Check out Obi-Wan’s clone wars voice, this one is spot on and might be useful for some Prequel edits as well, due to JAT’s Obi sounding a lot like Ewan’s.
I typed a test sentence in, and it added some stuff to the end that I didn’t put in. I’m god damn losing it.
Sounds like Obi is losing his sh*t as well 😄
Check out Obi-Wan’s clone wars voice, this one is spot on and might be useful for some Prequel edits as well, due to JAT’s Obi sounding a lot like Ewan’s.
Give 3PO, R2 and Chewbacca camouflage ponchos like the rest of the rebels on Endor.
Maybe some shot from Boba’s flashbacks of the tusken could be reutilized to visualize Anakins nightmares in AOTC.
Especially the earlier flashback of how he was abducted by the tusken could work for this.
Years ago I attempted an edit of TPM. I never finished it, but I remember doing a very simple edit in the beginning that seemed to work quite well. It was the scene following the ship blowing up in the hangar and the Jedi reacting to it. Gas is pumped into the room and the Jedi hold their breath. Cut to “Sir… they’ve gone up the ventilation shaft.” This would omit the inane line “They must be dead by now, destroy what’s left of them”, chopping through droids like butter, Qui-Gon trying to burn a hole through the blast doors, and the lightning fast down the hall move when evading the destroyer droids which is never used again. They emerge in the main hangar bay and Qui-Gon says “Battle droids.”, as if confirming a suspicion out loud rather than seeming surprised at seeing lots of battle droids even though they just fought a dozen or so of them a minute earlier with the scene intact. The Jedi kicking ass is then saved for a later scene when they’re trying to free the Queen from the droid escort on Naboo.
This is brilliant, great short cut. Though I don’t know how well this would play into the amidala=Death Star plans angle.
But regardless of that I really like this idea.
Maybe we could replace Kylo’s line about clone troopers in TFA with something that could indicate there indication. Thanks to his voice modulator, redubbing him is fairly simple. I just can’t think of any fitting line right now and I am way too busy with my exams at the moment to give it a lot of thought.
There is the really dirty option to just trim the reaction shot of maul. Its the only shot the blood is in, you could easily shorten it by a second and skip the blood. You would only need to fix the audio afterwards to get rid of mauls grunt when the saber hits him. That could be a little tricky, but not really time consuming. At worst you would have to redo the saber-slashing sound effect and find a clean recording of the score.
I’d just move the audio forwards so that it starts at what is now the beginning of the trimmed shot, then shave the difference off the end of the audio sometime before whatever the next SFX is (Obi-Wan deactivating the saber, I think).
I’d do it the same way if it wasn’t for Maul’s grunt after he is hit, sadly it overlaps with the SFX of the saber.
There is the really dirty option to just trim the reaction shot of maul. Its the only shot the blood is in, you could easily shorten it by a second and skip the blood. You would only need to fix the audio afterwards to get rid of mauls grunt when the saber hits him. That could be a little tricky, but not really time consuming. At worst you would have to redo the saber-slashing sound effect and find a clean recording of the score.
I don’t think huttese is an option for this scene. Qui-Gon doesn’t speak huttese, Watto is only talking in huttese when he is talking to Anakin.
“The uploaded has not made this video available in your country”
What’s the bigger Joke, the Joke or the Joke that follows?
The original video was Weird Al’s song The Saga Begins. It’s a parody of the song American Pie, with the lyrics changed to be about the plot of TPM. The crawl Sade posted was the first verse of that song.
Ahh, that explains why the crawl rhyme, I was both wondering about that and really impressed with Sade.
- I like that new structure! I wonder if there’s a way of keeping more of the original scenes, though - maybe the Jedi are going to the Droid Control Ship first to either end the invasion diplomatically, or they think the Queen is being held there, depending on dialogue options. It could even be a deliberate trap for them to go there first, since Sidious would know the Senate has dispatched Jedi to go there and rescue the Queen.
Maybe Gunray could tell the Jedi that they have the Queen on board to lure them into a trap?
This would make him more active and less dependent on Sidious.That’s a good idea. Is there Gunray dialogue we could repurpose?
I’d suggest cutting the little exchange between Qui-gon and the pilot and redubbing her to say something explaining that they’re ambassadors sent to escort Amidala to coruscant. Then we could alter Gunray’s response to “Yes of course. The Queen and I would be happy to receive the ambassadors.”
This is great, I love the shots you chose, it all fits really good. A big improvement upon the original, at least in my book.
“The uploaded has not made this video available in your country”
What’s the bigger Joke, the Joke or the Joke that follows?
