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The Last Jedi (Another Edit)

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Thought I’d take a shot at The Last Jedi after being inspired by all the other edits out there. It’s nowhere near being complete but here are some scenes to give an idea of where it’s going. I’ll post more as it progresses.

OPENING BATTLE
• Remove “oh no”.
• Remove Hux looking at officer after saying “a single light fighter”.
• Remove prank call.
• Remove “five bloody minutes ago" and explanation of taking out the surface cannons.
• Remove “here comes the parade”.
• Remove BB8’s head popping up when tie-fighters arrive.
• Remove BB8 x-wing gag.
• Remove “punch it”.
• Mirrored shot of laser fire coming down from Dreadnought and resistance ship escaping.
• Remove Poe “yeeeaaah”.
• Removed Leia and Poe arguing about the bombers.
• Removed “gunners, look alive”.
• Removed first bomber exploding to make the domino explosions seem more intense.
• Removed one of Paige’s kicks.
• Shortened the detonator falling.
• Removed bomber falling towards the Dreadnought.
• Removed “Dreadnaught down”.
• Removed Snoke calling in.
• Poe only bangs head once.
• Removed Poe falling out of bed.
• Delete Poe saying “naked, leaking bag, did you fry a chip”.
• Many small tweaks here and there.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lxSrbcQNkszansimGvA_TTgkRj84EniN

YODA
• Remove Yoda stomping his feet and saying “oh Skywalker, missed you have I”.
• Slight trim to Luke being blasted by fire explosion
• Minimize the S when Luke says “texts”
• Remove Yoda “page turners they are not”.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PBwSuQlGf8A3i5bc82KrxXpa7W_PSP-f

CRAIT BATTLE
• Remove ships coming in the distance.
• Remove Finn and Rose crashing into hangar.
• Remove Leia offering to use her personal code.
• Trim crystal fox standing on pile of shards.
• Remove Poe saying “a what now?”.
• Trim BB8 and 3PO entrance.
• Remove “tastes like salt”.
• Trim resistance fighters launching from base.
• Remove Finn’s fighter hitting the ground and Rose telling him to engage the mono ski.
• Rearranged fighter swerving after ski goes down and Finn looking more confident.
• Remove Poe “what the hell”.
• Remove Finn “whooo, yeah”.
• Trim porg scream after Chewie.
• Remove Rey “whooo, I like this”.
• Remove Kylo “blow that piece of junk out of the sky”.
• Remove Poe “she drew them off”.
• Remove Finn “they hate that ship”.
• Trim time between falcon diving and porg hitting window.
• Remove porg hopping up on console and Chewie pushing him away.
• Remove Rose “that is a big gun”.
• Remove Kylo and Hux “all fire power on those speeders”
• Move Rose telling Finn “listen to Poe, we have to retreat”.
• Rose gets shot down (using poppasketti footage).
• Remove guns on Finn’s fighter melting.
• Finn gets shot down (using poppasketti footage).
• Remove Finn running to Rose. No corny dialogue or kiss.
• Cannon fires on base (using poppasketti footage).
• Remove Kylo saying “no quarter”.
• Remove “they’ve heard us but no ones coming”.
• Remove Leia “we fought till the end, the spark is out”.
• Crate doesn’t move when Luke sits down.
• Remove Leia “hair joke”
• Remove Hux “do you think you got him”.
• Remove Luke brushing of his shoulder.
• Remove Kylo force shoving Hux.
• Remove Kylo “did you come back to say you forgive me, to save my soul”. Luke “no”.
• Remove 3PO “my sensors no longer detect”. Finn “where’d the crystal critters go”.
• Remove Leia “what are you looking at me for, follow him”.
• Remove porg chirping out the window at foxes.
• Remove Finn “noooo!”
• Remove slow motion closeup of Luke dodging blade.
• Trim rocks flying away as Finn runs to Rey.
• Remove Luke “see you around kid”.
• Remove shot of island after Luke’s robe floats away.
• Show dice in Kylo’s hand after he picks them up.
• Dice are gone when he looks down instead of fading away.
• Trim Poe putting hands on alien’s face before hug. (he does that way too often)
• Trim 3PO “such a friend”.
• Remove Poe introducing himself to Rey.
• Trim Leia and Rey talking about Luke.
• Remove broom boy.
(Due to length, PM me for link)

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Impressive, can’t wait to see your full edit. Great stuff

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I’m leaning towards Luke handing the lightsaber back to Rey. Definitely want to make him seem less curmudgeonly. Next scene I’d like to tackle is the battle at the end.

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Added change list for the Crait Battle in the original post.

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