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Hal 9000

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#1624579
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Worst Edit Ideas
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Hal 9000 said:

When Boba Fett mugs the camera in the SE Jabba the Hutt scene in ANH, add a line, “You’re next, hehehe.”

Literally came to this thread to post this exact thing right now.

So instead, off the cuff: On Endor at the Ewok celebration, as Luke starts to turn away from the ghosts Anakin changes from Shaw to Hayden. Luke turns back, to make sure he wasn’t seeing things, and Anakin changes back. This repeats a few times before Luke catches him in his Hayden form and the flash each other a playful smile.

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#1624578
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The ‘Custom Special Edition’ That Almost Wasn’t, But Then Was (Released)
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Makes sense to me. We’re trying to replicate what it would have sounded like if JEJ had recorded that line in 1983, to fit right alongside existing dialogue. Not a question of whether a human performance is inherently preferable to a synthesized one. It’s a niche issue to address, and I’m in the position of simply wanting whatever is going to best do this specific job of sounding like JEJ saying two particular words.

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#1624449
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Question about GOUT's, Opening Crawl, etc.
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Laserdiscs had the 1981 version of the crawl, which had the ANH name added.

The GOUT appears to have a different version of the crawl and opening shot which doesn’t include this added title, but is identical to the laserdiscs (in terms of what is presented) following that. It was mastered from the same source as the 1993+ laserdiscs, save for the opening shot of ANH.

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#1624239
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Star Wars Episode I: Cloak Of Deception (Released)
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Never something I’d had a problem with or even noticed. I just looked again and it’s pretty quick as-is. Surely if it were faster it would feel abrupt to the audience, for it not to be telegraphed at all. In a way, it needs to register to us before it should register to Dooku for it to fully work. Not exactly levels of, “It’s over, Anakin… I have the high ground,” or Mace Windu preparing to hack at Palpatine like, “Here I go! Uuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhh…”

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#1623737
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Star Wars Episode I: Cloak Of Deception (Released)
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I’ll keep the diving yell and the “uh oh” bug eyes when the fish grabs the sub. Those things are just part of the whimsy of the sequences to me. But I did make the former a little quieter in the mix.

I removed the references to the planet core, and it feels seamless to me.

One funny little thing I noticed. The battle droid that tells the Viceroy that they are searching for rumored underwater villages sounds like he has a slight New York accent, and that’s funny to me.

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#1622751
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Star Wars Episode I: Cloak Of Deception (Released)
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How’s this?

Yoda: “Hidden, safe, the children must be kept.”

Obi-Wan: “We must take them somewhere where the Sith will not sense their presence.”

Yoda: “Split up they should be.”

Bail: “My wife and I will take the girl. Padmé can stay close to her with us on Alderaan. They’ll both be safe there.” (Or the final sentence could remain, “She will be loved with us.”)

Obi-Wan: “And what of the boy?”

It’d simply require changing one (or two) sentences for Bail. That may actually be doable at this point.

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#1622731
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Star Wars Episode I: Cloak Of Deception (Released)
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One other thing to… dare… to contemplate while getting the pieces back out: the conversation right at the end of ROTS between Bail (known idiot), Yoda, and Obi-Wan about what to do with the twins. This idea would require use of AI for the voice and altering faces, so… slightly far-fetched. But hey, I’ve learned it’s better to air the idea and sometimes be surprised.

We’d need new lines for Bail which fit his body language aside from his lips.

Yoda: “Hidden, safe, the children must be kept.”

Obi-Wan: “We must take them somewhere where the Sith will not sense their presence.”

Bail: “My wife and I can hide the senator and the girl. Alderaan loves baby girls. But not the other one for some reason.”

Obi-Wan: “And what of the boy?”

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#1622539
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Star Wars Episode I: Cloak Of Deception (Released)
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I agree, Fixing4 sounds great! At least in isolation.

That 3PO line feels off somehow. Not sure how you can ‘direct’ the performance. But the line oughtta end in a way befitting a head nod of satisfaction. Also, it read it pretty quickly so it could be wordier maybe.

Maybe “I must say, Mistress Padme, space travel is much more enjoyable during peacetime.”

Thank you for taking time for this!

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#1622419
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Star Wars Episode I: Cloak Of Deception (Released)
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Okay, here’s where I am with the set of alternate edits for the PT. These are pitched as just a little less drastic in order to preserve maximal continuity with other works, with the main prequel edits continuing to be available and recommended. (Case in point: the Kenobi series making a major story point about Anakin killing younglings in the Temple, something I’d carefully omitted.)

For all three, Ridley is able to provide crawls with the original titles (and remove the title reference in my COD crawl).

I’ll also do away with the opening fan edit logos and add them to the end credits, like my ST edits do.

TPM:

  • Not because I love it, but add back the trip underwater to Otah Gunga, trimming away the second section of the planet core sequence and the Sidious scene in between. This is half of the symbiosis theme of the movie, and so if midichlorians are in, this feels mandatory to include alongside.
  • Add back a few scenes due to Otah Gunga being back: the submarine resurfacing, the talk of the treaty on the stairs, and a battle droid reporting searching for underwater villages. (I’ll continue to omit the scene in which Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan make amends on Naboo.)
  • Add back a few mentions of Anakin explicitly being too old for Jedi training
  • Add midichlorians back, including the blood test scene and exposition about them. This is the other symbiosis element to make up the theme.

AOTC:

  • Add back Anakin’s line about attachment being forbidden.
  • Add back two instances of the name Darth Tyrannus.
  • Show Yoda and the younglings, ditch the landing platform deleted scene.
  • Add back Yoda using a lightsaber against Dooku.

ROTS:

  • Add back the youngling murder scenes, and a few references to it.
  • Add back Yoda insisting on destroying the Sith, though Obi-Wan doesn’t essentially tell Padme he intends to kill him. (The line replacement for ROTJ, “Your mother once thought as you do” will come in handy, but there’s still a little more room than the theatrical to read hope into Obi-Wan’s actions here.)
  • Add back the Yoda vs. Sidious duel.

Things that would be nice to have:

  • New line for 3PO as he and Padme depart for Mustafar (Perhaps “I must say, flying feels much safer in a peaceful galaxy.”)
  • AI line for Jake Lloyd, “I’m fixing a droid, you wanna see?”
  • VFX to seamlessly trim away Qui-Gon’s very final words of, “train him.” (That way, Obi-Wan can truly take it upon himself to train Anakin.)