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Hello everyone!
I’m a long time lurker who’s been working on an edit of the Star Wars prequels that combines all three into one, more entertaining, 2 hour and 20 minute movie.
REMOVED
• No Jar-Jar dialogue. He is now a non-speaking background alien.
• No C-3PO dialogue. He is now a non-speaking background droid.
• No mention of Midichlorians.
• No Anakin is the chosen one prophecy subplot.
• No young Anakin flying a starfighter.
• No reaction shots of every lost lightsaber, blaster, or hand.
• No gratuitous shots of spaceships landing.
• No named Darths except Darth Plagueis and Darth Vader. Sidious is just Sidious.
• No poison slug assassination plot, Zam’s drone has a blaster now.
• No Kamino or Clone storyline.
• No mention of Jango Fett’s name.
• No young Boba Fett.
• No Jango vs. Windu fight.
• No Yoda commanding armies.
• No Death Star.
• No Dooku vs. Anakin & Obi-Wan fight on Geonossis.
• No action frog Yoda lightsaber fights.
• No buzz droids.
• No slapstick Palpatine in the elevator shaft.
• No crash landing on a mile long runway on Couruscant.
• No Chewbacca (except one long shot of him in the background).
• No Obi-Wan vs. Grievous pinwheel lightsaber fight.
• No duck face grimaces during the Palpatine/Windu fight.
• No order 66.
• No Yoda/Palpatine lightsaber fight.
• No mention of Padme’s losing the will to live.
• No surprise last minute Force Ghost plot hole glue.
• No “Noooooo!.”
GENERAL CHANGES
All three prequels have been condensed into one 2 hour and 20 minute movie. The last 20 minutes of The Phantom Menace makes up the first 10 minutes. Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith are pretty much equally split for the rest of the movie.
Lots of little minor cuts to make things less tone deaf, sometimes just single words or a few frames. If i felt embarrassed to be watching it, I’d cut it and that worked out pretty well I think.
Anakin is the clear protagonist of the movie. He is more confident and less whiney and generally seems more justified in disliking the Jedi, who are sort of dicks to him all the time. The opening scenes of Episode III have been drastically reorganized to maximize the build of tension on him to help better motivate his fall to the Dark Side.
Anakin is crushing on Padme hard but isn’t a creep and doesn’t make his feelings known. Padme is flirtatious with Anakin and doesn’t give him the cold shoulder. She makes the first move. They have some fun together, but things get complicated in the third act.
Faster/more intense actions sequences with more believable physicality. I’ve tried to make the action more visceral by removing anything that looks too video-gamey or like it would kill a normal person.
This edit tries to be Clone agnostic. I don’t love the idea that the entire Army of the Republic is a copy of an evil bounty hunter in league with the big bad guy of Episode II and nobody seems to care. I do like the Clone Wars cartoons and the stories they tell though. So they aren’t ever stated to be clones in this edit but you can still see that they are if you pay attention to the background. Obi-Wan never goes to Kamino or meets Jango, so you could fill in the blanks with your own head canon if you’re into that.
R2-D2 and C-3PO are much less prominent. 3PO isn’t ever named as such and doesn’t speak until the after-credits sequence.
NEW OPENING CRAWL
Episodes I • II • III
A GALAXY BETRAYED
Chaos is engulfing the galaxy.
Sinister agents of Count Dooku’s
SEPARATIST FEDERATION are
invading Republic planets with
merciless battle droids.
Two JEDI KNIGHTS, harboring a
Force-strong slave boy pursued
by an evil SITH CULTIST, are
enlisted by President Padme
Amidala of Naboo to organize
a counter attack and free her
besieged world.
While the Galactic Senate debates
creating an ARMY OF THE
REPUBLIC to oppose Dooku, the
Supreme Chancellor dispatches
two ambassadors to negotiate
peace on Naboo….
