Sequel Trilogy Rescoring Ideas Thread — Page 2

Using Luke’s Theme wouldn’t have bothered me, but it was the arrangement that was specific to the crawl. It sounded like yellow letters were about to attack the screen. If that’s a moment that resonates with you, that’s awesome. It just didn’t for me, and the people around me have made similar comments.

In my First pass, I reused a musical moment from later in the battle of Exegol (from when the Falcon rescues Finn and Jannah). I wonder if the music from The Battle of Crait would be a better fit?

I know I’ve complained a bit about the nostalgic music themes being overused in the sequels, but this idea really resonated with me:

https://youtu.be/qVDXwkmgUXY?t=125

I like how that version of the Force theme now establishes a parallel between two Skywalkers being set free (Anakin freed from slavery and Tatooine, Ben freed from the dark side and his inner conflict).

Knight of Kalee said:

I know I’ve complained a bit about the nostalgic music themes being overused in the sequels, but this idea really resonated with me:

https://youtu.be/qVDXwkmgUXY?t=125

I like how that version of the Force theme now establishes a parallel between two Skywalkers being set free (Anakin freed from slavery and Tatooine, Ben freed from the dark side and his inner conflict).

I like that! It’s hard not to think of Empire Strikes Back though, haha. Oddly it does remind me of the prequels in an odd way too. That might a a fun change.

StarkillerAG said:

JakeRyan17 said:

Knight of Kalee said:

I know I’ve complained a bit about the nostalgic music themes being overused in the sequels, but this idea really resonated with me:

https://youtu.be/qVDXwkmgUXY?t=125

I like how that version of the Force theme now establishes a parallel between two Skywalkers being set free (Anakin freed from slavery and Tatooine, Ben freed from the dark side and his inner conflict).

Oddly it does remind me of the prequels in an odd way too.

That’s because the music is actually from the prequels, in the scene where Anakin says goodbye to his mother.

Gotcha, don’t know why it reminds me of Empire so much then, haha 😅

Yes! I really like that addition. I also like it as a musical parallel between Anakin leaving his mother physically, and Ben returning to his mother spiritually (at the very least, Ben realigning himself with his mother’s ideals).

Might as well post this here.

Anakin Starkiller said:

Might as well post this here.

I like adding that theme to the scene, I feel like it should come in a little later, as Rey starts to notice that Kylo has no intention of saving the fleet. That way it can build faster and not feel repetitive. But I like that idea a lot.

I really think Rey’s parentage need to be the climax of the music.

StarkillerAG said:

JakeRyan17 said:

Anakin Starkiller said:

Might as well post this here.

I like adding that theme to the scene, I feel like it should come in a little later, as Rey starts to notice that Kylo has no intention of saving the fleet. That way it can build faster and not feel repetitive. But I like that idea a lot.

Darthrush actually did something like that, when he tried to rescore the scene in his edit of TLJ:

https://vimeo.com/265136372

It also moves the big climax of the song to Holdo’s lightspeed kamikaze, which helps it fit much better.

Amazing. I had thought of an arrangement almost exactly like that one, and it worked pretty well. Now I’m convinced to keep the full track, it fits so well with Holdo making preparations for her manouver.

I also prefer having the music swell when Kylo offers his hand.

StarkillerAG said:

I’ve been thinking about JakeRyan’s suggestion of rescoring the fleet moment. At first I thought it was unnecessary, but recently I’ve found that the music from Revenge of the Sith’s opening scene fits perfectly with the scene in my opinion. I know someone else did an edit along those lines, but this version starts off with the deleted opening of the track, which I think is an epic way to announce the arrival of the fleet.

Here’s an extremely rough edit of my suggestion. Of course, someone would need to mix the audio properly, but this is just an idea.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q4UUv5sq35qcFjMg-wrUoS2YzlbnGquU/view?usp=sharing

It’s interesting how the track length matches almost perfectly.

Now that I think about it, I would have lost it if I heard something like this at the theater, adding the preceding “war drums” from the beginning of ROTS playing over when Lando says “There are more of us…”. Or it just could be that I’m really fond of the Battle of Coruscant theme.

StarkillerAG said:

I’ve been thinking about JakeRyan’s suggestion of rescoring the fleet moment. At first I thought it was unnecessary, but recently I’ve found that the music from Revenge of the Sith’s opening scene fits perfectly with the scene in my opinion. I know someone else did an edit along those lines, but this version starts off with the deleted opening of the track, which I think is an epic way to announce the arrival of the fleet.

Here’s an extremely rough edit of my suggestion. Of course, someone would need to mix the audio properly, but this is just an idea.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q4UUv5sq35qcFjMg-wrUoS2YzlbnGquU/view?usp=sharing

Love this idea, I tried to mix it in a bit more, and swapped out the lead in music (again, so it doesn’t feel like names in blue should be over a star field).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SFy-d3uT_Xd3pVxp0MnPeZKESnQIZN0l/view?usp=sharing

I have to say I like it too in the sense of it not trying to be as emotionally manipulative. I didn’t necessarily mind the use of the Star Wars theme, but I feel like that rendition feels generic and not as powerful as the renditions from the original trilogy.

I would honestly like to see what the scene feels like if we just try and used a version of the track from the original trilogy (or prequel trilogy credits) as performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. I just don’t think the music in the ST is performed, or maybe mixed, as well as the music from the other trilogies. So perhaps the scene would work better if we just used a different version of that theme.

I think the rendition used in the canon cut is perfect and should be left as is.

I’ll throw in my attempt to put the TROS trailer music into the scene where the Final Order fleet is destroyed. It’s pretty rough but I’m new to video editing so I’m planning on working on it again. The biggest issue is trying to make it fade out? I couldn’t figure out how to so I made a bunch of cuts and slightly lowered each’s volume which made it kinda choppy as it fades.

https://vimeo.com/459982104

But I think it’s an amazing piece of music that was sadly unused in the film, and the original scene’s music didn’t work at all. The movie already overuses the Force theme, and man it does not fit well for this scene, nor does it have any meaning for it.

I’m not a great fan of adding trailer music to movies but I’d say your effort works pretty well Brewzter. Maybe you could introduce the theme a bit earlier so it flows better into the Victory theme that follows it.

I agree though that the Force theme is egregiously overused in the sequel trilogy and to make matters worse, the version that plays after Palpatine is defeated is sampled directly from Luke’s death in TLJ. It should be changed.

Apparently, the “Pursuit” motif from TFA was meant to be a theme for Finn

Source?

Anakin Starkiller said:

Apparently, the “Pursuit” motif from TFA was meant to be a theme for Finn

Source?

It’s just a common fan theory that I would argue has been disproven by TLJ and TROS.