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The Definitive Episode 3 Spoiler Synopsis
An anonymous reader submits "Want to know who gets killed in the first ten minutes of the movie? How come Yoda runs off to Dagobah? Who will Darth Vader kill? Will the Clonetroopers become Stormtroopers? Will Chewbacca or Grand Moff Tarkin have a role in Star Wars:Episode III, and if so what is it? AgonyEngine of the Phatooine Network dares to answers these questions with a definitive timeline synopsis and character analysis, carefully compiled from the many spoilers and spy reports from the insiders and interviews."
Apparantly it is still over a year away, I bet a lot of these leaked rumours etc. will turn out to be quite wrong by the time the actual film comes around. Maybe a bit of Hollywood spin to get people talking?
This stuff has been readily available for a while -- also condensed at theforce.net.
Being a former spoiler hound for episodes 1 & 2, I found that they sounded much better on paper than they were on screen. This one doesn't really even sound appealing on paper, beyond The Duel, which either means it's going to rock, finally (unlikely) or that it will be so mindblowingly bad that The Phantom Menace will look like Citizen Kane in comparison.
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I'm a fan, but not a fanboy, so I haven't kept up with Star Wars 'canon'. But for some reason, I've always remembered hearing that Darth Vader would become the Man in the Iron Lung in a battle with Obi-Wan in some sort of volcano-like setting.
Was that alluded to in one of the SW novels, did Lucas say it back in the '80s, or am I psychic (as opposed to psychotic)?
(BTW, easy decision whether to read the spoiler synopsis. I know the story outline will be far superior to the movie itself, so there's nothing lost.)
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Actually, there was a really excellent theater skit called Star Wars in 30 minutes. (www.swin30.com) A friend of mine was involved in the group.
Of course, Star Wars was one of the few movies that didn't try to do too much, so it had a more concise structure. Lucas has this annoying need to visit a dozen planets each movie. The desperate need to touch on a zillion small events makes it hard to create any good theatrical moods other than frantic.
This spoiler shows the same problem emerging. It really sounds like two or three movies' worth of material. Maybe it will have to get split into two parts like Kill Bill
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Sounds like something David Brin said. I've been a fan of that theory for years, but I doubt it's going to happen.
The one thing I could say about the Star Wars movies is that almost no one is who he or she seems to be at first. This doesn't seem to apply to the newer movies as much as the original trilogy, but I'd always assumed that one of the big plot twists in Episode 3 will be something of this nature (e.g., Yoda is evil, Obi-Wan becomes Darth Vader, Jar-Jar becomes the Emperor, etc).
Oh well, we still gotta wait another year and a half.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
Not his wife ... his lover. Marion Davies.
See "The Cat's Meow" for a good explanation of the whole Hearst thing. The actor, Edward Herrmann, is a dead on double for Hearst. Kirsten Dunst is also a VERY good likeness of Davies.
Another film, RKO 281, explores the making of "Citizen Kane". It looks into detail about how Hearst tried to crush the film. This film really brings Orson Welles to life in great depth.
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The truth is that he's just in it for the money, and he'll do anything that he thinks will pull in the most profit. He only put Lando in to sell tickets to blacks. He all but removed Jar-Jar from episode 2 because focus groups told him the diehards were only seeing episode 1 five times instead of ten because they hated Jar-Jar so much. In other words, he'll change the story line to sell tickets.
The whole DVD delay was just to sell as many video tapes as possible, then turn around and sell DVDs to all those who bought the tapes (nooo - it was for the art, man! Lucas won't release a DVD unless it's right. Uh-huh. Sure. Whatever). The whole digital special effects thing is just to avoid paying for real actors (but can you blame him? I mean, really -- imagine the payroll for a clone army of Hollywood extras). Geeze, if it was for the art then you wouldn't see the mattes on the episode 4-6 SFX shots. But Lucas found that Kubric's overkill on 2001 didn't sell tickets, so we get mattes you can spot with your eyes closed. Hell, for all the super-D-duper digital effects in 1 and 2, you can still spot the mattes.
He's said he will not make episodes 7-9, but I'll bet he will -- once the computer stuff is good enough that he can do the last three without any actors at all.
If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.
Lama Su, Prime Minister of Kamino, tells us that Master Sifo-Dyas, a leading member of the Jedi Council, ordered the creation of the clone army almost ten years ago. Obi-Wan believes Sifo-Dyas was killed ("was killed," not "died") before that.
I see two theories. In the first theory, Master Sifo-Dyas becomes corrupt, erases Kamino from the Archives, orders the clone army's creation, fakes his death, and re-emerges as Senator Palpatine of Naboo. In the second theory, Darth Sideous kills Sifo-Dyas and orders the clones in his name.
I prefer the first theory. Because of their training, fallen Jedi, like Anakin, Count Dooku, and possibly Sifo-Dyas, make good Sith Lords. Yoda says that only a Jedi could have erased Kamino from the archives, and the first theory explains this nicely. The second theory doesn't, but it has the advantage of explaining Sifo-Dyas's death more easily.
In any case, I think Sideous ordered the creation of the army. We know that Darth Tyranus, also known as Count Dooku, is Sideous's apprentice. Jango Fett says he was recruited by Darth Tyranus, while Lama Su says he was chosen by Sifo-Dyas. This is easily explained by assuming it was Sideous's idea.
Yoda wasn't involved in any of this, and is not evil.
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