Bradley, I can’t thank you enough for taking the time to revisit the Star Wars prequel trilogy and for putting together the documentary/movie and now this new series (cannot wait for the following installments!). I am a committed, die-hard believer that the prequel trilogy is so strongly misunderstood, and passed over with such flippant ignorance, it honestly frustrates me to no end how willingly the “fans” knock them. It’s as if it’s treason to love the prequel trilogy by general consensus, and I’ve never been able to understand that. With all confidence, I absolutely love almost everything about the prequels - and the fact that they rhyme so naturally and beautifully with the originals makes me hold them in higher regard. So I just want to say, “thank you.” I’m glad someone finally understands what I’ve always thought about the prequel trilogy. :)
Nandor, this makes me feel great. I'm so glad you enjoy our video. This content owes a lot to the work of Mike Klimo and others. There's a lot of great material out there. I'm lucky to get the chance to explore it.
Rest assured that LucasFilm acknowledges that the majority of people like and accept the Prequels. Pablo Hidalgo said it was split 50/50 here in the States, but there's more Prequel love in other countries. Prequel hate seems to be confined mainly to the US.
You know, there is a great Essay about Star Wars called "The Force Awakens vs. The Prequels, or: So this is how personal expression dies, to thunderous Applause". You can find it through Google. It makes a lot of similiar Points. Really interesting. And just to be clear: This is not someone hating on the Episode 7 or the people behind it. The author simply explains why he likes Lucas' Star Wars more. I, of course, don't want to force (pun!) you to read something you don't want to, yet I found the Essay to be truly great.
I can agree more Nandor, everything has a purpose and its own reason for being there. I think many of the most gated parts of the prequals are some or the most intentional elements, take jar jar, Haden Christensen's often awkward and clunky lines.
A. Ñeko, I know it as an adult. People typically don't understand or cannot grasp the knowledge of "synchronicities". There are no coincidences, and everything purely happens FOR A REASON. Ring compositions are palindromes and we often experience these fields of energy whether we realize it or not. Lucas was very aware of these decisions before making any of the movies. Most of these "fans" complain and whine about the little things making them seem bigger than what they really are. Lucas was always a visual teller, so what's amazing about being in, let's say a foreign country with different language speaking people is that it's entirely alien to what we're used to. Should we bash the people because we cannot understand what they're saying? No, because we're not supposed to question it. Just like with movies, which is why I love going back to silent films. Star Wars fans are terrible at this. People can have different opinions and that's okay, but man, the fanbase is pretty retarded and nerdy isn't it? And this doesn't apply to Star Wars specifically, I see this with lots of movie watchers and it's kinda shitty. But dude, if you know about these types of events, I'd say you're a great person. :)
Well, I think one of the problems was that the prequels were always destined to be a bit out of place compared to the OT. These weren't stories that could kind of tell themselves, they had a specific direction they had to go in because we already know what's going to happen. So Lucas decided to mirror and invert the movies to have them like different versions of the original films. The movies are not great as stand-alone pieces of film, but they weren't intended to and that's what people didn't understand. The viewer was supposed to be picking up on all of these similarities and juxtapositions... in the end I think Lucas took for granted that everybody would simply see all of these threads weaving in and out of the films tying them together.
Also, I love the fact that this episode II rhymes with episode V in the sense that Anakin disobeys his master in order to find his mother. And Luke disobeys his master in order to unexpectedly find his father. I also like the fact that both are tempted by visions that lead them closer to the dark side, but ultimately, where Anakin fails, Luke succeeds.
And both lose limbs obviously - but there are some key differences. Anakin's force vision was real. Luke's was only imaginary - or that is how I see it.
@@darkthorpocomicknight7891 well, he was an inch, a second, and a heartbeat away from becoming Vader, just like in his vision. Anakin’s vision came true, while Luke’s just barely didn’t.
I always love the 6 Star Wars movies. Then Episode VII came out, and I hated Episode VII, and I don't see how Episode VIII will fix anything. I blame the anti-Prequelist sectarianism for the disaster that is Episode VII.
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Master Big-Cock Last Jedi is better than TFA, but sadly (at least for me), but overall I didn't like it, and main reason is a course that they made with TFA. And really wanted to like it, on the opposite I went into Rogue One to be dissapointed and walked out of it really enjoying.
I'm from the future to say you were right VIII sucked even harder then VI, and woke millions of Star wars fans out of their years long delusional trance
Great stuff! Thank you for your diligent work. I hope George Lucas knows there are people like y'all out there treating the prequels with respect and helping others to understand their complexity.
Cody Clarke I can recall entire UA-cam Channels being removed from UA-cam simply because such channels dared to say that the Prequels were just as good as the Original Trilogy, or worse say what I always say: the Prequels were better than the Original Trilogy with superior dialogue, and thicker plots and much more depth.
Excellent work man! But there's a small thing that i need to point out... Padme's hair piece actually resembles the symbol of the Rebel Alliance, while the Republic design is pretty similar to the Imperial insignia. www.starwars.com/news/5-symbols-in-the-star-wars-universe
The light and dark themes are interesting in the Tatooine scenes. The other similarities were obvious to me since I was a teenager, but there are deeper things going on. Luke is dressed in white, Anakin in brown/black. Luke gets served blue milk, Anakin gets served red juice (don't need to explain the difference between blue and red in Star Wars). The twin suns (light) appear for Luke, the two shadows (darkness) appear for Anakin. Luke waits until morning to leave (light) while Anakin takes off at night (darkness).