100 LINKS TO MAJOR AND MINOR CHANGES
1 - Jedi robes recolored to be blue “Ambassador” robes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=2m11s
2 - The Republic ship is immediately destroyed upon landing and the invasion begins!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=2m23s
3 - The lightsaber fight from the end of Episode I has been streamlined and doesn’t cut away once it begins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=4m41s
4 - After Obi-Wan promises Anakin he will be a Jedi, Anakin looks at Qui-Gon’s burning face and shivers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=9m19s
5 - After Qui-Gon’s funeral, Anakin gives Padme a japor snippet on their way to Coruscant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=10m00s
6 - “10 years later…” title card text style based on “A long time ago…” text style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=11m25s
7 - Windu’s statement that Dooku was once a Jedi plays more as a threat than a denial he could be involved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=14m34s
8 - The first conversation between Padme, Anakin, and Obi-Wan doesn’t turn into an awkward mess and Padme shows her diplomacy skills by butting in early and dissolving the tension.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=16m56s
9 - Zam’s poison centipede plan is gone and instead the drone she sends over has a camera linked to her goggles and a blaster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=19m46s
10 - Obi-Wan’s fall into Anakin’s speeder is tightened up and doesn’t feel as ludicrous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=20m55s
11 - Anakin’s fall onto Zam’s speeder is also much shorter. The struggle that follows doesn’t include Anakin trying to murder her with a lightsaber.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=22m13s
12 - The cut scene of Obi-Wan giving the toxic dart to analysis droids in the Jedi Temple is reinserted with new droid dialogue: “The markings are Mandalorian curses. This dart was self-made by a warrior not associated with any known clan. The toxin is secreted by a race of insectoid clones native to the planet Geonosis. There’s been no contact with Geonosis for decades master Kenobi, please be careful!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=28m23s
13 - Padme teases Anakin about love and enjoys flirting with him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=29m40s
14 - Padme laughs at Anakin’s bloodlust and is delighted by his pear floating expertise. Anakin doesn’t take the opportunity to whine about Obi-Wan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=31m07s
15 - Another Episode III style wipe added to Episode II. This also makes it appear that Obi-Wan’s ship is shooting through Anakin’s heart, which is some nice foreshadowing. Obi-Wan then continues through the asteroid field down onto Geonosis without being shot at by anyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=31m45s
16 - This rickshaw droid doesn’t literally say “Okie-dokie” anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=35m08s
17 - C-3PO is deleted from the long shot of the Lars homestead and doesn’t speak in any scenes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=38m52s
18 - Clieg’s story about Shmi’s abduction is rearranged to be more impactful and focuses more on Anakin and Padme’s reaction to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=39m40s
19 - Anakin’s search for Shmi continues right into him discovering the Tusken camp, Shmi dying, and Anakin slaughtering the Tuskens. The stretch from Anakin on the cliff at the camp to the iris in on his face as he swings his saber is the longest uncut section from the entire edit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=41m01s
20 - Owen and Beru’s exit from the hut is delayed so Anakin is the only person on screen for longer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=45m27s
21 - The scene between Anakin and Padme in Luke’s future room is heavily cut and restructured. Anakin no longer walks away from Padme to whine about Obi-Wan, plus he doesn’t actually admit slaughtering a tribe of Tuskens to his crush. He does say they’re like animals though, and he hates them. Padme’s response of “To be angry is to be human” sounds a lot more appropriate now that it’s not in response to an admission of genocide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=46m06s
22 - Clieg doesn’t say anything at Shmi’s funeral, because who cares. I don’t want to hear what a great wife she was, “Clieg.” I want to be immersed Anakin’s pathos, thanks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=46m06s
23 - Anakin is much more brief with his graveside comments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=48m05s
24 - Anakin doesn’t whine about being ordered not to save Obi-Wan. Instead Padme takes charge and he smirks and goes along with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=49m07s
25 - Dooku’s interrogation of Obi-Wan is heavily cut and restructured.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=50m01s
26 - R2-D2 and C-3PO no longer follow Anakin and Padme out of the ship and into the Geonossian tunnels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=51m47s
27 - The droid factory action scene is cut. Anakin and Padme fight off the Geonossian ambush in the hallway but are captured immediately inside the door they run in to escape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=52m30s
28 - Padme expresses her love for Anakin before they are carted off to die in the arena. This is the first time romance is mentioned between them at all so Anakin is a bit shocked, but leans in for that first kiss as a crowd of bugs cheers for their deaths.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=52m53s
29 - The arena battle is largely intact, at least before the Jedi arrive. There some some trims here and there, like this rhinoceros thing not dragging Anakin for quite so long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=56m51s
30 - Padme’s leap from the pillar is trimmed to not look so unbelievable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=57m35s
31 - The reveal of the Jedi in the arena is restructured so they ignite their sabers before Windu does. His interaction with Dooku is much briefer before battle droids swarm him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=58m15s
32 - The Jedi vs. droids arena battle is streamlined with a lot less cutaways to action that doesn’t focus on Anakin and Padme or Obi-Wan. There’s also no C-3PO head swap subplot or Fett vs. Windu fight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=59m18s
33 - After Jango shoots down the Jedi who gets close to Dooku, he jetpacks away never to be seen again. I felt it was appropriate to go for a “Jango is a coward” vibe since every other action scene with him is cut. The only other character building scene of him left is when he pawns off his assignment to another bounty hunter and then kills her from a distance before fleeing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=59m49s
34 - I cut Yoda from the arena rescue scene as much as I could, but he still shows up briefly silhouetted on the dropship in the first shot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h01m16s
35 - Padme doesn’t fall out of the dropship. They all arrive at Dooku’s landing platform together and the Jedi rush ahead of her inside. Just as the enter, Dooku’s ship blasts off and she fires at it as he flees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h02m24s
36 - I created a montage of the Clone Wars to transition between Episode II and Episode III. I cobbled it together from scenes cut elsewhere in the edit like the Geonossian and Kashyyk battles and the Order 66 montage. Unfortunately the audio is muted on the YouTube version, but I’ve recreated it with YouTube Doubler.
