Ha, that bear typo is funny.
I don’t think any of those things fit for me, Abram. Luke drinking the milk rubs into Rey’s face the sort of thing that she looks away from.
Maz’s sex line is the best part of what is unhelpably a silly scene, so I don’t want to remove it.
I’ll have to take a look at the detonator from poppasketti’s edit, though.
I can’t post a clip right now, but it goes:
Luke calls back to a knock on the door with “go AWAY.”
Chewie’s grenade blows the door against the far wall, and could have easily killed Luke.
Chewie steps in, roaring angrily.
Luke asks “Chewie, what are you doing here?”
Chewie growls and speaks in a medium tone.”
Luke asks “The Falcon?” A bear passes. “Where’s Han?”
Somebody posted a 3PO Audio archive a while back that could be scoured for lines.
I repeat so that this unanswered question doesn’t get buried: does anyone know where to find this?
I was impressed by how the scene played without Rey interpreting for Chewie, but I’ll see what I think in a while.
Maz’s comment and Rey asking about a cowl are both part of the film’s sexual undertones. I still really dislike the entire Maz scene, but if it must be kept then I want to keep the sexual humor.
Rey’s question to Ren is another example of her being somewhat prudish or new to sexuality, just like how she looks away from the walrus that Luke milks.
The door is not shut on this, but here’s my current changelist for a V3. (Some of these ideas are from krlozdac’s newly published TLJ edit.)
Here’s my version of the balcony scene section. Nothing revolutionary, but keeping the germ of the coin gag provides enough filler to represent time passing for Finn and Rose to search the place and allows the jingling from BB8 afterward to remain.
https://vimeo.com/346999083
password: fanedit
Removing Phasma is an interesting idea, and I might be able to take a cursory glance at what might be needed. But, I’m inclined to just leave it as is, just because I’m skeptical that it would be convincing.
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Yeah, the audio is a no-go. There are clearly two wookiees audible in all but the LFE audio track.
I think both approaches look amazing! We are really in business now.
Let me see what can be done about the audio side of things, though it may be a couple days before I can. Even if that can’t be helped, I’m okay with at worst assuming a second Wookiee climbed up to have a word with the grand poobah.
Where can we actually download this?
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I think it’s deliberately stilted to show how naive she is in Luke’s eyes.
Now that sounds like an interesting take on things. Seems like a very worthwhile edit. Glad you were able to use my lossless audio output as a starting place. If this is what was put out there wouldn’t be much left for us to do.
In order to have this project consistent with the current best video formatting presentation, Adywan would have to perpetually hold off on ever beginning it. That, or dedicate the rest of his life to constantly redoing the same work.
I feel the pain, or at least a dimmer reflection of it, associated with my own projects. There’s only so far we can go.
No, I have no issue with that at all. It may be unofficial, but consider it sanctioned.
Now that I am starting to turn some of my attention to THE LAST JEDI, I hate to make this edit much longer than it already is. It’s already the longest Star Wars movie, and when I consider that my prequel edits clock it at as low as 1 hour and 50 minutes, I am wondering what else could be trimmed.
I am just tossing this around, but what do you guys think of the idea to borrow poppasketti’s approach to removing the Finn vs. Phasma duel? Compared to the theatrical TLJ, this hypothetical version of Finn’s journey would…
It seems like Finn would still have a good arc this way. The only concern that sticks out to me about the idea is that Phasma gets reintroduced only to die offscreen. I’d rather she not appear in the film at all if we go this way, but this is the way it would have to be. For this reason, I am leaning away from making this change, but I felt it was worthwhile to toss out there for discussion.
Looks wonderful from what I can tell. I’m glad you’re doing this.
Very interesting. Where might I find it?
I don’t think any FX work would even need to be done for the short few shots as Yoda is attacked by clones. We can see that there are two wookiees talking, but there’s extremely little there to indicate one of them is Chewbacca.
I do want to point out that I am still hoping to come across a suitable line for 3PO to replace “I’m beginning to get the hang of this flying business.” I thought his line about “poor little R2” getting into trouble from the AOTC droid factory would work, but there’s machinery audible throughout.
Myspeen is the best option. I can’t really offer them directly because I don’t have endless cloud storage, and all 9 eventual edits will claim close to 400GB.
If anyone wishes to mirror older versions I’m more than okay with that; I just can’t do it myself.
Based on my recollection, I don’t think so. There’s really only two shots there with Chewie, and neither get up close with him.
I completely understand. There are myriad possible combinations of all these things. I started this project with boldness, and have slowly slinked back closer to the original.
And hey, when I knew I was going to do a V6, I wasn’t even planning to revisit Episode 2 at all! There’s nothing wrong with V5, and I begrudge no one who prefers to remain with it.
Looking forward to finishing up Episode 3 as well, then signing an affidavit restricting my OCD self from returning to those three movies!
Yes! If that’s an option then that’s it!
My only concern is that when Yoda is attacked there are two Wookiee’s roaring, so perhaps he can be augmented/disguised just for those couple shots.
I expected a little backlash for that one, but I feel like
A) It doesn’t end abruptly as it did in prior versions
B) It mediates the smoothed over love story and the very next scene where the two are a little cold toward each other
C) It includes a movie trope that goes way back about the woman initially resisting the man’s advances (the #MeToo thing) which is consistent with the love story’s ‘old cinema’ style (and begins to show us that she is denying to herself that she may have feelings for him, as continued in the family dinner scene)
And mutters D) The Phantom Editor saw fit to leave it in for his cut.
All around I felt like it was the right thing to do, though I anticipated some blowback. I’m sorry, everyone.
JEDIT: I actually shortened it slightly, mimicking Attack of the Phantom. I would suggest watching this cut and see how that moment strikes you in context of the whole.
If I were to host a series of movie nights for Star Wars once the saga is once again “complete,” this sounds like what I’d do:
Week 1, Saturday:
Episode 1: CLOAK OF DECEPTION (my edit)
Play a tournament of ‘Episode I Racer’
Week 2, Saturday:
Episode II: THE APPROACHING STORM (my edit)
Clone Wars Microseries, Part I
Week 3, Saturday:
Clone Wars Microseries, Part II
Episode III: LABYRINTH OF EVIL (my edit)
Week 4, Friday:
Rogue One
Week 4, Saturday:
Episode IV: A NEW HOPE (my ‘Custom SE’)
Week 5, Saturday:
Episode V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (my ‘Custom SE’)
Week 6, Saturday:
Episode VI: RETURN OF THE JEDI (my ‘Custom SE’)
Week 7, Saturday:
Episode VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS (‘Restructured’ edit)
Week 8, Saturday:
‘Path of a Lightsaber’ montage by Christopher Sherwood
Episode VIII: THE LAST JEDI (my edit)
Week 9, Saturday:
‘The Greatest Teacher Failure Is’ short montage by Heroes Fan Productions
Episode IX: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER (my edit, assuming there is one)