Some Very Minor Clone Wars Movie Analysis
Nov. 28th, 2008 08:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerWhen I got my DVD of the Clone Wars movie, I was a little curious in seeing the hard numbers on my DVD player's time display for how it was put together. I'm willing to consider that at least some critics found a reason to be annoyed and at least some people found a reason to stay home because they saw the movie as having been "put together from TV episodes." That thought didn't bother me, although I was perhaps surprised just a little by how the Clone Wars TV series started with new episodes... In any case, after jotting down chapter stop numbers, I found myself wondering if the movie could be indeed be divided into neat quarters, or if its production was just a little more complicated than that would seem to indicate.
The "first part" of the movie, obviously enough, is set on its first world and involves Ahsoka establishing herself as Anakin's padawan, but it's a few minutes longer than the twenty-two minutes a "half-hour" television episode runs nowadays once you've taken out the commercials and the end credits. I thought of the "middle half" of the movie not so much one extended chunk as two parts itself, the first including the "vertical battle" as its set-piece and the second involving Ventress's counter-assault on our heroes, but even there I can guess at dividing points to make it a little less than half the movie's length and the first part of it shorter than the second. The last part of the movie, of course, is set on Tatooine and is just a shade longer than a television episode would be. All of this, of course, probably means next to nothing in the end, but it's a little interesting to play with numbers all the same.
The "first part" of the movie, obviously enough, is set on its first world and involves Ahsoka establishing herself as Anakin's padawan, but it's a few minutes longer than the twenty-two minutes a "half-hour" television episode runs nowadays once you've taken out the commercials and the end credits. I thought of the "middle half" of the movie not so much one extended chunk as two parts itself, the first including the "vertical battle" as its set-piece and the second involving Ventress's counter-assault on our heroes, but even there I can guess at dividing points to make it a little less than half the movie's length and the first part of it shorter than the second. The last part of the movie, of course, is set on Tatooine and is just a shade longer than a television episode would be. All of this, of course, probably means next to nothing in the end, but it's a little interesting to play with numbers all the same.