Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
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00:00موسيقى
00:02هنا
00:06إيهلو هنا and welcome back to Screen Crush
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00:12انه ستريه مرة أخذ
00:26والمتائج بشكل استمتعام جميع أن تتعرف جيد على انها منه خلال مرورة البلد المعروضة ،
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00:35و الوقت لا تعلمات تحلوا الأشخاص gonna العبور التي تصدرها في الكلام للمساعده
00:41قبل على هذه المتاريسة العامة في المواضحة الأخرى!
00:43وفي تدراسة إلى الرأسة السيخة سيديدة المنزلية ،
00:46أجل تشاركهم بإمكانكم بشكل خلف شرطنا المتعاري الخليم
00:50بعض الكثير من الإجتماعية الجيدة Walker
00:52ومصير لديك هاكو جيوك الإخوار,
00:56وأبداهم مكتباتين يعتمد محرية
00:58ترحب على الوصول الصوت الآن.
01:01صفتحة للسيد الرنشة
01:04َ ممتعلق الوصول العبد الرسول
01:07كذفتحة الوصول عبادة
01:09ويصال 잠깐만 جديد
01:10ويسلم هناك الأمر في تلك الوصول
01:15لكني تحبطت الحين بإذن لجيوه
01:18لأنه
01:19But this title really was a perfect title for the film being that revenge is a key pillar of the Sith.
01:28In the first installment of the prequel trilogy we heard Darth Maul say
01:32The Phantom Menace showed us the early stages of Palpatine's plan to avenge the Sith
01:39after having been in hiding for a millennium.
01:41And in this film we are seeing the final pieces of that revenge plot fall into place.
01:46So the film opens with Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and not Jedi Master Anakin Skywalker
01:52embarking on a mission to save Chancellor Palpatine from the leader of the droid army General Grievous
01:58and Dark Lord of the Sith Count Dooku, a former Jedi, and the master of Anakin and Obi-Wan's late master Qui-Gon Jinn.
02:06So this opening shot is a two minute straight no cuts tracking shot
02:10and it goes from full CG into the cockpit of Anakin's fighter, a first of its kind for the saga.
02:15Here we can see that Anakin now has a scar on his right eye.
02:19Now Lucas's original intention for this scar was to show Anakin's growth as a Jedi in a war-torn galaxy
02:25and that shows us a physical representation of the hardship and maturity
02:29since we last saw him in Attack of the Clones, the beginning of the Clone Wars.
02:33Now in the Dark Horse Star Wars comic, Republic 71, we see Count Dooku's apprentice, Asajj Ventress, give Anakin this scar.
02:41However, that comic is not canon so we still don't have an in-canon confirmation as to how Anakin actually received this scar
02:49but my money is on it definitely being a lightsaber scratch.
02:52So here on Obi-Wan's fighter, we can see what looks like confirmed kill markings or victory markings
02:57similar to that of the markings World War II pilots would put on their planes after their battles.
03:02And we know from various interviews with George Lucas, as well as his overt references to real-world history in the Star Wars saga
03:09and his own World War II movie, Red Tails, that Lucas is a history buff
03:13and he has always intended for Star Wars to mirror that of our own world's history
03:18including ancient history as well as more modern history.
03:21Now Revenge of the Sith is not only a perfect example of Lucas's intentionality
03:26of mirroring ancient stories of good and evil from our own history but our more modern politics as well.
03:32Now it's here in this opening scene of the film where we already begin to see the struggle of Anakin Skywalker
03:37and his teetering between the light and the dark
03:40as well as the role that Obi-Wan inadvertently played in pushing Anakin over that edge.
03:45There's this scene where Obi-Wan gets swarmed and tells Anakin to go on without him.
03:49I'm not leaving without you, master.
03:51And there's this scene where Anakin wants to go back and help his fellow pilots.
03:55I'm gonna go help them out.
03:56No!
03:57No, they are doing their job that we can do ours.
03:59Now in both of these scenes we are seeing Anakin stay true to the values of a Jedi, helping those in need.
04:05But his master, in two instances, tells him to abandon him and his fellow soldiers to complete the mission at hand.
04:12This perfectly represents how Obi-Wan sees things very black and white in his willingness to accept sacrifices,
04:18even a sacrifice of himself for the greater good while Anakin is more emotionally driven
04:23and his heroic nature of wanting to save his master and wanting to save his fellow fighters,
04:28that all connects back to his inability to let go of everything that he fears to lose.
04:33Anakin was never able to embrace the no attachments element of being a Jedi
04:38and while this arguably made him a better friend and maybe even a better soldier,
04:42it also crippled his ability to reject the dark side which feeds on attachment and passion.
04:48Now throughout this film, Anakin is obsessed with saving Padme and not losing her like he
04:52lost Qui-Gon and his mother.
04:54He also allows himself to become consumed by his grief and his own aspirations of self-preservation.
05:00And these two instances in this early section of the film where Anakin wants to save his fellow
05:05fighters but is told not to by his Jedi master perfectly represents the overarching story of this
05:11film which showcases the Jedi Order pushing Anakin further and further away with their dogmatic views of
05:17stoism while Palpatine on the other hand preys on Anakin's lust for power and his love for Padme
05:23and his inability to let go of his grief.
05:26Obi-Wan says,
05:27Oh I have a bad feeling about this.
05:29Now this is a line that is uttered in every Star Wars movie first by Han Solo here in A New Hope.
05:34I got a bad feeling about this.
05:36Now one thing I love about this line is that the force is all about your feelings and the force
05:41surrounds us all, it binds us, it penetrates us, etc.
05:44So everyone, a force user or not, has a connection to that cosmic force and can have
05:49A bad feeling about this.
05:50Now this opening scene of Revenge of the Sith is big.
05:53We get into a space battle.
05:54Obi-Wan and Anakin have some elevator mishaps.
05:56R2 catches super battle droids on fire.
05:59And of course Anakin and Obi-Wan have their big rematch with Count Dooku.
06:03But there was a lot more from this opening act that was left on the cutting room floor,
06:07such as Master Shaak Ti, who we first met here in Attack of the Clones,
06:11having been captured and killed by General Grievous.
06:19In that scene we got this riveting piece of dialogue from Anakin and Obi-Wan.
06:23That was a bad mistake.
06:26You know, I love George Lucas, but he can really put the clunky in McClunky, can't he?
06:29McClunky.
06:31Now there's also this whole deleted sequence that features Anakin and Obi-Wan treading through
06:34water.
06:35This is actually still part of the Revenge of the Sith video game, which came out before the movie
06:39and actually had a lot of cut scenes from the movie in the game and revealed the entire plot
06:44of the film before the film even came out.
06:46And there was also this deleted gem.
06:48I sense Count Dooku is above us.
06:51Oh yes, yes, yes, you're right.
06:52Beep is up.
06:55I think.
06:55Now before we move on from Shaak Ti's death, I should go ahead and mention that
07:00this wasn't the only version of her death that was filmed for the movie.
07:03We also have this deleted scene that featured her being killed by Anakin during Order 66.
07:10What is this Skywalker?
