This is a test clip for my fanedit of The Phantom Menace. I have decided to fix Queen Amidala's unrealistically deep voice from the Phantom Menace. Now she has a real voice of a teenager and matches the rest of the trilogy.
All right guys, I get it. She talked like this intentionally to seem older/make it easier to replicate with Sabe to hide her identity etc. Was even canonized. You can stop commenting about it 😁 Still wasn’t explained in the film, and it still sounds weird lol
Poor guy, I can imagine the comments! What did you use to modify the vocals? EQ? Compression? Warp mode? I suspected warp mode due to the faster pace. Nice job either way!
You do realize that these are all costumes borrowed heavily from Mongolian Tribal costumes. They just fancied them up with newer or metallic materials, but they're ancient Mongolian outfits.
The prequels still have the most TOP TIER costume work I’ve ever seen in any film. I was always mesmerized by her costumes as a kid, the rainbow dress from the lakeside scene is still my favorite😌
In the book "Queen's Shadow", Padmé and her decoy/handmaiden Sabé created the deep, monotone Amidala voice together so that they could both replicate it and no one would tell them apart if Sabé was filling in as queen. The book is really interesting if you want to learn more about politics in Star Wars!
Literally just picked that up yesterday and I'm excited to jump into it after I finish the first Thrawn book which I also got. The next book, "Queen's Peril", is coming out in May along with the fourth Thrawn book so I've got a lot to keep me occupied. I also loved the Ahsoka book by the same author.
@@thegoodfather1177 thats what happens when you dont explain things in the actual film and leave it for some supplementary book to explain. 99% of people who watch a Star Wars movie are not going to run to go read a book for answers
@@mightyasterisk8333 Well, they could at least try to use their brains to figure things out, everyone who got confused by the politics in these movies sound like they weren't listening anyway
+Christian Avalos It's all Natalie here. I did do the same to Keira, though I haven't included her here. You can see that in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AsL1G__coK4.html
Umm that interesting that you choose to do that because I always got the impression that Padme and the Queen of Naboo, were two separate identities. That Padme as a person was separate from the Queen, who is a figurehead, and is marked by the way she spoke, the makeup and the clothing.
I agree, but Natalie Portman's performance is still enough to hide the identities in my opinion. The "shemale" voice (as JeremyJahns puts it) always bothered me so much.
Kathryn Bourgeois this exactly. The Queen of Naboo was an entirely separate role to fill. The voice was of the queen, not of Padme as a person. And it was obviously very intentional. I don’t think it is “fixed” at all, it’s the opposite... Natalie uses her real voice in the scenes where she’s not dressed as a queen and you’ve raised the pitch of those... when she WAS a teenager and that WAS her real voice LOL. No hate I just don’t get it.
Just like Batman and Bruce Wayne. Having the same voice tone and pitch would have not fooled anyone when donning a new attire (Bruce to bats and Padme as herself and the queen) and would have put each as a target for assassination. Plus, the whole point of Episode II would make no sense with the botched attempt on her life knowing who the real queen was all along...again, common sense, people, USE IT!!!
S C The Gungans possessed an actual military when the Naboo didn't have jack shit but pilots and officers with blasters. They might be primitive, but they apparently have more foresight than the generations of dummies that practically disarmed themselves.
I thought padme was the helper and the queen was someone else till she said she was queen in the clone wars cartoons....now that I really paid attention to SW 2 she mentions she was queen for 2 terms, but if the other lady a decoy why was she the one speaking to the senate? 🤔
+rhoadnaroahs Leia was using her "Imperial/Royalty/Noble" Accent when talking to Imperial Personnel. She preferred to use her "American" or "Rebel/Republic" accent while she was casual.
Actually theres many cultures that were used for influence. I can appreciate that some felt it was cultural appropriation and it saddens me to think that others were hurt because their culture was used as a fashion choice. I know the intention was not to degrade or mock - it was to show how cultures had blended in a far away galaxy...but that doesn't make it alright.
She actually talked this way to keep her ifentity anonymous, and seem unbiased and emotionless/very mature to the public, also she did it to match the voice of her handmaiden, Sabé who often pretended to be amidala
Natalie Portman, or Keira Knightley? Which one are you referring to? Most of the clips you showed were of Keira Knightley. Natalie Portman has more scenes later on in the video.
Kaan Karaca don’t know how anyone could think those sounds like anyone but a teenage Portman. An actual brit would never sound so bad sounding British and so good sounding American.
