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Beautiful Sketch Cards of my favorite couple Anakin+Padme from Star Wars done by Aimo - a.k.a. Irma Ahmed
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Star Wars lead characters naked surrounded by flowers. Yep. Darth Vader was once a husband that liked to have sexy times with his wife around big flowers.
In the rain…
@prequelsnet prequels appreciation week: day 2 — antagonists
↳ Anakin Skywalker
It's a hole I can't fill It's a curse I can't break And I gave my soul to it And I cannot be reclaimed - Godlight by Noah Kahan
Anakin's corruption to the Dark Side.
These are some text-free panels from my comic-format fanfiction! [You can read it on AO3!]
Hayden Christensen ➝ Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)
STAR WARS WEEK 2024 DAY 4: I HAVE SPOKEN - FAVOURITE QUOTE
— Matthew Stover, Revenge of the Sith Novelisation
Rest now, hardship is over
There's nothing left for me here I want to come with you and learn the ways of the force to become a jedi like my father
'[…] this was actually the origin of George and I discussing giving Anakin Sith eyes. Originally, there was no mention of it and George was initially against the idea when I brought it up. I loved the visual of Sith eyes and thought it could make sense: Darth Maul had them and Sidious has them. George responded saying that Count Dooku didn’t, and I thought that was the end of that. A few days later he came back to me and said he thought about it some more and now liked the idea of Sith eyes – but not for that scene.' - Hayden Christensen
newest hyperfixation alert!!!
SHOOT DAY 28: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2003 LOCATION: Stage 3 SET: Mustafar landing platform SCENES SHOT: 145pt (Padmé confronts Anakin on Mustafar and Obi-Wan arrives)
At 2:45, they're ready for close-ups of Hayden. Lucas discusses the tone with him. "This is Anakin's greatest moment; he's got all these new powers-everything is fine." "Anakin's just gone and killed his family, more or less, so I've done a deed that I thought would've weighed on me," Christensen would say the following day. "But George sees it as an outburst of almost accidental anger that Anakin then has to suffer the repercussions of for the rest of his life. Anakin thinks he's done the right thing in killing all the Jedi, so George wanted me to come to the scene with enthusiasm. Things are good. I'm the most powerful man in the universe and I'm going to be able to save Padmé."
Honestly I think what makes Hayden's performance as Anakin during the confrontation on Mustafar so compelling is that Hayden's instincts are to feel guilt and horror, from the deep revulsion of the good part of him that still lurks inside ('i just killed my family'), and Lucas's direction is to project confidence and enthusiasm out of self satisfaction ('what i did was definitely absolutely right, good, necessary, important').
As a result Hayden gives Anakin a palpable kind of tension in the eyes. He holds up a unsettling false front of willing self-deception, leaning into insane delusions of grandeur to avoid confronting the traumatic reality of what he did. That tension visibly snaps at the perception of betrayal, lashing out in the surge of accidental anger that would haunt Anakin for the rest of his life.
Hayden's acting in that moment, the huge swing of manic joy to a murderous scowl, really never gets the credit it deserves for actually being pretty subtle. It feels natural and seamless despite the high drama and unsubtle dialogue. I love the build up of that psychological tension as he falls into the dark and its explosive, deadly release, it's really perfect to me.
ANAKIN SKYWALKER portrayed by HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN
— Revenge of the Sith (2005) Dir. George Lucas
HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN Behind the scenes of Ahsoka (2023-)