07:16So Anakin and Obi-Wan enter this throne room and it is super reminiscent of the Emperor's throne room in
07:21the first Star Wars Episode III Return of the Jedi.
07:24Palpatine swivels around in his chair just like in Jedi and we see Obi-Wan and Anakin approach the
07:29Chancellor just like Vader and Luke would do in Return of the Jedi.
07:32Only in Jedi it was Luke who was shackled and in this scene it is Palpatine who is shackled.
07:37But this also perfectly parallels how in Return of the Jedi we were seeing Anakin or Darth Vader
07:43approach Palpatine in this throne room and there he was on the path back to the light side while in
07:48this scene in Revenge of the Sith Anakin is on the path to joining the dark side.
07:52So Count Dooku enters the room and Obi-Wan says
07:55This time we will do it together.
07:57I was about to say that.
07:58Now at the time this was in reference to the last time we, the audience,
08:02saw Anakin and Obi-Wan go up against Dooku.
08:04That being in Attack of the Clones when Anakin did this.
08:07We'll take them together.
08:08You're going slowly on the left.
08:09I'm taking him now.
08:10No, Anakin, no!
08:10No!
08:15So it's clear that when watching the prequel trilogy
08:17you were supposed to view this as the first time Obi-Wan and Anakin have fought Dooku since episode 2.
08:22But as we know from the Clone Wars animated series the three have many, many, many fights
08:28between episodes 2 and 3 making this exchange a little odd in retrospect.
08:32Obi-Wan says
08:33You won't get away this time, Dooku.
08:35A reference to how in Attack of the Clones Dooku escaped his fight with Yoda by doing this.
08:48But I should also be fair and say there are plenty instances in the Clone Wars series where Dooku escapes.
08:53So the three go at it and it becomes clear that Dooku is trying to have a one-on-one with Anakin.
08:58Now the first time Obi-Wan is separated from the duel we see him go up this separate set of stairs and
09:02he takes down these super battle droids.
09:04Palpatine really is committed to the bit here, huh?
09:11So once Kenobi rejoins the fight with Dooku, Dooku pretty quickly dismisses him once again so he can
09:16have, like I said, some one-on-one time with Anakin and it becomes clear that Dooku is under the
09:21impression that the whole plan here with Palpatine was to set in motion Anakin joining Dooku and
09:26Palpatine on the dark side, not Anakin replacing Dooku as Palpatine's apprentice.
09:31Oh, and this is kind of a nitpick, but this should have shattered Kenobi's legs, right?
09:36Anyway, Dooku says
09:37You have hate. You have anger.
09:41A callback to these iconic lines from the original trilogy.
09:44Release your anger. Only your hatred can destroy me.
09:49So Anakin disarms Dooku and we see him catch Dooku's red saber and we then see him cross Dooku's red
09:54saber and his own blue saber at Dooku's throat.
09:57This moment, this crossing of the red and blue sabers is foreshadowing Anakin's turn to the dark
10:02side. It's meant to represent the divide that he is feeling between his lighter half and his darker
10:07half and this visual imagery of the blue and the red sabers being before Anakin as he decides between
10:12sparing Dooku or killing him, it is reminiscent of the red pill blue pill choice that we have seen
10:17in the Matrix. And this visual representation of the choice that Anakin has to make, the red saber
10:22path of killing Dooku, breaking from the Jedi way and taking yet another step toward becoming
10:26Darth Vader, or the blue saber path of sparing his enemy, going the Jedi way. And of course,
10:31we know that he ends up going that darker path.
10:38Now, if you look closely after Anakin decapitates Dooku, we can see his head roll,
10:43foreshadowing the metaphorical and literal rolling effects that is to come with Order 66 and the Empire's
10:49takeover of the galaxy and the formation of the rebellion which challenges the Empire's power.
10:54Now, that idiom, heads will roll, is often tied to uprisings throughout history, in instances where
10:59power is being taken by a tyrannical ruler like the Emperor and the Empire. And throughout history,
11:04these tyrants literally beheaded those who dissented from their rule. But it also applies to the
11:09uprising of rebellions against those powerful regimes, and it parallels classic story motifs like the
11:15beheading of a dragon, representing the destruction of evil. And I tell you all of that
11:19because Lucas is notorious for being very intentional in his alliterations to classic
11:25storytelling motifs, especially with Star Wars being a story of good versus evil, David versus
11:30Goliath, Knight versus Dragon, you get the point. And this isn't our first decapitation, by the way,
11:35in Star Wars. We saw Mace Windu behead Jango Fett in the previous film, and later in this movie,
11:39we see Yoda behead two clone troopers. So Anakin kills Dooku, he strikes him down at the command of Palpatine,
11:45mirroring how Palpatine orders Luke to strike him or Vader down in Return of the Jedi, but Luke
11:50refuses and stays in the light, while Anakin instead embarks on his journey to the dark side.
11:54Now, Anakin uses the Force with a simple gesture of his hand to unlock these shackles,
11:59just like Palpatine does when unshackling Luke in Jedi, another visual cue alluding to Anakin
12:04being pulled closer and closer to Palpatine and the Sith. Palpatine says,
12:08You did well, Anakin. He was too dangerous to be kept alive.
12:13This same line is later uttered by Mace Windu in his fight with Palpatine,
12:17just as Windu is about to kill Palpatine and Anakin insists that he be spared.
12:21He's too dangerous to be left alive.
12:23Anakin says to Windu,
12:25It's not the Jedi way.
12:26Which is the same thing he says to Palpatine here.
12:29Yes, but he was an unarmed prisoner.
12:31I shouldn't have done that. It's not the Jedi way.
12:33Now, that line about an unarmed prisoner is another reference to later in the film,
12:38when Windu has disarmed Palpatine and he's about to strike him down.
12:41And this contrast between those two scenes and Anakin's regret shows us how aware Anakin is
12:47of what it means to be a Jedi and how the Jedi themselves haven't been living up to the strict
12:52doctrine that they impose, which is what leads to Anakin heavily questioning the Jedi's way of
12:57doing things and believing Palpatine's lie of the Jedi intending to betray him and the Republic.
13:02So Palpatine says,
13:03It is only natural. He cut off your arm and you wanted revenge.
13:08It wasn't the first time, Anakin.
13:10Remember what you told me about your mother and the sand people?
13:13Now, this line from Palpatine is loaded, so let's break it down first.
13:17When he says it, you can actually faintly hear this Tusken Raider scream
13:21from that scene in Episode 2 when Anakin slaughtered the Tusken Raiders.
13:27So when Palpatine says,
13:29it's only natural, this ties to later in the film when Palpatine explains that some consider
13:33the ways of the Sith to be unnatural.
13:35Unnatural.
13:37And later in the film, Yoda says that death is a natural part of life.
13:41Death is a natural part of life.
13:44Perfectly juxtaposing the Jedi view of death with that of Sidious and the Sith's view of death.
13:50So this scene is again setting the stage for this war of ideology between the Jedi and the Sith,
13:56and Palpatine reminds us that Anakin's murder of Count Dooku wasn't the first crack in his armor.
