Here’s the updated cutlist.
- New crawl.
- Replaced “Master” with “Obi-Wan.”
- Cut “The one crawling with vulture droids…”
- Cut “Oh” before “…I see it.”
- Added “General Skywalker, (we’re) ready to engage” from a clone pilot as they lock their whatever foils into position.
- Anakin gives orders now, too. Clones respond with “yes, sir!”
- Cut “Let them pass between us.” Obi-Wan seems less like he’s giving Anakin orders now, and Anakin having last word before the fighting makes him come off as more of a leader.
- Cut “I’m gonna go help him out” exchange.
- Cut “Missiles!”
- Added excited yelp from Anakin as missiles fly past.
- Cut visual of Anakin saying “They’re coming around.”
- Cut “No no no no no” from Obi-Wan to R4 before “Nothing too fancy.” Obi-Wan is less curmudgeon-y relative to Anakin.
- Cut “flying is for droids.”
- Cut “Buzz droids…”
- Cut Obi-Wan recapping mission.
- Cut “Hold your fire…” “I agree, bad idea…” exchange.
- Cut Obi Wan telling Anakin to go on without him.
- Cut “You’re going to get us both killed.”
- Added Obi Wan and Anakin laughing together as R2 dispatches the Buzz Droid.
- Cut “Well the shields are still up!” and R2’s anxious scream. Anakin shoots the shields down himself.
- Cut CGI Jump Obi-Wan, droid squealing, and trimmed scene length.
- Removed mentions of Count Dooku until his first appearance.
- Cut telling R2 to stay with the ships.
- Added “Never an elevator when you need one” -OB1. Moved “I agree” -ANK, as they walk backwards into the elevator deflecting the Destroyers’ shots.
- Added “roger, roger” deleted scene.
- Cut “Those are Jedi fighters, alright.”
- Cut “No, did you?”
- Cut Super Battle Droids bickering with one another at all. Deepened their voices for when they do talk. Which is like twice in the whole film.
- Cut “Always on the move.”
- Added “Good view from up there” from Anakin as he jumps down back into the elevator.
- Cut “No miswire jokes…”, “Did I say anything?” Anakin just immediately defends R2.
- Cut Super Battle Droids’ squealing and yelling for help as R2 flamethrows them.
- Added new exchange OB1 and ANK they step off elevator; “You worry too much, you know that?” “I’m not a protocol droid.”
- Added Anakin saying “Chancellor” alongside Obi-Wan.
- Cut “This time we will do it together” exchange.
- Cut “Get help.”
- Moved “I was about to say that” after Obi-Wan quips “Sith lords are our specialty.” Obi-Wan stole his joke.
- Cut Count Dooku jump off balcony.
- Cut “You won’t get away this time.”
- Cut “My powers have doubled…” exchange.
- Cut Anakin’s yelps and whine-screams of effort in the duel.
- Cut “I sense great fear in you.”
- Re-edit Dooku’s words to say “You have hate. You have anger. Use them.”
- Re-edit so Anakin just beheads Dooku without Palpatine’s encouragement.
- Cut “Yes, but he was an unarmed prisoner.”
- Cut “Remember what you told me about your mother…?”
- Cut “His fate will be the same as ours.”
- Added “Come on, buddy.” after Anakin tells R2 to bring an elevator down.
- Cut every time we cut back to Grevious on the bridge in the ship-tipping sequence.
- Cut “Easy” and “Oops” from Anakin in the shaft.
- Muted “Let’s see if we can find something in the hangar bay.” Barely swinging out of the shaft was such a ridiculous sequence, lamp-shading it with silent disbelief that they had just done that is a funny comedic beat.
- Cut “Patience?” from Obi Wan in the ray shields.
- Cut the SBD kicking R2 down onscreen.
- Cut battle droid presence on the bridge.
- Re-edit Grevious to say “General Skywalker…”
- Trimmed duels with Magna-guards.
- Moved “Time to abandon ship” to before Grevious breaks the window.
- Trimmed Grevious’ escape.
- Cut a lot of technobabble on the way down.
- Replaced firefighter’s line with “General Skywalker, come in.”
- Added Anakin chuckle after “Another happy landing.”
- Replaced Anakin’s “Are you coming master?” with a less formal “So we doing this or what?”
- Cut retelling of what happened straight into “Anakin, today you were the hero.”
