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TM2YC
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I've just finished Re-editing Episodes I-III, now what? (Released)
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26-Apr-2013, 2:29 PM

Re Erikstormtrooper,

Thx for the interesting comments mate.  In answer to your points:

I did a test where I tried dubbing Jar-Jar and I didn't like it. Takes a better voice actor than me I guess.

Yes it does make for quite a few subtitles but it did give me the freedom to control the motivation and character of the Gungans.  If you hate subtitles (Or if you speak the language that I've dubbed the Gungans in) you won't fully enjoy my edit.  But it's a damn sight less annoying than Ahmed best's bizarre Minstrel performance.

And on a side note the Gungans are not essential to the film in any way.  I have an early draft edit where I cut them out completley.  It streamlines things but for me 1.5hrs does not a worthy SW film make.

My opening is actually 30 seconds shorter by the time they land.  I felt all the unfunny R2 stuff really dragged so I swapped it for Anakin and Obi banter which did really amuse me.

Maybe it's my tastes but the beeps clip had me laughing out loud when I first saw it on the Blu-Ray (Then shouting at the screen "Why was this cut out"). Ewan's moustache twirling is comedy gold also.  I think all those moments are essential to showing the love and comradery between our two heros.

Obviously if I'd written the story for the PT myself I wouldn't have wasted the first 4 hrs keeping Anakin and Obi-Wan on seperate sides of the Planet/Entire galaxy.  But since that is the case, the opening act of ROTS is the only place that I can build that relationship... before it implodes in the final act.

The thing I regret most that I could never fix in my cuts was Ewan's near-total absence from episode I.  If there had been deleted scenes of him reading the paper or doing the accounts I would have put it back in lol! As brilliant as Liam Neeson is, his character should have been Obi-Wan and we'd all be alot happier.

Ryan