14:01In the previous film, in Attack of the Clones, we saw Anakin do something, I would argue,
14:05even more heinous when he slaughtered the sand people, including the women and the children.
14:10And we learned that this is something that Anakin has actually shared with his friend and mentor,
14:15Palpatine, off screen.
14:16And it's clear that Palpatine is using that information that Anakin confided in him as a
14:21manipulation tactic to pull Anakin closer and closer to him and to the dark side.
14:26Now Palpatine will go on to use Anakin's fear of loss, stemming from the loss of his mother,
14:30to make Anakin fear the loss of Padme.
14:32And a little later we're going to talk about Anakin's self-fulfilling prophecy of his nightmares.
14:37So as Palpatine and Anakin leave the throne room, Anakin stops to get Obi-Wan,
14:40Palpatine tells him to leave him behind, to which Anakin says,
14:43This fate will be the same as ours.
14:45And this is of course true because Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Palpatine would all go on to die
14:50on board the Death Star.
14:51Well that is until...
14:53Somehow Palpatine returned.
14:54Now here as these clones and droids are blasting cannons at one another,
14:58we can hear the classic Wilhelm scream.
15:01This is a scream that you can find in almost every Lucasfilm movie and
15:04countless other films and TV shows as well.
15:07So Anakin, Palpatine, and Kenobi, who Anakin is carrying on his back,
15:11they escape and we get this awesome and honestly hilarious scene in the elevator
15:16when the ship begins to rotate back into position.
15:18And I also just really love the eerie nature of seeing Anakin leading this escape
15:23with his two masters following.
15:24His Jedi Master Kenobi and his soon-to-be Sith Master Palpatine.
15:28The comedic timing in this scene is honestly great.
15:34Elevator's not working.
15:35Now as the ship tilts, we see R2 fall into this giant pile of battle droids,
15:40and we can see Obi-Wan's ship actually crash right here.
15:43And can we take a second to do a little frame by frame here?
15:45Look, as they are sliding down the elevator shaft,
15:48and Obi-Wan and Anakin throw their grappling hooks,
15:50neither of them grab Palpatine.
15:52Palpatine, last minute, grabs Obi-Wan's feet
15:56and swings in with them into that elevator door opening.
15:59Now, of course, this makes sense knowing that in hindsight,
16:02he is a powerful and agile Sith.
16:04But it is a little odd that Obi nor Anakin grabbed the Chancellor
16:08before they swung out of the elevator shaft,
16:10considering they are there on a Chancellor rescue mission.
16:13Now back with R2 when we see his viewfinder pop up out of this pile of battle droids,
16:18it is reminiscent of this scene from A New Hope in the trash compactor.
16:21So Anakin, Obi-Wan, Palpatine, and R2 are brought before General Grievous,
16:25who is actually voiced by the film sound engineer Matthew Wood.
16:29And the incessant coughing of General Grievous is said to have actually been provided by George Lucas.
16:35And in the animated Clone Wars series, which is no longer canon,
16:40and no, I'm not talking about like the 3D animated one,
16:42I'm talking about the 2D animated one,
16:44we actually get to see how Grievous gets this cough.
16:48Following an encounter with Mace Windu,
16:49when Grievous arrived on Coruscant to abduct the Chancellor, this happens.
16:57So Grievous and Anakin have this great exchange.
16:59I was expecting someone with your reputation to be a little... older.
17:05General Grievous, you're shorter than I expected.
17:09Confirming that Anakin and Grievous have never met up until this point,
17:13and this fact actually became a bit of a thorn in the side of Dave Filoni,
17:16and the creators of the in-canon 3D animated Clone Wars series that came out after Revenge of the Sith,
17:22because the creators needed to make sure that they stayed within continuity,
17:25and never had Anakin or Grievous cross paths in that series.
17:29So here we can see Grievous' guards, the IG-100 Magna Guards,
17:33and their design is actually an original concept designed for General Grievous himself.
17:38I could like these, if we went with the droid.
17:41So we see Grievous add Obi-Wan and Anakin's lightsabers to his collection,
17:45and when he pulls his cape back to slide the hilts into these little pockets,
17:48we can see another saber resting inside,
17:51and this is actually the same hilt as Jedi Master Ki-Adi Mundi.
17:55Now Mundi is of course back on Coruscant at the time of this scene,
17:58and we later see him with his saber getting killed during Order 66 by his own troopers,
18:03but as we'll see later in the film, the animators, they reuse the same digital assets
18:08of already designed Jedi saber hilts for many of Grievous' sabers throughout the film.
18:13And actually on the other side of Grievous' cape, we can actually see more hilt,
18:17one being the same hilt that Obi-Wan used in episodes 1 and 2 of the prequels,
18:22and this hilt, which actually appears to be the hilt of, you guessed it, Shaak Ti,
18:27who Saber Grievous likely took in that deleted scene where he kills her.
18:31But it is worth pointing out, if you watch that scene,
18:34he is literally waving around Obi-Wan's new hilt from this movie.
18:38It's a mess.
18:40So as Anakin and Obi-Wan free themselves and the Chancellor,
18:43we hear Palpatine sigh in relief as his cuffs are removed.
18:46This is the exact same sigh sound that we hear him let out later in the movie,
18:52being reused in this scene.
18:55So after Grievous' escapes, Anakin manages to successfully continue flying half the ship,
18:59and he manages another happy landing.
19:01But what's eerie about this scene is it's anything but a happy landing.
19:05Anakin, without realizing it, has stepped into the final chapter of his time as a Jedi,
19:10and by the next time this gifted pilot leaves the planet of Coruscant,
19:14he will no longer be Anakin Skywalker, but Darth Vader.
19:18A Darth Vader who will have just slain hundreds if not thousands of Jedi.
19:23So throughout the movie there's a lot of fun little ship easter eggs,
19:26such as here we can see the Millennium Falcon,
19:28the ship of course of Han Solo from the original trilogy,
19:31a ship that at this time wouldn't be owned by Han Solo or even Lando Calrissian.
19:36No, at this time the ship would actually still be owned by the Republic Group
19:40and called not the Millennium Falcon, but the Stellar Envoy.
19:43But we should point out that in this scene we can see that the Falcon still has this big divide
19:47in the tip that we know in canon wouldn't have been there until this happens in the Solo movie.
19:53See if he goes for this.
19:54No, what are you doing? That's the escape pod!
19:57I know.
19:58But of course at the time that hadn't been established.
20:00And hey, there's also a shot later in the film here that we'll go ahead and mention
20:03where we can see the NASA space shuttle flying in the background.
20:06So as Anakin steps off this transport, Obi-Wan insists that he go have his day with the politicians,
20:11and revel in his success of defeating Count Dooku.
20:13And I think it's kind of clear that Obi-Wan doesn't know that Anakin killed Dooku
20:17in cold blood with him being unarmed.
20:19Anakin says to Obi-Wan,
20:20You owe me one, and not for saving your skin for the tenth time.
20:24Ninth time.
20:25That business on Cato Neimoidia doesn't count.
20:28Cato Neimoidia being the homeworld of the Neimoidians,
20:31which is the same species as Separatist leader Nuke Gunray,
20:34and this planet of course was a prime location of the Clone Wars.
