shanerjedi said:
SilverKey said:
Bingowings, I like your idea of "reversing" the story of TPM, I think it would definitely make the story more to the point. I'm just not really sure it could be accomplished.
The main problem is that in the movie as it is, we care so little about the people of Naboo: we are being told they are suffering and dying, but we don't see it. The only thing we see of it, is through Queen Amidala's eyes, she is our only connection to the invasion. I think taking out that part of the movie would really hurt what little we care about the planet.
I also think that starting the movie on Coruscant would really bog the movie down in politics at too early a point.
I do think the idea is very interesting though, so could you elaborate on how you would have it work?
But we don't see the invasion. it is mentioned but never seen. So why even keep that stuff?
Put it in the crawl
Have Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon infiltrate the TF ship at the end during the space battle, have Anakin purposefully join the battle in space.
The Jedi/Maul duel will take place in the engine generator room on the TF ship.
So you don't want to show the invasion at all, even though it is integral to the story of TPM? I don't think that will work. There is too much tell, and not enough show in the prequels already. I think we need to see the invasion because is what the whole plot and characters' journey is about.
Also, if we don't show the actual invasion in our TPM edit, I think the audience would hardly be able to tell it happened at all, because we don't see the effects of it. We don't really see that in the current movie either, but at least we've seen the invasion. If we take that out, we've been building up this planet under siege for an entire movie, and when we finally get to it we see a beautiful planet seemingly unharmed. There's even less drama in that.
What might work is that we start the movie with the Neimoidians receiving orders from Sidious (opens the movie with a darker tone which might help set the tone of the whole movie). We see a montage of the invasion and then cut to Coruscant where the story begins. Kind of like the opening of Harry Potter and the Halfblood Prince, where we get this action prologue with the Death Eaters attacking London before the movie gets to the main characters.