HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! - I fixed the "Sand" Scene

The Sand Scene from Attack of the Clones with 100% less sand: https://youtu.be/WbZWh5QNyEU

Looks good. Have you done whole film?

Interesting, so you reversed the footage of their kiss in order to remove the whole “I shouldn’t have done that” thing from Padme. Very smart. I don’t think a casual viewer would notice whatsoever.

yoshif8tures said:

Looks good. Have you done whole film?

. . . I’ve actually recut all six of George’s films lol!

oojason said:

Very good - I was half expecting…

you’d have Padme say that iconic line for the love of sand… 😉

That would have been hilarious!

aGreatHumanBeing said:

This is the way.

This is the way.

Jar Jar Bricks said:

Interesting, so you reversed the footage of their kiss in order to remove the whole “I shouldn’t have done that” thing from Padme. Very smart. I don’t think a casual viewer would notice whatsoever.

I can’t believe it worked either. . . Usually the eyes are what give reverse shots away, but Natalie’s eyes look totally natural backwards. . . Ironically, the real thing that sells the effect is the smooch sound effect from when they broke away in the vanilla version. Because the sound is different, your brain tells you it’s a new shot.

After editing all six of George’s movies, I found a 1-3 reverse shots in every film, so I just thought I’d add one more to the tradition lol!

I mean if it worked for the Tusken Raiders. . .

JoyOfEditing said:

yoshif8tures said:

Looks good. Have you done whole film?

. . . I’ve actually recut all six of George’s films lol!

Let’s see them!

yoshif8tures said:

JoyOfEditing said:

yoshif8tures said:

Looks good. Have you done whole film?

. . . I’ve actually recut all six of George’s films lol!

Let’s see them!

I’m not gonna release the full edits publicly, but I am going through all the major changes I made on my YouTube Channel. If there’s any specific change you want you want to see, PM me and I’ll send you the scene or sequence you’re interested in. I’ve essentially finished all of the Prequels, and I should be done with the OT by the summer at the latest.

Here’s a link to the YouTube Channel. This first two episodes are up, and the third one about the Utapau Duel will release later today: https://www.youtube.com/@JoyofEditing

Oh wow yeah, I think I’ve seen a few takes go for dialogue removal on this scene, but the use of reversing the start of the kiss is actually a pretty effective way of portraying the regret over the kiss without the blunt “I shouldn’t have done that”. Surprised how well Portman’s expression works for that in this context.

NotTheDri0ds said:

Oh wow yeah, I think I’ve seen a few takes go for dialogue removal on this scene, but the use of reversing the start of the kiss is actually a pretty effective way of portraying the regret over the kiss without the blunt “I shouldn’t have done that”. Surprised how well Portman’s expression works for that in this context.

I’m just surprised nobody noticed how well the ol’ Sea Monster transition worked. . . lol!

The abruptness of how that scene ends without the reversing of the footage has been a pain point for Hal’s edit of AoTC for a while now.

@JoyOfEditing, your new video was already taken down due to copyright.

littlev87 said:

@JoyOfEditing, your new video was already taken down due to copyright.

I know. I’m working on it. . . YouTube really hates John Williams music, but if the fix I’m doing now works, it should be live again late today.

G&G-Fan said:

This is pretty great!

I’m quite interested in both your Prequel and OT edits. For the Prequels, I’m interested in how you approached Anakin’s characterization, turn to the dark side, and the scene with Vader in the suit in ROTS (I hope you made it less cheesy).

I’m very interested in your OT changes from a curiosity standpoint. Most people leave those alone, especially ESB.

Is this the point where I should tell you I cut ESB down to 90 minutes?

Jar Jar Bricks said:

The abruptness of how that scene ends without the reversing of the footage has been a pain point for Hal’s edit of AoTC for a while now.

Yeah, that was actually the exact problem I was trying to solve lol! My cuts are VERY different from the Hal 9000 cuts (I always work from scratch from the Vanilla version), but I did end up coming to the same conclusion Hal did a couple times in each film, cause he’s pretty good at this whole editing thing. 😉

G&G-Fan said:

JoyOfEditing said:

Is this the point where I should tell you I cut ESB down to 90 minutes?

How?! That movie has like perfect pacing! Every scene is the perfect length and every scene is important.

Haha!!! I don’t think I can explain “how” without writing you a novel. But the basic gist is that I cut all six films as if they were 6 chapters of 1 BIG film. The genre of George’s STAR WARS films is technically a Spiritual Epic in the mode of a Medieval Romance, so I recut all 6 films to follow the general rules of those two genres using JRR Tolkien’s editing method (because LotR and STAR WARS are the exact same genre and format (1 SAGA split into 6 books/episodes).

When you use the method Tolkien used to edit LotR, you end up with six roughly 90 minute episodes (except for RotS which clocks in at roughly 75 minutes). Ironically, the “pacing” of these dramatic cuts isn’t actually much quicker than the Vanilla Versions, because I streamlined all the themes to focus on the ones that span the whole SAGA. Empire Strikes Back actually has more diversions from the main themes than any of the other 5 films (because according to George, Kershner didn’t understand the Force, and frankly I agree with him).

A basic example would be reworking Yoda’s character. The ol’ frog is WAY different in the Prequels than he is in the OT. Some aspects of his character are better in the Prequels some aspects are better in the OT. What I did was create a composite Yoda, taking the best of both versions so that he’d stay a consistent character across all 6 films. Most folks that re-edit the Prequels aim to align them with the OT as if it’s the Bible. I just fundamentally don’t think that works. Is the Vanilla OT better than the Vanilla Prequels? OH MY GOODNESS YES!!! But my argument is the best version of the “SAGA” is made by creating a “Third Version” of every single character that works best for the SAGA as a whole. Once you create all those new composite characters, then it quickly becomes obvious what scenes need to stay, and which scenes need to go. Does that make any sense? You’ll be able to see how I cut these composite characters in the third episode the YouTube show which should go up later today (if I can finally appease the copyright gods lol).

JoyOfEditing said:

littlev87 said:

@JoyOfEditing, your new video was already taken down due to copyright.

I know. I’m working on it. . . YouTube really hates John Williams music, but if the fix I’m doing now works, it should be live again late today.

Okay. I think I finally fixed the problem. . . Fingers crossed. . . I’m gonna re-render the new editing episode with part of the audio muted on the final recut, because I think it’s got just a tiny bit too much unaltered RotS footage in one stretch in particular. . . Once the episode goes live, if you or anyone else wants to see the full un-muted scene PM me, and I’ll be happy to send you a link.

Hal 9000 said:

I do like this change and it seems to be an improvement over what I’ve been able to do. (I’ll remind you that most of the ideas themselves from my Ep2 edit came from predecessors.)

I’d like the raw footage and audio for this one if I could get it!

No prob! I’m rendering something else at the minute, but I’ll kick that out when it’s done. I’m gonna send you a PM to make sure it’s setup correctly for how you want to use it.

I would cut from the tonsil tennis right to planet of the oil rigs. The awkward halt to the music has always been the sad trumbone of the scene.