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I broke down recently and bought The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones on DVD. It's been interesting, browsing through the extras -- the making-of featurettes, the promo photos, the trailers.
Does anyone else think that the TPM trailer plot would have made for a *much* better movie, what with the implication that the Jedi are going into the haul out a queen and a senator during an invasion?
What about the 'tone poems' tv spots? Am I the only one who thinks 'One Love' reads like a Kramer vs. Kramer with added spaceships? Admittedly, that would probably have been a more interesting story... but seriously, in this spot Shmi and Qui-Gon come across as a still-amiable divorced couple making hard decisions about the future of their son than a woman sending her son off into the unknown with a virtual stranger. What was the designer thinking?
'One Dream' certainly makes me wonder what happened to Anakin's dream that he would come back to Tatooine as a Jedi and liberate the slaves. Did that future die with his mother? Or was it never a precognitive dream in the first place? Given how strong Anakin is in the Force, I kind of doubt that.
'One Destiny' and 'One Truth' are interesting viewed together, as they are respectively a Jedi and a Sith. The Jedi philosophy embodied in the spot is quite different from what we were shown in the movie -- 'it will be a hard life --one without reward, without remorse, without regret' and 'but you will find out who you are' is a lot different from 'attachment is forbidden' and 'every human emotion you have ever experienced leads to the Dark Side'.
I wish we heard more of Sith philosophy over the course of the series, because very few people believe that they are Evil, Totally Evil, and take cackling delight in it (Palpatine by RotJ, is an exception, of course). I love the idea that the Sith *like* fear because they regard it as their ally -- both using it exploit and to corrupt.
'One Will' would be more interesting if more of Padme's interior life had appeared in on screen in the movie. She's brave and kick-ass, but frankly, her costuming sometimes overwhelms her.
It's really easy to see why fans write fic, and even make personal edits (The Phantom Edit, among others)... the film has *so* much potential, and you're left scratching your head over why it's so *dull*.
Does anyone else think that the TPM trailer plot would have made for a *much* better movie, what with the implication that the Jedi are going into the haul out a queen and a senator during an invasion?
What about the 'tone poems' tv spots? Am I the only one who thinks 'One Love' reads like a Kramer vs. Kramer with added spaceships? Admittedly, that would probably have been a more interesting story... but seriously, in this spot Shmi and Qui-Gon come across as a still-amiable divorced couple making hard decisions about the future of their son than a woman sending her son off into the unknown with a virtual stranger. What was the designer thinking?
'One Dream' certainly makes me wonder what happened to Anakin's dream that he would come back to Tatooine as a Jedi and liberate the slaves. Did that future die with his mother? Or was it never a precognitive dream in the first place? Given how strong Anakin is in the Force, I kind of doubt that.
'One Destiny' and 'One Truth' are interesting viewed together, as they are respectively a Jedi and a Sith. The Jedi philosophy embodied in the spot is quite different from what we were shown in the movie -- 'it will be a hard life --one without reward, without remorse, without regret' and 'but you will find out who you are' is a lot different from 'attachment is forbidden' and 'every human emotion you have ever experienced leads to the Dark Side'.
I wish we heard more of Sith philosophy over the course of the series, because very few people believe that they are Evil, Totally Evil, and take cackling delight in it (Palpatine by RotJ, is an exception, of course). I love the idea that the Sith *like* fear because they regard it as their ally -- both using it exploit and to corrupt.
'One Will' would be more interesting if more of Padme's interior life had appeared in on screen in the movie. She's brave and kick-ass, but frankly, her costuming sometimes overwhelms her.
It's really easy to see why fans write fic, and even make personal edits (The Phantom Edit, among others)... the film has *so* much potential, and you're left scratching your head over why it's so *dull*.
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Actually, I love TPM... it's my favourite Star Wars film!
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I have to say, there are at least two deleted scenes from TPM that I'm annoyed got cut. Anakin fighting with Greebo made perfect sense, especially with Qui-Gon finding them and giving Anakin the Look of Parental Disapproval. The scene where Anakin says goodbye to Jira is one where I'd keep at least the second half of it, because Qui-Gon destroying the tracking droid is cool, and makes Darth Maul's attack a tiny bit more suspenseful.