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Post #1491781

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Octorox
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Making the Obi-Wan & Anakin training session (From the Kenobi series) work in an AOTC edit.
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30-Jun-2022, 9:58 AM

Dat_SW_Guy said:

Personally, I feel that it’s like trying to cut in the SC38 Obi VS Vader fight to the original 1977 version. The cinematography is too different, the camera and lenses are too different, and the dead giveaway would be the global illumination due to the background literally an encapsulating volume of LED lights, while back in 2002 they used green screen and reasonable yet outdated compositing to try and the Coruscant background in AOTC.

These are all good points, but The Phantom Menace literally cuts HDCAM shots into a movie shot on 35mm and they do stand out a bit. Same with the CGI shots in the special editions. I don’t think matching the character of the rest of the footage was something GL ever overly concerned himself with. I feel like if we could get it 80% of the way there, most audiences would be able to buy it. A lot of it would come down to the color grade.

I also think SC38 reimagined just doesn’t work from a storytelling perspective, whereas I do feel like this scene enhances the story and adds context.