20:38Now there's no in-canon reference to this specific instance that I can find,
20:42but in the Revenge of the Sith prequel novel, Labyrinth of Evil,
20:46we do see Anakin and Obi-Wan travel to Cato Neimoidia to arrest Nuke Gunray,
20:50and Anakin ends up having to save Obi-Wan again.
20:53So until they tell us something new, I think we can assume that that's the instance that Obi-Wan is
20:57referring to.
20:58Now here we can see Palpatine's guards still sporting their blue attire that we first saw in
21:03Phantom Menace. These same guards of course would later go on to don their reddish orange
21:07robes later in the film, the same robes that they wear in the original trilogy as guards of the
21:12Emperor. So when Anakin and Padme embrace in the shadows, which of course symbolizes their
21:16secret relationship and its connection to Anakin's fall to the dark side, we can see that Padme's
21:21hair is in the classic Princess Leia double-bun style, which is fitting considering that this
21:26is the scene where Padme reveals to Anakin that she is pregnant.
21:29Something wonderful has happened. Annie, I'm pregnant.
21:37Now over at their apartment, Padme and Anakin discuss their love for one another.
21:41No, it's because I'm so in love with you.
21:45So love has blinded you?
21:47Well, that's not exactly what I meant.
21:49We can see here that Padme is wearing the necklace that Anakin made and gifted to her in
21:53phantom menace. And we'll see this necklace again at the end of the film when Padme's body
22:06is being laid to rest. So Anakin wakes up from a nightmare of Padme dying during childbirth. He
22:12tells Padme that this dream was like that of the ones that he had had about his mother before she
22:16died in Attack of the Clones, a dream that did ultimately come true. Now while we know that Anakin's
22:21vision does come true at this moment, the future is not determined. Anakin allows his own vision,
22:27his own dream to push him toward the dark side, which is ultimately what is responsible for Padme
22:34dying during childbirth. So it becomes a which came first, the chicken or the egg type of situation.
22:39Anakin is having these dreams because he as a Jedi can see the future, but this future only happens
22:45because Anakin allows himself to fulfill the destiny of these dreams by allowing those very
22:51dreams to push him to the dark side in hopes of stopping them from coming true. Now there is a
22:56popular fan theory that Palpatine was actually behind Anakin's mother's abduction by the Sand
23:01People and I myself have often wondered if it was Palpatine who placed these visions in Anakin's
23:06nightmares about Padme dying during childbirth. We know from a later scene in the film that
23:10Palpatine can speak to Anakin through the force. If the Jedi destroy me, any chance of saving her
23:18will be lost. So theoretically he could have also placed dreams within his mind to pull him closer
23:25to the dark side. Yoda himself tells Anakin, Careful you must be when sensing the future Anakin.
23:32The fear of loss is a path to the dark side. Now in this scene we see Anakin's face again covered in
23:38shadow with only his eyes peering out just like when he dons the mask of Vader and becomes engulfed
23:44by a constant shard of darkness that is represented of course by the Black Vader suit. And this imagery
23:50is later mirrored when we see Anakin's face obscured by the mask as it is lowered onto his head like a
23:56cloud moving in front of the sun casting a shadow. Now Anakin is late to Obi-Wan's report on the outer rim
24:01sieges. Obi-Wan catches him up by saying, So look am I has fallen and Master Voss has moved his troops
24:07to Boss Pitti. Master Voss is in reference to Jedi Master Quinlan Voss who we actually see here in
24:13Phantom Menace and who is mentioned again in the Kenobi series as an Order 66 survivor. Quinlan was here.
24:20Yeah he helps now and again smuggling younglings. And this is despite Voss actually having been killed in
24:28this deleted scene from Order 66. So over in Palpatine's office he and Anakin talk and Palpatine
24:40says, I need your help son. Little choices of dialogue like this perfectly represents the pull
24:48that Palpatine has over Anakin by taking advantage of the fact that Anakin grew up without a father.
24:54and then had his first father Qui-Gon Jinn murdered just as he was getting to know him.
24:59So Palpatine calling Anakin his son is honestly the perfect opening line for a scene where he is
25:04about to drive a knife into the already giant wedge between Anakin and the Jedi by setting in motion
25:11Anakin's denial by the council of becoming a Jedi Master setting the path for him to instead become
25:17a Sith Master. And it is crazy to see how in this quick series of scenes just how responsible the Jedi
25:23are for their own downfall. Mace Windu even says,
25:26It's very dangerous putting them together.
25:29Then mother why did you have him go spy on Palpatine alone?
25:34What was the reason? What was the reason? What was the reason? What was the reason?
25:38And god there are just so many more moments in this film where we as the viewer can see the mistakes
25:44being made by those around Anakin. Things that we know will push him to the dark side. I swear,
25:49I watch this movie every time hoping that something is going to change and Anakin will
25:54take a different path. I mean not only are we seeing Palpatine use his manipulations to turn
25:59Anakin against the Jedi and the Jedi falling right into the trap by pushing Anakin further and further
26:05away. But it's also Padme who tries to take advantage of Anakin's relationship with the
26:10Chancellor. Now you're closer to the Chancellor than anyone. Please ask him to stop the fighting and
26:14let diplomacy resume. Don't ask me to do that. The same way that the Jedi have. When we see Anakin
26:21go to meet with the Chancellor again this time in an opera house, which by the way was chosen because
26:26George Lucas felt that too many of the scenes in the film had already taken place in Palpatine's
26:31office. As Anakin makes his way into the opera house we actually get a cameo from the man himself,
26:36George Lucas's first appearance in any Star Wars film. He is also joined by his daughter Katie Lucas.
26:42So this scene with Palps and Anakin may very well be my favorite of any Star Wars movie. Palpatine
26:47telling Anakin the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise, his former Sith master. It's in this speech where
26:53Palpatine reveals that his former master had mastered the ability to create life. And the way Palpatine
26:59looks at Anakin when he says this, it to me has always heavily implied that Palpatine's intention
27:06was to imply that he and Darth Plagueis were responsible for the creation of Anakin Skywalker,
27:12who we know was a virgin birth. Who was his father? There was no father. Now while the canon
27:18explanation to Anakin's creation is that he was created by the force itself as a response to Plagueis
27:23and Palpatine's attempts at perverting the force and shifting it to the dark side, that would still kind
27:29of mean that Palpatine and Plagueis's actions were indirectly responsible for the creation of
27:35Anakin Skywalker, AKA the chosen one. Now in the script for Revenge of the Sith, there is a deleted
27:40line where Palpatine says to Anakin, I arranged for your conception. You could almost think of me
27:46as your father. Now while Lucas did decide to cut this line, I do feel vindicated in knowing that this
27:52idea at least crossed his mind and I believe that it was the intent behind Palpatine's telling
27:58of this story. There's also the fact that before them we are seeing the Squid Lake Mon Calamari ballet
28:03performance in which they are attending, which I mean, come on, that's supposed to look like an egg
28:08being fertilized. I mean, it's obvious. This is a giant CGI thing. It's not accidental. So Palpatine then
28:14goes on to explain that not only could Plagueis create life, but he could prolong life.