http://youtubedoubler.com/j0pz
37 - An explosion fades into Coruscant’s sun from the opening post-crawl-pan-down of Episode III.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h06m02s
38 - The space action after the initial uncut opening shot is heavily trimmed. No vulture droids, no clone pilots, no missiles, no buzz droids. Anakin’s “This is where the fun begins” line is repurposed for right before he shoots the shields on the hangar doors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h07m13s
39 - Obi-Wan doesn’t pop out of his ship and somersault into the battle droids. The fight is cut down to only the closeups of Obi-Wan and Anakin fighting back-to-back with blaster bolts, sparks, and droid limbs flying around them. Also the comedy reaction shot of the last droid keeling over is cut. I think it helps make the Jedi look like more capable warriors if the droids don’t look comically inept.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h07m36s
40 - This scene ends on the much more punchy “Spring the trap!” instead of setting up the slapstick R2-D2 subplot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h08m07s
41 - The dumb and awful elevator hijinks and slapstick R2-D2 scenes has been removed. Instead, the destroyer droids back Obi-Wan and Anakin into the elevator and the doors slam shut and shoot them up to Palpatine’s throne room/prison at the top of the spire. Trap sprung!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h08m41s
42 - The interaction between Palpatine, Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Dooku is more tense and silent with much less bantering and exposition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h09m25s
43 - The lightsaber fight has been trimmed to remove Anakin bragging about his power, Obi-Wan running up the stairs directly at a stream of blaster fire with no consequences, and Palpatine’s goofy cheerleading. Also, Dooku doesn’t have to goad Anakin into using the Dark Side. In the edit I assume Anakin is well acquainted with using anger to tap into the Force ever since the Tusken slaughter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h09m42s
44 - Palpatine doesn’t have to suggest then order Anakin to decapitate Dooku, and Anakin shows no hesitation to do so. He does still express doubts after the fact but Palpatine praises the decision and reassures him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h10m37s
45 - Palpatine doesn’t push Anakin too hard on his “Leave Obi-Wan to die” idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h11m24s
46 - The “our ship in orbit with artificial gravity is sinking vertically” action sequence is cut. Instead the explosions jostle our heroes, Obi-Wan wakes up and climbs off the floor, and they call R2 for an elevator. A significant upside of this edit is that the Evil Future Emperor Palpatine is no longer the Jedi’s buffoonish sidekick as they swing around in the elevator shaft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h11m52s
47 - The Jedi are no longer captured like idiots to be paraded in front of Grievous for another goofy hamfisted dialogue scene. They now sneak attack the bridge and take out the pilot droids before cornering Grievous and forcing him to smash a window to escape. Also there’s no purple staff guards, only Grievous uses that weapon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h12m07s
48 - The ship doesn’t break in half, it’s just damaged and crashing. Anakin says he’s got no problem landing it and then the scene wipes to the group at the senate landing pad. No more crash landing half a battleship on a spaceship runway (?!) on Coruscant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h12m50s
