jkimm said:
Haha, that was a horrendous scene. Fortunately there are enough good moments to salvage the film into something watchable. 😄
Did you make any major changes to the assassination worm and Coruscant chase?
Yeah, the Picnic Scene just before that bizarre frolic is actually one of the better written scenes in AotC, if you tweak it a bit.
Honestly, the thing that hurt me the most recutting Attack of the Clones was the slow realization of how close George was to making a great film. I found it shockingly easy to get the romance arc working (I thought it would be hard.), but once I figured out the three or so mistakes that George made across the whole film, and corrected them globally, the whole movie fell into place.
To answer your question, yes, I overhauled the whole front end of the movie. It would take too long to write out a full change list, but the basic gist is this. I recut Anakin and Obi-Wan as a great team with good banter, removing all of the whining and helicopter parenting. Anakin is especially reframed as being extremely talented, to make it believable that Padme falls for him. I also reworked Jango, so that the first time you see him is when he plugs Zam with the dart. That change ends the first act with a sense of forward momentum charging into the second act.
