In-Depth Teaser Discussion Thread

Gregory ... Artoo is holding a comlink which is in direct communication with Obi-Wan Kenobi aboard the Trade Federation Ship at the beginning.

Slytherin ... PM me

EDIT:

How about the pile of red next to Yoda when he goes into butt kicking mode?

Looks like he chopped up some guards.

The only thing is that Yoda brings his lightsaber out after they are down ... maybe he just Force Throws them together and knocks 'em out.

 

Or throws something at them with the force.

 

We won't see Yoda dueling with the Imperial Guards. PH was hesitant to call what the Imperial Guards do as action. I think they move to block Yoda and he simply regulates on them without much trouble. He either knocks them out or does a force choke like Luke does in RotJ causing them to pass out.

 

My two cents is that he probably force chokes them. With the fact that they were located on the floor at the exact same spots just opposite sides are an indication that they werent fighting all over the place. He most likely didnt force push them cause well they arent embedded in the walls, lol. Yes, plus the fact that yoda doesnt take his saber till after, adds only more fuel to that assumption.

 

Hey guys. I've often listened to Duel of the Fates, because I think it's an awesome song. I've even looked up the lyrics to it. This is the opening line in the song:

Kor-ah, Mah-tah, Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah.

I've watched the ROTS teaser trailer about 15 times now, but only today did I notice something that I've never noticed before. In the part of the trailer when Anakin/Vader turns his hooded head with the yellow eyes towards the camera, the singers-- the only singers you hear occumpaning music in the whole trailer-- whisper the word(s) "RAH-TAH-MAH".

Sound familiar?

The lyrics that John Williams came up with for The Duel of the Fates are of the language of Sanskrit. So I found a Sanskrit-English Dictionary online, and looked up the definitions:


ma3h
Entry mah

Meaning 2 (f. {ma3h} & {mahI3}) great, mighty, powerful, strong, abundant; old, aged. f. {mahI3} the earth (as the great one), ground, soil, land, country, kingdom; space; host; cow; du. heaven and earth; pl. rivers, waters.


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rah, rahati
Entry rah, rahati

Meaning , pp. {rahita} (q.v.) leave, desert, abandon. C. [[,]] {rahayati} =S. or cause to leave etc. --{vi} C. abandon, desert. -- Cf. {virahita}.


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mah, mahate, mahayati, -te
Entry mah, mahate, mahayati, -te

Meaning , pp. {mahita} 1 (q.v.) A. (M.) gladden; [[-,]] delight, exalt, refresh, excite, impel; esteem highly, honour; M. be glad, rejoice at (instr. or acc.); grant, bestow. -- {sam} stir up, excite; honour, celebrate.



Something great/mighty/powerful (Anakin?)... who leaves/abadons/deserts something (Jedi Order?)... hmmmmm.


Is it a coincidence that a Sanskrit word, sung once again by a chorus, is heard in the trailer for another prequel movie?

 

Not to beat a very dead horse here, but "Yes, Master" is JEJ. The thought that it wasn't JEJ, regardless of similarities, was quite bothersome to me. Motivated by Trojan_Sock, I went hunting for the cleanest ESB .wav of JEJ speaking those two words. I didn't find it; however, I found something close enough: "Yes, my master." After cutting out "my," upsampling it, altering the time and pitch, removing noise and then filtering it, I compared the two samples and the waveforms were identical.

 

Dang, Spuzzy, if that doesn't put the issue to rest, nothing will. Nice.

 

I'm sorry Spuzzy but it sounds to me like you were tampering it to make the comparison fit in the first place. Using filters and upscaling and all that. If anything your just trying to prove that its Jones from a piece of work that ILM technicians have tampered to sound like Jones to begin with.

My point is if ILM is making it sound like Jones from Hayden then you will find no fault in it unless you had something that was original, before effects are added to sound like Vader.

To me it sounds like Jones except for that MasteR part but, even I can't be 100% sure.

