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[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 47 points 10 months ago

Woah, actor wants big paying actor role? That's insane news

[-] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 37 points 10 months ago

Good! It was so sad how some fucking toxic "fans" handled him back then. I'm glad he is back.

[-] Xariphon@kbin.social 20 points 10 months ago

I mean, Episode 2 was some peak Mannequin Skywalker, but the guy was doing his best with the writing and direction he got, too. The character being unlikable and terribly handled isn't really his fault.

[-] averyminya@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

He also did a great job in the last two reprisals. He may have even been the strongest part of those shows.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

And yet Natalie Portman and Ewan MacGregor managed just fine.

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 17 points 10 months ago

Wasn't Star Wars his first big role, though? Portman and MacGregor were both fairly established at that point.

They may also be better actors, or at least more free-thinking. Better able to create the characters themselves.

They also weren't trying to portray the kind of character Anakin needed to be. They had much more stable, much more relatable personalities. Not the kind character that goes from saving children to slaughtering them.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

Right, so maybe he wasn't the right voice for that role.

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

Maybe. He wasn't the casting director, as far as I'm aware, nor director or producer. So laying all blame on his shoulders seems a bit singlemindedly petty to me.

Its easy to say in hindsight that we were wrong in any action from the past. The problem is that its the past, and changing it is currently beyond us.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world -5 points 10 months ago

Oh, I forgot that everybody has to take any role offered to them, especially if they'll do a poor job of it

[-] Renevar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago

No you're right, if you are a young actor handed the lead role of a huge franchise that could jumpstart your career and set you up for life you should DEFINITELY turn it down, after all you wouldn't want to do a poor job of it right?/s

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago

Then it would seem only fair that we can criticize an objectively poor performance.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

I dunno, I think he did well at portraying the character. He made me dislike the character. We aren't supposed to like Anakin; he's this deeply flawed, messed up person that follows the bait of the dark side like he had no mind at all.

That's what the character was written as.

But he managed to do that believably. The way he delivered lines, his body language, it really read like this damaged kid that got thrown into being some kind of savior and went batshit over time.

If anything, I would say that Ewan did a little too much over-acting in the prequels. He's a really solid actor, but he leaned hard into emoting heavy as a way to denote that obi-wan is normally trying hard to not emote. It worked with the way things are written, but it's a fairly obvious choice that doesn't scan as well as most of Hayden's scenes where he's pushing.

Then again, it's all a matter of opinion, and yours is valid :)

[-] wjrii@kbin.social 14 points 10 months ago

Honestly? I thought Natalie was wooden and terrible in the prequels. Not necessarily her fault, but based solely off of Star Wars, I’d believe you if you told me she and Hayden Christensen had similar and unremarkable career paths.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago

They did get somewhat better dialogue, but their characters also have some horribly cringy moments.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

It was garbage acting in garbage movies.

[-] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

Yepp, that can be absolutely your opinion.

[-] CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com 3 points 10 months ago

He acted exactly how George Lucas wanted him to

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Yes, that's another problem.

[-] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

And we'd be foaming at the mouth to see more of him. His scenes in Ahsoka were truly amazing

[-] Xariphon@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago

Is it just me or has he become a better actor nowadays?

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 17 points 10 months ago

His acting skills were always pretty good, the direction and scrips he got are another story.

[-] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

He was great in Shattered Glass.

[-] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

It's not a story Disney would tell you. It's a Lucas legend.

[-] ArdMacha@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago
[-] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago

Their scripts are very impressive, they must be very proud.

[-] Fester@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

200,000 scripts are ready with a million more well on the way.

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

Definitely better directors, too

[-] lapommedeterre@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Fingers crossed for a Star Wars Christmas special

[-] 3ntranced@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I've been praying for them to do a reshot or even just a restoration of the original. It gets so much hate but I watch it every year without fail its so good.

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