Monday, November 12, 2012
The Phantom Menace: Escape from Tatooine
Qui-Gon and Anakin race to the Millenium Fal--er, Naboo ship and tangle with Darth Maul.
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Script copyright George Lucas
Script excerpted from this site:
http://www.supershadow.com/star_wars/episode_1/the_phantom_menace/script.html
EXT. TATOOINE - DESERT MESA - DAY
The PROBE DROID beeps and whistles to DARTH MAUL. The SITH
LORD gets on a speeder bike and follows the PROBE DROID into
Mos Espa.
EXT. MOS ESPA - STREET - FRUIT STAND - DAY
ANAKIN and QUI-GON exit WATTO'S and stop before JIRA'S fruit
stand. ANAKIN hands JIRA some coins.
ANAKIN
I've been freed, and I'm going away.
Buy yourself a cooling unit with
this... Otherwise I'll worry about
you.
JIRA is astonished. She stares, not knowing what to say.
JIRA
Can I give you a hug?
ANAKIN
Sure.
She gives him a hug.
JIRA
I'll miss you, Annie... there isn't
a kinder boy in the galaxy. You be
careful...
ANAKIN runs to join QUI-GON, who has already started down
the street. As they walk along together, QUI-GON notices
something out of the corner of his eye. Suddenly, without
breaking his stride, he ignites his laser sword, swing around,
and lunges forward and cuts a lurking PROBE DROID in half.
QUI-GON inspects the sparking and fizzing DROID.
ANAKIN
What is it?
QUI-GON
Probe droid. Very unusual... not
like anything I've seen before.
Come on.
QUI-GON and ANAKIN start running.
EXT. TATOOINE - DESERT - NABOO SPACECRAFT - DAY
QUI-GON and ANAKIN run toward the Naboo spacecraft. ANAKIN
is having a hard time keeping up.
ANAKIN
Master Qui-Gon,sir, wait!
QUI-GON turns to answer and sees a DARK-CLOAKED FIGURE bearing
down on a speeder bike.
QUI-GON
Anakin, drop!
ANAKIN drops to the ground just as DARTH MAUL sweeps over
him. DARTH MAUL jumps off his speeder bike, and before he
has hit the ground, the Sith Lord has swund a death blow
with his laser sword that is barely blocked by QUI-GON.
ANAKIN picks himself up. The two galactic warriors, Sith and
Jedi, are bashing each other with incredible blows. They
move in a continual cloudof dust, smashing everything around
them. This is a fierce fight. ANAKIN gets up, bewildered by
the confrontation.
QUI-GON
Annie, get to the ship! Take off!
Go! Go!
QUI-GON struggles to fend off the relentless onslaught as
ANAKIN races to the ship.
INT. NABOO SPACECRAFT - HALLWAY
ANAKIN runs into the main hallway of the spaceship, where
PADME and Capt. Panaka are working.
ANAKIN
Qui-Gon's in trouble. He says to
take off...now!!
CAPT. PANAKA
Who are you?
PADME
He's a friend.
INT. NABOO SPACECRAFT - COCKPIT
Capt. Panaka, ANAKIN, and PADME rush into the cockpit where
OBI-WAN and RIC OLIE are checking the hyperdrive.
CAPT. PANAKA
Qui-Gon is in trouble, he says to
take off!
PILOT
I don't see anything.
OBI-WAN
Over there! Fly low!
In the distance is a small cloud of dust.
EXT. TATOOINE - DESERT - NABOO SPACECRAFT - DAY
QUI-GON and DARTH MAUL continue theirsword battle. Leaping
over one another in an incredible display of acrobatics, the
two warrios hear the ship fly over them a few feet off the
ground. QUI-GON almost dissapears for a moment. Before DARTH
MAUL knows what's happening, QUI-GON is on the spacecrat's
ramp.
