Yeah, I loved the use of that theme in ANHR. I'd be OK with using an instrumental version — it'd probably blend better — but I hope it's kept in ARSE at least as an option. Same with the Emperor's theme in the Death Star roundtable scene.
I have two beefs with the PT music. The first is the lack of tight system of leitmotif — yes, there is an "Anakin's Theme" and "Qui-Gon's Theme" and all, but apart from "Across the Stars" they're not used the way his leitmotifs are used in the OT.
The other is the distinct lack of the main fanfare outside of the opening crawl. It's used in maybe one action scene in TPM and at the very end of ROTS.
Be careful what you wish for. Johnny Ringo made that same mistake and wound up with a packet of My Little Ponies for Christmas.
Sigh. Could somebody please swing the banhammer here?
EDIT: Thank you very much.
We saw your side just now too. Not a very pleasant one, either.
Doesn't the Ben Burtt cameo have him mimicking the "famous" version?
If we're making an edit that's designed to be watched in chronological story order, I'd like TPM to be able to stand alone, as though it were actually the first one made, the way ANH does. By "first chapter", I mean it would feel too incomplete.
There's no rule that says it has to be the lightest movie, but as it stands it is, and giving it a downer ending doesn't fit the mood of the rest of the picture. You'd have to make a LOT of (otherwise unnecessary) changes elsewhere to make it fit. The Phantom Edit and Balance of the Force are both darker than TPM, but still lighter than any of the other movies.
I like!
I'm not in favour of cutting the ending celebration from TPM. I assume you cut it (as you cut the scenes between the battle and the scene with Yoda) because you weren't changing anything, rather than because you'd want to remove it from a complete edit, but I'd still like to put in my reasoning for keeping it.
It doesn't contribute anything to the story, unless you take the idea that the Big Shiny Thing is the Kyber Crystal or the Lost Orb of Phanasticoria or whatever that the Naboo stole from the Gungans. But it's important if TPM is to work as a standalone movie (which as the first in the series it should, sequel hooks aside). If it's cut out, the movie is too obviously a first chapter; and it's too dark an ending for what is otherwise the lightest movie in the series. I also like what John Williams did with the scene: using the upbeat and triumphant rendition of what becomes, six films later, the darkest theme in the series.
Racist!
;-p
Have you moved Yoda's eyes on the line "Judge me by my size, do you?" It makes that line hilarious all over again.
Edited from HD footage, but rendered in SD. The original source files for the edit no longer exist.
"couldn't care less", Frink.
YOU ARE NOT PREPARED.
GL might say that, and he might be right — I haven't seen it — but about 70% of the dialogue in said battle is lifted straight from The Dam Busters.
He's inserted the Revill voice into the bonus clip to demonstrate how closely Revisited will follow the original. I'm pretty sure McDiarmid's voice will be in the finished edit.
You could always try The Dam Busters...
:-p
Will asking make the clip any more likely?
Will it make Adywan any more inclined to tell you whether one's coming?
The boy has no patience.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure you do see the Falcon's turrets firing in ROTJ.
I'd like to see a prequel poster set similar to Struzan's SE posters — a set that actually goes together as a triptych, which his PT posters really don't do because they repeat themselves.
Get over it, BmB.
You wouldn't need to use footage from LOTR — Lee has been in scores of films, and AFAIK Dooku has Lee's natural hair, so even interview footage would do if you just needed his head. Voice recordings would be even easier, if we wanted to make him a Fake Shemp, which would almost even be appropriate for his character.
You say that like it's a bad thing. ;-P
And where is the viewer supposed to think "Vader" came from, once Ben tells Luke he was his apprentice?
Huh?