Campaigners for the “unaltered” versions of the first three movies are fond of using this quote from Lucas:“People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians, and if the laws of the United States continue to condone this behavior, history will surely classify us as a barbaric society.” It almost makes him sound like a hypocrite, if you completely ignore the context and the point he was making. He was talking about corporations colorizing and altering their old catalogue of movies after the filmmakers have died and without their consent. They don’t use this quote, from the same speech by Lucas: “American law does not protect our painters, sculptors, recording artists, authors, or filmmakers from having their lifework distorted, and their reputation ruined. If something is not done now to clearly state the moral rights of artists, current and future technologies will alter, mutilate, and destroy for future generations the subtle human truths and highest human feeling that talented individuals within our society have created.”Even more specifically, Lucas said to Wired magazine in 1999: “Everybody signs on to bring forth the director’s vision- that’s part of the way movies are made and always have been. The real issue is whether a corporation that buys the film 10 years later has the right to change it. My response continues to be no.” 5 His concern was, and always has been, that the artist behind a film have their intentions and vision honored, which is why using this quote to talk about how he SHOULDN’T be able to alter his own movies is fairly idiotic. The Prequels are all about hidden meanings. Things and people being more than one would suspect - both in good and bad ways. And George Lucas was always fan of playing with film structure and expectations. As George Lucas explained in the Making of Revenge of the Sith: "The First Script I wrote had stories for everybody... and I cut it down and we had a script. But when we cut it together, there were still Problems. Finally, I said, Okay, let's be even more hard-nosed here and take out every Scene that doesn't have anything to do with Anakin. But that causes you to juxtapose certain Scenes that you were never contemplating juxtaposing bevore, because the Scenes were never meant to be next to each other. What happens then is that some of the themes grab hold of each other and really strengthen themselves in ways that are fascinating. You pull things together and suddenly a theme is drawn out becouse it's in three consecutive Scenes instead of just one. Suddely one theme is infinitely stronger than it was bevore, so we'll strengthen that theme because it seem poetic."
So you hate capitalism? Ok. You are one of those people who scapegoat companies and would be pleased to get milked by dictators. Disney didnt ruin star wars. They made movies for cadual fans/normies who hate the prequels and anything other then the original trilogy. Barbaric society! lmao
@@diadokhoi5722 I think his argument is simply Lucas had a point that him altering works was an exception to the rule. Lucas said to Wired magazine in 1999: “Everybody signs on to bring forth the director’s vision- that’s part of the way movies are made and always have been. The real issue is whether a corporation that buys the film 10 years later has the right to change it. My response continues to be no.” Yes and no. Lucas did pay x director so he does have SOME right to how to display a film. However a whole generation grew up with Han shooting first - he can alter that. But MONOPOLIZING content so the original will die out is to change it - so the hypocrisy still holds but not the on usually specified. So yes we should be careful how to criticize GL but he's done some shady things
Top notch content! It brings me great joy to see these thoughtful and well made videos on the prequels. I loved the documentary and I hope to see more of these videos, keep up the good work :)
Watch The Phantom Menace in Amazon's xray format on a big 4K TV. It's literally the greatest movie of all time and here's why. It's the equivalent of the invention of sound and color in cinema and people ignore that. ILM wrote on the fly computer code for the CGI that in 99 is just as perfect 20 years later and that programming is used in all CGI today. It's a brilliant cinematic masterpiece that people can't appreciate because it's on a superior level that's hard to process. Watch it in xray. There is incredibly powerful dialogue in every scene and people claim Lucas can't write dialogue. It's ironic. The Skywalker tragedy is brilliant storytelling. Alex Jones explains prequels for morons ua-cam.com/video/oKm4ueVuxpY/v-deo.html
I never got the hate for the prequels, I guess jumping to hate cause they are different is the most likely (I mean if we listened to the fans we would get a film like EP7. Ah crap thanks Fans) Honestly the prequels to me are fantastic, and anyone who says they are bad to me are those you just say "Good for you" then go back to enjoying your life. I mean the room is a bad film, Birdemic 1,2 are bad films the prequels are not. They do things differently they are like puzzle pieces information from ep 1 is relevant all the way to EP 3 and so on. To me you need to think and put the pieces together. But what about the dialogue you say. Well the originals weren't the best either. Hell neither was the acting (solo at the start of empire reminded me of a child as much as Anakin did in Ep1 Though he was a child so) But my favorite is the balcony scene is EP2. This is one of my favorite scenes cause it shows so much as who Anakin is first off he's in love you say and do stupid **** while in love, Second he's not good with people he's head strong and detached. Pieces from EP 1 forming here. Also Obi wan isn't gonna pull him a side and say "Listen if you want to get with a lady just do this" No he's gonna be told "No emotions at all, you are a jedi" However from EP1 that goes against a lot of who he is but not only that but he grew up with love with his mother who held him together as a child. Then in 2 he's back with Padme who was with him for the strongest moment of his life however he doesn't know what to do. And that's brilliant to me. he can deal and understand and fix machines but not humans. (As someone who has Asperger s that really resonated with me) So when we get that scene I don't "Cringe" I see someone who really needs someone else in his life beside the jedi. Also someone who doesn't know how to act around someone he loves. Theirs a lot of clever in the prequels in the under layers of how it is presented (though it goes against the "quote" rules of writing a story and film making being one whole story instead of finished complete stories as individual works) but you need to try different things to get different outcomes. Sure I think certain finished deleted scenes should be put back into the films to add more substance to the films that most are used to. but hey it still works for me.
