Anakin, Shmi and the Pieta

I dunno is this has been covered but I found it quite spooky when I last watched AOTC.

Anakin holding Shmi while she is dying is strikingly similar to the Pieta except in reverse.

[image=http://www.theforce.net/multimedia/archive/Images/Episode_2/Characters/Shmi_Skywalker/tn_aotc-shmi_anakin02.jpg]

Sorry for the bad image, does anyone have a better one?

Here's the Pieta

[image=http://www.atmos.albany.edu/facstaff/vollaro/Bs-Pieta-sm.jpg]

I think it's Italian or Latin for piety.

 

That's strange, a historical piece of art inspiring a movie director......

 

This has been discussed before.

Its basically just a coincidence. Anyone cradled in someone's arms resembles the pieta. Hell, every Michael Bay film has the pieta pose in it. I dont think its an intentional homage.

But discuss anyway.

 

That's strange, a historical piece of art inspiring a movie director......

Now now, we all know directors make up every reference and symbol they use from scratch.
There is absolutely no inspiration from other movies, society, or art in any movie, silly rabbit.










*disclaimer*
That was sarcasm

 

I started a discussion about this a couple of years ago, on the now-defunct AOTC forum.

I think the Pieta imagery is very deliberate. The roles are reversed, of course; it's the son holding the mother instead of the mother holding the son. But Anakin is clearly a messianic figure; he does, after all, defeat evil -- though only after turning to it himself.