Earlier this week, Filoni spoke after a screening of Maul: Shadow Lord The finale in which Darth Vader appears. Vader may have been in films for a long time, but not in films star wars He appears from time to time in television, video games, and comics. Filoni talked about why it’s important to get the handle on Vader right and what he believes the character is feeling in this specific time frame, which is before the events of a new Hope. The full discussion is here, but for the purposes of this article, we’ll just highlight this flavor.
“The key to Vader for me is that he’s not Anakin,” Filoni said. “He doesn’t recognize it. He can’t recognize. Anything that reminds him of Anakin will destroy him. So when he sees a Jedi, he’s going to destroy the Jedi, because the Jedi will remind him, unconsciously or consciously, that he betrayed all his friends and everything he knew and the life he grew up with. For what? For nothing. He lost everything. He made a bad trade. He was lied to. He couldn’t accept that truth.”
Since Filoni’s quote, fans on social media have focused on that first line: “The key to Vader to me is that he’s not Anakin.” Some people are mad because, obviously, Anakin Skywalker is Darth Vader. Why would Filoni say he wasn’t? We watched six movies on this very fact. Well, Filoni is no fool. he knows it. And after a while, he explained it very clearly.
“I feel great pity for him because of what he did and the depth of his betrayal. And he’s Darth Vader. Anakin is trapped out there somewhere, and Darth Vader won’t let him out.”
Look? Filoni is not being literal here. He knows that, truly, Darth Vader is Anakin. He is using metaphor in using “Anakin Skywalker” as a way to describe the powerful, loving, yet flawed Jedi that we saw. clone wars And “Darth Vader” as the evil, violent, unforgiving version he has become by following the Dark Side. Same person, two parties. and on Maul: Shadow Lord And beyond that, the Werder side is winning a lot.
“This is the price you pay when you give in to your anger, when you give in to that terrible side of yourself,” Filoni said. “And that should terrify us all. Because we are all capable of the depths of terror. We are all capable of doing the wrong thing.” You know, like not reading a little beyond the title.
See Darth Vader at the peak of his powers Maul: Shadow LordWhich is streaming now.
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