This is what I loved a lot from the OT and I missed from the PT: More ‘‘friend’’ moments between characters, moments that makes me chuckle by the interaction of the protagonists (kinda what the TCW series had between Ani and Obi), I totally like this scene much more now!
Im totally sold already, but…from where are the voices? They dont sound ‘‘machine-y’’ like the video on YouTube of Backstroke of the West
I like the cassette tape feel for sure, impressive, most impressive.
This Yoda," the Emperor mused. "Lives he still?"
And he doesn’t make a very big deal out of it when he finds out he’s dead, other than the fact that there’s no more Jedi to train Luke.From this dialogue I’d say it’s heavily implied that Palpatine has never actually met Yoda. He seems to only have heard of him, which I guess makes sense as he trained Obi-Wan and possibly others, and he presumably had a reputation.
Then, how would you interpret the fact that the Emperor knew the speech pattern of Yoda? By what he read on Lukes mind? For me, it would actually implied that they met, at least once
“Sir, we’re detecting a massive object emerging from hyperspace.” *Death Star shown on Scarif horizon.
See 7:05
https://youtu.be/RIftKRavXCgYes, it has light speed. I’d think the fully operational part refers to the multi-reactor laser. They’ve only tested the single reactor.
I don’t see why the blue planet shouldn’t be or become Scarif in ANH:R. It would connect the films.
Exactly. I think that maybe making the planet a tad brighter would make it look a lot like Scarif.
Perhaps aswell adding some tones of green for the trees down there, also some gray for where its shown the damaged spot by the death star shot, that would be a cool refference to Rogue One
NEW WHAT IF: What if the Sith/Empire were good and the Jedi/Rebels were Bad. How would the music themes play out? Here are a few examples in this edit:
To be honest, this brings to my head a different idea: What if…The “good guys music” was played in a sinister way and the “bad guys music” was played in a much…ehmm, “nicer/cute” way?? Some examples would be the next ones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmtS00Fx5CE (Good to Evil - Across the Stars)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfILcZrWDIA (Evil to Good - Duel of the Fates)
Just wanting to share some ideas:)
-Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
-Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
-Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Perhaps you already know this SparkySywer, but this 3 videos have been taken down by Disney, hope they get back soon 😉
The idea of the Duel taking place on Vaders Castle and using Rogue One as a source for scenarios is one that I like a lot, but I would rather preffer a place more in the outside of the world than the castle, for example, some shots around 0:50 on the next video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O84zsjLvOfk
More like mountains, rocks and that stuff, less of a big show for VFX and the Mustafar facility, Vaders Castle would be awesome tho, we could go even further and make it like an Anakin base where he is and stuff, but for the Duel, I would preffer the land rather than a building
Fight fight fight fight
Urge to post the Homer-flipping-the-light-switch-off-and-on-over-and-over gif rising…
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Frink, this one? Hahaha
Well, I finally got to see your edit after so many failed attempts on downloading it, and here are my thoughts:
(Sorry about the very long text)
I like the idea of trying to tell a parallel story between Anakin and Luke, and it might work, but with some changes like the ones mentioned before me.
The placement on flashbacks is not bad at all, BUT, in my personal opinion I dont like it some of them(for example, I would preffer to match Luke watching the suns paired to Anakin watching his mother as he leaves, but idk if there would be enough time to tell TPM story that way), but my ideas wouldnt exactly work(i think), and sometimes the flashbacks feel too long that they could detract attention from ANH. The “32 years earlier…” works as how it is, at least for me, another crawl so early on the film again or even a second crawl at all, i dont think that would be a good idea.
Maybe the moments of TPM could be a bit misleading, specially Maul, it could detract a bit from Vader as for main villain, to be honest, I was expecting to see a quick cute to Anakin blowing The Federation space station before we get to the Death Star attack, it would had be a cool mirroring, but, now that I think of it, maybe it wouldnt make a lot of sense due to what is given from TPM via flashbacks.
I dont feel the cuts to be abrupt, at least not visually, the fading to black was good, and they are the correct speed for me. And the subtitles where fine, I didnt saw any errors.
