Palpatine Tells Anakin About Darth Plagueis Redub | Extended Dialogue | ROTS Novelization

For this scene, I've taken the significantly longer dialogue from the Revenge of the Sith novelization audiobook and worked the footage from the film around it. I shot for a happy medium between absolute or no lip synchronicity. My apologies for the sound quality at the end, as the audiobook included music at that point that I couldn't get rid of entirely.

"Remember why the Sith are more powerful than the Jedi, Sidious: because we are not afraid to feel. We embrace the spectrum of emotions from the heights of transcendent joy to the depths of hatred and despair. Fearless, we welcome whatever paths the Dark Side sets us on and whatever destiny it lays out for us."
- Hego Damask/Darth Plagueis

"The Sith do not fear the Dark Side. The Sith have no fear. They embrace the whole spectrum of experience, from the heights of transcendent joy to the depths of hatred and despair. Beings have these emotions for a reason, Anakin. That is why the Sith are more powerful [than the Jedi]: they are not afraid to feel."
- Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious

[wilji]

"If one could comprehend a grain of sand."
[Anakin triggered]

[prestonjones]

"The Apprentice? Well, he goes on to become the greatest Dark Lord the Sith have ever known."
And humble too.

[VinVonVoom]

"A Jedi gains power through understanding and a Sith gains understanding through power." Damn that's a good line.

[richardched]

"From my reading." is Palpatine's equivalent of adding "In minecraft" to the end of a potentially dangerous Google search

[nikolasexon]

I love how Palpatine is a bit more blunt when speaking with Anakin. “I don’t trust the council, that is why I put you on it”

[WhyTho]

6:07
"They embrace the whole spectrum of experience from the heights of transcendent joy to the depths of hatred and despair." - Palpatine

"Remember why the Sith are more powerful than the Jedi, Sidious . Because we are not afraid to feel . We embrace the spectrum of emotions from the heights of transcendent joy to the depths of hatred and despair." - Darth Plagueis, from the Darth Plagueis Novel

Like Master, like apprentice .

[mr.synthetic]

“Would a true friend ask you to do something that’s wrong?” Anakin probably should’ve thought about that when he killed those younglings.

[inkmime]

He is just scary persuasive and conversationally powerful in this, he knows how to lead a conversation exactly how he needs it to especially with someone like Anakin. It's kinda frightening.

[morsecode]

7:56 “Did they ever ask you to betray a friendship?”

The Jedi accusing Ahsoka of treason springs to mind. I understand this was made WAAAY before that, but it makes sense

[speedracer]

I think this entire scene should have been in the movie. It fleshes out Anakin’s conflict a lot better and helps us better understand why he began to distrust the Jedi Council.

[Cuban]

“He taught his apprentice the path towards that power, ” Look at how he deviates here. He doesn’t claim to have the power. But instead knowledge that could bring him towards it. Protecting his own ass for future references.

[speedracer]

I love the bit where Palpatine says, “I hear the voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi in your answers, Anakin. What do YOU really think?”, and Anakin replies, “I-I don’t know anymore.” It really highlights why Anakin’s responses to Palpatine’s questions about Jedi and Sith philosophy sound robotic in their conversation. The Jedi have tried to indoctrinate Anakin into their belief system, but, in truth, Anakin is very conflicted about how moral the Jedi really are. In this scene, he tries to hide it by regurgitating the Jedi’s beliefs, but Palpatine can see that Anakin is conflicted and is afraid to express what he really feels about the Jedi. This is what makes it easy for him to convince Anakin that the Sith aren’t so bad in this scene.

[AlmostaCountry]

Chancellor Palpatine: "The Sith are absolutely natural. Beings have feelings for a reason! Passion drives you to understand world through power. The Sith feel everything on the spectrum from ecstasy to anguish!"

Sheevy Boi: "Or... So I understand from my reading 3:-)"

[BenAri]

Man this Opera scene in Rots gives me chills everytime i watch it, and the novelization makes it 1000x better

[HenhousetheRed]

"We aren't arguing, we're just talking." Classic gaslighting. Anakin is trying to release himself from the conversation in a polite manner, and Palpatine is absolutely arguing that the Sith and Jedi are extremely similar.

[tomasmccauley]

This is why Sidious always wins. He knows how to play on one's insecurities, desires, wants, fears and needs in order to get them to do whatever he wants. That's what makes him so powerful.

[pointystories]

I always wondered if those 3 are really sad about having to leave. Like, it's actually a really good play.
"Oh boy, Oh boy a night out at the Opera! This will be great!"
"Leave us."
:_ (

[tainoman]

I feel the dialogue of the novels would've gotten Ian McDermott a nomination of sorts cause it's chilling and disturbing how much of a manipulator and pure evilness Palaptine is.

[Redem]

"What happened to Darth Plagueisis apprentice?"
"I don't know, but he sounds like a great guy"

[topdog]

This is really great. I didn't know the RotS novelisation was this good