VOTD: How Changing Two Scenes Could Have Helped The ‘Star Wars’ Prequels
By Germain Lussier/Nov. 4, 2013 2:00 pm EST
The latest theory comes from a man calling himself “Binary Bastard.” He’s created a video suggesting how changing two scenes in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith could have radically improved the tragic fall of Anakin Skywalker. Check it out below.
You can read Binary Bastard’s full assessment on his site, or just watch to the video. Thanks to Reddit. Or, if you really just want to know what scenes he wants to change, read below.
According to the video, the two scenes that needed to be changed ever so slightly are the opera scene between Chancellor Palpatine and Anakin, and Padme’s death. After seeing Padme be such a strong character for three movies, Bastard believes her “losing the will to live” is a horribly unsatisfying way to end her life. She just had twins, wouldn’t that improve her will to live? On this point, it’s very hard to disagree.
I feel like Bastard’s idea is sound. It’s a very quick fix to solve a few very big problems. No one watched that movie, heard Padme “lost the will to live” and thought “that works.” But the video itself mentions so many other major problems with the entire story arc, that even fixing this one thing doesn’t forgive the rest.
How much do you think changing lines at the opera and in operating room would have improved the prequels?
