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ROTSFan
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Date Posted:
3/12 10:01pm
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That is an astute observation TragicLove, and I caught that also as I read the end of ROTJ. I certainly hope he was crossing over into the afterlife, anyway, to the place of his choice which would be Naboo (and no doubt Padme's choice).
Speaking of Padme's choice....there is one vague link I found to spiritual reference, and it came from costume design, of all places. I didn't save it unfortunately, but supposedly the person who designed Padme's burial costume (the blue "floating" with flowers in her hair) told someone else on the set that the costume was supposed to symbolize Padme's spiritual return to the Lake/Naboo. I could be reading into it, but it just got me thinking that--Force willing--that is where her spirit went. There was also a reference at the end of the Stover ROTS novel that when Padme passed away Obi-Wan could still feel the "cool touch of her hands in the Force" on the japor pendant, or something like that. It really makes you hope.  
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MissPadme
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I had the same idea at the end of my story "The Mercy Seat." Padmé goes to the Lake Retreat to wait for Anakin.
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Qui-Dawn
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MissPadme posted:
I had the same idea at the end of my story "The Mercy Seat." Padmé goes to the Lake Retreat to wait for Anakin.
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Mmmmm, yes, quite true indeed, and actually I well remember that I too had the very same reaction to that one subtly, wonderfully understated and simply, forthrightly-given small passage from the ROTJ novelization, that basically the first time I read it, well, afterwards - finally managed to reclaim my copy of all three OT nocelizations bound together into one paperback volume, I've had the blahsted thing for what feels like 'lo, these many years surely - except that it had seemed like for the longest time I'd ended up unintentionally misplacing or waylaying it somewheres or another, couldn't find it no matter however much I turned my bookcase up, down and all around with a sense of increasing vexation and desperation too, and for the very life of me I hadn't thought where it must have gotten to....until I happened to pull out an old unused backpack what must've been weeks, maybe a month or two later, who knows how long - and what to my glad and wondering eyes and my clutching hands should appear....
....but the softcover-bound novelization of all three films, it basically just fell right into my waiting and thankfully outstretched and *immensely* grateful hands, too, right then and there....and, ohhhh, naturally I must've been only still more sincerely grateful and *very* much relieved in general over the whole thing, then, to finally have it close enough to hand again and here it shall likely stay, too, within easy enough reach - and maybe especially so, I'd expect, simply for the sake of - well, remembering the certain dear and sweet and tenderly wistful, poignantly moving and certainly now only ever more Love Story-minded particular passages like *this* one after all, then, as you quite rightly point out....and of *course* it's always struck me this very way, too, and the first time I chanced across it afterwards I actually found myself welling up and getting quite emotional-like, truth be told....because what I guess it just proved to me, seeing even but a wee treasure of a passage like that....
....how it was, then, that even in his last moments of physical, mortal-bound life maybe, like even in those few last laboured but thankfully free breaths just before the Force called him back home again to peace, co,fort, a truly well-earned and sincerely-deserved rest and respite....in even those few and fleeting last instants where he could flare his own nostrils and breathe deep, for himself....and at longest last open his eyes and truly, deeply *see* for himself again, too....that it was then, at least, where he found himself inevitably and irresistibly drawn back....to the one place in all the world, in all the galaxy truly, where he always had been the most happy and carefree, overjoyed and in love by *far*....the place beloved and beautiful, cherished and dear, forever-immortal in his mind and heart and maybe his true sanctum sanctorum and his real lasting home after all, then....where he had been carefree, content, exuberant, overjoyed....where he had loved, had wooed and won.
In those moments when he breathed his last on the physical plane, really, and was finally *free* to do so - because he had done it *himself*, pure and simple - it's like he was finally able to go back there, finding himself returning to the most hallowed and happy place in his memory, his mind, his heart and soul....the place of wildflower-carpeted meadows lush, colourful, vivid and lively-green....the gentle, lulling constant purr-whisper of nearby waterfalls, throwing ceaseless fine spray into the air to dampen his skin and catch in his hair like an array of tine fine diamonds....the very *smell* of the place, too, so rich and heady and probably the most intoxicating vibrant perfume he'd ever have known, the scent of life, of happiness, of the carefree and of *love* above all....or, oh, for that matter even - the very gentle and soothing, nurturing heat of the sun caressing his skin, warming his uplifted face, so unlike any other he'd known - and so enjoyed and appreciated, loved for that, too....
It certainly does seem very much the sure thing and the bounden certainty, then, ye-es - that of *course* he naturally would have found his thoughts, his hopes, his dreams and wishes, even all his desires really, once more returning to that place of love and light, warmth and comfort, tenderness and peace, softness and smoothness....that place where he had so loved, and been loved in return....that place which had been his true home, his sanctuary and most everything good and bright, warm and welcoming, nurturing and tender and enjoyable and truly, deeply, resoundingly and satisfyingly *happy* in his life, really - the place which was really only these things....most of all because of *her*, then, for the fact that of course it reminded him inextricably and forevermore of Padme specifically, always had and just *always* would evidently, and thus to think of the softness and smoothness, the peace, contentment and beauty of the one was to always be reminded of the other in turn....
