Originally posted by: darthpreston
The only I don't understand is how it makes it more sad and tragic if she LIVED.....as opposed to if she DIED. And he killed her......I mean, so far in our editting ideas for episode III we decided to alter the moment of her death because of the fatal force choke from anakin.....as opposed to a "broken heart". It's interesting to change up anything, but I just don't see how it's more sad if her story disappeared after her staged death. I find the fact that she had to die to be the extra "layer" of emotion to the film...next to anakin turning to vader.
The only I don't understand is how it makes it more sad and tragic if she LIVED.....as opposed to if she DIED. And he killed her......I mean, so far in our editting ideas for episode III we decided to alter the moment of her death because of the fatal force choke from anakin.....as opposed to a "broken heart". It's interesting to change up anything, but I just don't see how it's more sad if her story disappeared after her staged death. I find the fact that she had to die to be the extra "layer" of emotion to the film...next to anakin turning to vader.
If the scene has already been envisioned a different way here in the thread, then that's cool. I thought DarthRichard had an interesting idea with the hand movement, though.
Without giving too much away about the ending of my Episode 3 re-cut, I think the Romeo and Juliet allusion adds to the drama and stays more continuous with the OT.
Padme's story doesn't need to be explained. It's left to the imagination and to the tidbits found in the OT, which adds to the power of the story much as references like Obi-wan's to the Clone Wars in the OT were left undefined. The open-endedness of the reference made it more real.
And the tragedy of Padme continuing to live is that there is substantial time that Vader lost with her because of his actions. Somewhere in the galaxy as he continued on his dark path, Padme lived on.
What do you think?