IMO, the best version of the Mustafar opening is still the “1-shot” version present in Ascendant V1. The Castle shot still looks janky and the new shot doesn’t really flow with the others.
100% agree
When Finn blows up the main ship have all the others ones start falling to the surface and add Jar Jar in a cockpit using the line from TPM “Look, theysa all broken”
Just cut it to sound like:
"You fool! I’ve been trained by Count Dooku to deal with Jedi.”
Just have one of those cheesy movie scenes where there is a picture of each character with a blurb of what happened to them after the events of the movie lol
Awesome! Nice seeing your idea become a reality. Great work Burbin!
Edit: After watching a few times I would suggest maybe making the purple a little stronger. I feel like the blue is drowning it out a little. Or maybe slow down slightly while she ignites the blade.
Oh it wasn’t my idea, I’m not sure who first suggested it, I actually hadn’t even noticed the green and blue flashes when she ignites the saber, and I think it should remain subtle. But I’ll see if I can work on it some more once I get the original shot.
I suggested and was talking about my idea haha. I think it would be a nice nod to the audience showing that Rey used Leia and Luke’s kyber crystals to build her own. I feel it helps sell “Rey Skywalker” more. The more noticeable, the better.
I gave it a shot to alter Rey’s saber switch lights to purple and blue as it was discussed a few pages back:
https://vimeo.com/525235954
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Awesome! Nice seeing your idea become a reality. Great work Burbin!
Edit: After watching a few times I would suggest maybe making the purple a little stronger. I feel like the blue is drowning it out a little. Or maybe slow down slightly while she ignites the blade.
Nah, he’d bring back Snoke to be behind it all again and then have him trip and hit his head and die. Roll credits
Could we modify the line to say:
“I destroyed Ben’s ship.”
So much better!
Not sure if this is something to be discussed in this thread, but has anyone found a good way to remove Rey healing the worm? I think it works better for the story if the only “force healing” is a result of the Dyad between Rey and Ben.
For the sake of the whole saga, it just opens up WAY too many questions. Maybe it can be adjusted for for the worm creature to be scared of her darkness or something along those lines.
It’s how he works. 90% of his comments are rude to others people’s work. I’m honestly surprised he hasn’t been banned yet. There’s a nicer way to provide constructive criticism.
I too voted “Yes” for using the line but not in the context of the posted scene on Vimeo.
DZ, I like it, but I still think the “thousand generations” should be mentioned for what they bring to the finale.
I’m just thinking it would have been insane if the ghosts were in the theatrical cut without the foreshadowing. It would have been mindblowing in the theater. I guess my mindset is, “let that be a surprise for the audience without hinting about it”. Plus, there is already a small hint of it at the beginning of the film.
But your point is proven wrong if you look at the whole sentence: “We’ll always be with you, but this is your fight.” As in, she has to initiate the fight but they will help her when she does.
“but this is your fight” is not included in the video as I realized it is a contradiction for this edit. “We’ll always be with you.” works much better for foreshadowing than “A thousand generations live in you now, but this is your fight.” If it is Rey’s fight then why do ALL the Jedi show up at the end in spirit?
Why is it Rey’s fight if all the ghosts show up? Luke contradicts himself because he joins the fight.
Here’s my take on the scene. By removing some lines it allows Rey to “take it upon herself” to go to Exegol. She doesn’t need Luke telling her what do to.
Saw this after my last post. The url appears to be invalid.
It’s up now. Was still uploading. Maybe I’m a little biased to my own opinion on this but I feel it is a stronger character moment for Rey to want to go to Exegol on her own instead of Luke guiding her and instructing her to. What does he care if she takes both sabers. It just feels like another audience pandering moment. Let the characters think and make their own decisions.
Here’s my take on the scene. By removing some lines it allows Rey to “take it upon herself” to go to Exegol. She doesn’t need Luke telling her what do to.
Removing the “A thousand generations live in you now” line seems like the better option. Luke is implying that it is only her who can fight Palpatine and yet all the voices and ghosts appear. If it is Rey’s fight then why are they even showing up?!
Maybe removing that whole line and replacing with the below would be even better and lead to less contradictions?
“…someone who would finish her journey. We’ll always be with you. You’ll take both sabers to Exegol.”
To me it makes the Rey Skywalker scene at the end make more sense and is more personal. Luke is assuring Rey that him and Leia will always be with Rey, so when Rey sees them at the end of the movie it is just reassuring the familial bond they now have, and further reinforces why Rey is choosing her last name to be Skywalker. Plus, it removes the contradiction of it being Rey’s fight yet ALL the Jedi show up in spirit.
Whew… that was a lot lol
JEDIT: Plus it allows us to remove the last awful wig shot of Luke that jonh was having trouble with.
JEDIT 2!: It appears to show more of Luke providing wisdom to Rey rather than pushing off the fight on her.
Rey never knows the other Jedi. I think personal works way better after Luke just told a personal story about him and Leia.
She tries to reach out to them in the beginning of the movie, we then get a payoff at the end with all the jedi. I like it that way.
Does that moment need foreshadowing though? I think if that the ghosts were in the actual movie it would work better without the foreshadowing. Maybe that’s just me though…
Rey never knows the other Jedi. I think personal works way better after Luke just told a personal story about him and Leia.
EDIT: Don’t think there is enough footage for this unfortunately. Wish it could work though.
Scrap this I actually have a proof of concept for this idea I can share here. Works pretty well; Luke’s mouth movements match the end of the line.
Awesome! Can’t wait to see. I love when ideas become a reality. As sucky as this movie is the collaboration has been amazing in this community!
Hot damn this is actually an insanely good idea. I have the audio line if anybody is up for it? I’m willing to lose the whole 1000 generations for this.
EDIT: Don’t think there is enough footage for this unfortunately. Wish it could work though.
We really only need to extend footage for the “a thousand generations live in you now”. The “but this is your fight” can still be the shot of Luke. Maybe a shot of Rey could be recycled?
Are we able to cut the wide shot with Luke and adjust his dialogue to be:
“…someone who would finish her journey. We’ll always be with you, but this is your fight. You’ll take both sabers to Exegol.”
Green and blue do not make yellow either…
We are going for symbolism here more than anything else.
There is a blue and green color in the theatrical version when she ignites her blade. Changing it to blue and purple assumes she used Luke and Leia’s crystals from their now broken lightsabers to create her own.