And very likely that's just how 'twould be for him forevermore, actually, that as far as he was most intimately and presonally concerned anyway and obviously as it mattered most to him by far - to think of the place and all that drew him back to it, without fail, all that made it appeal so lastingly to him, then - the comfort, the softness, smoothness, caring, tenderness and welcoming warmth of it all - that was due first and foremost to *Padme* herself, then, I imagine....and thus the fact that to remember all the good and the best, brightest and the most enjoyable and carefree and wonderful things he had there, then - those times of laughter, mischief, charm and play, when 'twas just all about him, and the one he loved and whose heart and affections he won in turn....that, then, was very much the place - and clearly it was most of all because of *her*, of them, that he would *always* return - to where they had lived and loved....and where they could *always* have their happily ever after, too.
He really did go home, there, I daresay - in those last moments of physical being, he remembered where he had been most truly, deeply happy and content, at peace, loving and loved in fair all his life, really....the one place above all which had been *theirs*, the one place which had been his home most of all because *she* was there, and thus they two had been there together after all....and so it was calling to him, again, even after all that time - like still, he yearned to be back there againm with the softness and smoothness, the peace, the comfort, the soothing and the warmth....it was, then, I daresay just like - *Padme* herself, too, was right there loyally and devotedly, forevermore lovingly waiting for him to come home, to return to her, and so she had just been there all that time, in that place which was theirs alone, waiting to welcome him back, her love....and now, finally, she could, and so indeed he went to her at last....and she was there, waiting, welcoming, *his* true home....in her.
Dawn.
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ROTSFan
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Awwww, that's very sweet Dawn. And Miss_Padme, that is an awesome thing to work into your story. I can't wait to read it (when my life slows down a bit this spring )
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Darthana
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The way the palace shimmers in the sunlight, the way the air always smells of flowers." And then we have in the book, RotJ this, as Vader is dying:
He smiled up again at his son and for the first time, loved him, And for the first time in many long years, loved himself again, as well.
Suddenly he smelled something - flared his nostrils, sniffed once more. Wildflowers, that was what it was. Just blooming; it must be spring
The connection is outstanding.  And hee they say that GL is bad at writing. 
I always thought that Anakin and Padme are reunited in the afterlife. And only place where that could've happened is indeed Naboo (Lake Retreat). But I didn't know that was 'official', and this really nicely shows George's thoughtfulness on the subject. 
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Qui-Dawn
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Date Posted:
3/22 8:52pm
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*nods right along in appropriately enthusiastic, fervent and sincere agreement* Mmmmmmm, yes indeedy, I daresay that it absolutely does do just that and accomplish it *very* well and befittingly in the process besides, that it just seems to make all the perfect and entirely apropos, only naturally-expected sense in the world, then, and no mistake - it's just an intrinsic idea and concept as a whole which I daresay has just *always* seemed to be the most straightforward and perfectly well fathomable and even rather plainly and blessedly obvious sort of purely sense-making thing, then, and certainly enough so in my experience at least so that for the very life of me I simply fail to understand how anyone somehow couldn't or wouldn't grasp it then, in other words, that it could somehow ever be lost on, well, fair *anyone* really, who knows but what that still boggles me ol' mind to a certain extent, truth be told....
....for it's just, well, how could anyone somehow e'er *not* get it, right, how could it ever be at all lost on them when in truth it just seems like the most readily-apparent and straightforward-obvious and perfectly sense-making thing in really all the world, and certainly even in all the galaxy too, for that matter....it's just always been something, then, which by my reckoning *absolutely* fits....an entirely natural and to be well-enough-and-easily-expected sort of notion, then, at least it's certainly always struck me as one and it's something that I've just implicitly, wholly and absolutely believed in and fair known with every fibre of my being and *all* along too, at that....and perhaps there's just never seemed anything more sheerly, purely *true*, then, or at least that's oft been my inkling of it, anyway....such a great shock, I'm sure  - for really, now, surely it *is* a fundamental notion or an intrinsic precept which just seems to make all the *sense* in the world, right....
