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Vladius

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#549377
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Worst Edit Ideas
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Harmy said:

Vladius said:

Edit each of the extended Lord of the Rings movies into their respective three hour epic.

If you mean to re-edit the LOTR EEs back into the theatrical versions, then that would actually be a great idea in case of FOTR, because the theatrical version has a badly DVNRed older master for Blu-Ray, so a colour corrected original version of FOTR using the EE Blu-Ray would be something I'd be very interested in actually ;-)

The idea is that there's a lot of edit ideas on here and FE for every kind of movie imaginable that boil down to that pitch: "Editing all of the _________ movies into one 3/4/5 hour epic." LOTR is already 3 hours long for each movie, already has its own extended edition, and some have already edited it into smaller blocks or purist versions.
The only logical thing left is to edit the smaller chunks of extended editions into three hour epics. :D

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#548885
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The Prequel Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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Judge said:

Not sure if this has been suggested before, and I don't really want to dig through 234 pages of ideas, so here's mine.

What if we deleted The Phantom Menace altogether and, through reconstitution of deleted scenes (as well as little bits of TPM) make Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith into three films?

It makes sense imo, as TPM is basically completely inconsequential to the saga, but it would probably be pretty hard to execute.

That's kinda what I've been doing, just as a TV miniseries sort of thing. It works really well, because the Episode 1 "resolve the attack on our sovereignty in the senate" and Episode 2 "we need Amidala here" and "create the Clone Army with a vote" things fit together nicely.

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#545854
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Info & Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
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Sepharih said:

Vladius said:

He doesn't reference it explicitly because he doesn't need to. Does he need to spell out that killing the leaders of the Empire would help people fighting the Empire?

Not explicitly, depending on how it's written, but even if that is the thought process that luke has in the scene, it's in spite of what the emperor is saying and not as a result of it......which kind of hurts the emperor's characterization as a master manipulator to me.

Well, if he tried to do it that way in the open, it would make him look weak. A large part of persuading someone is appearing confident and powerful to them. If the Emperor started talking about friendship and compassion and serving the greater good, it would be even more out of character for someone who's pure evil. He understands the complexities of the situation without having to acknowledge them. That's what makes him the manipulator who's in control.
Another problem with him telling Luke to do a little evil to serve the greater good is that it's not really that evil, either way, to kill the Emperor. He would be doing everybody a service, and doing his job as a military commander. It's just a straightforward good action that can be done for the wrong reasons. The point is what happens afterwards - if he does it in anger, then he will turn to the dark side, so he has to hide and steady himself until he can confront them properly for the right reasons.
I still don't see how what he says is contradictory, even if it is different.