Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace (c) Lucasfilm Version 1: Theatrical Cut (1999) Version 2: DVD Cut (2001) Version 3: Deleted Scene (2001) Version 4: 4K UHD//Disney+ (2019)
@@tborke lmfao you think thats why they cut it ? I think they look a lil silly ? But not bad. It seems out of place even though it does fit. If you are right thats funny haha. Iv never seen these versions ! Love the sound effects its the best
haha agreed. i was thinking it also wouldve been fun if they included a least a few seconds of a pit stop. Would've been fun to see a shot of the pit droids in action.
my headcanon has always been that Sebulba drives some sort of muscle car like a Pontiac GTO or a Dodge Challenger while Anakin had something closer to a Ferrari
@@sparking023 funnily enough, the engine Anakin uses has its sound based on a Portia engine while the villain sebulba's engine noise was based on a Ferrari engine.
Yeah, design is tough. However, if it wouldn't be a fairy tale but reality, we could hear only infinite shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhgggh of jet engines. Btw bow didn't these racers grill themselves alive?😅
@@WoWmakerWT Even jet engines may have a different sound. For example, compare the sound of the F-22 and Su-57 engines, it is impossible to confuse them.
I am really not surprised the scene with Ratts Tyerell 1:58 wasn't included after they showed his entire family was watching the race in person. Brutal!
24 years later and I finally find out why Sebulba's podracer in 'Episode 1: Racer' shoots fire out the side. As with most things starwars, the games were always developed along side the movies. Clearly the game teams got the brief on what all the podracers could do, but either didnt realize the fire attack shots were cut from the movie or just didnt care (because its the game version afterall) - so it was left in! I always wondered where the hell that came from haha
@@amaurythewarrior Very true. Now I really wonder why they cut it. Maybe it just made Sebulba too evil for the race, broke the rules too much when he could just take out other podracers in less direct ways anyway.
@@Alex_ADEdge The main two reason I could think is that either it would have been considered a step too far to keep the PG rating or they had to reduce the runtime of the movie and thus picked parts of the podrace that otherwise were just vertical worldbuilding.
The sequel trilogy really made me forget how bizarre Lucas's choices were in the PT. Yes for theatrical let's keep in the cut with the alien camel farting but remove the cut of Anakin's mom speaking to him. The stuff they decided to edit to reduce the runtime just baffles me.
As absurd as it sounds it was more than likely just for the baby kids. He ultimately made these for a new generation of fans. Kind of like the MCU level dialogue in the Sequel trilogy, it’s for a new type of fan.
@@Charon569 Yeah but when those fans get older they're going to roll their eyes when they re-watch the scene. Pod racing by itself was something little kids would enjoy on it's own, they didn't need the fart scene.
@@drosera88 I literally said “as absurd as it sounds.” I’m not saying Lucas made the right choice. How many kids are into formula 1? He also cannot predict manchildren wanting his movies to appease them 20 years after they saw it as kids.
The fart was most likely to appeal to younger audiences, what with the attempt that JarJar being somewhat of an attempt at comic relief. It did make me chuckle when i saw it the first time myself, so i don't know, maybe both could have been kept? *shrugs*
They should have. Earlier in the film, Anakin says, "Sebulba flashed me with his vents." I always thought he meant exhaust. This is so much more brutal and makes sense why Anakin crashed last time, but also emphasizes his skill in saving not only his own hide but most of the pod.
There's something very intoxicating about the myriad of noises and engine startups at 3:57. Being a gearhead, it ticks a lot of boxes, and I can recognize several engines and interesting remixes of others. The sound engineer/editor did a good job with this whole sequence, and even accounted for the doppler effect on the racers as they sped by.
The 1999 theatrical cut and the 2019 Disney+ edition have the best coloration. The 2001 DVD release and its "deleted scenes" counterpart are too red-ified.
Disney's version (at least, here) looks good at times, but it's really inconsistent. Sometimes the sky looks red instead of blue. They sucked out a ton of contrast and sometimes it helps add detail, other times it just looks washed out. The sand mostly looks white, but not as "sand white" as the theatrical version, just... Colorless. It's very weird to me. Edit: maybe they just recolored the DVD versions instead of an original master. If they'd tinted everything red for the DVDs, then tried to tone it back for D+, they wouldn't have had much color data to work with since a lot of it was removed earlier anyways
Yeah, Disney+ also have good colors, but looks like semi-cloudy day in Europe, not freaking desert planet. So dark! And it's not even filter over whole movie, interior scenes seem fine.
