Cutting out Anakin’s scenes with his mother, Padmé, and Anakin’s friendship, and his first meeting with and awe of Qui-Gonn Jinn as the first Jedi he ever meets all negatively impact the plot as well as the audience’s emotional investment in the story. Stephanie Tran: I think that ultimately the edit cut too much of Anakin’s relationships that inform his character and explain his eventual turn to the Dark Side. There was just so much extra junk in there that’s not worth remembering and all of that distracts from the core story.
I consider myself a Star Wars fan, but if you ask me details about Episodes I-III, I’ll often draw a blank. Other than that, though, I think simplifying the plot helped a lot. Without those pieces he comes off as just some bratty teenager who doesn’t like authority figures (which he is, but there’s got to be more than just that). I was shocked at how much better the story flowed even after cutting out Count Dooku’s plot and the entirety of General Grevious, but I think we could have used a little more flashback to Anakin’s flirtation with the dark side as he killed Dooku.Ĭhrista : Like Kat, I think the biggest loss was Anakin’s backstory, particularly his time as a slave and his relationship with his mother. I think we also could have seen a little of how unsure and unprepared to take on a padawan Obi-Wan was at the end of The Phantom Menace his mentorship by Qui-Gonn is an important parallel thematically. Kat: I think the biggest loss was Anakin’s backstory as a slave and an explanation of his separation from his mother. Did simplifying the plot help or was too much left out? It knows what it wants to accomplish and it moves quickly to do that, ejecting everything extraneous. Overall, I think The Editor Strikes Back is much more effective, even with all of the gaps that are left in his reedit. All of the politics in the prequels are so paper thin that the most stock explanation suffices. Did those sequences really just work to add parallels to other shittier Jedi? The only real loss from cutting the film is the small detail of how Palpatine uses the Trade Federation to rise to power, but even that isn’t really a loss. Although we skip right over Obi-Wan’s training and youth it doesn’t feel like we skipped much. Megan Purdy: Cutting The Phantom Menace was one of his better decisions and shows how little that film ultimately added to our understanding of these characters. I was impressed at how much could be cut to create a coherent film. While there were parts I missed from the originals, the story was tighter and flowed better. Kat Overland: I thought it was a big improvement.
I was shocked at first that essentially the entirety of The Phantom Menace was cut, but upon reflection I think that the story doesn’t suffer too much from the cut. Stephanie Tran: Condensing the story and making it tighter, as Christa mentioned, did do a lot to improve the story, but it wasn’t that high of a bar to meet. This isn’t necessarily the fault of the edit much of that information wasn’t in the originals either. But it still felt like pieces of the story went unexplained or were underdeveloped. In the originals, the jump from them meeting when he was a child to them dating felt strange and a little creepy. And not having Anakin and Padmé meet when he was a child was also a huge improvement. Condensing the plot of three filler-filled movies into one definitely made the story tighter. Is Star Wars: The Editor Strikes Back an improvement on the originals?Ĭhrista Seeley : It’s an improvement, but still far from perfect. (Or, honestly, if it was ever good.) So Kat, Christa, Stephanie, and I sat down one Sunday afternoon together to watch and marvel over this valiant effort to turn the much despised prequels into, well, an actual movie. After Rogue One, we wanted to see if held up.
THE STORY OF STAR WARS FANEDIT TORRENT MOVEALONG MOVIE
Back in 2012, Topher Grace edited the three Star Wars prequels, The Phantom Menace, The Clone Wars, and Revenge of the Sith, into one 85 minute movie and called it Star Wars: The Editor Strikes Back.
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