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So we’ve collectively decided to forgive Christensen. No doubt, the moment will be played as pure fan service. Presumably director Deborah Chow also wants to remove Vader’s helmet and show Anakin’s face at some point, scarred from his volcano-set showdown with Obi-Wan in the Revenge of the Sith. But they’re bringing back Christensen because Obi-Wan Kenobi is wracked with guilt for letting his trainee Anakin turn to the dark side, and the show will reportedly find Obi-Wan a broken man looking out for little Luke Skywalker on Tatooine. LucasFilm could have put anyone inside that Vader suit. Hoping to capture that younger demographic, the trailers coyly tease a rematch between Anakin and Obi-Wan. It’s just so nice to finally get that wave of positivity about them.” And that’s beautiful that they were important to the kids who we made them for. In the way that Carrie Fisher and Alec Guinness and Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford’s films were ours, we’re theirs. “And our Star Wars films are their Star Wars films. “Now I meet the people who we made those films for, who were the kids of the time,” he said. Christensen tried to conjure an edgy Hamlet in space. Lucas handed the heartthrob clunky dialogue and asked him to act opposite far too many CGI creatures. And young Christensen had a particularly difficult task: Show audiences how a petulant teenager evolved into the greatest villain in cinematic history. Lucas is likely the one to blame for poor performances. There’s very little good acting in the prequel films, even though they feature a cohort of legendary stars, from Samuel L. As Corliss pointed out, it’s not entirely clear that Christensen was to blame for Anakin’s failures as a character. Still, in recent years, some Star Wars fans have made a concerted effort to forgive Christensen. Read More: We Ranked the 40 Best Star Wars Moments He largely blamed Lucas for any acting failures in the picture: “It’s a melancholy fact that the Star Wars films with the strongest acting and densest mood are The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi-the two that Lucas didn’t direct.” Scott wrote in the New York Times when Revenge of the Sith premiered in 2005, “Hayden Christensen plays Anakin Skywalker’s descent into evil as a series of petulant bad moods.” Corliss was slightly kinder, directing most of his ire at a “stiff and humorless” Portman rather than Christensen. He earned two Razzies for Episodes II and III. Christensen’s performance is bad, almost unforgivably so. But let’s not kid ourselves: The weakest part of the trilogy was the stilted romance between Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) and Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman).
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