Movies Anakin Skywalker

I'm still in a Star Wars mood, so I'm going to use my Jedi mind tricks to make you read this. It obviously worked, I mean, you are reading this, right? Well, if you're not, then how do you know that it didn't work? You don't even know I used my powers at all!

Anyway, to end my ramblings for now, I'll get to the point. There have been three actors to portray Anakin Skywalker in the five Star Wars movies. I'm not counting David Prowse and James Earl Jones, who played Darth Vader, by the way. The question this time is not which is the greatest, but which is the worst. I mean, the two biggest ones (Jake Lloyd and Hayden Christiensen) both fouled up the character royally. That's no secret. Which do you think was worse?

 

...The guy in Jedi did a great job. He didn't even know what Star Wars was and he still makes me cry whenever I see that scene.

As for the prequel-ites...

Well, Lloyd is a child actor. He's not going to be giving a performance worthy of an oscar, people.

As for Hayden...

See the thing is, people complained he was too awkward when flirting with Padme.

He's spent the past 10 years in a sexual-love-free environment, you dolts. Its the equivalent of a monastary. HE ISNT GOING TO BE FRIGGIN ROMEO.

Naturally the role had a lot of rage, and he was pretty good with that. He did fall flat a couple times, but lets be honest, he was about on par with every other bloody actor out there his age and experience level...

It could have been worse...

We could have had Keanu Reeves.

 

Well, my complaint stems from the fact that Christiensen just can't act. I mean, the way the script was written, Anakin could have been a seriously cool character, with much more interesting problems than a bit of angst. He got wussed up too much too, and in scenes where I should have been reduced to tears, I was laughing nonstop. Even my sister didn't feel for him, and she cried at the end of Spiderman.
As for Jake Lloyd, he was 13 or so when he played Skywalker, so he wasn't really a child actor. He was just a bad actor.

 

I dont have a problem with any of the actors.

Jake is just a kid--consider that to be his biggest role since Jingle Bells, I think he did good.

Hayden is an unknown---give him a break--the last episode will be his best work.

The guy from ROJ did a great job to re-introduce Anakin back to the Light.


Victor

 

So was, at the time, Mark Hamill. He didn't seem to have a problem. The thing is, Star Wars once always tried to get the unknowns in acting, to create a distant ambience. It worked when the actors were good. Now, we have mostly unknowns, and yet they don't do as well.

 

I really think that Jack Lloyd's character was horrible. He was way to cute. I wanted to vomit in disgust. I like Hayden because he is Canadian and was quite cool in the movie.

 

Maybe because we dont want anyone to expect that this kid is going to become THE ULTIMATE HARBINGER OF DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM?

 

Well my complaint about Christiansen's Anakin is he was just an a$$hole.
I dunno maybe it was intentional or something. But he was not a likable character, he did not come across as the hero of the movie.
It's essential that you connect with the character, but I don't know how anyone could feel or care about this character. It really blew the movie for me.
When he ultimatly turns to the darkside in the next movie, if the audience doesn't feel any kind of loss(or anything at all) Lucas has totally failed.
In my eyes Anakin in AOTC is just an uninteresting *******.

oh and Darth Vader(his body anyway) was played by an english body builder called David Prowse.

 

well honestly i think that they were both equally horrible. then again i'm comparing them to the original people and to adults. so in my opinion, don't listen to me. however they were somewhat good.

 

Ah Hayden, he of the shi** eating grin. I can't decide if I hate that more than "I'll try a barrel roll, that's a good trick!" aaargh

Why must everything he says soun like a whine? I won't care to see him leave the light side. Good riddance. 'he's holding me back whaa'

To be fair, a good deal of that is due to the crappy writing. Speaking of: n AOTC, it seems Padme only loved him because she has to, Luke has to come from somewhere after all.

Hayden- "I slaughtered them like animals, the women and children too" (paraphrased natch)
Natalie- "wow, I think I love you. You're so tender, I want to have twins with you and only tell you about one of them"
Oh yeah, that seemed real.

 

well if you think about it.. Hayden is supose to be a big Baby.. Why cause he is supose to be the ultimate jedi and everyone is holding him back. So that kind of shows you that when he feels the dark side for the first time he will love it and want revenge on all those who made him look bad..

I just want them to STOP USING SO MUCH CGI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! to much is NOT good.

KaMe

 

Come on, at this point, Anakin is supposed to be turning into a badass UberJedi, hence his insistence on being allowed to attempt more difficult tasks and the like. He was portrayed as a wuss. I mean, if I was a Sith, I'd be more intimidated by a snail crawling across the floor.

 

Heh yeah I was kinda wondering about that too.

To give Pame a little more credit (but not bloody much) she isn't exactly experienced in the love arena either, having spent most of her life in the political arena. Neither of these knuckleheads is actually in love, they just have Romeo and Juliet style obsession-crushes.

 

they Should have made it a one night stand sort of deal and got rid of the love story..

yeah that would work!

KaMe

 

Something that bothered me about Jake Lloyd and Hayden Christiensen was that they had a lack of emotion. At first I thought this was because they were bad actors, but more or less Vader is a man of little words too. I'm really not sure how they should have acted, it would be difficult to portray Anakin in his struggle to choose between light and dark. But, the main part that made me cringe in episode 1 was when Anakin was asking what midichlorians were.. maybe it was just the timing and mood of that scene @_@

 

So actors take all the blame for how they portray their characters? I thought the directors and storywriters are the ones who measure how much emotion goes into each character, and the actor acts it out. Even though the actor brings the character to life, I'm sure the director isn't just gonna stand there and let em do it any old way.

I liked/disliked all the Anakins about the same (actor-wise). Character-wise, of course I don't like him in AOTC cuz he gets selfish, arrogant, whiny, etc.

 

Considering Lucasarts had that Titanic bub (Leonardo Dicaprio), i'd have to say that the middle aged Anakin are not that bad (actually, quite a relief).

I didn't mind the little version of him from Phantom Menace either.

 

Isn't that the name of an old X-Men villain? Anyway, I think Hayden Christiensen was my least favorite Anakin. I was very disappointed in his performance because he actually can act (see Life as a House or Shattered Glass if you don't believe me). The director and writers are to blame too. They pretty much killed any interest I had in Anakin and Padme's part of the story.