I don't know if it's intentional because he's supposed to be younger, but does his makeup look much more unrealistic and like a rubber mask than he looked in ROTJ?
sharedoes his makeup look much more unrealistic and like a rubber mask than he looked in ROTJ?
Thank you! This is one of the things that bothered me the most out of the entire prequel disaster. The character was about 70 years old in this movie, which would make him around 100 by Return of the Jedi, in which he looked like a 100 year old man who hasn't seen the sun in a while.
Why they had to turn him into some sort of greenish rubber mutant is beyond me. Especially because the same should've happened to Luke after getting zapped at the end of Ep.VI.
VI is 23 some years after III, so of course Palpatine is going to look like the walking dead in Return of the Jedi. Pale skin. Ugly eyes. Rippled face. Between III and VI, Palpatine sat around on Imperial Center most of the time, using the Dark Side of the Force to extend his life as much as he could. The scars from the battle with Mace Windu never left completely, and the funny thing is he did it to himself with his projected force lightning that reflected off the purple lightsaber.
shareit's not actually scars.
force lightining doesn't scar anyone like that. Luke didn't get scarred and he was zapped much longer.
sidious is deformed because of the dark side. he was simply hiding it with some sort of makeup and because he was zapped his real face got revealed.
he also got yellow eyes / bad teeth / ugly nails and so on. those things are not scars. it's obviously his true appearance
Actually, not he isn't obviously his true face. I don't even think Lucas had a definite answer himself. What is obvious is that he clearly intended to have Palpatine gradually become withered by the dark side. However, he decided to take the one thing and a character that wasn't screwed up in the prequels and and eff it up.
shareLuke didn't get scarred because Lucas didn't have the technology to warp Luke's face in 1983 the way he was able to Palpatine's, plus he had to make sure III Palpatine resembled his VI self, somewhat.
Palpatine calls them scars in III.
They were heading In that direction until they changed their minds. We did not need him to look like he did in ROTJ as it was known the dark side withers the user and he been through twenty years of aging.
sharethat's the problem with many things in the ending of Revenge of the Sith.
for some stupid reason Lucas felt he has to perfectly tie in every little detail (even the droids being on the same ship they were on in episode 4)
as if forgetting there's a 20 year gap in between and a lot of things could have happened.
but he had to tie everything as if the audience would be too stupid otherwise to fill in the gaps
Lol, all that is evidence that Lucas didn't understand his fans. He thought we would be satisfied by flashy special effects with the story being secondary. Stuff that didn't need (the force,c3po,r2d2)explicit explanation were ruined.The other elements that needed explanations were either given some lame explanation that was obviously thrown together(force ghost, Padre's fate) or not explained at all.
He just said that to get them to feel sorry for him
shareThat was his actual face . He used a force mask
shareNo, it was not his true face. There is no precedent that even alludes to him naturally looking like that or masking his looks. The book even explains it more explicitly. After Mace is killed he walks over to mirror somewhat sad that about his appearance, but then the book goes on to say something to the effect on how his disfigured appearance now is reflecting the true monster he was on the inside. It was was more of a metaphor in the explanation saying that now his outside appearance fits appropriately to his evil.
shareI don't care about what any book has to say.
the movie clearly shows that he was not bothered in the slightest about his new appearance after he killed Windu.
he seemed perfectly fine, and did NOT rush to a mirror to see what happened.
this means his transformation was not surprising at all for him.
it also gave him yellow eyes, rotten teeth and long black fingernails.
there's no way it's because he was "scarred" by the lighting. it's because of his use of the dark side, and probably the fact he used it to extend his own life unnaturally
So, the book is a canon source that expands on the movie, its legitimate source, not a fan theory that lacks support. The claim that it doesn't happen to Luke loses steam as he was not dealing with the same circumstances. The controlled zaps from Palpatine were not reflecting off a light-saber nor was it a long drawn out blasts.It is not insinuated or hinted at that he even has the power to manipulate his physical appearance. It's not there and the theory is just that and unsubstantiated fan theory.Seriously, he was hiding it with makeup?
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