facts props to anakin then for never giving up
Especially if a woman turned out to be raised with literal axes and trained SINCE CHILDHOOD. You do NOT wanna mess with my mom for example that's Padme but even more primal than Padme primal when pushed too far
Honestly it's not bad... Anakin is supposed to be awkward, it's the only woman he's ever liked and his first time flirting and talking through those feelings, which is hard enough for a normal person, let alone a slave that was raised as a jedi. In fact, he is actually much more socially capable than he realistically should be.
ALSO, Star wars, the prequels in particular are written in a strange way, but I think that's also intentional as it is a long time ago in a galaxy far far away, not the 21st century
Yeah plus it’s a different and new era the scenes shows Anakin is not Han Solo at all.
A hero would sacrifice you for the world. A villain would sacrifice the world for you
OOOOOH. Good point.
“Men, there is no sacrifice greater than someone elses.”
Anikan saved the world from the republic
Also a true hero sacrifice themselves for you and the world.
This was the love story that I carelessly lived through as a teenager, never having any real life prospects in those years. The Padme of my youth never got past the "Please, don't look at me like that." stage with me.
Episode II is probably my favorite of the Star Wars films.
Same brother. I adore this movie. Wish we'd gotten a version with all the deletes scenes, they are all great
It’s the most underrated
I hated Anakin in this movie. Too arrogant.
I cant understand how someone like anakin became a sith lord
17:48
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering”
Honestly no matter how many times I watch these films it's still so hard to believe that he becomes Vader.
it’s so hard to believe but i can see why it happened. he had a tough childhood only to loose his wife which he was so scared of losing. “fear is the path to the dark side”.
Also he didn't belive palatine was evil he believed the jedi were like anakin put his faith in the wrong person and just snapped.
Hear me out, I know it's the geekyest shit ever BUT
we are weirded out by their love scenes because we grew up with earthly love experiences. Apparently, this right here is space love
@Im_Kinda_Cold😂 thank you for keeping it real.
Not space love, just atrocious writing. As a writer myself, I'm embarrassed that people actually ship them and like their love story.
@@HunterJumper-ow2oo hater
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I think it reminds people of awkward experiences during middle or high school which is why it makes them uncomfortable
I used to make fun of the "sand" dialogue Anakin gives but re-visiting this scene as an adult who has been to the beach quite a few times in recent succession I do have to allow that sand indeed gets everywhere. And the poor guy did grow up on Tatooine which was all desert sand pretty much...so fair enough dude, fair enough.
10:03 😳
Omg, how bad attachment to Padmé Anakin had. It’s horrifying. It’s now very clear, why he became a sith.
He clarified that the more he loves her, the more he suffers without her. His fear of losing her made him want to sacrifice everything he ever had to save her from death, but he almost killed her when she refused to follow his dark path to power.
I find it weird that Padmé still wanted to be with him after he slaughtered the Tuskens. Anakin became much more emotionally mature in The Clone Wars series, but still you can see that his love for her was rotten to the core.
The best part is that there are plenty of people who are just like Anakin, unhealthy attached to the one they love. One should learn, that if you put your trust in you happiness through the (current) love of you life, you will be imprisoned to this attachment. If that person will want to go, you will be destroyed. Anakin pointed out directly that he’s aware of the fear of losing Padmé, which is killing him. And when he lost her, his life was over, he began a new one as Darth Vader, but we all know how it went (he actually got over her relatively quickly in the Canon, embracing his new life by being busy for the Empire all the time).
If Anakin learned to let go, he wouldn’t fall to the dark side. Just as anyone, wouldn’t fall to the dark if they learned to let go…
anakin: so yeah, I should be all powerful so I can stop people from dying. also, it's all obi wan's fault and he is jealous and holding me back! also also, I murdered an entire village of men, women and children because my mother died. I hate them! and I know I should be better than this, because I am a jedi.
padme's words: what's wrong ani? to be angry is to be human...
padme's thoughts: I can fix him, also I love him~
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What a great comment wow
This is exactly why I became more supportive than ever on psychiatrists. The wonders they could have done to Anakin
Before he became a Jedi, Anakin starred in an episode of Goosebumps playing a goofball named Zane
I KNOW!! I smile everytime I think of that, it's so funny 😂
Anakin: Sometimes we must let go of our pride and do what is requested of us.
