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Picking Up where Qui Gonn tackles Jar Jar...
[ADD SOUND F/X OF BLASTING, BOOMING, DESTRUCTIVE DROID TRANSPORTS REMAINING ALWAYS NEARBY -- until we get to the lake shore with Jar Jar -- then the sounds are muted and distant, but STILL PRESENT]
EXT. FOREST
The transport travels over Jar Jar and Qui Gonn -- they lie on the ground as it recedes. They move, rising to stand and we CUT
To a Droid riding a flying glider and shooting (the one who's chasing Obi Wan) CUT:
To Qui Gonn, lighting his saber and bouncing the blast back at the Droid, Obi Wan running closer. CUT:
To Qui Gonn deflecting blasts back at more droids as Obi Wan runs closer. Camera follows debris into bushes
Jar Jar stands between Qui Gonn and Obi Wan -- speaks. Obi Wan asks what's this. Qui Gonn says "a local. Let's go before more droids come." CUT away as Obi Wan crosses frame, before Jar Jar starts his clown faces and speaking...
(The effect is that this attack is closer to where the tackle happened and makes the threat of the droids stay more imminent. The backgrounds match surprisingly well when cut on all this movement).
CUT TO: them all running together and Jar Jar offering to take them to a city. They stop and talk to Jar Jar. (keep it going until Qui Gonn's line: "...us there?") and CUT
TO: over Qui Gonn's shoulder on Jar Jar. Let Jar Jar talk until "...me going back there" He's saying something like: "I can take you there if you have the courage to face Boss Nass -- he will not be kind. He knows things... But it's safer there than out here..." Let a rising musical sting cue us for a dangerous decision as we WIPE...
To: Jar Jar leading the Jedi to the river bank
When Jar Jar leaps in the air, CUT to the Jedi putting in their mouth pieces so we don't see the silly triple-gainer dive.
Then get us underwater using everything except the shot where Jar Jar pokes his head out of the water -- he jumps in the water and disappears and the Jedi have to follow...
Under water use everything except OMIT the close up of Obi Wan -- keep things on Qui Gonn.
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