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Post #1470577

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CaptainFaraday
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Community Focus Thread 1: The Phantom Menace
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Date created
4-Feb-2022, 5:29 AM

Especially if the shot of Qui-Gon changing his expression is reused as him wordlessly communicating with Shmi, I think it lets the theoretical viewer connect the dots.

Something unrelated from my rewatch: when Duel of the Fates starts playing, it punctuates the doors opening with Maul standing there, making for a really cool moment. But then the music stops matching what’s happening on screen for the rest of the hangar scene - it meaninglessly spikes at a shot of the side of the Naboo starfighter, and an equally meaningless shot of some droideikas rolling around, and has some of the frenetic part play while Padme and the others are calmly talking and leaving. I’m not sure how you’d do it with the coverage available in the scene let alone separating the music from the audio, but man, it would be really nice to rework the score there a bit so it doesn’t use the first appearances of those big musical moments on nothing. It all starts syncing up with the action as soon as the fight starts.