Not a slight to your writing, that place just feels like the Dagobah tree. And I say that as someone who has written a few things there. 😃
But that’s where writing goes to die.
This point about banning countries he doesn’t have business dealings in is probably a bit coincidental, since his Executive order used an Obama-era list to determine the countries to ban. This list merely compiled countries with significant terrorist activity, and was forced past Obama’s desk on an omnibus spending bill by congress.
http://www.snopes.com/trump-immigration-order-obama/
The thing with Executive Orders is that they must reference specific legislation, since it is not (supposedly) in the Executive’s power to legislate. Now I would bet that if Trump didn’t have business in Saudi Arabia or the UAE, he would have found some legislation which included those countries. As it is, we can only speculate as to the why of all this.
Here it is with the truncated line:
https://mega.nz/#!jc0QGAZB!O8P8q_gTpxa5tXwtlk8ypPUEUAc59gUxFrCbpxhwtlc
I uploaded it to Mega because Vimeo crashes Firefox when I go to the upload page. Apparently it works fine with IE.
The last video I posted removes that reference. 😃
If that word change tips the scales to including it in the edit, I’ll give it another try 😃
The Project Blu GOUT upscale was still my go-to version of Star Wars for my pre-TFA marathon. I guess that’s just sooooo 2015.
JEDIT: Dre, your LUT may over-represent the green just a tad.
It would be very useful in plenty of edits, so I’d say if you’re already altering the film to suit your desires, why not use the technology? Faneditors already alter character lines, dub in their own, etc. Where I can see this being really problematic is in the realm of video/audio evidence used in court. When you can mimic anyone, you can frame anyone.
EXT. NABOO – NABOO PUBLIC CEMETERY – EVENING
Deep in the silent, empty cemetery, working alone under the cold evening light of Naboo’s three moons, DARK LORD OF THE SITH DARTH VADER is busy exhuming a months-old grave.
With the SCRAPE of metal against wood, Vader realizes he has finally reached the coffin. Clearing earth away with his shovel, he uncovers the lid of the casket. Then wedging the blade of the shovel under the lid, he pries it open. White moonlight falls into the open casket, illuminating the pale form of PADME AMIDALA’S WORM-RIDDEN DECAYING CORPSE.
Tossing the shovel aside, Vader reaches down and takes hold of his dead wife. Hefting the cadaver out of the hole, he begins to waltz about the cemetery grounds with the limp figure in his arms.
DARTH VADER: Dance with the dead in my dreams. Listen to their hallowed screams. The dead have taken my soul. Temptation’s lost all control.
PADME’S CORPSE: This is no dream! This is real happening!
DARTH VADER: NOOOOOOOOOO!
“^He’s embraced the absurd. Don’t expect to gain any conventional understanding from his posts.”
-Duracell
The circle is now complete.
Sorry? This is exactly what I wanted.
Mua ha ha.
Time to throw that GOUT superresolution and LUT together, render it out, and call it a day. 😉
Perhaps we should simply list the films with legitimate cliffhangers, since everyone is so hung up on the definition.
That’s a lovely poster.
I’m almost 30, I live with my parents, I’ve fucked up my life, pissed away 30 years and a college education, and work a shitty dead-end job because I’m a cowardly piece of shit.
In terms of evolution, your first and only priority is to survive, and you have done this admirably. People forget that this is most of the test of life, and is pass/fail.
Should have sent a poet.
It was too good/bad to pass up.
This is a fun read: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-to-build-an-autocracy/513872/
From the article:
“As for refugees, Nowrasteh writes, Trump’s action ‘is a response to a phantom menace.’”
Huh, I always called it the tan-TEEV four.
For those who didn’t watch, they pronounce it TAN-ti-vee four, where the middle syllable is a short “i” sound.
So that’s why Mike Verta pronounces it that way. I always thought he was vocalizing the ‘V’ from ‘IV’, even though that doesn’t make sense either.
