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Trinculo
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- posted May 24, 1999 06:30 AM            Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote 
An issue for me about the new Star Wars film is the distinguishing of the bodyguard from the Queen. I couldn't-they spoke the same, they looked the same, they even acted the same. My question-is the bodyguard a clone of the Queen?
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Aethelwer
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- posted May 24, 1999 07:26 AM      Profile for Aethelwer     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote 
Maybe they're sisters, making the "queen" a princess.

Which reminds me...if Owen and Beru from ANH really were Luke's relatives, then maybe the non-queen/bodyguard is Beru?

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Elim Garak
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- posted May 24, 1999 08:06 AM      Profile for Elim Garak     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote 
Didn't the Queen have a slightly deeper voice than what Portman's actually is?

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Sol System
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- posted May 24, 1999 03:39 PM      Profile for Sol System     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote 
The reason behind that, from what I hear, is interesting. Portman's voice changed notably between now and the time filming begin. Many of the Queen's lines were redone, to make her sound older.

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AndrewR
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- posted May 24, 1999 05:57 PM      Profile for AndrewR     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote 
OK, I haven't seen it yet, but I noticed that on some TV things Amidala's voice sounds different to the Ads and preveiws downloaded off the net - I love her voice - If the've changed it - I'll be upset.

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Sol System
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- posted May 24, 1999 06:08 PM      Profile for Sol System     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote 
What I mean is, Portman went back to redub some of her lines so that the Amidala wouldn't seem to age mysteriously halfway through the movie.

Or so I heard.

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Elim Garak
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- posted May 25, 1999 12:56 PM      Profile for Elim Garak     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote 
Yes, I heard that at the IMDb as well.

$$ itty-bitty plot spoilers if you interpret wel enough $$

However, it seemed to me that the Queen's voice was deeper from Portman's and thus the other character's.

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- posted June 02, 1999 03:38 PM      Profile for AndrewR     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote 
I just assumed that (now after seeing it last night at the premier in Australia !) that the change in pitch was to 1. Distinguish between Amidala and Padme and also 2. To show that Amidala/Padme had a 'authority voice' and 'her real voice'??

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"I was not elected to watch my people suffer and die, while you discuss this invasion in a committee" Queen Amidala - Star Wars: Episode 1, The Phantom Menace

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- posted June 06, 1999 01:40 AM      Profile for USS Vanguard     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote 
Owen was really Obi-Wan's brother, at least according to the novelization.

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Elim Garak
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- posted June 06, 1999 06:09 AM      Profile for Elim Garak     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote 
It's a small galaxy after all.

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