You make a really good point that Anakin really had no guidance in his whole love situation. No father figure mixed with monastic repression and oh boy, no wonder it led to bad news.
found a really interesting post on the Internet - and I thought you could find this interesting.“The prequels are also of course criticized for their dialog. George Lucas doesn’t care about dialog. He has said this so many times in interviews over the years, I don’t even know where to start pointing to examples. He refers to dialog as a sound effect, and he’s said he prefers the French dubbed version of the films because it’s just a better sound, whether or not you know what the words mean. He’s pointed out with pride that children in foreign countries who don’t speak any English can watch Star Wars and understand it based on the visuals and the music.When you go to Star Wars and complain that the dialog isn’t realistic, that’s like going to Schindler’s List and complaining that it wasn’t funny enough, you were in the mood for a comedy. It’s just not the movie you went to, and again, you’re talking about yourself and your own taste and comfort levels, not the movie you saw. You’re watching an apple and complaining that it’s not an orange. It’s not a problem with the movie, it’s a problem with how you’re discussing the movie.What George Lucas cares about is “pure cinema” or what he calls “tone poems”. Again, he has said this over and over in every interview where he has got a chance. What he’s referring to is the ability of cinema to create meaning and emotions with editing and the juxtaposition of different Images.”George Lucas: “But in my films, the dialog is not where the movie is. My films are basically in the graphics. the emotional Impact Comes from the Music - and from juxtaposing one Image with the next.”Edit: The name of the post is: "The Force Awakens vs. The Prequels, or: So this is how personal expression dies, to thunderous applause".
People miss that Anakin's story is a story of fatherlessness. Remember when Obi wan picks up his "father" qi gon's saber to kill maul. The son avaneging the father. But he doesn't keep the sword, he gets a new one. He doesn't pick up the mantle of being a father figure himself, he sees anakin as a brother when Anakin deperately cried out for a father, even calling Obi "close to a father". Instead, Obi Wan spent episode two in a silent sibling rivalry with Anakin and Palpatine provided Anakin with want he wanted. I then heard george lucas in an interview saying he wanted the first line of his obiturary to be "he was a good father". Blew my mind.
Luke doesn't dare to go find r2 in the dark, only going out in the light Anakin goes to find his mother in the dark Shmi dies in the dark in anakins hands and anakin takes revenge on the sand people Luke finds his uncle and aunt dead in the light of day, and choosing to move on.
Verebazs Sorry, I should’ve been more careful with my words. “Very different decision” in the sense that in Sith, Anakin’s decision is one based on greed, while in Jedi, his decision is one based on compassion. Like Lucas has said, the two trilogies were designed around those two ideas.
I know what you meant. Truth is I never realised that, until you pointed this out, that it's the same choice, with different motivations...Now that I think about it, no even the motivation is same-ish: both times he was trying to save family: by saving Palpatine he hoped to secure Padmé, and his future with her. By killing Palpatine he saved his son, and defied his past. It's amazing really. The more you think about it, the deeper the connections get.
Verebazs Verebazs Same-ish? Hm, maybe...I would argue that the films make the distinction fairly clear. In Sith, Anakin makes a choice that’s very selfish. “*I* need him,” he tells Mace. “*I* won’t lose you the way **I** lost my mother,” he tells Padme. Whereas, in Jedi, Anakin’s choice is largely selfLESS. He’s willing to sacrifice himself, everything, because of the compassion (literally “to suffer together”) he has for his son. Psychologically, I think Anakin is in two very different places during those scenes...to me at least. :)
@@MikeKlimo Not so sure - I mean the greed/compassion theme I discovered independent of ring theory. But I think GL is deliberately being ambiguous - Anakin did the right thing to save Palps and stop Mace. But he did in a way leaving him very vulnerable - he could have used a force push or force choke and subdued Palps - I think he wants us to consider all the evil the Jedi did to him and how SOME of the hatred was justified imo. For more evidence see Is Phantom Menace The Greatest Film? Star Wars Analyzed on How Ep 1 is a Top Ten Film ua-cam.com/video/17nTW-bR2j8/v-deo.html Keep up the good work though its very good.
If you look at the original continuity, which was greatly abbreviated, had the original Sith being a fallen Jedi that we know as Darth Ruin. He was the first of the Lost Twenty, that being twenty masters that left the Jedi Order. Darth Vader considered himself the 21st of this group. Thus the rhyme occurs, the last of the lost ends what the first of the lost began. For this timeline, see the TPM novelization.
Do you know that the Star Wars movies (except for Last Jedi) are in reverse order from when the characters appear to how they behave? Also, the locations and consequences reverse order per episode. I realized this when Anakin arrived at 32 minutes of an indoor location in Episode 1 and I said to myself "Didn't Luke arrive at 16 minutes at an outdoor location in Episode 4?" 16X2= 32. Then I realized all the characters and scenarios were in reverse order which is why Jabba the Hut was in the directors cut of New Hope so he can arrive in Episode 1 and the creatures in the bleachers of the pod race are mostly the ones in the bars Obi-Wan and Luke go to in Episode 4. Darth Maul's death reverses Obi-Wan since he was killed by Darth Vader. I watched Episode 4 and realized I was right all along and the opening scene in Episode 1 reverses Episode 4. This is why Obi-Wan appears early in Episode 1 because he was late in 4. Vice versa with C-3PO. Han Solo has the first line of dialogue in Episode V because he was so late in the other two. Notice we hear his voice before seeing his face in V because the opposite happened in the other two. The inside of Darth Vader's spaceship doesn't open Episode V so the other two episodes bookend the trilogy. This is also why V ends inside a spaceship with the characters backs at the audience because the other two end in joy on a planet. The opening of Episode 4 starts with Storm Troopers blasting characters with guns leading to an explosion of black smoke in which the smoke contrasts the white interior of the spaceship and Darth Vader emerges from the smoke. C-3PO