When Rey reaches out and sees “The Island,” she is actually seeing two Ewan McGregor’s fighting each other from 2005’s ‘The Island.’
Eh? I’ll see myself out.
Thanks for the thumbs up, I’m glad I got it right!
No Leaf Joke
-Cut from Rey saying “Okay” to Luke resting her hand on the rock.
-Replaced “Reach out with your feelings” with just “Reach out”
Wow. I really enjoyed that moment in the theater, but my goodness, it really does play out better like this. You’ve convinced me.
Here’s another attempt, this time trying to include the shot of Luke discarding the reed he is shown holding. I submit it to get a sense of whether people think the shot is better in or out.
https://vimeo.com/265385058
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It still took some FX work to transition from the Falcon leaving Jakku to the originally unrelated shot from the end of the movie.
It wasn’t really related to the main goal of the edit (or was it?), but I couldn’t resist including it when I saw his mock-up. (And, as I say, it lets us use a tiny part of TFA in a different way which would have been cut otherwise.)
I’ve invested as much care and attention to this sequence as I possibly can, and I believe this is the best I am going to get this to look and sound. It’s the caretaker removal. Wind and porg sounds have been added fresh, in order to allow the clean music from the rear channels to be duplicated to the front and center channels and carry on from Luke and Rey’s conversation, rather than trying to transition into the more dramatic music originally associated with the final exterior shot. The levels were adjusted throughout to make it flow as seamlessly as I can contrive.
https://vimeo.com/265308666
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During the final shot in which it is visible, just depict it exploding!
It was to let the musical rescore transition naturally.
But, if it’s any consolation, we see the Falcon jump to lightspeed in this version after they leave Jakku, taken from this scene (by NeverarGreat).
Nah. Just like the prequel trilogy is unhelpably ‘prequel’ (in terms of assuming you are familiar with what came before), the sequel trilogy so far seems very much a serial. I have no interest in revisiting TFA in light of TLJ. There were other little things about TFA that could have been trimmed, but I liked the movie and preferred not to hack it all up. Despite how that last sentence sounded, I am looking forward to Sir Ridley’s edit which will make many of these little trims in addition to what’s in TFA:R.
Makes sense, I suppose. No problem about it from me.
I have no idea what would cause that unless something was corrupted. Could your torrent client verify the data you downloaded, maybe?
Okay, good. You may have happened onto the link while the others were being prepped or uploaded.
I agree; AT-AT makes more sense.
Best Star Wars book I ever read.
The most noteworthy ones are a new, perfect opening crawl from Sir Ridley of OT.com, DTS audio thanks to ChainsawAsh, and reinstating a number of small moments such as Sebulba skidding to a stop at the end of the podrace that hopefully help this feel like a proper film and not a re-cut.
Even if the fathier chase sequence is removed, I would still be in favor of keeping the slave kid epilogue so long as we get the brief introduction to them as Rose is lecturing Finn as he uses the binoculars.
Of course, if they are arrested immediately, that’d be gone.
I’d like to get a discussion going about how to handle Canto Bight.
It seems like there are three options.
A) Keep the existing structure intact, but trim down the fathier stuff somewhat. This option introduces the fewest issues, but solves just as much less of the problems this stuff has.
B) Remove fathier sequence altogether. This would look like:
C) Finn never leaves the rebels in the first place, and we are never formally introduced to Rose. This does not seem like a workable option to me, because the character of DJ will return in Episode 9, and I’d want to keep Finn’s involvement in the story. (I.e., it’s not an option to just keep Finn with the rebels all along and hardly show him. We do need to actually go to Canto Bight.)
Here’s the current state of the first caretaker removal scene:
https://vimeo.com/263917292
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JEDIT: Nevermind; I’ll let you guys give your opinions without hearing mine first.
I am trying to create a DVD9 or BD25 out of the 1080p file for TFA. I noticed you only have the DVD5 up. Is there a larger ISO version you created already?
Thanks for the kind words, and I am glad you enjoyed them!
Where are you only seeing DVD versions listed? There should be at least three options.
I seed from behind a VPN, but sometimes I turn it off. Keep the torrents running and you should get them in time. Or use the Google Drive links from Reddit.
And thanks for the kind words.
I remember hearing a rumor that Leia’s role in Ep9 would be to beckon Kylo Ren back to the light side of the force, that she would be his path to redemption.
With Carrie Fischer having left us, I wonder how it would work to still have that point be the thematic core of his arc, but to focus on her absence. At the end of TLJ, Kylo Ren is left empty and alone with a great deal of power. He decided to spare Leia from death when he had the chance early in the film, and the act of Rey closing the Falcon door on him to me spoke a message something to the effect of, “You are captive to the decisions you make, and you cannot count on others to hold out hope for you forever; there is a point at which it is too late.”
What if Ep9’s story related to Kylo Ren explores that idea? Part of Kylo assumed that Leia being alive would always allow for an “out,” but now she is gone and he is totally alone and self-absorbed. It could be a way to address Leia’s real-life absence in a thematically meaningful way, whether he is redeemed and/or dies or not.
Just sent Dom a PM, but in short, I would feel very good about recommending this cut of ROTS to those who are interested in or enjoy my cut but would prefer to leave Padme’s fate alone.
Snoke’s demise:
https://vimeo.com/263448791
password: faneditI like this! But however, this will remove the foreshadowing of Kylo’s saber spinning on his feet after Rey gets thrown by snoke. The spinning saber gave Kylo the idea of killing Snoke that way.
I’m not sure I follow you.
Thanks very much; I’ll be sending you a PM shortly.
Hey Hal,
Here’s my first pass at stabilizing the crate.
https://vimeo.com/263673331
password: faneditI’ll scrutinize a bit more myself as I think there’s a couple small things I want to fix, but let me know if you see anything. I uploaded the prores file to vimeo, so if you like, you can download the file and slot it into your edit!
Works for me! Such a little thing, but I was watching like a hawk when I saw the movie for the second time. 😉
Oh, wow, that’d be beyond my hope for that scene. Ideally, yes, that’d be the way to go.
And I am away from home but I’ll take a look at the crate later.
Yeah, I’ll see about that another time. And I still need to sit down and spend some time with The Lost Jedi! 😉
Here’s another attempt at removing the caretakers. It’s better… still not perfect, but it’s as good as I can get it at this sitting.
I don’t have any more time for the present to spend on it, but I think it needs some sort of extra shot between “Let’s get started,” and walking up the stairs. Perhaps a reaction shot from Kylo could be contrived.
https://vimeo.com/263649711
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