The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released) — Page 420

I could dial the pink back since it’s barely purple anyway. Feels very Easter.

The effect is applied as she grabs the Wayfinder but it’s a different location anyway.

Top o da mornin’ to ya laddies 😉

All this talk about colours I can’t see. 😔

I agree with the Porg shot, I even gave the TLJ clip as reference when it first came up. I’ve tried using colour change swatches, overlays and white balance but I can’t seem to remove the white highlights.

Movies Remastered said:

All this talk about colours I can’t see. 😔

Part of me envies you, specifically and only when it comes to Star Wars being discussed on this site. I swear, it’s been 17 years of the most extreme minutia. Even while I appreciate the lengths some people have gone to, most of it either goes over my head or prevents projects from getting completed.

Well, it’s been amazing to join this community at the peak of this edit and find so many like-minded people that ponder over the smallest details. It’s a grand achievement within itself.

“minutia” is an awesome word btw.

We’re really solving the problems of the world over here. Eternity in a grain on sand.

BrotherOfSasquatch said:

Movies Remastered said:

I agree with the Porg shot, I even gave the TLJ clip as reference when it first came up. I’ve tried using colour change swatches, overlays and white balance but I can’t seem to remove the white highlights.

Dang. 😦

Maybe I’ll just cut it entirely for a personal edit of the film.

Once I’m properly set up and have some time I’ll try to set up a mask or colour overlay just for those highlights and see if it helps.

JEDIT: Or I could Roto out Chewie/Roasted Porg from the TLJ shot and use that?

Okay guys, I did another version of the Porg shot.

http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/FEMMCNNU

So much better!

Oh my god, the color grading looks amazing! Nev, seriously, mad props to you. I think the pinky/purply sunrise looks beautiful (granted, I’m biased). Even if it’s not the most commonplace of sunrise colors, it’s not unnatural; and it also just feels that much more magical and special (which is exactly what this scene needs).

And Nev, the way you got the burning fire on the new establishing shot? Just brilliant.

Agreed with MR, if the new line could be balanced a little more, that would be perfect.

Hal, regarding the Sith Whispers and The Dagger™ and the Wayfinders, that’s a fair point if we want to distinguish the two MacGuffins. In my mind, the whispers are just manifestations of the Dark Side, trying to lure Kylo/Rey to Exegol. The tools through which they manifest don’t matter so much as do the essences themselves. Different strokes; but your implementation is totally valid.

Also, ThisIsCreation said something that caught my eye:

ThisIsCreation said:

I hate when rey say’s ‘i destroyed ren’s ship’ because it’ adr’ed terribly (the worst in the whole movie) & it treats us like dumbies, i like Luke’s reply and think if the line about the ship was removed it would feel much better, but that’s a scripting issue rather than a visual issue

I actually think the problem with the line goes deeper than what Creation said though. (Oh boy, here goes Sherlock, over-analyzing the script again.) At this point, Rey should be convinced enough to go to Exegol. One of the reasons we wanted to cut “Take both sabers” was because we wanted to give Rey more agency. But right after, it sounds (to me, at least) like she’s just rattling off more excuses to get out of going. “Oh no, I can’t go to Exegol! I don’t have a Wayfinder! And…I destroyed the ship! And, uh…”

With different music, it would actually be comedic in how it’s scripted and edited. She takes a moment to steel herself. She stands up, she faces Luke. She takes a breath…and immediately shakes her head and says she’s out of options. The whole character beat is just…off to me. This may just be my interpretation of the line, but if she just complains about the Wayfinder, that sounds like she’s asking Luke for advice. If she lists more reasons beyond that, she’s making excuses. I feel like she’s ignoring the past five minutes of motivational speeches Luke has been spewing. (On that token, I’d like to cut “I can’t get to Exegol” too and just focus on the Wayfinder conundrum, but I think that one would mess up the flow too much. “Ship” is just ADR anyway.)

So…do we want to cut “I destroyed Ren’s ship”?

EDIT (in response to Hal below): Mo-mo-mo-Mockup!

I dunno, I don’t think it sounds that off, but I’ll leave it up to the rest of you to decide.

It still sounds like she was mid-sentence, and got cut off. It’s not a wonderful line but it serves a purpose to set up the X-Wing. With what we have to work with I think it’s better to leave it, even if it could’ve been handled better by the filmmakers.

sade1212 said:

Anyone else get slightly irritated every single time anyone calls Kylo Ren just “Ren”? Especially in this movie, since it establishes there are other Knights of Ren. IIRC in TLJ when it’s shortened, it’s shortened to Kylo (like in the real world), and Rey calls him Ben for the latter half of the movie. Obviously it doesn’t make sense for her to call him Ben early on in TROS because that’d ruin the impact of the moment when she does, but I would’ve enjoyed more consistent use of either Kylo or Ren across the movies.

Anyway, obviously it’s not feasible to change it, but my point is that cutting “Ren’s ship” is one fewer uses of “Ren” instead of “Kylo”, which I see as a good thing.

Well… Obi-Wan calls Darth Vader just “Darth”…

And they like to rhyme everything, including original trilogy inconsistent mistakes like that, so I dunno. Maybe it’s a reference to that? Probably not.