Hal 9000

“I hate that guy.”

Fantastic post and I like your proposed crawl.
If you don’t mind me asking, what’s your crawl for ROTJ?

It threw me for a loop the first time I saw TFA, and I pessimisticly assumed it was a mistake. I’ve gotten used to seeing it that way, so can appreciate it as a deliberate choice. I like that each crawl, especially ESB, is slightly different. That’s why my PT edits’ crawls are each slightly different colors, angles, and levels of zoom.

Swazzy said:

(I’m gonna have to do that now, aren’t I)

“You catch on pretty qui–”
Ouch! Ric smacked the back of my head.

And ROTS, if that matters to you.

moviefreakedmind said:

I’m going to make this my first viewing of Episode III (in any form) in nearly 10 years.

I’d be interested in your thoughts and impressions, both what’s different and just the resultant film you’ll be watching.

Reading Bloodline now. It certainly fleshes out the political landscape, which is something I found wanting in TFA. At least, upon first viewing.
I know it’s an opinion against the grain, but I like that about this book so far. It feels like the Cloak of Deception to TPM, The Approaching Storm to AOTC, or Labyrinth of Evil to ROTS, but centered around Leia. Perhaps we’ll get lead-in type novels in coming years from Luke and Han’s perspectives.

Hayden’s ghost is godawful, but nothing tops Jedi Rocks.

You know what? Nevermind, because it’s not even true. Not true at all. Just nevermind, and forget all about it.

JEDIT:

Anyone know how to format, in pretty much any application, justified text so that the increased spacing is in between words rather than letters within words?
The Star Wars crawls keep the kerning within words consistent, and spaces out the words in order to achieve justified text. I can’t seem to figure out how to replicate this, and can only justify the normal way with letters spaced out rather than words.
Thanks in advance.

Missing PSYCHO_DAYV, are we?

He’s got ahold of you, despite how it seems. Accept yourself as He does and go from there. Praying for your academic efforts, that the unhelpful weight holding you down can be shrugged off.

Yeah, probably so. Also, does it make sense for SKB to explode into a star since in this proposed version it would have already discharged its stellar energy?

Was scanning over the movie, and noticed something I hadn’t before. When Finn first meets Leia, Poe references the weapon “that destroyed the Hosnian system.”
In order to remove the line, the scene has to look like this, with a non-ideal succession of three quick shots.
https://vimeo.com/166130938

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Stumbled onto this on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThlaSITXROk

Someone was going to be working on isolating score from the films. Was that you, Smithers? This scene would be a good first one to do, since it’d be good to keep the foley even if the music gets changed.

And here’s an update draft. I do like it better this way, keeping the original flow of that section more similar to the original. Not too bad.
https://vimeo.com/165767941

That’s not a bad idea, moving the Finn and Han scene to earlier. I’ll give that a shot later, hopefully today.

And the “it’s” comes from the scene where Han and Chewie tractor the Falcon aboard their larger freighter, and Finn looks through the cockpit.

poita said:

Star Wars Sample: https://we.tl/VEyCxemjLh

Empire Sample: https://we.tl/verwNofxYa

Jedi Sample: https://we.tl/YjCgGTEZUG

Holy shit!

Here’s an updated draft of the scene, still missing visual FX. TIE engine noise has been added, and Finn says “It’s” in true Monty Python fashion.

JEDIT: https://vimeo.com/165689455

My hope for the film at this point is that they hold to their statement that it won’t be an origin story. I’d rather see it just be a standalone adventure with Han and Chewie, ala At Stars End.

The mockup was super quick and dirty, for sure. The point is that I don’t think it feels right to cut the shot of Finn running up to Han in two. If Finn could be made to say “it’s,” maybe the audience will think he’s basically saying, “Now they’ve really done it.” And ideally there’d be toned down music that isn’t so dramatic, perhaps looped music from Rey’s scene we cut away from, or maybe just a quieter version of what’s already there.

I do, too. I didn’t even upload a clip of the same thing but without Finn’s line about the FO because it’s choppy.
If having a brief awkward phrase is the worst of the damage, I say it’s worth it.
Takes care of the issue of Hosnian Prime’s destruction being visible instantly from another solar system, never raises the awkward questions about SKB’s renewability, makes the SKB subplot a less precise recapitulation of ANH, and feels more emotionally organic for the plot. I firmly believe this would have been a far greater choice had it been decided during the making of the movie, and I’m leaning toward it being pulled off by fan editors to my standards of fooling a sharp hypothetical first time theater audience.

JEDIT: Also, and I’ll have to give it a looksee, I wonder if some of the X-wing pilots’ chipper attitudes should be toned down since they ultimately failed to stop the FO from destroying their capital in this version. I’m looking at Porkins Jr. after the Falcon takes off.

^Here’s how that idea looks:
https://vimeo.com/165660408

I’m not sure that’s going to fly. We may have to ask ourselves whether having Finn say, “They’ve done it,” makes sense in this new context.