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Post #915752

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Bingowings
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Link: "New Darth Maul Fan Film Shows the Sith We All Deserve"
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Date created
10-Mar-2016, 8:20 AM

Most fan-editors seem to think the final saber duel is the only bit of TPM worth keeping.

This replicates it to some extent.

It might be possible to re-purpose some of it for alternate shots but it would only be tinkering with the only bit of that film some people like.

Personally I don’t rate the fight in TPM because everyone is silent, other than (and Frink has already improved this) Obi-Wan screaming, “noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo”

What I like about the OT duels is the real fight is taking place inside the minds of the characters. The real swipes and jabs are the dialogue. In TPM (like all the dueling in the PT) it’s just experimental dance. They might as well all wear unitards.

I imagine this film was made by people with PT nostalgia (young people seem to be getting older every day, it’s very odd). In terms of what’s happening it doesn’t make sense.
Maul surprises the council when Qui-Gon informs them about him, they assume the Sith to be extinct and have no known reported missing Jedi or reported saber slain Jedi.

By the time they do know about him he is killed before he can kill another Jedi after Qui-Gon. (Oh yeah that he survived as a crotchless spider is now canonised “sigh”).

Any way the fan film would have worked better if we saw Maul fight non-Jedi, Like here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9UEV-b2Ws4 (only less silly). A fan film where he helps put down resistance on Naboo would be fun to watch and useful for fan-editors.