StarWarsLegacy.com - The Official Thread — Page 55

The first time I ever visited the Archives and saw the condition that Luke's Red 5 X-Wing model was in - a condition mirrored by no shortage of artifacts there - my heart broke.  And I realized that nobody in any official capacity has the kind of reverence for this film that its most dedicated fans do.  I did not enter in Legacy lightly.  It's too late for Red 5; it's not too late for Star Wars.

And yes, I just do the composing - the recording is handled by Academy-Award-Winner Shawn Murphy, who has recorded all my orchestral stuff.  He's JW's engineer as well, and for good reason.  He's unbelievably skilled.

Regarding some of these Reliance clips..  I made this video for you guys:

Reality Check

The password is: reliance

That's so sad. Poor Red 5.

mverta said:

The first time I ever visited the Archives and saw the condition that Luke's Red 5 X-Wing model was in - a condition mirrored by no shortage of artifacts there - my heart broke.  And I realized that nobody in any official capacity has the kind of reverence for this film that its most dedicated fans do.  I did not enter in Legacy lightly.  It's too late for Red 5; it's not too late for Star Wars.

 Yeah, I was out there in 1996, and have to agree, sadly. It was amazing how much stuff had been kept, but a lot of it was in a really terrible state, which is a genuine tragedy.

Yikes! Luke's X Wing looks like it's been sitting on Dagobah for the past 30 years!

It was painfully obvious Vader's TIE fighter suffered some damage between when it was shown on the Definitive Collection LD set in 1993, and it's appearance on the Blu Ray extras. Maybe they should stop touring the models if they are getting this fragile?

And to think, they could have auctioned off the props for charity!

Or for Lucas's wallet. Now I think about it, I'm surprised he didn't think to do that!

Oof. The condition of that model really is a metaphor for the condition of the entire legacy of Star wars right now. Sad stuff.

Didn't they finally acquire the original Death Star miniature from that fan who discovered it in a curio shop? I think it was safer in that fellow's house!

Gus Lopez, and I hadn't heard that.  Last I heard he had loaned it to a museum. 

Okay, I could have heard wrong.

^Green screens and data files.

So George Lucas's film-making tools are more simplistic than what a teenager with a mac and an iphone uses.

Wedge Rescues Luke

If I ever do another version of SW, I can assure you I will not use compressed 720p clips with bad framerate-conversion. That is not to say that what is shown in these clips isn't amazing, because it is, but the encoding quality of the clips themselves is far bellow anything I would consider using if I was doing another version of SW DeEd.

I honestly don't know. Some might. Empire is already out there after all, albeit in a crude form.

Harmy's edition has set a bar, raised expectations, and brought the restoration community's efforts to attention in a way that hadn't been seen prior.  He struggles, as we all do, with resources and technology, and this isn't a competition. To his point, I think attempting a restoration from released materials, versus scans of prints is an entirely different beast.  But there have been no shortage of people who are deeply grateful for his edition, and rightfully so.  I support everything about the sentiment behind its release, it's just too dangerous for me to do myself.  But I think it should be quite clear by all the sharing that I'm doing now that I want Legacy to be seen, to be useful, either to an official restoration or other fan restoration as a guideline, and if it does indeed end up to be a faithful representation of the original film, then I want it to be shared.  I trust in the crazy, unpredictable nature of things that one way or another this will come to pass.  

It's interesting to hear you say that. We'll have to wait and see what Disney does. I think they should start restoring their catalogue correctly, they've already damaged their brand immeasurably since the late 90's by releasing crap after crap, and then when it came to DVD and Bluray their animated films (and I was able to see some of them on 35mm, recently) look absolutely horrible in comparison to the 35mm version.

So what I want to see is Disney restoring all of their films properly and releasing them in their original unaltered theatrical formats. That would be good business sense as much as anything else. The next time I see Alice in Wonderland, for instance, I don't want to see something that looks like it was animated on a computer instead of done physically. I'd rather watch the VHS than watch the Bluray.

If they want to do that they will, if they don't want to they won't. I guess we just have to wait and see.

I hope the clips you're releasing will encourage them to set the bar higher. They don't want to have a release come out look worse than what was achieved with your 4k theatrical print scan. If they do that it will be published to a much wider audience than just the members of this forum... and negative publicity is the last thing that Disney needs.

RU.08 said:

If they do that it will be published to a much wider audience than just the members of this forum... and negative publicity is the last thing that Disney needs.

But the majority of consumers will still lick up every last drop from Disney's clammy hands like when the BluRay set came out >_<

The terrible new changes did make a pretty big splash, but eventually, the waves receded.