Padme: Anakin, you've grown up.
Me: visible confusion
Shit that just made me realize why we watch these movies despite that. 😂😂
He looked so confused after she broke the kiss 😂😂😂 like “bitch then why’d you let me kiss you ?!” 😭😭
Christian did an amazing job portraying a troubled Anakin
Christensen*
Hayden Christensen you mean😂
1:00 there's a Harry Potter vibe in this song (after all, it's the same composer for both films.)
I can’t get over how little Natalie Portman was 🥺 she’s a lil baby
yeah she was just 19 when they started shooting
@@pjomono4579more like 18 in the phantom menace. Here she’s about 22
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Calm down mate
That is so damn cool. As a kid i would drop everything for this. I aint letting school get on my ass. Gotta get that sith rizz. 😂😂
Anakin: The closer I get to you, the worser it gets...
Padme: Well...
then I should ask for a new jedi protector :)
The most realistic response 😂
Ultra Vegito: DID SOMEBODY SAID PROTECTOR???? (Doom music in the background)
I love how here 6:56 when he after initiated the kiss and padme was deepening it he was guiding it so Bentley like he didn’t want it to end so u can see him lightly following her lips with his own 😭😭
You did your research
You definitely did your research and know how George Lucas felt about what he wanted because of how Anakin and Padme in bts of this relationship
I noticed that anakin doesn't bow to Amidala, like Obi-Wan.
That’s cause Anakin doesn’t care for Amidala, he loves Padme.
23 minutes of anakin applying pressure… padme never stood a chance
I think that with the combined spectacle of space wizard battles, the subtleties of these scenes are really lost on most people. I appreciate them, and how much work is actually put into them.
People have complained about walking and talking, but they're clearly set up to be more akin to a play.
I'd love to see a live play adaptation of this movie.
Or Ultra Vegito tampering with this universe by killing "Gods" like Anakin, believing that what he does will be the salvation of all mortals like Padme. Tragically Vegito would think that Anakin became the same animal as the Gods and the Tuskens and that he was never designed to look in the mirror. That the biggest sin of all "red flags" like him is existing. Such a colossal lack of empathy from the God Killer to try and put himself on Ani's shoes would potentially backfire on him. Ironically tho Vegito wouldn't do this for the sake of validating some shitass dogma
I love Anakin and Padme
The way his eyes are always on her 😭
11:25 idk why but anakin looks so like just out of it here. Like what she said about coming back to the real world really got him thinking. Just looks very funny to me for some reason.
padmes outfits & outfit changes are outrageous
wdym? i think her outfits were cute especially the yellow one she had
Don't forget about her hair! I want everything Natalie's Padme was wearing and looked like! The hair, clothing design, and makeup departments definitely deserved an award.
That’s what being a former queen does for you. I remember reading Padme’s novels and she even mentions how she has to keep up appearances for the public and hence why she’s always so well dressed and polished.
Earlier she had suitcases, I doubt all those dresses would fit in those
@@senatoremmaofnabooI think that's the point, it's kinda diabolical of her to wear those after telling anakin they can never be together
Anakin really acts like a teenager. I just don’t think it’s believable that Padme would be attracted to him. She’s beautiful, classy, and intelligent. He doesn’t match her in maturity at all. He doesn’t do anything that shows he’s grown up, he just says it and then acts in immature ways.
But he's Handsome 🫦
How to get a girlfriend step one
Hate sand
Tell her you hate sand
Profit
telling her you killed them all does wonders too, i’ve heard
The most EPIC love story ever of Star Wars!! ❤
Seeing this with the rest of star wars while being patient is painfull
22:58- Padme is beautiful even when she's knocked out.
Yeah, Natalie was and is so beautiful.
As a kid I thought she was the most beautiful person on the planet and I was like “She is the personification of gorgeous”
I see what you did there 😉
Im definitely putting the ship down. 😂😂
Thor: YOU WANT ME TO PUT THE SHIP DOWN?!
