Why Do You See Hayden Christianson At The End Of Star Wars 6? ?

Question

I was watching it on telly tonight and thought it was really weird that they got hayden christianson to appear at the end (as a ghost standing next to obi wan and yoda) and when i saw the original copy The Ghost of Anakin was Sebastian Shaw did they edit the movie?

Answer 1

it was edited that way for the dvd releaces (i personally like it). one of the biggest reasons for this was because it made more sense if you were to watch episode 1-6. the audience has a much greater familiarity with the anakin from 1,2 and 3 than an old man. also anakin was the chosen one, so i think he could apear as any age he wanted

Answer 2

no it was like that 10 years ago.

Answer 3

yes and its a good thing they did.

Sabastian shaw is like 50-60 years old.

Haden is like 20-30

they wanted to portray Anakin as he looked prior to becoming Vader.

Answer 4

Yes, I hated that too and I'm not even one of those Star Wars geekazoid fans that's memorized every line. I've seen that movie maybe 3 times in my life. I hated the last three films. I think they did it just to try to make people like them. It kind of ruins Jedi for me now. I doubt I'll see it again because it'll remind me of the 3 sucky Star Wars films.

Answer 5

because george lucas decides he wants to be fat and put him in there.

Answer 6

Yes, they edited it.

Epic fail on their part.

Answer 7

Yes, word is they took stock footage of Christansen during costume fitting/filming and put him in that scene.

According to Lucas, only those with the good side of the Force can become spirits. So once Anakin chose to go to the Dark Side, he basically died, his spirit was gone.

He was Darth Vader. And to connect the two trilogies together, they replaced Sebastian Shaw with Christensen.

I don't mind it so much now, but I still prefer the original version. It's weird to see a young Anakin next to an old Obi-Wan and old Yoda.

And even weirder to see Luke looking affectionately at someone younger than him. And they didn't sync up Christensen's footage with the old footage.

This may make sense in Lucas' world/mind, but in the world most of us live in, it's more touching to see Luke looking at his older father, how he would have looked if he grew older, not having gone to the Dark Side.