 

To be honest, I just used standard procedure when going from an 8-bit mono 11025Hz sample to a 16-bit stereo 44100Hz sample. Upsampling does not magically improve the audio quality; all of the tape hiss and background noise from the 8-bit sample is still very real in the 16-bit sample. Considering the resonable clarity of the Quick Time audio (if you listen very closely to the trailer, you will hear an audible level of distortion, which is a good indication that the audio stream is being filtered somewhere), comparison with a sample of inferior quality just doesn't make sense. You can apply noise reduction to 8-bit samples, but no more than -45dB, which by todays standards is the equivalent of not applying any noise reduction at all (ie: the noise is still there); therefor, I upsampled to filter out the noise. It was no surprise that after filtering, the waveform inhibited the same level of indirect distortion that could be heard in the Quick Time audio stream. On applying the stretch, I did not alter the pitch or tone in any way (note that I did accidently write "time and pitch" in my original post as both terms, in relation to the properties of audio, are commonly used in conjunction).


Besides sharing an identical waveform, the fact that both pronunciations of the "er" in "master" were exactly the same made it a dead give away.

 

Did someone get the License number of that mac truck that ran me over. Must be some truck driver named Spuzzy, lol. Well done Spuzz, bravo on your conclusion.

ILM could use a person like you. The first assignment they'd give you would be fixing Jabba's voice in Episode I & Episode 4 (Dvd). Go.. Ahem Force knows they need it. Thats just for starters.

 

Why is there a shot of Mace Windu in the Jedi Council Room in the trailer? I know he fights in Palpatines office, so why does he have his lightsaber on in the council room? Please give an answer!

 

I'd like to talk about when Anakin is following Obi-Wan in his Jedi-Starfighter. It looks like Obi-Wan's vertical flaps on his starfighter are not opened up, but Anakin's are. I bet the wings change position like the X-Wings do. You can see this at 1:18 by the way..

 

In need of some help here.

No-one yet it seems has mentioned a character from the trailer, c-3PO. But could the set in the background be none other than the rebel blockade runner from the start of ANH?
OK I know it sounds ridiculous, because it isn't, but does anyone know?
It could be the ship we see leaving the volcano planet, as seen later in the trailer, I suppose.
Are all the droid scenes from the trailer from the same set?
Do they have much to do in this film, apart from the awful memory erase plot? And why has no-one mentioned them?

 

Yes, they are in the blockade runner. It is definitely in the movie. There have been several pictures.

 

Guys maybe you can clarify something for me. In frame 1:26 of the Trailer that is a Seperatist ship bottom left and a Republic Starship Top Left hand corner right? Well if so Then my question is, Isnt that an Imperial Insignia on the Seperatist Ship? If so can anyone explain why?

 

I cant explain that one.

 

Edit nevermind

 

"EP3: ROTS Trailer on Comcast Digital Cable

Posted By Britany on December 2, 2004
There's good news for anyone who subscribes to Comcast Digital. Mike sends in this note:

I subscribe to Comcast Digital cable which includes your standard set of movies and TV shows on demand. In their movie section they also offer trailers currently playing in a theater near you. Last night the trailer for ROTS finally appeared...allowing you to watch the trailer as many times as you want with digital picture quality and sound!"



Can anyone give me some more detail on how to view this on Comcast cable? I have Comcast and have been unable to find the Trailer section.

 

When does the next trailor come out?

 

March...

It's rumored we'll have one THIS MONTH!

 

http://www.starwars.com/clonewars/about/news/news20050127.html
It looks as if we will get the super uber-high quality version of the teaser trailer on March 22 with the Clone Wars DVD. Hmmmm.... March 22. Could it be the new teaser/trailer?

 

Nope. Pabs said it was the old one.

 

crap.

 

I don't feel like reading all 80 pages, but is there an extra large version (720x310) of the trailer in avi format? I tried exporting the mov to an avi, but Quicktime wouldn't allow it. It worked with the 480x206 version though.

 

A little help?