I can’t get enough of this scene.
Damn good acting in these scenes from Hayden Christensen. Idk why critics said he wasn't that good. ? He was brilliant.
Satire... . right?
Anakin felt he was undermined his whole life. Always being seen as less than; finally received trust and authority. It was under the wrong hands via manipulation and deceit. Thats why he trusted Palpatine more. Once he tapped to his anger against those who looked down apon him, he enhanced his anger against the force with power and aggression as Lord Vader.
the sad part about their relationship is shes been my dream girl since the same age that anakin was in ep 1...
Beauty and the Beast with the lightsabers.
At 8:35 padme is very disturbed by what he just said & she isn’t stupid, she knows he meant it that’s why they broke into that awkward silence because she picked up on how he didn’t even hesitate or wavered in his belief & he didn’t seem to understand that the way it came out his mouth sounded very careless , & she’s thinking to herself “I really am glad his career is strictly militarily 😅
Padme’s Romance is so good. Anakin is grown up even as a child. It must have been hard for Padme too
Thank you so much! You even summarized some of the dialogue which became tedious in the movie and left the beautiful scenes. I do wish you'd have left the wedding scene intact, however.
9:00 my favourite scene
*Anakin:* I've killed them, I've killed them all. And not just the men. But the women and the children too! They're like animals! And I've slaughtered them like animals!
*Padme:* to be angry is to be human.
10/10 writing.
What’s wrong with that? She doesn’t give af about the evil ass Tuskens who killed Shmi. What next? Leia cries for the Stormtroopers when Luke blows up the Death Star? Be real.
You must be very young. @@LilacSreya
She is a compassionate person and they were psychos that killed his mother but that was a bad move to dismiss it.
@@LilacSreyabruh he literally murdered an entire village with the majority of them being innocents😟
That dude had Natalie P look him in the eyes and tell him she truly deeply loves him and proceeds to make out with her . Luckiest guy in the world
I mean have you seen Hayden Christensen. Man's not bad by any means.
What Anakin "didnt understand" is that with his potential and ability, he is going to be held to a higher standard. In martial arts, once you become a higher rank, they do the same exact thing. Its because they see something in you. They are meant to push and challenge you.
The weirdest part about this is Anakin having all 4 limbs.
Gosh Natalie was beautiful in this especially in the meadow scene . Thanks for uploading this
I love anakin, he’s so messed up in the head but he loves to watch his girl be happy even if it means he’s the bad guy
His voice☺️ his face.. everything beautiful about him
There was the sexual chemistry in three generation of Skywalker family:
- Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman
- Rosario Dawson and Jude Law
- Ewan McGregor and Cate Blanchett
- Mena Massoud and Natasha Liu Bordizzo
- Ryan Gosling and Mary Elizabeth Winstead
- Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher
- Adam Driver and Daisy Ridley
- John Boyega and Kelly Marie Tran
- Oscar Isaac and Keri Russell
P.S. If they put Kazuda Xiono and Torra Doza in Sequel Trilogy, they would have been BooBoo Stewart and Ella Purnell
If Anakin love Padme so hard, and If Padme feels the same love, cmon Anakin leave the Jedi order and be with her the rest of your life 🤷🏻♂️, Anakin has a lot of skills, virtues and is smart, he can get a good job. F;ck off the Jedi order.
The fact that 95% of the time he was most likely using the force to get a bead on her genuine emotion & she thought she was hiding it but he’s got a literally psyche connection to her emotions 😭😭😭 it’s a good thing she don’t know
My favourite word in the whole movie
" *L I A R* "🗿🥶💀🔥
Wrong movie😭
I love Anakin but come on you guys, he was kinda of a creep 😂😂😂
Nah bro Fr we all know what bro wanted to do💀 with her💀
He was in love and didn't know how to express his feelings for the girl he loved since his 9 years old. Nonetheless he got the girl, because she fell for him also.
0:18 it's when she starts to fall...
