obi-wan-kenoboomer:gffa:Star Wars Episode III | The Chosen One FeaturetteI found this whole section
obi-wan-kenoboomer:gffa:Star Wars Episode III | The Chosen One FeaturetteI found this whole section of the featurette fascinating because of the narrative connections being drawn and the overarching story elements that are linked together.George Lucas talks about how seeing the physical process of Anakin becoming Darth Vader is about (narrative) consequences for these bad things he did, which is interspersed with cuts of Padme telling him he’s going down this terrible path, that it’s not about Obi-Wan, it’s about what he’s done, with Obi-Wan telling him that he’d believed in him.Then it cuts back to George saying, “He forces his friends to turn against him. Which is heartbreaking.”That the bad things Anakin does isn’t just the literal murder of children and the murder of the Jedi and the undercutting of democracy, but on a more thematic level, he’s forced his loved ones into these terrible positions. That both Obi-Wan and Padme love him, that the Jedi cared about him, but he forced their hand, they had to act against him, because of the things he’d done and because of what he planned to keep doing.I’ve been yelling about it for ages and I’m going to keep yelling about it because it breaks my heart, too, that Anakin can be so full of good, he can be a victim of a really shitty childhood, he can have understandable reasons for why he didn’t trust the system and wanted to circumvent it instead of bettering it, for why he let his fears consume him instead of facing them.But at the end of the day the bigger narrative point is–Anakin did terrible things. He forced his friends to turn against him. Darth Vader’s suit isn’t a literal punishment, but a narrative consequence of the bad things Anakin did. Straight from George Lucas himself.ROTS remains my favorite Star Wars for a reason. -- source link