Readers: What you want from ‘Revenge of the Sith’

What’s Anakin’s motivation?
The most essential element to the story of Anakin Skywalker is why he became Darth Vader? What could cause a young boy to set out and betray everyone around him, ultimately becoming the most feared figure in the universe? Was it power, love, or something else?

If I were to have written “Revenge of the Sith,” I would have to ask myself what were Anakin's motivations? He ultimately wants peace throughout the galaxy. He just wants a utilitarian peace and thinks that someone should enforce the idea of equality. The path to hell, as they say.

He had everything of his life stripped at such a young age including his home, his mother, and his childhood. He left home, leaving his mother to eventually meet her doom in his absence. He couldn't save her. If the Jedi would have left him alone, she'd be alive because he would have been there. He has a forbidden love with the one pure and warm person he has encountered in the corrupted cold of space. That is to be ultimately taken away from him as well. Now, he finds that the power he seeks, the goal he wants to achieve, is beyond him and the skills he has honed under the tutelage of the Jedi.

The Jedi are now in his mind to blame for all his unhappiness. He feels they are responsible for his mother's death, his inability to pursue a relationship, and even though they all claim that he is the chosen one, they tell him to wait, think, don't react, slow down, etc.

These are the things that we need to see at the heart of “Sith.” The special effects are just window dressing. We have to see that even though Anakin is supposedly the chosen one, it's his actions that defy the order of Jedi that ultimately lead to bringing balance to the force.

The final shot should be a montage of four ideas. A young Leia being dropped off in Alderaan before her mother dies. There is a moment in Jedi where Luke asks Leia if she remembers her mother. “Just a little bit.” She said, “She died when I was very young. She was... very beautiful. Kind, but sad.”

Yoda retreating to the swamps of Degobah which become his new home. And ultimately, Ben Kenobi leaving Luke in the hands of Owen and Beru Lars. And as he walks towards the horizon and the caves beyond the Dune Sea. He then turns and takes one last look at the boy. A voice over between him and Yoda comes across. “Qui Gon really thought that boy was our last hope.” Yoda then answers as a toddler Luke precariously stands and walks into the scene of the twin setting suns of Tatooine, “No there is another.” —Michael Puskar, Pittsburgh, Penn.

Yoda gets busy with the lightsaber
There are some definite elements that I would personally love to see in this movie. The first thing that I would love to see in this film is the actually birth of Luke and Leia. I think that the film should really show the birthing process. The only other thing that I think this film needs to show us is Yoda in a more intense lightsaber sequence, possibly in an attempt to save the Jedi council. I would also like to see exactly how, in great detail, Anakin ends up wearing the Darth Vader suit. I mean, is it something that he wears for intimidation or was it a really bad accident that made him have to wear that suit. I believe just with those two elements in the film it would make it one hell of a ride to watch and see. As an added bonus, I personally would love to see Jar Jar die the worst death in Star Wars history. —Thomas Hawkins, Frostburg, Md.

Smuggling story
Somehow, you have to add in the beginnings of the smuggling operations. You don't necessarily have to introduce Han Solo, but some back story as to why the smugglers exist in episodes IV, V, and VI would be nice.  —Dan, Brimfield, Mass.

Yoda on the ropes
I think we have to see Yoda as left for dead. Even though the Emperor knows how much more powerful he and Vader are, he would still have to consider Yoda as a threat if left alive and would one day begin training Jedi again. For this reason we must see a powerful fall of confidence in his abilities of being a Jedi Master as he goes off to hide in the swamps of Dagobah. —Tom the Star Wars fan, Milwaukee, Wis.

Keep us excited
Despite all of us knowing what will happen, “Revenge” needs to have underlying tension throughout the entire film. Hopefully the exposition will be limited and instead the film will flow instead of looking like some type of chopping block for special effects. Tension is why the Lord of the Rings films worked so well. Let's hope that Episode III has this as well.  —Thy Nguyen, Chicago, Ill.

Leave some of that CGI on the shelf
Have some shots with "real" stormtroopers. And remember in "A New Hope", the space battle at the end of the movie, almost each one of those pilots had a name. You can relate more to a movie when you can feel it's almost true. —Manny S., Ill.

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