NeverarGreat

I like it 😃

Octorox said:

If the Kor Sella scene is reinserted, I do think we should keep the shots on Hosnian Prime, only to give that thread closure.

My thought as well.

DuracellEnergizer said:

TV’s Frink said:

92.6% of posts by a certain few members are rehashes.

And “rehash” is the new “George raped my childhood.”

“Disney rehashed my childhood.”

Actually true and not an exaggeration.

Please clap.

The crawl is much improved from the original, excellent job! I think fractured works well enough. It’s also interesting how close some of the wording is to my old rewrite from the Scriptwriting Thread:

Luke Skywalker, the last Jedi, has vanished.
In his absence, the sinister FIRST ORDER
has risen from the ashes of the fallen Empire.

To counter this deadly threat, the Republic
mobilizes a covert RESISTANCE led by
General Leia Organa, to gather allies from
the farthest reaches of the galaxy.

As the FIRST ORDER prepares a crippling
blow to the Republic, its dark forces gather
above the graveyard planet of Jakku…

I think everyone in the press is talking about the crowd size because they know that Trump has such a thin skin that he will immediately retaliate - and of course he did. That would allow them to point and laugh at how he couldn’t even address the CIA without going on a tangent about the crowd size. The best part of it is, all they need to do is throw facts at him and his team will tie themselves in knots trying to justify it and inventing ‘Alternate Facts’. It’s a shitshow.

Octorox said:

NeverarGreat said:

Here’s a new version with the lightsaber shot. 😃

https://vimeo.com/200702407
Password: music

I like this but has a Star Wars film ever completely cut out foley audio like this? Even the “musical montage” sequences usually have some sound effects, they’re just lowered in the mix.

Oh I’m not thinking this is final, it’s just to show how it could be cut to include the entire theme. Hopefully someone who knows sound will like it and do a foley version, though I think it would be nice to have quieter sound effects in much of the sequence.

That example may not be appropriate…

Also, I don’t see how helpful it would be if it doesn’t have mouseover comparisons.

Here’s a new version with the lightsaber shot. 😃

https://vimeo.com/200702407
Password: music

DominicCobb said:

Devil’s advocate: it’s a silly sign, but it’s also supposed to be a joke. And, like most jokes, there’s some truth behind the intent. Which is to say, obviously women have far more rights than guns (don’t think anyone doesn’t literally think that), what they’re trying to say is that they wish protecting women’s rights were as important to politicians as protecting “gun’s rights” (preventing gun control).

That is how I read it, and if this is the most logically offensive sign out of a collection of hundreds of thousands, that’s pretty damn impressive.

True, it is a big part of the story, but we need to see how her arc in Episode 8 plays out to know how much importance is placed on a weapon. Perhaps she is embracing the Dark Side in her fight with Kylo Ren, so she’s going down an Anakin Skywalker path. In this case the importance of the lightsaber in this scene is justified. Otherwise, I think the focus of this scene should be the safety of Finn and company.

My main interest is in keeping the entirety of the music in this scene. Whether or not the lightsaber shot remains in V2 is an issue I am willing to concede 😃

Not that it is of particular importance in the grand scheme of things, but I was digging around online to find better images of Trump’s Inauguration crowd vs Obama’s, since most outlets crop the images before the new buildings at the National Mall. Here is a comparison from Reuters shown on Japan Times, with the Trump picture allegedly taken at 12:01:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/21/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-draws-far-smaller-inaugural-crowd-obama/#.WIWx6X1WJ8G

And a CBS report with the same image:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/photos-president-trumps-inauguration-crowd-vs-president-obamas/

An even more expansive shot, from slightly earlier:

Finally, here’s a full view of the Obama 2009 inauguration:

I looked everywhere for a similar image for Trump’s inauguration, but I think it’s pretty safe to say there was nobody hanging out back there in the boonies.

DominicCobb said:

NeverarGreat said:

Here’s my ideal version of that scene without the pilot celebrations. It’s music only at this point, but I’ve also removed the lightsaber pickup shot because it feels like a prequelism.
https://vimeo.com/200626043
password: music

Ooh, nice I appreciate trying to preserve that utterly splendid musical cue (though I can’t abide the removal of that lightsaber pickup, nor the calling it a “prequelism”).

Thanks!

I guess my main problem with the saber shot is that it detracts from the almost equally brief shot of Finn beforehand, implying equivalent importance. This rubs me the wrong way, since Finn is (and should be) much more important to the viewer than a mere weapon.

Here’s my ideal version of that scene without the pilot celebrations. It’s music only at this point, but I’ve also removed the lightsaber pickup shot because it feels like a prequelism.
https://vimeo.com/200626043
password: music

That moment I realize that I’m the one on the left

…and ‘paper’ is replaced with ‘book’.

That would be nice, I haven’t found anything that works in Markdown though.

You mean Restructured V1? It’s out in the world. . . .

It seems unlikely, especially considering the frantic pace of the movie, and the angles of the sun to the castle remain fairly constant throughout the scenes as far as I can tell. But I would accept this explanation were it not for the sunset TIEs shot which was the biggest issue in the first place.

Ah I see. How foolish of me.

Why is everyone’s avatar suddenly red?

I get the feeling in TPM that Qui-gon and Obi-wan have done some research on their mission, and know about the Gungan-Naboo situation.

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Really good work here.

SilverWook said:

NeverarGreat said:

SilverWook said:

Vader conceivably could have kept Kenobi’s saber on his person, therefore it survived DS 1 blowing up. After that, who knows?

Well the Kenobi lightsaber prop was re-tooled for Luke’s lightsaber, so now I’m imagining a Rogue One type story between Empire and Jedi where Luke steals Ben’s lightsaber from Vader and improves it, since he lacks the skill to make one himself.

Luke built a new green saber. (It was even a cut scene from the movie.) Vader even referred to it as a sign Luke’s skills were complete.

I forget that sometimes I see Star Wars things that don’t originate from this site:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7adP0f6zgR4
So my comment was based on the real-life journey of the prop 😃

Nice to see more of Mark and the ROTJ lightsaber:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7adP0f6zgR4