I would say it was perhaps a little subtle - also perhaps if there could be a pause in Anakin’s line it could highlight that he has stopped to listen to it, and act as the viewer’s prompt that it is of some relevance so we should notice it too.
I will definantly play around with it once I get a better quality copy of the movie and begin the actual edit. These are excellent notes. Thank you!
Perhaps something like “I heard she is no longer with her partner” could get the same meaning across without sounding quite as casual modern day speech? (This is all very much personal preference though).
I understand. And I believe I will play with this too. It’s a difficult balance because everyone is so stoic and I want to have him be a bit more loose. I’d like to bring in some more OT sounding dialogue.
Annoyingly I made a mock up of the Vader vision scene a long time ago, and also an incredibly rough version of the Obi Wan and Padme rescuing Anakin scene (where they all rode out of the arena on the Reek) but have lost them both some time back (always back up your work eh) so I cannot offer any visual help.
Dang! I would love to see this!
All in all though I fully accept that this would probably be very choppy and a lot of work to get there so probably wouldn’t be worth it. In the interest of throwing random ideas around though I still like it - I’m just not sure how to make it work as it is such a big change around.
Yeah, it sounds like something I’d like to see someone try but I can’t really wrap my head around how to go about this. For me, it comes down to the characters more than anything. Since it wasn’t originally filmed this way, the arena scene has no character introductions for our heroes.
Just some extra food for thought. Can we hear your idea for protecting the Vader reveal you hinted at yet lol?
Ha! Yeah, well…I think it was on these boards (probably the prequel radical redux ideas thread)
where someone was talking about how if someone could make it look like Obi-Wan takes on another apprentice in ROTS, then it could possibly work. And I don’t know if they had some specifics or if this is something I came up with but:
I’m currently planning on cutting young Boba Fett out of AOTC. A shot of two of him could be inserted into the scene when Obi-Wan and Anakin are parting ways (Goodbye old friend) with maybe Anakin (or Obi) saying something about this new Jedi apprentice named Vader. He wouldn’t have any lines, he’d simply be standing there. That would be the entire setup. Although, I can’t remember if this puts a hitch in anything further down the line.