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So, the people that voted said Solo was the most underrated, but the comments proved that Attack of the Clones is easily the most underrated, not getting nearly as much respect as it deserves. https://twitter.com/swankmotron/status/1248255065934028802
Here's a cool thing I love in the brilliant filmmaking and visual and mythological storytelling in Attack of the Clones:
Up is down.
Up is down.
Let me explain:
Things that should be good are actually bad and everything is turned on its ear.
That's why the film starts with a pan up instead of a pan down after the crawl. The only one to do so.
Things that should be good are actually bad and everything is turned on its ear.
That's why the film starts with a pan up instead of a pan down after the crawl. The only one to do so.
The pan up is to cue us into the idea that not everything is as it should be.
Padme's ship starts upside down to the audience and has to right itself to match its approach.
Then it blows up.
All is not well.
Padme's ship starts upside down to the audience and has to right itself to match its approach.
Then it blows up.
All is not well.
We were trained by The Empire Strikes Back to know that the middle chapters end in catastrophe. The Last Jedi ends in a similar fashion.
But Attack of the Clones ends in a beautiful and moving wedding. "This is our bleak ending?" we ask ourselves.
But Attack of the Clones ends in a beautiful and moving wedding. "This is our bleak ending?" we ask ourselves.
But up is down.
The wedding represents Anakin's surrender to his passion rather than wisdom.
The wedding is the downfall of everything.
It's the beginning of the end of the Jedi.
The wedding represents Anakin's surrender to his passion rather than wisdom.
The wedding is the downfall of everything.
It's the beginning of the end of the Jedi.
Anakin's entire story is about how the best of intentions can lead to the worst outcomes, that the best people can become monsters under the right circumstances.
This kiss, beautiful in the moment, is a brick laid on that road to hell.
This kiss, beautiful in the moment, is a brick laid on that road to hell.
This moment is the worst thing that can happen to Anakin because it will lead, inexorably, to defeat. To failure. To jealousy and greed and the end of the Jedi.
But what could he do? He'd do anything that she asked...
But what could he do? He'd do anything that she asked...
I'm always confused by people who say Anakin's turn to the dark side was "too quick." Because this wedding is like the midway point.
The start of it was his dream of his mother on Coruscant.
The start of it was his dream of his mother on Coruscant.
By ending the movie here, knowing that "middle chapters are bleak", George Lucas is telling us that this is worrisome. That "up is down."
That things are not well.
That things are not well.
Close reading the prequels like this makes them even more brilliant, it's my favorite thing: https://twitter.com/Pelydryn1/status/1248625247491772418?s=20
