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It’s the scene where Yoda is in bacta tank and you hear Qui-Gon saying “No… This is not the way.” I placed this over the obnoxious “NOOO!” but I was not at all talented enough to make it work. All I was capable of was reducing the main audio and trying to insert the Clone Wars line, but the background music was just wrong. Plus, the calling out of Anakin’s name was a little too dramatic for the line that followed. I ended up scrapping it and keeping the line as it was but decided on cutting the scene on Mace Windu’s face as the Imperial March is in the background.
But I still I have a weird feeling that with a decent editor it could work. You get some authentic Liam Neeson… you get Qui-Gon seemingly expressing his disappointment in the path that Anakin is taking…
There is a very beautiful scene where it could fit, in Episode III, when Anakin is waiting alone in the jedi council that Palpatine gets arrested by Windu. At the beginning there is a voice over of the Palpatine speech about Padmé, just after you could insert as a “light” answer Qui-Gon’s “No… this is not the way Anakin…”. This is the scene when Anakin choices the path to join Palpatine, so it might work to get him conflicted between Palpatine’s lies and Qui-Gon’s wisdom. But you need to leave the rest of the scene completely musical, as it is in the theatrical cut (it may be the best scene of the entire prelogy: no dialogue, Anakin and Padmé deeply challenged by antagonist feelings, eerie shots of an infinite yet claustrophobic city, moving score on top of that, and a perfect montage : if the complete prelogy had been done that way, we would not need fan edit to fix everything wrong !).
(the best dialogues Lucas has ever written is when his characters don’t talk !)
