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Hey everyone and welcome to today's new video. So you're all having an awesome day
I want to talk about something that I always wanted to talk about with you guys
One of the biggest stigmas out there is that Hayden Christensen was the worst actor to choose for Anakin Skywalker's role
Now I made this post on Twitter and Instagram yesterday about it, but I'd like to make a video today
Going over my thoughts on it in full
Now Hayden played Anakin in episodes two and three the majority of people hated the character and even George has gone on to say this
For Hayden, his performance is great
They just don't like the character now while all that might be true many people didn't like his acting because they said he was too
Whiny monotone and lacks emotion while I fully agree with all of you there
I'm also here to address just why he was the perfect fit
George went through anakin story with Hayden the entire time from pre-production to post-production Hayden knew the character inside and out
he knew who he turned into and who he had to start out as
Let's take Anakin as if he were real human in today's world
You know what rather let's make it personal Anakin is you you are Anakin
so let's begin you're born without a father figure your mom and you have to survive being slaves by the Hutt's and then some
Disgusting flying creature that whips you and beats you until you're black and blue
seriously that happened in the books and comics too Anakin all the time you grow up seeing your mom treated like garbage and you can't
Do anything about it?
Because you're just a little boy who's also a slave and has to do anything
For the hand that feeds him this kind of gives you a complex growing up
wouldn't you think the only thing you have is building things you'd like to do that in your own downtime and really robots are your
only friend anyways
Some magical wizard comes along with this
Beautiful looking girl and whisks you away to a life of being a space wizard where you can move stuff with your mind and help
people because after living in a life of poverty and torture your whole life
All you just want to do is have justice for yourself your mom and the people around you
You know as much as you can so you leave your mom in
Slavery on this terrible planet you train you realize that you're more powerful than everyone in your class even some of your teachers yet
They don't advance you they keep you in the same grade when you clearly can move forwards you get your first mission
Finally almost ten later with the only woman you've had a crush on yet
You are forbidden to act on your feelings for her. You have to be like a machine cold numb and monotone
that's the way that they've raised it to be you keep having these visions of your mother dying and then you eventually
Fail in saving her because you were forced to be on this mission
When you mentioned it countless times to your master who really wasn't supposed to be your master in the first place
But only is because the real one died and he got pawned off to his student who definitely wasn't ready for an apprentice of his
Own he disregards your thoughts on your mother whenever you mention it and tells you to focus on the moment you witness her death
She being tortured by faceless monsters in the desert on the planet. You were a slave your whole life
You promised to become powerful and come back to save her, but they held you back
Your master ignored your warnings about her being in danger
and now you have to bury her you fight the guy responsible for all the turmoil in the galaxy who betrayed the
Faction the Jedi you were brainwashed to obey
Simultaneously, he's the same guy
Your original master was trained by so you already have some strange
Resentment towards him and then he cuts her arm off you get married in secret then spend the next few years being a war hero
Above all the others for the Clone Wars you kill the guy who took your arm
Then immediately find out you're having a baby with your wife
This is kind of a double or triple whammy the Jedi can't know that you're with anyone romantically
You can't be married and you definitely can't be having a child. How will all of this be hidden?
How will that be answered when people ask her about it? Will she have to have a fake husband?
How will that work this entire time?
Since you've become a space wizard, I guess we could say you've been manipulated by this old man
Who is the closest thing to an uncle to you?
