Trying some new music tracks for the Darth Maul fight. So far O Fortuna by Orff and Pruit Igoe by Phillip Glass are my favorites.
As much as it seems weird to remove Duel of the Fates from an edit titled Duel of the Fates, I wanted to try and reserve that song for things relating to Anakin. I want it to be emotionally tied to him and important things that happen to him. Basically it should play when he is fighting with himself. Since he has nothing to do with the Maul fight, something similar in sound but not that song seems appropriate. I want to keep that choral/pagan sort of sound for it. If possible, I'd like to make Maul seem even more ferocious and terrifying.
As of right now, I have the fight broken up into two sections. The first section takes us through to the ray shield hall way, the second takes us through the ray shields reopening to the death of Darth Maul. It's broken up by a heavily shortened space battle sequence where Anakin purposefully flies into the Droid ship an destroys it. The fight is much faster, many of the longest camera shots and wide shots are shortened or deleted to give the thing a ferocious speed. Basically it comes off that the only way Obi-Wan defeats Maul is because he became more intense, more angry, and more ferocious. He gives into the dark side to finish Maul off. Obi-Wan falling into the pit is removed, he just gets the upper hand with his attacks and splits him in half. It's pretty darn cool. I've not seen anybody edit the battle in that way, where the dynamics of it are changed slightly to give it a different impact. I'm very happy with the sequence.
Something else I'm playing with is should I include the scene of Palpatine and Maul talking. It's nice exposition as to what is going on with the Sith, but at the same time having Maul be a silent, unstoppable force of nature may be much more effective. Thoughts?