TV's Frink said:
Have you been reading the full script cutlists, or just the summaries on the FE.org pages? If just the summaries, you might want to take a gander at my full scripts.
Well, only summaries, actually. I know about your scripts (and I think you're crazy doing them, but on the other hand, so are we all :D ) and I think about looking at some of them at some point.
TMBTM said:
Only I don't feel like ROTJ should be the darkest of all the movie at all cost. Well, there must be a point, near the end, where all things turns bad - and it is more or less the case in the actual movie (rebels capture on Endor, space battle avorted, Luke in trouble) - but I don't see anything wrong about a real happy ending for the whole saga. We already have three movies with a kind of dark ending (AOTC, ROTS, ESB).
If we look at Star Wars as at a Tragedy of Anakin Skywalker (Darth Vader) tale (like Lucas likes to call it), then it makes sense to wrap Anakin's story to an end, how he was brought to peace, but this end is not the end for Luke Skywalker or the Rebel Alliance. I'm not against happy endings, but the Empire, as I already said, can't be destroyed just by killing the Emperor. The planets won't celebrate everything just like that, I'm sure there would be a lot of planets/people who didn't have anything against Empire's rule, because... because it's only natural. So, I don't want the ending to be dark, no. But I don't want it to be a happy ending as in "everything's done everything's good".
Besides, though Rebels are officialy overrun and everything, it doesn't feel like that in the movie. It still feels like a swashbuckling adventure.
vaderios said:
You have my Mockups ;)
And my saber
and my axe
oh well
Good luck :D:D:D
Thank you. I love your mockups :) By the way, is there a place where they all are gathered in one single place?
Also, it happens that the Lord of the Rings is another one of my favorite movies, and I'm one of those who loves both the book and Peter Jackson's trilogy.
Anyway, thanks everyone for your comments. It will be some time before I get to actually editing stuff, because I want to plan as many things as possible.
TPM is really a nutcracker, you know. I think it tries to show too hard that it's "The beginning of the Saga." It like tells you "This is the beginning, this is how it was, this is young Obi-Wan, this is his master whose name we don't get till the middle of the movie, this is Yoda who we already must know who he is and therefore he gets little introduction or even hardly mentioned by name but he was the head of the JEdi Council, see?" and so on and so on. I never noticed it before I tried to make an edit out of it, but TPM tries to hard to be the beginning of the Saga.
One thing I like about ANH is that it just throws you into action with this battle. And I thought that, well, ANH depicts the beginning of Luke's journey (though also the continuation of Anakin's, but that's not the point) and TPM kinda depictst he beginning of Anakin's journey, so why not to mirror it at some point, because, well, SW films love to mirror eachother.
So I think of going a bit radical and starting the TPM movie right from the Escape from Naboo. After the opening crawl, camera pans down to Naboo, we see the Royal Starship flying past the camera right into that blockade. Essentially, to cut out the first 20 minutes of the movie (maybe incorporate the cut footage elsewhere somehow) and we meet Anakin a lot sooner this way, because the point of the movie is beginning of his journey, how dreams do come true for him.
I think that might just as well work, though I must see how it will work with the introduction of characters of Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, Padme and Jar-Jar (and the escape itself serves as an introduction for Artoo). Jumping straight in is one thing, knowing who the hell are these guys is another.