Why was Anakin crying on Mustafar?

For the hundredth time, someone mentions that. *sighs*

 

Luke said it best in ROTJ

"You can't do this. I feel the conflict with in you. Let go of your hate"


Anakin knew what he was doing was wrong but in his mind "I have no choice" ala Attack of the Clones when he told Padme he had to go to Tattoine to save his mother.

 

I truly think he's crying cuz he's a girly man!

Either that or his double scoop ice cream cone just melted from the hot lava heat.

 

Roland that was a wonderful poem and really expresses what it is like to be in love.For anyone who has ever been in REAL love you would understand the choice Anikin made. He knew Padme would die and would save her at any cost, only the cost was his soul. IMO that is why he was crying.

 

Anakin loved Nute Gunray truly, deeply, but couldn't let him know. Hence the tears..........

Notice there are no tears after the Temple. Or after killing the younglings.

GL is showing with Anakin's tears that even after the massive number of people he has killed, Anakin is a good person, because he loves his wife. It's only after he himself is maimed that he has yellow eyes. In other words, LOVE THY WIFE, and you will be in everlasting Force heaven!

 

If loving your Wife equates to choking her close to death ,then I whole heartedly agree with you.

To the Moon Alice!

 

Either that or his double scoop ice cream cone just melted from the hot lava heat.

LOL

Anakin: "DAMMIT! now I have to fly all the way back to baskin robbins on Corascaunt...hmm I think ill get rocky road next time.

I think he was crying because he just relized everything he has done slaugtering younglings, killing defense sepretist,he took it in all at once and was hurt.

 

"Why was Anakin crying on Mustafar?"

Well, he was under alot of Stress.

 

Anakin was quite upbeat and happy after killing toddler Jedis and everyone at the Temple - he seemed to be in love and happy when he came to see Padme before going to Mustafar. He had done his duty to the Emperor by killing all those mean traitors!

I bet he had a secret thing for Nute and got all choked up after he was forced to kill him!

EDIT: Or may be he was crying because there were no more people to kill? It had become addictive - all that killing! He probably didn't know yet of the few Jedi he would be able to hunt down in the twenty years years!

 

He just had some sand stuck in his eye. He really, really hates sand.

Seriously, I think he finally had a chance to really reflect on what he was doing and it brought out many conflicting emotions. Very emotionally confused people do cry on occassion.

 

I beilive your right.

If I was him I would relize how evil Sidous was and go back and kill him and end the destruction.

or atleast try...

 

He could of been crying cuz he let that one little Jedi youngling bastard get away. He was probably really upset that the Clones got to that little bugger first. His baby Jedi kill count must of taken a severe blow. The clones were all probably pointing there fingers at him and laughing at his inability to kill that little sumb*tch.

 

I wonder if he counts Younglings as jedi? I mean im sure they wernt much of a challenge.

 

Mourning the death of Passel Argente, no doubt.

 

No doubt he was crying. I could clearly see this. This more than suggests that he was still conflicted enough that it was causing some serious emotional turmoil inside.

And remember also that when Obi-Wan shows up, Anakin comments on how he doesn't want to be forced to kill his old mentor. Which is pretty much the same thing he said to Luke.

So, it could be argued that he never really turned completely at all. This is probably what Luke sensed in him. Otherwise the whole redemption angle was pointless.

If Luke had truly thought he couldn't sense the conflict within his father, then he more than likely would have had an easier time with killing him.

But back to the original topic.

Its clear that even towards the movie's end, with multiple murders behind him, Anakin was upset at what he was forced to do. So the audience is shown that he isn't this heartless, cold souless creature that seems to be his new master.

 

HLS, would love to believe that.

That one Youngling did put up a challenge for Anakin. And Bail just stood there and let that rascal die, for obvious reasons of course.

If Bail would have let that brat in his nice caddy speeder the punk might of start force jumping around all over the backseat messing up the leather finish asking "Are We there Yet?!?" every 5mins.

Im not saying Bail was right for speeding off and leaving that brat Youngling to die with the rest but...

I Understand

 

I believe he was crying because it was very hot and a piece of molten lava landed on his big toe. The pain would have been murder but he's not allowed to show it as a sign of weakness of those he came to kill.

Ok seriously though. I think it's from his sense of hopelessness that he feels. He's spiralling into descent and feeling terrible about all these things he's doing and he's bummed that it has to come to this for him to save his wife.

If only he knew

 

Look at it also this way. Anakin knew there was no turning back once he helped killed Mace. Even if he had not joined himself to Sidious and the way of the Sith, he would have had to be arrested and punished for his crimes against the Republic.

If this had happened, then Anakin knew there was no way then for him to save Padme if he is arrested and jailed. So obsessed with trying to save Padme, he convinced himself he had to go all the way with the devil, Palpy/Sidious, and so he had no choice for himself but to eliminate the Jedi, for they would have stood in his way in order to save Padme.

However, in his heart he knew he was wrong in what he was doing, so this created the great conflict within him after he has murdered the Younglings and then the Separatists leaders. So the good that was still within him was the person that was crying from within.

But Anakin in his head had become consumed and twisted by the dark side that in order to save his wife's life, he had to kill. He had then become so comfortable with killing that when Padme turns on him, he almost kills her.

As we all know and have heard:

"Fear leads to Anger, Anger leads to Hate, Hate leads to Suffering"

We saw all this manifested and fulfilled in Anakin in this film. Very well done!!


Darth Sin!

 

In regards to little green man yoda... I know this isn't canon, but in the vidoegame you play as ob1 first and beat ani, then vice versa. When you beat Ani it's the usual ending. But, when you beat Ob1 as Anakin it has an alternate ending. Anakin goes back to meet the emperor and kills him.

I think Anakin had full intentions of saving Padme and then offing the Emperor. Of course he didn't plan on getting waxed by Ob1. I think this scene in the movie is showing his inner conflict though. And I'm glad a lot of people are commenting on it. I wasn't sure it would fly when I made the thread... thanks all

 

It's ironic because if Anakin would have relaized ahead of time that his turning to the darkside would result in so much personal deformity and that his turn caused his wifes death essentially, he obviously never would have done it.

Props to Palps for keeping that deception going long enough to pan itself out because there are a lot of places it could have fallen through.

 

I like your point tkip.

I think Anakin fell out of nesscity rather raw power. or even a bigger question or perhapes Anakin never truly fell to the Darkside?

 

Poor Anakin. Tricked into such atrocities. Even though he loved his newfound dark side power/confidence, it had to be burning his soul.

"So love has blinded you?" - Padme

Unfortunately, too much.

"I feel... lost" - Anakin.

 

He replaced that crying Indian as the new anti-pollution mascot, and was just rehearsing.

 

The what? Sounds pretty obscure to me. He was crying because now that he's been type cast in a Star Wars film, he'll never be taken seriously as an actor ever again.

Harrison Ford barely made it and he was playing a much less sticky role than Darth Vader.

 

He's a closet liberal... Anakin wanted to end Global Warming. He was crying for Mother Mustafar..