....it just seems to *belong*, then, and certainly to ring very truly and soundly besides, and as likely as not and it's certainly so as I do tend to reckon it anyway - no, really, eh? - it just....seems something we really *can* be well enough sure and certain of, something we actually can I daresay take real lasting, glad and heartened comfort in, something we can surely rest all the easier and still more satisfied and assured in knowing, then....something which, ye-es, in itself certainly proves us quite simply *right* about all this....well, undoubtedly all the more so anway, I find....not, to be sure, that we'd necessarily been needing any further convincing along those lines, eh? *chortles warmly, gladly* Mmmmmmm, ohhhh, aye, doubtless many a time already it's been said but it probably bears repeating now just as much as ever it has, right....that being vindicated really is a mighty fine and welcomed thing after all, and clearly we'll just never be tiring of it either. *tee hee*
For ohhhh, aye, certainly it just seems like one of these real bounden-certainty and pretty much real goes-without-saying type things by now, right, though certainly it's in the little choices discoveries and treasured little happenstances, moments of utter fortuitousness like this in particular, too, like in even so much as the merest mention of....a lush, rich, wildflower-carpeted romantic meadow, and the scent of the blossoms, their heady perfume filled with softness and love and life, and the invigorating tang of the fresh, free crisp air and even the merest yet in itself most immeasurably precious passing caress of a gentle and soothing life-giving and peacefully, pleasantly nurturing sort of spring rain then, in itself redolent and evocative somehow of all the softness and comfort and soothing, the peace and the pleasure of the place, then, and yet even though it might be just the merest passage or even supposedly the most relatively fleeting mention, then....
*Still*, though, of course it too simply has to count for something I should think, and actually maybe a whole heckuva *lot* of something too, come to think of it, because even though others might perchance somehow miss (!!!) it, utterly confounding and bewildering I know, or even though they might perchance not think to make that much of it or consider it "no great thing" or big deal at all, then....still, though, I daaresay that we at least know rather differently than that, right, we of course know *far* and away better than to ever think that something like this, too, could *ever* mean or signify nothing at all....the mention of a meadow, the memory of a heady flower perfume, the sense-memory of a warm, soothing spring rain, and a place of peace, softness and comfort, soothing and joy....*this*, then, instead of ever meaning or counting for or representing nothing, instead I daresay....actually only counts for *everything*, all the love, the peace and the happily-ever-after enjoyed, too, right there.
Dawn.
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TragicLove
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Looks like Hayden and Natalie might be in another movie together:
DH.net posted:
New Project ?: Looks as if Hayden's name is featured in the cast of the Drama, New York, I Love You.
From Visitor Pictures-The universal theme of encountering and celebrating love is told in 12 separate stories taking place in the five boroughs of New York City. Directed by Faith Akin, Yvan Attal, Alan Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Scarlett Johnansson, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Martson, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner, Jiang Wen and Andrey Zvyaginstev. Starring Carlos Acosta, Isabelle Adjani, Kevin Bacon, Justin Bartha, Rachel Bilson, James Caan, Orlando Bloom, Hayden Christensen, Bradley Cooper, Chris Cooper, Taylor Geare, Ethan Hawke, Irrfan Khan, Cloris Leachman, Drea de Matteo, Emilie Ohana, Natalie Portman, Maggie Q, Shu Qi, Olivia Thirlby, Eli Wallach, Saul Williams, Robin Wright-Penn, and Anton Yelchin and Ugur Ycel. [Producer: Marina Grasic, Executive Producer: Jan Korbelin].
http://desiringhayden.net/
Interesting. I haven't seen this reported anywhere else, so I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens. Of course, they'll be in seperate stories and therefore won't be sharing any scenes together (if this cast list is even accurate), but it will still be cool to see them in the same movie again.
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Actually, Natalie will be directing as well, something she has become interested in as of late (she signed with some studio to direct two movies). It would be interesting if she got to direct Hayden. It'll be payback for the times on the AOTC set when he would tell her not to swing her arms so much  .
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It's been officially confirmed by Variety:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117983798.html?categoryId=13&cs=1
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Portman to play lead in 'Wuthering Heights'
Friday, April 11 2008, 11:20 BST
By Beth Hilton, Entertainment Reporter
Natalie Portman is to play heroine Catherine Earnshaw in a new big-screen adaptation of Wuthering Heights.
The Jacket director John Maybury will helm the Ecosse Films production from a script by Olivia Hetreed (Girl With a Pearl Earring), claims The Hollywood Reporter.
Emily Bronte's 1847 novel revolves around the turbulent love affair between headstrong Catherine and her brooding adopted brother Heathcliff.
Keira Knightley and Lindsay Lohan were previously reported to be vying for the role, famously played by Merle Oberon opposite Laurence Olivier in 1939. A 1989 version starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliet Binoche performed poorly at the box office.
Previous Ecosse credits include Mrs. Brown and Becoming Jane.
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Wow. It looks like Natalie is building herself quite a beautiful repertoire of movies, a lot of them (if not most) historical and epic in scale. You just couldn't ask for better opportunities than that 
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Darthana
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Hayden and Nat in the same movie?!?
It doesn't matter too much that they are not in the same 'story', it's still a movie I would wait in the line for.
MissPadme posted:
It would be interesting if she got to direct Hayden. It'll be payback for the times on the AOTC set when he would tell her not to swing her arms so much
He said that to her? LOL! On which scene/set was that?
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AOTC. I don't know the particular scene but Natalie told Vanity Fair or somebody that Hayden would tell her not to swing her arms so much when she walked, because it didn't fit someone of her station or bearing. It annoyed her but she also realized he was right .
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At long last...
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Yay! I have one too. It's a great figure!
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