You could try masking out her body and desaturating her skin tones to imply a drain on her life force, though the scene’s so blue I don’t know if that would even be noticeable.
I don’t know of any examples of an inverse of the ‘so bad it’s good’ phenomenon, other than the obvious examples of Oscar Bait tending towards over-seriousness and pretension.
However, media can certainly become a victim of its own success in terms of overexposure, such as Hamilton, or exploitation of nostalgia, such as Star Wars.
Magic the Gathering recently released a set with strong Godzilla subtheme. It’s cynical as hell from my point of view, but in terms of profit it appears to have been exactly the right play.
Anything that makes this movie more ridiculous is a win in my book.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen a wall of text so deserving of the designation.
A few seconds, really.
Episode 7 would take place in a galaxy that has devolved into a cold war between the Imperial Remnant and the New Republic. Leia controls the Senate as Chancellor and acts as master of the new Jedi council. Her son, Ben, is her star pupil and the public face of the Jedi as he seeks to bring ‘peace and justice’ to the galaxy.
The story begins with Rey, a young girl who has been adopted by an old freighter pilot with a robotic leg who lives in the outer rim. She returns from a scavenging expedition one day and sees that there is a visitor, the dashing young Ben Solo who has arrived on a New Republic shuttle and demands of the old pilot that he give up the girl. The old man refuses, and Rey causes a distraction which allows them both to escape in the Millennium Falcon. The man tells her that he is indeed Han Solo, and Ben was there on a hunt for Jedi students, of which Rey is one. She is astonished, asking him why he never told her, and Han says that it was for her own protection. They must now go to find Luke, who is living in exile in Imperial space, and along the way they meet Finn who is an Imperial trooper and Chewie, who is free from his life debt from Han and is captain of his own ship. Poe Dameron is introduced as a pilot for the elite strike force of the New Republic, and is tasked with tracking down our Heroes.
Our heroes eventually find Luke, who reveals that he found Rey at an early age but then Leia turned to a dark place in her attempt to hold the New Republic together before Luke could find more than a couple young recruits. Leia demanded more of the students than they could take, with Ben and the rest of the students being corrupted by the necessity of gaining too much power too quickly. Luke eventually went into exile, unable to destroy his own sister and her son. Han took Rey under his wing for her protection, as she was the youngest of his students by far.
Leia and Ben arrive on intel from Poe, and Leia confronts Luke while Ben confronts his father. Han and Chewie and Luke all die, Han and Chewie aboard the Falcon in one last act of sacrifice with Rey and Finn only barely escaping. The Imperial Remnant arrives through Finn’s help to face this threat to their territory, and there is a pitched battle between old Imperial ships and New Republic vessels, and Poe secretly switches sides to join with the heroes. The spirit of Luke arrives to aid Rey, and she bests Ben. The Republic retreats with Poe undercover and Rey vows to become a true Jedi and rebuild the Order.
The second and third films would continue this conflict, with Rey and Finn and Poe attempting to reconcile the two sides of the conflict guided only by the spirit of Luke.
I agree. It would be a terrible idea to make this the ‘correct’ reading of the Force, but to have it as one of many legitimate beliefs is good. Never considered that dark might not be a synonym for evil, but that would be neat if a darksider explained it this way.
I assumed it had something to do with the sun, i.e., sol. Sol, Rey…kill me.
Here’s the Island drawing in full quality:
https://mega.nz/file/OZkQAIxT#6EJjjNdEcepDtOGBnLYufp-X5Jmjuj2eprL1PYbquHs
PM Sent! And you may of course use whatever you’d like 😃
PM Sent!
I guess you can argue with that.
Can’t argue with that.
Wasn’t Nev working on something where he was trying to replicate the movement of the original
Star Wars crawl? I’d be great if you could replicate the speed, blur and shakiness of those original crawls in After Effects. Basically simulating all those little imperfections that give it character.
Yep, I had a version that was pretty similar to the original in timing, but for replacing a single word it might not even need that much work. It would just need a starfield tracked to the gate weave of the original and then just cut out the word ‘evil’ and replace it with ‘Sith’. This could probably be tracked automatically in AE with enough precision with the rest of the crawl as a sort of 3D surface negating the need for replicating the entire crawl shape for the project.
Is the font for ESB’s crawl text the same as the original SW? If so, I made a custom font that is almost pixel accurate to that one so it should work fine if anyone wants to use it.
I think that TPM alone shows the Republic to be a deeply flawed institution:
“I can’t beleive there’s still slavery in the galaxy, the Republic’s anti-slavery laws…”
“The Republic doesn’t exist out here.”
“Enter the Bureaucrats, the true rulers of the Republic…and on the payroll of the Trade Federation.”
“The Courts take even longer to decide things than the Senate.”
“It is clear to me the Republic no longer functions.”
These problems definitely existed before Palpatine was Chancellor, and almost certainly before he was a Senator.
There is also evidence in AOTC that the Jedi were not well-liked by the general population, which to me suggests that they were an insular sect that acted more like a police force than a neutral arbiter of peace and justice.
I started reading Brandon Sanderson’s Wheel of Time trilogy, and it immediately dawned on me he doesn’t use the same word style as Robert Jordan I was taken right out of the book.
Not sure if i’ll be able to finish them. He admits in the introduction he wasn’t going to be writing in Jordan’s style.
Sanderson does have a consistent style.
I’m currently reading the Steelheart trilogy after finishing the Mistborn trilogy for the second time and reading the first two books of the Starsight trilogy. After that I’ll be reading Elantris. In his books I’ve found that he never fails to construct decent plots around believable worldbuilding. The characters can sometimes be a bit flat, but it’s not the worst problem in the world.
Actual lol.
That sounds fun!
Version 2 is now released, available on the 'spleen (No, I don’t have direct links, so don’t even ask)! The first post of this thread has been updated to reflect the completed state of the project.
I fully intend for this to be the final release, with some adjustments to a few scenes and specific shots that I felt were lacking in V1. It has the same 7.1 and 5.1 '97 audio mixes, and is presented in high bitrate 1080p.
The lightsaber replacement shots are identical to V1, but there is perhaps a beauty to a work forever incomplete. Regardless, the color is why we’re here, and on that front I am entirely pleased with the final result and would change nothing more.
You’d still need to figure out a way to incorporate the children into the scene, either by masking them out of the obviously exterior environment and placing them into the corner of the high-class room, or by indicating that there are multiple screens throughout the city which are playing the same thing.
https://youtu.be/v1THtiVUqG4?t=95
The shot of the old woman and man watching the scene at 1:37 looks pretty good to me, as well as the Scooby-do looking alien shot at 1:46 that seems to be another take of the one you re-used from the film.
You could start with an establishing shot like at 2:05 and cut to the final shot at 2:12, masking out the window to place a viewscreen. Then have two aforementioned shots of aliens looking over at it.
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