What’s interesting to note is, that aside from the fact the print has not been corrected yet, the colors on the print suggest the scene was shot during the day, while the Despecialized Edition’s colors suggests it was shot while the sun was setting. How do I know this?
If I correct poita’s scan with the algorithm (which essentially tells us the colors at midday), the colors hardly change, suggesting the scene was actually shot relatively close to midday:
Original poita scan:
“Corrected” poita scan:
The Despecialized Edition’s colors show a massive change however:
Original Harmy:
“Corrected” Harmy:
The “corrected” Despecialized colors are closer to the print colors.
A production photo I found on the internet, suggests the scene was indeed shot at a time closer to midday, and is more consistent with the print colors:
I was going to post those comparisons in your thread and say almost EVERYTHING you said line for line. I’m not even joking… and throw in my opinion that Lucas made the conscious choice to regrade the movie colors there to make it look like it’s getting near sunset hours because they’ve spent the “whole day” with the events leading to and traveling to the Sarlac pit… And that I think the Endor forest scenes are a tad warmer than they were in the theater also (because I actually remember those better) and then end it with screenshots of Willow original DVD versus the blu ray release in 2013 in which they REALLY added in the gold tones. The difference between Jedi, Willow, and Star Wars is that the color timing changes made for Jedi and Willow films have “artistic merit”… right or wrong, the brain can logically work out what the thinking was, versus Star Wars which has just left us all in a cluster getting rid of them and our brains screaming “MAGENTA NOT RIGHT!”
Then I was going to beg Dr. Dre to do a shot of the blu ray corrected to Poita’s scan to see how that would look… you took care of me there too!
Poita, Dr. Dre… you guys are the bomb.