appears in the scene. Leia gives a message for help to Obi-Wan. Later, C-3PO and R2-D2 leave the spaceship. Episode 1 opens with four characters approaching the spaceship (including Obi-Wan) where a female version of C-3PO greets them. An explosion occurs where white smoke from another room emerges contrasting the dark interiors of the spaceship. The Jedi's emerge from the smoke and do battle with robots. Queen Amidala gives a message for help. Yoda is a reverse of Obi-Wan since he's also a mentor to Luke, but Yoda's short, non-human and talks backwards. Obi-Wan is tall, human and talks forwards. Notice that the ghost of Obi-Wan appears just after Yoda dies in Episode 6. Obi-Wan has a final lightsaber duel in Episode 4, but not 5 and 6 and Yoda has final lightsaber duels in 2 and 3, but not 1. The two lightsaber duels in Episode 3 towards the end symbolize one episode ends and another begins. Also, they are stalemates for being the middle of the series. The lightsaber duels in 2 and 5 are stalemates for being the middle of each trilogy. There are other layers: Luke is first seen at an outdoor location wearing white clothes in Episode 4, then leaving a cave and entering daylight wearing grey in Episode 5, then inside a cave wearing black in Episode 6. Episode 1 has the Gungan culture where the creatures are hairless tall, thin and speak English. The Wookies in Episode 3 are tall, muscular, hairy and don't speak English. The Ewoks in Episode VI are short, fat, furry and don't speak English either. This symbolizes a beginning, middle and end structure of the creatures in relevance to the 1st, 3rd and 6th Episodes in the series. Leia and Vader have the ability to sense things. They were also discovered by R2-D2 in different ways. R2-D2 shows Luke a hologram of Princess Leia which sends him from Tatooine to free Princess Leia on a spaceship, but brings a spaceship to Tatooine where Anakin appears when he saves the crew. Also, Leia is trying to escape her father Darth Vader without knowing they're related while Anakin is taken away from his mom. Anakin is a successful inventor who created C-3PO which mirrors what he will become: a talking robot. Yet, Luke is first seen trying to fix a robot that is still broken. His aunt and uncle did say after lunch, "He has a lot of his father in him." Anakin's father is mentioned after lunch, too. Anakin losing a dream to free the slaves after being separated from his mom reverses when Luke gained a dream of being a Jedi after his aunt and uncle died. Luke starts out unsure of the direction in his life, but gets better and more focused later on. Anakin has hopes, dreams and focus at first, but loses his way later on. Anakin accidentally blowing up the space console ending the war is a reverse of how Luke destroys the Death Star in Episode IV. Luke was trained and in control of his actions, but Anakin isn't. I discovered all these character reversals on my own and there's many more.
Great analysis into the the connection between the original and prequal trilogies. I really admire the careful attention to detail and the use of objective perspectives, as things can be understood differently, depending on point of view.
Totally agree the GENIOUS of the parallels is spot on its all over the last jedi great star wars movie is a mix between prequels originals and sequels and is a open book anything can happen next
There are A LOT of parallels in TLJ and prequels, especially Phantom but also Revenge (Kylo/Rey - Padme/Anakin) A Critique of Mauler: Why Finn & Rose Going to Canto Makes Sense - Star Wars Analyzed ua-cam.com/video/5ECcwj5nk6g/v-deo.html
I’m just starting this video and already it’s worthwhile. I could never EVER understand what Vader’s aide was saying at 2:00! NEVER!! So thank you so much for clarifying that for poor old me! 😂👍
You opened my eyes on the Revenge/Return similarities. With Sidious on the ground, he's a Sith and knows he is lying to Anakin on his emotions and needs. Luke on the other hand is actually defenseless and begs for his father's help truthfully.
I would argue that Anakin makes the same decision in both climaxes, He decided to save Palpetine in order to save his wife, and decided to kill Palpetine to save his son, choosing family/attachment/love both times over previous loyalties
I like the prequels and I think Lucas made a lot of intentional connections between the OT and the Prequels, but the Millenum Falcon would make number 31 as it is not part of the initial attack, so only 3 ships out of those 30 come back.
Not necessarily. One could say he only meant, say, three personal friends and one stranger went looking for ... The Falcon is a ship just not an official resistance ship. Its fine if George left a clue but not an obvious one.
This was made by our long-time buddy, Seth Wade! He also made some of the music for the original documentary and music for our older projects. Here's the SoundCloud of the track: soundcloud.com/seth-wade/orbit. Let him know that you liked it! 😊
Thank you so much for sharing ! It is timeless, just like SW. Personally I didn't like the Sequel Trilogy (and I doubt IX can save it for me). As George would say, The Prequels were about telling a story using tools, where the Sequels are about using tools to tell a story. Huge difference ! :)
At last someone who takes the prequels seriously, amazing work man.
We are doing our best! Thanks for watching :)
Bradley, I can’t thank you enough for taking the time to revisit the Star Wars prequel trilogy and for putting together the documentary/movie and now this new series (cannot wait for the following installments!). I am a committed, die-hard believer that the prequel trilogy is so strongly misunderstood, and passed over with such flippant ignorance, it honestly frustrates me to no end how willingly the “fans” knock them. It’s as if it’s treason to love the prequel trilogy by general consensus, and I’ve never been able to understand that. With all confidence, I absolutely love almost everything about the prequels - and the fact that they rhyme so naturally and beautifully with the originals makes me hold them in higher regard. So I just want to say, “thank you.” I’m glad someone finally understands what I’ve always thought about the prequel trilogy. :)
Nandor, this makes me feel great. I'm so glad you enjoy our video. This content owes a lot to the work of Mike Klimo and others. There's a lot of great material out there. I'm lucky to get the chance to explore it.
Very well said! I also love everything about the prequel trilogy.
Rest assured that LucasFilm acknowledges that the majority of people like and accept the Prequels. Pablo Hidalgo said it was split 50/50 here in the States, but there's more Prequel love in other countries. Prequel hate seems to be confined mainly to the US.