- Re-edit so that Obi Wan cuts off Anakin before he can finish saying “Tenth time.”
- Added Anakin giggle.
- Cut Jar Jar.
- Added “General Skywalker” from Senator Organa.
- Replaced ominous score with more peaceful “Anakin’s Dream” in Anakin/Padme reunion.
- Re-edit reunion so that Anakin isn’t creepy and the relationship feels more healthy and loving, not a secret conspiracy.
- Moved Anakin and Obi Wan meeting at the war room here.
- Added a casual “Hey” and removed “I have no excuse” to/from Anakin’s dialogue.
- Cut “Is that bad?”
- Cut “…isn’t it?”
- Added “With all due respect, sir, the council is no mood for more constitutional amendments” from Anakin in between scenes.
- Cut “Me?” and “I’m overwhelmed.”
- Replaced blatant Palpatine manipulation with “You fought many battles the jedi council thought were lost. And you saved my life.”
- Added Plot to Destroy the Jedi Deleted Scene here.
- Cut “I sense a plot to destroy the Jedi” and “…Arrested?”
- Re-edit council meeting so that Obi Wan looks sympathetic to Anakin, shaking his head as a way to talk him down from further lashing out, not to scold, and looking away out of guilt for what the council is doing to him.
- Cut “This is outrageous! It’s unfair!” from Anakin in council meeting.
- Cut “young” from “young Skywalker.”
- Cut “…master” from “Forgive me, master.”
- Trimmed rest of meeting.
- Added A Stirring in the Senate Deleted Scene and trimmed it to be much faster.
- Restructured Obi Wan’s conversation with Anakin about why the council denied his master rank. Anakin doesn’t whine about it, and Obi Wan doesn’t lowkey insult Anakin for his friendship with Palpatine paying off in a way “he wanted.” Obi-Wan is straightforward, honest, and sympathetic.
- Cut “I don’t think the boy can handle it” from Windu.
- Added Anakin/Padme giggles and a concerned “What’s the matter?” from Anakin in the establishing shot of their apartment political discourse scene.
- Restructured scene so that Anakin and Padme both seem to think they’re on the same side until it’s clear that they aren’t, at which point Anakin stops the conversation without accusing her of being a Seperatist or vindictively saying he doesn’t believe in what she’s saying.
- Moved Grevious landing on Utapau here, trimming scene to remove mentions of Mustafar.
- Moved Anakin’s dream here.
- Added Anakin screaming “no, no, no” in the dream.
- Cut Anakin/Padme’s conversation about it. Transitions directly into Opera scene.
- Added KOTOR Pazaak music in the background of the city.
- Added “General Skywalker” from Mas Amedda as Anakin walks onto the balcony.
- Cut “We can finally catch that monster…”
- Cut “I would worry about the wisdom of the council if they didn’t…”
- Cut “They asked you to spy on me” exchange.
- Cut midichlorians and creating life.
- Trimmed council meeting in which they select Obi-Wan for Utapau.
- Added Anakin saying “I” as an endorsement of his friend.
- Added Seeds of Rebellion Deleted Scene
- Added Anakin’s Theme to Anakin and Obi-Wan’s goodbye.
- Cut Anakin calling Obi Wan, “master”, as well as all references to Obi-Wan having trained him and watching him grow up.
- Added Confronting the Chancellor Deleted Scene and trimmed to go by faster, as well as to remove Palpatine’s blatant manipulation attempt.
- Moved Anakin/Padme’s baby/death conversation here.
- Trimmed Obi-Wan’s Utapau adventure to tone down Boga, Grevious, and the lightsaber duel. No staredowns, and less exposition.
- Cut “Yes, master” after Windu tells Anakin to inform Palpatine about the Utapau campaign.
- Cut scene at “I sense a plot to destroy the jedi” line.
- Restructured Anakin informing Palps so that Anakin takes the reigns in the conversation. Before Palps can finish saying something manipulative, Anakin cuts him off to tell him he already feels badly about the council. He doesn’t need extra convincing. Anakin has had more agency like this throughout the cut. Palps’ manipulation comes off as a little more unnecessary b/c Anakin already agrees and gets the point most of the time. This way, when he does turn, it’s not because Palps has convinced him, but because Anakin is just using Palps. A much more sith relationship.
- Trimmed Palps’ revelation to make Anakin more aggressive and quicker to catch on. Also downplays Padme’s relevance to Palpatine. Anakin doesn’t “You’re the sith lord!”
