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"Anakin is gone. I am what remains."
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Palpatine must have continued to maintain a lakeside country home on Naboo for when he needed to go somewhere to take a break from the office.
Source: reddit.com
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RotS Web Documentary #15: "Becoming Sidious"
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RotS Web Documentary #15: "Becoming Sidious"
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"The visual script [of Revenge of the Sith] shows the moment where 'burnt' Anakin is rescued by the Emperor—whose gesture echoes that of Obi-Wan touching Luke's forehead in Episode IV."
So the sheer number of allusions between Lucas's work on the prequels and the original trilogy is so satisfying to me. His whole philosophy of "it's like poetry, it rhymes," influenced the prequels on both a macro- and micro- scale. From mirroring themes and large structural choices, to tiny visual beats like this. The prequels are in open dialogue with the originals, and imho it's different from how the Force Awakens recycled and reused story beats, it's not mere reference out of nostalgia. It's very intentional and the meaningful connections that improve both sides of the conversation by virtue of the link.
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The Clone Wars Concept Art
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He is bugs
Puffy sleeves and blues Senator Palpatine is matching the Euops genus of leaf-rolling weevils
Camarotus singularis and the chancellor’s spectacular sleeves
What in the world? Frog legged beetle Sagra Fulgida.
The Emperor is a pale imitation of the humble stag beetle. Lucanus Cervus.
What a brilliant color! Agrypnus arillaceus.
She is bugs
Pinks, yellows, cream, and pale green. A perfect match for this Japanese silk moth. Antheraea yamamai.
Wonderfully matched with the calleta silkmoth. Eupackardia calleta.
The instantly recognizable Atlas moth fitting for her most iconic outfit. Attacus atlas.
Another colorful moth from the dysphania genus. Dysphania fenestrata I think.
Iconic lake dress with the equally iconic Chinese moon moth. Actias dubernardi.
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@swsource star wars week: day 2: favorite trilogy
My favorite trilogy is the prequels! So I made some redraws of some funny lines from each movie :)
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I love how palpatine says "So be it, Jedi" In return of the Jedi. He says it with such venom and anger in a subtle way. The acting is phenomenal. You can tell that this man is absolutely fucking fuming at the fact that he has planned his whole life to kill the Jedi, finessed the entire galaxy into going to war with each other just so he could rise to the top and cackle, then killed 95% of the Jedi order in half a day, had everything planned meticulously from the clones betrayal to the inquisitors and the hunting of Jedi, planted fear in civillians and ruled for 30 years and when he finally has the chance to completely claim the galaxy for his own.... A Jedi Still stands in his way .
The fate of the galaxy within his reach and the thing stopping him is the exact thing he spent his life planning to eradicate, hope and goodness. Luke is the embodiment of that. And he's not only standing there, he's taunting palpatine too.
I'd be pissed too.
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Padmé | Anakin | Palpatine Parallels Through politics and violence Padmé and Anakin aid Palpatine in securing total power.
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"As written, the ray-shield scene was longer than what ended up in the movie, and I was sorry to learn that one bit of humor was cut. Originally, the trio discuss how they might escape, and Palpatine has a suggestion: surrender and work out a negotiation. He gives his whole pitch to the Jedi and, once he's finished his speech, Anakin and Obi-Wan turn and look at each other as if nothing had been said." (via john knoll, visual effects supervisor, creating star wars)
we were ROBBED i tell you. robbed. i want the significant eye contact and ignoring darth sidious to his face.
#lol#earlier anakin hadn't cared for palpatine's life when he chose to carry obiwan and doom them all#now palpatine saw with his two eyes anakin doesn't give a damn about his words when obiwan is right there#no wonder he wanted obiwan out of the scene when he would break anakin#he knew he held no candle to obiwan in anakin's eyes#sucks to be him#rots#anakin skywalker#obi wan kenobi#sheev palpatine#bts
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ANAKIN SKYWALKER and PALPATINE Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005) ↳ deleted scenes
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“Kneel before me, Anakin Skywalker.”
Anakin dropped to one knee. He lowered his head.
It is your will to join your destiny forever with the Order of the Sith Lords?
There was no hesitation. “Yes.”
Source: hegodamask
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You know it’s bad when Palps is telling you enough is enough
One of the things we find in ‘Revenge of the Sith’ is that the dark side is not tempting Anakin to anything... that Anakin is looking at the dark side and saying, ‘That’s what I want.’
Matthew Stover (author), Revenge of the Sith novelization.
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REVENGE OF THE SITH 2005 | dir. George Lucas