EXT. TATOOINE - NABOO SPACECRAFT RAMP - DAY
The SITH LORD immediately jumps onto the ramp after QUI-GON,
but barely makes it. His heels hang over the edge of a forty-
foot drop. QUI-GON swings his laser sword with all his might
and knocks DARTH AMUL off the ramp and onto the desert floor.
The ramp closes, and the Naboo craft rockets away, leaving
the Sith Lord standing alone.
EXT. SPACE - NABOO SPACECRAFT (FX)
The sleek spacecraft rockets away from the planet Tatooine.
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What is the fascination with this Jira woman? Where is Anakin getting all this freaking money? He's giving goodbye gifts to Kitster, he's buying air conditioners to old women in the street...exactly what is it like to be a slave on Tatooine?
ReplyDeleteIn our re-imagined Anakin/Tatooine sequence, I'm not sure what to do with this little bit. Does a hardened Anakin ignore Jira because he's now latched onto a powerful Jedi? Or is he a "use my power to help the people" type who will still help Jira? I think the latter.
It's problematic. Easiest thing to do is just cut this second Jira scene and hope the viewer forgets it. But that's a cheap way out. Maybe we'll think of something.
Obviously we cut the hug. Unless we make Jira incredibly hot? Or give her a hot daughter, one that makes Padme feel a little jealous when she sees Anakin getting a slightly too sensuous hug of appreciation? Maybe we're onto something here. That could really liven up the Jira subsubplot.
ReplyDeleteLove the bit where Qui-Gon slashes the probe droid.
ReplyDeleteWe obviously need to change Darth Maul's scooter into something better. Really, a speeder bike like those in Return of the Jedi would be great. OR, some Sith version of a luge--all you see is Darth Maul's feet coming at you until his horny head suddenly pops up.
The bit where Anakin runs into the ship and tells them to take off is dumb. Why should they listen to an 8-year-old? Or even my 18-year-old? We just have Padme be with Anakin and Qui-Gonn as they exit Mos Espa and then she's the one who tells Panaka to take off. Fixes everything.
I don't remember the end of this lightsaber duel that well, but it sure doesn't read like it makes sense. How does Qui-Gon knock Darth Maul off the ship without cutting Maul's hands off. Hell, why not have him cut Darth Maul's hands off? Then Darth Maul gets mechanical hands. Maybe we see a little scene later where Maul is fitted with highly experimental mechanical hands. Maybe there's some cost associated with them....could relate to some future weakness of the mechanized Darth Vader. Have to think about that--could be tricky because Luke will someday have a mechanical hand as well.
Yeah... that ending makes no sense at all. I'm not going to mention again that Maul lives through this and gets robotic legs and lower intestines. I vote to cute the second Jira scene unless we bring her back, too, in the return visit. Since I want to minimize time on Tat, I vote we cut it completely.
ReplyDeleteI'm confused by your Sith luge.
It's like a floating luge hovercraft. Or better yet, a skeleton. A skeleton hovercraft. And then it rears its head and it's freaking Darth Maul.
ReplyDeleteAnd Maul doesn't live. Absurd. Perhaps the absurdest of all absurd Lucasisms. Dude was cut in half and fell God knows how many fathoms into what one can only assume is a nuclear reactor or tractor beam generator.
Let's just say it's not as reasonable a survival as, oh, I don't know, Boba Fett escaping the stomach of a Sarlacc. At least we knew Gandalf wasn't really a mortal when he fell into the abyss with the Balrog.
As for Jira/Jira's hot daughter, I can only imagine her providing a physical solace for Anakin after Shmi dies in his arms. Anakin of course then hates himself for succumbing to his physical desires, either because
ReplyDelete1. It is against the Jedi teachings (?)
or
2. It is a betrayal of his love for Padme.
Or both. Let's face it, this Anakin guy is pretty screwed up. Let's see him do screwed up things....to this day I have trouble believing he would have offed a hundred younglings. You gotta set that up. THAT is not something that a dude just steps into. There needs to be a slippery slope.