49 - Anakin doesn’t express any hope or joy when Padme reveals she’s pregnant. She’s not to excited about it either. I wanted to start laying heavy tension on Anakin to help further motivate his fall to the Dark Side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h15m22s
50 - From this point on there is an extensive reshuffling of scenes to maximize the pressure built on Anakin. Tensions between he and Obi-Wan plus the rest of the Jedi over their distrust of Palpatine are introduced before his first vision of Padme’s death in childbirth. Also the vision is extended and includes a shot of Obi-Wan yelling “you are lost.” I think these changes add weight to Anakin’s response of “We don’t need his help” when Padme suggests they confide in Obi-Wan. The Jedi are seen to actively conspire against Palpatine and appear more duplicitous in their acceptance of Anakin’s promotion to the council use of him to spy on Palpatine. I’ve moved the Opera scene immediately before the scene where Anaking tells Padme he’s found a way to save her to more directly tie that revelation to Palpatine’s promise of the power to save people from dying. Finally, I end this rearranged sequence with a cut scene of Padme meeting with the rebel senators followed by the scene of her talking to Anakin about Palpatine being evil and Anakin reacting angrily. This is the last scene they have together in the edit until after the Jedi Temple is burned, which I think helps drive an emotional wedge between them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h16m00s
The original scene progression in Episode III goes like this:
• Padme reveals she’s pregnant
• Anakin’s has his first vision and tells Padme she will die in childbirth
• (cut in my edit) Anakin talks to Yoda
• Obi-Wan and Anakin talk in the briefing room
• Palpatine appoints Anakin to the Jedi Council
• The Jedi approve Anakin’s appointment, but don’t make him a master
• (Becomes two scenes in my edit.) Anakin and Obi-Wan talk in about how Anakin’s mad at the council and then about his secret “spy on Palpatine” mission.
• Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Windu talk on the dropship
• Anakin and Padme talk at sunset about how maybe Palpatine’s the bad guy.
• Palpatine and Anakin at the opera
• The Jedi council sends Obi-Wan after Grievous
• Anakin says goodbye to Obi-Wan
• Anakin has a second vision and reveals to Padme he’s found a way to save her.
My edit rearranges the scenes like this:
• Padme reveals she’s pregnant
• Palpatine appoints Anakin to the Jedi Council
• (From a deleted scene) Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Windu talk about how Palpatine is moving to take control of the Jedi council and form a conspiracy to arrest him.
• The Jedi approve Anakin’s appointment, but don’t make him a master
• Anakin and Obi-Wan talk in about how Anakin’s mad at the council
• Anakin has his first vision, now with images of the Vader’s march on the temple, Obi-Wan yelling “you are lost,” and Anakin on fire. Anakin tells Padme she will die in childbirth
• Obi-Wan and Anakin talk in the briefing room
• Anakin and Obi-Wan talk about Anakin’s secret “spy on Palpatine” mission.
• Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Windu talk on the dropship
• Palpatine and Anakin at the opera
• Anakin has a second vision and reveals to Padme he’s found a way to save her.
• The Jedi council sends Obi-Wan after Grievous
• Anakin says goodbye to Obi-Wan
• (From a deleted scene) Padme meets with Bail Organa, Mon Mothma, and the other founders of the Rebellion. She promises not to talk to anyone about how maybe Palpatine is the bad guy.
• Anakin and Padme talk at sunset about how maybe Palpatine’s the bad guy.
