Obi-Wan Kenobi: You have allowed this dark lord to twist your mind, until now, until now you’ve become the very thing you swore to destroy.

Anakin Skywalker: Don’t lecture me, Obi-Wan! I see through the lies of the Jedi. I do not fear the dark side as you do. I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new Empire.

Obi-Wan Kenobi: Your new Empire?

Anakin Skywalker: Don’t make me kill you.

Obi-Wan Kenobi: Anakin, my allegiance is to the Republic, to democracy.

Anakin Skywalker: If you’re not with me, then you’re my enemy.

Obi-Wan Kenobi: Only a Sith deals in absolutes. I will do what I must.

Anakin Skywalker: You will try.

– Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen), Star Wars: Episode 3 — Revenge of the Sith (2005), written by George Lucas

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is death threats, suggested by Chris Schipper. Today’s suggestion by David Proenza.

Trivia: Tom Stoppard did a “script polish” for the film. Something that he’s done on many Lucasfilm productions.

Dialogue On Dialogue: “My” new empire. Slip of the tongue? The Dark Side feeding Anakin’s growing megalomania?