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Comments

Re: Don't feel bad -- I think the PT films are better than the OT

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I guess I don't have too much more to say, except at the point where you're ascribing stilted, awkward dialogue as an intentional stylistic choice, I'm probably just not going to agree with you. Especially in the PT where it just never plays like a stylistic choice on screen and where it doesn't really vary by characters' profession, relationship with each other, social standing, situation, or whatever. The dialogue is equally stilted, and stilted in the same way, between Anakin and Padme in intimate romantic situations as it is between Obi-Wan and Anakin as close friends, or between members of the Jedi Council talking privately, or between Senators on Coruscant talking publicly, or between Watto and Anakin and Qui-Gon on Tatooine. Even if there's an element of awkwardness to all of those situations, it should at least be varied according to the conditions - a low-class junk-dealer on a backwater planet shouldn't be awkward and stilted in the same way as a political potentate. But they are.

I mean, this is subjective, I can't prove you wrong. And there are times where it makes sense for it to be awkward and stilted. There are moments in the Anakin and Padme relationship where it would be a really logical way to play that relationship to have them be awkward with each other. But there are so many other times when the dialogue is stilted when it doesn't make sense, and where it doesn't seem to come from any logic of the situation, that I just can't read it that way. The Anakin and Padme relationship almost always plays at least somewhat stilted, as does the film's dialogue in general.

RE: characters - I'm fine with characters not fitting into neat little boxes, the problem is when you have characters who just aren't there at all, or who are only there occasionally, which is how I see the PT characters. Character has to show up in the actions and attitudes of the characters on screen, not just in their role in the plot.

Thanks for writing all this though, even if I disagree with you it's been an interesting conversation. Sorry if I've been repetitive and wordy.