@@PhlilipeAlves Anakin My Main guy got himself a senator, he has the moves
@@erck1996 Yeah, senator and former Queen of Naboo. I love them both.
And now cue in bots with their npc dogma:
The way Obi Wan Kenobi bows and handshakes Padme 🤝 👍 ... that's the way I greet student families at meetings and school functions 😅😊
That's because Obi Wan only saw Padme as an authority figure. Not a special someone.
@@DonOctavioSanchez but he surely had the respect not just seeing Padme as authority?
Padme reaction to this 17:48-18:18 yeah I'm into this shit.
Yeah, not the best decision there 😂 Though her action to comfort rather than condemn shows her pureness of heart and genuine desire to help others.
Anakin is her love interest and her friend. Anakin just lost his mother and is pouring out his raw emotions as well as confessing to a mistake he already knows he made. Of course, she is just going to comfort him at that point. He's already beating himself up enough. She doesn't need to pile on him. Are you guys socially inept or something?
Am I the only one who caught Darth Vader’s theme after he told Padmé that he killed all the Tusken raiders?
What makes you think she isn’t the bad one all along? Anakin was ashamed beyond hell, but Padme couldn’t care less. She was an imperial dictator queen, and was staunchly pro-Republic that was the Empire in all but name, after all.
The way padme smiles at him, it really ain’t hard to understand how she got to be pregnant 😂😂 plus anakin was younger & active so he’s gonna chase after her if she teases him & he thinks she beautiful like an angel ❤
PERFECT TIMING
Such a beautiful wedding. Its an Ideal wedding. That comes from a person that has 3 failed marriages. Its perfect ❤️🌹
The prequel series is so depressing. I just want to watch Anakin and Padme end up together
Hayden is a legend ❤
I like the way he says "thats not fair" like a child
Its crystal clear how arrogant, impulsive, brutal and conflicted he was. Its shocking Obi Wan didnt stop it or the other Council members. He betrayed everyone he knew and doomed the galaxy for 20 years for this chick.
Very weird galaxy if all it takes to dooming is just 1 guy trying to save 1 girl… I’m pretty sure there’s more to it than that… Like a galaxy wide Empire and Civil War with millions of Clones wrapped in a Holy Religious Warfare between 2 ancient cults… These 2 are just little cogs in the wheel who simply got engulfed in the crossfire. Sure, the implication here is just 1 person can make a difference, but not fair to blame the whole thing on him.
I’m trying to say that Jedi were at their own fault and would have been wiped out anyway by the Clones had Anakin & Padme been there or not. So don’t just blame him and say that Jedi should have just gotten rid of him, rather they should have helped him out because he was their best chance against the Sith & Empire; that was the point of Luke & Leia’s characters after all.
@@LilacSreya I think he has the main fault and Jedi tried to help him all the time: they made him knight, made him general of the Republic, gave him responsability and assigned him the duty to rescue the chancellor and defeat Dooku. Yoda gave him good advises, tried to remember him how a Jedi handles pain.
He didnt want to listen, didnt want to be helped in a healthy way.
Did he deserve the rank of master? No, he didnt. He lacked everything (except combat abilities) a Jedi master need.
Without Anakin the Order 66 wouldnt have been successful and the Attack on the Temple would have failed with Windu alive. So yes, I say its Anakin fault.
Probably you are just one of the millions Vader/Anakin fanboys who cant accept a fair analysis.
As opposed to siding with a group that didn’t trust or value him? He not only sided with padme but with palpatine. People forget that cause she is so damn cute.
He saved the galaxy. The empire was correct and just. The Republic was a monstrosity
I know he was angry about the treatment and death of his mother, but I'm still a bit surpised at how Padme overlooks the fact he killed women and children. And then acts 😱 in revenge of the sith when she finds out Anakin has killed younglings. I mean 🤦♀️
The way she tilted her head to see him smiling 😭😭💔 why god why they have to end them so soon 😭😭🤚🏾 8:32
Hayden did a great job in this movie. Tell me if you can’t feel his anger and frustration he is just great. (I think that the main problem of AOTC Anakin is that they didn’t know which role should he has to play in the movie but Hayden do his part excellent).