Interesting to see a scene so changed thats not from the original trilogy. Still probably one of my favorite scenes in the saga. From the editing to the sound design and blend of cgi and practical effects, it’s so well made. There’s a lot to admire here.
@@hyperdunkzhd22 "A pod sound can be powerful, angry, comical, smooth, cool, hip, old-fashioned, goofy, or dangerous. I try to make a sound that will relate to that type of coloration. Pod sounds were made from race cars, boats, warbirds, electric tooth brushes, shavers, motorcycles, rockets, and helicopters." ~Quote from the guy who designed the sound.
@@hyperdunkzhd22 My number one sound is the J-Type Naboo ship. The one in the intro scene of attack of the clones. That engine noise give me the chills...
All the prequel movies have slight edits/changes between the theatrical, DVD, and BluRay releases but it's not nearly as well known as the original trilogy changes
I KNEW I wasn't crazy for thinking the scene with Anakin spinning out of control wasn't originally there! I believe it's in the novelizations though, which I'd read at the time, so my memory of what was in the theatre got all mixed up. I didn't know I needed to see this. Thank you!
10:30 so you're telling me those Tusken raiders can hit a pod racer moving at a really high speed, but can't hit Jawas? lol But I would honestly love a Pod Racer tv series lol
Well, there's something close to that, which is "Oban star racers", a French anime. :v If you want some sci-fi racing action with some inter-personal drama in-between and a hell of a lot of gorgeous world building, this is the series to go! c:
Phantom Menace was the last SW film shot on film for the longest time. I remember watching it in theaters (when they were still using film projectors!) and then getting the home video to see that the color adjusted for the home release. I loved the harsh, washed out yellows of the podrace scene. Every iteration then has that soft red tone over it and it just makes it feel less hot and arid.
Anybody else think it would be dope if they made an actual spinoff series exclusively about an up and coming podracing champion? Cuz I have always thought this whole bit was one of the coolest things Star Wars has ever done.
That’s the dream. Hopefully disney will let go of their failed post empire timeline and indulge us with podracing and more prequel and pre prequel stories
To the creator and editor of this video. Thank you. Truly! You have justified my suspicions that I’ve had for over a decade. This was my first Star Wars movie in a theater as a kid and when it was released on VHS I must have watched it hundreds of times. But once it was released on DVD and available for streaming I knew the barrel roll Anakin does over the other racer and the sequence where he uses that magnet to grab his unhooked cable was not theatrical. I’ve watched the race so many times that when I did see those two additions, they stuck out like a sore thumb. But I never had any proof as my VHS is lost to time. You have lifted a weight off my shoulders and pulled out this splinter in my mind. You are a gentleman and a scholar. Cheers 🍻
@@Ikouy The added podrace scenes were present in all versions from the DVD release onwards-including the Blu-ray / 3D / 4K versions that had the CGI Yoda added (which is what the 25th version is using).
“The Queen trusts my judgement. You should too,” says the Jedi Knight who couldn’t sense that the young woman he was talking to was holding back a MAJOR secret
@@theblackgus1046 Uh-huh, pretty easy to have "known something all along" after it's publicly revealed. (j/k, i just forgot about that part. I'm not up on my phantom menace lore)
@@Revenante_of_Asylum yea that's not a reason to cut it most kids wouldn't have cared and wouldn't have even noticed. The few who would have should not be catered too.
@shaynemhopkins It's not even about just kids. It's about a joke not overdoing its premise. Small creature turns his head, makes silly panicked noise, then crashes and blows up? That's already a riot. Oh, he brought his family here to? Oh no, the hubris! Surrre hope nothing bad happens, golly gee willickers... Oh, his wife just got out of the hospital with her newborn baby whose birthday will now be synonymous with the death of her husband? Now you're getting gratuitous, taking the wind out of the slapstick, and really straining the pace of the extended racer intros. Past a point, the additional setup can detract from the humor.
I remember the original Star Wars changes videos you made. They're some of the most detailed videos on the subject, and I learned about the Mono and Stereo mixes of Star Wars and Empire because of them! I'm excited to see the new ones coming January!
i actually clearly remember seeing anakin lose one of his engines in theater, and was surprized not to see that on VHS the next year. i knew I had not imagined that. I only saw that cut again recently
I also remembered the race being longer in the theater, when I watched it for the first time on video and remember it being shortened (I couldn't remember what was missing though)
Man, why are the theatrical cuts always the best. Also, that sequence was absolutly 🤯 back in 1999 in theatres. I'm so grateful to have experienced it.
Hmm i dunno, the others added a lot more cool shots of the race, that weren't in the theatrical (like the part where he's spinning while trying to fix his right engine line). I think it's your nostalgia influencing your opinion on it. Because that was when you first saw it, and it was on a massive screen, of course your feelings towards that version are going to be better. If the DVD cut was in theater you'd probably still think that was the best one.
