The "Vader Edition" Star Wars Saga - Episodes 1-6 Edits (WIP) — Page 6

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hinventon said:

Your Empire edit sounds great, can I get a link?

Sent.

Also, my ANH edit is no longer on hiatus. After Adywan’s last update made it clear ANH:R won’t be released for awhile, I’m gonna make my own with his regraded version of the 2011 Blu-Ray until his releases. Therefore I will be working on it as I will all my other edits.

ifjg said:

How are you planning on doing the added Vader/Sidious scene?

Sorry for late reply.

Cinefy helped me create the scene by creating a deepfake of the Emperor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWj-c8hvFBA

For my AOTC edit I’d really like to include something like this (made by snooker) for Anakin’s nightmare

https://streamable.com/msthr

honestabe said:

This is a very fascinating concept. However, I think having him face Vader may be too on the nose. Could Vader be replaced with a shadowy-hooded figure that the audience could interpret as Sidious? I am not personally sure, but I really like the idea of Anakin confronting some form of a “demon.”

I definitely see where you’re coming from, as for first time audiences it could be interpreted as Anakin facing Sidious (as the prophecy says) and being killed. Either that or its interpreted as Anakin facing his dark side.

My idea was that I’d be a visual metaphor for the conflict between Anakin and Vader. Anakin, the passionate heroic Jedi, and Vader, the cold cruel Sith. A big goal is to make them feel like the same person by making Anakin colder when he’s using the dark side (scenes of him whining and complaining are gone), thus highlighting their duality (he seems so much more alive when he’s on the light side then the dark). And Anakin, through his passion for saving people, will be destroyed by his lust for power, the cold, mechanical Vader.

So in that sense, if you did replace Vader with a more mysterious figure, it would still work if that figure is entirely stoic, still, and cold. Because the point is that it symbolizes the duality between his passion and cold.

Each of my prequel edits now have their own thread because they’re more complex then when I originally started this project. I’m still keeping this thread around for the whole saga project tho. I’m definitely not creating separate threads for the OT edits.

TheSkissors said:

This sounds like my definitive Star Wars! Could I get a link to your ESB?

Wow, I really need to update this thread lol. My ideas have changed somewhat.

For ESB it won’t be too much, but I do plan on going from Adywan Revisited as the base to D+80.

I’ll send you the previous version of ESB, though.

Updated first post to accurately describe the status of each edit and my new plans for the OT.
They’ll still be minor edits with mostly aesthetic changes (may look like quite a bit of changes when listed, but none of them are anything that have a major impact on the movie’s quality from a critical stance; all 3 are still masterpieces to me).
I have some ambitious Adywan-esqe ideas for them (as I do for the Prequels), but again, no major narrative changes.
ESB will likely be first done.

I don’t plan on using Revisited as the base for them anymore (though I do plan on integrating some shots from Revisited). Rather, oohteedee’s D+77/80/83 (thus I specify when I integrate an SE change).
I prefer the look of the 2019 versions, especially with oohteedee’s regrades. I will likely also do a bit of regrading myself.

I’ll still be offering my older version of ESB based on Revisited for anyone who wants it.

I know it can appear like I’m all talk (which I admit is partially due to my ADHD, and a somewhat perfectionist nature) but I do make earnest attempts to make stuff, and I want to release my own saga someday. I want them to be made more then anyone else wants to see them probably, since I can actually imagine it in my head.