https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h0-XipP7Ex1ypZZI0QAKQj-d7T-2Mt3F/view
This is a rough draft from my machete cut the other year (I donāt have the final, i deleted everything, just happened to find this). Lots of the scenes were smoothed out and the dinner scene was re-inserted (Was mad chopping scenes to get down near a 2 hour cut and cut over zealous haha) but should give a rough idea of Qui-gon and themās time with Anakin on the planet and how i was roughly planning it.
Anakins dialogue is meant to be less cheesy, and the biggest change is the cutting of the podrace and the reason/how of Quigon freeing Anakin. Quigon now is intrigued first by Anakins story at dinner about racing pods and then by his mothers story. He then test his blood, sends Anakin to bed, and gets a knowing look from Anakins mother. The next day, he frees Anakin by selling Anakins pod that Wato didnāt know about, and uses jedi trickery to win the dice roll. Adding to a darker side of the jedi, as they are already plucking kids from their mothers, and Anakin is deemed to old to train. Plus Anakins mom senses Quigons interest in her kid that night before, and gives him that look. So when Quigon tells them they are free, the look from Anakins mom is a, āah ha, i knew you were planning thisā in a sad way. To which she (as the one good person in his life who actually gives him a clear choice) allows him to choose his path. The jedi and Sidious just want him to do what they want and to use him. Adding to Anakins mistrust in Ep III, the sadness of leaving his mother and her eventual death, and focuses the story more closely to his journey and less the spectacle of his podrace. Which i would now like to use in the Revised Version as a way to introduce him before Quigon and gang meet him. Which would also help establish who he is before meeting them to back up lines like, āIm a pilot, and some day, im going to fly away from hereā. As now well have seen him podracing already, living a dingy slave life, fighting greedo, gunblast and death screams in the background, dingy dark living quarters, etc.
This clip like i said tho was just a rough cut for the machete version. So i know some of the scenes should have been longer, and i did fix them and re-insert the dinner scene. Then i deleted them all so i could redo with new vfx in 1080p instead of 720. So just an idea of the rough narrative i was planning for Tatooine. This again was for the machete cut, where unlike the other machete cuts i had scene, i didnāt want to sacrifice TPM and its story and just keep the end fight. I kept a lot of TPM and just stream lined it focusing on the meat of the story. This way though, you got a proper introduction to Obiwan and Quigon before the end battle with Quigon dying, and you get Anakins journey and how he comes to be with the jedi. I donāt like just coming in on AOTC. I cut TPM down to around 45 min for the Machete cuts 3-1 movie, with the rest of the movie being ATOC and ROTSās narrative surrounding Anakin. This was meant to be watched after Ep V and before VI, to answer Vader story to Luke about being his father. Which also sets up the Emperors story going into Ep VI. With the Machete Cut being just 1 movie, the parallels between Luke and Anakin are closer in context, such as the Emperor using lightening and Anakin having to make a choice. Or the much more obvious dark imagery of Luke going into Ep VI, along with using the force choke like his father.