28:19He could even keep the ones he cared about from dying.
28:25Palpatine of course knows that this power is of interest to Anakin because he's in his head and
28:30he knows Anakin's fear of losing Padme, like he lost his mother. A fear that Palpatine is likely
28:36amplifying and placing into his mind. This obsession with eternal life and the physical form is also a
28:42key goal of the Sith. Earlier in the film, Yoda says,
28:45Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force.
28:49This line from Yoda is the direct antithesis to the Sith and their conquest for eternal life and
28:55a fleshly body. Their greed and lust for power and eternal life ties into Palpatine's manipulations of
29:01Anakin, who has never been able to follow this key pillar of the Jedi way, not having attachments.
29:06Attachments to others and attachments to your physical self and your self-interests.
29:11Now over on the planet of Kashyyyk, which was first introduced in the Star Wars holiday special
29:15as the home world to the Wookiees, we see Wookiees swinging from vines Tarzan style,
29:20letting out these Tarzan-esque roars.
29:24This is a direct callback to this scene from Return of the Jedi with Chewbacca swinging on a vine on Endor.
29:31It's also here on Kashyyyk, which looks similar to Endor in some ways, that we see the early
29:38versions of what would become the notorious chicken walkers that we would see in Return of the Jedi.
29:44So while Yoda embarks to Kashyyyk, Obi-Wan is sent to engage General Grievous on Utapau. But before
29:49leaving, we see Anakin and Obi share their final scene together as old friends, as master and
29:54apprentice. For the next time the two would meet, Anakin will have become Darth Vader. You'll notice,
30:00like many moments in this film, Anakin is engulfed in shadow while Obi-Wan is drenched in light,
30:05showing us the two very different paths our two leads of this trilogy were about to take as the
30:10Clone Wars reached its bitter end. Anakin goes to visit Padme and he can feel that Obi-Wan had been
30:16there in her apartment. Obi-Wan's been here hasn't he? He came by this morning. Now this is in reference
30:22to an actual deleted scene from the movie, which was actually still featured here in the comic
30:27adaptation of Revenge of the Sith. So in this scene Obi-Wan says to Padme,
30:32I am not blind Padme, though I have tried to be for Anakin's sake and for yours. Anakin has loved
30:38you since the day you met in that horrible junk shop on Tatooine. He has never even tried to hide
30:43it, though we do not speak of it. We pretend that I don't know, and I was happy to because it made
30:49him happy. You made him happy when nothing else ever truly could. Now we actually see an example
30:55of Obi-Wan knowing all about Anakin and Padme's relationship here in the final season of the Clone
31:01Wars, a season that was intertwined with the events of Revenge of the Sith.
31:05I hope you at least told Padme I said hello.
31:10Now as great as this scene is, I am kind of glad that it was cut because it makes this scene later in
31:15the movie even better, if you ask me, when Obi-Wan says,
31:19Anakin is the father, isn't he?
31:21That being the moment when it's confirmed to us as the audience that Obi-Wan has known the whole
31:26time, even though we already knew, it was just really well done. So I think they made the right
31:31choice by deleting that scene and having that be the moment where it was like confirmed that he's known.
31:36And it gives it even more of a punch because we're put in this situation where Anakin is feeling
31:41like betrayed by Obi-Wan. But we get the context and reminder that no, Obi-Wan has known that Anakin
31:48has been like doing stuff he's not supposed to do. But out of his love for Anakin, he has let it slide.
31:53And you know, that willingness to take out scenes, you know, say what you will about George Lucas's
31:57directing style. I don't like sand. I will say that that is a strength of his. He is really good at
32:03taking out scenes that are too on the nose. And I'm glad that they removed all of the stuff that
32:08heavily suggested like that Anakin thought there was something romantic going on between
32:12Obi-Wan and Padme. And instead they reworked it to be not a romantic betrayal, but a loyalty
32:18betrayal showing us that dichotomy of Anakin and Palpatine versus the Jedi and what's known as the
32:23loyalist faction of the Senate, a faction that Padme was a part of that had become skeptical of the
32:29direction Palpatine was taking the Republic consisting of characters like Padme, Mon Mothma,
32:34Bell Organa. And this is an organization that would go on to become the rebellion.
32:38There are even some deleted scenes from this movie featuring secret meetings amongst this early
32:43rebellion. We are hoping to form an alliance in the Senate to stop the chancellor from further
32:48subverting the constitution. Now, this was actually the first time that actress Genevieve O'Reilly
32:53portrayed the character of Mon Mothma, but she continued to play the character masterfully in shows like
32:58Andor as well as the Clone Wars, Rebels, and Ahsoka. Now on Utapau, we can see these giant bones
33:04of a dead Rahua whale. I'm pretty sure I'm not saying that right. I apologize. It's a native
33:09creature to the planet of Utapau and using these bones to create their architecture was known as
33:14Ossic architecture on the planet. So as Obi-Wan drops down from these rafters to confront General
33:20Grievous, he says his classic catchphrase. Hello there. Now this is in reference to the first line
33:25spoken by Obi-Wan in A New Hope. Hello there. However, we learn in the Clone Wars that canonically
33:31Obi-Wan is referencing this moment from another encounter with Grievous. Hello there. And I love
33:37this little moment here when Grievous is popping out his extra arms and sabers and we can see this
33:41battle droid nudge his buddy to watch. Now, like I mentioned earlier, the visual effects team did a
33:46brilliant and groundbreaking job on this movie, especially for a 2005 movie. But one area where they
33:53did skimp a little were the hilt diversities amongst General Grievous' collection. Here we can
33:58see him using Anakin's saber and here we can see him using Obi-Wan's saber, but we have different
34:03colored lasers coming out of the hilts. Now back over on Coruscant here in Palpatine's office,
34:08we can see him looking at a holographic screen featuring the Death Star plans. You'll notice
34:13that these plans are in red, just like the hologram of the Death Star that we saw in possession of Count
34:18Dooku in Attack of the Clones. We can also see what looks like the Death Star as a part of this
34:22design on the furniture in Palp's office. So as Anakin and Palpatine talk, we see them walk
34:27past this giant portrait in the hall. This relief is known as both the Great Hyperspace War as well
34:32as the Great Sith Wars. This relief depicts the last great war between the Jedi and the Sith. Now,
34:38as Jedi guests would visit Chancellor Palpatine's office, they assume that this relief depicted a
34:43great victory for the Jedi, but it was actually Palpatine's own way of providing a tribute to the
34:49Sith. Now, it is in this scene that Palpatine does finally reveal himself to Anakin as the Dark
34:54Lord of the Sith that has orchestrated this entire war. You're the Sith Lord. This is also the scene
34:59in which that moment that I mentioned earlier took place, where Palpatine was going to reveal to
35:03Anakin that he was responsible for his birth, but Lucas felt it was too similar to Vader's reveal to
35:08Luke that he was his father and Empire Strikes Back. Now, if you ask me, it would have been like
35:12poetry had they kept that in. Again, it's like poetry, so if they rhyme. But like I was saying
35:17a little earlier, I do appreciate them keeping it a little bit more ambiguous instead of having it be
35:21so on the nose. It's also here that we can see Palpatine doing this gripping motion with his hand
35:27down by his side, as if he is prepping to draw his own saber to defend himself if Anakin did try to
35:33strike him down, just like he draws it here and here later in the film. Now, back on Utapau in the high
35:39speed chase between Grievous and Kenobi, we can see a clone trooper doing what I can only describe
35:44as straight up boxing with a battle droid. It's also here on Utapau that we see Commander Cody in
35:49action, of course played by Tamura Morrison, the face of Jango Fett, the clone army, and now even Boba
35:54Fett. Now, the name Commander Cody actually comes from one of the many serials that inspired George
35:59Lucas to create Star Wars, Commander Cody being the name of one of those many serials. After Obi-Wan defeats
36:05Grievous with his own blaster, he says, So I'm civilized. This is a callback to Obi-Wan's
36:10description of the lightsaber to Luke in A New Hope. Elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
36:17So when Anakin arrives to inform Master Windu of Palpatine revealing himself to be the Sith Lord,
36:23we see Mace take Master Kid Fisto, CSC-10, and Agon Kolar to confront the Dark Lord. And this is a
36:29formidable collection of Jedi Masters, but they are still no match for Darth Sidious.
