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Jonno
Parent topic
The Academy Award winning editing of Episode IV
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Date created
6-Jul-2006, 1:31 PM
Originally posted by: auraloffalwaffle
Originally posted by: zombie84: The breathless finale of Empire works as well, except the ridiculous "alert my star destroyer" sequence that does some major damage to the flow.


That was an SE alteration, as discussed in another thread.

The single change that annoyed me most in 1997!



Same here - if only for the painful butchering of the 'Losing a Hand / Hyperspace' music cue.


Fair points about Burtt, but let's not convince ourselves that good sound design and good editing are mutually exclusive - Walter Murch sucessfully made the same transition (albeit quite a bit earlier - Apocalypse Now was one of his first picture editing jobs).

His more recent work for Anthony Minghella has been masterful - just look at The English Patient and tell me that the prequel trilogy wouldn't benefit from that kind of restraint...