What’s been happening in Star Wars news this week? SDCC Toy Packaging tells us all about the First Order (IO9) Is a ‘Lost’ actor finding himself in The Force Awakens? (Cinema Blend) People predict TFA will make $2 billion (Movies NTDV) Jake Lloyd … Continue reading Weekly Round-Up
It’s been a very exciting week for Clone Corridor. We had a couple of posts which seem to be quite popular and interesting, so thanks for everyone who has been reading and commenting, here and on Twitter! What’s been happening … Continue reading Weekly Round-Up
I want to share my thoughts with you on the acting in the prequel trilogy, in particular that of Jake Lloyd and Hayden Christensen in their roles as Anakin Skywalker. This is a controversial issue and the media have been, and still are, full with statements that start with ‘wooden acting’ and end with ‘horrible dialogue’ or in reverse order. Some blame it on the actors, some blame it squarely on the director. Many, friendlier, voices can be heard saying that the acting in the Original Trilogy was similar and that this is simply ‘Star Wars’. I want to shed a different light on this, focussing on the portrayal of Anakin. Continue reading “Lloyd & Christensen’s Anakin Skywalker”
When George Lucas made the choice to start the Prequel Trilogy with Anakin Skywalker as a kid and to include Jar Jar Binks as a character he must have had an inkling of what was coming. But he must have made this choice deliberately because of its story-telling value. In this post I want to have a look at how intimately the stories of these two great characters are entangled and how they mirror each other. Unwittingly, in their joint rejection of these two, the prequel-bashing community not only misses out on a vital element of the story Lucas tried to convey. But above all they confirm the message that is in Jar Jar and Anakin’s story for those who did make the effort to recognize it.
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