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Post #1180861

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Valheru_84
Parent topic
The Last Jedi: Legendary (Released)
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Date created
8-Mar-2018, 5:50 PM

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