(January 18, 2016 at 3:13 am)Aractus Wrote:(January 17, 2016 at 1:52 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: I was working in order of canon not release.
Even young what's-it knows better than that!
Now I will say a few things, that will likely offend your sensibilities. Star Wars is a visual medium, and the thought at the time (and in fact a long time before that) is that Beauty = Good and Ugliness = Bad. You can see this is many old films - Wizard of Oz for example. Good Witch = the beautiful one, Evil Witch = the ugly one. It's not until more recently that this old age-old adage has been challenged. Indeed Disney's Beauty and the Beast wouldn't have been a success if not for the existence of this very adage. In Beauty and the Beast, the "Beast" is cursed to be an ugly monster because that is what's inside of him, and it's not until the end of the film when his inner ugliness has gone that his outward appearance also changes back to loveliness.
In Star Wars, George Lucas takes this even further. He uses the Yin and Yang colours of Black and White to depict Good and Evil. This can be seen in both the original trilogy, and in the prequel trilogy. In the fourth film, the Phantom Menace, both Darth Maul and Palatine wear dark outfits throughout, and Darth Maul's face is black-and-red, with horns.
The Jedi do wear dark brown robes, however underneath they have pale, tan-coloured garments. Anakin wears the same colours, and R2D2 is white as well. Move on to the Fifth film - Attack of the Clones - again, the Jedi are in the same light-coloured tan clothing, and all the Evil characters are in dark/black outfits including Count Dooku and even Jango Fett. But there's a difference. While all the other Jedi wear outfits consisting of brown, white and tan, Anakin is wearing brown, tan and black. Notice though that Padme is in light coloured outfits, and a white outfit throughout the third act.
In the Sixth film, we see Anakin in predominantly black & dark outfits, thus showing us visually his fall from the "light side" of the force. You will notice, even at the beginning of the film, where Obi Wan wears the same white, tan & brown outfit, anakin is in black, black, and darker brown (yes the brownness of the outer robe itself is visually darker than Obi Wan's, for the first time in the PT saga).
The same thing can be seen throughout the original trilogy as well, and the most blatantly obvious part is when Luke removes Vader's Black mask in the third film to reveal a White face, which is the visual cue to the audience that this person, Anakin, has shifted from the Dark side back to the Light side of the force. And if you think that's racist, perhaps think about how the only "morally ambiguous" Jedi is Samuel L Jackson with his black face and purple lightsaber. He is clearly morally ambiguous by the fact that he wants to kill the chancellor in cold blood, despite having him at his whim.
Any thoughts as to why Luke wears black when he confronts Vader? I noticed that even as a child. I put it down to him coordinating his wardrobe on the off chance that he ends up turning to the dark side.
