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Kurgan
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Idea & Info: Star Wars Deleted Scenes - Reincorporated?
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Date created
15-Nov-2011, 11:21 PM

ben_danger said:

just to interject with the red leader footage debate. you may find that the red leader scene that we see in the special edition is actually a spliced scene. the cut between is when a guy walks across the camera, and it is obvious that the two shots are completely different. something similar could be achieved using the same method.

incidentally i'm having a star wars showing on my birthday later in the month, where the main 3 additional tatooine scenes have been reinserted to the main film. i haven't cleaned them up, but have enstead degraded the rest of the film to look like its an old super8 film. as we are projecting it it should look quite good! i used my old marvel comics to place the scenes.
 

Brilliant idea! You can also use the screenplay from starwarz.com (or the art of star wars if you have it) to place the scenes.

I'm frankly sick of hearing the "footage won't match the quality" excuse for not attempting it (newsflash: it NEVER will). That's never stopped any other fan edit that incorporates additional footage, heck that's what they did with the first X-Men movie on the official DVD. But if you must blend it, downgrading the rest is a great solution.

Think of this like if Star Wars wasn't the huge franchise it is today, but another B cult film like Battle Beyond the Stars and they're showing it in some late night theater in some college town. A little scratch here and a jump cut there? Big deal. But all the footage is there, people are gobbling popcorn, remarking to the screen and enjoying every minute of it.

 

Incidentally I remember when the Blu-Rays were coming out there was a youtube video (with the official blu-ray logo thing at the start, but I suppose somebody could have edited that in to make it look authentic) which showed Luke throw (and miss) with his grappling hook, then try a second time and get it, just like people always thought they saw back in the day. But yet I never saw that again in the list of deleted scenes. Was this just a joke on the part of LFL?