Does anyone else actually *like* the hairbrush scene?

It doesn't bother me. It was just done to set up how much they loved each other, so that Lucas can justify the reasoning behind Anakin's turn. That he's possessive and he's so willing in love that he's willing to do a lot of bad things, just to keep the one that he loves.

 

The scene itself isn't bad, but the dialogue...

"No, it's because I'm so in lvoe with you".

"So love has blinded you?"

LOL..

 

Yet it's true. Love blinded Anakin into thinking that he had to be all powerful. That it didn't matter what she wanted, Anakin was only interested in what he wanted.

 

Hopeless romantics make the world go round, not cynics

 

I like it.

I liked it more after the very first time I saw it, though. I agree with all the good things said above; it's a very young couple in love, and it also has a lot of foreshadowing, like the love story on Naboo--Padme said their love would destroy them...and it did.

What I *didn't* like was Padme's makeup and hair. Why she has that elaborate hairstyle, complete with tiara? barette? whatever that metal thing on the top of her head is...and then *wears it to sleep* !? That has driven me nuts forever.

Then there is all the glittery eye makeup and lip gloss...again, that she wears to sleep.

I don't mind makeup, I understand actors have to wear makeup, but this was obvious, going-out-for-the-evening glittery blue eyeshadow.

It just bugged me to death. And I think I would have had more enjoyment of their precious moment together if Padme had looked a bit more like she had just gotten up from bed and a welcome home Anakin encounter...ya know? Subtle, not brazen, but looking a little more like a person woken up from a sound sleep by her husband's nightmare.

 

I definitely liked it more than some.

 

OBIWAN-JR posted on 8/4/05 11:45am

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[i][b]>>>>You must be a hopeless romantic.[/b][/i]

Indeed I am, Dez. [face_happy]


What I love about 'the hairbrush scene' is, even though we have the foreshadowing, it is very much just about Anakin, Padme, their child to be and their love for each other.

It is a very real scene.

It is stuff that you know you have heard yourself saying to your loved one; when you are in the first stages of falling for each other; or when you have been parted for some time. It's that simple love banter we all seem to share, but don't often talk about. And that is why Anakin's response of: [i]"No, it's because I'm SO in love with you."[/i] is so spot on.

I tell you, my face had a tear rolling down it, and a big stupid grin was plastered all over it, in that scene.

Beautiful.


-JR [face_happy]
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more men should be like you Jr :: sigh::




[i]What I *didn't* like was Padme's makeup and hair. Why she has that elaborate hairstyle, complete with tiara? barette? whatever that metal thing on the top of her head is...and then *wears it to sleep* !? That has driven me nuts forever.

Then there is all the glittery eye makeup and lip gloss...again, that she wears to sleep.

I don't mind makeup, I understand actors have to wear makeup, but this was obvious, going-out-for-the-evening glittery blue eyeshadow.[/i]

well..she wanted to be pretty for her man..he had been gone for five months..I still think she looked wonderful... :D

 

I defintely didn't cry in that scene...but then again, i'm not a hopeless romantic

What I love about 'the hairbrush scene' is, even though we have the foreshadowing, it is very much just about Anakin, Padme, their child to be and their love for each other.

What was it foreshadowing?

 

What was it foreshadowing?

The hairbrush? That someone was about to get a spanking?

 

The Hairbrush Scene and Me

It's been awhile since I've seen the movie now so I want to see how I'll react to it again.

It took many viewings to force myself to get used to it and be able to sit there and watch and take it. And I'm not even one of those people who complain about prequels or dialogue and such. I had absolutely no problem with "I don't like sand.." or ANY of the AOTC love scenes dialogue.

1. The first time I saw it the first thing I noticed was how weird she looked. It jumped out at me immediately and I was like, "what's wrong with her face?" She's never looked like that before or after.

2. The dialogue. I was like, "what are they talking about?" What they were saying made no sense to me the first time I was watching it.

The second time I watched the movie I confirmed my first impressions of these things, that she looked weird and that the dialogue was horrible. The third time I watched the movie, honestly, I looked down so I wouldn't have to see it and I cringed while I listened to it. (Ironically the horrible dialogue is about how beautiful she is when she looks stranger than ever before. Normally she is beautiful.)