51 - I repurpose Yoda’s line about premonitions to introduce the cut scene with Windu saying he senses a plot to destroy the Jedi. This scene also helps the Jedi look less dumb since they all know Palpatine is evil, they just don’t think they can openly confront him because of space politics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h16m57s
52 - Windu interrupts Anakin before he can get too whiny. This is a win-win for avoiding whininess plus making the Jedi look like dicks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h17m59s
53 - This walk and talk scene is split in two in my edit (see change #56 for the other half). This first chunk focuses on Anakin’s anger at the Jedi for not making him a Master, as is tradition for those on the council. It also touches briefly on Anakin’s politically charged friendship with Palpatine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h18m25s
54 - Anakin’s first vision now includes shots of Vader and his troops marching on the Jedi temple, Obi-Wan screaming “you are lost,” and Anakin screaming and on fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h18m50s
55 - This scene ends on Anakin’s mistrust of Obi-Wan instead of his misguided hope for the future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h20m55s
56 - I’ve connected the second half of the walk and talk scene from change #53 onto the end of the briefing scene. The architecture doesn’t make any sense if you’re paying attention, but I’m hoping the conversation is engrossing enough to distract from that. I’ve also added a lighting change and a door noise to try and smooth the transition a bit as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h21m54s
57 - The Opera scene has had some trims and shuffles to make Anakin more open to the Dark Side. Here he doesn’t offer up much resistance to Palpatine’s statements that the Jedi and the Sith are basically the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h26m08s
58 - These portentous lines of dialogue are now linked together at the end of the Opera scene. I think it helps really drive home Anakin’s commitment to learning the Dark Side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h27m26s
59 - Anakin only apologizes for disappointing Obi-Wan, not being under appreciative or arrogant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h30m14s
60 - I’ve extended Anakin’s glare at the end of this seemingly friendly scene to imply that at this point Obi-Wan is dead to him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h30m51s
61 - I’ve reincorporated (with some rearrangement) this deleted scene about the founders of the rebellion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h31m15s
62 - The introduction to Utapau has been cut down to the initial invasion and the Grievous wheel bike/Space lizard chase.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h33m25s
63 - Grievous and Obi-Wan trading jabs with the purple light stick is much more streamlined.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h34m24s
64 - Anakin confronting Palpatine and Palpatine revealing himself to be a Sith Lord is cut in favor of a quieter edit where Anakin and Palpatine show they both mistrust the Jedi and are dabbling in the Dark Side together already. I’ve repurposed Palpatine and Anakin’s last lines from the original confrontational scene to be a friendly moment of encouragement between the two.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h35m29s
65 - The middle section of the Grievous/Obi-Wan fist fight where Obi-Wan gets tossed around a bunch and then pries Grievous’s chest armor open is cut. Now Obi-Wan’s first launch into the air and his last fall from the original scene happen one after another.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h36m23s
66 - Anakin doesn’t tell Windu that Palpatine is a Sith Lord. He just tries to weasel his way into the Jedi coupe group but gets shut down by a suspicious Windu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h37m20s
67 - I’ve zoomed in a bit on the POV shots of the Jedi Temple and Padme’s apartment in this scene to make it a little more immediate what we’re looking at.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h38m50s
68 - C-3PO no longer trundles up to Padme to interrupt this effective and emotional scene. Instead of just turning toward her prissy robot butler after longingly looking out the window to her secret baby daddy, she now symbolically turns away from Anakin as he’s about to make a bad decision.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h39m38s
69 - Windu is a lot more snarky in this exchange.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h39m56s
70 - Palpatine’s rush toward the Jedi omits the dumb flying pirouette and shows him hacking up Windu’s compatriots a lot quicker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h40m10s
71 - Anakin gets from the landing pad to Palpatine’s office a lot quicker. A lot of the Palpatine/Windu fight is cut including most of Palpatine’s dumb expressions. Right before Palpatine gets kicked in the face and tosses his saber there’s a cutaway to Anakin entering. I was trying to imply he was aware of Anakin’s approach and threw the fight as a manipulation tactic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h40m21s
72 - The extensive back and forth between Palpatine and Windu about who’s more traitory has been cut. Gone too are Palpatine’s weak old man routine and his pleading with Anakin to save him. Instead Windu is very quick to state that Palpatine is too dangerous to live, swings at him, and is promptly disarmed. Anakin doesn’t even try to pretend he’s more interested in using laws and bureaucracy to punish Palpatine. He just says “I need him” and attacks Windu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h40m52s
73 - Palpatine’s puffy monster face simply appears as he sends out his first blast of lightning. Several Anakin reaction shots are repurposed and inserted into this moment so he looks on first with confusion and disgust, then resignation to the choice he’s made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h41m08s
74 - Anakin no longer laments “What have I done?” at the beginning of his Sith knighting ceremony. There’s no mention of Padme and Palpatine doesn’t immediately bait and switch Anakin by revealing he doesn’t actually know how to save people from dying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h41m38s
