Haha great picture. That last comment of mine was funnier in my head than it reads. Ill delete it of you want Frink. Sorry if it was too much.
EDIT: Yeah I deleted it, I was uncomfortable with it.
DELETED: That joke came out more offensive than intended.
Bollocks. Bollocks I say!
I really hope that this is all a joke, or we're all gonna feel a bit silly tomorrow.
hairy_hen said:
I have it on good authority that Lucas has actually restored the original versions of the SW movies and that they will be released exactly one year from today.
I'm going to put this nicely... FUCKING BULLSHIT!
Sorry, I apologize for my outburst. I momentarily forgot what the date was and I got excited for about 30 seconds.
Ok, now that we've been off topic for a bit (and got a way with it!) anybody got an opinion on my Darth Maul question froma few posts back?
Dammit!
This is my sock account by the way, I took my time with it to make sure it looked legit.
I'd really like Moth3r to chime in.
Well, you aren't preserving the original versions that have been officially released on DVD already, so why not?
The article i read didn't specify. Considering it was from Fox News, I'd go with Las Vegas.
I heard that he was using our donation money to do ellicit things in Vegas. He also shared this money with his friend Charlie Sheen, who he has now also screwed over. Adywan will now take his place on Two and a Half Men as the distant cousin that speaks only in Star Wars references. To disguise his identity his face on the show will be combined with Ian McDiarmid's, and many will compain the face will be "too shadowy" and have "an awkward smile."
I did think my donations might have been going to hair product, however.
I'm really really hoping so, but it's a little too convincing for my liking.
I know this is off topic, but I really, really hope that things can get sorted out with Adywan if this is in fact not an April fools joke.
Ady's projects have brought many people to these forums and introduced them to many of our projects both here and on FE.org. He has been a huge help to me in the past in completing some of my projects, graciously taking time away from his work to answer my silly noob questions. Banning Adywan from OT is sort of like banning Mickey Mouse from Disneyland. He's one of the main attractions.
If this is all a joke, then Ady just take that as a tribute to how important you are to the site and how we appreciate you. If it's not a joke, then know I fully disagree with the mods on this one, and I bet a lot of other people feel the same way.
And I know I may get a warning for this based on it being off topic and anti-moderator; if that's the case then so be it.
Want! I would like to at least see how it turned out before I ask about permission.
Trying some new music tracks for the Darth Maul fight. So far O Fortuna by Orff and Pruit Igoe by Phillip Glass are my favorites.
As much as it seems weird to remove Duel of the Fates from an edit titled Duel of the Fates, I wanted to try and reserve that song for things relating to Anakin. I want it to be emotionally tied to him and important things that happen to him. Basically it should play when he is fighting with himself. Since he has nothing to do with the Maul fight, something similar in sound but not that song seems appropriate. I want to keep that choral/pagan sort of sound for it. If possible, I'd like to make Maul seem even more ferocious and terrifying.
As of right now, I have the fight broken up into two sections. The first section takes us through to the ray shield hall way, the second takes us through the ray shields reopening to the death of Darth Maul. It's broken up by a heavily shortened space battle sequence where Anakin purposefully flies into the Droid ship an destroys it. The fight is much faster, many of the longest camera shots and wide shots are shortened or deleted to give the thing a ferocious speed. Basically it comes off that the only way Obi-Wan defeats Maul is because he became more intense, more angry, and more ferocious. He gives into the dark side to finish Maul off. Obi-Wan falling into the pit is removed, he just gets the upper hand with his attacks and splits him in half. It's pretty darn cool. I've not seen anybody edit the battle in that way, where the dynamics of it are changed slightly to give it a different impact. I'm very happy with the sequence.
Something else I'm playing with is should I include the scene of Palpatine and Maul talking. It's nice exposition as to what is going on with the Sith, but at the same time having Maul be a silent, unstoppable force of nature may be much more effective. Thoughts?
Yes, I'd like to see if I can get permission to use that as well, but I'd like to see what the results look like.
Oh dude, there will be a whale of a commentary for Duel of the Fates, trust me.
haha yeah thanks for listening to the commentary. There's a lot of little cuts that I point out, and it also gives you a little bit of an idea of why I did some of the things I did. My whole goal was always to be able to back up my choices, even if not everyone agrees with them.
Hmm... thanks for the advice. I'll see if I can get in touch with any of them.
Thank you for your review.
However, may I pose a question? Do you think your opinion on my changes was heavily, heavily influenced by a hatred of the prequels? Because that what it seems like to me. It's just interesting to get that point of view, as I edited from the angle of someone that enjoys the prequels.
I have actually toyed with doing TPM entirely in narration, but there's a few things I don't like about that.
1. I like the lead-in of Vader intercepting Leia's ship above Tattooine leading to him thinking about Tattooine which leads us into the story well.
2. I don't want to lose Darth Maul/Qui-Gon. They are important to the story.
I'm going to start playing with some rotoscoping ideas. I don't know how that will turn out, I'm terrible with effects programs. But it's going to make the edit that much better.
Well this is really messing up my Zen. I feel weird moving on to Part II and III full steam without figuring out this Jar Jar business.
As far as what I have done of Part II, removing Kamino/Jango as the Clone model is working really, really nicely. Basically, Obi-Wan takes the poison dart to the droids in the Temple (a deleted scene from the movie) and a new voice over has the droid identify it as a poison native to Geonosis. Obi-Wan flies there to investigate. I also think it helps Jango's character a little by having him just be a random Bounty Hunter working for Dooku. This also means I've removed Boba from the movie as well. Jango is the silent badass just like, funny enough, Boba Fett was!
That would be a cool fanedit!
Yeah, it's all cool ideas. The problem is, as it was with ROTJ, that the material to make it into what I want is very limited.