I’ve been looking at stuff with this film recently again and I very much want to start my own edit of Star Wars again however I want to use a few of your shots from the old version if you are ok with that?
The Pay off here is in credible information.
So in the battle of yavin the porkins “I have a problem here” is actually pertaining to the shots that come prior… “Watch out there is a lot of fire coming frim the right side of that deflection tower”
The x-wing pulling away from the surface goes here up until the flash frame. Porkins now says “I have a problem here” then we cut from the end of the flash frame to the x - wing pulling up and away. This matches the angle of the cockpit shots for porkins too.
On the flipside of this the sequence where we hear gold leader say “Watch out there’s a lot of fire coming from the right side of that deflection tower” before this should actually be the death star gunner shot and the lasers in the sky albeit with a deflection tower composited in with those lasers in the sky.
This is 100% legit pertaining to the theatrical soundmix and what would match.
The special edition accomodated this change in the sound mix to make the moved scenes work however the moved scenes do not work because Luke confirms he is going after the gunner and biggs is going after the deflection tower. Placing the gunner scene and Luke saying " I’m on it" makes sense that falls into place. As far as porkins demise is concirned it’s much better but it feels a bit off but also does not. It could be that the shot was not meant to be splced in 2 at the flash frame… i.e the continuous shot is presented as is then "I have a problem here then biggs says “pull up!”
This is the theatrical soundmix telling a story of what was supposed to be…
The nect point I want to make to you is about Vader tracking down Obiwan on the deathstar cortidors… Now I don’t know about this at all but after having watched it a few times it struck me on a macro level that Vader honing down on Obiwan was changed…
The point of realisation was the closing doors wipe shot betwwen “you came in that theng? You’re braver than I thought” and the storm trooper chase… Also spltting the the tractor beam deactivation in two.
Without experimenting I can not know how it should be but I am seeing a clanger and for good reason. It’s definitely scenes in the wrong order. Or very slihtly wrong order. It’s not bad but I know can be better… I have yet to look at this but my gut tells me it was made a mess in editing. It makes luttle sense. Most things are micro level but the dearh star hunt by Vader looking for Obiwan goes macro level and I am starting to believe it actually can be far better.