Anakin: I was afraid to tell you before…
FIRESIDE:
Anakin: but it’s true.
Scene continues because the dialogue continued from one scene to the next, for some reason. Granted, that didn’t make a whole lot of sense at the time- but it seemed to correct the problem of it feeling as though you missed something. But that actually doesn’t help it a whole lot more than a wipe.
NOW I see that what you’re suggesting is a balcony scene where they don’t talk to each other at all in the scene, but we think they do at the beginning because we hear voices (from the next scene). Then, the viewer becomes confused and realizes something’s up when we move to close-ups and the lips aren’t moving. Things become clear when we cut to the fireside scene.
And so the only reason that we’re using the balcony scene at all and not just having the fireside play out is for the romantic imagery and tension of the moonlit scene (and also the dialogue trick for the audience, and also the lip synch problem if I did the whole fireside).
This is making a lot more sense now. Now, the only problem becomes the fact that we can’t use any balcony footage with any lips moving whatsoever. Another thing we might have to do is to darken the scene so that it isn’t as obvious that the lips aren’t moving? I was wondering what your complete thoughts on this were.
Just because I love the idea of the moonlit sequence so much, I’m probably going to include the whole thing in its entirety as originally conceived, as a deleted scene. But now that I understand what you’re saying, the moonlit scene will not have any real dialogue. However, I have a question:
What do you think about doing the moonlit scene with the actual dialogue of Padme babbling, and then go to the Anakin overlapping speech. This would be because HER dialogue is more suited to the actual scene. I could perhaps somehow distinguish what she is saying with what Anakin is saying, in terms of reality or memory. Perhaps I could add a slight echo to the Anakin dialogue in the moonlit scene? Your feedback, please…
I might talk about the whole “Force” thing later, but I guess the point is that if you were worried that I’m going to try to define the Force to death in the movies, it won’t happen that way. Not only that, but midichlorians are removed- if anything, the Force will be more magical.
“I can't say the changes you suggest really bother me.”
Right- especially because none of them apply to Episode II- just the nightmare and the Tusken incident. But I rather like the telepathic communication/memories idea with Anakin and Obi-Wan in Episode I. Anyway, I’ll discuss later….
Thanks!
And I just realized that my screen name should actually be "A Trooper Man". That way, people could abbreviate it as "ATM".