36:34As they arrive, we see Palpatine spin around in his swivel chair just like in Return of the Jedi.
36:39As Palpatine stands, he says,
36:41It's treason, then.
36:43A reminder that Palpatine will be characterizing the Jedi's attack as a form of treason when,
36:48in reality, it's Palpatine who has committed treason by playing both sides of the war.
36:52Palpatine draws his saber and does the spinny jump accompanied by what is called a force scream,
36:58and apparently this Sith tactic is responsible for these Jedi Masters being caught so off guard
37:03and easily slain by Sidious.
37:08Ten and Kolar didn't even get a single saber clash in, Kid Fisto got in a couple,
37:12but after a matter of seconds, it was only Master Windu who was able to go one-on-one with Sidious,
37:18but it's been popularly theorized that Palpatine let Windu last as long as he did,
37:24as part of his plan to turn Anakin to the dark side.
37:27That's right, some people think that Palpatine was merely toying with Windu during this battle,
37:31and ultimately allowed Windu to defeat him and pin him down in that window seal,
37:36because he could feel Anakin approaching,
37:38and he wanted to use this moment to convince Anakin that the Jedi were plotting to take over.
37:43I told you it would come to this. I was right. The Jedi are taking over.
37:48Actually, during their fight, there's even a scene where Palpatine has his saber right up to
37:52Windu's chest and he seems to just not kill him. Like he's like, I gotta wait.
37:57And you'll also notice throughout this fight that there are several instances where Palpatine is
38:01clearly animated due to Ian McDiarmid not being able to do some of the required Sith moves that
38:07the script called for. I mean, come on, we can't all be Ray Park.
38:10So originally, Anakin was supposed to be present for the entirety of this fight. If you look closely
38:17right here, you can even see that Palpatine's lightsaber hilt is different. It's actually
38:22Anakin's lightsaber hilt. And this is because originally, Anakin was present for the duel between
38:28Palpatine and Windu. And Palpatine didn't actually use his own lightsaber in this original version of
38:34the scene. In the original version, he force grabs Anakin's lightsaber and uses it to fight Mace
38:40Windu. Now this was of course changed, but they still used some of the footage that was shot from
38:46that version of the duel. And that's why we see Anakin's hilt in this scene. And fun fact for you,
38:52a lot of the toys for Revenge of the Sith were already in production based upon that original version
38:57of the script. And a few, and I do mean a few, of these bad boys were released into the wild.
39:03So this toy of Palpatine was wide released. It's him with a red saber, but with Anakin's hilt,
39:08they changed the color of the saber to match the change in the script. But some versions of
39:12this toy did slip through the cracks that have the blue saber, and they are mixed in with all
39:17of the red versions. And I was actually lucky enough to have just ordered this one a few years
39:22back anticipating that I get the one with the red saber. That's what I was looking for. And I'll admit
39:26that when I got it in the mail, I was like, why is this lightsaber blue? Do I have a misprint here?
39:31And then I was like, oh my god, wait a second, I've got a gem on my hands.
39:35So anyway, Anakin rolls in, Windu has walked right into Palpatine's trap,
39:39Palpatine lets out this burst of lightning, showing Anakin his true power, and in the process,
39:43scarring himself and revealing his true self, the evil face that had been hiding behind the
39:48face of a humble senator of Naboo. Anakin begs Windu not to kill Palpatine, and reminds him that
39:53it is not the Jedi way, alluding back to his own regrets of killing Dooku when he was unarmed.
39:58Anakin then cuts off Windu's hand, and Palpatine foreshocks him out the window.
40:02Ah, out the window! Out the window? No? No? All right. And right before doing so,
40:07we see Palpatine flash a quick little grin, confirming that this has all gone according
40:12to plan. Palpatine pushed the Jedi to the point of feeling that they had no choice but to overthrow
40:17him and temporarily take control of the Senate, walking right into the trap of Palpatine's accusation
40:22that the Jedi wanted to take over. Palpatine even has the nerve to say,
40:26I believe you are the only Jedi with no knowledge of this plot.
40:31So he then sends Anakin to the Jedi Temple along with the 501st Legion of Clone Troopers to annihilate
40:37the Jedi in the Temple, claiming that this will give Anakin the strength he needs to save Padme. When
40:42in reality, Palpatine is simply using Anakin, or should I say Vader now, the same way that he has always
40:48used him. So after sending Anakin to the temple, Palpatine sends a message out across the galaxy
40:52to all Clone Troopers, activating a command called Order 66, which will trigger the chip with inside
40:58every Clone Trooper and make them commit a mass extermination of all Jedi. This was of course
41:03further explored in the Clone Wars. So we see multiple Jedi around the galaxy slaughtered by their
41:09own troops. Actor Silas Carson, who plays Katie Mundy, actually dies twice during this sequence because
41:14he also plays Newt Gunray, who Anakin later kills at the Emperor's command on Mustafar.
41:19But this was actually his third Star Wars death overall, as he played the pilot in Phantom Menace,
41:25which was killed here in the hangar of the Trade Federation ship. Now at the temple,
41:29we see Anakin kill even the younglings. And according to the young man who played the Jedi
41:33youngling here, Hayden Christensen actually said boo when igniting his lightsaber to elicit their jumpy
41:38reaction. Now right before Anakin slaughters these younglings, we see a tear in his eye,
41:42and we see this tear shown again once Anakin arrives on Mustafar, which is meant to resemble
41:47Hell and Anakin's descent into Hell as he's made a deal with the Devil. And this tear in Anakin's eye
41:52is reminiscent of this classic portrait featuring Lucifer, the fallen angel, aka Satan, crying.
