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Originally posted by: Angsty
Hi all,
I'd also like to suggest that the focus of this project should be to highlight the preservation fo the original trilogy, and not a personal attack on Geroge, his power or whatever else.
Denigrating George Lucas is not a good strategy to take, we want to play the issue (preservation), not the man (George.)
What if we focus on our love of Star Wars over the last 25 years, why this movie has endured, what people have said about it, why it was so different technically - all these reactions to the movies give us a human view (baseline?) for the originals, thus enabling us to emotively highlight the feelings of betrayal and disappointment we feel with what has been released on DVD.
Focus on what has been "lost" with the changes - the music has changed, the addition of characters, the changes in dialogue that lessen the dramatic impact of the movie. Focus on the "lost" and emphasize the need to "preserve" original works of art
I agree with you here Angsty, but I see Doctor_W40 has yielded on this issue. I think he'll be happy in the end when we have our finished product.
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(My personal disappointment with the Greedo-shoots-first revisions is that is lessens the value of Han's sacrifice when he helps save the Rebellion at the flim's ending. By no longer being an uncaring mercenary who can shoot in cold blood, then, it wasn't such a character leap for him to turn around and help the fight against the Empire).
I see what you're saying, and I agree with you, except I have to disagree with the use of the phrase "in cold blood." I maintain that Han shot Greedo in self defense even in the original cut when he shot before Greedo could get a shot off. So it wasn't in cold blood. Think about it, he's an experienced smuggler, wise in the ways of the criminal underworld. When Greedo said, "I've been looking forward to this for a long time," Han knew what was coming next. Only an idiot would wait for the other guy to shoot and not even attempt to beat him to the punch like Han did. Of course, Han was very casual about it. He wasn't exactly broken up about wasting Greedo (which is understandable being that Greedo was going to kill him). But the casual nature in which Han dealt with Greedo showed someone world-weary and practical who did what had to be done. His character was clearly the antithesis of Luke's idealism. There is where the leap occurs, from someone who is clearly not an idealist, to someone who is willing to side with the Rebellion who are fighting an idealistic war against insurmountable odds. But I don't think the phrase "in cold blood" ever entered anyone's mind in relation to Han and Greedo until Lucas suggested it in 1997. Han clearly just did what he had to do to survive. But, yes you are very right, that change diminished the depth of Han's character transformation. It also made Han look like an incredibly lucky guy, slow to the draw, who survived that encounter through dumb luck instead of guile, skill and speed as he did in the original version. And of course Greedo comes off looking the worst of all, instead of appearing like an arrogant, cocksure bounty hunter sure that he had his quarry cornered, but just wasn't fast enough to pull the trigger, he now appears to be the worst bounty hunter ever who couldn't hit the broad side of a barn at point black range.
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In closing, while I am a total newbie with video editing/production, I have a G4 mac with 1GB of ram that I can volunteer to help with any of the production grunt work. Hey, we can set up our own version fo the SETI project - call it the JEDI project??
Ang
Well, you certainly might be able to put that computer to use. Does anyone here live near Angsty? Maybe someone who knows how to do video editing and has the software can use his comp for their workhorse....if that's cool with Ang, I don't mean to invite people over your house dude, lol! Anyway thanks for the volunteer to help.