Darth Maul is Terrifying | First Time Watching Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- In this video, I'll react to "Star Wars Ep. 1: The Phantom Menace". Finally starting in on the prequels and I'm super excited! I hope you guys enjoy this reaction to "Star Wars Episode I"!
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This reply has been hard for me, as I don't really know your preferences well other than you seem to like your sci fi.
Also because I give fewer requests than I used to, as I've found that many of the best and most important films don't do well in polls today and so rarely if ever get reacted to.
Nonetheless, you're just getting started and it's hard to avoid giving you something.
I decided to make a list of 12 ones that IMO are most underrated / never watched by reactors. In no particular order. An asterisk means I've only seen one reaction, no asterisk means haven't seen any.
For about half of them I've also repeatedly recommended them without any apparent effort made to see them. Which tells me that they avoid them because of a preconception that what matters is only polls or only what they think they or the viewers will like. But I sometimes told them, even if you don't react to it, see it anyway.
The Forgotten (2004 w/ Julianne Moore)
Charlie Wilson's War (2007) (True story)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959) *
Dark Victory (1939) (Fictionalized based on experiences of George Gershwin)
The Muse (1999)
Walk, Don't Run (1966)
Reds (1981) (just missed Oscar for best picture, losing to Chariots of Fire, also true story)
The Commuter (2018)*
Valkyrie (2008) * (true story)
Changeling (2008) (Directed by Clint Eastwood, set in his hometown around when he was growing up, also true story which missed winning Cannes only because some of the French voters couldn't believe it could be true.)
Fun with Dick and Jane (1977) *
The Paper (1994) (Directed by Ron Howard)
Hope you'll find at least one of these interesting enough to react to. ✌🏼 P.s. was not easy for me to keep the list to 12 but I felt it was important to just have the very best of them.
Kahla, in the video game Jedi: Fallen Order you actually visit Darth Maul’s home-world, Dathomir. You learn about Maul’s culture and a little backstory from that visit. As you might expect, Dathomir is dangerous and creepy. I highly recommend this game, and they just released a sequel too.
To add one thing about Jedi: Fallen Order, you also visit Chewbacca’s home planet of Kashyyyk and help the Wookiees while learning more about their culture. It’s very cool.
Other films? How about jumping on the evil AI bandwagon with the seldom watched: The Forbin Project. It's not action, it's a thought-provoking suspense thriller.
Raiders of The Lost Ark, Superman: The Movie, and Alien (1979).
I feel like if I was a Jedi Master and saw this kid who programmed a robot to have anxiety, I'd be like "Hey maybe this kid's uhhhhhhhhhhhh insane"
Anakin is a solid engineer but he’s not a coder 😁
He probably had to pick up some buggy software since he was a slave with no money.
He doesn't have anxiety. C3PO just has a sense of propriety that he hates being broken.
Two of my favorite Qui-Gon Jinn lines in this movie are:
"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent" (So useable for so many people in real life)
"There's always a bigger fish."
If you wanna be technical and list another useable line: "Don't do that again"
The whole movie is quotable and they never get old, and it’s one of the many reasons why I love the Phantom Menace.
Also, I think it’s such a relief that the Prequel trilogy is getting more love and respect after 20 years of hate so I’m always at ease to admit my admiration for all 6 films.
The prophecy was accurate and true, but the jedi had an overly optimistic interpretation of it.
Anakin did bring balance to the force. When he was a child, there were 10,000 jedi and 2 sith, and when vader was finished, there was one jedi master with one apprentice and one sith lord with one apprentice. Balance, like the prophecy said.
That and Anakin was able to live in both the dark and light side of the force, balancing out what it truly means to be a Jedi and a Sith.
Ian McDiarmid was the perfect casting for Emperor Palpatine; as a young thespian in old-makeup he absolutely owned the character in Return of the Jedi; and then by the time the Prequels got made he was the perfect age to play Palpatine's middle years, and without the makeup and voice affect, a lotta people had no clue it was the same actor.
Absolutely seamless, the way it worked out.
