Abdul Qayyum Shahmie | 0320220 | Ms.Cassandra | FNBE AUG 2014 | Taylor’s University

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COMPARE / CONTRAST ESSAY

Name : Abdul Qayyum Shahmie b. Ab Aziz

ID : 0320220

Lect : Ms. Cassandra Wijesuria

Movie Chosen : - Star Wars 2 : Attack of the Clones

-Star Wars 3 : Revenge of the Sith

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Abdul Qayyum Shahmie | 0320220 | Ms.Cassandra | FNBE AUG 2014 | Taylor’s University

Science- Fiction is a genre that consist of such futuristic and imaginative contents such as

space travel, futuristic technology and extraterrestrial life forms. Although there are numerous

differences between the two movies, even both of the movie is in different time frame and setting,

there is also many similarities. In this essay, I will be discussing the similarities between Star Wars 2 -

Attack of the Clones and Star Wars 3 - Revenge of the Sith. Star Wars is a movie that took place in a

fictional galaxy known as Galactic Republic as all the events depicted in the movie is generally

fictional as it usually consist of space travel, alien creatures and robotic droids. Although there is a lot

of similarities in this movie, the most prominent one is how the knight armed with lightsaber and

force is reponsible to save the galaxy when it is already at the brink of war.

Ten years after the invasion made by the corrupted Trade Federation against planet Naboo,

thousands and thousand of planetary system led by renegade Jedi known as Count Dooku threats to

withdraw from the Galactic Republic. From the assasination attempt made on Senator Amidala, the

former Queen of Naboo until the starting of the clones war, to the death of Count Dooku and until

the attack on Jedi Council that killed almost all of the jedi members. Only two Jedi named Master

Yoda and Obi-wan survived this plot together with the deceased Amidala and Annakin Skywalker

twins child. The Sith lord Darth Sidious that is also known for his alter ego Senator Palpatine has been

plotting this for a long time and thus creating a new dictatorship Galactic Empire together with his

new apprentice Darth Vader replacing it with the democratic Galactic Republic.

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Abdul Qayyum Shahmie | 0320220 | Ms.Cassandra | FNBE AUG 2014 | Taylor’s University

It is noticeable that the main character of this two movie is Annakin Skywalker or also later

known as Darth Vader, together with his secretly wed bride Padme Amidala or also known as Senator

Amidala and former Queen of Naboo, Obi-wan, the mastermind Darth Sidious, and the jedi council.

Two young Jedi, Obi-wan kenobi and his former protege Annakin Skywalker who was consumed by

the dark side was the star of this turnover as Obi-wan was the one responsible to stop and defeated

Annakin and left him to burn to his death on a shores of a lava flow. Annakin Skywalker turn to the

dark side under the guidance of Darth Sidious after he was saved and putting him in a mechanical

black armor and mask at later turn of the event. Most of the Jedi council members perished after

they was tricked and killed in the battlefield. The new apprentice of Darth Sidious known as Darth

Vader or Annakin Skywalker took his part in the extermination of the Jedi order.

It is also easy to compare such things as the political issues in both movies. The Star Wars

movies both in favor of democracy rather than dictatorship as the Galactic Republic is using a

democratic system that allows all the senators to give opinion and vote and controlled by one

supreme Chancellor. The Galactic Republic is falling apart and the Jedi council is losing voice and

votes from the Republic when Senator Palpatine, the mastermind as he tried and was succesful at

bringing down the Supreme Chancellor and making the Republic into his Empire and making him the

Emperor of the newly forged Galactic Empire. This events resemble the historic fall of the democratic

of Roman Republic into the dictatorship of Roman Empire.

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Abdul Qayyum Shahmie | 0320220 | Ms.Cassandra | FNBE AUG 2014 | Taylor’s University

Few elements is used in the movies but I can say the most prominent one is the futuristic

elements such as the spacecraft, robotic droids, cyborgs, interstellar space travel, laser or light based

weapon, and the elements of Force. Force is the energy field created by all living things that is usually

used by the Jedi to be better physically and mentally as they can be trained and used to be physically

improve in speed, reflexes and even to one point of having to control the supernatural power such as

push and pull power. The Force is generally used for the good but it has a dark side that, if pursued,

they will consume you and fill yourself with hatred and anger that will produce terror and

malevolence to the people surrounding you. The dark side can be call as the path to destruction as

they absorb a few of talented Jedi into becoming a Dark Jedi and making them kill all the friendship

and family they ever had.

As a conclusion, the movie is trying to give a message that even the smallest amount of

goodness you can do is worth it and choosing the path that gives you more greed and power is not

always the answer as an example, when Annakin asked Senator Palpatine or to be known as Darth

Sidious the secret of the dark side to save his wife after he got the vision of his wife dying in the

future. It turned out to be the biggest mistake as the path he chosen is the actually the cause of

Amidala to be dead after giving birth to their twin child that is later will be known as Princess Leia

and Luke Skywalker.

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