Why are they flirting?

Is it just me or is the fact that anakin and padme flirting during the jedi vs droids battle not right. Many Jedi are dying and all....This is like a huge D-Day attack for the Jedi and we have anakin and Padme flirting during the fight...something about that does sit well.

I think even 3p0's lines should of been removed (not that i didn't like them, but this is a serious part of the movie) This is the first battle in the clone wars...the wars that starts the down fall of the jedi. we hear ben kenobi talking about it in ANH. scary time but yet we have anakin and padme flirting in this huge battle.

 

It's clearly not supposed to be a scary moment. It's supposed to be an awesome action sequence a la Star Wars. The line exchange between Anakin and Padmé fits the mood perfectly.
ROTS will probably be dark enough. We don't need the war scenes in AOTC to be all serious.



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Why did the big three argue snarkily while trying to escape the army barracks in ANH? Why did the Ewoks have silly moments in what was a violent, viscious final battle in the fight against the Empire? Why did Han and Leia have a tender moment in the middle of the Endor battle while everyone around them was dying? Having a slightly comedic scene break up the tension in an otherwise intense scene is nothing new. It's called "comic relief," and can more or less be found at some point or another in almost any movie that's dramatic. It breaks the tension for the audience so they aren't on a constant cliffhanger, and in the context of the film, it's likely doing a same thing for the characters interacting.

Star Wars isn't generally about grim reality, and this is supposed to be an anxious but fun action sequence. If you want hardcore emotional intensity, then you're going to have to wait until episode III turns out. That's the *only* SW film where I think comic relief such as that will be inappropriate, unless the nature of the scene demands it.

 

Why are they flirting?

Because they can.

 

making jokes in the middle of a battle is a way of keeping your mind off of just how scared you are. cuz the moment you focus on your fear is the moment you lose your focus on the battle. dont give in to fear!!! there will be plenty of time to mourn once the shooting stops.

 

first off 3po's lines SUCKED, it was over-kill, but not because they were inappropriate to the nature of the scene, they just annoyed me

the flirting needs to establish that anakin and padme arent always DEALTH SERIOUS about everything when they talk. the last time they talked was right before they were executed...something light needs to come after

it works and I like it...its a good line

 

i like the flirtyness

 

I also liked the little lines, except that, the droids clearly had an opportunity to kill the both of them. That doesn't bother me because the good guy are always going to win.

 

Goes back to EP. I and Obi-Wan's battle humor while escaping the Control ship.

 

Well im sure that most guys would flirt with Natalie Portman if she was around

 

^^^

 

Yeah, I don't think that their flirting was any worse then say, Han and Leia during the battle of Hoth in ESB. Oh, and C3PO's lines were suppossed to "suck," they're called bad jokes for a reason.

 

Of all those awkward moments in the heat of the battle, Anakin and Padme's bothers me the least. It brings back the line Anakin said earlier and is actually somewhat funny.

 

C'mon... it's not like one of them says: "Hey, screw this battle, let's find a nice quiet little tunnel and engage in our own aggressive negotiations."

They had like one line that was *maybe* flirty. And the kiss she gives him? Completely understandable since she just declared her love for him, and on top of that, they just saved themselves from an unfortunate gladiator-style execution.

C3PO's "lack of respect for the dead" was far worse than anything Anakin or Padme did... if you're choosing to see it that way, for some reason.

 

let me just add....i dont have a problem so much that they are flirting..... its mostly the way they are flirting...their facial expressions. They're both so very calm and padme is smiling so is anakin.

I have no problem with han flirting with leia when they just got her out of her cell. Han is yelling his head off and then tells luke "i dont know if i'm starting to like her or want to kill her (something like that)" but you can see that he is very deep into the battle...he's screaming and into the fight.

but when padme/anakin are flirting it seems as if they are in no danger...both very calm and smiling.

And obi wans line in TPM was funny. Again i dont have a problem with them flirting, just the way they are doing it i guess you can say.

I just think they needed to be alittle more serious thats all..........

but who cares the movie is awsome.... just something i wanted to bring out thats all.

 

It seems to me that they were out of harm's way for a little while there, which allowed them to share a little happy moment(because they'd just turned into an official couple). Right at that instant, it's not nearly as intense for them as it was outside Leia's cell.
I have no problem with it whatsoever.



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This is off-topic but 3PO was actually at his worst in Empire Strikes Back.

 

"3PO's lines were suppossed to "suck," they're called bad jokes for a reason. "

the reaction from them joke were like Christmas crakcer jokes


when you hear them , you go: " Ooooooooooooh - that was really bad *giggle*"


but not as campy

 

Threepio rocked in Empire Strikes Back. He's just so perfectly oblivious to what humans really think.

As for the flirting, I thought it was very in-character, them both recognizing that some things are more important than murder.

 

You have to regard these pictures as what I call "stylized hyper-realism"; it is almost a form of exaggeration, and so therefore logical applications such as the one in question are ultimately superfluous. Once again, Lucas is paying homage to films from the 1930s and so forth, and you have to approach the Anakin-Padme interchange in that manner, and with that knowledge.

Anakin: Do you call this a "diplomatic solution"?

Padme: No, I call it "aggressive negotiations".

This exchange is not distracting because it is congruent to the form and style of the film - Lucas has set it up. If you demand psychological realism in action scenes, then I suggest that you go and watch "Apocalypse Now".

 

In the middle of battle, everyone is filled with adrenaline; this might just be their way of expressing it.

From the this-is-a-movie point of view, this is just George`s humor. There has been simillar situation in each SW movie.
This dialogue enlightens the battle, so maybe this is George`s way of telling us that things can`t always be so dark. I just hope ROTS will have at least one funny sentence...

 

black hawk down,

RPG explodes, delta runs over to ranger "are you ok"
ranger "i can hear bells ringing"

 

Woo Hoo! Black Hawk down's one of my favorite movies. Sorry for bumping this moldy topic, but I had a question, I did a search and this popped up so I think it'll be ok to ask. Plus it's probably been answered a hundred times already. One more couldn't hurt.

What makes C-3p0 think R2 always gets himself into trouble?

"He always gets himself into trouble."

The two hardly know each other. From whence does he derive this notion?

Thanks in advance.

Oh, and Anakin and Padme were taking the time to remember a little convo they had over some fruit. A little fun between death and carnage, tasty malacha. meh.

 

From the this-is-a-movie point of view, this is just George`s humor. There has been simillar situation in each SW movie.

Not to this degree. I didn't see Wedge joking with Janson while Luke was getting shot down. Or Han and Leia flirting as Rebel soldiers and Ewoks died around them.

This light-heartedness in the battles is one of my major problems with the PT. Geonosis is the most horrible battle in centuries. And we see Anakin and Padme flirting? Why couldn't we see Anakin losing a friend from the temple? We have 3PO in the middle of the battle with his head and body seperated?

The comedy is out of place. Gallows humor I could appreciate. Not this stuff that noone over 12 years of age should even find slightly humorous.

 

Not to this degree. I didn't see Wedge joking with Janson while Luke was getting shot down. Or Han and Leia flirting as Rebel soldiers and Ewoks died around them.

"I love you"
"...I know"

That happens in the middle of the Battle of Endor

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