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I’m so sorry, master…

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I   a m   v e r y   p r o u d   o f   y o u

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Evening Dress

1828-1831

Cincinnati Art Museum

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What she says: I’m fine

What she means: you know what the really tragic part is? Obi Wan would have saved him, protected him and forgiven him if Anakin had just asked or said he needed help even as he lay burning

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Suit

1830s

Manchester City Galleries

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a lil anakin sketch dump

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Dress

c.1830

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

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kinda fucks me up to know that the first among anakin's immediate friends and family to realize he'd become a danger to them was threepio. like what about anakin triggered his threat sensors? was it the way he moved? the expression on his face? what about the youngling slaughter clung to him? how could a droid sense the dark side when those who love him couldn't see it?

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I think it was really him because the "Is that what this is about" is so Anakin Skywalker that I'm not sure anyone could have come up with that

The single most compelling argument in "Was it truly Anakin Skywalker in Ahsoka's vision in episode 5?" is indeed-- When told that yes she's still bothered by him being Darth Vader, he makes THIS FACE:

I'm not sure I believe that any hallucination could come up with THAT EXPRESSION. That's 100% Only Anakin Skywalker Could Do This right there. Just--

This is the face of a man having to deal with someone being upset that he did a real bad 20+ years of murder and genocide, THIS is the face he makes when she's not taking his hard earned wisdom about how he's more than just death and war. Only Real Anakin Skywalker could be told, to his face, that his apprentice is upset about all the baby murder and she's not hearing that she's more than just baby murder, too, and then be OFFENDED. NO OTHER CHARACTER IS DOING IT LIKE ANAKIN SKYWALKER

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#"i have no idea where he gets it from," says area jedi knight still picking glass out of his robes from leaping out of senator amidala's window earlier in the evening.

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Obikin totally Padawan era accurate text posts (1/2)

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SHOOT DAY 28: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2003 LOCATION: Stage 3 SET: Mustafar landing platform SCENES SHOT: 145pt (Padmé confronts Anakin on Mustafar and Obi-Wan arrives)

At 2:45, they're ready for close-ups of Hayden. Lucas discusses the tone with him. "This is Anakin's greatest moment; he's got all these new powers-everything is fine." "Anakin's just gone and killed his family, more or less, so I've done a deed that I thought would've weighed on me," Christensen would say the following day. "But George sees it as an outburst of almost accidental anger that Anakin then has to suffer the repercussions of for the rest of his life. Anakin thinks he's done the right thing in killing all the Jedi, so George wanted me to come to the scene with enthusiasm. Things are good. I'm the most powerful man in the universe and I'm going to be able to save Padmé."

Honestly I think what makes Hayden's performance as Anakin during the confrontation on Mustafar so compelling is that Hayden's instincts are to feel guilt and horror, from the deep revulsion of the good part of him that still lurks inside ('i just killed my family'), and Lucas's direction is to project confidence and enthusiasm out of self satisfaction ('what i did was definitely absolutely right, good, necessary, important').

As a result Hayden gives Anakin a palpable kind of tension in the eyes. He holds up a unsettling false front of willing self-deception, leaning into insane delusions of grandeur to avoid confronting the traumatic reality of what he did. That tension visibly snaps at the perception of betrayal, lashing out in the surge of accidental anger that would haunt Anakin for the rest of his life.

Hayden's acting in that moment, the huge swing of manic joy to a murderous scowl, really never gets the credit it deserves for actually being pretty subtle. It feels natural and seamless despite the high drama and unsubtle dialogue. I love the build up of that psychological tension as he falls into the dark and its explosive, deadly release, it's really perfect to me.

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Lady on the Change Track of a Sea Resort, 1883 by Franz Skarbina (German, 1849–1910)

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Day Dress

Mon. Vignon (Paris, France)

1869-1870

V&A Museum (Accession number: T.118 to D-1979)