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killrmonkey

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#532074
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Star Wars OT & 1997 Special Edition - Various Projects Info (Released)
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First off all, thanks dark_jedi, these look amazing. I have older GOUT sourced DVDs, and these are noticeably better. They are very watchable even on a large HDTV. 

 

Can someone send me a myspleen invite? I was able to snag Star Wars and Jedi from another source, but not Empire, and I'd love the whole set.

 

Thanks!

Jason

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#373528
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Return of the Jedi Jabba's Palace Musical Number Recut
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Thank you all for your feedback.

 

I agree this entire scene is a compromise. I too prefer the original puppets, and if 1080p footage of them was available, my preferred cut would be to restore the original scene.

I also love the idea of this scene being more like the exotic dance performance that it seems to be. I'm sure the desire to make the movie very kid friendly in 1983 prevented it from being more than just suggested. It would be cool to see someone edit it like that though, but there is even less Oola in the 97/04 version to make it work in HD. 

I'm reworking the first half of this scene; a bunch of the shots in there were just filler that I didn't feel worked. The shot of the little lizard guy was one of them; I think the shots of him near the end work better with the music, because he seems to be rocking out with a riff in the song. It's a challenge making the new performance fit the old song, but I did try to pick shots that seemed to work; they need to be aligned a little better because I was concentrating on roughing out the sequence; but I'm going to go back and fine tune it.

I like the idea of adding some musical cues to make it fit better. I would love to give the backup singers something to do musically.

 

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#373513
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Return of the Jedi Jabba's Palace Musical Number Recut
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The talented people on these boards have fixed most of the more annoying "fixes" to the SE and 2004 DVD versions of the movies, and I now have HD versions that are pretty awesome (thanks adywan!) But ROTJ has gone mostly untouched, and to me "Jedi Rocks"; the new improved Jabba's palace musical sequence, is almost impossible to watch.

So I figured I'd try my hand at re-editing this sequence to use the original Lapti Nek song, but use scenes from the special edition so I would still have full HD resolution. Here's my first rough cut, working off of the original German HD broadcast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShRgJTHewxE


What do you guys think? It's cut a little faster than I would have liked, but that's a result of having to chop the footage up.