While I can't say I follow the reasoning that because the Force ghosts aren't spelled out that the movies are less rich or that explaining where they come from (or, in the case of having Qui Gon disappear in the fire) making them common place does anything to enrich things -- I can't say the changes you suggest really bother me. I don't see leaving things as they are as any sort of stretch. These movies have a religion -- THE FORCE. Many movies have regligion in them, and the good ones don't spend a lot of time explaining away the mysteries that make their particular religion work. It would be one thing if we didn't understand how Luke could possibly fire a torpedo into the ventilation shaft, but if we need to explain how Obi Wan disappeared, we might as well have an explanation for how Luke had a sword fight with Darth Vader on Degobah. Just my opinion.
Trooperman (quote):"STILL working on the balcony scene, playing with the footage and slowing down/speeding up things to get good lip synch with Anakin (because he’s saying completely different things).
I had to make “I love you.” synch with “I don’t like sand.”
Mthaslett: Yikes-- Did you give up on our solution to this problem? Can you say a bit about why? I understood you were going to use this particular dialogue as overlapping voice over from the following scene -- thus solving more problems than just synch.
If you put that dialogue here -- if Anakin tells Padme he loves her on the balcony -- then what does she say back? Nothing? Why does she go and put on that hot outfit if he already told her he loves her? Is she trying to confuse him? Why does she wait until then (at least an hour later) before telling him she can't be part of this? What do they do for that hour or more? The flow of these scenes gets real awkward if he says he loves her on the balcony. I urge you to reconsider the previous solution and remind you that you said (in writing! ;-) ) the following:
Trooperman (quote): "MTHaslett- I love your solution and I’ll use it. I agreed with everything you just said. Thanks for clarifying and including that portion of revised script; I’d have had trouble following it otherwise. I totally agree that when edited in this fashion, one scene leads directly to the other. You made my job easy for this scene in the commentary; I'll just flip to this forum page and read your notes into the microphone!
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It's a technique of letting the dialogue from the next scene play over the tail of the preceding scene -- to bring out the subtext.
And I love it."
What happened?