Attack of the Clones Minute 30: Nothing Happens on Naboo

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Date

December 23rd, 2016

A small bus speeds toward the massive freighter docks of Coruscant’s Industrial area.

Even more cut dialogue. Anakin: still whiny, but works to establish Anakin and Padmé's relationship.
Anakin stands on his "I am grown up" line.
And still more cut dialogue: levity, while Dormé is concerned.

Transition from Whining to romancing
- Is this just how Lucas' mind works.
Ring theory(?): Luke and Anakin "It isn't fair".
- Pete's judgement is that this doesn't count as a direct quote.
What is Dormé doing? Taking inventory?
Meant to echo Han and Leia ("I like nice men")? It didn't hit that mark.
When Padmé tells Anakin he makes her uncomfortable, it's a strong moment.
Private bus?
If you stopped watching now, you'd never guess that they had a romance later.
- We're 20% the way through this movie and Padmé has expressed zero interest.
Alex always assumed that part of Anakin's Fallbrook the Dark Side would involve him using his Force powers to mind trick Padmé into loving him.

26:06 podcast episode length.
8-DAY-GREEDO call from New Zealand on how to pronounce New Zealander names.
- Jay Laga'aia's last name is pronounced like La-Gaia
- Timuera Morrison's first name is pronounced like Tee-moo-EAR-a.
- They are of Samoan and Maori descent, respectively.
The Fifth Eleminute debuts Monday!
"Lampshading" in film refers to deliberately calling attention to something implausible in the story that might disrupt suspension of disbelief and derail the action, and then moving on[1].
Alex's theory about Anakin mind-tricking Padmé was discussed in a previous episode.

Pete: ...analyze, scrutinize, and the-bus-arrives... Crystal: Ahh!
Pete: (As Anakin) "I'm not whining! I'm not!"
Pete: ..."lampshading the whininess," which could be the name of this episode, if not this season.
Crystal: (As unit director) Anakin, can you be a little sultry?
Pete: What do you think of my "padawans"?

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