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Monroville
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STAR WARS: EP V "REVISITED EDITION"ADYWAN - 12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW
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21-Oct-2008, 3:58 PM
Monroville said:

Hello,

First time on the site and of course love what you've done with ANH.  I have read your proposed changes and thoroughly agree with your ideas, though there are a few other issues you may want to consider:

(1) all of the imperial craft shoot GREEN laser bolts with the exception of the hand-held blasters.  It would be more consistent for the AT-ATs to shoot green lasers as opposed to the Rebel-associated red lasers.

(2) when the asteroid chase first begins, there is a peanut shaped asteroid that has a small, mysterious explosion inside a crater that occurs for no reason right before the MF and Tie fighters come around the right side of it.  This could be removed.

(3) as you stated before, it would be cool to see 4 or 5 star destroyers with blinking lights or no lights at all when Luke leaves Hoth to show further ships hit with the ion cannon clearing the path for the escaping rebels.

(4) it seems you agree that the less of the Wampa the better; I would excise the "munching" scene and the very silly "wailing" scene and keep it as close to the original as possible.

Other than the 2 issues above, it appears you have a very special edit in store and I look forward to its release.  The real challenge is going to be editing JEDI into something far more serious to fit better with EMPIRE.

Thanks for all the hard work and effort,

 

Sincerly,

Christopher Seay

I will have to make a screen capture of the scene in question (in regards to the asteroid chase sequence beginning). 

- Okay, here is what I am talking about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rnyWNoFb58

From 2:04 to 2:05, there is a flash inside the crater with no lasers or objects hitting the asteroid; it's just like the asteroid "farted" for lack of a better word.  This could easily be edited out (yeesh!  Didn't realize how white the MF engines are)

 

As far as the AT-ATs go, a simple test would work enough to see if green lasers would work visually (though I do understand that the red lasers ARE what we are used to and were in the original); something akin to what Adywan has already done with his above/below comparison clips between the revisit cut and the 2004 cut (say a few sequences of the AT-ATs firing with the scenes above being green and the ones below being red).

- if someone could take this video clip here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWjj8EKTkWE&feature=related

and simply go over the AT-AT lasers to make them green (regardless of how well it blended in) and posted it on Youtube, I think it would work well enough to get a general idea of what the overall effect would look like if the change was made.

You may want to also consider playing with the lighting of the models during the Hoth attack.  Some of the shots are so bright that they give away the fact that they are models.  Maybe the possibility of a moving sky/clouds in the background, darken the models a little and smooth out the motions of the stop-motion AT-AT shots.