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#252459
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***The ADigitalMan non-Star Wars DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
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If she'd returned in the time of crisis to fight with the X-Men, it would have worked. But going AWOL and then coming back after the battle having not taken the cure ... it would have been a cop out.

After doing this edit, I can see why most of this was cut. But I do like the extended fight at Jean's house, the extended final battle, the prof's voiceover at the start (absolutely necessary ... never should've been cut and should have been implemented the way I did for flow) and the "mental conversation" between The Phoenix and The Professor during the fight at her house. Those four elements never should have been removed. A few other fluff scenes are nice to have in there, but those four are essential.

I haven't posted it, because I don't post or distribute. Perhaps somebody will soon though.. These things do show up in time, outside of my circle of direct influence.
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#252408
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The voice of Qui-Gon
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Originally posted by: TheCassidy
ADM actually sourced as much of Qui-Gon's dialogue as he could from the original ROTS script.

Indeed. If I'd wanted to put in just any old line from Liam's body of work, I'd have inserted "We're going to have sex in every room, including yours" or maybe "It's mine, ain't it? I can take a piss on the back yard if I want to." (For anybody wanting to scour Liam's body of work for more lines, don't waste your time with Suspect. )

But instead I did try to actually reconstruct Lucas' plot point as best as possible. The result resonates though Ben and Yoda's deaths, all the way to the end of ROTJ. If a Jedi cannot forgive oneself for what he sees as his greatest mistakes, he cannot become one with the Force and still retain his consciousness. But if you can forgive yourself in spite of the atrocities of your past (Obi-Wan, Yoda and Anakin all had them) then you may live on in the afterlife.

The whole tone becomes about forgiveness. And that is a POWERFUL message for any story.
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#252406
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My girlfriend has never seen Star Wars!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/252406/action/topic#252406
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Originally posted by: ReverendBeastly
So you've got a girl who was trying to jump your bones while watching Star Wars, and then you basically said "No! This is Star Wars! You must watch!" and kept fending her off, and she still wanted to jump in bed after the movie? That's a keeper, man.

No, if, after ROTJ, she says "I'll put on a gold bikini for you" THEN she's a keeper.
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#252325
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The originaltrilogy.com acronym buster
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Originally posted by: Karyudo


Actually, I would submit it's those people who pronounce C-I-N-E "sinny" who are neglecting the root of the word: it's from French (innit? they invented movies...), and I'll bet you any Frenchman worth his baguette would cold-pronounce C-I-N-E as "seen".

Ah, the French would love to think so. It's actually rooted from Greek before that.

From the Online Etymology Dictionary
1899, "a movie hall," from Fr. cinéma, shortened from cinématographe, coined 1890s by Lumiere brothers, who invented it, from Gk. kinema "movement," from kinein "to move"


Of course, the "Graph" part is also rooted in the Greek "graphikos" which means "to write."

So Cinema is short for Cinematograph, which is based on the Greek for "To write (record) movement."

But I can't take credit for knowing Greek of the top of my head. No, I wouldn't have thought to look this up if I hadn't, only half an hour ago, read this passage while reading up on Enik from "The Land of the Lost:"
Walter Koenig, the scriptwriter of "The Stranger", originally named this character "Eneg", in honor of Gene Roddenberry. As noted in an audio commentary on the DVD, the spelling was changed to Enik (reverse of the Greek root word for "cinema") by David Gerrold, before the episode "The Stranger" was filmed.


Not to mention that Dracula takes Mina to the "Cinematograph" in a scene I just excised from that film only days ago.
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#252008
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***The ADigitalMan non-Star Wars DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/252008/action/topic#252008
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Not much to tell really. There isn't as much to the edit as you might think. With 24 deleted/alternate scenes, most of them didn't fit. In fact, I put in one that in hindsight I should have also left out because of a continuity error. Alas, what's done is done. My heart wasn't fully in this one because the extra materials weren't earth-shattering.

I considered putting in the alternate Rogue resolution, but I still think they'll do another film, in which her accepting the cure may still be a relevant plot point. Maybe in 5 years if all hopes of X4 have been dashed I'll re-do it again.

Oh, and I'm still considering using Logan's return to Alberta in an expanded edition of X2. It would fit better there than in X3.