Without a doubt. Still, that one twist could well have saved the prequels. There was no twist in the sequels, there should have been one, and Jar Jar suddenly getting all serious and evil would have been awesome and redeemed the character.

Don't believe this was the plan at all, of course, but it *would* have been a good idea.

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Since you obviously must have a character that translates into a kids toy, fine, this is a huge step up from jar jar and ewoks.

Lucas was a douche for ruining his star wars films with shitty marketing gimmicks. At least better minds are running the show now.

Yeah but Tim was justified, that kid was a Jar-Jar fan.

Up vote for whacking Jar Jar alone.

I prefer him frozen in carbonite.
But as most people guessed, this is an actual deleted scene from the Episode 1 DVD. The actual scene shows Jar Jar swimming away with powerful Gungan swimming skills. The original poster just edited the scene of Jar-Jar swimming away, and dubbed him screaming over the existing audio track of the vehicle plummeting over the waterfall. Notice the ride is empty as it falls?

I swear to whatever is swearable upon, when I saw this movie in the theater at Arizona Mills mall, there was a waterfall scene like this with grappling hook and all, but Jar-Jar did NOT go over the edge.

@MilkmanDan, as one of the only people on the planet to own the Ep.1 DVD (hey I was hoping it might get better somehow), I can confirm that you're pretty much spot on. It is a real deleted scene, but unfortunately jar jar wasn't brutally murdered in it

Full story on this? That looked like a real deleted scene, but if it was that would suggest that there was a pretty major script rewrite after filming that bit.

The best explanation I can muster is that it was largely a real deleted scene, but that Jar-Jar actually jumped out in the real version, and this is a fan-made edit that cut out that escape and/or CGI'ed him back into the vehicle as it went over the brink. Or I guess possibly it is all real and they were going to have him meet up with the group again later after miraculous surviving the fall -- gungan reflexes or something (hey, the film has midichlorians, so why the hell not).

If it is a fan-edit, they did one hell of a job, and started from footage I've never seen.

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I googled around and came up empty. This video and blurbs about it are making the internet rounds, but nobody seems to say anything other than that it is a deleted scene and it was probably cut for "creating too many plot holes"...

That seems like a pretty huge understatement to me. Ignoring the fact that Jar-Jar appears (briefly) in Eps 2 and 3, he plays a pretty major role with a lot of screen time in the Gungans vs Droids portion of the final 3-way battle sequence at the end, which happens well after where this scene would appear in the movie (right?).

Plus, Ep. 1 is very clearly a kids movie, and it would be pretty dark to kill off your comic relief / slapstick character halfway through the movie.

Maybe they had some early warning from focus groups that Jar-Jar was going to be ... not exactly well received and decided to film this just as a joke or even to play it for those focus groups and see their reactions?

Very weird. Not that I mind seeing Jar-Jar die, but I'm quite puzzled by this!

@jmd
Yea, just think how much better Christopher Nolan could have made the batman movies if instead of actually building a batmobile he just CGI phones it in. Yea, I've got nothing to complain about at all.

Enjoy your Jar Jar Binks circle jerk.

Very cool. So, there's this story that when Lucas washed the rushes (early film edits) without music, he thought he had a total dud on his hands---it was after the iconic John Williams' musical score was added, that it suddenly fleshed out into the space opera that we know and love so much...

I wish Episodes I,II, and a good chunk of III hadn't, uh, gone astray (Jar Jar Binks must die!)---and Ewoks???
Sigh.

Still, Star Wars...

I grew up with these movies. They had a profound effect contributing to my love of reading (started with scifi) hopes for an exciting future, good guys winning, diversity and escapeing tough times into my imagination.

Disney better not screw that all up. (though the pre-quils kind of did that for me.....I mean Jar-Jar? C'mon.)

Holy crap... I need to pick apart a whole lot of that to see what percentage I actually remember. (But I don't want to remember Wild Wild West, Ed Edd & Eddy, Spongebob, and Jar-Jar Binks.)

Just a bunch of termites? JUST A BUNCH OF TERMITES??!! Friggin racist asshat!

First the pseudo Jamacian Jar Jar, then the Jewish scrap wheeler dealer and now termites having no intrinsic worth in a world of rational multi-species interaction. What a nazi.