Jedi Learner
11-05-2001, 12:33 PM
I know this is relatively unimportant, but did anyone else notice that costume designer Trisha Biggar's cameo was cut out of the DVD?
In the theatrical/VHS version, she can briefly be seen in the Senate chamber just after Amidala calls for the "no confidence" vote. She's in the box behind the large blue Twi'lek senator, along with an unidentified human man.
On the DVD version, both she and the man have been replaced by two Twi'lek girls (one red and one blue).
Now, while I think Ms. Biggar probably deserves a cameo appearance as much as John Knoll, Ben Burtt, and Rick McCallum, I feel the deletion of her scene is an appropriate change. She was always a little too "human-looking" for my taste (they didn't really make her up or give her any wardrobe, which is strange seeing that she's the costume designer). It makes sense that a Twi'lek senator would be accompanied by a couple of girls of his own species, and not by a pair of humans (notice that all the aliens in the other pods are pretty much homogenous).
A minor tweak, yes, but it goes to show that someone was thinking about the "big picture" when the movie was prepared for DVD.
In the theatrical/VHS version, she can briefly be seen in the Senate chamber just after Amidala calls for the "no confidence" vote. She's in the box behind the large blue Twi'lek senator, along with an unidentified human man.
On the DVD version, both she and the man have been replaced by two Twi'lek girls (one red and one blue).
Now, while I think Ms. Biggar probably deserves a cameo appearance as much as John Knoll, Ben Burtt, and Rick McCallum, I feel the deletion of her scene is an appropriate change. She was always a little too "human-looking" for my taste (they didn't really make her up or give her any wardrobe, which is strange seeing that she's the costume designer). It makes sense that a Twi'lek senator would be accompanied by a couple of girls of his own species, and not by a pair of humans (notice that all the aliens in the other pods are pretty much homogenous).
A minor tweak, yes, but it goes to show that someone was thinking about the "big picture" when the movie was prepared for DVD.