He was by far the best thing about the prequels
When I saw this as a kid, Darth Maul stood out to me. His character design and the intensity the actor portrayed him with, during the most ferocious lightsaber battle I'd ever seen -! It was formative, haha
And it was all him actually doing it; something about real fighters always hits different
Many of us were disappointed that the two coolest characters, Qui-Gon and Darth Maul would not be seen again. John Williams "Duel of the Fates" is both haunting and stirring. I believe it's the first time he used voices in a Star Wars score. Up until then it was instrumental.
Choral voices are used in Return of the Jedi when Luke loses control during his fight with Vader. More tragic mood-wise than Duel of Fates, reminiscent of Battle of the Heroes many years later.
Midichlorians: Invented to get rid of the spirituality of the Force and replace it with materialism. Very 90s. Good reaction, Kahla. Thank you.
The force is still spiritual in nature. Midichlorians are just what allows an individual to have a strong enough connection to it to actually become a jedi.
Anakin is basically space jesus (his mom is like the virgin mary) and was conceived through the Force. However, rather than being made by the light, he was seeded by the dark side; to be molded by sidious.
Excellent reaction by the way, cant wait for the next two episodes!!
From the Darth Plagueis novel, the Whills (extra dimensional beings that manipulate the Force) created Anakin (the Chosen One) as a response to Plagueis and Sidious shifting the balance of the Living force to the Dark side in an ancient Sith Ritual.
Or mom is bitter over Anakin's dad.
"There's always a bigger fish."
Fun Fact: Film debut of Ahmed Best.
Actor Preparation Fact: Ewan McGregor studied many of Sir Alec Guinness's films, including Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), to ensure accuracy in everything, from his accent to the pacing of his words.
Cameos Cameos Fact: Producer Rick McCallum appears on the right, in a floppy wide-brim hat, when Queen Amidala (Natalie Portman) meets Senator Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid). Sound designer Ben Burtt appears to the left of Rick McCallum (with goatee). Visual effects supervisor John Knoll plays the Naboo pilot who gets killed during the space battle.
Sound Effects Fact: The sound of the underwater monsters growling near the beginning of the film was made by the main sound technician Ben Burtt's three-year-old daughter. The sound of her crying was recorded and the frequency lowered to obtain the sound heard in the film. To create the sounds of the spectators during the pod race scene, sound designer Ben Burtt took a recorder to a San Francisco 49ers game, and recorded the crowd's reactions.
Double Duty Fact: At the time of the film's release, the producers ran a disinformation campaign to suggest that Natalie Portman played both Padmé and The Queen at all times. In fact, they are not always the same person. For many sections of the film, notably those where The Queen is wearing the black outfit with the huge feather headdress, she is actually a decoy, played by Keira Knightley. The real queen, Portman, is actually disguised as a handmaiden. Various conflicting public statements make it extremely difficult to figure out who is who. Whole websites are devoted to figuring out which actress is playing which. However I have seen some people that can tell which is which.
The Rest Of The Story Fact: Liam Neeson was so eager to be in the film that he signed on without having read the script. Keira Knightley's parents tried to convince her not to audition, but the twelve-year-old actress still sought a role, given she was a Star Wars fan. Jake Lloyd has said that he retired from acting because of the trauma he experienced after playing Anakin Skywalker. According to Lloyd, other children constantly teased him about the role, for example, making lightsaber sounds whenever he walked by. Lloyd also said that the situation was made worse because, in his opinion, the film did not meet the fans' expectations. Despite this, Lloyd has reprised the role of Anakin in several video games and has appeared at Star Wars conventions and events.
