Hal 9000

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.

Dat_SW_Guy said:

Hal 9000 said:

Snoke’s demise:

https://vimeo.com/263448791
password: fanedit

I 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.

poppasketti said:

Hal 9000 said:

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: fanedit

I’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
password: fanedit

Thanks very much; I’ll be sending you a PM shortly.

Oh yes, I agree completely. I hadn’t responded to the previous comment but I made the same change. Thanks!

If there’s a way to only use that part of the scene I’d be in for it. I’d love to use the entire scene, but the pre-elevator segments have set extensions missing and do not present as a final product for the big screen, sadly.

I’d like to see a clip of that, if you can provide one.

I haven’t looked through the old one yet, but if you include me in a new one I will keep it until I do!

Yes, those lines are still there!

I am not sure I’ll remove that scene, though it felt to me like Poe needs to have his smirk smacked off his face; he’s too chipper for the death count that his attitude has had this whole movie.
But that was ‘cynical first viewing me.’ So we’ll see.

Snoke’s demise:

https://vimeo.com/263448791
password: fanedit

Rey kills Kylo Ren and they defeat the bad guys but for good this time.

… or is it?

Here’s a clip of the battle of Crait. The usual trims others have already made, along with removing Rey’s triple-combo TIE shot.
Not included here is the truncation of Finn’s suicide run, but that’ll happen too.

https://vimeo.com/263432552
password: fanedit

Thanks for the tip about the audio crossfade; that’s the kind of feedback I need sometimes!

I’m not sure either about the shuttle thing and being able to seamlessly remove BB8 in the AT-ST. I’m unwilling to attempt anything that would be at all jarring, so we’ll see. I’m still hoping someone can blow us all away with a seamless Phasma removal from the entire movie.

I just want to chime in and say that, as burnt out as I am of at least 1-7, I’m open to contributing to this project in whatever form it takes. I probably will not closely monitor this thread, but please feel free to PM me to let me know there’s something I should take a look at or do.

In other words, I’ll be in my trailer.

littlev87 said:

Does anyone else feel the line “peace and purpose” to be corny and unnecessary? I think it would be better if Leia interrupted Rey with “I felt it too.”

Interrupt REY?!

I’m leaving the ending alone; to me it would be a mistake to remove it in a fan edit. But it’s just MHO.

Here are two clips required in order to remove BB8 with the [Rich Evans] AT-ST [/Rich Evans]. The only problem, apart from potential less-than-perfect editing, is that we do not see BB8 explicitly rejoin our heroes until Poe cuddles him on Crait. Might be okay, though. I took a lead from Buzzclub (the German TLJ edit thread guy).

https://vimeo.com/263272913
and https://vimeo.com/263273045
passwords: fanedit

Thanks for all the input on that point. Sounds like 'The Fallen Knight’s option A vs. this as option B.

Also, re: the ending. I don’t really see any merit in swapping the order of scenes, especially since up to this point every film has had a final scene without any (English) dialogue.

I’m going to leave the film’s ending alone; I don’t want to remove the kid.

I can’t remember where I saw it or who did it, but there was a clip posted in the past few weeks of BB8 and the walker being removed. Does anyone know where this is? I recall thinking it was spot on, but now can’t find it.

TheLostJedi said:

Starting work on the TFA portion. Would anyone like to give feedback on my TLJ portion of the edit? It runs at 1hr and 30 minuets

I’d love a sneak peek, and would provide feedback as best I can.