It’s important to clarify that I’m not trying to be rude when I say the following. I think your work is really well done, Nev.
But why should we delete portions of the film in order to keep this cosmetic change? It looks like Luke’s “You have everything you need” would have to go so you could create a transition to something else for a while. I’d personally prefer to have content rather than a little less content in a different shade. What do you all think, though?
Again, I think it’s a cool idea but might not be worth it.
No offense taken!
I was just spitballing ways to make it seem like more time could pass, and in that idea the ‘you have everything you need’ could stay and just be moved to directly after ‘the thousand generations live in you’, and the transition would happen right after that. The idea would lose the lines from Rey about how she’s stuck on the island, but that feels if anything like she has allowed Luke to make her decision for her and is now committed to going to Exegol where as if you cut those lines of Rey’s we can allow her more time for her decision.
It’s not strictly necessary of course, but it might be worth looking at if people aren’t sold on the passage of time based on color grading alone.
I think the scene in the hut looks beautiful and the dialogue should remain untouched.
Would having a night shot of the island from TLJ help in any way?
A night shot of the island would only make sense at the beginning or end of the Hut scene since I don’t think the first part of the sequence would work at night. If it went anywhere, it would probably go right before the Hut scene, but I don’t think it’s necessary if the time is implied to be dusk at the beginning of the scene.