Star Wars Saga: Silent Film Edition (Released)

Star Wars The 30’s Serial Edition

Part 1: episode 1-2-3

Part 2: episode 4-5-6
 

Hi, it’s my first post here. I’ve made something that you might be interested in.

It’s a 4h40 long silent Star Wars movie (only Williams score, no voices, no sound effects), black and white, with dialogues cards.
Maybe I should have called this “20’s serial edition”, cause the 30’s were the great debut of sound and color,
I thought 30’s sounds better… anyway…

PM me if you want rapidshare links for DVD part1 and2 (around 40 ziped files for each part)
 

Quality has been hugely improved, compared to the first part DVD released last month on faneditforum.org 
(few cuts were also made here and there)
and, thanks to Ripplin: no more bad french/english translations and horrible grammatical faults in the text cards.
I think you can now watch this without laughing about my poor english (I’m french).
Each episodes are now chapitred.

Even if there are more than 8 hours cutted out of the originals, it’s the same story but tell in a different and very shorter way.
My goal is to give the same old movie feeling to the whole saga that can now be watched as one big movie. 
You’ll find some PT score in OT, and some OT score in PT.

I can’t detail all the cuts, but you don’t have to care if Han shoots first or not anymore:
he does not meet Greedo at all.
There is no opening crawl on part2 cause it’s all one movie and so the crawl is on part1.
But before each episode (that can be watched separatly by the main menu) there is a “Ten years later” type of card,
then a text explaining the events between the episodes (some of these texts are from the original movies text crawls).

No Obi/Ani/Dooku/Yoda fight in EP2.
No Yoda/Sidious fight in EP3. I like this fight, but I needed to cut it (time issue)
The only moment Yoda is holding a saber is at the end of order 66.
 

The only thing that really bother me is that this edit don’t show Vader killing any imps officers.
(I always liked to see the ultimate bad guy killing more imperials than rebels in the OT!
There’s really “still good in him” I suppose!)

I had a very hard time working on the music synch.
I did my best even if some transitions are still a bit rushed. I don’t think I can improve it a lot more.
 

This edit is something I needed to do.
Like… I don’t know, saying goodbye to a world that I really like but that I somehow need to leave.
I don’t say that I’m done with Star Wars, I’m a huge fan and I still have some hope for the live tv-series.
But I had to do this edit first to have a completely free mind on other projects.

Enjoy!

LOVELY!

weve been having a silent film series at our university with live pianists, which made me think of having a similar thing for star wars!

looking forward to seeing it!

TMBTM = The Man Behind The Mask

I hope that I shall not disappoint you with this edit Ripplin.

The result is very closed to what I have in mind when I started this project.

Thanks for the interest ben_danger and -1.
 

Colour me interested. This is something I'd thought about before. I'll definitely check this out and get back to you.

EDIT:

Any chance of a more compressed version? - it would take me quite a while to download 7+GB. Especially just to 'check something out'...I don't mean to sound demanding or anything, Just the way things are.

I will see if I could do DivX versions this week end.

Thanks for the quick review, the screenshots and making DivX negative 1!

I'll try to do DivX for both episode this week end.

also, i know the stories, but it can get confusing when more than

   one person is having a dialogue, and you don't know who said what..

Yes, it was quite difficult to do... I tried to make it as clear as I can. I sometimes even added the name of a character inside the setences (so we understand it is not him who speaks!).

Did you fix the awful Lucas dialogue between padme and anakin ?

Yes.

did you take out Jar Jar?

He don't speak "Gungan" anymore, he actualy help Qui-Gonn and the queen.

And he's not the clumsy clown fo the story anymore. But my Goal was to stay as close as I can of the story.

So Jar Jar is still here, but not that much.

another thing, why didn't you use some 'old movie' filters for it,

scratches, grain, dirt, and noise???????????????

Off course I thought about that... but I did not really  feel the need.

It's my first fan edit and I wanted to make it nice looking first. Like a modern silent movie.

And frankly I did not not found good filters to do the thing!

I don't want to sound overly critical of something I haven't actually seen yet, but going by the posted images I would suggest increasing the contrast a little and make adjustments to brightness to help things stand out / stand a part a little better...a lot of the scenes in general look a tad on the dark side and fairly grey.

In the posted shot of Obiwan [TPM] his face appears very dark and without colour information, slightly hard to make out. I'm sure it probably is easier on the eyes in motion though...

Also i'd think that using the title '30's serial edition' within the actual film itself kind of breaks the fourth wall a little.

The text cards do look a bit on the plain side, I'd expect them to be a little more fancy, Otherwise there doesn't really seem much reason to use those as oposed to simple subtitles. Maybe you could add something like imperial and rebel [or whatever era...] emblems in oposing corners?

And maybe make the text a bit larger since you have almost the entire screen to use. I do like the 'star wars' borders.

I AM still planning to check this out as I think it's a very interesting idea.

a lot of the scenes in general look a tad on the dark side and fairly grey.

You are right about that, once compiled by DVD lab pro the picture looked more contrasted in the final result than in my original .mp2, I still don't know why. But I found that not bad at all. And I felt it was good for the mood of this version.

My divX version will have the original brightness though.

Thanks for all -1! I'll try this filter one of these days.

For now I'm happy with the clean version, but sure it'll be fun trying to do an old noisy one.

(And this filter will help me for the "Grinhouse Jaws" edit I'm planing to do!)