Phantom Menace/ Attack of the Clones

[happyducky]

I am a bit confused. I watched Phatom Menace the other day having seen no other Star Wars films. In it was Queen Amidala or something and she was in her teens. Also Anakin Skywalker who was about 10. Though as I'm aware Natalie Portman played Amidala and she does again (though I haven't seen it) in attack of the clones, she has a relationship with Anakin Skywalker. Shouldn't there a bit of an age gap? Could some one fill me in?

[Cactus]

The actor who plays Anakin Skywalker in Attack of the Clones is a different one to the one who played him in The Phantom Menace. Attack of the Clones is set about 10 years after Phantom Menace, and Anakin is all grown up. (physically anyway). In Attack of the Clones, Padme Amidala is supposed to be older than Natalie Portman actually is in real life, but i agree, she doesn't look ten years older than she did in Phantom Menace. I suppose it wouldn't be very flattering to add make up to a young girl to make her look in her late 20's - and George Lucas just expects us to have a bit of flexibility in our imaginations! There are several continuity errors across the five Star Wars films to date. One that bugs me is what happens to a Jedi Knight when he dies. In Star Wars Episode IV (the 1977 movie) when Obi Wan is struck down by Darth Vader, his Jedi cloak just falls to the ground and there is no body. When Master Yoda dies (of old age) in Episode VI (Return of the Jedi), just his empty cloak is left after his body melts away into thin air. So it would seem that when a Jedi dies, there is no corpse. Yet in The Phantom Menace, when Quai Gon is killed by Darth Maul - he doesn't disappear, and you even see him burning on a funeral pyre at the end of the movie! Why Mr Lucas, why?

[happyducky]

Thank you very much. I found it weird how in Phantom Menace she's about 18 he's about 10 and then in attack of the Clones they have a relationship! I thought she was a lot older then him! But thank you Cactus.

[Cactus]

No worries happyducky :) If you get the chance, try and see Attack Of The Clones as in my opinion it is the best of the series so far. Much better than Phantom Menace certainly, and even better than The Empire Strikes Back! Beg, steal or borrow a copy of the DVD - microwave yourself a big bowl of popcorn, then enjoy the next two hours. Actually, don't steal the DVD. That would just be wrong. ;)

[Diversteve]

Absolutely! Ol' Mr Lucas is definitely throwing in some artistic licence. How you have managed to avoid Star Wars can only mean you must have been incarcerated for a long while in a padded room eating crayons. But if you do get to see Star Wars, Dont analyse it too much, else you'll never understand what they grow on the "Farm" (Looks a lot like sand and nowt else) and was I gutted like a fish when neither James Earl Jones or the Green Cross Code Guy were beneath the Vader mask. Best leave your brain at the door and enjoy ...reather than saying "Hey!...that X wing fighter would NEVER fly in real life".