Tack

Where are the free cats?

OK, maybe that was a bit too harsh on my part. You're entitled to your opinion, but frankly most of us like a good deal of the EU. Not to mention you state it as fact rather than just say "I don't like the EU very much". No one would've complained about that.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Eh, there's nothing wrong with enjoying Dark Empire. Thinking it's an example of stellar writing, on the other hand ...

Eh, I thought it was an interesting art-style and had some cool action scenes. Not the best writing ever, but Star Wars has seen far worse.

There appears to be handful of scenes that were scored, and then subsequently cut. These are some of them, I think.

SW:

-The rear-projection landspeeder was scored, and only the tail end appears in the final film.

-I think a couple of shots of the final battle were slightly longer originally.

ESB:

?

ROTJ;

-The original opening (fully completed actually.)

-Luke’s jump to the rancor pit.

-A short montage of Death Star scenes before the Emperor’s arrival (the music cut is fairly obvious here.)

IMICO

In My Incredibly Controversial Opinion

This coming from a guy who actually enjoyed Dark Empire.

You might have better luck using the whole "Steady, Rogue 3" line from the audio drama. The current edit is a bit jarring. Unlike the "Blast it, Wedge" line from ANH, this is two very different deliveries we're talking about.

*cough*self-promotion*cough*

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Avatar-The-Last-Airbender-A-Film-Screenplay/post/670811/#TopicPost670811

You're totally right about Zuko needing to become more competent. He seems like a near Draco-type in the first couple of episodes.

PM sent.

I'm sorry, tim. What was your intended meaning with this thread again?

INT. TEMPLE – NIGHT

CLOSE ON: A few bones are seen in the flames of a fire. A wrinkled hand reaches into the fire and pulls out a bone.

ANGLE ON: An ORACLE reads the cracks of the bone. SOZIN waits patiently for her to finish.

SOZIN

What does it say?

The ORACLE holds her hand up as to silence him. She reads the bones further.

CLOSE ON: Her finger traces the cracks.

SOZIN (O.S.)

What of the comet?

ANGLE ON: The ORACLE places the bone down on a plate.

ORACLE

The comet shall appear in two days time. As it did a century ago, your power will be greatly enhanced.

SOZIN grins maliciously.

ANGLE ON: The ORACLE then shudders and grips SOZIN’S ARM, working up to his forearm.

ORACLE

Be warned.

SOZIN leans closer in to listen.

ORACLE

As you assume control, a powerful bender will come. Your efforts will be halted, your army decimated, and you shall be defeated.

SOZIN widens his eyes.

SOZIN

What kind of bender?

CLOSE ON: The ORACLE squints, reaching out.

ORACLE

Air… Water… Earth… and Fire.

ANGLE ON: SOZIN leans back.

SOZIN

(whisper)

The Avatar.

He grips the ORACLE’S arm at the forearm.

SOZIN

Where shall the next Avatar be born into?

ORACLE

The Air Nomads.

SOZIN

(desperately)

Who shall he be? What is his name? Where-

ORACLE

(furiously)

Silence!

SOZIN recoils in fear.

ANGLE ON: The ORACLE relinquishes her grip.

ORACLE

Such things cannot be told so early.

SOZIN groans and stands.

SOZIN

Then I shall exterminate all of the Air Nomads!

ANGLE ON: SOZIN turns away from the ORACLE.

          SOZIN (CONT’D)

My plans have come too far to be uprooted by a remnant of a past age. There will be nothing to stop me from my goal.

ORACLE

Take heed, Sozin. The tighter you grip on the Four Nations the farther they shall slip from you.

SOZIN turns to face the ORACLE.

SOZIN

I fear nothing. The world shall burn before me!

FADE IN:

CLOSE ON: A MAP OF THE EARTH. We pan across it, to reveal FOUR NATIONS and their symbols.

SOZIN (V.O.)

All the world to choose from, and we are confined to such a small corner of it.

PULL BACK TO REVEAL

INT. SOZIN’S ROOM – NIGHT

ANGLE ON: Two men sit around a table with the map resting on it. They are both holding cups of tea, and only one drinks from it. One of the men, SOZIN, gestures at the map, as if to prove a point.

SOZIN (CONT’D)

We are being shunned by our own people, Roku. 

ANGLE ON: ROKU looks his friend in the eye.

ROKU

You know that it is not right of me to think more of any nation than the other. You ask me to betray my duties.

ANGLE ON: SOZIN, displeased with his friend.

SOZIN

There are times I think you’ve forgotten you once aspired to be a Fire Nation warrior.

ANGLE ON: ROKU sighs and takes a sip of his tea.

ROKU

I was younger then, and unaware of who I was.

SOZIN

Was it so long ago that you’ve forgotten your own country?

ANGLE ON: ROKU stares at his friend from across the table.

SOZIN (CONT’D)

Think of it, my friend! For too long, we have been kept in this inadequate space of the Earth. You, more than anyone else, must realize that!

ROKU begins to grow angry with his friend.

SOZIN (CONT’D)

All I ask of you is that we are given opportunity to expand our greatness. Let us have the land. Let us show our potential!

ROKU softens his brow.

