Hayden Christensen Reacts to My Fan Fiction "What If Anakin Liked Sand" 

All he needs is the high ground.

Lol

@@Silverritter You're imagining the line in his voice, aren't you?

@@rithrius5384 I did lol

@@rithrius5384 Yes

Nah your dad is the goat

Knowing everything the character went through during the clone wars really made me appreciate his performance and the character even more.

(born in 93) as a kid I thought Hayden was doing a great job portraying a mentally disturbed young adult going down the dark side with nobody giving him the help he needed. As a teen and college student I hopped onboard the hate train making fun of him and calling him a bad actor when really he was doing exactly what the script called for him to do. now I'm almost 30 and I'll still point out the prequels having a poor execution in the script, but the core storyline and the performances are very fitting for a setup to Star Wars Original Trilogy

I’m terms of the way he actually portrayed him I don’t think he did anything wrong. Maybe someone else fits the role better? But I honestly thought his portrayal was good, but just plagued with bad dialogue.

You should rewatch Anakin's response to Padmé telling him she's pregnant. His facial expressions there could write a book. He goes from surprise to fear to happiness in like 3 seconds. And people say he can't act... He's a great actor, but actors often have to rely on their directors a whole lot, and George Lucas wasn't the best director.

Agreed, the acting wasn't the problem, the direction was. Like I said above, I believe Hayden should've been in the Phantom Menace, with them skipping Anakin being a little boy. Give Hayden more time to flesh out the character.

I only thought he played Anakin perfectly once I saw the behind the scenes. If you watch footage of him on set then you start to realize that his delivery of the lines is actually really good. But they didn’t really use many of his good takes during the final cut of the film. You can even hear George tell him to over over deliver the lines sometimes.

I can't really agree, once you've seen the clone wars, movie Anakin looks like a joke, his delivery is so bad on so many lines, and on top of the poor writing makes a pretty good movie hard to watch, Matt Lanter is a much better Anakin imo, he's way more natural and likable

If you also incorporate Clone Wars Anakin, which happened roughly bt the Second movie (immature Anakin) and the Third movie (intense depression Anakin), it makes even more sense how Anakin was portrayed in the Prequels.

As someone who grew up with the prequels first and only saw the OT later, I feel like people who grew up with the OT had this feeling with it, a feeling the prequels didn't match. People had expectations from what's being told about Anakin and his character in the OT, but also from the way the Jedi are portrayed - and when the prequels didn't meet that, they were disappointed. They never caught on to how perfectly the prequels fit before the sequels. That Anakin isn't your average person, but a very specific boy in very specific circumstances, carrying burdens all his life and never really learning how to deal with them. That he was a boy who learned to carry the weight of the galaxy on his shoulders and did that spectacularily (he was perceived as a war hero by the end of the Clone Wars), but was never taught to handle his own burdens, and consequently collapsed beneath them and turned into Darth Vader (still not knowing how to handle his burdens. Vader was a man who only learned what it meant to love his son when that son was on the brink of death). Now, the prequels are very clear about that - but when you have a preconceived notion about who this Anakin Skywalker person was, someone you basically never saw on screen save a few moments in Return of the Jedi, you don't catch onto that. And that's in part also because Luke is not the type of Jedi portrayed in the prequels. Luke is hardly a Jedi at all by the standards of the order mere decades before him. He is very much what a galaxy in that state would need, but he's no Jedi by the standards of the order. Those two key differences - who Anakin Skywalker was, and who the Jedi were -, I think, ruined the prequels for a lot of people who went to see them with preconceived notions picked up in the Original Trilogy, and from what little clues it drops. Those who grew up with the prequels never encountered this issue - we saw Luke while already having known Anakin. Others saw Anakin while knowing Luke. It makes for two very different pictures. That we, the ones who grew up with the prequels, are now maturing to a point where we get to go to conventions such as that one and interact with "our actors" means there's a change in how the actors (and the characters) are perceived in the public eye, because we can now create images like the uproar at Hayden's (now almost iconic) line. Bring that line up once, twice more at key points, it will be almost as iconic as "I am your father" (maybe not, it doesn't carry quite the same weight as a revelation, but it will be iconic, I am telling you now).

as someone who's been required to do firearms maintenance outdoors in a sand pit... I totally understand Ani too!

lol that’s actually a good point

Good point. You made me laugh out loud 🤣

Yeah lmao it’s crazy that people don’t think that much about it

it made sense to me also

People who dont understand it are the same people that call anakin a cry baby

Yeah, but then it's followed by, "Here, everything is so soft and smooth," Anakin says as he creepily caresses Padme's bare back. Great line followed by a terrible one. 😂 On a more serious note, he should've said how sand reminds him of his mom that the Jedi would never allow him to see, and his childhood living as a slave on Tatooine.

