One more note about that vaporator shadow:
It definitely should be rotated to the left and thinned, since shadows can appear to converge when they get nearer to the horizon:
Also, a vaporator that close to the horizon should be extremely small with a shadow that is practically invisible.
…thanks alamy.
Maybe we’re seeing TFA Luke from Rey’s perspective, whereas TLJ is from Luke’s perspective.
Chewie looks quite different here. More stocky and younger somehow.
I don’t hate it.
More here:
https://imgur.com/gallery/5W55OTV
moviefreakedmind said:
It’s not like they revealed a resurrected Palpatine in the casting call.
Just one of his hands.
There was some pertinent discussion here:
http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Star-Wars-The-Last-Jedi-The-Dark-Cut-SPOILERS/id/58357/page/6
In short, I think Rian tended to give characters too much explanatory dialogue, so cutting the lines about selling her for drinking money would probably work just fine.
Sometimes I can still hear his voice.
So…was the dragon the beauty?
I’m going to say yes.
After thinking about it a bit more, there may be a third option for completing the Kylo arc. Rather than 1: Achieving total victory or 2: Being killed, he could just walk away from it all. I imagine it could play out where Rey creates some new, stripped-down version of the Jedi without all of their rules and hangups, and Kylo could realize that he really doesn’t have any problem with this interpretation of the Force. He realizes that even after destroying everything that reminded him of the past, it still haunts him, and that he’s the problem, not everything else. He helps Rey defeat the First Order and return peace to the galaxy, then disappears from the story for good.
C-3PO spouting hacky zingers in the droid factory and subsequent battle in AOTC. Nothing else even comes close.
Other than the rest of AOTC.
And the movies flanking it.
No prequel scene stands out as worst for me because all of the scenes are unfortunate in some way. So I’d have to go with Han stepping on Jabba’s tail.
The whole scene? This is specifically about scenes or sequences.
Yep, that whole scene.
I recall Frink podraced once.
No prequel scene stands out as worst for me because all of the scenes are unfortunate in some way. So I’d have to go with Han stepping on Jabba’s tail.
TFA struck a much lighter tone for most of its running time, whereas TLJ’s themes are more serious. Moments that would be fine in the Luke treasure-map plot of TFA feel out of place as the Resistance is almost entirely obliterated and Luke waits to die.
That’s what I thought.
It was fun to see dozens of pages of discussion on my project rendered incomprehensible by Photobucket Speedometers. Good times.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/332621540147?ViewItem=&item=332621540147
It’s been relisted 40$ cheaper since the first auction got no bids.
Are all of the versions we currently have sourced from broadcast recordings? I thought that at least one project was sourced from something of higher quality.
It’s an impressive concept.
However, Leia’s outstretched arm indicates that she is at least helping to save herself.
I think the music is mostly in the opening few seconds, and stops abruptly when Maz shouts ‘Han Solo!’ It shouldn’t be difficult to remove, the biggest hassle would be replacing the background chatter and foley. As for the music itself, I’m sure that there’s a perfect tune somewhere that is the right mix of vaguely eastern electronic Jazz. I’m hoping that someone knows of a band or a track from an obscure movie that would work.
As for the big changes to this edit, there are quite a few things I would like to do that aren’t yet reflected in the first post.
For example, I’ve considered repurposing the attack on the Resistance base for an attack on the Hosnian system in order to have Starkiller be just a shipyard, but more likely I’ll just stick with the Restructured method of destroying the Hosnian system. I’d still like to include the Starkiller as shipyard idea, and have considered some ways to do this. As far as other big ideas, I’ve planned to make the interrogation much more involved and use Force visions to reveal Kylo’s obsession with Vader and the hidden power of the Starkiller (as well as working in the deleted scene of Kylo on the Falcon). I’m also planning on restructuring the rescue of Rey to make it more dramatic, with less of her wandering around the base. Finally, and this is probably the most involved in terms of visual effects, but I’d like to extend Rey’s journey to Luke’s island planet and use a grander version of Rey’s theme in this place. Although I’m not too much of a fan of how the original movie ends, after seeing DigMod’s version where the movie ends with the jump to hyperspace I think that meeting Luke is necessary to TFA.
Now for TLJ, I also have some extreme cuts in mind (like losing the opening scenes and starting with Finn’s mission to Canto Bight), but it will be a long while yet before I get around to doing that.
Good idea. I quite like that deleted scene. Shame it’s not finished, but parts could be used.
Recently I’ve been thinking about something several people have said concerning TFA. When the crew gets to Maz’s castle, the energy goes out of the movie for them, and I feel this as well. For me it starts when we hear the music of the castle, and it completely destroys the mood. Nothing against Lin-Manuel Miranda, I like his other work, but this is a big miss that I’ve come to realize deflates the scene.
