Post by Tristan's Journal on Jun 1, 2017 9:15:17 GMT
- (i) Star Crossed Lovers: Padme the aristocrat speaks of lying in the sand on beaches for fun, for Anakin sand symbolizes his lowly origins as a slave on Tatooine (desert planet = sand, get it?),
- (i) Ghosts of the Past: Anakin’s agonizing situation regarding his dying mother calling him back home, but who he must ignore because of the Jedi code (attachments...). This conflict is the beginning of his downfall of course.
And not like many, thought it was bad dialogue? At a stretch maybe you could possibly come up with the first interpretation but the second!
stretch sostie? The "star crossed lovers" thing is so BLATANTLY obvious from the dialog that I have trouble believing that anybody could actually miss it. It's in the freaking dialog: Responding to her speaking of enjoying lying on sand beaches he says: "I don't like sand. It's coarse, rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything's soft... and smooth..."
Context interpretation dude: When Anakin speaks of "here" (meaning cultivated Naboo/Padme), what do you think is meant by the silent "there" (backwater Tatoine/Slave-Anakin maybe?). He obviously refers to their different backgrounds (star crossed lovers).
Additionally, check the official script and cut dialogue, here we have this immediately preceeding the sand dialog:
PADMÉ
...See that island? We used to swim
there every day. I love the water.
ANAKIN
I do too. I guess it comes from
growing up on a desert planet.
So there goes your theory of Lucas just writing unlayered crap dude, and the background callbacks being unintended.
as for the mother-thing, that's debatable, and the beauty of poetry. It's just another layer that swings with it, and how Lucas' (sometimes corny, grainy and yes sandy) rhyming works. Lucas makes Anakin talk about his visions of his dying mother, and his fear and guilt in several scenes before, so it's likely that this angst haunting him is also intended to swing in this callback line to his origins.
yeah, you dont strike me as the full-orchestra composition type, roll over Beethoven, eh? Guess you are more a fan of movie pop-songs with maybe a wiff of daftpunk, Carpenter and Hans Zimmer drum soundracks? I fucking hate that trivial tosh, but it can be a guilty pleasure at times.
One mans trash, is another man's treasure, here and there.
