Originally posted by: Anti-Matter
I am aware of this, but it never really bothered me storywise because Ben is much older and so it is easy (at least for me) to forgive his lack of precision when he recalls the past. ... Perhaps an opportunity was missed in Adywan's Revisited edit. I know but it didn't happen.
I was thinking of a way that it could be done -- the word "been" is somtimes pronounced a lot like "Ben". Maybe editing in the word "been" from other dialoug perhaps lifted from other movies portman, jackson, christiansen, etc, have done , you may be able to acomplish this. Maybe worth a shot.
I need to save some of this depressing footage, because we will be returning to the first time arc later in the movie. Oh okay, you should add them later on when you return to the time. They are actualy really well done and some of the few scenes I actually liked from the prequels.
But what if the two characters simply said nothing at that moment? It just so happens that we do not see Obi-wan's mouth, so it would be easy to either alter or remove speech.
Excellent. Do that, as long as they keep their mouth's shut. I am aware of this, but it never really bothered me storywise because Ben is much older and so it is easy (at least for me) to forgive his lack of precision when he recalls the past. ... Perhaps an opportunity was missed in Adywan's Revisited edit. I know but it didn't happen.
I was thinking of a way that it could be done -- the word "been" is somtimes pronounced a lot like "Ben". Maybe editing in the word "been" from other dialoug perhaps lifted from other movies portman, jackson, christiansen, etc, have done , you may be able to acomplish this. Maybe worth a shot.I need to save some of this depressing footage, because we will be returning to the first time arc later in the movie.
But what if the two characters simply said nothing at that moment? It just so happens that we do not see Obi-wan's mouth, so it would be easy to either alter or remove speech.
Anyway, have you guys seen the "Star Wars Episode III Re-Edit" by BrachioInGen on Youtube? I just saw it last night and I really like the idea of keeping Vader/Anakin secret until Episode V. and Leia/Luke secret until Ep. VI! Its actually one of the best editing jobs I've ever seen. He also edits out some really bad dialogue as well. I hope you are using some of his ideas for this prologue.
I also want to talk about another inconsistency --- The Leia discussion with Luke on Endor. After watching BrachioInGen's edit an idea hit me that maybe Padme doesn't have to die after all.
Here are my thoughts on what could be done to keep Padme alive at the end of ROST.
1. Remove the subplot of Anakin wanting to save Padme from death. I and many people never liked it because when Anakin chokes her it defeats the whole premise of him wanting to save her. I always thought it was pretty stupid and his motivation for turning to the darkside should have always been simply "Anakin’s thirst for unlimited power".
2. Delete the shots in which she dies on the operation table, obviously, as well as "lost the will to live" as BrachioInGen did.
3. there is a shot of senator Organa Jimmy Smits with his wife on Alderan holding a baby. Maybe you can rotoscop his wife's face/head out and replace it with Padme, so it looks like she's holding the baby. Its a brief scene. We don't even have to know which twin ( Luke or Leia) it is.
4. Padme can also be rotoscoped into the final shot with OB1 handing the baby over to the Lars. Perhaps you can use a shot of her crying as would make sense if she's giving up her child.
So a scenario of how it may work out can play out like this; Padme is giving birth to the babies with Kenobi there to comfort her. She does not die. We cut to a scene of her holding her baby with Jimmy Smits. Cut to the scene were Yoda explains to Smits and OB1 that Luke must be hidden on Tatowine and Kenobi must watch over him. Then, OB1 and perhaps Padme crying handing the baby over to the Lars. End.
May be plausible...