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#297398
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/297398/action/topic#297398
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In the final cut of the flick, Biggs is better left just another member of Red Squadron.

I feel that if it's left that way the "it'll be just like beggar's canyon back home" line doesn't work well. I know it's not 100% necessary to explain the line, heck Luke could just be talking to himself. I just think that It has so much more meaning with the whole Biggs subplot, and that changing it back to having him as just another pilot misses out on a cinematic opportunity.

Unless I'm mistaken, when Luke is told he has a fighter on his tail, doesn't Wedge tell Luke that he was "On it", then Luke looks around and says the line?


Yeah, you're right. But to me the Biggs line implies that Luke is wondering where Biggs is, and that he's thinking "why should wedge have to save me, I've got an old buddy for that sort of thing!" I just feel that it is in good keeping with their implied back story. Of course, this all depends on whether or not one feels that the hanger scene works well. As is quite apparent by now, I do believe it does.

This is the last I will say of the Biggs line.
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#297396
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Episode 3 - Editing Back in Progress (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/297396/action/topic#297396
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SotD, I thought the approach on the Jedi Temple music was originally planned for the Arena in Episode II but not used in there (although I could just be wrong). So technically it is tracked, but its not used in other places so I don't see the problem. Do you think it doesn't work well there?

the Mace vs. Palpatine duel and some sequences of the final duel that don't use Duel of the Fates and Battle of the Heroes


Again, I could just be wrong, but I didn't think music in the Mace/Palpatine duel was tracked. Which parts were tracked? And which parts of the final duel were tracked? And though I guess the music during Palpatine's "now you will experience the full power of the dark side" line was tracked from ESB, I thought it worked really well there. To me music tracked from the OT (in small doses) gives some feeling of continuity.

darkhelmet, (I know you already said you would try), but I think not having the full names is the only thing that makes it sound like a fan written crawl. I'm also not too into the new title, I kind of prefer Revenge of the Sith, I thought it worked well with Return of the Jedi. Other than that I really like it.
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#297271
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/297271/action/topic#297271
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My take on the Biggs/Wedge thing is that the Biggs line should stay. The whole "darn wheres my old buddy, he should be here to help me!" thing works very well for me. This is mainly because I don't think Luke would be counting on wedge to save him, because he hardly knows Wedge. If they knew each other well I think the wedge line would be a good thing. But the Biggs/Luke relationship has a very "I've got your back ' feel to it, and thats the way I think it should be. It works with their implied back story too, and gives Biggs a slightly bigger part, which I feel gives the Biggs scene before they depart more use (I love that scene).
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#297236
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&quot;The fight that weve been hearing about&quot;
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/297236/action/topic#297236
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In a couple of Episode I making-of things, George Lucas says in reference to the Obi/Qui/Maul fight something to the effect of "we've heard about this in the other movies, but we've never seen it" and something like "this is what we've been waiting to see". I don't remember ever hearing about the duel of the fates in the OT. I thought the duel that people were waiting to see (that we had heard about) was the Obi-Wan Anakin fight in Episode III? Did I miss a reference in the OT, or is he just talking about something as vague as Obi-Wan's "Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the old republic" line? I'm confused, any help here would be hot.
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#297104
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Star Wars Prequels/Original Trilogy: The Complete Scores (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/297104/action/topic#297104
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GoodMusician, I know your probably quite busy, but I'm wondering if there is some form of vague estimate you could give on when we might be able to see (or hear) one of the new and improved score sets. Also, in a PM you mentioned that you had a mediocre copy of some music from the Ewok films, is there any chance you might be able to post it on your site (which seems to be down right now, maybe it's just me)?
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#294785
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***The &quot;Darth Editous&quot; Episode V DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a work in progress
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/294785/action/topic#294785
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I have one small suggestion if you are tampering with ANH again DE. During the scene with the stormtroopers searching in the desert there is the music that they added for the special edition. I really do love the music, but if you're going to cut the SE part of the scene I think you should take out the music to. I just find it kind of jarring when the SE music comes in half way through, feels kind of incomplete to me. I love your work though, great stuff.
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#294553
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Idea: Bourne Ultimatum edit?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/294553/action/topic#294553
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There isn't actually much quality material from the first two films. The deleted scenes aren't in very good quality, I also don't think they add very much to the film, they just kind of over explain things that you figure out later. Also, that whole explosive release left me very dissapointed. I was expecting something with, you know, explosions. Instead it would seem that the people putting together the release completely misunderstood what was going on the dvd, the filmmakers talk about an ending that they (from what I remember) only considered shooting and planned out. The alternate opening and ending are these bookend scenes with Bourne looking for Marie in the beginning, where he ultimately finds her in the end anyway. This all really is too bad because I wanted to do an extended version of the films too, before I found out what was available to work with.
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#294345
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/294345/action/topic#294345
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Oh that was so cool. I have one little tiny suggestion though. The only part I found a bit jarring at all (and this may be because it was edited for the trailer) was when Obi-Wan ignites his lightsaber in the upright position and in the next shot he's holding it more paralell to the ground. I think that if you added a lightsaber motion whur sound off screen in between these shots (during the vader shot) it would feel like he moved the saber when we weren't looking. Just a thought. It was so cool, very well done.
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#294206
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Transformers The Movie: Resparked (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/294206/action/topic#294206
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I just remembered something else to mention. The two scenes (or more) with his grandfather discovering Megatron were neat, but I thought it might be better if they were edited into one "discovery" sequence. And also, try to remove the whole ebay "laidiesman217" thing. Maybe the decepticons would know about him because they sensed the glasses, or something like that? Or maybe no explanation at all? Anyway.