You know, there is a great Essay about Star Wars called "The Force Awakens vs. The Prequels, or: So this is how personal expression dies, to thunderous Applause". You can find it through Google. It makes a lot of similiar Points. Really interesting. And just to be clear: This is not someone hating on the Episode 7 or the people behind it. The author simply explains why he likes Lucas' Star Wars more. I, of course, don't want to force (pun!) you to read something you don't want to, yet I found the Essay to be truly great.
I can agree more Nandor, everything has a purpose and its own reason for being there. I think many of the most gated parts of the prequals are some or the most intentional elements, take jar jar, Haden Christensen's often awkward and clunky lines.
People that hate the prequels are stupid. I knew all these similarities when I was much younger.
A. Ñeko, I know it as an adult. People typically don't understand or cannot grasp the knowledge of "synchronicities". There are no coincidences, and everything purely happens FOR A REASON. Ring compositions are palindromes and we often experience these fields of energy whether we realize it or not. Lucas was very aware of these decisions before making any of the movies. Most of these "fans" complain and whine about the little things making them seem bigger than what they really are. Lucas was always a visual teller, so what's amazing about being in, let's say a foreign country with different language speaking people is that it's entirely alien to what we're used to. Should we bash the people because we cannot understand what they're saying? No, because we're not supposed to question it. Just like with movies, which is why I love going back to silent films. Star Wars fans are terrible at this. People can have different opinions and that's okay, but man, the fanbase is pretty retarded and nerdy isn't it? And this doesn't apply to Star Wars specifically, I see this with lots of movie watchers and it's kinda shitty. But dude, if you know about these types of events, I'd say you're a great person. :)
Well, I think one of the problems was that the prequels were always destined to be a bit out of place compared to the OT. These weren't stories that could kind of tell themselves, they had a specific direction they had to go in because we already know what's going to happen. So Lucas decided to mirror and invert the movies to have them like different versions of the original films. The movies are not great as stand-alone pieces of film, but they weren't intended to and that's what people didn't understand. The viewer was supposed to be picking up on all of these similarities and juxtapositions... in the end I think Lucas took for granted that everybody would simply see all of these threads weaving in and out of the films tying them together.
good work! i love the prequels
Brilliant! Loved the prequels strike back. Seeing more of it is great!
Thanks for watching! :)
Also, I love the fact that this episode II rhymes with episode V in the sense that Anakin disobeys his master in order to find his mother. And Luke disobeys his master in order to unexpectedly find his father.
I also like the fact that both are tempted by visions that lead them closer to the dark side, but ultimately, where Anakin fails, Luke succeeds.
And both lose limbs obviously - but there are some key differences. Anakin's force vision was real. Luke's was only imaginary - or that is how I see it.
@@darkthorpocomicknight7891 well, he was an inch, a second, and a heartbeat away from becoming Vader, just like in his vision. Anakin’s vision came true, while Luke’s just barely didn’t.
I always love the 6 Star Wars movies.
Then Episode VII came out, and I hated Episode VII, and I don't see how Episode VIII will fix anything.
I blame the anti-Prequelist sectarianism for the disaster that is Episode VII.
Master Big-Cock Last Jedi is better than TFA, but sadly (at least for me), but overall I didn't like it, and main reason is a course that they made with TFA. And really wanted to like it, on the opposite I went into Rogue One to be dissapointed and walked out of it really enjoying.
I'm from the future to say you were right VIII sucked even harder then VI, and woke millions of Star wars fans out of their years long delusional trance
The Force Awakens a disaster? It was a good film and honestly a better movie than the prequel trilogy.
@HugoSoup57 it was a decent film.
Amazing work. The Star Wars Prequels are amazing! Attack of the Clones ranks as the top SW film for me, personally!!!
MKaur Sandhu it’s actually my 4th favourite movie in the series
Great stuff! Thank you for your diligent work. I hope George Lucas knows there are people like y'all out there treating the prequels with respect and helping others to understand their complexity.
Cody Clarke Ministry of Cinema produces some great stuff, don’t they?
Cody Clarke
I can recall entire UA-cam Channels being removed from UA-cam simply because such channels dared to say that the Prequels were just as good as the Original Trilogy, or worse say what I always say: the Prequels were better than the Original Trilogy with superior dialogue, and thicker plots and much more depth.
Master Big-Cock When did that happen?
There was a video criticism the red letter media reviews of the prequels which was taken down by constant reports by og fanboys
Excellent work man! But there's a small thing that i need to point out... Padme's hair piece actually resembles the symbol of the Rebel Alliance, while the Republic design is pretty similar to the Imperial insignia. www.starwars.com/news/5-symbols-in-the-star-wars-universe
+Esteban Canales Ooh, thanks for sharing!
@@Ministryofcinema Also Mike does some errors in his work but I wonder is he saying BRU or Beru - it sounds like BRUUU to me.
The light and dark themes are interesting in the Tatooine scenes. The other similarities were obvious to me since I was a teenager, but there are deeper things going on. Luke is dressed in white, Anakin in brown/black. Luke gets served blue milk, Anakin gets served red juice (don't need to explain the difference between blue and red in Star Wars). The twin suns (light) appear for Luke, the two shadows (darkness) appear for Anakin. Luke waits until morning to leave (light) while Anakin takes off at night (darkness).