41:58So Anakin Skywalker is a direct parallel to the character of Lucifer. Lucifer was God's most perfect
42:04angel, similar to that of Anakin being the Jedi's chosen one. But Lucifer, like Anakin, would go on to
42:10get too big for his britches and betray God, aka Anakin betraying the Jedi, and he would transform
42:15into Darth Vader, aka Satan. Now during Order 66, we see this little badass take on some clone troopers
42:22on his own. And this young Jedi is actually being played by George Lucas's son, Jet Lucas. So as Anakin
42:27departs from the Jedi temple, he stops by to check in on Padme. Now in the movie, we get this brief
42:32exchange between Threepio and R2. Well he is under a lot of stress. But in the novelization
42:38of the film, there's actually a scene where Threepio pretty much asks R2 what the hell is going on
42:42with Anakin, to which R2 says he doesn't know and that Anakin doesn't talk to him anymore. Which is
42:47just heartbreaking because these two were so close and we know that R2 is smart enough to know what's
42:53going on and he is aware of the atrocities that Anakin is committing. So Obi-Wan and Yoda link up after
42:59both escape their attacking troops on their respective planets of Kashyyyk and Utapau. We
43:03get this badass scene of Obi-Wan and Yoda fighting troopers outside of the Jedi temple, but there is
43:08also a deleted scene where these clones are actually like trying to pretend to be Jedi. You clones make
43:14terrible Jedi. So as Obi-Wan and Yoda enter the temple and look upon the slain Jedi, they find security
43:19recordings confirming Anakin to be the one responsible. It is also in this recording that we can actually see
43:24stunt coordinator and lightsaber combat enthusiast Nick Gillard portraying one of the Jedi
43:29slain by Anakin. So Palpatine addresses the Senate claiming the Jedi attempted to overthrow
43:34and kill him and he proclaims that the Republic shall be reorganized into a galactic empire. The
43:39Senate breaks into thunderous applause to which Padme says. So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous
43:45applause. And you'll notice that she is wearing a headpiece that is the symbol of the forthcoming
43:50rebel alliance. So Obi-Wan goes to Padme and tries to get an idea of where Anakin has gone and she
43:55understandably won't tell him. Obi-Wan then stows away in her ship when she goes to find Anakin and
44:00when the two arrive together, Anakin takes Obi-Wan's presence as confirmation that Padme has betrayed
44:06him and sided with the Jedi. This is when we see Vader use his signature force choke for the first
44:11time. Well, that is until the Clone Wars animated series came out and we saw Anakin actually use it
44:15prior to the events of Revenge of the Sith. So the fight between Master and Apprentice ensues.
44:20Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen trained for two months choreographing and training for this
44:25fight. And oh my God, it's one of the best Star Wars fights ever. I know some people say it's a
44:29little too much and sure it's a little much, but I'm there for a little much. I mean, this is,
44:34this is Anakin Skywalker versus Obi-Wan Kenobi. It needs to be a little much. So I've watched this
44:39fight like a million times. Like I've seen the movie many, many times, but also I've just like watched
44:44the fight on YouTube. God knows how many times. And if you look closely at this one little part of the
44:48duel, we can actually see that Obi-Wan is holding Anakin's saber. This is because in a
44:53deleted sequence, we actually saw the two swap lightsabers. So what is so great about this fight
44:58is getting to see Anakin and Obi-Wan at the height of their respective powers, going toe to toe with
45:03one another. And George Lucas made sure to convey equal footing of power between the dark and the
45:08light with this scene of the two force pushing against one another. Now, like I mentioned earlier,
45:13Mustafar is meant to represent hell. And here we are seeing the battle between good and evil take place
45:18in the depths of hell, perfectly symbolizing the historical motifs that Lucas based Star Wars on,
45:23having said many times that this is a story about good versus evil. Now,
45:26this hellfire planet of Mustafar features real volcanic explosions from Mount Etna in Italy,
45:32which happened to be erupting at the time of production. Now, in the midst of the fight,
45:36Obi-Wan concedes that he has failed Anakin, meaning that he has failed as a master and failed in his
45:41promise to Qui-Gon all those years ago, showing us that Obi-Wan feels the weight of Anakin's turn.
45:46Anakin exclaims that he should have known the Jedi were plotting to take over, to which Obi-Wan
45:51doesn't actually deny. He just justifies the Jedi's decision by pointing out that Palpatine is evil,
45:56to which Anakin says,
45:58From my point of view, the Jedi are evil!
46:00Now, putting aside Anakin's polite but out of place debate rhetoric in the midst of this battle to the
46:05death, the use of the phrase point of view is actually common in Star Wars. It's Obi-Wan,
46:10after all, who would hide from Luke that his father was Darth Vader,
46:14but he would later deny having lied to Luke by stating that what he told him was true.
46:19From a certain point of view.
46:20It's also here a little earlier in the film where Palpatine says,
46:24Good as a point of view, Anakin.
46:26So anyway, Obi-Wan leaps onto this hillside, taking the high ground.
46:29I have the high ground!
46:30You underestimate my power!
46:33Don't try it!
46:34Now, when Obi-Wan speaks of the high ground, this is reminiscent of his first duel with a Lord of
46:39the Sith, Darth Maul. Maul had the high ground, but Obi-Wan took a leap of faith,
46:43and it proved successful. And this experience taught Obi-Wan not to underestimate his opponent
46:48the way Maul underestimated him. So when Obi-Wan is saying, don't try it, he's practically begging
46:54Anakin not to make him do what he has come to Mustafar to do, which is destroy the Sith.
46:59So this is kind of a little bit of headcanon for me, but I think we can safely assume that Anakin has
47:03heard the story of how Kenobi defeated Maul, and Obi-Wan's successful maneuver may have inspired
47:09Anakin to prove to his older master that he too could perform this move successfully,
47:14and showed that he is just as skilled a warrior as Obi-Wan, falling into that theme of Anakin
47:19always feeling the need to prove himself.
47:21You're a great warrior, Anakin, but you'll need to prove yourself as you're undoing.
47:25So Obi-Wan reluctantly takes Anakin's legs and remaining arm, and we see Anakin roll down
47:30close to the lakes of fire where he soon catches flame. Now in the novelization for
47:34Return of the Jedi back in 83, we are told that Darth Vader actually fell into a pool of lava.
47:39And there's even a toy set from Revenge of the Sith that suggests that Lucas may have had the
47:43intention of recreating that moment in the film. In this toy set, they had this little pool of lava
47:48that would flip around, so if you drop the Anakin action figure in, the little trap door would
47:53spin around and you would see this hand coming up out of the lava. So when Obi-Wan leaves,
47:57he takes Anakin's saber with him. We of course know that he will one day pass his saber onto
48:02Luke. Obi-Wan, R2, and Threepio depart the planet with an unconscious Padme. Padme says that there is
48:07still good in Anakin, and she's actually right because Luke will too feel that light many years
48:11later in Return of the Jedi when he ultimately brings Anakin back.
48:15There is still good in him.
48:17So during this epic battle that took place on Mustafar, we were also getting intercuts of another
48:22battle of the century between Yoda and Palpatine.
48:25I have waited a long time for this moment.
48:30Now, this fight between Yoda and Palps is iconic. I love Yoda dropping these guards upon entry,
48:36and I love just how cocky and badass Yoda is in this moment.