Later I read a review thing online talking about how they were supposed to be teasing each other and not making serious love professions and all the foreshadowing and that helped me stomach it the next time I watched it, as I was slowly getting used to the odd-looking Padme.

By the last several times I watched it, up to the seventh time I could stand it OK.

 

2. The dialogue. I was like, "what are they talking about?" What they were saying made no sense to me the first time I was watching it.

Yah, pretty much what you said. They were just teasing and enjoying themselves. They were alone, and they didn't have to hide their marriage and their love for each other.

WHAT WAS IT FORESHADOWING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I forget.

But this is the review I read that helped me stomach the hairbrush scene. It's a long one though

http://www.starwarz.com/tbone/reviews/filmtv_rots.htm

 

You forgot what?

Okay, is no one going to tell me what it foreshadowed?

 

I forgot what was foreshadowed, but the link I gave explains what was foreshadowed. (I think.)

 

Love actually does blind him because Anakin does everything becuase he loves and wants to save Padme'. It gets so bad he does whatever he needs to and goes so far he can't turn back it seems from all the evil he is doing.

 

It foreshadows Anakin's path in RotS - the line "so love has blinded you?" is said as a playful bit of banter between the young lovers, but as the story progresses, it becomes the defining statement about Anakin's actions - he truly does become blinded by love, and in so doing, destroys the Old republic, and the very person he had promised to protect above all else - the woman who engendered the overwhelming love in him that led to his fall.

 

Exactly. Anakin's love blinded him to the truth about Palpatine. He abaonded the Jedi and killed them for the power that Palpatine didn't even have.

 

I really like the scene too. They talk like a young couple in love (most of us have talked that way I'm sure) and it is one of the few happy moments in the film (so it is definitely welcome IMO) Also, as has been mentioned already, its main purpose is to show that love has blinded both Anakin and Padme

 

I don't mind it. I like the way he's starring at her at first,
like he's consuming her with his eyes - symbolic of his
obsession I think. I don't like how her face looks - like she
just finished 20 mins of aerobics [sweaty/shiny].

 

Thank you.

Wow. I didn't even notice her face...too busy looking at Anakin
I'll have to pay attention to that next time. I just loved it because Anakin laughed, it was a great laugh too!

 

"It's about a good boy who was loving and had exceptional powers, but how that eventually corrupted him and how he confused possessive love with compassionate love. That happens in Episode II: Regardless of how his mother died, Jedis are not supposed to take vengeance. And that's why they say he was too old to be a Jedi, because he made his emotional connections. His undoing is that he loveth too much."

--George Lucas, Rolling Stone Magazine Interview; June 2005.


"I have what I call two sharp "right turns" in the movie and they are very hard to deal with. For the audience, it's a real jerk, because you're going along and then somebody yanks you in a different direction. Anakin turning to the dark side and killing Mace is a very hard right, because we're dealing with things that aren't so obvious. The audience knows Anakin is going to turn to the dark side, but the things that he's struggling with are so subtle that it may be hard for people to understand why his obsession to hold onto Padme is so strong."

"Showing how much Anakin and Padme care for each other is one of my weak points. Expressing that is hard to do. It's really hard in the end to express the idea, I'm so in love with you that I would do anything to save you; I'd give up everything -friends, my whole life- for you, and make that real-make that stick-and say it in two minutes. When I created it I knew I wanted two hard right turns-it's designed to be that way-and I knew I was taking a real chance that it wasn't going to work. But you have to see if you can make it work. If it doesn't work, well then I'm going to get skewered for it. But if I can make it work, it'll be neat. It'll be good"

--George Lucas, The Making Of Revenge Of The Sith.

Anakin loves too much and not the right way, because he forms attachments.

 

I actually liked the hairbrush scene. I also award George Lucas for his romantic dialogue. I'm probably one of few people who actually did not think the romance dialogue was chessy. I was impressed by it actually. It gave sort of that old prarie style romance to it. Kind of like we were living in the past and that I enjoyed.

 

Well, I'm not about to award George on his romantic dialogue, but the lines were fine. Tehy even served a meaning [look at the foreshadowing conversation]. They were just TALKING! Like NORMAL human beings do on a DAILY BASIS! Come on people. They're married, let them talk!

 

I didn't find anything wrong with this scene. I liked it.