I did forgot to list a third option:
C. Some people just gotta go with their favourite colour.
Fair.
Red itself being “bad” is just a terrible idea though.
Exactly.
Ideally, lightsaber colours would be
A. chosen to represent the character’s persona
B. chosen to mesh with the character’s overall aesthetic
But nope. Red = bad & everything else = good for stupid EU reasons.
Lightsabers are deadly weapons used for maiming and killing people (and sometimes slicing up Tauntauns). The idea that Jedi are concerned with how their color matches their personality makes me giggle.
Jedi: “Hi, as you can see from my purple lightsaber, I am a Sagittarius from the volcanic world of Kadavo.”
Evildoer: (being sliced in half) “Cool.”
BTW welcome back to the forums. 😃
Random Opinions on appearances:
I liked that Hux looked more sallow and haunted.
I liked how Leia looked more regal.
I liked how Snoke was a sassy jerk.
I liked how C-3PO and R2-D2 looked a lot more realistic somehow.
I liked Holdo’s…everything.
Heck, even the old ESB Atari 2600 game can’t be beaten.
My thinking is that if we establish this great pilot who is able to outmaneuver a guy who’s basically murdering his opponents, we’ll be on board for accepting him especially since he’s so young. I don’t think it’s possible to avoid his youth until after the announcer, but if his impressive actions are allowed to speak for him, it would be ideal.
Anakin’s new introduction. I think seeing for the first time, behind the controls of the Pod, significantly helps justify him piloting the Naboo straighter during the final battle.
I aslo made some changes to Jar Jar’s introduction to Padme, I’m not aware of this being done before…
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Cool ideas here.
Anakin’s introduction is very abrupt. I realize you’re trying to emulate the style of a Marvel movie, but the prequels are shot so passively that I don’t know how successful that can be. My suggestion: After the discussion about going to Tatooine and the Hutts (maybe ending with ‘It’s controlled by the Hutts’), cut to an establishing shot of the planet with the start of the race fanfare. Then show the wide shot of the starting line with Jabba the Hutt, so that the two ideas are linked. Then we get a quick start to the race and shots of many racers being picked off quickly by Sebulba. After he’s established a lead, then we see an unknown racer in a small pod begin to overtake him, and they are linked together. When Anakin breaks free, the announcer shouts ‘It’s Skywalker!’, and only then do we get a good look at his face.
When we talk about themes, are we referring to Leitmotifs for characters/things? If so, I don’t know if it even makes sense to have so many different ‘themes’ for Anakin.
But it’s true that in Restructured the Resistance target is somewhat of a loose thread, narratively speaking. There’s really no way to fix that since it’s important in TLJ.
According to ‘# of movies they’ve been in’, Palpatine, Obi-wan, Yoda, and Anakin are the main characters in the saga.
I thought it was Chewbacca, R2-D2, and C-3P0.
I’m not sure this is a great summary of the whole thread but I’ll take it.
The top of the page is more than one post.
The whole page is one big post.
And look over there! DrDre and Mrebo waiting to quote us.
I think lightsaber crystals should optically degrade over time, with the crystal darkening until it eventually became red.
The Jedi, being largely pacifist, would not use their lightsabers often. This would preserve the colors of the crystals. Some yellowing would still occur of course, requiring new Jedi to build their own sabers instead of using old ones passed down from generation to generation.
For the Original trilogy, this would mean that Obi-wan’s saber would be yellow from years of use. Anakin’s would be in better shape but still wouldn’t be bright blue. Vader’s would of course remain red.
According to ‘# of movies they’ve been in’, Palpatine, Obi-wan, Yoda, and Anakin are the main characters in the saga.
I thought it was Chewbacca, R2-D2, and C-3P0.
Good point.
According to ‘# of movies they’ve been in’, Palpatine, Obi-wan, Yoda, and Anakin are the main characters in the saga.
Needs to be completely Comic Sands.
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Oh man I should do that for my edit.
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Nah that’s too stupid even for me.
AOTR for sure, that would really get under Ani’s skin.
Seems like it would remove the “we’re making our landing approach at lightspeed?!” thing.
Would you remove Leia’s line, “Han, how?” and “If I told you you wouldn’t like it”?
Well they still get onto the planet the same way, it’s just that it would be filtered through Rey’s vision. I’m imagining something like Spock’s Mind Meld from Star Trek 2009, where the information is still communicated but in an altered way. So Leia’s line would stay.
I’ve long had some larger plans for the Starlight Project, but I’ve kept them close to the vest for a while as I’ve debated about how I want it to play out. However, since The Last Jedi leans heavily into the mental connection between Kylo and Rey, I’m much more confident that these ideas will work in the broader context of this trilogy.
These biggest change is a greatly restructured Starkiller section with an expanded Interrogation scene, where the viewer is taken into the minds of Rey and Kylo. Here’s how I imagine the sequence of events:
Here’s the Blu-ray sunset:
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The red channel weirdness is unfortunate, but maybe you can do something like combining the best shots of each version.
I probably won’t be removing it entirely, but it’s just a cringey name, especially when Leia says it. That bit will definitely be going.
It looks to me that R2 had downloaded a map of the galaxy. I didn’t get the impression that the map was leading to anything in particular. There is an orange line there, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that the map was specifically one to the Jedi temple. It could just be that R2 was highlighting the only known hyperspace route into the uncharted region.
The best I can come up with is that the Empire was trying to map the galaxy and hadn’t gotten around to mapping that last section at the time of ANH. Then Luke goes and finds the Jedi temple and leaves the newly discovered piece with Lor San Tekka, or Tekka manages to reconstruct a map to the temple from esoteric religious sources.
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Perhaps I’m uncultured swine, but I didn’t get much from this. It’s pretty to look at and it’s obviously well-made in terms of performances and cinematography, but there’s not much in the way of plot.
I do use that keyframing method as a rule, but I often find that even 4 frames without a keyframe is enough to break the tracking. Also, this shot had a bit of camera bounce at times, which required such attention.
I was having a lot of jittery tracking on the X-wing approach to the Starkiller, and after investigation I realized that it was due to not knowing exactly where the replacement matte should be. This can be mitigated by tracking using an unaltered still (the piece that you want to replace) allowing for precise matching of its location through the shot. After getting an exact lock you can alter the still and it will retain the movement.
Looking at the star draining shot again, it appears that Starkiller is actually behind the star based on how much of it is in the light. This would mean that it would have to be extremely small indeed, compared to the star.
I think it would be possible to move the planet, but even if that’s not feasible, it should be a simple matter to shrink the planet so that it would be a believable distance from the star.
Here’s a mockup of these two ideas:
http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/01FNNN8U
I kinda like the idea of different colors for the crawls, but looking ahead, The Last Jedi would definitely be red, so ROTJ would have to be something else. What about the Lucasfilm green?
And some Sequel Trilogy ideas:
I actually considered having the beam travel through Hyperspace in this shot, after deleting the Star Destroyer, but I don’t know of an easy way this could be done.
To make the Falcon exiting Hyperspace I blended two shots where the Falcon was in a similar position in each, so the best bet would probably be to find a shot of something else going through hyperspace at a similar angle and replace the ship with the beam. If the camera movement was similar enough in both shots, it might work.
I’m less aware of the ESB and ROTJ projects than for Star Wars, simply because I spent a long time combing through other projects to find the very best references for my Tech Recreation.