What I decided to go for were subtle changes, as, since I spoke earlier about how the scene wasn't "that bad," I didn't feel the need for too many.
And as God says to Bender in Futurama: "When you do things right, people won't be sure You've done anything at all." lol
Anyways, one idea I had was to make it appear that Anakin got carried away... that perhaps Dooku's line about "You have hate, you have anger. But you don't use them" might have sparked him to actually use them and that killing Dooku was a slip up... he got too into the battle and just went with it.
You can download the video here:
My Dooku Edit
There are two glitches I still need to fix, but it gives you a general idea of what I saw.
I decided to start this from earlier than anyone else's edits because I wanted to bring something to light that was recently told to me ...
The very end of the Beginning battle sequence, the music that is layered over the landing is actually NOT meant to be there. We found most of the cue, but a lot of it is still missing. In the film, they use a bit of tracked music as to end the cue early, but also some of the unreleased bit... there is still a good portion of unreleased/unused/unheard music that we havn't found...
Anyways, I start my video right where the music we did find begins... it goes into the entrance of Grevious, and then into the Elevator Scene.... it is seriously like 5 minutes of straight music. Then you get to dooku and it's a battle that almost has NO music... (we think there might have been more but none has been released).
Anyways, I include this all in the edit. The only omission before the dooku scene I did was the short scene of the two battle droids walking into the hangar saying "Those are Jedi Fighters Alright" so that there wasn't a gap between the music from "General Grevious'" cue and "The Elevator Scene."
Also worthy of note: I use an alternate take of the cue "The Elevator Scene" which has extra percussion (namely snare). The album version doesn't have this and I felt it might heighten the scene a bit using this instead.
The edits I made in the video itself are as follows:
01) I cut away from the shot of them exiting the elevator early and skip to the next shot. You see in the distance Palpatine swivel in his chair.
02) I cut to a close up of Palpatine in his chair
03) I cut back to Obi-Wan and Anakin turning to walk down the stairs. The next few moments are the same up until "Count Dooku" and the shot showing his arrival.
04) I remove the lines " This time we'll do it together," and "I was going to say that." I just cut to Anakin walking behind Obi-Wan to get into position.
05) I remove the lines about him being a sith lord and simply cut to Obi-Wan disrobing
06) After Obi-Wan's like about how Dooku won't get away this time, I cut to a slightly slowed down shot of Dooku extending his lightsaber.
07) I cut to Dooku saying his line "I've been looking forward to this."
08) Cut to Obi-Wan and Anakin extending their lightsabers.\
09) Cut to overhead shot of the duel beginning
10) Cut to Anakin saying "My powers have doubled" blah
11) I cut Palpatine's reaction shots and cut to Obi-Wan being force pushed away. (trimming both the push and the landing shots becuase they are too long)
12) Cut to Anakin swiping at Dooku
13) I remove a few moments of DOoku running up the stairs and jump to the next angle from above of them battling up the stairs
14) I trim some of the shot of Obi-Wan getting up
15) cut to the battle droids being destroyed
16) cut to obi-wan about to fight dooku
17) I remove a little bit of Anakin sitting around looking at the Obi-Wan and then to Dooku.. and trim it so that it flows faster
18) Cut quickly to Anakin jumping at Dooku
19) Cut to the closeup of Anakin and Dooku with dooku's line about hate and anger a little bit early just to push it that much further
20) Cut to Obi- wan attacking dooku. Trimmed the shot mostly. there were a few extra un-neccesary seconds.
21) I speed up the shot of Anakin cutting off Dooku's hands.
22) Cut to Anakin with Dooku's blade
23) cut to a slightly sped up shot of Anakin placing the blades at Dooku's neck
24) cut to Anakin slicing
25) Cut to Palpatine saying "Good, Anakin! Good!"
26) Cut back to medium shot of Anakin putting the sabers away...
27) As anakin explains he shouldn't have killed dooku, I cut to Palpatine getting out of the chair with Palpatine saying "It is only natural," as if to combat what anakin had to say about the Jedi way.
28) Cut to a short shot of Anakin reacting.
29) Cut to Palpatines line "Remmeber what you told me about your mother? And the Sand people?"
30) Cut to a shot of Anakin looking away with Palpatines line "You wanted Revenge" layered over it... as to mask that horrid tuskan raider sfx.
31) cut a little early to Palpatine saying they must leave.
And that's all the edits I did... just to give you all some ideas.