“Does this mean we lose "Always be mindul of your surroundings," because I really liked that.”
No, it shouldn’t.
“we can delve into that more next year around this time.”
Definitely.
“I really believe the PT did too much to take away the mystery of the Force by giving too many explanations (ie. midichlorians... *shudders, trying not to wretch*) and leaving it as you've described here would fit the mythos far better, IMHO.”
Yes!- Midichlorians are out.
“The continued edits would really would drive home not only the similarities of the two generations of Skywalkers, but also the differences, as we see Luke resist the Emperor where Anakin couldn't.”
Exactly- this makes ROTJ more scary because Anakin couldn’t resist the Emperor in a similar situation. I’ve always thought of it this way.
“Seriously though, I'm really looking forward to how all of this turns out. Great stuff here and I'll gladly stand in line to receive this one when you have it finished, Trooperman.”
Thanks!
Regarding distribution- I am not going to be able to distribute these myself. Don’t have time, money, or desire to take the risk. So copies will go to a select few that I have decided on already, and through these folks this edit will get to someone who will act as my distributor- i.e. you will contact him for a copy of my edit and not me. It will also more likely than not wind up on myspleen and the newsgroups.
Of course, I’ll be eager to discuss the edit with anyone that wants to learn more about it or collaborate, but I just want as little to do with distributing it as possible after I complete it, in case Lucasfilm or Fox does a “track down all the fan editors and make them pay” move.
“If you change that one Yoda line”
Which one? (to confirm)
I think you guys see where I’m going with this- Qui-Gon didn’t figure out how to come back as a ghost until the 3rd film. We see him at the end of the movie on Tatooine as Obi-Wan walks toward him, the implication being that Obi-Wan chats with Qui-Gon between the 3rd and 4th film and teaches him the secret. So when Obi-Wan dies…he disappears. And Yoda is Yoda- no explanation needed!
Now, going with this scenario, the fact that Anakin didn’t disappear in ROTJ isn’t as disturbing- he was never taught how, was he? But if such a change were to be made, I wouldn’t do it. Someone else would need to.
“Trooperman has said he has no plans to edit the OT, but maybe we can persuade him to make a few minor alterations for the good of the saga.”
“Noooooooo!” (which will be cut from III, by the way). Part of the point of these projects was to prove that the two trilogies COULD have worked together without having to change the originals. These are meant to go with the original cuts- transfers either from the pre-THX widescreen, the Def. Collection, or the Faces set. However, if someone were to take the Darth Editous edits, or the Tellan edits, the ocpmovie Classic Editions, etc. and tailored them to work with this trilogy (putting the original Lucasfilm logos and crawl back into the DVD, etc), then it would probably be OK. But otherwise, none of the edits or “partial-special editions” out there will match with these. But if I did it myself….I would never hear the end of it
“Just wanted to add my kudos to your great work. The clips only make me crazy to see more.”
Thanks, Mthaslett! Haven’t heard from you in a while! By the way, I will be calling on you sometime for Lama-Su; I just can’t give you details now. But I will have you do that
“There are a lot of small cuts that have been made throughout the entire movie, so it would take a while to list them all. From what I rememberer, many (or at least some) of the changes are things that are different from your version. There is also some dialouge altererations you maybe could "borrow" from his edit, so I think it's worth to get a copy of it yourself.
By the way, the change I told you about Padme's scream in the droid factory some months ago is not my idea, but came from this edit (I was the one who sent Rikter a copy), so you give credit to the right person if you are going to use that idea.”
I see…you must have sent this disc to Rikter recently, because a few weeks ago I ordered every Episode II edit that Rikter had listed, on DVD. I will see about obtaining a copy of that. And I am going to use the “scream” idea, which would make it even more useful to have this edit to see how they implemented this. Thanks!
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InfoDroid is away for a few days, but he has been so kind to supply with a wealth of musical material I can use, not just for SotDS but for the others as well. I’m so grateful to him for doing it. These include the hard-to-find “Conveyor Belt” arrangement in CD quality. All this music will make a huge improvement in my edit. But I have a big a question for anyone who knows…was there EVER an instrument-only recording of Henry Mancini’s “The Shadow of Paris” from the film “A Shot in the Dark”? I’ve looked around on the Internet, and it appears that there is not a soundtrack for this film, and the only recording of it I could find has vocals. Does anyone know if this exists? Otherwise, I’ll have to record it myself- I need this track very much. You’ll see why
Thanks!- things are busy lately but I’m still making progress on the saber fight, impact flashes in the Clone War, and the nightclub scene. Soon, I’ll have to buckle down and really do some serious dubbing work on the dialogue heavy scenes. After I get these done, the Droid Factory all cut together, all the robot and Lama-Su dubbing done, and the end battle scenes done, then I’ll be a lot better shape.