Star Wars 2-attack Of Clones

The Galactic Republic is in crisis. A separatist movement (secretly led by former Jedi Count Dooku) has threatened the peace. Senator Padmé Amidala, former Queen of Naboo, returns to the Galactic Senate to offer a vote of support on the creation of a Republic Army, as there are no longer enough Jedi to maintain peace and order in the galaxy. Upon her arrival at Coruscant, she narrowly escapes an assassination attempt. As a result, Chancellor Palpatine requests that Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and his apprentice, Anakin Skywalker protect her. That night, a mysterious bounty hunter makes another attempt on Amidala's life, and the Jedi Council asks Obi-Wan to track down the killer. Meanwhile, Anakin is given the assignment of protecting the Senator and escorting her back to her home planet of Naboo. Anakin welcomes the opportunity, as he often becomes angry and frustrated by Obi-Wan's criticism, and is glad to have an opportunity to be on his own. Representative Jar Jar Binks assumes the Senator's duties in her absence. During the investigation, Obi-Wan is led to a mysterious planet called Kamino (missing from the Republics's archives), where he discovers a secret clone army being developed for the Republic. He is told by the natives that the army was ordered some ten years ago by a Jedi named Sifo-Dyas-believed by the Jedi Council to have died around the same time. A bounty hunter named Jango Fett was hired to be the template for the clones. ObiWan meets Jango on Kamino, and believes him to be the killer he has been tracking. After unsuccessfully trying to capture Jango Fett, Obi-Wan places a tracking device on his ship and follows him to the planet of Geonosis. On Geonosis, Obi-Wan overhears conversations between Count Dooku and the Trade Federation, and learns that they are behind the separatist movement and have built up a new droid army. He also learns that it was the Federation that ordered the assassination of Amidala, as revenge for the Battle of Naboo (see Episode I). Obi-Wan sends a recorded message to the Jedi Council to inform them of his recent findings just before being captured. Meanwhile, Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala have been spending much time together on Naboo, and Anakin reveals his deep love for her. However, Padmé resists, explaining that it would be impossible for the two of them to be together, since she is a Senator and he is a Jedi. Anakin is

angered by this, and experiences inner conflict between his strong desires for her and his duties as a Jedi. Anakin is also troubled by a newfound sense that his mother is in grave danger, and he beckons for Padmé to accompany him to his home planet of Tatooine (disobeying Obi-Wan's orders to remain on Naboo). Upon arriving, he learns that his mother was kidnapped a month ago by local Tuskens. He travels through the night, and finds her in very poor condition. Within moments, she dies in his arms. In a fit of rage, he slaughters the entire Tusken community. Back at Coruscant, Yoda senses a terrible darkness in the Force, coming from Anakin. Anakin then brings his mother's body back to her home, where her funeral is held. Now that the Jedi Council knows of Dooku's army, Jedi Mace Windu leads a team to Geonosis. Unbeknownst to them, Anakin and Padmé also make their way to rescue Obi-Wan. Meanwhile, Representative Binks calls for Chancellor Palpatine to be given emergency powers, with which he can call the recently discovered clone army into battle. Back on Geonosis, Count Dooku tries to persuade Obi-Wan to join him, warning him that Darth Sidious is now in control of the Senate. Obi-Wan refuses to believe him, saying that the Jedi would have known if that was the case. Anakin and Padmé arrive on the planet, but are quickly captured and sentenced to death, joining Obi-Wan in an arena-like complex where three huge monsters are unleashed on them. During their struggle, Mace Windu arrives with his Jedi, and they battle Dooku's droids on the field. Even though Windu kills Jango Fett, defeat for the Jedi seems imminent. Mace Windu, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Padme Amidala, Ki-AdiMundi, Plo Koon, Kit Fisto, Saesee Tiin, Shaak Ti, Agen Kolar, Luminara Unduli, Stass Allie, Aayla Secura Bultar Swan, Tarados Gon, Sora Bulq, Joclad Danva, and Roth-Del Masona are marched into a circle. Luckely Yoda unexpectedly arrives with the Republic's new clone army. A large battle ensues between the Republic's clone army, and the Separatist's droid army. Count Dooku attempts to escape, but Obi-Wan and Anakin track him to a secret hangar, where they engage him in combat. Unfortunately, they are no match for Dooku's mastery of the Force and the lightsaber, and he injures Obi-Wan and cuts Anakin's right hand off. Yoda appears just as

Dooku is about to finish them off, and the two masters of the Force go head to head in lightsaber combat. Dooku attempts to topple a large pillar on ObiWan and Anakin, and while Yoda uses the force to divert the pillar, Dooku escapes. He meets up with his master, Darth Sidious, who is pleased that the war has begun as planned. Back in Coruscant, Obi-Wan informs the Jedi Council of Dooku's warning that Darth Sidious is controlling the Senate. Yoda is hesitant to believe this, stating that the Dark Side is capable of creating fear and mistrust. He and Windu agree that they should nevertheless closely monitor the Senate. Back at Naboo, Anakin (with a new mechanical hand) and Padmé hold a secret wedding, with only C-3PO and R2-D2 as witnesses. [edit] Selected plot elements [edit] Anakin's mechanical hand Anakin has his right forearm cut off by Count Dooku, just as Luke has his hand cut off by Darth Vader (who is Anakin) in The Empire Strikes Back. This dual hand severing becomes important later on in Return of the Jedi, when Luke fails to kill Vader when he sees they both have a cybernetic hand. It is worth noting that Luke's electronic hand is far more sophisticated than Anakin's, which is perhaps due to development of technology between the two movies, although it seems that most major medical advances would have been made long before during the 25,000 year history of the Republic. The artificiality of Anakin's hand may have at least partly been a personal choice. The composition of the group of C-3PO, R2-D2, Anakin and Padmé on the balcony at the end of Attack of the Clones is similar in nature to the end of The Empire Strikes Back. [edit] Political atmosphere The political atmosphere in Attack of the Clones is similar to the Cold War, except that it eventually escalates to a real war. Since the original drafts for

Star Wars were written in the 1970s, this could have been a political statement as to what a nuclear war would mean. Other observers believe that Palpatine's power grab is very similar to Hitler's climb to power in Nazi Germany, since he, as Chancellor of Germany, was granted "emergency powers" like Chancellor Palpatine of the Republic. Parallels also exist to Octavian, who became Augustus, the first emperor of Rome. Octavian was responsible for the deaths of several hundred political opponents well before he was granted tribunician powers, and the civil war between Palpatine and the Republicans in the Galactic Senate vaguely resembles the civil war between the Triumvirs, although the former is less morally ambiguous. [edit] Geonosian style execution Within the movie, Geonosian style execution is a form of capital punishment practiced on the planet Geonosis. The origin of the term is that it was originally employed by the Geonosians. The scene depicting this method takes place in the Geonosian arena with the condemned chained to a pole, awaiting execution. The beastlike creatures approach from the arena door, and attack and eat the condemned persons in the manner of a wild beast. (This scene appears to reference an execution method employed by the ancient Romans at the Colosseum where lions and other dangerous predator animals were permitted to have their way with condemned prisoners.) Count Dooku sentenced Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and Padmé Naberrie Amidala to be executed in this method. However, the executions were nullified by the timely arrival of Jedi reinforcements, led by Jedi Master Mace Windu.