The end of the fight between Qui Gon, Obi Wan and Darth Maul shows the difference between Sith and Jedi very well. When the laser partitions separated Qui Gon and Maul from each other, the Jedi began to meditate, calming down, and the Sith, on the contrary, walked in a rage like a tiger in a cage, filling himself with emotions. And when Obi Wan attacked Maul after the death of his master, you can see that he was filled with rage, which took him out of balance, since this is not the way of the Jedi and he does not know how to handle it, and Darth Maul, being a Sith who has been raised inside the order since childhood, who on the contrary feeds himself with emotions, easily he was defeated and thrown into the mine, and only when Obi Wan was able to calm down and return to balance, he was able to defeat Maul
"But now I want to know Darth Maul's backstory. It's like 'How did YOU become evil?' Because this is pre-Empire, so there's not just like a government that is fostering this level of evil. This is a choice." 😆 I don't know why that took me out for a good 5 minutes, but your videos never fail to crack me up 😂🤣😂...
The clone wars TV show explains his origins
Spoiler alert: it wasn't a choice. Maul is one of my favorite aspects of the OT / animated series. So much depth to his character.
And now I'm even more curious about his backstory
@@kahlareacts A lot has to do with the nature of the Sith, who are wedded to the dark side from their inception and have codependent narcissistic relationships between master and apprentice, including each being obsessed with finding a way to kill the other, but then irresistibly drawn toward recruiting another. And of course obsessed with destroying the Jedi, whom they blame for all their problems and unhappiness.
@kahlareacts I think...well...shit. You just need to watch The Clone Wars and I'm just gonna shut up there.😄
About 1000 years before this movie, the Jedi wiped out all the Sith. There was also a lot of infighting amongst the dark siders. So the only survivor started the Rule of Two, which was more centered on infiltration and corruption, which made it possible to remain in the shadows for a millenium. Before that, there was basically an all out war between the Sith and the Jedi, on and off across galactic history. You can trace this conflict all the way back to the First Great Schism, which happened more than 24000 years before the movies. The Sith Order is a mix of dark Jedi and the Sith species and this clash of cultures happened almost 7000 years before the movies. 13:40
The original Phantom Menace had a puppet Yoda. Yoda was updated to CGI at one of the future dvd releases.
I thought that the puppet didn't look as good as in the original trilogy, though.
I can't really say that I prefer one over the other. Both have advantages and disadvantages. Both need a lot of work to look convincing.
35:55 Funnily enough, most droids were better than people. The bad guys (Trade Federation) used control ships for their armies to bring down the cost of each one and use more horde tactics and overwhelm enemies. However after the Battle of Naboo, they were forced to make changes and give droids more autonomy (like R2D2/C3PO) so that they removed the weakness of a control ship.
I saw this movie on my 19th birthday in theaters which ages me lol, but ya happy new year, enjoying you going through this franchise
Ages _you!_ 🤣
Agree 4,5,6 has more heart.
1,2 3 is more visual and back story. Episode 3 is the best of the prequels
You can definitely feel the shift in tone since the prequels center around Anakin’s eventual downfall.
I like, "Your focus determines your reality."
Love how the ending is this happy celebration where "everything is right in the galaxy and all the problems have been solved!", but meanwhile the music is the Darth Sidious Theme: Party Remix
"Go, Baby Vader, go!" :D
This came out when I was in college. I was walking behind a building on campus at night when, out of nowhere, a guy dressed as Darth Maul (perfect face-paint and all) walked right past me - I have never recovered 😱
Imagine being a white little kid with blonde hair watching this movie! (I think I even had the same haircut!) seeing Anakin be brought in into a larger world full of adventure.
It blew my mind and I've been a Star Wars fan ever since!
She likes puppets and the original trilogy better. This is now one of my new favorite channels! lol
The Mandalorian made the right call making Grogu a puppet for exactly this reason
It’s safe to say most people like the OT better. I also loved the puppets that were used in the OT, they were so much more convincing than cgi, which I generally loath. So glad you hated Jar Jar. We all do!
Darth Maul is the Boba Fett of the prequels: brief appearance, but the appearance is badass. He and Qui-Gon were killed off too quick.
As impressive as the choreography is, it’s not as good as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. For that matter, martial arts movies, including Jackie Chan’s have great choreography, in general.