Palpatine or maybe even like a father you have dreams of your wife dying in childbirth constantly
Now this uncle figure says that there's a way to save people from dying but not through the Jedi who you've trusted your whole life
But you're now starting to doubt a little bit with their actions and their over involvement with politics
You're now probably the most conflicted you've ever been in your whole life
You already lost your mom because you were held back all those years when you could have been developing your powers further
To maybe give you more insight
A lot earlier or save those from death sooner your mind now begins to point fingers at everyone all in anger and desperation
You're Moody you're stressed out. You're not sleeping
You're not eating you're not respected the way you should be by any here
Especially those below you but yet you keep your cool by being callous numb
Monotone like a machine like a ticking time bomb. You're given a seat on the council
What an honor but you're denied the rank of master. This has never been done in history
Not only is that outrageous and unfair but it would have granted you access to the restricted section
That only masters have access to perhaps this would have led you to learning how to save your wife from dying
preventing you from turning to the dark side and pledging your allegiance to the Sith and
Your new uncle the dreams
Won't stop either you find out your uncle father figure is behind all of this and that he's the most powerful and evil guy in
The universe he was even behind the guy that chopped off your arm in the first place
You tell the guy who has always doubted. You always given you a hard time and
Always felt like you didn't deserve your powers not to mention. He denied you the rank
You deserve he says go sit and wait for us big boys to take care of business you sit
You think you cry because you can't really do anything else with all of these pent-up
emotions that you've had for years and years on end and in response to losing the only person who promised to treat you with the
Power and respect that you deserve
You run to see what's going on
you're caught in between the guy that has always disliked you and the uncle father figure who promised to save your wife in a
split-second decision without thinking purely on emotion
It's about you saving your wife or saving the guy who has always been mean to you. You choose your wife
There's no going back. You're in this life for good you explode you kill everyone including the kids
You're on a power trip all those years of pent up emotions and powers that you could never use are now unleashed in a span
Of just a few hours for the first time in your life
You are sent to kill annoying evil politicians on a fire planet you kill them
You see your wife. She wants you to run away and raise your child together. You calm down
You consider it you look up to think and what do you see your master in the doorway of her chef's rage?
Blind dark rage engulfs you the next thing, you know, she's passed out on the ground
You don't know how now it's just him in your path. You don't focus on the force
You don't focus on your training. You've just unleash you're winning. He gets the high ground. You have a god complex
You think you can do anything in the galaxy including?
beating him the way that he beat the first Sith Lord in a thousand years which you know all about
this
Fuels your ego even more thinking that you are that much better than him and you can beat him at his own move
you try it and you lose you then spend the rest of your life in a terrible agonizing misery of
Depression where no one you know is around you anymore
You are hated and feared by the entire galaxy and you never really can
See your face again because you're entombed in this black suit and everything on you is pretty much burned off
Yeah, everything what Hayden knew this was Anakin's life when he read the script for the role. He played the character perfectly
He was the literal definition of a brainwashed soldier
however
the only issue was
He was brainwashed only after he spent about a decade in a life of misery and torture with the only family that he had his
Mother though his emotions will mess you up
eventually
the obedient dog when mistreated I don't care how obedient he's trained to be will respond to nature's calling and bite back if we
Take all of this into account then Hayden did a fantastic job
Watch the prequels again at least Revenge of the Sith
His entire demeanor is always as if he's processing something and that's the genius right there whether Hayden did this intentionally or not
It's how Anakin should be conflicted. He was always conflicted
Luke sensed it in him even into his older age as Vader
Anakin always had this hate and it's because of what happened to him as a kid
That's something that only got worse the more he was mistreated and stressed out with all of his complexes that I just mentioned also
For those who don't know Hayden actually paid so much attention to how James Earl Jones
sounds as Darth Vader he would try to pronounce e8 the same words in the
Same style of context notice how he says the words my master he rolls the words together
Just like Vader did he paid very close attention to the role and I think he did a really good job
I think Anakin is Hayden and Hayden is Anakin
Maybe there are others who could play his part sure
But that doesn't mean that he didn't do a great job or that they could do a better one
This is what we got and I think it lives up to the part
if you guys think differently I
encourage all of you to put your thoughts down below for everyone to see now on a side note since you have made it to
the end of the video
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It's a beautiful story where Vader is ordered to go back to Naboo to kill the final remnants of order 66
Which includes mace windu and his band of ten other jedi masters?
Padawans and younglings will vader be strong enough to live up to the test and will his clones be able to survive
Thank you everyone for your time and I will see you all in the next episode of Star Wars
Theory until then my fellow Jedi and Sith friends
remember the force
Fulfill your destiny
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