Attack of the Clones Minute 50: Fake

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Date

January 20th, 2017

The shaak bucks, and Anakin falls off. Padmé laughs even harder. Anakin lies still.

Starts with Anakin outlining his vision for an authoritarian form of government, and ends with him falling off a cow (shaak).
Cut Padmé dialog: You're so bad.
Prominent swell of the "Love Theme from Attack of the Clones".

Does Anakin really mean what he says about supporting a fascist dictatorship, or is he just needling Padmé? Both?
Good Natalie Portman acting in this scene. Her best acting is when she is smiling, because you can actually tell what the character is thinking.
- Referenced: Aaron Burr, as depicted in "Hamilton".
Does Padmé really go for the bad boys? The cut dialog suggests she likes him because he's bad.
Carrie Fisher was one of the people working behind the scenes to tighten up the script for this movie.
Ways the love story could be improved.
- Comparisons with the Han-Leia romance.
Referenced: Alphabeatical.
George wanting to try new things as an artist.
The constantly evolving state of CGI.
- If the technology isn't quite there, don't fake your main character.
- This is the same year that The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers came out. Comparing and contrasting the Warg attack scene with this minute.
  - This is why Ricky didn't see AOTC in theaters. Referenced: The Onion article about fans leaving Star Wars for Lord of the Rings.
- Mentioned: Spider-Man (2002)
- Curmugeonly Pete remembers thinking Anakin riding the shaak looked fake at the time.
- Will people find clunky CGI endearing like we do Stop-motion?
"Across the Stars (Love Theme from Attack of the Clones)"
- Shoutout to Tony Thaxton and the Thaxtones.
- Discussions of John Williams' music.
Evocative of Lara's theme from Dr. Zhivago (Love Theme from Doctor Zhivago).
Ricky ranks the movies.

27:39 podcast episode length.
Eagles (and other diurnal birds of prey) have no external ears, but their hearing is about comparable to that of a human[1].

Pete: Analyze, scrutinize, and... bad CGIze...
Pete: (as Hayden Christiansen) Can we do a scene where I juggle? Girls like that, right?
Alex: <In response to Anakin on the shaak-back> (reading from his notes) "It's the fakest looking fakeness that was ever faked."'
Pete: ...like a puppet... riding a balloon.
Ricky: In layman's terms, "flangeing the harble".