- Cut the “masters” to Windu from Anakin when Anakin goes to see him.
- Cut “young” from “young Skywalker” and “There is much fear that clouds your judgement.”
- Moved “I must go, master” as a phrase that is cut off before Windu tells him to stay back.
- Added a few notes of Ahsoka’s theme here.
- Cut “Yes, master.”
- Cut Palpatine V.O in the silent brooding scene.
- Trimmed Palps vs Jedi duel to look less stupid.
- Re-edit Anakin’s turn to the dark side, so that Windu is just about to kill Palpatine before Anakin cuts his hand off. No devil vs angel moment, and Palpatine transforms into his Emperor self with the flashing of the lights.
- Cut “What have I done?” and anything to do with Padme.
- Cut Palps orgasming and “A powerful sith, you will become.”
- Cut “Thank you, my master.”
- Cut “…even your friend Obi Wan Kenobi…”
- Cut “I understand…”
- Cut “We will catch them off balance.”
- Cut “…to save Padme’s life.”
- Cut “What about the other Jedi…” exchange.
- Added an Anakin is distraught reaction shot before it transitions to the march on the temple.
- Cut implied youngling murder.
- Trimmed Order 66 scene overall.
- Added “General!” from 3PO to Anakin when he returns to Padme’s apartment.
- Cut “I came to check on you and the baby.”
- Cut “I will not betray the Republic.”
- Cut “We can only hope…many jedi have been killed.”
- Cut “Have faith my love, everything will be set right. The chancellor has given me…”
- Trimmed Yoda/Bail/Kenobi interaction on Tantive Whatever.
- Re-edit Mas Amedda message to be pre-recorded.
- Cut R2 popping out of fighter.
- Cut “Not even the younglings survived.”
- Cut shot of Anakin crying as he massacres the Seperatists.
- Replaced shot of Palpatine raising his arms to applause with just a long shot of the Hall.
- Cut extraneous explanations about clones being not so smart.
- Re-edited scene where Obi-Wan learns about Vader so that he has a much more emotional reaction.
- Cut “young” from “young Skywalker.”
- Re-edited Padme/Obi-Wan scene. Since Yoda doesn’t set up a mission for him and Obi-Wan to take out the Sith, it’s implied that both think they’re just going to hide now. Obi Wan goes to see Anakin/Padme on his own accord. He isn’t looking to kill Anakin.
- Cut Obi-Wan hiding in the bathroom
- Trimmed scene Anakin informing Palps that he’s finished off the Speratists, so Anakin sounds less subservient.
- Cut dialogue between Anakin and Padme in their Mustafar conversation. Less focus on Obi Wan, and none whatsoever on saving Padme. I cut out mentions of him bringing peace to the Republic as well, bc idk. His allegiance is to the Empire, and he says it later. Also it works with the idea that he isn’t proud enough of what he’s done to tell Padme about it and Padme’s horrified reaction comes from how he doesn’t deny the “terrible things”, and how his aspirations for both of them is just more galaxy- subjecting power and control. And that she can tell something is off quicker says more about their relationship.
- Cut Hayden’s “LIAR!” Anakin isn’t supposed to be this unhinged by this point in the cut, so I had to remove this. As well as “You will not take her from me!” These are actually some of Hayden’s better acting moments imo, but it really doesn’t fit with what I’m going for in terms of Darth Vader. Too whiny, if you will.
- “Don’t lecture me, Obi Wan!” removed. It’s kind of a reference to a mentor/mentee relationship, so I’ve gotten rid of it. Also “freedom”, “then you’re my enemy”, and “you will tryy…” removed. The first just isn’t true, and the other two are too villain-taunty.
- “Anakin, please. Come back to the light!” “I won’t abandon you to the dark side!” lines of dialogue.
- The duel on Mustafar and Yoda vs. Sidious has its most cheesy moments cuts.
- Cut post-duel Sidious scenes in Senate Hall.
- Cut “It’s over Anakin!”, “I have the high ground!” and “You underestimate my power!”
- Cut Anakin’s scream as he jumps on up.
- Cut “She seems to have lost the will to live.”
- Cut Vader scream and Padme’s dying words.
PM for a link to a 720p version, I guess. There are already like 3 audio things I want to go back and fix, but fuck it. 1080p is rendering.