It's fun to think that the race in Ep.1 was inspired by "Flåklypa (Pinchville) Grand Prix" Many similarities between them. Not to mention the sabotage being done to the protagonist's vehicle.
I know that it can be a bit of a slog for many, but IMO the pod racing scene is probably the single most thrilling sequence not involving a lightsaber or blaster in the entire Star Wars saga. Everything about it just makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand straight up. It is just so friggin' cool!
Good old George Lucas always tweaking these movies. I find it interesting that not only were the colors quite different between the theatrical & DVD, he decided to mess around with them again to bring them closer to the theatrical version. Quite a lot of...interesting moments were cut, surprised at how complete they are as instead of being storyboards or animatics, the CGI just varies in quality and not by much. Pretty much all of these look finalized besides some wonky character lighting in some shots, everything is animated properly and overall fit pretty seamlessly with the other footage. I feel like a few of those scenes could've been added back in although most have little relevance to the rest of the podrace...except for that one racer whose family showed up, probably cut because it completely recontextualizes his death scene. Wonder when & why George decided to remove them since like the other scenes, the CGI was complete so they must've been cut late in production. I also find it interesting how much was added in the DVD release, I knew the rereleases had some scenes added/extended for each movie but the podrace alone was decently longer.
George had his people go back and finish various deleted scenes for the DVD release, even if they weren’t included during the actual film. A bunch of unfinished stuff later made it to the Blu Ray release however
If you watch the documentary on episode 1, George essentially directed the film from the editing chair. First time that was ever done with using the computer to splice takes together. He filmed everything with that in mind so I think he overshot with the idea he could just make a movie form the pieces
There's actually a lot of fascinating methodology behind grading colors differently for different release media. I work with an old school tv production guy, and stuff for broadcast was routinely over-saturated because you couldn't count on the viewer having proper color settings on their tvs. Better to be oversaturated than flat. The DVD era kind of takes after the VHS era, where colors were oversaturated because they'd be going to (primarily) CRT tvs. You didn't care about lcd screens because in the 90's, most of them were on laptops and were active matrix, and watching video at all on them wasn't a pleasant experience. As things moved to HD/4K and high bitrate streaming, the colors normalized because editors assumed HD and 4K panels had a more neutral color profile out of the box.
I never noticed the sounds of the podracers themselves... there's like inline 6 noises, old ford V8 noises. F1 V12 noises... Motorcycle inline four, [probably GP bikes, as we just got away from two stroke into 4 stroke.] and there's also honda's CBX [inline 6 motor] sprinkled in... lol
Like what some of the others have said, the extended scenes with Ratts Tyrell made his death more sad. In the theatrical version I believe only his crash is shown. They try to show you the background of the character, and mentioning his wife just got out of the hospital with a newborn was brutal.
Much like many modern Star Wars properties, I feel like an actual series about Podracing would be incredibly cool. How it started, what keeps it going, etc. There's potential, which is what's always great about Star Wars.
I don’t know how… but my Father Managed to get ahold of the Theatrical cut on VHS. It threw me off seeing all these “New” scenes years later having memorized every frame as a Kid XD
I remember when my parents took me to the theater to see this movie as a kid. My heart pounding the whole race from the awesome sound effects. What a experience that was.
This is a really fun watch! I think the Disney+ color correction and up-scaling was well done, but I don’t think it does the CG characters any favors. I’m REALLY glad the full deleted scene cut never made it to the end product though! It has some great content but it’s length boarders on the ridiculous.
The modern color-grading disease: Blues spiked to hecc, teal shadows, orange mids, neon green highs... And the wishy-washiest contrast ever... A quarter century ago, when Ep1 released, we still had color grading that tried to mimic real life. Now it tries to capture the "Film look". :P
I remember playing the pod racing game to exaustion xD Soo many cool designs. Also just imagine the IDEA of basically riding 2 (or more) jet engines xD
Love the color timing of the theatrical cut. Though the Disney+ version looks pretty good too. Probably a bit more "natural" but I prefer the blown out look of the theatrical version. Looks like a hot desert. Where was the theatrical version sourced from? Laserdisc?
Nice job! I saw a fan bootleg a long time ago with the entire pod race in the movie. It’s pretty brutal. Especially without music. Very fast. Very dangerous. Of course I'm the only human who can do it. MTFBWY
I also think the colouring looks much better on the theatrical release. It seems really blue in the other versions. It's like the difference between the preset picture settings your TV comes with, vs Filmmaker Mode.
