LOL I meant that Ken Colley, who plays Piett, plays Jesus in Life of Brian. Wasn't touching on symbolism and I don't think Star Wars is necessarily allegorical at all, however much it may have been inspired by historical events. (eg. Palpatine's rise echoes any number of historical dictators, from Caesar to Hitler, but isn't meant to represent any particular one.)
You all realise that Jesus in that movie is Piett, right?
He only took off the helmet. (The idea that he only burned the suit is EU and can be disregarded if an editor desires.)
Bingo, Bingo.
I did think that ROTS had the most impressive opening of them all. ROTJ, TPM, AOTC all had spaceships flying and landing, ESB had a bit of suspense, but ANH's opening shot was the one that really sold that movie and it was nice for ROTS to return to an opening long shot of a battle (even though it was rather OTT).
Where might one be able to see this deleted scene?
There was an uplifting rendition of the Imperial March in TIE Fighter — there were several themes in that game that were entirely original or very different variations on themes from the films, while still being recognisably Star Wars music. If we could render them in such a quality to match the LSO recordings, we could use them. I have the MIDI files but I don't have the soundbanks to render them.
Well, the whole point with the Shadows project, along with the Special Edition the next year, was as a testbed for the prequels. For Shadows, they did everything they'd do with a movie — video game, comics, novel, soundtrack, action figures — without shooting the movie. Call it a cynical money-making exercise if you will, and I won't disagree with you, but that was the general idea. It was also intended to reignite interest in the Star Wars brand, ahead of the SEs and prequels.
I thought "Jedi Rocks" was more in-your-face than Lapti Nek (which was the whole idea, GL thought "a big musical number would be funny in the middle of a Star Wars film"), but I didn't think it was any worse. I figured if you're going to do it, there's no point doing it by halves. There were a couple of OTT "MTV-type" shots which deserved to be excised, and Boba Fett didn't need any more exposure, but other than that I was fairly neutral on those changes. The CG singer was no worse than the puppet equivalent (one reason the "big musical number" wasn't in the 1983 version was problems with the puppets) — both were fairly ordinary.
YO!
I was OK with the darkside cave not being explained in the prequels, and it'd take too much editing to work in an explanation. That said, I love the idea of having the twins (or just Luke if ROTJ goes that way) born on Dagobah rather than some random asteroid we've never heard of.
I agree, OR. A nice subtle boost is all that's needed — no need to show the "grille" effect, something more resembling the Death Star escape is more appropriate.
I'm Australian too but I've acted before and I could give it a go. What sort of British accent are you looking for?
I like the battle shots, but the ground ones are rather OTT IMO — they look like something out of The Lord of the Rings. All those shots really need is a slight depinkify and maybe cleanup, but the original images look a lot more real than the edited ones. If GL had released a version which looks like those edits, we'd be complaining about how yellow everything was. (Also, I always liked the little moon above the city lights.)
...that's not what I was talking about. :p
Do I sense a Rocky-style training montage in the works?
I know it was, but I don't like that it was.
I don't know if that'd work for the X-wing, it looks like it was designed that way, but I'd definitely like to see some panelled Y-wings in PT:R. Maybe even replace Obi's fighter in AOTC — I never liked that design, it was too derivative of the A-wing and it looks almost identical to the Star Destroyers we see later in the same movie (down to the silly rudder).
Ignoring the prequels is all very well in an edit such as ChainsawAsh's Trilogy, but in something like Revisited it's less appropriate, as after Ady finishes ROTJ:R he will be making TPM:R. He already made several overt references to the prequels in ANH:R, down to a reprise of Battle of the Heroes (I know this wasn't in the Purist version but the DVD-9 is the "canonical" version — his "definitive vision", har har).
He's certainly evil enough. *ducks* :p
Isn't the right side supposed to be just colour corrected versions of the left? The images on the right have a lot more blobs than the left. They certainly aren't on the DVD, if that was your source.
One thing, ESF: what's with all the black blobs on the pictures? Not the black bars, the black *blobs*.
That's the other thing I like about sticking that scene at the beginning of ROTJ. With a few minor cuts we can imply he's been there for a while again.
That's more or less what I assumed. A more radical edit might make the time difference more explicit — the Bespin scenes and the Dagobah scenes are intercut in the original and ESB:R, whereas a time-stretching edit would place the Bespin scenes after most of Dagobah.
The only problem with this is that the Han/Leia romantic subplot plays out like they were only on the Falcon for a few days. You could justify this in a harder piece of SF by citing relativistic effects — they take a few months to get to Bespin, giving Luke the requisite time to train, but they only perceive a few days — but in something like Star Wars it comes across as handwaving.
Yeah, that's what I meant by the execution. That and the obvious copy-and-paste of his head on Shaw's body.