I think this works great.
- I like that new structure! I wonder if there’s a way of keeping more of the original scenes, though - maybe the Jedi are going to the Droid Control Ship first to either end the invasion diplomatically, or they think the Queen is being held there, depending on dialogue options. It could even be a deliberate trap for them to go there first, since Sidious would know the Senate has dispatched Jedi to go there and rescue the Queen.
Maybe Gunray could tell the Jedi that they have the Queen on board to lure them into a trap?
This would make him more active and less dependent on Sidious.
In regards to the Sith revealing themself, I would like to make Mace a little doubtful of their reappearance. Maybe change his dialogue to something like this: “It looks like the mysterious warrior was a Sith.” (Yoda) “If they really returned.”
This would hit the same chord as Madam Jocasta’s remark about the Jedi Archives in AOTC.
I think the simplest way to fix the sky would be to darken the sky for the amidala Palpatine scene and lose the shot of the setting sun. I’ll play around with that.
Edit: I realize now that the scene with Maul And Sidious is shot on the balcony of Palpatiine’s apartment, it’s the exact same railing. I have never noticed that till now.
I have been talking briefly about this idea in the prequel ideas thread, but I think associating the separatist with slavers could really benefit the story, making the whole conflict feel a lot more personal to Anakin.
So what if the gungan are the reason the federation chose Naboo? This could be explained with them wanting slaves that can operate under water or something.
It would both connect Anakin’s story to the overarching story of TPM and add a lot of emotion to the battle between the gungan and the federation army to a point that it would almost exactly parallel the battle in Spartacus, which it optically already does.
To explain why they are looking at Watto’s record, you could add a line saying that he sold Cliegg something from his shop. I think right before the “I’d like to know line” would be the perfect. Maybe like this:
“…other side of Mos Eisley. I sold him a T-” “I’d like to know.” break “Sure, lets take a look at my records.”
With all the talk (both here and in the TPM community thread) of having Shmi already be free by the time of AOTC, I wanted to share this attempt I made at the Watto scene to remove references to him selling her but maintain the information we need about the Lars family.
I think that has potential. Only the “years ago” line is a bit jarring, because the lip-sync doesn’t match. Maybe that could be fixed by shuffling the shots around, but I am not sure about that, I would need to watch the full scene again.
I am thinking about how to add flashbacks of the Tusken to Anakins duel with Dooku in AOTC. The idea is to imply that the anger from that is fueling him.
Maybe this could be put before Anakin reenters the fight, so that it looks like Dooku threatening to kill Obi-Wan triggered Anakins flashbacks of his mother.
- In ROTS, when Anakin wields a blue and red saber to decapitate Dooku, illustrative of him making the transition to the dark.
It actually funny that you mention this scene specifically, because I was thinking of it as well in comparison to my edit, yet I saw it as a nice parallel. But to be fair I’m a sucker for parallels, I love movies like hot fuzz, that you can watch 20 times and each time you will notice another tiny parallel between two scenes.
But people have different taste and opinions, that’s the point of a forum, isn’t it?
I can see your arguments against the change and I understand them. And rest assured I am neither trying to change your opinion and start a big fuzz over it nor do I feel attacked by your criticism of the idea. Quite the opposite it show’s me that people engage with what I was putting in the hour between 2 and 3 in the morning instead of going to bed. (sleep is for the weak) And I think we can all agree that engagement is generally our preference to radio silence.
The red Maul saber is a nice addition, and well done, but I feel like there’s important symbolism in Obi-Wan taking up Qui-Gon’s saber (and metaphorically his quest) at that point. They’ve had their disagreement and made up about training Anakin. Obi-Wan the padawan falls, and Obi-Wan the knight rises, inheritor of Qui-Gon’s ideals.
Interesting interpretation, I never thought of it this way. I guess there are arguments for both keeping the saber qui-gon’s or changing it to maul’s. I think making it maul’s is a classic example of a Chekhov’s gun, it’s cut in two so that Obi can use it later on. Also visually I like it, it’s symbolizing that revenge is not the Jedi way and to me Obi using his master’s blade to kill Maul always felt a little like him taking revenge for him.
Where did the new lightsaber shot come from?
It’s from the lightsaber duel in AOTC, where Pbi-Wan is pulling his saber to give it to Anakin.
A little test version of an idea I had posted a while ago in the prequel ideas thread.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pRcOv99W0zVF-llONYcoPJXMRsXXSYjz/view?usp=sharing
Obviously it still needs some tedious work regarding the handle, but this should be possible.