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Hi guys!
As we all know, the prequel trilogy was kind off disappointing. The Phantom Menace gave us 9 year old Anakin, Jar Jar and a story that felt disconnected from the other 2 (even though Maul was freaking awesome). Attack of the Clones had an irritating Anakin, weird romance and some confusing (Kamino and whole Syfo Dyas thing) or disappoiting (don’t know about you guys, but I really disliked how Anakin and Owen Lars met) plot points. In the end, the only prequel that gave us the things we wanted to see - the Clone Wars in full scale, Anakin as a hero and becoming darker, Darth Vader, Palpatine’s manipulations, etc - was Revenge of the Sith. So, instead of making another 3-1 edit, I thought that maybe Revenge of the Sith had everything we needed from Anakin’s story. So, the fan edit I made tries to make ROTS work as a standalone experience, hoping it gives us what we wanted to see without having to watch boring padawan Anakin to understand the full thing. The base material for this edit was Hal900 Labyrinth of Evil, who made a really great work with the movie! The list of changes I made are:
- New logo.
- New starting crawl (letters are red, heavily inspired by the Ahsoka crawl, couldn’t justify because I edited in Premiere Pro, put the Imperial March), trying to give us a full ocntext of the Sith, the clone army and the war.
- Added a bit part of Kenobi’s dialogue from A New Hope talking about the Jedi being the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic - put before “A long time ago…”, only the audio.
- Cut the reference about Anakin’s mother and the sand people after Dooku’s duel to work as a standalone (we don’t really need Anakin’s full backstory for the story to work). However, kept scenes about former duels between Anakin and Dooku so the audience learns the have a backstory. Also kept Palpatine’s line “He cut off your arm, you wanted revenge” because I thought it worked, but I’m not sure - you guys can tell me after you watch it.
- Cut any reference about the chosen one prophecy - edited Mace and Kenobi’s dialogue in the helicopter, and also, unfortunately, had to cut out “YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE” so it works for the purpose of the edit.
- Cut the twins names - This might be weird, but I made it so it works for those who haven’t watched A New Hope and also for those who are watching in the Machete Order or who have already seen the OT.
- Edited the dialogue with Obi Wan, Yoda and Bail about the fate of the twins so it doesn’t show Yoda talking about “Anakin’s family in Tatooine” since we don’t know abou them in this edit.
- Ended the edit with Vader being born, with a final shot of his mask and his first iconic breath.
- Added a new song to the credits (Emotional version of the Imperial March - made by Samuel Kim Music, all credits to him)
- Added Leia going to Alderaan with Bail and Obi-Wan taking Luke to Tatooine as post credits scenes to give us a little tease of the OT. Didn’t show their names or Beru’s face.
So, if you guys liked the ideas and want to watch the edit, just PM me or send an email to psfanedits@gmail.com
Make sure to give some feedback after you watch it! I’m just a beginner in this world of editing, so there are somethings that need to be improved, specially about rescoring and adding effects to stuff. That’s the first version of the edit, so expect future changes on it! Your feedback is really important so I know how to improve in further versions or edits. But, most importantly, tell me if it works as a standalone experience! That’s the whole point in the end lol.
if you are an editor and wants to edit it and improve it, feel free! Just hit me up so i can watch it!
Thank you for getting this far! May the force be with you!