@@lelouchvibritannia4028 Even that line had it's use. Naboo and Tatooine are useful in the conversation because it highlights the vastly different backgrounds that Padme and Anakin come from, and the vastly different positions they are in now, they are very much star-crossed lovers. For Anakin, his love of Naboo makes perfect sense, it is the antithesis to the harsh and desolate nature of Tatooine, witnessing something like that would not only be a culture shock, but would be extremely pleasant to witness after living in such a place as a young child.

Think of a military soldier they all speak very monotone or even a priest which Anakin basically was both in space, they have to repress emotions and react only with their dogmas or what the creed is, now imagine a 9 year being told to do this for ten years and he's a woman who treated him normal and he didn't learn how to understand his hormones

@@Chuck_EL this also is backed up by Obi wan's behavior in the original trilogy which shows signs of repressed PTSD. He is portrayed as a war veteran almost, as hes been through tons of trauma too. All he ever wanted to do was be a good jedi, and so did anakin. They just had a lot put on them that they couldnt handle.

He talked like a serial killer man always creeped me out he bassicaly had zero emotions and more emotion then anyone else at ounce

He had BPD so it's kinda normal to him... Not being normal.

PSBore that's a very good point!

You might be right actually. It wrecked the set on TPM also

Quentin goes way overboard. Not a fan of his at all.

Do yourself a favor and don’t watch it. It destroys the characters we love and doesn’t add anything to the story we already know

@@PrisonMike117 I find your lack of truth disturbing.

Excellent analogy!

I Think that was Obi Wans lightsaber and the searing lava heat that burned him. :P

Could have been about a story of redemption for someone in a cycle of abuse but I think they kinda cheapened it IMO🤷🏼‍♀️

@@BreMue I agree. It could’ve been a lot of things though. They kinda just made a bunk version of the OT with some special twists that further complicated the narrative. It was disappointing to see that with all of the creative genius at Disney and a George Lucas book of concepts that they still couldn’t produce something magical. It was cool! There were neat planets, cool abilities, but the plot was rough and they went too far with concepts like “Lightspeed skipping” and the telepathy between Rey and Ben being a way for them to literally warp objects between each other. Again, really really cool! Just an antithesis to existing cannon. I’m not a purist, but I do like continuity. Don’t take this as me saying the Disney trilogy is hot garbage or anything. I just like to view it as a SW concept trilogy separate from the canonical universe. When you apply it to what already exists, I have to rank it at the bottom. Force Awakens was the best one by far and then it just got crazy.

And the sequel trilogy is uhh.. uhhhh

My favorite Star Wars media isn’t even the movies haha. I love The Clone Wars and Rebels! And the books are excellent. Dark Disciple is a must-read. I also very much enjoyed reading Qui-Gon and Count Dooku. The latest Thrawn trilogy was also very good and Zahn did a great job rewriting Thrawn into modern canon (Rebels) and expanding on it with his own stuff. So good!

@@greyngreyer5 - the sequel trilogy is lame fan fiction written by chicks who don’t even like Star Wars. I refused to watch any of them after TFA, which I absolutely hated. To me, they aren’t canon.

I hope he gets a good laugh out of it

On the other side of the acting spectrum we have someone like Moses Ingram trying to portray Reva. Just so awful and forced

@@manz7860 yep, i agree

I mean, it was like a 1 second mention, but yeah

@@Agent_3141 hating

@@bastard342 Not really, I just went into this video expecting something more than a mere mention.

@@Agent_3141 Same, like the guy from this RU-vid channel said in the title that Hayden Christensen reacts to his fan fiction but really it was just a subtle mention

Totally agree 💯

Yeah and anikan being a bit of a rebel just works and makes for good story telling and his Inevitable turn to the darkside

Don't feel bad my mom had the show me the stuff after the prequels from me cuz I was born in 1990 and this was when Blockbusters was still around hard time getting old

@@nopeace3689 I literally don’t understand you. I’m 93 tf r u talking about? I think our times was the best from 1990 to sth about 2002-4

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Dude endured so much slander from shitty fans. I'm so happy he's still very much proud of his work in star wars. I love so many prequel actors lol. Temura as jango. Ian as palpatine. Liam as Qui Gon

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I do think the CGI tho the best for the time wasn’t quite there yet. Which I’m more of a practical effects person. I think cgi is ok but it should be in smaller doses