48:40You survived. Surprised?
48:43Your arrogance blinds you, Master Yoda.
48:47Now, this line is so freaking eerie because yes, it was the arrogance and the hubris of the
48:52Jedi Order that led to them not being able to sense the Sith Lord hiding right under their nose.
48:58They were indeed blinded by the dark side. And that is why the Jedi couldn't sense the
49:04re-emergence of the Sith, and said silly stuff like this.
49:08I do not believe the Sith could have returned without us knowing.
49:12Yoda and Palpatine's battle ends in a draw, and Yoda goes into hiding,
49:16and in a deleted scene we actually see him take his pod to Dagobah,
49:20which is where we first meet the old Jedi Master in Empire Strikes Back.
49:23Now, when Palpatine arrives on Mustafar and finds Anakin's charred body,
49:26he places his hand on his head just like when Obi-Wan finds Luke unconscious in A New Hope,
49:31and he places his hand on his head, seemingly using the Force to wake him up.
49:36Whereas Palpatine is likely using the Force to put Anakin to sleep.
49:40In Vader's surgery room where he is being placed into his mechanized suit,
49:43we can see beneath him the Imperial Roundel.
49:46And if you listen closely, you can hear Anakin's heartbeat
49:49right up until the moment that his mask is lowered onto him for the first time.
49:57Symbolizing Anakin's full transformation into Darth Vader,
50:01and becoming more machine now than man.
50:03Us hearing that heartbeat stop the second the mask closes,
50:06is symbolizing the complete, finished death of Anakin Skywalker,
50:10that is until Return of the Jedi when Luke brings him back.
50:13During this scene we also hear the same score begin to play that we heard at Qui-Gon Jinn's funeral.
50:18Lord Vader, can you hear me?
50:27Using this same music symbolizes how Qui-Gon's death was the turning point for Anakin,
50:31the point in which Anakin was destined to become Darth Vader.
50:34The Jedi Council nor even Obi-Wan saw the potential in Anakin that Qui-Gon saw.
50:39Obi-Wan and the Jedi didn't believe in Anakin, they feared him.
50:42And Qui-Gon's death by the hand of Sidious' first apprentice doomed Anakin to this grueling fate
50:47where Chancellor Palpatine would step in and fill the role of a father that Qui-Gon left behind.
50:52A void that Obi-Wan nor Yoda ever attempted to fill.
50:56Now speaking of Qui-Gon, Liam Neeson did return to provide these lines in this deleted scene.
51:01Yoda, my old friend, you have come at last.
51:05Now in the primary cut of the film we don't actually hear that dialogue,
51:08we just see Yoda meditating and waking from his communing with Qui-Gon.
51:11But that scene of him meditating is confirmed to be the moment in which he was communicating with Qui-Gon
51:16and it sets the stage for the scene where Yoda tells Obi-Wan that he will teach him to talk to Qui-Gon
51:22in his solitude on Tatooine.
51:23So Padme, she lost the will to live and she passed away following the birth of Luke and Leia.
51:28And Anakin has fulfilled his own vision of the future.
51:31So when Vader asks about Padme, Palpatine says,
51:34It seems in your anger you killed her.
51:39So Palpatine is making it out like Anakin's force choke killed her.
51:43But as Vader says,
51:44She was alive! I felt it!
51:47So it's possible Padme really did have a Shakespearean death of a broken heart.
51:51I mean that kind of trauma that Anakin has put her through mixed with the trauma of childbirth could
51:56certainly be fatal.
51:57But it has been theorized that Palpatine actually played a hand in killing Padme through the force,
52:02kind of an inverse of influencing the midichlorians to create life to instead take life,
52:07preying on her trauma and sending dark energy her way, making her lose her will to live.
52:12One, so she wouldn't be a thorn in the side of Palpatine's plans for the Empire and Vader,
52:17but also so that he could take Vader to another level of hate and anger,
52:21making him an even stronger Sith Lord and an even stronger weapon for Palpatine to use
52:26in his conquest of the galaxy.
52:28Now, in early versions of the film, Padme survived and would go into hiding with Leia on Alderaan.
52:33And this would have matched up better with this line from Leia in Return of the Jedi.
52:37Do you remember your mother? Your real mother?
52:39Just a little bit. She died when I was very young.
52:44Lucas, however, opted to go ahead and have her die in this movie because she was dead
52:49come the original trilogy and he didn't want her death to take place off screen.
52:53Now here on board the Tantan IV, we can see the same actor who played Boba Fett in the original
52:57trilogy, Jeremy Bullock, now playing Captain Colton, the Tantan IV pilot.
53:01Colton, come say hi!
53:033PO and R2 were on board the Tantan IV, Bell Organas, leaving them in the custody of Captain
53:08Ramus Antilles, the same character who would go on to be choked out by Darth Vader
53:12aboard this same ship 19 years later in A New Hope.
53:16And of course they threw in this little line about 3PO having his mind wiped.
53:19Have the protocol droid's mind wiped?
53:22What?
53:22And that of course was to avoid breaking canon because in the original trilogy,
53:263PO didn't know Kenobi, he didn't know the Skywalker, so they had to have his mind wiped.
53:30Now 3PO's oh no are actually the final words spoken in this film.
53:34Oh no.
53:36And that's fitting because he has the first line of the following film in A New Hope.
53:40Did you hear that?
53:42At Padme's funeral on her homeworld of Naboo, we see her holding the necklace Anakin gave her
53:47in Phantom Menace, and we can see that they have made her appear as if she is still pregnant as part
53:51of their plan to hide the twins from the Empire. It is also here on Naboo that we see Padme's successor
53:56as Queen of Naboo, we also see the Governor of Naboo, we get Jar Jar Binks, Boss Nass,
54:01as well as Padme's family who we actually met in these deleted scenes from Attack of the Clones.
54:06Here on board an early version of a Star Destroyer, we see Palpatine joined by Vader,
54:10and right here we can see Grand Moff Tarkin being portrayed by a different actor unlike in Rogue One
54:15where they digitally recreate Peter Cushing. It's also here that we hear this classic TIE
54:20fighter sound effect for the first time in the prequel trilogy.
54:26Leia is taken with Bael to Alderaan where she meets her adoptive mother for the first time,
54:30and Luke is taken by Obi-Wan to live with his aunt and uncle. You'll remember Joel Edgerton and Bonnie
54:35Piesse played Owen and Beru in Attack of the Clones. They are the son and daughter-in-law of Cleogalars,
54:40the husband of Anakin's mother, Shmi. Owen and Beru then hold Luke and look out at the twin sons of
54:45Tatooine setting the stage for A New Hope. My friends, I love this movie, flaws and all,
54:50and I want to thank you so much for joining me for this 20 years later breakdown of the film. I
54:54remember seeing this movie in theaters when I was like seven years old, and to this day it is still
54:59my favorite Star Wars movie. I wouldn't go as far as to say it's the best Star Wars movie,
55:03but it's definitely my favorite, and breaking it down with all of you has been a personal career
55:07highlight for me. Thank you so much for joining me on this ride. Again, be sure to check out our
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