Episode III Opening Crawl Released

moggyf writes "The official Star Wars website has revealed the opening crawler text for Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, currently scheduled for a May 19th, 2005 release."

Comments

Re:Can someone explain something(s)?

[TheRaven64]

Is Dooku good or evil?

Evil. It's the laughing at wholesale destruction and killing the Jedi that gives it away...

Which is the Empire and which is the Rebellion? Is Dooku on either one of those?

The (Old) Republic becomes The Empire. The Rebellion hasn't started (because it has nothing, yet, to rebel against). Dooku is on the side that will become The Empire.

Which side (Palpatine vs .Dooku) is the one that gets Darth Vader and the Storm Troopers?

Palpatine and Dooku are on the same side. They are both Sith (i.e. evil).

Since Palpatine is the Emperor, how can he be on both sides?

Palpatine is creating a war situation to allow him to seize tighter control and disband the senate. This is a fairly unoriginal trick amongst politicians (see Margret Thatcher in the UK and George W. Bush in the US for real life examples - although they were both a bit less blatant about it). Palpatine's minions are running the separatist movement, under his orders.

I've seen Episode II a bunch of times, but frankly, I can't figure it all out.

It's not exactly complicated...

Re:General Grievous?

[dstewart]

From the Star Wars Databank:

"General Grievous was developed for Episode III as a powerful new villain on the side of the Confederacy. The initial instructions that Director George Lucas gave the Art Department were very open-ended: "a droid general." From that vague direction, the artists developed a lot of explorations, some purely mechanical, some not, for the look of General Grievous."

He can be seen here engaged in heated battle with Earthworm Jim.

I don't thin that Word means... a:Crawler Text

[HiredMan]

As the Separatist Droid Army attempts to flee the besieged capital with their turgid hostage

TURGID
[adj] abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh"

Unless Lucas himself is playing Chancellor Palpatine I'm not sure how this description applies. Is it really necessary to point out that the guy is really fat in opening crawl?
Either that or "turgid" is sometimes used as an oblique reference to having a stiffy... and that REALLY doesn't need to be in the opening crawl, IMHO.

=tkk

Re:You have no valid option

[grub]

Your next best option is to find someone with the original 3 movies on laserdisc.

There are very good quality DVD-R ISOs of the original 3 ripped from laserdisc floating around the net. Nice to see Han shooting first.

Re:General Grievous?

[GTRacer]

Your retort is more insightful than you know...the Clone Wars shorts for Cartoon Network were directed by none other than PPG creator Genndy Tartakovski. Grievous is in it. He totally wails on some Jedi in a 3-on-1 battle. It's actually good stuff but I'm waiting to get the whole 20 5-minute episodes run together as one.

GTRacer
- Will be in a midnight line out of habit with tempered optimism in my heart...