It was a well condensed version of TPM, and I liked how the death of QuiGon could be paired to the one of Ben Kenobi, both apprentices lost their masters. The characters from TPM, well, its all fault of the source material really and the idea of making flashbacks from the movie, so, altho some feel a bit ‘‘meh’’ (Sidious and Binks for me), they are okay. And I didnt liked the voice of JarJar at all, really, it felt wierd to hear it, unnatural, is it backwards? And C-3PO out of TPM, good idea.
The way TPM was modified to look more old, with the film grain and contrast, i loved it, it looked really good, I would had liked to watch more TPM with that filter. The quality wasnt a distractor for me, but maybe it could be enhaced (i really dont know about that), and in my opinion you should had used either Revisited or Despecialized editions as base for ANH.
Fun fact, ANH audio has always bugged me, i dont know if I have such bad luck to always find a version where the quality of audio randomly jumps and varies a lot (i think the better example i could give would be on Luke’s room when he is cleaning the droids). I do think the ones that bugged me the most where because of that and not your editing, altho a quick cut between voices in TPM where the Queen and QuiGon decide to where to go each other when they are on the hangar and Maul appears, and also on the Deaht Star battle, I heared a quick short jump between music and effects, altho i cant remember where exactly. Replaced dialogue…I can only recall the one on the Padme throne room run/hangar, and the jumbling of the score, I noticed it too, not thaaaaat distracting, but noticeable anyways. The music to podrace, was good, yay.
The Mos Eisly Droids, you reffer to that scene where there was a big Ronto blocking the view before? Yeah, it looked noticeable, and also too yellow in comparisson to the other shots of Tatooine. I dont exactly know what you took out of SE appart from that, I could even say that you keeped all of them haha. The new Alderaan explosion looked really cool but, not very adequate for ANH, it looked ‘‘to modern’’ for the old footage that ANH brings. The flashbacks that Ben Kenobi had while talking about Anakin look convicing enough for me, but it looked a bit wierd that two of them where from ROTS and one from AOTC, but the AOTC one is the best to depict ‘‘and he was a good friend’’ line so that doesnt really matter, and the one where he is supposed to see Anakin burning, was good. The Death Star explosion, well, I like the idea of the 8 ligths being on and then exploding, but, its obvious to me that the explosion itself its from TFA, I can even see the rectangular dish of the Falcon and the quality its too high in contrast of ANH.
Overall, I liked the idea and Im totally positive on watching the next chapter on this project of yours:)
When I first saw the clip I was like ‘‘oh, the sand is moving’’, but then I remembered the island part of the video. Quite beautiful Dune Sea, I like the clip and I dont think it needs more editing imo.
And just curiosity, theres no way to modify the line of Poe ‘‘Our work here is done’’ to a sadder tone? The idea has been stuck in my mind for a while, but I dont know if by editing the audio, cuting it in middle of the phrase could work, or even if theres something like that on other Star Wars source, like the Lego shorts or something, that would be my only suggestion.
Looking foward to the edit for sure, waiting! 😃
And with me, now we are three!!!
I just have one question, theres zero appearance from Tarkin?
Just asking :p
The idea of replacing Vaders scream with Mufasas sounds pretty interesting, and I like it, but isnt the scream of Mufasa too short for Vaders scene?
Okay, understood. I like the idea so far, I will watch your advance on the edits with great interest. 😉
I dont quite understand whats watching Obi Wan watching on the HoloRecord, if its Anakin actually being betrayed by a pupil of him(Obi), then, how Anakin made it alive for OT? Or am I just misunderstanding something?
I like this concept, it would be an interesting way to watch the prequels:)
- Distinguish the Starkiller from the Death Stars. I think this shouldn’t be too difficult. It’s name is “star” + “killer” after all, and besides a reference to early Star Wars concepts/Luke’s original last name, it could easily be changed to a weapon much like the Centerpoint Station of the old EU, which was stationary but fired a powerful beam at distant stars and caused them to supernova. I imagine a little technical wizardry could easily fire that beam at a star instead of the planet, cause a supernova (witnessed from the ground of Hosnian Prime), and have the supernova destroy the system. Meanwhile, remove our heroes actually witnessing this from Takdona.