Well then you’re very welcome 😃
JEDIT: I’ll just leave this idea here to come back to later, since there’s edit specific stuff to do right now:
As it is presented in the film, R2 has been in low power mode ‘since Luke went away’. BB-8 suggests that the map to Luke could be in R2’s backup data, and at the end of the film C-3PO says ‘you’ve found what?’, indicating that R2 has been searching his backup files in low power mode since Luke went away. The problem of course is that it is awfully convenient that he just happens to finish his search when everyone needs a morale boost at the end of the film. The idea that the presence of Rey unlocked the data also strains credulity, in my opinion.
So, my idea is to have R2 awaken some moments after BB-8 hits him but after the others are gone, using the beginning of the shot where his lights come on. He has overheard BB-8’s comment about his backup data, something he had not considered. He then starts to comb through his data, perhaps using a new sound and a flashing light on his body, much like the light of a hard drive reading data. Then, at the end of the film, he can complete his search and announce his discovery as usual.
Excellent. I apologize for continually bombarding you with half-baked ideas, it’s my perfectionist/tinkering nature. You’ll just have to render V2 eventually just to get me to shut up. 😉
He probably remembered Luke throwing the grappling hook twice.
The scene flows better without it (I prefer the scene in V1), but I think it serves the film more to establish the base at this point. Han refers twice to the fact that Finn has worked on the base, so right now it feels like a callback with no origin. It’s a tossup for me, whether to serve the moment or the continuity of the film.
Also, there may be a way to rearrange the scenes in this area of the film for greater effect. If after ‘I need you to tell me all you know’ we cut to Rey’s interrogation, it continues that info-gathering theme. Then, since Kylo’s questions are about Luke’s location, cutting directly back to Leia examining BB-8’s map after Kylo’s temper tantrum continues the Luke theme. The Resistance base scenes continue until ‘The report on the enemy base is coming in’. Having Han and Leia’s talk about Kylo after he has just been unmasked may now have more emotional effect, since we can put a face to their discussion. Then we cut to Hux’s demonstration. The audience learns the capabilities of the weapon just as Leia does, and after this the film progresses as normal.
This has the added benefit of allowing for more time between Finn (presumably) telling Leia the location of the Starkiller and the reconnaissance flight which results in highly detailed scan data.
It could work like that, but I don’t know that one is better than the other. It’s already a short exchange. It was also some work to get Poe’s mouth to look right at that point in the conversation.
Galen didn’t construct the DS, only the laser.
Then how did he construct a convenient way for the rebels to destroy it???
That’s a common misconception. He didn’t. All he did was make an unstable reactor to set off the chain reaction. That’s why he wanted the rebels to steal the plans, so they could figure out on their own how to set it off. He didn’t have a clue how the rebels would do it. It’s entirely possible he was expecting an espionage mission than a bunch of snub fighters trying to make a one in a million shot.
So it would have been possible for, say, a 4 person crew to infiltrate the Death Star and sabotage the faulty reactor using the Death Star plans carried by R2? It’s a good thing there was never the chance for such a sabotage mission or the Rebellion wouldn’t have needed to give away the position of its base and send almost all of its fighters to their destruction.
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Here it is with the truncated line:
https://mega.nz/#!jc0QGAZB!O8P8q_gTpxa5tXwtlk8ypPUEUAc59gUxFrCbpxhwtlc
I gave up trying to turn ‘the weapon’ into ‘their weapon’, so if anyone else wants to take a stab at it, be my guest.
Considering that Leia has some awareness of the First Order’s capabilities, perhaps the crawl needs to more specifically reference a weapon:
Episode VII
THE FORCE AWAKENSLuke Skywalker has vanished. In his absence the sinister FIRST ORDER has risen in secret from the ashes of the Empire with a weapon of unfathomable power.
Unable to convince the New Republic of this deadly peril, General Leia Organa gathers allies from across the galaxy to form a covert RESISTANCE.
Desperate for her brother’s help, Leia has sent her most trusted pilot on a daring mission to Jakku, where a clue has been discovered to Luke’s whereabouts…
I think it’s somewhat important to let the audience know that they will eventually be dealing with another Death Star-like weapon, so that they can adjust their expectations from the outset. 😉