If you’re looking for Darth Maul’s backstory, you need to watch Clone Wars followed by Rebels
The title of every Skywalker Saga film has a double meaning. Sometimes the true meanings are not apparent until the next film in the series.
6:46 😂 6:49 fun fact: Brian Blessed voice Clayton and Tarzan yelling from Tarzan in the same year as boss boss from the phantom menace in 1999.
lol thank you for keeping it real about Jar Jar, he is just the worst
Darth Maul was born on a primitive planet where evil female witches (they use the Force but think of it as magic) rule over male warriors. Maul's mother, the leader of the Force witches, gave Maul to Darth Sidious when he was a child, so he was basically raised to be evil since birth. This is from the Clone Wars TV series.
Anakin's conception is part of the novel Darth Plagueis by James Luceno. It's not canon but it is pretty interesting imho.
I would argue that Qui-Gon's death, is the most consequencial moment in Star Wars. And it's not the last time we see him. The prequel era has the most content and lore. You can't fully appreciate, the live action tv shows, without watching The Clone Wars animated series, Tales of the Jedi and later Rebels.
TCW's all takes place between eps 2 and 3. Soo much content and character. You will fall in love with Anakin, and be crushed.
I think you meant the prequel era.
Asking about the lore of Anakin's "father" opens up the biggest can of worms. Some might say that Anakin is The Father.
1. Of the prequels I like this one the best mostly for the POD race and the underwater sequences,
2. Jar Jar is mostly comic relief since we don't have C3PO
3. Liam Neeson was very busy with various productions at the time and was in huge demand and agreed to do this episode because Qui-Gon Jinn dies, and he won't be held to do more.
4. Emasculate conception?
5. It's easy to know why this one didn't start the series because of the lack of CGI back in 1977.
1. The underwater sequences are fire.
2. Exactly, C-3PO serves as that same element of overreactive naïveté which Jar-Jar offers. _“When is yousa thinkin wesa in trouble?!”_
5. George says it was the first time when he sat down to write the outline in 1994, that he did not impose constraints on his imagination as far as what could be filmed, as he always had in the past. Which is how we got Gunga City, the Battle of Naboo with those shield beasts and thousands of combatants, the hall of lasers where the Jedi duel, Theed with its Byzantine cliffside architecture, fricking Coruscant! He actually showed us the capital of the Galactic Republic, can you imagine that happening in the OT? The production would be stretched so thin, but here we have senators, queens, and trade lobbyists floating around a political Colosseum. The Phantom Menace was a project of serious dream realization, a massive undertaking, and the results are incredible.
Jake Lloyd is so iconic and adorable in this. I hope he's doing well ❤
I always really enjoyed the way this movie looks; there's an intricate softness to everything I find very cozy
The music during the end celebration is the emperors theme in a high key :D happy sounding but a dark undertone really
In real life the actor that plays Darth Maul is a stuntman
you know honestly i would have loved a film trilogy with Qui Gon coming into Anakins life, fathering him, and the third film at the end is Qui Gon getting killed to protect Anakin and Obi Wan coming in and taking over Anakins training and protection. would have hit hard, hurt, but the good parts with Qui Gon fathering Anakin would have been wonderrful.
enjoyed your reaction!😄
Made me literally laugh out loud several times. You’re very intuitive. ✨
This prequel trilogy of Star Wars was very thrilling starting with this Ep1 movie! Yes that was young Obi-Wan along with his old master Qui-Gon Jinn and a lot of things would've turned out different and better had he lived in the end. Like Anakin for one thing, if he hadn't died during that battle against Maul HE would've become his rightful master! Also the Jedi order back then really should've been following Qui-Gon's example of just following the will of the force but being linked with the republic and its politics has really corrupted them over the years.
I know people love the OT as do i but i think episode 3 is the best in the entire series
Yourself like a lot of Star Wars fans have become Darth Maul fans for whatever reason. The double-sided lightsaber, his face coloring or his horns who knows. As far as his backstory goes, you'll have to research other sources because the films don't expand much on his origins. but I don't want to spoil anything for you so just keep watching the films to learn more. Also, if you haven't already seen it someone made a fan film about Darth Maul several years ago ua-cam.com/video/Djo_91jN3Pk/v-deo.html no spoiler here it's just a fan film that is not cannon to any Star Wars movie. ( at least I think it's not) anyway great reaction.
