Like, okay, at this point, Rey is partway through her line “I am a Jedi.” The camera is doing a dramatic push in, the music score is rising up and crescendoing…to me, this pause is almost like Rey is “charging up” to unleash her final Jedi move on Palpatine. It’s a moment that should be building in hope and strength, not trying to tear Rey down more. So those “you’re nothing” whispers kind of work in opposition to what the scene seems to be trying to convey.
Hmm I get what you mean. The intention was to emphasize Rey embracing her identity as a Jedi (and, later, a Skywalker) by rejecting the labels people have given her all trilogy. It’s the make-or-break moment of the climax, and “All the Sith” are trying to wear her down while Sheev gloats. For me, it makes her triumphant moment stronger, because she’s not just pushing back physically, she’s pushing back against all that Sith “negging”
I get the idea of having Jedi encourage her instead, but:
- It’s way easier to record creepy random Sith voices than to get authentic impressions for famous Jedi.
- I feel like right up until she finishes her line, the music is still telling us “things don’t look so good”.
- She has the four Jedi behind her already, it would be weird to have them speak off-screen when we’ve just shown them appear.
I totally get what you’re going for - obviously, my own personal reading of the scene is subjective. And I had the same technical concerns as you about incorporating the Jedi whispers. It’s just a bit like…whiplash to me, I guess? It almost undermines her line to me, to interrupt it.
“You’re nothing, nothing, nothing-I’m a Jedi-KERPOW-Wait what?”
What if there are Sith whispers in the background throughout Palp’s speech, and then one final whisper of “YOU’RE NOTHING.” Before Rey says, “I’m…”?
Granted, you had this idea to fill the pause a bit more, and this would then defeat that point…