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Post #921276

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nesboy43
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The Force Awakens : Fan Edit Ideas
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Date created
26-Mar-2016, 9:57 PM

This is going to be my personal edit of the film. It is mostly pretty minor changes but it will make the film flow better in my opinion:

-Remove 90% of Maz’s Scenes (pointless exposition)

  1. None of her explaining what the force is, how she’s seen many eyes, etc. What she says is nonessential to the plot in my opinion
  2. Rey will have the lightsaber flashback and will run out of the tavern immediately afterwards (no Maz pointlessly explaining to the audience that the lightsaber was calling to her)
  3. Remove Maz telling Finn that a lightsaber is a weapon (he already knows this as he has seen Kylo use one, so it doesn’t make sense)

-Remove some Starkiller base items

  1. Reduce the First Order Motivational Speech
  2. Remove Starkiller base firing scene and the reactions (no ties to these characters whatsoever and the planet they are firing on isn’t explained either)

In addition here are some dream edits I would like to make but do not possess the skills or sources to do so at the moment:

-Change the sound mix to be more like the other 6 films, where the music is quite a bit louder than it is in The Force Awakens (honestly I think TFA has a very good soundtrack, it was just drowned out). This would of course require possession of multitracks to do right or very significant processing to try and extract certain elements out.

-Change the color correction of the film to be closer to the Original Trilogy. TFA looks great and was shot very well, but I do not agree with the final color correction.