Last weekends, enthusiasts of Star Wars were able to rediscover Revenge of the Sith In the cinemas, where the film broke an impressive record. In this darker opus than the others, George Lucas explores the tilting of Anakin Skywalker on the dark side of the Force, when he becomes the disciple of Dark Sidious and betrays the Jedi. A turn in the narrative arc of the character who could have been even more tragic …
The initial plan of George Lucas for the Anakin Skywaller
Revenge of the Sith is a space opera grandiose, epic, dark, tortured and uncompromisingwhere the anthology sequences are linked at a frantic pace. Those of you who had the chance to review the film last weekend in theaters were able to realize how well the film has aged. The special effects of 2005 are still as effective, the story is timeless and the actors convincing. However, and as for all the other opus in the saga, George Lucas initially had other ideas concerning his story. While Anakin Skywalker here is manipulated by a cunning, poisonous palpatine emperor, who exploits his fear and anger to bring him to betray the Jedi, the director had first envisaged the possibility that he has a much more active role in this conversion to the dark side of the force. As reported by our colleagues from Comicbook.com, the creator of Star Wars had made a much worse portrait of “the elected” to the director of Return of the Jedi In 1981. At that time, George Lucas had imagined a sinister scenario on the transition from Anakin Skywalker to Dark Vader …
Anakin Skywalker VS l’Ordre Jedi
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This version of Anakin Skywalker saw him, under noble Jedi knight, betray his “friends” and “allies” by sneakily killing them one by aexploiting their confidence vis-à-vis him. In Revenge of the Sithhe committed atrocities, whose massacre of the temple (which could have been worse), it is his obsession with losing his wife Padmé, his feeling of injustice born from his relationship to the hierarchy and his remorse concerning his mother who push him from the dark side. There is more than a victim than an operational agent of evil, Even in chapters 4, 5 and 6 where he obeys Palpatine rather than overthrowing and reigning himself over the galaxy.
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However, in this version imagined by George Lucas, the anger of Anakin Skywalker concerning what he imagines being a rejection and a contempt for the Jedi, even a betrayal, becomes the engine of a bloody vendetta:
During her missions through the galaxy, Anakin leaves to do his Jedi business and many Jedi are killed –And it was because they turned his back on him and he slaughtered them.
An “alternative version” of order 66
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Of what the creator of Star Warswhat he had imagined several years ago concerning the origins of his character was therefore A long discreet campaign of destruction of the Jedi Order inside. In the end, it is the infamous order 66, given by Palpatine to his army of clones, which rings the end of the Jedi. And fortunately, we would be tempted to say, because this version of Anakin working in all conscience, coldly, for the destruction of his peersand not in a blind moment of rage, has nothing to do with that, morally ambiguous, that we know. Now, it is precisely because the young man hesitates, constantly shared between his loyalty to the Jedi and Obi-Wan Kenobi, influenced by his tortured past and his fears towards the future, that it is as interesting, and as endearing.
And you, what do you think of this first version?
