Indeed, no wonder they cut it, that was a bit too dark :D

Eagle eyed viewers could actually see his family mourning him in the background of when Qui Gon is negotiating with Watto in the balcony

@@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

hahahahah

Lol

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

I use headphones and the fart sound effect was indeed quite pleasant to my ears.

​@@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.

lmfao Poor lil guy eh ! Ya iv never scene these deleted scenes before.

Maybe he should have been a better racer then or chosen a career he was good at.

@@helikos1 calm down wanna be cringe edge lord.

@@Puppy_Puppington The only person losing their head is you. It's a joke, about a fictional character no less 🤡

@@helikos1 Never chase your dreams, you probably aren't good at it anyway. Got it.

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.

WE NEED TO MAKE TIME FOR THE ALIEN CAMEL TO FART INTO JAR JAR'S FACE

​@@ramonsternsAnd 75% of the things JarJar does in the rest of the movie

lights out and away we go !

Some of those deleted CGI are rough tho. Like they were dropped before any post-processing.

well it was not in the final cut, but didn't mean his pod wasn't capable of it. but yeah it's cool to find out where it comes from

That, and it was also shown in the Episode I cross sections book of the ships.

@@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.

@@skystryker2300 Dude I have all of those books. So fucking cool

They? George you mean. He had nobody telling him no. I’ll also remind people nobody wanted to direct the PT with George looming over them.

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*

It's almost like George Lucas can't stop ruining things

You think it's better? I think it's too green/ yellow

You must be joking. It looks filtered, as if somenody pissed on the film. The D+version is perfectly white balanced.

​@@Wilma_Dickfit_huh just because something is optically perfect doesn't mean it has better atmosphere.

@@SlashCampable I didn't say anything about atmosphere. the D+ version is perfectly color balanced. the original was not.

I was wondering where that idea came from in the Podracing game on N64

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.

Flamethrowers are too much. The entire Qui Gon / Watto bet story relies on the Hutt Cartels being an authority which punishes cheaters. If Sebulba is using his racer or his own hands to play dirty, it's very different from having a flame-thrower installed, that wouldn't pass an inspection. Clearly Sebulba is the only one playing dirty in the race and that behaviour is punished by the Hutts, if known. idk, could be just time constraints or concerns about violence/rating.

@@Dominian1 8:32 this dickhead was dirty too it wasn’t just Sebulba

Yeah the colors look much more sandy rather than redish. IDK how he managed to get it.

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

It makes Jabba look WAY better.

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.

Just warning shots, the jawas stole "their pieces"

They made a several games for Pod Racing...

@@theblackgus1046 yeah, just warning shots, after all that they are/were the same species

​@@amoeb81Maybe they just think messing with them is funny. They do make amusing sounds when they panic

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:

Quadinaros*

Ben Burtt is the name everyone should know. He's basically the John Williams of the sound design world.

This scene and the Darth Vader scene at the end of Rouge One are the only two scenes in all of Star Wars that hold "Wizard" status.

Forgive the spelling, but sebulba’s pod racer sound is one of the coolest sounds in all of Star Wars imo.

@@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

THATS WHAT I WAS THINKING

It was present in the 25th anniversary re-release.

@@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).

Later you can see his family all being sad while Qui gon and Watto talk.

His name is Ratts Tyrelle who crashed and died in the dark cave and his family is now crying over his tragic death 😢😭

@@Rjay0922 idk man, that sounds like a skill issue

@@Dr.Ruffles Now that's dark humor 🤣

Hell yeah

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

There was a pod racing game which is actually really fun.

episode one should have been just Anakin and his Podracing career for his freedom. keep it simple, ya know.

That would be mega dope! It's like Fast and the Furious I N - S P A C E ! ! ! (or in the future lmao)

Comrade! Exactly the same for me after 24 years!!!

I can’t help but laugh at the stereotypical 90s dinosaur with shades going “raur” as his reaction to his imminent death.

I dont think he actually died the only one we know died was rattz terrel

All because Sebulba cheated

RAWR

@@lemonmazter7831 Mars Guo and his pod are my favourite. He didn't die though.

It would have been cool to see the two most iconic species from Tatooine interact

Glad to know that the VHS is theatrical as it was the last VHS I ever bought.

@@HoorayTV21 The VHS, Laserdisc and Video CD have the theatrical cut. Anything DVD and beyond has the additions.

Yeah, Phantom Menace is average imo, but this scene is a lot of fun

I love the prequels and the original trilogy. The sequels... meh.

I prefer space fights.

Do I?

Episode I is phenomenal, Episode 2 is meh, Episode 3 is too over reliant on CGI and the sequels are just complete garbage and an insult to Star Wars.

There's a 12 hour long breakdown video about just The Phantom Menace- several hours spent just on the pod race

Oh is that what they were doing? Seemed like they were going to do some further sabotaging to Anakin or any of the other pod racers.

Yeah, I understand why it was cut and maybe even agree, but the gratuitous amount of death flags right up front for this guy is peak dark humor, lol

@@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.

Given how crazy Qui-Gon's whole plan is, he might just not care.

He knew it but it was not necessary to reveal it

@@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)

It's Qui-Gon "I don't sense anything." Gin, what do you expect?😂

​@@flowers5695 George Lucas said it himself that Qui -igon knew on the DVD commentary.

I’m gonna have to go with dvd on this one

I'll never forget the sound of Sebulba's speeder at my cinema. Not even my expensive home theater can recreate it

@@RingRoadSessions imax?

@@Puppy_Puppington no it was just my local theater

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.

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)

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.

well no shit

⁠@@nicotobiasmusic right because you knew everything that got cut before watching the video you must be a being of superior intelligence.

@@myneckjusbroke3301 No, he says that because no one would have been able to notice except for some people at Lucasarts

I seem to remember it being longer in theater then on the VHS release...

Best part of the movie!

They could make it in sort of a Fast and Furious type of series. I'd watch that

I maintain that one of several major flaws of The Last Jedi was not putting a podracing sequence in.

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

​@@4aw50fGold longer?

@@maryellenrieger1874 all the New scenes made it longer, it was very confusing

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

Maybe don't race Darth Vader?

Similar tragedies have happened before in many racing disciplines. Heck, when Dale Earnhardt died his son was on the track racing with him.

yeah looks like the japanese laserdisc was the only home video release of the theatrical cut

@@mrteatime I also had the theatrical cut on VHS and I'm from Denmark :)

The farting animal should not be a part in any film, disgusting lol

Gasgano was always my favorite too. I always wished that we would've seen a 6-limbed jedi of his species acrobatting around.

The new inclusions weren’t finished till the DVD release.

Yeah, there was no point extended what is already a long scene.

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.

they arent cut because they look bad. they look bad because they werent given the final touches.

>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

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.