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Star Wars The Force Awakens fanedit Han dies by the force

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I just completed a fanedit on this um reboot/sequel/ of Star Wars the force copy awakens.

I did not like the flick as much as I wanted.

I disliked the movie so much I edited a copy with laugh tracks. haha.

But while I was editing the movie with the laugh tracks a funny thing happened.

My mind went to work on this movie and figured out a way so Han dies different and not by the light sabre.

Instead of getting the sabre in the chest, Han dies from his son using the force.

So after that I had to finish the movie.

No heavy handed bb8 appearance in the beginning, no monsters on Han’s ship, no trench run, no Luke giving up, no mention of the word “son”, no scene where the little alien takes off the goggles, no unexplained r2d2 sleeping thing (now r2d2 is just charging), Han’s son only freaks out once, no helicopter scene around luke, etc.

New title crawl, renamed the movie to “The Force Within.”

Now it plays out better. Like it was made for adults. Less eye rolling.

Cheers!

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The only thing about this edit that is remotely “good” is the renaming.

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Here is how he dies in this edit.

Han is planting the bombs to blow up the facility. Kylo walks out onto the catwalk, turns around, and says “Han Solo. I’ve been waiting for this day for a long time.” We cut to Han placing a bomb. Kylo says “I’ll show you the Dark Side.” Quick cut to his gloved hand extending. The bomb explodes and Han goes along with it. Kylo takes off his helmet, we cut to Leia feeling Han’s death, and then we cut back to Chewie gettin’ pissed and shooting everyone.

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Yeah… I mean do what you want. It’s most important that your fan edit pleases you first and foremost.

But I will say it does seem as though you’re sucking all the emotion out of the Han death scene.

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Macsvoltage said:

Here is how he dies in this edit.

Han is planting the bombs to blow up the facility. Kylo walks out onto the catwalk, turns around, and says “Han Solo. I’ve been waiting for this day for a long time.” We cut to Han placing a bomb. Kylo says “I’ll show you the Dark Side.” Quick cut to his gloved hand extending. The bomb explodes and Han goes along with it. Kylo takes off his helmet, we cut to Leia feeling Han’s death, and then we cut back to Chewie gettin’ pissed and shooting everyone.

Could you link to a video sample of this scene? I would really like to watch it.

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I downloaded the edit. Send me a PM i will send a preview of the death

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Actually, it works a bit more. I really did not like the overlong talk between the two. If we had one more movie to learn about his son, just something more so the scene would have more depth.

For example. Why have it on the catwalk or whatever they where standing on? I mean, it was only there to serve the story. So you could have a dramatic part where we see Han fall over. (sniffle)

Another example of how this was written is the light sabre fight scene near the cliff. Oh man that was total bollywood. A cliff that just shows up and does not take the two down? A bit much.

Now we see how the dark side is. It’s dark. No speeches, just some dark side death. The dialog even suggests that Kylo knew that this would happen or something. Like he was planning it somehow. I even removed the “find them” order Kylo barks out when they arrive to try and suggest some planning. Some sinister planning.

Love the scene after with Kylo Ren. The way he hit’s himself over and over is totally spot on for a troubled kid who has to deal with something horrible, something that he just did. Like he’s convincing himself he was right with pain.

I notice that there is a love hate thing going on with this edit. I showed it to my kids and a few friends. They all like it. Much better for them. For others, they cannot see. lol

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Thank you for doing that. I have serious carpel tunnel going on so the less computer clicking for me the better!

Cheers!

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Seems more like a fan edit just for fun. I’m honestly curious about the laugh track thing though. If done right, this could be a goofy dumb time watching. Not to be taken seriously.

~The original trilogy is my life… kind of~

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I’m not reading any of that but to my “And logic” post in theory you will not be able to make that edit convincing that doesn’t seem like a faneditey thing. I definitely have to see it.