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#1016317
Topic
The missing Dianoga music
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1016317/action/topic#1016317
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Since i grew up in Germany i’m used to hear the Dianoga music. It’s basically imprinted in my mind so to say. And everytime i see the Trash Compactor scene without it, i feel something is missing. But that’s solely a subjective matter in my case 😉

Gladly Laserschwert reinserted the Dianoga music in his [Krieg der Sterne - Despecialized Edition 2.5].

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#1015747
Topic
The missing Dianoga music
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1015747/action/topic#1015747
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adywan said:

If it’s the music i’m thinking of, that was never present in any of the English releases, theatrical or home, and only present in the early German versions.

It’s this track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75mYKwsF-IM

The specific part starts at 2:10

Only in the early German versions? That’s mind-boggling. Too bad that this music piece is missing because it augments greatly the tension & atmosphere when the dianoga grabs Luke und pulls him unterwater.

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#1006712
Topic
4K restoration on Star Wars
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1006712/action/topic#1006712
Time

John Knowles? He probably meant John Knoll.

Let’s hope there are no further typos in that quote. Maybe the original quote was something like that:

“On one day, we were in Lucasfilm in San Francisco with Industrial Light & Magic and John Knoll, our supervisor, said that George destroyed a brand new 4K restoration print of a New Hope - it had literally just been burned to ashes. He suggested we sit and mourn to it. Obviously, I was up for that.” 😉

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#1005681
Topic
The 'Independence Day Ending' of the ROTJ SE
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1005681/action/topic#1005681
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MalàStrana said:

I fail to see why the ending of a Roland Emmerich movie would be a Steven Spielberg contribution to ROTJ SE. The only Spielberg contribution I know to the SW saga is one or two ideas during the Yoda v Sidious fight. What are the others ?

As far as i know Spielberg was one the friends (besides Coppola, Huyck, Katz and others) Lucas consulted for at least rough cut feedback for the original Star Wars movie. According to the ROTS Bonus DVD, Spielberg was the one who suggested to George that during the Anakin VS Obi-Wan fight one of the antennas should break off and land on the lava river. Lucas also asked Spielberg for his feedback on the first rough cut of ROTS. Michael Kaminski hinted in his book ‘The Secret History of Star Wars’ that Lucas got the idea for the infamous AOTC conveyer belt scene from Spielberg, because Steven experimented at Lucasfilm with Pre-Viz shots for his movie ‘Minority Report’ (remember the conveyer belt scene in the Lexus factory) during the Post-Production phase of AOTC.

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#1005677
Topic
The 'Independence Day Ending' of the ROTJ SE
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1005677/action/topic#1005677
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Recently i listened to the RLM Audio Commentary for ROTJ. In the last minutes Jay Bauman mentioned that the new ending felt like ‘Independence Day’ where everyone on earth celebrates the destruction of the alien ships at the same time, whereupon in ‘Jedi’ everyone in the galaxy celebrates the downfall of the Empire at the same time.

That similartity between both movies is kind of interesting and makes me wonder if Lucas actually saw ID4 in the summer of '96 and decided to create a similar happy ending for the upcoming ROTJ Special Edition in March of '97.

There is a clue that a ‘certain’ friend suggested to Lucas that he should see ‘Independence Day’ in the theatre. Steven Spielberg mentioned in the Making Of Featurette ‘The Return of a Legend’ for Indiana Jones KOTCS that he called up George after he saw ID4. He told George that it’s impossible to further develop the ‘Indiana Jones and the Saucer Men from Mars’ script, because ID4 deals with the same topic.

So, is the new ending of ROTJ another indirect/passive contribution to the Star Wars Saga from Steven Spielberg or another example Lucas borrowing ideas from other movies? Maybe both…

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#999763
Topic
Harmy's STAR WARS Respecialized Edition '97 - AVCHD and MKV Released
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/999763/action/topic#999763
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Robi-Wan Kenobi said:

I have checked some scenes. This is the strangest case ever. This is what’s in the version:

  • “Krieg der Sterne” Crawl
  • Title “Neue Hoffnung” without “Eine” (97)
  • Purple cap of 3PO’s and R2D2’s ship in the dessert
  • No rocks in front of R2D2
  • Ben Kenobi’s scream I believe from '97 (it’s definitely not '04 or '11)
  • Jabba from 2004/2011

I really don’t know what version they pieced together, any ideas?

Mystery, mystery…

What about Lukes Lightsaber aboard the Millennium Falcon - does it glow Green after the destruction of Alderaan?

And what about the Death Star explosion - does it contain that horrible blue pixelated ('04) corona?

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#999752
Topic
Harmy's STAR WARS Respecialized Edition '97 - AVCHD and MKV Released
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/999752/action/topic#999752
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Robi-Wan Kenobi said:

OK, let’s see - I will Report;-) On the site starwars-union.de someone else aready confirmed that there are no rocks in front of R2;-)

Now, that’s very interesting. A user at starwars-union.de hinted that this could be the result of a copyright conflict between Disney and Fox. Someone should get a copy of that HDTV broadcast asap.