The Moons of Iego: The Padmé Amidala & Anakin Skywalker Website

MISCELLANEOUS : ECHOED MOMENTS : PADME & LEIA

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Senatorial Hairstyles: While Leia adopts a much simpler wardrobe than her mother, their chosen hairstyles often share a similar complexity, often some sort of braided or bunned style. In ROTS, to help transition the visual style of the prequels to the original trilogy, Padmé was even given a bunned hairstyle very similar to her daughter's original classic 'do.

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Close But No Cigar: Both mother and daughter, in the middle of their respective trilogies, favor a simple white jumpsuit and coiled/looped hairstyle for the film's climactic action sequences. They even face a similar moment in pursuit of an escaping foe on a landing platform: too late, Padmé arrives and fires several desperate shots to stop Dooku from fleeing, just as Leia does with the fleeing Boba Fett.

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In Chains: On desolate sandy worlds, both Padmé and Leia are chained up by their foes in unwillingly revealing attire. However, both women soon turn their chains into a gesture of empowerment: Padmé uses her chains to battle the nexu cornering her on her pillar, and Leia uses her chain to strangle to death the Hutt imprisoning her.

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Descent to the Underworld: In the third acts of their respective trilogies, each woman takes a mythic journey to a Hellish place in attempt to recover the man they love: Padmé the almost literal hell of lava-world Mustafar; Leia literally descends into the seedy underworld of Jabba the Hutt. Neither attempt goes smoothly, however, Leia ultimately ends up succeeding where her mother did not.

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Matters of the Heart: Both women share a fondness for handsome, cocky, charismatic flyboys who much prefer "aggressive negotiations" to the alternative. Both mother and daughter fight their growing feelings until - faced with the likelihood of being parted from their beloved by death - they declare their love. The settings are even similar, the lovers chained and forced apart after a passionate kiss.

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Sleeping Beauties: Brief nods to the fairy tales which helped inspire the saga: in AOTC, we see Padmé asleep in a simple white gown, moments before Anakin charges in to slay the creatures about to poison her. In ANH, we have a brief glimpse of Leia asleep, also in a simple white gown, before another hotheaded, tow-headed young Skywalker charges in with the intent to rescue her. (I guess this could have gone in the A/P & L/L section, but oh well. Fits in either.)

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On Alderaan: In one episode of the Clone Wars series, there is a poignant scene with Padmé remarking on the beauty of Alderaan from a very similar balcony to the one her daughter will arrive on a few short years later to be placed in the arms of the woman she will ultimately call Mother. One scene is bittersweet due to foreknowledge of Padmé's fate; the other representing a flicker of new hope. Alderaan, like Padmé, is ultimately doomed, but Leia will survive that destruction.

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