Holy moly you explained this better than the video! 👍
Campaigners for the “unaltered” versions of the first three movies are fond of using this quote from Lucas:“People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians, and if the laws of the United States continue to condone this behavior, history will surely classify us as a barbaric society.” It almost makes him sound like a hypocrite, if you completely ignore the context and the point he was making. He was talking about corporations colorizing and altering their old catalogue of movies after the filmmakers have died and without their consent. They don’t use this quote, from the same speech by Lucas: “American law does not protect our painters, sculptors, recording artists, authors, or filmmakers from having their lifework distorted, and their reputation ruined. If something is not done now to clearly state the moral rights of artists, current and future technologies will alter, mutilate, and destroy for future generations the subtle human truths and highest human feeling that talented individuals within our society have created.”Even more specifically, Lucas said to Wired magazine in 1999: “Everybody signs on to bring forth the director’s vision- that’s part of the way movies are made and always have been. The real issue is whether a corporation that buys the film 10 years later has the right to change it. My response continues to be no.” 5 His concern was, and always has been, that the artist behind a film have their intentions and vision honored, which is why using this quote to talk about how he SHOULDN’T be able to alter his own movies is fairly idiotic. The Prequels are all about hidden meanings. Things and people being more than one would suspect - both in good and bad ways. And George Lucas was always fan of playing with film structure and expectations. As George Lucas explained in the Making of Revenge of the Sith: "The First Script I wrote had stories for everybody... and I cut it down and we had a script. But when we cut it together, there were still Problems. Finally, I said, Okay, let's be even more hard-nosed here and take out every Scene that doesn't have anything to do with Anakin. But that causes you to juxtapose certain Scenes that you were never contemplating juxtaposing bevore, because the Scenes were never meant to be next to each other. What happens then is that some of the themes grab hold of each other and really strengthen themselves in ways that are fascinating. You pull things together and suddenly a theme is drawn out becouse it's in three consecutive Scenes instead of just one. Suddely one theme is infinitely stronger than it was bevore, so we'll strengthen that theme because it seem poetic."
So you hate capitalism? Ok. You are one of those people who scapegoat companies and would be pleased to get milked by dictators.
Disney didnt ruin star wars. They made movies for cadual fans/normies who hate the prequels and anything other then the original trilogy.
Barbaric society! lmao
@@diadokhoi5722 I think his argument is simply Lucas had a point that him altering works was an exception to the rule. Lucas said to Wired magazine in 1999: “Everybody signs on to bring forth the director’s vision- that’s part of the way movies are made and always have been. The real issue is whether a corporation that buys the film 10 years later has the right to change it. My response continues to be no.” Yes and no. Lucas did pay x director so he does have SOME right to how to display a film. However a whole generation grew up with Han shooting first - he can alter that. But MONOPOLIZING content so the original will die out is to change it - so the hypocrisy still holds but not the on usually specified. So yes we should be careful how to criticize GL but he's done some shady things
I love it! Although it´s really sad to think that Star Wars will never be like this again :(
The stuff Filoni and Fraveu is good though, they are doing their best and their best is very good
Top notch content!
It brings me great joy to see these thoughtful and well made videos on the prequels.
I loved the documentary and I hope to see more of these videos, keep up the good work :)
Thanks Mattias! We have two more videos in this series coming out next month and December. We're glad to have you here!
+Mattias Söderberg thanks for the kind words! :)
Great first episode. Just goes to show why I really do enjoy the prequels and why Disney "Star Wars" is a train wreck without Lucas.
It really is :(
This is really great! Does a lot to fill out the work you did in your film. I’ve learned so much from you guys!
just saw your documentary tonight wanted to say I loved it.
Watch The Phantom Menace in Amazon's xray format on a big 4K TV. It's literally the greatest movie of all time and here's why. It's the equivalent of the invention of sound and color in cinema and people ignore that. ILM wrote on the fly computer code for the CGI that in 99 is just as perfect 20 years later and that programming is used in all CGI today. It's a brilliant cinematic masterpiece that people can't appreciate because it's on a superior level that's hard to process. Watch it in xray. There is incredibly powerful dialogue in every scene and people claim Lucas can't write dialogue. It's ironic. The Skywalker tragedy is brilliant storytelling. Alex Jones explains prequels for morons ua-cam.com/video/oKm4ueVuxpY/v-deo.html
I agree
This. Is. Brilliant! I can't wait for more episodes!
Can't wait to share more!
Excellent work guys! I can't wait for more.
Can't wait to share more! Thanks for watching.
Great now I have to watch all six again after watching this!👍
I never got the hate for the prequels, I guess jumping to hate cause they are different is the most likely (I mean if we listened to the fans we would get a film like EP7. Ah crap thanks Fans)
Honestly the prequels to me are fantastic, and anyone who says they are bad to me are those you just say "Good for you" then go back to enjoying your life. I mean the room is a bad film, Birdemic 1,2 are bad films the prequels are not.
They do things differently they are like puzzle pieces information from ep 1 is relevant all the way to EP 3 and so on. To me you need to think and put the pieces together. But what about the dialogue you say. Well the originals weren't the best either. Hell neither was the acting (solo at the start of empire reminded me of a child as much as Anakin did in Ep1 Though he was a child so) But my favorite is the balcony scene is EP2.
This is one of my favorite scenes cause it shows so much as who Anakin is first off he's in love you say and do stupid **** while in love, Second he's not good with people he's head strong and detached. Pieces from EP 1 forming here. Also Obi wan isn't gonna pull him a side and say "Listen if you want to get with a lady just do this"
No he's gonna be told "No emotions at all, you are a jedi" However from EP1 that goes against a lot of who he is but not only that but he grew up with love with his mother who held him together as a child. Then in 2 he's back with Padme who was with him for the strongest moment of his life however he doesn't know what to do. And that's brilliant to me. he can deal and understand and fix machines but not humans. (As someone who has Asperger s that really resonated with me)
So when we get that scene I don't "Cringe" I see someone who really needs someone else in his life beside the jedi. Also someone who doesn't know how to act around someone he loves.