Ratts Tyrell DIES and they had a scene showing his family and young children? And his wife just gave birth to another baby? George, you are cruel. Thank you editors for cutting that
6:57 - 7:10: Ok, Sebulba is a straight up Murderer. He took no shame in killing two of his competitors, and we see a great example with this poor soul here.
The sound cue when all the flags are brought out is absolutely thrilling. the little detail of a real sporting event honoring all participants flags, along with the badass orchestra just fuels the immersion
terrible! it was a crime to cut all these scenes!I suppose the theatrical version is the one released on vhs at the time. In fact, although I loved this sequence, I didn't remember all these scenes I must say... and it's a real shame because I would have loved them so much. actually the race is much more complete with all these added sequences, without it seems really incomplete, badly cut. heck, this part of the movie after more than twenty years is still amazing.
The Racers are all in central view of a whole arena of people and on camera and nobody sees Sebulba sabotage another racers vehicle. And also there is just this thing sticking out of the side of the vehicle(on the outer hull no-less) that will ruin everything if a small amount of force is applied donwards to it.
>And also there is just this thing sticking out of the side of the vehicle(on the outer hull no-less) that will ruin everything if a small amount of force is applied donwards to it Like a Pitot tube.
It’s out of sequence. That part where Anakin passes clegg is actually the first lap, little after he finally gets going and start to catch up to the field. I don’t think they bothered to fix that so even the original deleted scene is wrong
The Podrace was one of the best parts of the whole Prequal Trilogy and that arcade video game was amazing as well. I had no idea so much wasn't in the theatrical release, I like the added stuff. Also, wew, the guy who blows up brought his whole family there? Harsh. I LOVE the sound design for these things!
It doesn't need to. Besides, there is a point, but it only shows and doesn't tell, and it doesn't emphasize what that point is (besides being the most badass racing scene of all time), which is that Anakin was the only human to ever be able to compete in this race. The movie kinda brushes it off. Two JEDI, one of them a master, and the MOTHER, and everyone else, are ok with a 9 year old competing in a brutal death race with jet engines strapped to chariots, for a reason. There really could've been some more hints at how Anakin just isn't a normal kid.
@@TheSangson It needs to. That is the point of writing a scene. This is what makes most blockbuster screenplays so trashy: they have nothing meaningful to tell and are just random action scenes stitched together, a lot like cut scenes in computer games hold the game sequences together.
@Bob Duckington Well, they could have shown him using the force by mistake and out of egoistical motives, creating an actual character who even as a child already has some flaws. This in turn would have allowed to add some meaning to the blabbering of the Jedi council. You know, showing instead of telling... The movie has a bunch of such action pieces, which are utterly redundant while they would have been very easy to use for developing the characters. The interesting part about the original trilogy is that indeed one could not cut any of the space battles. Because they are telling the story. They are not some minor obstacle which don't change any of the characters. Both the battle of Yavin and Hoth show the desperation of the Alliance, but also their ability to outwit the overconfident Empire. This theme echoes over and over again - it is not just eye candy. Even the merchandise battle on Endor reflects this. This sets a tone. There is nothing of that kind in the pod race - it is an entirely isolated event, which does not leave Anakin traumatized as a child or makes Kenobi doubt his choices. It is really just a superhero kid doing superhero stuff.
@Bob Duckington "You realize Anakin acting arrogant how he's a bad ass podracer who's never won a single race IS a character flaw and supposed to show his arrogance leading to joining the sith right?" Not really. All kids in that age are like that. And there isn't much of an alternative to solve the situation anyway. So as shown his character does not really matter for anything he does - it is what everybody would have done in that situation, future sith lord or not. " how he could use the force in a way no untrained kid should have been able to during the pod racing scene." I probably have missed that bit. What is the time code in this video? "Just admit you think the original films are better than the prequels because you have nostalgia for them and you're willing to make excuses for their bloated special effects scenes. " Nothing to admit - they are better because they are created by an aspiring film maker who had a story to tell rather than just throwing all kinds of mythology in a blender and walking right over the original trilogy. He was the worst choice as a director for the prequels and his total creative control just made it worse.
@Bob Duckington The attention spans have shortened and even VFX movies did not phone everything in back then, so I can see how the old movies would be challenging for you.
I would love to see every FULL Star Wars film like this so that not a SINGLE scene is missing. IDC if it would make it an hour or two longer, I would love it.
As a kid I watched this on VHS. It was definitely the theatrical release because I remember rewinding little dude's explosion over and over and over because the noise he made was hilarious. I had no idea until just now that his wife and kids were at the show and now I feel bad.
