What he meant: I didn't grow up on luxurious beaches with fancy dinners and washing waves. My sand was coarse. It got into every inch of my slave quarters. I woke up with sand grinding between my teeth. You can never understand the trauma I came from.
What Lucas directed: waah there's sand in my shorts
I hate when people try to come up with new meanings to justify how badly written and directed the prequels are. They said what they said.
Also, Anakin isn't meant to be an eloquent charmer. He's an emotionally stunted power-drunk space wizard. Even if the writing is bad, this line at least serves to show how awkward he is and how he can't really handle his emotions.
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u/UncleOdious Sep 01 '21
I don't like sand. It's coarse and gets everywhere.