Theirs a lot of clever in the prequels in the under layers of how it is presented (though it goes against the "quote" rules of writing a story and film making being one whole story instead of finished complete stories as individual works) but you need to try different things to get different outcomes. Sure I think certain finished deleted scenes should be put back into the films to add more substance to the films that most are used to. but hey it still works for me.
You make a really good point that Anakin really had no guidance in his whole love situation. No father figure mixed with monastic repression and oh boy, no wonder it led to bad news.
found a really interesting post on the Internet - and I thought you could find this interesting.“The prequels are also of course criticized for their dialog. George Lucas doesn’t care about dialog. He has said this so many times in interviews over the years, I don’t even know where to start pointing to examples. He refers to dialog as a sound effect, and he’s said he prefers the French dubbed version of the films because it’s just a better sound, whether or not you know what the words mean. He’s pointed out with pride that children in foreign countries who don’t speak any English can watch Star Wars and understand it based on the visuals and the music.When you go to Star Wars and complain that the dialog isn’t realistic, that’s like going to Schindler’s List and complaining that it wasn’t funny enough, you were in the mood for a comedy. It’s just not the movie you went to, and again, you’re talking about yourself and your own taste and comfort levels, not the movie you saw. You’re watching an apple and complaining that it’s not an orange. It’s not a problem with the movie, it’s a problem with how you’re discussing the movie.What George Lucas cares about is “pure cinema” or what he calls “tone poems”. Again, he has said this over and over in every interview where he has got a chance. What he’s referring to is the ability of cinema to create meaning and emotions with editing and the juxtaposition of different Images.”George Lucas: “But in my films, the dialog is not where the movie is. My films are basically in the graphics. the emotional Impact Comes from the Music - and from juxtaposing one Image with the next.”Edit: The name of the post is: "The Force Awakens vs. The Prequels, or: So this is how personal expression dies, to thunderous applause".
I know. Did you ever follow the Star Words series? It tells you about just that.
People miss that Anakin's story is a story of fatherlessness. Remember when Obi wan picks up his "father" qi gon's saber to kill maul. The son avaneging the father. But he doesn't keep the sword, he gets a new one. He doesn't pick up the mantle of being a father figure himself, he sees anakin as a brother when Anakin deperately cried out for a father, even calling Obi "close to a father". Instead, Obi Wan spent episode two in a silent sibling rivalry with Anakin and Palpatine provided Anakin with want he wanted. I then heard george lucas in an interview saying he wanted the first line of his obiturary to be "he was a good father". Blew my mind.
Luke doesn't dare to go find r2 in the dark, only going out in the light
Anakin goes to find his mother in the dark
Shmi dies in the dark in anakins hands and anakin takes revenge on the sand people
Luke finds his uncle and aunt dead in the light of day, and choosing to move on.
9:16 Actually, he made the exact same decision: he turned on the aggressor attacking someone close to him both times.
Verebazs Sorry, I should’ve been more careful with my words. “Very different decision” in the sense that in Sith, Anakin’s decision is one based on greed, while in Jedi, his decision is one based on compassion. Like Lucas has said, the two trilogies were designed around those two ideas.
I know what you meant. Truth is I never realised that, until you pointed this out, that it's the same choice, with different motivations...Now that I think about it, no even the motivation is same-ish: both times he was trying to save family: by saving Palpatine he hoped to secure Padmé, and his future with her. By killing Palpatine he saved his son, and defied his past.
It's amazing really. The more you think about it, the deeper the connections get.
Verebazs Verebazs Same-ish? Hm, maybe...I would argue that the films make the distinction fairly clear. In Sith, Anakin makes a choice that’s very selfish. “*I* need him,” he tells Mace. “*I* won’t lose you the way **I** lost my mother,” he tells Padme. Whereas, in Jedi, Anakin’s choice is largely selfLESS. He’s willing to sacrifice himself, everything, because of the compassion (literally “to suffer together”) he has for his son. Psychologically, I think Anakin is in two very different places during those scenes...to me at least. :)
@@MikeKlimo Not so sure - I mean the greed/compassion theme I discovered independent of ring theory. But I think GL is deliberately being ambiguous - Anakin did the right thing to save Palps and stop Mace. But he did in a way leaving him very vulnerable - he could have used a force push or force choke and subdued Palps - I think he wants us to consider all the evil the Jedi did to him and how SOME of the hatred was justified imo.
For more evidence see
Is Phantom Menace The Greatest Film? Star Wars Analyzed on How Ep 1 is a Top Ten Film
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Keep up the good work though its very good.
Very good instalment!
Thank you!
If you look at the original continuity, which was greatly abbreviated, had the original Sith being a fallen Jedi that we know as Darth Ruin. He was the first of the Lost Twenty, that being twenty masters that left the Jedi Order. Darth Vader considered himself the 21st of this group. Thus the rhyme occurs, the last of the lost ends what the first of the lost began.
For this timeline, see the TPM novelization.
Do you know that the Star Wars movies (except for Last Jedi) are in reverse order from when the characters appear to how they behave? Also, the locations and consequences reverse order per episode.
I realized this when Anakin arrived at 32 minutes of an indoor location in Episode 1 and I said to myself "Didn't Luke arrive at 16 minutes at an outdoor location in Episode 4?" 16X2= 32. Then I realized all the characters and scenarios were in reverse order which is why Jabba the Hut was in the directors cut of New Hope so he can arrive in Episode 1 and the creatures in the bleachers of the pod race are mostly the ones in the bars Obi-Wan and Luke go to in Episode 4. Darth Maul's death reverses Obi-Wan since he was killed by Darth Vader. I watched Episode 4 and realized I was right all along and the opening scene in Episode 1 reverses Episode 4. This is why Obi-Wan appears early in Episode 1 because he was late in 4. Vice versa with C-3PO. Han Solo has the first line of dialogue in Episode V because he was so late in the other two. Notice we hear his voice before seeing his face in V because the opposite happened in the other two. The inside of Darth Vader's spaceship doesn't open Episode V so the other two episodes bookend the trilogy. This is also why V ends inside a spaceship with the characters backs at the audience because the other two end in joy on a planet.