@@AspectClip Nnnnnope. It's Padme. Her decoy is only used in a few scenes as Queen Amidala. Plenty of resources. From the sounds of it you think each time we see the Queen it's a decoy but this is not the case my freind.
Padmé's character started off really great, but gradually was turned passive to give more space to other characters. This is often done with the female leads of action movies as they are treated as just a plot device, reducing them to nothing but the romantic interest of the male lead.
I actually didn't mind the much younger voice from the trailers. I liked the fact that she sounded young because it really highlighted the idea that she was very young and entrusted into this position. What I find stupid is that they made her position something that is 'elected'. How could someone so young get elected to lead a world? And why is it always teenagers? The only way someone that young could rule is if it's inherited. I would have found that more compelling.
jessc1979 that's because Lucas wrote her character stupidly and wanted her to bitch about "wahhh muh democracy is dying" in subsequent films. A queen is a bit of a hypocrite to complain about that if she's unelected. So he basically had to change it after the fact to an elected position which made little sense
The thing is they left out a lot of background. In Padme's case, I had no idea she was Princess of Theed prior to her reign, or that even was a thing. And that she went through Naboo's "Legislative Youth Program" that Palpatine also went through.
It would have made more sense if she was elected Queen by the Naboo Parliament because the previous ruling royal house had died off without heirs and Padme's royal house was the next highest in ranking. Illogically though, they wanted the queen to be both an elected ruler (like a president, with fixed terms) and a teenager (with vague authority) and in so doing made the role little more than that of a beauty pageant winner.
What? I've never heard of this. The queen in the second movie had a high pitch too Whatever you may think of this change it is true that Natalie Portman's voice was pitched down for the movie and this is the closest thing to hearing what her voice was like originally.
Well she sounds younger, and considering she's supposed to be 13 or 14 in this movie this certainly seems fitting. Just wish that they could have held off on casting Portman until Episode 2. She may have been 16 or 18 when filming this, but she looked like she was already 25. Hence that whole age gap between her and Anakin was exaggerated (when 5 years in actuality is normal for many folks) solely because she did not at all look like a 14 year old.
This makes me think of when Most ApexTV (a RU-vid channel) time travelers have their faces burred and voices distorted. The time traveler’s distorted voices sound very deep
'Unrealistically deep voice' Well, looks like I'm gonna have to travel back in time and tell fourteen year old me to speak in a higher pitch because apparently my natural timbre wasn't actually natural. It does sound a bit less monotone, though - I do think you did a good job with that. It's just silly to imply that the original depth was too mature for a girl old enough to be in high school when I can say from firsthand experience that it's really not.
I think Padme spoke in a deliberately strange way when in full queen costume so it'd be easier for Sabe to pass herself off as her. If both of them spoke in the same way (and wore makeup to further conceal their appearance) it'd be harder to tell them apart.
So Queen Amidala's voice was intentionally made so that it was the combination of Natalie Portman's and Keira Knightley's voices. When you here them completely combined (not overlapped), the result is what you have in the movie. Also, the change in voice is so that it is indistinguishable between which one is queen.
Hey dude! Unfortunately not. It's been a long time, and honestly I think you can do better than my old crude attempt just pitching up the whole film audio :) I think you could perhaps do a lot better with the 6.1 or 7.1 audio for the film, playing around with it according to how it's mixed. Saying that because I'd do this very differently if I attempted it again. But thanks for your interest, and of course you can use the RU-vid video if you still want to use my version, though again I think you can do it yourself a lot better!
she wasn't supposed to sound like a teenager because she was using a body double in the senate to protect her? like it wasn't supposed to be her actually lol
she also had to match her body doubles voice and not be recognized for being undercover as a handmaiden like she so often did and be able to speak in her normal voice. but sure okay
perfectly fine with this change, I hear hardly any difference to the original. Good so queen must appear regal and queenly by moving and talking slower and more dignified. Not like a bubbly teenager. They knew what they were doing.
Pshhh... i preferred this voice. In ep. 02 it bothered quite a bit to hear portman’s normal voice. I know the reason behind the deeper voice in the previous movie but they could’ve kept it for her character still and just tone it down a bit much like ep. 01 padme
she's supposed to have a deep voice. she created the deep voice with her handmaidens so that anyone of them could switch out and take her place as a decoy. she was also very young, and the deep voice was necessary for people to take her seriously. this detail is necessary to the story.
