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Padme's Ruminations

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This music, this scene, is the best in the whole franchise. If you don't know of which one I speak, it's the balcony scenes between Anakin and Padme, at dusk, with the creepy music and middle-eatern vocals.

First off, when I saw this in theaters, I was floored by the complete rush of emotion I felt, especially for such a simple scene. The only two ther times I had that feeling were the funeral of qui-gon and the end montage in AotC. And it's the powerful combination of George Lucas' incredibly powerful directorial eye (in the scenes without talking) and John William's persistently incredible scores for these movies, that make these scenes work.

I think because both the music, and that kind of scene, were such a departure from regular Star Wars that I felt so moved by it. It just seemed so eerily important. More important than anything before or after it. That might not be true, but at the moment, it felt so powerful. The visual look of the scenes was so incredibly fitting to the music and emotion. It seemed so sad.

Evertime I hear that cue from Williams, I basically stop what I'm doing and listen, and I get the same emotion. It's perfect "calm before the storm" music. Like everything is going to change after it. It could be put in lots of situations or movies.....or something.

Now, don't get the wrong idea hear. I, for the most part, do not enjoy the prequels. I like TPM for the memories I have of when it came out, and I like ROTS cuz it's the closest we'll get to good Star wars again....AotC had Across the Stars....thats about it for me. The OT will forever be the best, and I'll never watch them 1-6.....ever.

But Goerge has his incredible moments. Moments of pure cinematic genious, profound emotion were I can tell he really cares about these movies enough to not cut them. And I know I'm not the only one that felt this way about those scenes and to be able to work up those emotions in other people means to have done exactly what you envisioned and executed it perfectly.

/end fanboy rant.

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Originally posted by: JarHead413
Now, don't get the wrong idea hear. I, for the most part, do not enjoy the prequels. I like TPM for the memories I have of when it came out, and I like ROTS cuz it's the closest we'll get to good Star wars again....AotC had Across the Stars....thats about it for me. The OT will forever be the best, and I'll never watch them 1-6.....ever.

But Goerge has his incredible moments. Moments of pure cinematic genious, profound emotion were I can tell he really cares about these movies enough to not cut them. And I know I'm not the only one that felt this way about those scenes and to be able to work up those emotions in other people means to have done exactly what you envisioned and executed it perfectly.
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I think many of the fans who don't love or like the PT feel the same way, the uneveness of the PT. That is probably the biggest frustration of the three movies, is that they have great moments, but are usually followed up by really bad ones minutes later.

For me, my favorite scene of the PT is in ROTS, when Anakin is in the chamber and the eerie music is playing, and he is contemplating what to do if Mace & Co. kills Palps. There is no dialogue, just pure emotion and Padme & himself gaze across Coruscant. Then the next scene with Mace vs Palps and Anakin turning is just plain awful, and makes me shake my head on how badly this was done.

Another great scene is in AOTC when ObiWan is touring the Clone Factory, and finally sees all of them together and the empire music starts getting louder and louder as he marvels at the republics new army. The next scene cuts to Padme/Anakin on Naboo doing.........NOTHING! They are talking about politics and Padme's first love, and totally kills the momentum of that scene with ObiWan.

Everyone here who wanted to love the PT, that is the myth that Lucas & Co. don't say. But we recognize the bad moments outweigh the good ones of the PT, and that is why the frustration toward the trilogy, a different screenwriter, a different director, things would be different. The ideas were always there, these could of been great movies, but the execution once and a while was great, but more times than not was awful. That to me is a big shame, cause you can see there is a good movie waiting to be brought out in each one.TextText
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One scene (and it only lasts like 2 seconds) is when Yoda is fighting the Emperor in the senate chamber and the camera slowly rotates as the center platform rises above all the empty senater seats with both characters' sabers flying as the music swells.

Now that is a mighty fine scene right there. So much is said in such a small amount of time. You can see that the fight is more than just a battle between two opposing fighters.

Too bad that only 2 seconds of a 170 minute movie are of any poignant quality.
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