Daily Dialogue — September 30, 2011

ANAKIN: Are you an angel?

PADME: What?

ANAKIN: An angel. I’ve heard the deep space pilots talk about them. They live on the Moons of Iego I think. They are the most beautiful creatures in the universe. They are good and kind, and so pretty they make even the most hardened spice pirate cry.

PADME : I’ve never heard of angels.

ANAKIN: You must be one…maybe you just don’t know it.

PADME: You’re a funny little boy. How do you know so much?

ANAKIN: Since I was very little, three, I think. My Mom and I were sold to Gardulla the Hutt, but she lost us, betting on the Podraces, to Watto, who’s a lot better master than Gardulla, I think.

PADME: You’re… a slave?

ANAKIN: I am a person! My name is Anakin.

PADME: I’m sorry. I don’t fully understand. This is a strange world to me.

ANAKIN: You are a strange girl to me.

— Padme (Natalie Portman), Anakin (Jake Lloyd), Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace (1999), written by George Lucas

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is terrible exposition, suggested by Teddy Pasternak. SWIPM was suggested by Saint McSaint.

Trivia: George Lucas asked Lawrence Kasdan to write the script (and possibly for Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith as well), but he turned it down because he thought with Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi, Lucas’s relationship to the movies had taken one step back and that he alone should take responsibility and make exactly the movie he wanted to make. [Note: In an alternate universe, Kasdan agreed to write the scripts… and the movies kick ass].

Dialogue On Dialogue: Why do you think this dialogue is terrible exposition? 


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