I would also be very interested in two edits, one serious and one Tranformer-ish. That would be just great.
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#294165
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/294165/action/topic#294165
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It really is too bad that this won't make it into the final version of the film. It's so cool. I really think it helps to link the PT with the OT, and for me thats always good. I understand your reasons for not including it though, that the destruction of alderaan should be as quick and sudden as possible. But I don't think that it actually slows down the sequence at all. Just my thought though.
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#293674
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My Episode III Re-Edit (v 2007) (Completed)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/293674/action/topic#293674
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please consider taking out Artoo's flamethrower trick. Please. I hate it,

I am very much in favor of this suggestion. I mentioned it in your old thread, but I don't think you were into the idea because there was going to be music over it in your version. However, if the music wasn't added it would be an easy edit because there isn't any to begin with. I so hate those "none of his wire jokes" lines and "he's trying". I do feel that it slows down the pacing on the invisible hand. Maybe you could restore some of the deleted scene there. Anyway, just a thought.
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#293402
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My Episode III Re-Edit (v 2007) (Completed)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/293402/action/topic#293402
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Hello again. I've been following your progress in the Episode 3 Re-Edit thread, and I'm quite impressed. Though I personally would never remove Vader from Episode 3, I just love how it's been explored in that thread. Because of such exploration there have been some very cool results, and I really like how you've handled the whole end battles thing. Keep up the good work. One question though, what happened to your first re-edit, the "how the fans would have wanted it" thread? Also will this one have an isolated score track, I thought that was a very good idea.
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#293298
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Transformers The Movie: Resparked (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/293298/action/topic#293298
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Hello there. I just saw the movie about an hour ago and I was thinking just about the same thing the whole way through. Fan edit fan edit fan edit! I too am by no means a longtime fan, heck, I didn't even really know what transformers were five hours ago. But, for the most part I liked the movie too. There were really only a few things that bothered me as well. The first thing that bothered me was that our hero and main character seemed like a bit of a shallow asshole (to me). I mean come on, selling family heirlooms to get some wheels, so that he then can wrangle himself a nice f%$*ing sexy lady and never have to resort to piles porn for his entertainment, at least when he's got a real living breathing sex toy!? It's kinda developing him as a bad character with almost no redeeming qualities except maybe innocence and inexperience with women (that a young viewer could relate too?) and a potential for doing future good deeds. The way they make him appear is probably my biggest annoyance. That, and the thing with his parents "were you masturbating", please get rid of as much of that scene as possible (I really do think it was terrible, they tried for a bit too much comic relief if you ask me). Other things that I feel need changing have mostly been mentioned. Things like the soldier having a wife and a child, please take it out, it really goes nowhere and I feel that the dialogue with him speaking over the web cam was very bad and slowed down the pacing of the film.

The one girl, Mikeala or something and her dad and their criminal past. Why even bring it up? It seemed as if Sam didn't really seem to care and didn't brood about it and forgot about it right away. I dunno, seemed half-baked.
I really agree with this, it doesn't belong.

The whole entire girl programmer thing really bugged me. They introduce these two characters, and they don't do much, except eat a plate of donuts. They just solve the code, and that's it. Wow. Yippie ki-yay motherf*&%$#. Big deal. They almost seemed like dead weight to the movie.

I also really agree with this, anything with little miss "I need eyeshadow and a sexy hairdo to work for the government" that can go should go. Especially her little line about "think quantum mechanics", the way she says it you just want to tell her "bitch, you don't even know what that means!"

About the score, some of it I thought was pretty good, but I could do with almost no electric guitar, but thats only what I think. If it's the sort of thing that was part of previous Transformers incarnations I'd keep it (for nostalgia's sake?), but if not I'd let it go.

Also the bit with the soldiers being non-accepting douche bags when they make an issue about the Spanish soldier speaking his native language, the scene very early in the film. I feel it could go.

One last thing (and without it I think the movie would be just great). The bit with the cell phone charge and finding the credit card in the desert fight. I know it got a few laughs in the theater (even a giggle out of me), but it was so not fitting for the scene, it slowed down the pacing so much in a place that could have been near perfect action-wise.

Anyway, I hope some of my thoughts are helpful. I'm definitely interested in seeing how this turns out. Until the next post, I hope your move goes well.