Tuesday, July 17, 2007

91 Reasons to Hate Star Wars, Episode III

This site, which dissects the Revenge of the Sith, is addictive. I do love Star wars, but the author dives into the some of the absurdities and inconsistencies that plague the double-trilogy if you stop and think about them for a second. Which you aren't supposed to do. Like why General Grievous coughs so much when he doesn't appear to have any lungs. Here's reason number 20:

Reason #20
PAD-UH-MAY
I've always been distracted by the way there doesn't seem to be a set pronunciation for specific characters' names. Sure, people could mispronounce others' names in real life, but once you knew someone and were friends with them for several years, wouldn't you learn the correct way to pronounce their name and have some respect for it? In A New Hope, we hear General Dodonna distinctly mispronounce Leia's name as "LEE-AH" instead of "LAY-AH." Lando Calrissian always calls Han "HAN" instead of "HAHN."


Revenge of the Sith continues this tradition with Anakin mispronouncing his own wife's name! He, for some reason, insists on changing Padme into a three syllable word: PAD-UH-MAY. During the scene where they have a lover's reunion, I keep expecting Padme to lash out and say: "It's PAD-MAY, jackass! Not PAD-UH-MAY! Remember when we were married in that clandestine ceremony and the guy said do you take PAD-MAY to be your wife? Well, that's me. That's my name, AN-KIN!"

3 comments:

Unknown said...

91 reasons why revenege of the sith is the only star wars movie I was ever able to sit through:

Hayden Christensen goes to the dark side, with shaggy hair, a pouty face and (this might just be in my head) a bit of eyeliner.
repeat 90 times.

Anonymous said...

I agree, that name thing really bugs me,....Scot.

Anonymous said...

Watch the original Star Wars (New Hope) and listen to the pronunciation of Leia's name.