Indrid Mercury wrote:
Basically for Phantom we tried to cut down the more tedious moments of exposition and politics and edited out a large chunk of moments with Jar Jar. Also trimmed some of the less important scenes with young Anakin. The final product was similar to Mike J Nichols The Phantom Edit from 2000 with some of the deleted scenes added to clean up the plot holes.
I watched The Phantom Menace again this evening. I wish I could erase it from existence.
"The taxation of trade routes"
How exciting!