So someone (definitely not me) edited this idea before TFA came out on BD/DVD. This individual used a bootleg, it is obvious, but has most certainly purchased the BD since. I believe the individual was afraid to share this idea due to it being made from a bootleg, but he reassures me he pre-ordered the BD from Amazon which arrived on the official release day. He hopes the fact that he did not feel like re-editing this with good footage will not cause a problem. This is just to pose an interesting idea.
Did I mention this is not me?
Password: SKB
Could you tell to your ‘‘definitely not me’’-contact that I liked his idea and attempt with bootleg material? 😉
As it is in Restructured right now, there’s an odd key shift in two places where the ‘Starkiller’ track has been inserted. As well, there’s no reaction from the Resistance, so here I’ve tried to remedy both issues:
https://vimeo.com/215916349
Password: leia
There’s still a discordant sound when Han falls into the pit, but it could be further tweaked.
Thoughts?
If im not wrong, the thing that sounds its originally Han steps once he leaves the bridge and starts to fall?
I liked the idea of reactions from the Resistance, but the slowness feels a bit odd, specially with the shot of the asian guy (feels too long on him imo), and the transition from Leias face to the fire of SKB, doesnt feel right to me
But anyways, I liked the idea 😃
I don’t think it’s even possible for Lando to be killed off. He interacted with some of the other characters during the final scene on Endor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOdyPqGy6Qw
4:42
Aparently, it could work 😉
All I can say is that the Hux-Snoke scene feels pretty short, and the jump to Hux saying to the crew to fire the weapon, was a (too) quick jump (at least for me). Also, the jump from ‘‘bring her to me’’ to the next scene feels, wierd (maybe a wipe like in old sw movies?), and the finn hugging rey feels abrupt too. Other than that, this could work for me.
Thanks for taking your time to check it out, I wasn’t sure if anyone would actually bother.
I’ll see what I can do to fix these quick jumps. It’s been difficult due to whats avalible but i’m sure there will be something I can use to correct it. Thank you very much!
You’re welcome, always glad to see new approaches of Star Wars and also always wanting to help
About the wipes, i think only one could work, they werent that many on the original ones, but where for “big” jumps from time/space, like on the Jedi deleted scene, from Vader on his chamber to Luke on a Tatooine cave
All I can say is that the Hux-Snoke scene feels pretty short, and the jump to Hux saying to the crew to fire the weapon, was a (too) quick jump (at least for me). Also, the jump from ‘‘bring her to me’’ to the next scene feels, wierd (maybe a wipe like in old sw movies?), and the finn hugging rey feels abrupt too. Other than that, this could work for me.
Sounds like you’ll need a spaceship crashing scene from some other movie then?
Yeah, I am trying to find a clip from another film. But struggling a little bit. I am looking for a ship or meteor, coming through the atmosphere and crashing in the distance. Like a streak across the sky, anything come to mind?
Remember the sequel to A New Hope Grindhouse? How it started with Vader falling from the space? Maybe reusing that shot? It could add to the “Grindhouse B-Movie” aspect.
I liked the Vader one a lot, but…the quality of the poster haha
The last one was nice too, but Im up for Vader
If R2 had received a transmission at the end of the movie, I’d expect that would be from Luke detailing the location of the Last Jedi Temple and his route. In other words, R2 would have received the small piece of the map that BB8 has. That would mean that BB8 would have had the larger map, which would have showed the entire galaxy except for the piece that Luke would have still had to travel when he gave the map to Lor San Tekka.
Of course, that would mean that nobody would have been able to assemble a full map until the transmission, making the scramble by the Resistance and the First Order rather silly in retrospect.
And theres no way that someone really skilled on editing could make this idea a reality? Sounds pretty good to me, so much better than the original McGuffin
This edit use new lines or something like that? Or is it that it has been a long time since I watched The Phantom Menace? It sounds a little different to me, specially Shmi and QuiGon
Anyways, pretty cool edit, I liked it a lot, specially the ‘‘Chapters’’ idea (And the title card/end credits font too, where did that one came from?) 😃
I like this idea, im interested on watching it.
Keep it up!! The concept sounds very cool. 😃
I mean it as a ‘‘Why was the Death Star replaced with Coruscant’’, I think I dont get the exact purpose of it, I believe that change was on V3 of the edit? I dont remember quite well, but I still dont get it haha