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Post #388072

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RoccondilRinon
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The Prequel Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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Date created
9-Dec-2009, 12:54 AM

I thought Attack of the Clones was a perfectly fine title. It's pulpy and cheesy, but all these titles are — some people had the same reaction to The Empire Strikes Back back in the day. As for The Phantom Menace, I'm not particularly attached to that title but I don't have a problem with it. I disagree with Ghost that it should be about Anakin: the movie itself isn't about Anakin. If you saw it on its own, it's about the Queen's quest to save her people. The Jedi are the point-of-view characters, and Anakin is just the token kid character for what is in many ways a lighthearted family adventure movie — he has his podrace scene, and he does his part in the big battle, but the movie isn't about him any more than it's about Jar Jar Binks. I like that about it — as the first film in a series, even with half the sequels made and the others functionally greenlit even before it was written, it should stand alone. If you make it about Anakin, it can't stand alone any more, because it only tells the very beginning of his story.