The ANH:SE Redux Ideas thread (Radical Ideas Welcome). — Page 36

Well, I think if ANH is to be butchered then Chewie should have more facial expressions (not just his mouth closing/opening) and also it would be interesting for him to have a more masculine voice. Something more lion'ish perhaps.

And maybe in this scene on the right side there could be some kind of reactor or something. You know, like those glowing things in TPM in the Kenobi/Qui-Gon vs. Darth Maul fight?

I don't know, just put some sort of energy source there, so that it looks more futuristic and advanced.

Also in most of the scenes with R2 - he is moving very, very slowly. His head/wheels are so slow. Maybe his movements can be sped up a little. Not much, but just a little.

And in this scene - maybe there could be a ship flying by in the background? Just to give an impression that there's some other stuff going on.

Oh and what's up with those elevators? It takes almost forever for those doors to close -

I'll see what I can do ;)

J

Things I'd love to see in a future fan edition of ANH:

Enhaced screens and displays (computers inside the Death Star look odd).

Insert some PT SDs and stuff. There could be two excuses to do so:

The first one, to insert some old imperial PT stuff, could be that Tatooine is a planet really far from the center of the Empire, and as it's a rather "quiet" planet,with no intervention of the Empire , they could send some old ships, reserving their ultimate stuff for areas which really require them. There's a quote from EU (know this isn't cannon but it's just to show the spirit of what I'm trying to say) from a trooper of the 501st:

"For months we had treated the Rebellion like a disobedient child"...

Untill the destruction of the DS, Rebellion was kinda little, little threat to the Empire.

The other excuse, and still following the spirit of that phrase, is that, as the Rebellion is at the time of ANH a little, clandestine and poor organisation, they couldn't select their ships just as if they had much money. They'd just take any "collaboration" they could, and some old Republic-time junk could do.

http://img714.imageshack.us/i/tatoot.png/

This could even enhace the feeling the OT gives us of "used technology" in the future.

And to finalize, another thing that could do is including a scene after de DS destruction, of Vader aproaching Coruscant and giving explanations to the Emperor or something like that

Duuuuuuuuuuuude!

AWESOME!

I read through this whole thread and ... wow! If all these ideas came to life, ANH would look so awesome! XD I'm a fan of the original version, but this is something I'd definitely like to see.

wow vaderios, just seen those images, they are AMAZING!

Anybody notice the 3 IG-88's in the cantina?

J

Just had an idea... or more like a flash -

you know how they went from lasers to bullets in Terminator Salvation?

It was a pretty bad movie, in my honest opinion, but I liked the idea of bullets.

So what I'm trying to say is - how cool would it look if stormtroopers fired bullets instead of lasers? You could have some serious blood spewing in the opening scene. And it would make the Vader entrance even more intimidating. Cause you would be, like, "Whoa! Those guys were nuts and killing everybody! And this is their leader?! He must be one twisted S.O.B.!"

... just imagine that white corridor all bloody and everything, with stormtroopers bodies lying on the floor and then... Vader appears!

Now is that impressive or what?

And also it would be interesting to hear different sound effects in that scene.

I know that R-Rated stuff isn't exactly Star War'ish, but since we're talking about RADICAL changes...

EDIT: I mentioned making Vader even more intimidating - how about putting some mechanical sounds to his movements? It would seem logical, since he's part man, part machine. And you would have to guess if he's a robot, or is he really a man?

People have always been terrified of tall, intimidating-looking robots XD

And what about his voice? How about making it a little bit lower? It would sounds more demonish.

On the one hand, that sounds easy, as the prop guns fired blanks anyway, and I believe you can see shell cases coming out every once in a while.

On the other hand, it means you have to digitally erase every laser blast in the film, AND add in digital blood and gore every time someone gets hit.

As someone who generally disapproves of a lot of the ideas in this thread, I'm surprised to say that I really like the idea of adding mechanical movement sounds to Vader.  It does make sense.

have you seen the grindhouse fanedit? theres plenty of blood in that.

Hoping not to wander far off topic but the IG-88's head turned up in BBC's Blake's 7 too :

Apparently his head was made from a Rolls Royce jet part.....must have been a few of them about!!..........never noticed the heads in the Cantina till today........wow!

J 

I noticed...

...those red arrows are a dead giveaway!

:p

Using the soundboard Vader dialogue I tweaked some of his isolated ANH phrases.

I gave him a deeper tone, slowed him down a bit and gave him more heavy bass similar to the following two films....

Check it out...

http://www.zshare.net/audio/80382371a6cb4f27/

ben_danger said:

have you seen the grindhouse fanedit? theres plenty of blood in that.

But it was... sloppy. :\ It was over the top and also not very photo realistic. I was thinking more of like the blood you see in WATCHMEN, where basically every blood spew had some sort of meaning and it wasn't there just for fun

(but the blood in Watchmen wasn't very realistic, so maybe it would be better just to make it as realistic as possible).

Cause the thing with blood in movies today is that - there is no blood. Most of the movies are rated PG-13 and when somebody gets hit all we see is  just smoke (in The Dark Knight, for example, the guy gets hit in legs by UZI and there's no blood... just smoke).

And when you take that away - that sense of fear and possibility of getting a serious (or lethal) injury - the audience doesn't feel threatened anymore.

We see those stormtroopers falling when they get hit. But what really happens to them? If we added blood and a little screaming or some sort of sound of agony - all the scenes would look different and more intense. Cause you would see what happens to a stormtrooper when he gets hit and you would be a little terrified because you wouldn't want that to happen to your heroes. 

DF Shadow said:

Using the soundboard Vader dialogue I tweaked some of his isolated ANH phrases.

I gave him a deeper tone, slowed him down a bit and gave him more heavy bass similar to the following two films....

Check it out...

http://www.zshare.net/audio/80382371a6cb4f27/

Sweet.

ChainsawAsh said:

As someone who generally disapproves of a lot of the ideas in this thread, I'm surprised to say that I really like the idea of adding mechanical movement sounds to Vader.  It does make sense.

Thanks!

DF Shadow said:

Using the soundboard Vader dialogue I tweaked some of his isolated ANH phrases.

I gave him a deeper tone, slowed him down a bit and gave him more heavy bass similar to the following two films....

Check it out...

http://www.zshare.net/audio/80382371a6cb4f27/

 

 

Very nice, but I feel that you should make it just a little bit deeper than what you've made, because the ESB Vader voice (the best Vader sounded in the entire saga, imo) is still very slightly deeper than your edited ANH voice. Just a tiny bit deeper would make it perfect.