After finding the assassin, Obi-Wan goes to Kamino to find the bounty hunter the assassin's working for and Anakin escorts Padmé back to her home planet, Naboo. During their stay in the isolated lake country, Anakin and Padmé share their first kiss and fall in love, even though the Jedi Code strictly forbids any romantic attachments. Padmé does however try to explain to Anakin why they can't be together. In the meantime, Obi-Wan discovers the creation of a clone army for the Republic cloned from the bounty hunter Jango Fett.
Anakin
continues to have vivid nightmares of his mother suffering and he and Padmé decide
to travel back to Anakin's home planet, Tatooine. They discover that Tusken Raiders have taken
Anakin's mother and when Anakin tries to rescue her, she dies in his arms in the
Tusken Raiders camp. It is after Anakin
kills everybody at the camp, when his dark side is revealed as he talks to
Padmé. All of his feelings are poured
out and they are all forbidden for a Jedi.
He expresses his anger and hate for the Tusken Raiders, how he feels
that Obi-Wan is jealous of him and holding him back, how he wished he had the power
to stop people from dying, and how he wishes to become the most powerful Jedi
ever someday.
This
is probably one of the most visually stunning movies I have ever seen as it was
one of the first movies to be shot entirely in HD. Kamino is one of the most interesting and
mysterious planets I have ever seen in the Star Wars world because it's not well-known
to the characters. It is an oceanic
planet located beyond the Outer Rim of the galaxy and it's constantly rainy and
windy. The stormy weather hardly ever
stops.
I
especially love the dazzling waterfalls that were edited into the background of
the meadow scene where Anakin and Padmé have their picnic and the filming locations
in Italy are simply breathtaking. Most of
the scenes on Naboo were filmed in Italy with Villa del Balbianello on Lake
Como serving as the setting for the lake country and the Palace of Caserta
serving as the setting for the Naboo Royal Palace. In the future, if I ever get to go on
vacation to Italy, one of the places on my bucket list, I would definitely love
to visit these filming locations.
As
in episode I, the music really resonates with me. The love theme, Across The Stars, is my
favorite song out of all the episodes.
The grand, swelling notes are so beautiful and you really get the sense
that Anakin and Padmé's romance is complicated and how they are star-crossed
lovers. I just love the concept of
forbidden romance even though I know it was ill-fated from the start.
Episode
II was supposed to be re-released in theaters in 3D on September 20, 2013, but
was unfortunately postponed because of episode VII. I am still holding out hope that it will be
released because I would personally die if I got the chance to see the romantic
scenes between Anakin and Padmé on the big screen. What do you think about the concept of
forbidden love and committing yourself to a greater existence? Leave your comment below.
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