Between the Disney Investor Day announcements and “The Mandalorian” season finale, there has been a lot of “Star Wars” chatter of late.
Recently though, the franchise’s original creator George Lucas has come back into the conversation thanks to a quote about one of the most heavily criticised aspects of his “Star Wars” prequel trilogy – that of the clunky dialogue throughout.
In particular the second of the three, “Attack of the Clones,” comes under much fire for some of Hayden Christensen’s lines ranging from issues with sand to what should be an emotional outburst about a mass slaughter he carried out.
Digital Spy reports that as part of film historian and archivist Paul Duncan’s newest literary work “The Star Wars Archives 1999–2005,” Lucas himself discusses the tone and delivery of the prequels’ dialogue and says he took a stylistic approach that has been largely misunderstood:
“It is presented very honestly, it isn’t tongue-in-cheek at all, and it’s played to the hilt… But it is consistent, not only with the rest of the movie but with the overall ‘Star Wars’ style… Most people don’t understand the style of ‘Star Wars.’ They don’t get that there’s an underlying motif that is very much like a 1930s Western or Saturday matinee serial… It’s in the more romantic period of making movies and adventure films. And this film is even more of a melodrama than the others.”
Fan hatred towards the prequels has softened over the years, the anger of “Star Wars” fans turning towards “The Last Jedi,” then “Rise of Skywalker” and for much of this year has been targeted at the sequel trilogy as a whole for its inconsistency and re-treading, complaints never really levelled at the prequel trilogy.
Christensen will reprise the Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader role for the upcoming “Obi-Wan Kenobi” mini-series in the works for the Disney+ streaming service.
