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Post #1479189

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Burbin
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Community Focus Thread 1: The Phantom Menace
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Date created
9-Apr-2022, 2:18 PM

EddieDean said:

I’ve just been watching ROTJ as I do the prep for that movie’s focus thread, and like TPM its ending cuts between many different locations - three compared to TPM’s four. Notably it cycles between all three settings pretty quickly at times, and personally, I didn’t feel like it felt too ‘choppy’ or that it had high cognitive load like the original TPM ending does.

There’s a pretty interesting point I heard recently, the ending of TPM is actually equal to ROTJ, not larger. They both follow the same four plots:

The Duel - Luke vs Vader / Qui-Gon & Obi-Wan vs Maul
Ground Battle - Ewoks fight the Imperial army / Gungans fight the Federation army
Infiltration - Han & co. break into the shield generator / Padmé & co. break into the palace
Space Battle - The rebellion assault on the DSII / The naboo pilots assault the control ship

Both movies also technically have three main locations - in TPM the palace mission splits up into the duel & the infiltration, while in ROTJ the Endor mission splits into the ground battle & the infiltration.