Excellent reaction and observations! Normally I would agree with you, we have to see someone die fully....but in Maul's case, he didn't just fall down the hole. He was cut clean in half LOL
Okay, I couldn’t fully tell what was happening as he fell down that hole. If he’s split in half then he’s definitely gone.
@@kahlareacts Yes indeed, way gone haha
Obi-Wan: "The Force is an energy field created by all living things..." Yoda: "Life creates it, makes it grow." Life means biological life. That means there are specific biological mechanisms that interact with the force, the way ears interact with sound waves, and cones and rods interact with light waves. It would make sense if the Jedi had technical terms for all kinds of specific elements about the universe. Midi-chlorians are just one of many examples of this. For a truly knowledgeable order, science and spirituality would be one integrated whole - not opposites or exclusive to one another.
"you might blow a few of em up just for funsies" lol
Enjoyed your reaction 😊
Thank you!! Glad you enjoyed it!
Happy new year
Happy New Year!
Get Darth maul's backstory in "Star wars: the clone wars" the animated show.
Padme is 15 while anakin is 10 and the queen on nabu is an elected official not like British family
Ah, I was wondering how old they were in this movie
Great reaction
Omg I love that you noticed the difference between Natalie Portman and Keira knightley cause I always thought that was so obvious. People say they look the same but they look completely different to me and completely obvious.
I don't know if you have ever watched the Rocky/Creed series but I know you'll love it.
i remember watching the movies when it was in theaters and how bad i thought they were, but then i saw the real version, the extended edition or the way the movie was intended. which is the best way to consume it lol
17:05 lmfao 😂
The Empire's mistake was employing Trade Federation engineers to design the Death Star. (Edit: Before someone tells me who really designed the Death Star, this was a joke.)
Moulin Rouge, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Kill Bill?
A lot of cool in this movie.
34:44 They are your typical corporate businessmen. That's what the trade federation is. One of the wealthiest corporate organizations in the galaxy, the Trade Federation controlled most of the interstellar shipping passing through the Rim territories. The Trade Federation was headed by Viceroy Nute Gunray, and even had its own representative in the Republic Senate to lobby for even greater power. On the orders of Darth Sidious, the Trade Federation sent its battle droids to invade Naboo to create a government crisis.
Just to understand military leadership especially in regards to a General's role, I'm saying this in a calmly manner to all, pls. don't take this too seriously. I'm just sharing what I know and don't mean to be rude in any way.
Any given battle you are at, as a General, means you’re not at others. The General’s responsibility is to command and control and understand. And you do that WHERE you can command and control and understand. And that isn’t in a foxhole where you’re ducking every 3 seconds. It’s in a tent with a generator, and a big map, and a lots of radios. It’s behind the lines, where you can get access to everything you need, and connect to everyone, and not get your fool ass killed by a stray mortar round, or make a bad choice because you’re off your tits on adrenaline, and having to deal with highly abstract and long term issues.
You have frontline officers to act as your eyes and nerves, but the brain doesn’t reside in the arms, it resides in the head, where everything comes together.
Time was, technology was so primitive that you had to see things with your own two eyes. When sending a command meant poking the musician beside you to play the right notes, or sending a guy on a horse with a note. But now we have radios, and telegraph lines, and artillery firing on targets they can’t even see, and you can’t perceive everything that’s going on from one tiny little section of the front.
When armies stood toe to toe with spears and bows and arrows, and the battle was small enough that you could see the whole thing from the battlefield, this made sense. A general in the middle of a battle was good for morale because it meant that the general didn’t expect to lose. They could rally the troops and see first hand what was going on and give orders in real time.
A general that didn’t stand with his troops was afraid of losing. This was bad for morale.
