Deleted Episode One Scenes

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I just saw the deleted "Phantom Menace" scenes on the new Star Wars DVD, and, I understand that Lucas cut them for time, but they DO help flesh out a couple of scenes and I think it would have been a better film if they weren't cut. Just a couple:

POD RACE

You see much more of other racers, and their families and friends, and it adds a layer of pathos to crashes.

Anakin shows off more piloting skills including a shot where one of his engine cables comes loose from his pod and he spins around helplessly until he's able to regain the cable (akin to a chariot racer losing the reigns of his team). He comes off more skilled, and less lucky.

GREEDO

The green alien who tried to kill Hans Solo in the bar scene years later has a scuffle with Anakin. Cute.


DARTH MAUL'S SPY DROID

I always wondered why Qui Gon and Anakin were running to the ship in the desert, just before Darth Maul attacks. Now you see the scene where the spy droid finds them in the town, and Qui Gon smashing it with his lightsaber, looking around, knowing he's been spotted by "someone".


THE WATER FALL and TAXI SEQUENCES

Beautiful, if unneccesary. I can see why they were cut. They don't advance the plot much (and I think Lucas didn't have the waterfall scene finsihed in time). Still, they're beautiful to look at.


PRINCESS AMIDALA MAKING LOVE TO OBI-WAN

Just kidding.



There are also a whole slew of documentaries and other features on the DVD -- about 6 hours worth of extras. Sheesh. For a guy who has resisted the whole DVD market Lucas sure has jumped in with both feet.

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

I have a question

Why does Hollyweird still stick to the old time constraint formulas?

There have been a number of decent longer than normal films where the director stuck to his/her guns and kept the film relatively intact and they did well.

Films don't live or die on whether they are 15 minutes longer or shorter, especially cult films like Star Wars.

Or is this all now a scheme to add value for after release video products?

 

[OUTSIDER]

This remind's me of the time when the directors cut of Blade Runner came out and they showed it on TV for the first time.....I know I'll probably get shot for this but I actually liked the non-directors cut better, the only thing I liked about the DC one was the fact that you find out that the Harrison Ford character was really a replicant himself.

 

[flawed_ethics]

Gee Outsider, thanks for ruining it for the rest of us! Just kidding, it's one of the many movie endings that has been spoiled for me by reading such threads (The Sixth Sense / Bruce Willis conncetion being of note).

Concerning the deleted scenes in SW:Ep.1, huh. Sounds cool, although I doubt I'll see them anytime soon. I've always been a sucker for that stuff though. Wish they had some for Labryinth and the Tron DVDs (Tron does have deleted scenes, but for whatever reason, they're not on the DVD).

Be nice to have a DVD to watch them all on too!

 

[Mensa]

PRINCESS AMIDALA MAKING LOVE TO OBI-WAN

Just kidding.

Dix, you bastard!! Here I was thinking that at last there was a reason to watch it again!

Oh, well! On to chapter two. What was it called again? Send in the clones?

 

[Spinaroonie]

Do any of them patch up any of the plot holes, THAT I'd like to see!

I wish it was a better movie, I wish it was... I think that Clerks episode hit the nail on the head... one weekend of writting, years of claiming it'd be written.

 

[Lord Emu]

I knew about the spy droid spotting Qui-Gon it's in the book as is a lot of stuff that isn't in the movie. There is a part where Anakin saves a Tuskin Raider and they hve the pod race where Sebulba causes Anakin to wreck the pod racer that is mentioned in the movie. There is lots of other stuff too like more on the history of The Sith. This has nothing to do with the movie but I want to state that I think Exar Kun was the coolest
Sith Lord.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I watched the "Making of Episode I" on the DVD (actually two DVDs -- one for the film and one for the extras), and it was pretty good. I liked watching the auditions for Anakin, Lucas' high hopes for the character Jar-Jar (funny, now, in hindsight), the various concept changes they had to make along the way, the first table reading, Spielberg visiting the set, etc. Fun stuff.

And it's the least studied you've ever seen Lucas. He's not in interview mode here, but in his own little world, working and creating, and he's involving to watch.

I liked Frank Oz, holding his Yoda puppet, watching the dailies for Watto, the computer generated creature, and saying to Lucas, "God! You don't need ME anymore."

Ewan McGreggor is a hoot, like a kid in a candy store picking out which light saber he wants to use, and, after his first light saber fight he turns to a crewmember all jazzed and says, "And they asked me if I wanted to do the Star Wars film and I said 'Fucking yes!'"

