Reframing the 2.35 image to something like 1.78 would be a faire trade off.
Actually, that had ocurred to me after I posted that. I probably will just make it 16x9 instead of 4x3.
ower framerate for Jar-Jar. (comedy option)
The neat thing about this actually would be that we wouldn't have to use Jar-Jar... at all. No Jar-Jar.
Laura was mentioned, and that had a very rich score which could be used for some of the early scenes - more idyllic Anakin.
I like this idea. Anakin reflecting on his "innocent" self, maybe, or his romance.
You also mentioned skipping on the music from Psycho, but Psycho does have some precedence in a Star Wars film. There was a cue from Psycho used in Star Wars.
I know the cue you're talking about! I need no more persuasion
I love that music. ------------------------
Those are really good ideas on specific cues, but does anyone have any conceptual differences that could be pulled off? For example...
While film noir is known more for the femme fatale
Padme doesn't have to be a queen in this one. There's no reason why she'd have to be. She could just be Anakin's wife. To make her a femme fatale, a new actress would be necessary, of course. Actually, her name doesn't even have to be Padme in this one... it could be any two syllable name. Nancy. Lonna. Anything.
MY IDEA:
The neat part about this is that as the movie progresses, we can actually see the effects of the Dark Side on Anakin. In other words, he does a lot of bad things, implied through narration. Doesn't tell his wife where he's going, and starts going out to bars, drinks, walks the streets drunk with thugs and so on- you name it. "Blade Runner" footage would be great for this. Instead of just having Anakin glare at camera and try to look bad, we see the evil effects of the Dark Side. The seduction, the temptation of haing fun without consequences. All stuff that wasn't explored originally. And THEN he starts killing Jedi secretly. In the night. The revelation to Padme at the end of the film is that Palpatine and Vader had been taking over the galaxy behind her back.
And as the movie progresses, Anakin starts to become conniving, and rather slick in his explanations of where he's been. Padme (or whatever the name is), being the trusting wife that she is, believes him at first, but then loses it. Finally, she finds some piece of irrefutable evidence- a hologram or a newscast or something. She cries but she says nothing to Anakin.
Finally, Anakin tells her he's going away for a long trip, longer than any of his other trips. He says it's a special Jedi conference. Padme follows him to the lava planet, and actually witnesses him kill all of the Nemoidians (which are innocent as far as we know). We don't see her witness it, of course, and neither does Anakin, but when Padme confronts Anakin afterwards and says that she saw what Anakin did with her own eyes, he kills her on the spot, saying some Vader line before she collapses.
Then, the second surprise is that Obi-Wan was a stowaway on PADME's ship, and Anakin has him to contend with. In an abbreviated and slowed down version of the lightsaber fight, Obi-Wan somehow gets Anakin, without us having to show all of the lava-surfing nonsense. And I'm not sure what the end would be...
My question is, does anyone have any idea on how much of this plot line would actually be possible? Also, if anyone has any ideas on specific lines of narration for Anakin, that'd be great.
Thanks so much! Even if it's never made, I think this could be great fun
It would be basically a complete character study on Anakin all the way through. The title could be, "The Story of a Fallen Man", or something similar...
-TM