PT What was Anakin doing in this scene ?

Was he playing with a PSP ? I have searched a lot and didn't find any answer to this.

Did the novel of Revenge Of The Sith reveal what was that device that Anakin puts aside ?

 

It's most likely a datapad of some type. (I'm guessing). Maybe he's catching up on battle reports over Jedi communications - possibly the same system that Obi and Yoda change later in the film?

 

Was there any mention of it in the script of the movie ?

 

I don't recall if there was anything in the novel - been awhile since I read it.

 

He's playing the game Wife Dies in Childbirth, and he lost at it.


(reference to the Rifftrax commentary for ROTS)

 

I know that they digitally moved his hand as he lifts the pad up. Or does he lower it down, can't remember.

 

Lowers it, I think. He's having the second vision of Padme, and when the vision zooms out, it's in his hands.

 

Probably just a data pad where he’s keeping track of battle reports and the latest updates in the galactic affair/the war.

 

It starts out lowered and then he raises it. It was digitally altered so that he wouldn't be looking at it when the scene started, in order to avoid this:

Since the Padme vision happens right before this scene, Lucas was concerned the editing made it appear like it was a video Anakin was watching--which, even if you argue it wouldn't have actually confused anybody, still makes for an awkward cut.

 

Anakin is secretly a gamer in his spare time.

To be serious, though, I bet the device is probably something like the real-world equivalent of an ipad or tablet, so there are probably any number of things he could be doing. He could possibly be checking the news or something.

 

In the novel Palpatine has subtly planted some info in Anakin's mind that Obi Wan was seen leaving Padme's apartment in the wee hours. Maybe he was tracking Obi Wan.

 

My head canon will always be that he was playing video games.

 

Lol. Yeah I remember Hayden was in behind the scenes of Episode 3 video game(He done Anakin's Mocap) and one of the developers said: "He plays a lot of video games."

 

Bandersnatch.

He chose the wrong path.

 

Mario Kart

 

It's his Kindle with Luceno's Darth Plagueis
Birthday present from Palps

 

Hate to be the one to give a serious answer, but wasn't it stated in the novelisation that Anakin was looking at a list of Senators who were suspected to not be loyal to Palpatine?

 

The screenplay just says "Anakin is in the living room, working. He sits on the couch where Obi-Wan was sitting."

 

I also remember reading exactly the same in some book. I am not sure if it was in the novelisation, visual dictionary or the making of.

 

If his version of "working" is anything like my version of it, then he's probably messing around on HoloNet forums.

 

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Hey, how did you get that footage of me playing Battlefront Elite Squadron in my apartment?! Must be Mace recording me to make sure I take a seat.

 

It's the names of the Petition of the 2000, the bill that Padmé and the other Senators petition Palpatine to give up his emergency powers. Anakin has just come from the Chancellor's office and of course Palpatine is filling Anakin's head with doubts regarding Padmé and Obi-Wan. The fact that he can sense Obi-Wan and other Senators had been there does not help Anakin.

From the novel:

 

Coincidentally, the PSP was launched in North America less than two months prior to RotS.

The novel is based on a non-finalized screenplay, right? That doesn't look like flimsiplast to me.

 

Did you win the game, Anakin?