*sigh*

I just wish the film itself had been a little better. Ah well...Send in the Clones....

 

[Renegade]

*In Frau Farbissina voice from second Austin Powers movie* Send in the clones!!

Hmmm a Mini-Darth Maul clone vs. a Mini-Qui-Gon Jin clone? Midget lightsaber battles to the death? Hey, Episode 2 is already looking better then The Phantom Menace.

 

[OUTSIDER]

Gee Outsider, thanks for ruining it for the rest of us! Just kidding, it's one of the many movie endings that has been spoiled for me by reading such threads (The Sixth Sense / Bruce Willis conncetion being of note).

Concerning the deleted scenes in SW:Ep.1, huh. Sounds cool, although I doubt I'll see them anytime soon. I've always been a sucker for that stuff though. Wish they had some for Labryinth and the Tron DVDs (Tron does have deleted scenes, but for whatever reason, they're not on the DVD).

Be nice to have a DVD to watch them all on too!

Sorry if I spoiled it for you but it's a pretty old movie now (even the directors cut has been out for years) and the only reason you know Deckard (Harrison Ford) is a replicant is because of the unicorn dream scene, which was made from left over footage from another film (Legend) made by the director a few years earlier.

 

[Mistress]

I still think the movie sucked.....
Maybe because I liked the other films.

 

[Svedish_Chef]

Wish they had some for Labryinth and the Tron DVDs (Tron does have deleted scenes, but for whatever reason, they're not on the DVD).

Be nice to have a DVD to watch them all on too!

TRON on DVD... seriously?

I want.

 

[Mackdaddy_74]

I haven't watched the movie on DVD yet, I popped in disc 2 to watch the cut scenes. I like the pod race scene and the spy droid part.

The Greedo part was ok, but the rest had no real impact on me. (Maybe when he puts the Super duper special edition together he will have everything in place in one movie.)


The menus were cool, especially on the second disc.

 

[Phoenyx]

Re: I have a question

Why does Hollyweird still stick to the old time constraint formulas?
There have been a number of decent longer than normal films where the director stuck to his/her guns and kept the film relatively intact and they did well.
Films don't live or die on whether they are 15 minutes longer or shorter, especially cult films like Star Wars.
Or is this all now a scheme to add value for after release video products?

The shorter a film is the more times it can be shows in the theaters each day...


Ive seen most of the JedI are male.

I wonder what the women are doing with their lightsabers?

 

[Young Knave]

Two changes.

Two changes would have improved the film immensely. Cut that simpering annoying Jar Jar and the scene where Anakin flies into the command ship and accidently blows up the "main generator".

Otherwise it was great.

 

[Phoenyx]

Re: Two changes.

Two changes would have improved the film immensely. Cut that simpering annoying Jar Jar and the scene where Anakin flies into the command ship and accidently blows up the "main generator".

Otherwise it was great.

That to me seemed to be the same as how they blew they death star up twice.

Hell if anakin did it when he was younger why didnt he remember it and defend against it with the death star.

 

[Dillinger]

bump

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Anyone see the Godfather DVD that's out? I hear it's amazing.

 

[Renegade]

Not yet, but plan on checking it out soon.

 

[Spinaroonie]

I just hope he fixes the fact that Artoo and Threepio don't remeber Tatooine at all when they visit it again in ANH.

 

[Starfish]

I just had to stop in here today, as if I knew this was posted here.

Actually I had a little troll fun here today because I am sick and I am waiting to go out of town, so not much doing here.

Anyway, I loved the documentary. It really is cool to see how they make these films. Technology in the making! I loved to see how they molded the 'guns' and 'light sabers'. And yes, Ewan IS a hoot. That's why he is my favorite person ALIVE. He is not just like that about Starwars. He is like a kid in the candy shoppe of life, and that is how I aspire to be all of the time.

Anyone interested in the making of Episode II should go to
Starwars
and go to the film clip documentuaries in the Episode II section.

There is a lot of footage there one I and II.

Boy, I want to watch it again now.

Did anyone notice that they added in some of the parts of the extended pod race right into the film, and the Jar Jar taxi scene, but not the other stuff. That annoyed me. I don't see why they couldn't have clipped it all in and had it be a two version disk.

Anyway, I hope II is better also.

We shall see.