Word: anakin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WILL BE ANAKIN SKYWALKER...
...week a certain highly top-secret memo that Lucasfilm circulated to top agents around the nation "accidentally" leaked to the press. And what revelations did this one sheet of paper hold for the rest of the cosmos? Hold your breath blonde-haired boys--they're looking for the next Anakin Skywalker to star in Episode II (due to start filming next summer) and become one of the most recognizable faces on the planet. The memo specified that Lucasfilm will cast a 19-year-old in the world's most coveted role--someone who is "self-determined, intelligent and forthright...
...there leaves only one person. Me! Bah. It seems that a corollary to the memo says that the candidate must have an agent as well as previous acting experience. Well, I still have my hopes up: Remember little Anakin's Indian friend in The Phantom Menace? He's gotta grow up sometime...
Characters in the "Star Wars" universe are not as simple as they seem, however. Anakin Skywalker, promising and generous child, falls so far into the Dark Side that he emerges as Darth Vader, the most evil of all. Yet, even he is redeemed at the very end--by love. Luke's quiet and unflinching faith in him helps him to remember that he has a son. This event, at the end of "Return of the Jedi," is surely one of the greatest moments of redemption ever filmed...
...wonder at the idea of a virgin birth, of someone being "The Chosen One"? Did the idea of midichlorians make you think? Did you wonder at the hand of the Force in bringing Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn to Tatooine and "bumping into" Anakin Skywalker? Were you curious about the fall and redemption of Darth Vader...