But what could replace it? The place is seemingly a dingy den of pirates and lowlifes, but in the details we see a lot more ornate metalwork and clutter that looks like it belongs in an Eastern-European church:
So perhaps something more Byzantine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zPc47GOH8s
…but it would have to also sound ‘spacey’. Any suggestions?
On a related note, since I will probably have the crawl state that the First Order is only attacking remnants of Jedi power, I could change the subtitled Pirate dialogue with Finn to be something about them being safe, since they are not affiliated with the Jedi. Then when Rey finds the lightsaber in the basement, it’s an indication that the castle is legitimately unsafe for our heroes, and allows more sympathy with Rey as she flees the source of this danger.
To bring up another topic…I did kind of want to see just a little bit more power displayed from Luke. Just a little more. There are a few options for this right now:
- The Redone Luke/Kylo fight from Ivan Ortega
This is the thing that I desperately want to work. He said he will film on a green screen with the costumes and all so I just really hope it works out all right.
Is he also going to film a shot of Luke dropping the lightsaber on the island? If he is going to the trouble of having a Luke costume and lightsaber, it seems like a no-brainer.
Kylo Pleads to Rey Rescoring - UPDATED
I tried to build upon many suggestions when I got to finetuning this rescoring.
-Firstly, the music now fades out when we cut to the bridge with Hux. I was able to bridge the rising drums between two points at the end of the piece to do so and it flows pretty well.
-The music has been turned down a notch so that the dialogue can stand out more.
-The music now starts earlier and fades in more gradually.
-The dialogue audio has been polished up.Please tell me how you all like the updates to the scene!
This is a rare case of rescoring with a prequel theme that actually works for me. In fact, I kind of love it.
There’s just one thing that bugs me. Now that the music is so much more dramatic, Kylo’s lines about her parents being ‘filthy junk traders’ sounds a bit quotidian and out of place. This is also a result of Rian’s penchant for having characters overexplain things, so I’d really like to hear a version where Kylo is silent after Rey says ‘They were nobody’. Maybe just skip right to ‘You have no place in this story’, and maybe show her reaching out to take Kylo’s hand before cutting to the cruiser turning around.
This would also avoid the confusion of Rey’s vision where she clearly sees a ship flying away from Jakku.
The only place I see a little disconnect between the music and dialogue is when Kylo says “You come from nothing, your nothing.” It might just be his delivery but it is the one spot it might a feel not epic enough. I don’t really have an issue with him describing where her parents came from. It feels like he is basically spitting in her face and driving it home how pathetic her lineage is.
I will consider making the cut though and welcome others opinions on this idea. I love your suggestions for fanedits Neverar so keep em coming, the one about the flashback with Luke and Kylo still has me thinking 😉
You’re welcome to use that or any other ideas I throw around 😃
About the lines being out of place, it feels like for a Star Wars movie less is more where dialogue is concerned. Some of the best scenes in Star Wars have no dialogue at all, allowing the audience to imagine the specifics of the scene. So when Kylo beats Rey over the head with her nonexistent lineage, it’s giving the audience information that would be better left to the imagination (especially since the details of this information don’t quite fit with what we already know).
Anybody have any thoughts on pantheism?
Pantheism might’ve been swell at some point, back when the static universe theory held sway. In light of Big Bang cosmology, though, and the heat death of the universe? I don’t see the appeal.
Panentheism’s what I go for.
I think this is more agreeable.
https://www.blatner.com/adam/consctransf/processimplicat.html
A lot to like here as well.
However, I think there is still some complication in understanding the ‘mind field’ which pervades all reality. It’s more simple to consider that since all things have the same soul (consciousness, God, etc), the mind is merely the beliefs and assumptions that divide and limit all beings. The impetus to overcome these limitations is what drives the mental evolution of life. The article uses the concept of ‘lure’, which serves a similar purpose.
I like to think of a person’s beliefs like their ‘mental DNA’, in that they’re mostly rubbish surrounding relatively few provisionally useful instructions for operating in a universe full of other beings with rubbish instructions. You could remove most of a person’s actual DNA without adversely affecting their physical body at all, and by intelligently changing the parts that actually work you could do things like eliminate aging and susceptibility to disease.
Removing much of a person’s mental DNA would probably have much the same effect. As the code got more simple, variations between minds would necessarily decrease until there is no mental DNA at all, no beliefs or assumptions to get in the way of unfiltered experience.
I, Dragon (2017)
or
He’s a Dragon (2015)
or
He is the Dragon (2015)
I am but a simple man, and watched this on Amazon because it had the word ‘dragon’ in the title.
Basically a Russian retelling of Beauty and the Beast except with a dragon. The subtitled version that I saw was actually quite good. The art direction and effects are impressive as well.
This is still my favorite example from ROTS.