Today, a general on the front lines is simply out of touch with his/her command post and must worry about staying alive rather than doing his/her job. You can’t see anything important on the front lines because the troops are spread out. A general has to rely solely on intel.
A general wounded or killed is a major distraction for his/her command and this is potentially catastrophic. Far more people can die because the command has been disrupted. A general behind the lines and out of immediate danger is an effective general.
That moment you sub after one vid then go to see what you should be watching next for a two day binge only to discover theres not enough videos😢
The clone wars cartoons are really good. And the cartoon Rebels should try to watch those
Yea, I was sad they killed off Qui-on, he was my favorite Jedi Happy New Year 🎉🎊
Please don't post spoilers for those who haven't watched the series yet.
Before you ask, there's only a five year age difference between Anakin (9) and Padme (14).
Star Wars ain’t Star Wars without deep doo doo
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The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings Trilogy. And if you will do it in book release order rather than movie release order you will be only the second reactor to acknowledge the fact that the Movies are from the books and the hobbit was First Followed by The Lord Of The Rings. They are connected.
Awesome 😎 movie
There's like at least three split-kicks from obi-wan just on Nabu and then Ahsoka does them all the time hmmmm ❤
Anakin is the phantom menace.
"No one can kill a Jedi." Except Disney.
Dang. 😂
Darth Maul & evil being a choice? I suppose it always is, but I don't know his backstory. As Yoda said in Ep 5, the Darkside is quicker, easier, more seductive. Ep1 is definitely early background. 1st trilogy picks up as it goes. Looking fwd to you continuing & then onto Rogue One (to really tie things together). Hang in there! :)
Lol ... Welcome to the Jar Jar Club of fans 😅
Team Jedi forever 💯
As far as future movie reactions, I would recommend The Godfather.
Can't wait for you to watch attack of the clones
Not the best one out of the franchise, but still a good movie. And yeah the final fight with darth maul is on top. Enjoyed your reaction :D
I really hope you will react to Star Wars the Clone Wars after Episode II
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Have you considered watching TV series? The “Foundation” TV series is a true sleeper.
Why didn't Obi-One Kanobi just use Force Healing????
To learn more about Maul, you'd have to watch The Clone Wars.
JarJar isn't my favorite, but I still like him better than midichlorians.
Time Code: 35:03 "... I'm lovin' this fight choreography."
greetings kahla, please watch "darth maul: apprentice". I call it star wars 0.
ua-cam.com/video/Djo_91jN3Pk/v-deo.html
It has 32 million views & the fight scenes are way better & longer this movie.
I've never seen ANYONE catch the Kiara Knightley/Natalie Portman switch so fast. You should be a detective because that perception score is absurd.
...I think you're Wonderful!...❤
You said there has to be a dad for Anikan and we can't tell you that. Later in the story (Episode 3) someone's going to tell Anikan a story about a Sith Master who had a special power, that's when you'll get the answer.
Don't listen to the haters. There's a group of SW "fans" who are stuck in 70's and early 80's. They tend to be really vocal and seem to hate anything that isn't the original films. They're usually old farts who have become so crippled by cynicism that they can't function anymore. Enjoy what you enjoy and don't let their crabbiness sway you.
I don't usually watch any StarWarz epi past 6... The prequels, sequals, and other post epi VI films are underwhelming at best, and pathetic at worst, imo.
But your voice and thoughts are worth tuning into, Kahla. You be you, and we'll be with you! On to 2k subbers!!!
The JarJar character was jarring upon the film's release, and had me walk out in the middle. Yet, they brought him back for epi 2!
Thanks so much! And yes, Jar Jar seems to be really good and caring, but his personality is… a lot
They, 7-9 are gorgeous visually, but I still regret that I watched them.
Why@@verdantdruid? I never watched after epi 1... Are they so bad?
Enjoying your reaction as I type. Beautiful reactions and genuine, honest, real talk. Keep enjoying your SWJourney. MTFBWY sweetie! It just keeps getting better and better and better.
I really hope you will react to Star Wars the Clone Wars after Episode II