Hayden Christensen talks prequel dialogue: “Everything is so specific”

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Twenty years ago we were over halfway through the prequel trilogy, yet all these years later people still quibble about the style and content of the trilogy, specifically the ‘wooden dialogue’. Speaking with The Guardian, Hayden Christensen touched on this, along with a number of other topics, pointing out how George Lucas was pitching the trilogy at a very specific style.

“George Lucas creates such a unique world where everything is so specific, from the way these characters look and the way that they talk, and I feel like sometimes people lose sight of that and they expect them to speak the same way that we speak – and that’s not what we were going for.”

With Christensen back in his signature role of Anakin Skywalker – now existing under the evil guise of Darth Vader – in Obi-Wan Kenobi, which arrives on Disney Plus in just 2 days time, it will be interesting to see just how much that dialogue has changed between the years as the galaxy toils during its Dark Times period.

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Star Wars Legends the Old Republic Omnibus 1
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  • Miller, John Jackson (Author)
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Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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Twenty years ago we were over halfway through the prequel trilogy, yet all these years later people still quibble about the style and content of the trilogy, specifically the ‘wooden dialogue’. Speaking with The Guardian, Hayden Christensen touched on this, along with a number of other topics, pointing out how George Lucas was pitching the trilogy at a very specific style.

“George Lucas creates such a unique world where everything is so specific, from the way these characters look and the way that they talk, and I feel like sometimes people lose sight of that and they expect them to speak the same way that we speak – and that’s not what we were going for.”

With Christensen back in his signature role of Anakin Skywalker – now existing under the evil guise of Darth Vader – in Obi-Wan Kenobi, which arrives on Disney Plus in just 2 days time, it will be interesting to see just how much that dialogue has changed between the years as the galaxy toils during its Dark Times period.

Sale
Star Wars Legends the Old Republic Omnibus 1
  • Hardcover Book
  • Miller, John Jackson (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 1344 Pages - 07/07/2021 (Publication Date) - Licensed Pub (Publisher)
Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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