Hey, Garret.
I received the DVD in the mail today, and I watched it. Let me say:
WOW. This is an excellent piece of hard work and a labor of love. Your
editing is a joy. If this ever gets in the hands of convention-goers,
it's going to be a cult fan-documentary.
As someone who's done a bit of video-editing work herself, I know how
frustrating the whole process can be (milliseconds count).
How you took footage, audio, and text froml different sources and
blended them together -- definitely a dream-project. Wonderful! =D
I can understand why you might be a bit too pooped right now to do the
other two movies. But the trailers for them are a very nice tease. If
your deconstruction of A New Hope is the only one you finish, know that
you have already given your fellow fans a great gift.
A very thankful fan,
Lisa
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garrett-
well well well, what an amazing job you have done! i had so much fun
watching deleted magic last night. having seen star wars about three
hundred times it's watching it for the first time all over again! i
thank you.
it's funny what sticks with me from 1977. i grew up in san francisco
and saw star wars in 70mm a few dozen times that summer. that version
of beru's voice is how i think of her sounding, even though i have
heard the other voice far more times. i love the side by side
comparisons showing the new hallways (an improvement i like) and the
less violence (one i don't like)
so interesting to see the ben's hut scene in it's original order and
the final battle too. both of which are far better as the ended up! as
is the whole film not surprisingly. i've always suspected biggs was cut
because he is just a plain terrible actor!
stupid question: will the final version include the various scenes that
have been left off of this disc?
i also enjoyed your short film very much. for science is quite clever!
but for me the real stand-out is music for the mind ballet. i really
loved it. such a great take on silent movies. it's got a real buster
keaton sherlock jr. fell to it. they way you incorporated vocalizations
such as sighs but not actual speech was fantastic.
keep up the GREAT work!
-eoin
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OH MY GOD These DVD's are AWESOME. Tremendous job this look just like
an official piece of Star Wars Memorabilia(It is offical for me). The
quality was amazing and the editing was superb. This is something I have been
wait for ever to see. While like 90% of the footage I had already seen,
seeing it all edited together is like seeing something new and better. It was
a very fofilling experience. Star Wars was the first movie I remember
ever seeing, and I remember reading the storybook and seeing all of these
pictures of the Biggs sequence and thinking what the heck!!! When the
behind the magic came out I finally saw those sequences and now I get
to watch them and it is better then ever. Anyway to make along story
short after buy like every version of the vhs(fox, thx, special edition and
2000) as well as the dvd's I now can say that my collection is just about
complete(with the exeption of episode 3 but that is expected as well as
a few other.) Thanks for the holiday special dvd too. Well time to let
you go and me to finish watching the extras.
Peace Out,
Scott Vanassche
Linfield College
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