The Prequel Radical Redux Ideas Thread — Page 67

I was against mace's saber being changed. But I really like the way it looks. Even though samuel jackson said he would only do it if he could have a purple saber, HE AINT THE DIRECTOR OF THIS EDIT LOL

I personally like the purple sabre, and I liked MagnoliaFan's touch of recolouring Dooku's to be gold — just as purple, being a combination of blue and red, represents Windu's aggressive fighting style (that's EU canon, btw, not fanwankery), I saw yellow (being a combination of red and green) signifying Dooku's moral ambiguity, which MF had already established with a few very minor cuts.

One thing I will say is that I preferred the 'flickering' sabres of ANH and ESB to the solid sabres of the other four films; the flicker went well with the buzzing and humming and lightning clashes and gave the impression of immense power barely contained. I hope Adywan can add a flicker to the sabres from ROTJ:R onward; given he's repainting them anyway to avoid the fatness and fix the colours it shouldn't be much more work, and it might even be easier given we don't need as precise continuity of thickness and position between frames.

Another thing that just occurred to me: if we keep his sabre purple, and do a couple of other cuts, we can turn the "This party's over, muthaf**ker" scene into a quasi-cliffhanger. If someone lights a blue or green sabre at Dooku's neck, it's obvious it's a good guy come to kick his arse. If it's purple, it's ambiguous. Not saying this is necessary, but if an edit wanted to turn that into a cliffhanger moment, it'd kinda help if the sabre was purple.

So many thoughts about the symbolism of the saber colors....

I mean  I agree in some points but i never liked that colors or the rainbow can fit to a SW movie apart from the EU and games.

Even the jedi are keepers of the peace, they are knights. So in its nessesary they will use violence from a certain point of view, no matter the color of the blade.

-Angel

Well they already have a symbolism, even if it is just blue/green = heroes and red = villains.

Yes but those were clear! Good guys bad guys.

Now with purple that means a guy that is a big agressive and a more bad ass or whatever it starts feel EU.

-Angel

It is EU. If we're going by just the movies, though, it's fairly clear that yellow means ambiguous and purple means badass.

Yeah, I seem to remember in the EU background stuff that Windu is some 12th dan purple belt ninja Jedi whose force ability borders the dark side without actually crossing into it? Some super aggressive, unorthodox style? I dunno. Whatever.

That's the idea, but if you boil it down you can see it basically means badass. :p

Pfft, they just made all that stuff up to sate Jackson. Like they needed him anyway.

I dont know if it means badass, but the sure is it pop ups from the other jedis for a reason, called, im S. jackson and im here to eat a Cheezeburger. lol

He can Popup with his character like SWWR1 made with an awesome way and without his dick, saber color. :)

-Angel

PS: Mara jade is badass too :P

SilverKey said:

Great mockup, Vaderios! I suggested earlier in this thread that Mace should be the only Jedi to confront Palpatine, and your mockups are exactely what I had in mind. That way we can also get rid of Mace's folding chair posse, and be spared their lame deaths. If we are going with Mace being the only Jedi to confront Palpatine, I suggest we add some more empty seats in the Jedi council scenes. It's logical Mace brought backup to arrest a Sith Lord, but by adding some empty chairs, we can show that Mace didn't really have any other option than to go alone. It makes him more brave too.

Mace goes alone... TO THE BATMOBILLE!

So he has to be alone!

-Angel

Mace Windu the lone badass. Coming to eat your tastey burger and quench his thirst with your tastey beverage.

SilverKey said:

Again, well done Vaderios!

And since you posted that shot of the hanger inside the Jedi Temple, how about we use that particular background for the scene with Obi-Wan and Mace in AOTC? The scene I mean is on the DVD among the deleted scenes, but I think that scene works better than the one replacing it (the one with Obi-Wan, Mace and Yoda in the halls of the Jedi Temple). If we use the background with the gunships like we see in ROTS, it could answer the question where the Republic got all those ships from, since they didn't even have an army to begin with.

This shot you refering is so lame but SO LAME from CGI view that dont deserve it. I can see it only as a workprint not ever a deleted scene.

Games have a lot of better 3d.

i was wondering if back at 2002 all these stuff was cool and ahead of its age...

-Angel

Amazing work with Windu the last few pages!  Love it all!

The glares between Windu and Anakin now have meaning, instead of him just being upset at Anakin for being a whiny baby!

Nice job with the Fisto and whoeverthatis removal, Vaderios. :) And I know that it can be done in video, too, even just thinking of the incredible job Darth Editous did on ADM's "Superman Redeemed" in getting rid of Gus in one scene. You'd never know he was ever there.

Yeah i remember that in Superman Redeemed.

The removal was easy, but can be a bit tricky in motion. By the time of ROTS:R is in production, ady will know too much so he can make it work.

Have anyone notice that i erased the jedi that appears behind the bubblegun of the gunship?

-Angel

You mean the guy standing next to Fisto? That's why I said "Fisto and whoeverthatis." Or is that a third guy whose face I see reflected in the glass?

Ripplin said:

You mean the guy standing next to Fisto? That's why I said "Fisto and whoeverthatis." Or is that a third guy whose face I see reflected in the glass?

Yes Bingo! Behind the glass :)

Edit: Whoever saw The emperor's New clones, a fan film, the dude who makes Mace windu has an exceptional similarity with jackson's voice. We can look for him.

-Angel

I have a feeling that Mace Windu will be a lot more badass in Adywan's edit. I mean he's going after Palpatine ALONE after he find out he's a sith lord! That's badass!