75 - I removed Palpatine’s weird exposition about Anakin’s best friend Obi-Wan Kenobi and trusted viewers to understand that “Every single Jedi” also includes his friend, Obi-Wan Kenobi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h43m11s
76 - I moved Anakin’s “I agree” line to Palpatine here to make him explicitly agree with destroying all the Jedi. I think it’s better if Anakin is invested in his own evil at this point and isn’t all “Ho hum, I guess I’ll kill all my buddies to save Padme.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h43m20s
77 - There’s no extended exposition after the line “Do what must be done, Lord Vader. Do not hesitate. Show no mercy.” The scene just wipes to Vader’s march on the temple.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h43m32s
78 - All that’s left of the Vader killing kids segment is a close-up of his face and the sound of his saber igniting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h44m35s
79 - C-3PO is once again removed from a Padme scene to make her sadder and lonelier and more tragic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h44m41s
80 - Palpatine’s interaction with Commando Cody from the beginning of the Order 66 scene is repurposed here without the Order 66 dialogue, just “The time has come,” before he tries to kill Obi-Wan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h45m52s
81 - No more happy cheery R2-D2 being told to wait in the ship while the murder happens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h49m23s
82 - The convenient hologram Obi-Wan finds cuts out the Palpatine/Vader bit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h52m37s
83 - Padme’s line “FROM THE SITH!?!” has been cut.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h53m51s
84 - Obi-Wan no longer refers to Anakin “killing younglings.” He just says “I’ve seen a security hologram of him…” and trails off, unable to finish and turning away in disgust.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h54m04s
85 - I’ve darkened Palpatine’s office so it looks less like a mauve disaster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h57m07s
86 - Padme and Anakin’s chat on Mustafar has been streamlined. Lots is gone including the amazing line “Love won’t save you Padme. Only my new powers can do that.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=1h58m27s
87 - I’ve tried to make Padme’s choking a little more brutal with some rearranged screaming from Anakin, a reversed shot of his hand tightening, and a slightly sped up fall to the ground.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=2h00m01s
88 - Anakin interrupts Obi-Wan’s lecture to make things a little tenser. Lots of cuts in their exchange here to make both sound less awkward and weird and contradictory and hamfisted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=2h00m22s
89 - A much more streamlined final lightsaber battle begins here with no cut aways to any Yoda/Palpatine shenanigans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=2h00m52s
90 - Anakin and Obi-Wan don’t rave twirl their lightsabers forever before locking. Then when they both force push at the same time they instantly fly apart instead of building up a little exploding force energy ball thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=2h01m12s
91 - Anakin and Obi-Wan’s exchange as they float down the lava river cuts Obi-Wan’s repeated “I have failed you” and Anakin’s “From my point of view.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=2h03m30s
92 - Obi-Wan no longer brags about having the high ground.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=2h04m04s
93 - Obi-Wan’s last words to Anakin cut all the chosen one/prophecy stuff. Also, Anakin now responds to Obi-Wan saying he loved Anakin as a brother by screaming “I HATE YOU” and immediately catching on fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=2h04m28s
94 - I’ve cut Palpatine on the ridge with the clone troopers because I think Palpatine looks ludicrous anytime he’s skulking around out in the world and not his office/throne room/lair with his little claw hands out in his evil robes with his monster face.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=2h07m05s
95 - I’ve trimmed another shot of Palpatine from this landing platform walk and filled the gap with a slower shot of Anakin’s mangled body.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=2h08m26s
96 - The Medical droid doesn’t talk about Padme loosing the will to live. Plus there’s no more “Babies?!” quip crowbarred into this death scene. The droid just says “She’s carrying twins. We need to operate quickly if we are to save the babies,” and everyone looks sad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=2h08m49s
97 - Leia is born first and spends the most time up near Padme’s dying face, thus justifying her “kind but sad” characterization of her mother in Return of the Jedi. TOTALLY MAKES SENSE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=2h09m27s
98 - I’ve adjusted Vader’s masking scene by joining the two shots of the mask lowering from Anakin’s POV into one shot to draw out the tension and then cutting to Anakin’s reaction shot as it lowers onto his face. His eyes at their widest in fear is the last thing shown of Anakin before the mask vacuum seals onto his face. Vader taking his first wheezing breath is the last thing shown of him in the edit. No more chat with Palpatine and Frankenstein stumble, no more “Noooooo!” no more on the bridge of a Star Destroyer looking at the Death Star’s skeleton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=2h10m15s
99 - After Padme dies it cuts right to her funeral (now with no reaction shots of her cut scene family or Jar-Jar and pals). I’ve also cut the scene of the Jedi haggling over the babies and the surprise last minute Qui-Gon/Force ghost plot hole glue. After the funeral it cuts to Leia meeting her new mom on Alderaan and Obi-Wan delivering Luke to Tatooine. THE END!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=2h11m12s
100 - This jovial wink to the original Star Wars is repurposed for the after credits scene instead of coming IMMEDIATELY BEFORE A MAIN CHARACTER’S FUNERAL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LqO03PQvl0&t=2h19m35s
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