Adywan should totally give everyone in the movie a mustache!

When Han says to Chewie, "No, no. This one goes here, and that one goes there. Right?" There seems to be a frame missing from the shot. It's so subtle, but you can see the rebel troops jump a foot ahead as they're running.


It's either that or my disc is scratched.

What is your opinion of the hood, Ady? For me, the hood is the worst part. In both TPM and ROTJ, the hood is laying flat over his head, framing his face in a certain way. In this shot, however (probably because they were trying to copy the original chimp thing) the hood is all folded over and it's a mess. I think this issue contributes the most to the Emperor looking a little "off".

That being said, I really love what you've done with the face and the rest of the darkening. I think the facial elements are 100% seamless.

Just as an interesting side note: While working on preliminary stuff for Reborn we were so frustrated trying to fix it that we had finally gotten to the point where we actually filmed someone in costume in front of a bluescreen and then used Ian's facial performace and the hood itself was what we had filmed, and composited all of that over a clean background plate. We haven't yet completed it because we became fully focused on ANH, but plan to pull all that stuff out again once we're ready to work on ESB.

But seeing the miracles you've pulled off with Revisited, you might crack it before we do.

Also, I don't think enough advantage was taken of the scan lines and crackliness of a holographic message. Especially since the Executor is at the edge of an asteroid field. The picture should be slightly interrupted by interference a couple times, like Palps talking to Amidala's court on Naboo.


--ID

Here's my two cents on the emperor. Yes, you should keep McDiarmid; yes, he could use some seroius editing. I have below you, a shot taken from the Darth Editous episode V thread.

On the left, we have the Darth Editous try; on the right, Laserman's. I think that the edits sould be something along these lines. Does anyone else agree?

Laserman's looks pretty sweet.

Except the holograms in SW always have an overexposed, super-contrasty look, the way the Laserman one does.

heya! (first post on a forum ever, so if i do it wrong sorry!)

first off i just want to say a HUGE thankyou for your work on ANY, i must have watched that cantina scene 5 times. i always felt the original cut, and even the SE was a bit dated in comparison to all the others, but youve rally made it more in sink with the rest.

my suggestion for your empire edition, is to put the music form ROTJ that is played when luke almost dispatches vader ("Final Duel" on the soundtrack) into the scene where luke and vader fight on the gantry (starting when vader jumps out at him in the corridor and ending when luke loses his hand)

i know you may feel the music is more thematic of the emperor, and may seem out of place, but it really seems to add a stronger "father vs son" emphasis to the battle, and ties the fight to ROTJ well. try it anyway.

i also second the idea of you doing the same to yoda that you did the cantina folk with the expressions.

and if you could make the rebel fleet at the end alot bigger, you would have more rebels to kill off in ROTJ.

also, just to get it out of my system, if/when you get round to doing ROTJ, would there be any way of putting Mas Amedda (that blue guy from the prequels) just skulking around with the emperors advisers. it would make a nice link with the old/new. theres a robot chicken sketch with him, an advisor and palpatine in the chancellors office and it looks so right seeing them all together!

another idea for ROTJ would be the force ghosts of qui-gon, mace windu etc at the end. (not strictly canon but would be another nice link)

also, how much are you working with the guys on "star wars reborn" if you are at all?

thanks again for granting me a revived love for star wars, i am yet to show all my friends.

good luck!

yeah, Chrille's got a point, emperor music in the emperor - vader conversation. considering you did it in ANH in the briefing room it would make sense.

would it be possible to see more of the rebel fleet escaping from hoth? we see a transport get by a star destroyer, but we have no hint of transporter-loads of rebels getting captured or blown up as they attempt to flee the planet. it would work well in parallel with the hoth battle below, just to add that "rebel's getting ass kicked" tension.

My single objection to the ADM edition of Empire was his deletion of Luke & Leia's kiss. It was part of the story, it was part of the tension, and I can remember at that moment (I was almost twelve when it was in theatres) wanting to BE Luke for that moment in particular. I also remember shuddering three years later when I learned from a friend --- before I was able to see Jedi in the theatre --- that they were now apparently siblings. Now, of course, twenty-odd years later, I understand that there was the need to bring resolution to the story, and from "The Secret History of Star Wars" I've learned that there were contractual realities that for the story's closure. The entire Expanded Universe aside, though, it still doesn't feel right. It was too neat a wrap-up.

Which is to say, I plead for the keeping of the kiss.

And I'd also plead for the keeping of most of the SE material. It feels like Empire is the least-harmed of the trilogy by the special editions. ANH, for all the wonder of the final battle, also had the appearance of Jabba and Greedo's shooting first. Jedi, even for the beauty of the closing celebrations around the galaxy, gave us the chance to almost examine the tonsils of several singers in the new music video. Empire, though, demonstrated restraint: the wampa footage worked, and worked well (obviously IMHO), and the windows on Cloud City added to its sense of scale --- which before had only been notable from the approach, where the floating city was obviously enormous, but once inside it felt like a cramped and sterile labyrinth.

(Of course, don't get me started about the Emperor on the official DVD. All of Empire's emerging relatively unscathed came crashing down in that moment. Much as I like Ian McDiarmid in the role, and definitely hope that he's kept, the changes in dialogue felt like a slap in the face.)

These being my thoughts. Looking forward to the DVD editions of ANH, Adywan, and already starting to dream about seeing Empire....

As that 1997 trailer put it, you've given us the chance "to see them again...for the FIRST TIME." I'm grateful.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I forgot! Please _scrap_ the new scenes with Vader's shuttle and Jerjerrod!

Come off it. All of you. This is the first time I've heard of cutting "the kiss" considered as any sort of option at all. Please, Adywan, don't do it. That sort of thing was done in classic tales all the time, and frankly cutting it would be on a par with Greedo shooting first as far as I'm concerned.

Pretty please?

See, that looks fine. He's green--because Yoda IS green--but its still a pale color like it should be. Yoda shouldn't be vibrant neon green. The prequels made him like that, but thats because the prequels are cartoons and Yoda looks like a cartoon in the prequels. Why not make Yoda blue? You might as well because IMO its just as far deviant as the bright prequel-green Yoda is like on the 2004 DVD.

DF Shadow — it was only a personal comment. I think they're comparable, in nature if not in severity — it's a case of sanitising the good guys' characters. Accidental incest (never mind a harmless minor snog) happens in mythology all the time, it happens in "The Silmarillion", it's not uncommon, and "Star Wars" is first and foremost a mythology. I know it creeps some people out but it's totally believable. I can understand some people wanting to cut it but however it goes it will be a contentious issue, so I think Adywan should leave it as-is and then if individual viewers don't like it, most of us have the technology to remove it. Whereas if he cuts it, even if we drop it in it will stick out like a sore thumb, because of the picture quality difference.