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Post #1272636

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RogueLeader
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The Prequel Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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Date created
7-Mar-2019, 7:41 AM

That’s cool. Where did you get that opening shot from?

Here’s another random idea. I’ve tried to think of ways to make it clearer that Sidious’ “deformed” face is really his true face that has been corrupted by his powerful connection to the dark side. His “Palpatine” face merely being a mask he wears using Sith alchemy or whatever.

His apparent face melting with lightning in ROTS makes this confusing, and some edits alleviate this with the “flickering lights” method. But another idea I had, which may or may not work, would be to mask Palpatine/Sidious in his brief scenes with Maul and Dooku in TPM and AOTC respectively, and then desaturate his skin tone to where it it is almost completely colorless. While he won’t look as shriveled up, it might help sell that idea that wears/removes that “mask” when he switches between personas, to help further hide his own identity. And the masking process wouldn’t be too difficult, considering he is silhouetted by his black robes and hood.