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RogueLeader said:

The shitty thing is that no matter what we can change or alter with this film, there’s no way we can really give Rose more of a presence, without any deleted scenes. Rose goes from a prominent character with her own theme in the last film, to a background extra in the last film.

But… this conversation did give me an idea for one small change. For awhile I’ve had this idea of altering the scene between Finn and Jannah, and replace a part of Finn’s schpiel about the Force to something about joining the fight. Basically, we want to get the idea across that Finn is recruiting Jannah to join the cause by sharing how he had his own change of heart in the last two films. It would be nice if we could rescore the last half of that scene, and replace the overused Force motif with Rose’s theme, instead. So the conversation would go something like:

Finn: The Force. The Force brought me here. Brought me to Rey and Poe. We need to stop the First Order. I wasn’t sure then, but I am now.

Maybe you could change it some more, but if you can change the context of the scene to make it seem like Finn is convincing Jannah to stop hiding on Endor and join the fight, with Rose’s theme playing over it, we can feel Rose’s presence and impact on the story more, even if she doesn’t have much screen time herself.

Here is that scene for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jRscLcf3bA

Is there dialogue already of Finn saying “We need to stop the First Order” that you have in mind?

Fair enough. I’d be happy with a 40ish Hayden! Pretend like he actually filmed. With or without his long hair.

I’d like to see every character ever portrayed two different ways be DeepFaked.

Lol. “We’ve been expecting you.”

I’d support that, too.

It would at least nod to a potential answer to where the hell everyone came from.

nl0428 said:

Have you thought about trimming the scene of Rey killing Palpatine? Maybe to make it seem as if Rey deflects the lightning very quickly so that he barely has a chance to react. Just something to keep someone from complaining that he could’ve stopped using lightning, and hopefully make him seem less dumb. Just an idea that could work.

No, I haven’t. I think for a dramatic climactic moment the way it is works fine, and I don’t think shortening it would be a positive change. At least, in the NLE inside my brain.

Ah, thanks. Yeah, it’d be a subtle difference when mixed into the scene but I’d feel a little better for it.

EDIT: Now just give him Shaw’s combover. Just kidding.

Or am I?

Even though it’s been all I can do lately to check in once or twice a day here and push words around, it makes me happy to have such wonderful ideas and help with this.

We’re gonna pilot this thing to victory.

Agreed. Superbly executed.

I can’t get the password to work.

I love this place, too. I’d love a mock-up of a Frankenanakin.

STUNNING! That looks exactly the way it should. That’s some very good work!

I believe with that and the flashback earlier, that’s all of the blade’s appearance! Could you send me a lossless or highest possible quality output of this?

I suppose that’s reasonable: 2019-ish Hayden approximation or Shaw. (Or 2005 Hayden.)

Don’t wanna change ROTJ though.

I agree, having him appear at least a little older would help. Everyone else consistently appear as they did when they died.

I was thinking about semi-aged Hayden in the context of having him come in and film. If it’s a fan edit anyway, why not mock up Shaw and see how it plays?

What about something like this for Anakin?

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/The-Original-Trilogy-Radical-Redux-Ideas-Thread/id/63429/page/12#1337765

sade1212 said:

Minor necro but here’s an amusing little thing I did with the ageing technique I was messing with. Forgive my lazy masking.

Wow, that looks really good!

I must have missed the music discussion. I agree, having been brought up to speed.

I finally got the chance to put together an update to this project to sync with D+80. Look for it on the 'spleen or the Google Drive in the same place as before. I included the lossless audio output this time, rather than making it a separate download. So be aware before downloading the whole thing.

I was wondering, if it were as powerful whether it would be good to consider.

Did John Williams record something for the moment in TFA that ended up using ‘Burning Homestead,’ and if so, do we have it?

Thanks, I’ll keep it in mind if I need to go that route.

I don’t have a strong preference but if 3 could have just a little contrived facial motion somehow it’d be even better.

Hmmm I’d vote 1. Number 3 feels more like a still image to me, and we immediately recognize where 2 is from.

I’d rank them 1, 2, 3.

You’re quite good at turning me on

lol