10 Star Wars Moments Deeper Than You Think
2. Anakin's Sand Speech - Attack Of The Clones
You won't find many Star Wars moments more widely ridiculed than Anakin's infamous sand speech in Attack of the Clones:
"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth."
Without proper context it's certainly cringe-worthy, especially when viewed as part of an apparent romantic flirtation between Anakin and Padmé, but there's actually much more to it than that.
And honestly, the official Star Wars website really explains it best:
"It might seem on the surface that Anakin is just complaining about a minor inconvenience. But he's responding to Padmé's memory of an idle day on the beach with a comparison of his own life as a slave on the harsh sands of Tatooine. It's a reminder that the two grew up very differently, but fate, or the Force, still brought them together."
As much as we all love to laugh at the non-contextual absurdity of the line, it's not quite the silly non-sequitur so many think - it's suffused with meaning about Anakin's childhood and the dynamic between himself and Padme.
Yet even the official Star Wars site couldn't fully ignore the fact that the scene has also achieved "meme immortality."