SOZIN (CONT’D)

Please. For old time’s sake.

CLOSE ON: ROKU sighs and gives his friend a stern looking over before replying.

ROKU

Sozin, I have told you no time and again, and no my answer remains.

MEDIUM ON: SOZIN hangs his head in disappointment and closes his eyes.

ROKU (CONT’D)

My primary duty is to preserve the integrity of the four nations. To stop at nothing to preserve peace. Anything less would be treasonous of me.

ANGLE ON: SOZIN begins to look up.

ROKU (CONT’D)

You are still my closest friend, Sozin. But you ask the impossible.

ANGLE ON: SOZIN gives a brief sad chuckle before looking his friend in the eye.

SOZIN

And you won’t reconsider?

ROKU shakes his head and takes a sip of tea.

MEDIUM ON: SOZIN and ROKU.

SOZIN (CONT’D)

A shame. I had a feeling you’d say that.

ROKU widens his eyes and glares across the table.

ROKU

What do you mean?

SOZIN registers somewhat of a smirk as he says it.

SOZIN

I started the colonization effort weeks ago. We’ve been settling in the eastern Earth Kingdom.

ROKU leaps up from his chair, but SOZIN remains strangely calm.

ROKU

What?

SOZIN cannot help but stop himself from chuckling.

ROKU (CONT’D)

You’ve overstepped your authority, Sozin! You have no business occupying territory of the other nations!

SOZIN is immovable.

ROKU (CONT’D)

I cannot allow this.

ROKU then extends his fist to bend fire at SOZIN, but is mortified to see that nothing happens. He then begins to pant and clutches his chest in pain.

SOZIN

Is there something wrong with your tea?

ROKU is overcome with pain and slumps to his knees, and SOZIN rushes and holds him in his arms. ROKU looks up, his eyes glazed.

ROKU

(strained)

Why?

ANGLE: SOZIN grips his friend.

SOZIN

With no Avatar, my plans may continue undisturbed. It was for the best.

ROKU

(strained)

It will never work! Your crusade will be over as soon as it has started.

SOZIN

I wish I could say otherwise.

CLOSE ON: ROKU lets out a cough.

ANGLE ON: SOZIN grips his friend tighter, as his final moments come.

SOZIN

I am truly sorry, my friend.

He grips tighter, but senses that ROKU has gone, and lets him fall.

Bingowings said:

Laserdisc....WOW is that science fiction like a heat ray beam?

I don't LIKE SCIENCE FICTION FILMS or NEED them.

Back to the PARTY I went next door and wouldn't leave until my neighbour had agreed to come with me.

SO SHE's going to COME (her kids won't come because they all have CHILLS now what with me wedging the DOOR open with my foot in the middle of NOvembeR.

THat's the impression the POLICEMAN gave me as they drove me away from HER HOUSE...

But I escaped like Tony Todd in CANDYMAN (or whatever that film was where he escaped from something and got back home and bragged about it to his best friends in the world ever on the internet which came to life and started shooting people with heat ray beams I love films with ROBOTS and SPace mEN.

I love that one where people bust ghosts or love ghost's busts or something.

The HELL are you DOING with your WORDS? Are you SUDDENLY Frank MILLER?!

Yes. The narration was total bollux. Sokka and Yue's development should occupy a great deal of screen-time, and barely got a minute-long scene their, beyond the narration.

One of the things I plan to rectify in this version.

Nope. That's one thing I personally could not stand in the actual film version. As of right now, there is no narration in the film.

I already tried that

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Preserving-Italian-Original-Trilogy/post/670362/#TopicPost670362

it didn't end well for me.

Hello, Frink.

Or maybe even...

I saw the title just as a shameless way to get your own ignored threads some attention, so...

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Avatar-The-Last-Airbender-The-Motion-Picture/topic/16095/

Thank you for your time!

Wait, where were these?!

Recently I began my own effort to adapt the series "Avatar: The Last Airbender" into a four-film series, beginning, of course, with Book One. 

This will not be like other efforts that attempt to stay as close to the series as possible, however. The object of this project is to take the series' characters, world, and most basic plot and weave it into a cohesive narrative, making for an overall enjoyable film series.

I'll soon begin posting what I have of it.

EDIT: Slightly more readable version (both hastily copied from Microsoft word)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F2c-3qPhEFCN_Gxf19rm2uYnWVimh-UvIjOCv5gBE9M/edit

Leonardo said:

Tack said:

 

Let the language trolling begin!!

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Stj-rnornas-Krig-Swedish-16mm-print/topic/11896/page/7/

I wouldn't do that if I were you.

Accidents happen, Mr Cobbler...

I'll... shut up now.

*runs away frightened*

Mavimao said:

But what the hell this tower of Babel in which we find ourselves! Using Obi Wan, you're our only hope!

FIXED!!

Mi piacerebbe vedere la trilogia originale conservato!

Let the language trolling begin!!

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Stj-rnornas-Krig-Swedish-16mm-print/topic/11896/page/7/

Leonardo said:

La prima cosa sensata che dici da un po' di tempo a questa parte!

¿Qué demonios fue lo que dijiste? No hablo español. Vamos a hacer fracasar a la mierda de este hilo!