PT In original ROTS draft, Padme tried to stab Anakin in neck with knife on Mustafar!?

That's what this article says... anyone else hear about this before?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/star-wars-revenge-sith-apos-152606450.html

 

Saw this on Reddit the other day. Apparently so

Personally glad they didn't go through with that idea. Aside from the fact that Obi-Wan confronting Padme and telling her about it is one of my favourite scenes, I think even this would be a little too.... well, much

 

edit: nevermind

 

Thanks for posting - that's just wild!

"Anakin your breaking my heart... .and oh, can you turn around there's something on your back, let me see if I can get it"

 

Luke : " Do you remember your mother? Your real mother? "
Leia : " Just...images, really. Feelings. "
Luke : " Tell me. "
Leia : " She was beautiful.Kind. But ... sad. And good with a knife."

 

Much as I'd have loved to have the Rebellion founding scenes included (I don't care about length, give me a 3, 4, 50 hour SW movie) I think Padme's role worked quite well, yes

There's a certain edge to the whole "about to stab him but can't bring herself to do it" that I do kinda like, but eh. Even most of r/starwars seems satisfied they didn't go for this

 

would have been cool if it was like a little pocket lightsaber knife or something...

if they went that route obviously

 

typical of prequel bashing yahoo articles they claim that was the 'original better ending'

 

Here is the link detailing Padme at 28:00

 

Yikes. The artwork picture is really chilling.

 

Well according to the article (and video), she runs up to him, puts her arms around his neck... then her knife comes out, on his neck, and she can't do it. Then he goes insane and kills her and Obi-wan shows up.
(I think even the finished draft also had an element of Anakin suspecting an Obi-wan/Padme romance too)

And as for it being "out of character"... it only became her character because that's how they wrote her in ROTS. In TPM, we see how place her role as Queen above her liking to Anakin, saying "the Queen would not approve" of Qui-gon's plan and bets. In AOTC, Obi-wan and Anakin talk about how Padme would do her duty and let Anakin die, if Anakin and Padme's roles were reversed (when she falls out). Her evolution to that wouldn't be more of a jump than Anakin's fall in the same movie. And apparently she still couldn't do it, but she tried, she brought it to the point of her knife at his neck.

 

I remember reading about this when I was 10. Really disturbing to me. Padme was always an interesting character, even taking ROTS out of context, I'm not so sure I could see TPM or AOTC Padme doing the same thing. Just seems a bit too dark, even for Sith imo.

 

I agree Deliveranze
Just the picture gives me the creeps. Especially the look on Padme's face

 

Yeah it just looks stone cold. I think its trying to give Vader an anti-hero edge for his actions. Like he tried to kill her in self-defense which keeps Vader's reputation in the OT as "honorable badass" intact. Obviously, Lucas's vision was to show how uncool turning to the dark side is and how selfish and evil Anakin has become. So it doesn't mesh at all well with the theme of the movie.

 

I kind of feel like Padme would be more of a blaster person than a knife person......

 

Why didn't she try a lightsaber?

 

It's not even about being dark. Children were murdered by our main character(and one died on-screen) a man chokes his own wife, then becomes burned alive. That in itself, for a children's movie, is incredibly depressing.

It's just completely out of character for her to even try and attempt at killing her husband. Plus, it would actually make her character genuinely stupid. She's a very eloquent and smart women, so she wouldn't just take someone's word as truth unless she saw it for herself(and she did).

Edit: Sorry heels. Meant to respond to Del.

Deliveranze

 

Ghost You read my mind. I was actually gonna make a thread on this or at least mention it. Kudos. This is an interesting topic.

@{Quantum/MIDI} Good point. I think what I meant by "too dark" is more to what you stated. The child killing is done by someone, who at that point, we aren't suppose to sympathize with, but since Obi-Wan and Padme are both our main protagonists at that point, having her try to murder him comes off as weak. Like, her character is built upon optimism and strong dedication to what she believes in and her trying to kill the man who she cares for is, like you said, "stupid" and absurdly too much.

 

Wow! I did not know this..

It is!!





She should of used sand instead.. Would of been more effective..

 

Why couldn't she side with Anakin to overthrow Palpatine together like Anakin has been planned?

 

Yeah, that's probably the main reason why, and I support the change for this reason.


Though I just had some fun imagining this in an alternate ROTS:
-more focus on Padme actively gathering allies for the Rebellion (she was passive even in those deleted scenes)
-maybe she's with Bail when he goes to check on the Jedi Temple (maybe she's even the one bringing him along)... and that's when she discovers the truth
-she listens to Anakin tell her he's going to Mustafar... but this time they're both lying to each other
-maybe there's an actual battle on Mustafar this time, so it takes a little while
-Padme goes and asks C-3PO to bring her "madeupnameon" and he asks why since it can cause her to miscarriage, and she just says do it
-Padme is with Bail to pick-up Yoda from the Senate (maybe Obi-wan went with Yoda to double-team Sidious)... and they immediately go to Dagobah
-cut back to Mustafar, Padme appears after battle ends, the knife scene happens, she backs down, Anakin yells why
-Padme says the Anakin she knows is dead, and she's already started a Rebellion to take-down the Empire... Anakin yells "traitor!" at her, says he did it all for her to save her in childbirth... Padme "reveals" she took "madeupnameon" and miscarried. Padme: "your son never lived... you will never be a father."
-that's when Anakin freaks, kills Padme, Obi-wan appears
-Obi-wan returns to Dagobah... Bail Organa is leaving, with the droids, and a mysterious package (aka Leia's cradle) he's carrying, says he will continue Padme's rebellion with the others, and he says goodbye to Obi-wan and thanks him for his service, and Obi-wan says he'll be on Tatooine if the rebellion is ever in dire need
-Yoda then reveals Luke (revealing to audience that Padme lied to Anakin to protect her child/ren), and asks Obi-wan to take him to Tatooine (and it also preserves the Leia surprise)