The opening of Episode 4 starts with Storm Troopers blasting characters with guns leading to an explosion of black smoke in which the smoke contrasts the white interior of the spaceship and Darth Vader emerges from the smoke. C-3PO appears in the scene. Leia gives a message for help to Obi-Wan. Later, C-3PO and R2-D2 leave the spaceship. Episode 1 opens with four characters approaching the spaceship (including Obi-Wan) where a female version of C-3PO greets them. An explosion occurs where white smoke from another room emerges contrasting the dark interiors of the spaceship. The Jedi's emerge from the smoke and do battle with robots. Queen Amidala gives a message for help.
Yoda is a reverse of Obi-Wan since he's also a mentor to Luke, but Yoda's short, non-human and talks backwards. Obi-Wan is tall, human and talks forwards. Notice that the ghost of Obi-Wan appears just after Yoda dies in Episode 6. Obi-Wan has a final lightsaber duel in Episode 4, but not 5 and 6 and Yoda has final lightsaber duels in 2 and 3, but not 1. The two lightsaber duels in Episode 3 towards the end symbolize one episode ends and another begins. Also, they are stalemates for being the middle of the series. The lightsaber duels in 2 and 5 are stalemates for being the middle of each trilogy.
There are other layers: Luke is first seen at an outdoor location wearing white clothes in Episode 4, then leaving a cave and entering daylight wearing grey in Episode 5, then inside a cave wearing black in Episode 6. Episode 1 has the Gungan culture where the creatures are hairless tall, thin and speak English. The Wookies in Episode 3 are tall, muscular, hairy and don't speak English. The Ewoks in Episode VI are short, fat, furry and don't speak English either. This symbolizes a beginning, middle and end structure of the creatures in relevance to the 1st, 3rd and 6th Episodes in the series.
Leia and Vader have the ability to sense things. They were also discovered by R2-D2 in different ways. R2-D2 shows Luke a hologram of Princess Leia which sends him from Tatooine to free Princess Leia on a spaceship, but brings a spaceship to Tatooine where Anakin appears when he saves the crew. Also, Leia is trying to escape her father Darth Vader without knowing they're related while Anakin is taken away from his mom.
Anakin is a successful inventor who created C-3PO which mirrors what he will become: a talking robot. Yet, Luke is first seen trying to fix a robot that is still broken. His aunt and uncle did say after lunch, "He has a lot of his father in him." Anakin's father is mentioned after lunch, too. Anakin losing a dream to free the slaves after being separated from his mom reverses when Luke gained a dream of being a Jedi after his aunt and uncle died. Luke starts out unsure of the direction in his life, but gets better and more focused later on. Anakin has hopes, dreams and focus at first, but loses his way later on. Anakin accidentally blowing up the space console ending the war is a reverse of how Luke destroys the Death Star in Episode IV. Luke was trained and in control of his actions, but Anakin isn't. I discovered all these character reversals on my own and there's many more.
Great analysis into the the connection between the original and prequal trilogies. I really admire the careful attention to detail and the use of objective perspectives, as things can be understood differently, depending on point of view.
But the stormtroopers weren’t clones
They could be both - but yes - we clearly see many troopers are not "clones." Lucas saw the plot hole and tried to dix it but created new ones.
Totally agree the GENIOUS of the parallels is spot on its all over the last jedi great star wars movie is a mix between prequels originals and sequels and is a open book anything can happen next
There are A LOT of parallels in TLJ and prequels, especially Phantom but also Revenge (Kylo/Rey - Padme/Anakin)
A Critique of Mauler: Why Finn & Rose Going to Canto Makes Sense - Star Wars Analyzed
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I’m just starting this video and already it’s worthwhile. I could never EVER understand what Vader’s aide was saying at 2:00! NEVER!! So thank you so much for clarifying that for poor old me! 😂👍
You opened my eyes on the Revenge/Return similarities. With Sidious on the ground, he's a Sith and knows he is lying to Anakin on his emotions and needs. Luke on the other hand is actually defenseless and begs for his father's help truthfully.
I would argue that Anakin makes the same decision in both climaxes, He decided to save Palpetine in order to save his wife, and decided to kill Palpetine to save his son, choosing family/attachment/love both times over previous loyalties
Love this, when is the next episode coming out?
+Andrew Farmer much appreciated! We are hoping to release around the Star Wars Battlefront II launch on 11/17/2017.
I like the prequels and I think Lucas made a lot of intentional connections between the OT and the Prequels, but the Millenum Falcon would make number 31 as it is not part of the initial attack, so only 3 ships out of those 30 come back.
Not necessarily. One could say he only meant, say, three personal friends and one stranger went looking for ... The Falcon is a ship just not an official resistance ship. Its fine if George left a clue but not an obvious one.
what's the background tune playing ? It's wonderful
This was made by our long-time buddy, Seth Wade! He also made some of the music for the original documentary and music for our older projects. Here's the SoundCloud of the track: soundcloud.com/seth-wade/orbit. Let him know that you liked it! 😊
Thank you so much for sharing ! It is timeless, just like SW. Personally I didn't like the Sequel Trilogy (and I doubt IX can save it for me). As George would say, The Prequels were about telling a story using tools, where the Sequels are about using tools to tell a story. Huge difference ! :)
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This movies are pure gold
Yay!
+chris vargas Woot!
I don’t know man if he painstakingly wanted these connections why are there so many plot holes obiwan and yoda not recognizing Artoo?