The Last Jedi: Legendary (Released) — Page 4

While I don’t think a fanedit is ever going to fix this movie for me, I thought I’d still try to help with what sounds like a decent and interesting edit.

My idea is in relation to your goal of removing much of the odd humour that either doesn’t work or is at odds with the tone and emotion of the scene it appears in such as when Luke nochantly tosses his old lightsaber (also his Dad’s old lightsaber) over his shoulder. I can’t remember clearly but do we then see it landing on the ground?

I’m thinking that scene could be edited so that we see Rey hand it to him and he stares back while holding it, a thousand emotions running across his face and then it cuts to simply seeing the lightsaber hit the ground, indicating he’s dropped it / fallen from his grip as he battles with the memories of the last time he held it - fighting Vader with his father’s own lightsaber only to lose the fight, his hand and then come to release Vader is his father and then jumping to his assumed certain death. The scene would pause for a second or two showing the dropped saber resting on the ground and then cut to show him stalking away, obviously overwhelmed.

This is something I expected of TLJ and to have him throw it over his shoulder like it meant nothing and as a joke for the audience was quite offensive really and completely disrespectful on many levels.

Whether just to remove the tone defeating humour or for those additional above reasons, it would be great to see that part edited so. I also can’t remember, but is the scene in TLJ where Rey hands him the lightsaber and he stares back, the exact same footage from TFA? Or did they reshoot it? If reshot, would it be worth replacing TLJ version with footage straight from TFA? That way you get the overcast lighting and Luke’s emotions as portrayed in TFA rather than Rian’s retconned version of the scene.

Another one I can think of which is not only tone defeating but out of character is when Luke brushes of his shoulder after withstanding the barrage of walker fire. It is again only for the audience to laugh at and diminishes the gravity of what is happening in that moment and the battle itself.

Good luck with your edit.

Val

I’d love to see the Wilhelm scream added back in, maybe even a “I have a bad feeling about this” recording from Anthony Daniels over some footage of C3PO.

Maybe people wouldn’t have minded the lightsaber toss so much if he did it like he tossed his green saber in ROTJ.

I just started rewatching The Last Jedi and I had to pause it. Because during the opening prank call scene, Poe says something that I can’t believe hasn’t been nitpicked yet. “Hux… With an H?” Is anyone else bugged by that kind of thing? Star Wars has its own language but now Poe straight up addresses English letters? I feel like a massive geek but I can’t be alone here, can I? Is something like this a line you’re willing to remove, Hal?

You could at least wait until the movie is actually out legally before you start talking about rewatching it, piracy isn’t encouraged around here.

Also, come on man - X-wing? Cell block AA23? TK-421? Every single one of those is from SW77.

C3PO!?!?!? MFKN R2D2!?!???

Possessed said:

You could at least wait until the movie is actually out legally before you start talking about rewatching it, piracy isn’t encouraged around here.

Streaming films isn’t actually illegal. It’s uploading or downloading them that is. Also, this thread is all about a proposed fan edit. I can’t help but imagine that not everyone who will be watching it owns a copy of Last Jedi. I don’t know the legality of fan edits, but to stream a film doesn’t feel all that different from watching a fan edited version of it.

ChainsawAsh said:

Also, come on man - X-wing? Cell block AA23? TK-421? Every single one of those is from SW77.

Sure, but to address it so blatantly as “that name that begins with the letter ‘H’” makes me think to Sesame Street with the letter of the day, which is somewhat jarring. I might be alone, but the prank call scene already felt jarring as it came off more like parody than the thing a parody would be based on. Then, for a character to address the English language, it just adds to that strangeness. Already, within the first five minutes of the film, I’m taken out of that experience of suspended disbelief.

POSSESSED PLEASE STOP I CANT READ YOUR POSTS WOTHOUT LAUGHING ANYMORE

Possessed said:

C3PO!?!?!? MFKN R2D2!?!???

Oh Jesus, how’d I miss those…

hangs head in shame

NeverarGreat said:

I remember when EU writers would refer to the droids phonetically See-Threepio and Artoo-Deetoo. So even here the emphasis is on letter sounds and not the letters themselves.

I agree that this line breaks immersion even when there are other examples of individual letters being spoken in Star Wars, and think that it’s not so much the substance of the line but the tone. In Star Wars, even the most absurd names are spoken with sincerity as a way of investing the audience in the reality of the world. When a character refuses to take even their opponent’s name seriously, how can the audience take it seriously? It’s very much like Star Lord challenging Ronan the Accuser to a dance-off, except that The Last Jedi isn’t supposed to be a comedy.

Short answer, I get it.

I don’t understand why so many seem bent on not getting your point.

Glad to hear that! Have you considered or thought at all about editing Luke’s lightsaber to be green instead of blue when he’s on Crait? I’m seeing people nitpick about that, and I think it might just “pop” more than the blue saber did in that scene. Also prefer fan edits to be as different as possible from the original, just for the sake of a new experience. Your editing Mustafar over the Death Star in Revenge of the Sith did that same kind of thing for me.

I thought it would be nice to mention the biographical novel Phasma, which shows the eponymous character as a coward who doomed Starkiller Base to save herself.

I’m not familiar with Noodle_flinger, do you have a link to his cutlist?

Hal 9000 said:

Moved Canto Bight kids telling the legend of Luke Skywalker to overlay Luke’s death. It’s really beautiful and poignant, trust me. This also allows the film to end with the last of the Resistance on the Falcon.