Dave Filoni Expertly Explains the Genius of the Star Wars Prequels

I thought the

prequels

were an almost impossible task, how do you tell this story that we have all grown up imagining who Anakin Skywalker was? You saw so many feda medicine things that you imagine as Johnny's console and none of it was really what I expected, but now I know that's how creative George is, he just sees it differently and he's leaving it and I love the lightsaber fight with Darth Maul, not because it's a lightsaber fight, but because George is so good at figuring out why that is. the fights are important every time, as you know, the fight with Obi-wan and Darth Vader isn't necessarily the most wonderfully staged fight you'll ever see, but the stakes are so high, it's so meaningful and everyone dies that we all feel like Luke . in Phantom Menace you're looking at these two Jedi and they're probably fighting this evil bill and Maul couldn't be more obviously the villa villain who's designed to look evil and he's evil and he just expressed it on his face the whole time.

I realize that the kind of lights that each one fights with what is at stake is really how Anakin is going to turn out because qui-gon is different from the rest of the Jedi and that is seen in the movie and qui gonn is fighting because He knows he's the father Anakin needs because God hasn't given up on the fact that Jedi are supposed to really care and love and that's not a bad thing, the rest of the Jedi are so distant and have become so political that he really they have lost. on his way and Yoda begins to see that in the second film the quadrant is ahead of everyone, that is why he is not part of the council, that is why he is fighting for the engines and that is why the duel of faith is the destiny of this child and Depending on how this fight goes Anakin, his life is going to be dramatically different, so Qui-gon loses, of course, so the father figure because he knew what it meant to take this child away from his mother when he had an attachment and was stayed with Obi-Wan Obi. -wan trains Anakin at first because of a promise he makes to qui-gon not because he cares about him when they get a nakum they find my dad when he says why I feel like we found him another useless life.

He is comparing Anakin to Jar. Jar Institute and says this is a waste of time, why are we doing this? Why do you see importance in these creatures like Jar Jar Binks in this 10-year-old boy? This is useless, so eventually he will be a brother to Anakin, but he is not a father figure, that is a failure for Anakin, he does not have the family he needs, he loses his mother in the next movie, he fails in the promise he made to him to mother, I'll come back and save you, so he's left completely vulnerable and Star.

Ultimately, Wars is about family, so that moment in that movie that for a lot of people I think diminishes everything is just a cool fight with lightsabers, but that's all the three prequel films hang on is that particular fight and Maul serves its purpose. and at that moment he died before George could bring him back, but he died and that shows you again that the Emperor is completely selfish, he doesn't care, he's just a tool that the people are using and I was going to use this child that follows all the lines that terrified me as a child when the Emperor tells Luke that you like that your father is now mine and the idea, when I was watching that movie, of an evil person possessing my father and forcing him to do things or make him be evil.

It was scary, it was like a thought, it was horrible and it's also amazing when you see Jenny come back. Luke has never done anything. I would call him like he was a bad character. He has a tendency to be dark and a lot of people. I want Anago, he should have been darker as a character, not true at all. I thought Luke would turn to the dark side in Return of the Jedi. I think that was on the table. I think he would kill the Emperor and because of Georgia. range of the story he knew that was the wrong thing when he says you know you want your gun, you know, take me down, I'm helpless, he wants me to give in to his anger, he wants me to give him a saint and the I fear that the structure that George presents in all the movies is coming to fruition now and the only thing that will save him is not his connection to the force, it is not the powers that he has learned, it is not all of these things that are an advantage that he has gained. him to the table, but what saves Luke is his ability to look at all that and look at his father and say no, I'm going to throw this gun away, I'm not going to do that, I'm going to let it go and be selfless and and he says, you know that I'm a Jedi like my father before me, but it's really saying why we connect, I connect so powerfully it's like...

I think I love my father, there's nothing you can do that's going to change that and that the emperor can do it. I don't understand that connection, why wouldn't you take someone from the power of the galaxy? Why would you take this? and Anakin Denton at that moment has to decide to be the father he never had, he has to give up all the power of the galaxy and save his son and that is the selfless act of not coming back for his son and that is what makes him save in terms of the son he said the father has his son and it works perfectly and I draw that line from Phantom Menace to Jedi that's the story of Star Wars and what he taught me to help me do when he takes off his helmet at that moment It was part of it, it made it dark, it's all part of why it works and why.

We care, it's not about and and Star Wars is a feel-good adventure, you know, it makes me feel like, wow, I want to be a part of that, so that's what I always come back to. Star Wars is this selfless act and this family dynamic. Which is so important to George, so important to the Star Wars foundation that is in the US and what I like about this is that it really says that there is a lot of hope out there that we fundamentally want to be good people and that We can all be driven. do terrible things but we can persevere through selfless actions, so George has this hopeful story that is something he has written most of the time.

I've seen, you know, after we've been doing things without him, remember to make these stories hopeful. give it to children because they really need it and that is something you should keep in mind