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#1602564
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The Blackened Mantle - 2023 Kurosawa Edition (a personal update to my favorite Prequel Trilogy fanedit)
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Grimrukh said:

Hey, original BM creator here (formerly “Darth Lunar”). This is fantastic. Honored that you enjoyed BM enough to give it such a lovely treatment 😃

The original is definitely one of my favourite edits. It shows the cast were doing all the right things physically but Sir Alec and Mark were right about George and dialogue. Your subtitles and the voice actors liberated that footage.

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#1582040
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The Dream of the Giant Fractal Woodlouse.
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I had this crazy dream that I was filming in a house which I later realised was where I filmed a notorious found footage ghost story some years previous. I hadn’t recognised it because we approached the house from a different street in broad daylight where as the ghost film was made on consequitive nights. The film was semi improvised with a core of people playing investigators making a so haunted type show and lots of extras playing ghosts and operating the props to scare the cast. It had a reputation for actually scaring the cast so bad the film was tied up with legal issues and hadn’t been seen yet. When we were at the location this time I met lots of other people who were in it and we shared experiences about making it. Even though I knew I was dreaming I was convinced the original film happened for some minutes partly because of how familiar the house was and how convincing the stories were.

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#1579411
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STAR WARS: EP VI -RETURN OF THE JEDI &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - ** PRODUCTION HAS NOW RESTARTED **
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Something popped into my head last night before going to sleep. It goes back to the old marrying the original trilogy to the prequel thing.

Obi-Wan technically didn’t own a droid in the prequels. He was a Jedi and the order had access to droids. He was friendly with them but didn’t take them too seriously. He wouldn’t mourn a decapitated R2 unit like he would a youngling but he also didn’t treat them like furniture.

When he comes across Artoo in episode 4 he may not of expected to see him again. His brain would possibly dismiss the idea that this blue astromech was the same one Padme owned or Anakin had flown with because there were only so many colours and probably millions of units made.

But once Luke mentions Ben’s true name the nagging suspection that the R2 unit was Artoo must have entered his mind as well as the implication that this was the moment when training Luke would be necessary.

So my suggestion is, if possible, add a “Artoo?” to the scene from Ben and have Artoo respond. Maybe just before he says to Luke that doesn’t remember owning a droid.

A bit like him saying to Artoo “I going to pretend to not know what’s going on but I do remember.” an exchange that they would share and the audience would see but went completely over Luke’s head.

Alternatively it could happen while Luke is unconscious but that would mean Ben recognised Artoo right away and deduced the situation immediately which might very well be a Jedi thing. Though he might still suspect an Imperial trap.

If I went back to 1977 and saw such an exchange I would be intrigued by what’s going on. I think that’s a good criteria for changes like this. But it’s probably impossible to do anyway.

Just a thought.

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#1566067
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What is the best way to convert modern media to VHS?
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You read that correctly. I want to watch pan and scan versions of modern films and television shows on VHS but I haven’t a clue where to start. I know the PT got a VHS release (though ROTS is very rare) but I would dearly love to watch Disney Star Wars and NuWho on VHS as well as some fanedits. I have a CRT TV so it would be a real hoot. Are there any known projects out there doing this?

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#1566064
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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nobodybutjarjar42 said:

the one thing that i wish ESB:R had was this C3PO line from the mono mix

Me too but maybe someone else will do it. I would love to see Ady’s work but with the option to hear it with John Williams’ unused music properly timed but once again work for somebody else.

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#1550249
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SSWR's Attack of the Clones - Alternate Timeline Edit (WIP)
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One bit that’s probably impossible to do anything about but has bugged me all these years. The film makes out sword fighting and acrobatics are more impressive than throwing the ceiling at people and making electricity spark out of your finger tips (something the Palpatine should be the only user really but I digress). For me it makes more sense if Yoda and Dooku use sabers first magic next. It leads into Dooku dropping a large pipe on Kenobi and Skywalker if they are at that point chucking the architecture at each other.