Yeah, his expression is a little odd (constipated?) and it stays on him a fraction too long - but you're definitely on the right track.
Ady, my thoughts are with you and your family.
On the plus side, when the prequels make fuck all and the OT make a shit load the truth about his two trilogies might finally hit Lucas.
Oops. Yeah, you're right. Never mind, nothing to see here.
Adywan,
Are you intending to fix the typo in the opening crawl?
"Evading the dreaded Imperial Starfleet, a group of freedom fighters led by Luke Skywalker has established a new secret base on the remote ice world of Hoth."
It should read:
"Evading the dreaded Imperial Starfleet, a group of freedom fighters led by Luke Skywalker have established a new secret base on the remote ice world of Hoth."
Sorry, double post.
It's an interesting idea, but I feel that Anakin's ghost appearing before Luke and Leia needs to be in the final scene. The montage round the planets would feel like an anti-climax after that.
In an earlier version I had the last shot being that long shot of the three ghosts that precedes the yearbook shot, but I thought it should end with the heroes of the trilogy. It just feels like the right way to end Jedi, for sentimental reasons more than anything else.
Okay, cool. Had you thought the other transition was poor I'd have been worried.
About Naboo, I know there are people here who like to pretend the prequels didn't happen (and I sympathise with that) but for me Jedi is the last chapter of 6 films, so it's apt to include Naboo. Besides if you take out Naboo the same argument could be applied to take out Coruscant and that leaves only two planets, and a pretty crappy montage scene.
But I wouldn't want to remove the montage - since I took out so much of the ewok party the film would be ending too quickly without it.
Do you mean the music transition where the score changes to the end credits music, or the change of music when Anakin's ghost appears?
I thought I'd upload a couple of clips to Youtube, for anyone interested.
Both of these are still being worked on, but they're close to being done. The first is the scene in Jabba's palace where Chewie is captured and then led away.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfLZWcO3nk4
The second is the last two minutes of the film.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCvvbiUWr68
Any comments and opinions appreciated.
IMO, Fett shouldn't be in the film at all (and in my cut he isn't). He's a bounty hunter, he should be off hunting bounties.
thejediknighthusezni, I like your idea of the Bothan ship fleeing the Empire as an action beat to open Jedi. Jedi in its present form does seem to take forever before anything life-and-death happens.
I don't know if you're familiar with ROTJ Fan-o-matic (if not, check it out on youtube) but one of the many excellent ideas was to have Boba Fett given the job of telling the Rebellion about the DS2, including the lie about it not being operational, rather than these Bothans, of whom the audience knows nothing and are never heard about again. Makes sense - aside from giving the Fett something to do, it also means Fett isn't at Jabba's palace and spares us the hideousness of his death scene.
The first ten minutes of Wookiee-speak is one of the funniest things you can watch while high. Almost The Room levels of funny.
I assume these new logos and fonts etc will be carried through all your SW edits?
I'd personally rather see the original Lucasfilm logo.
I apologise if this has already been discussed...
My biggest gripe with the whole movie is Anakin's turn and how he willingly slays a group of kids as his first act after the turn. If somehow you could change it so the stormtroopers attack the Jedi Temple and kill the kids while Anakin goes to kill the Trade Federation on Mustafar it would make it a lot more plausible: and in the process it would cement his Dark Side turn as per Sidious' wish (killing unarmed, helpless idiots). Bottom line, I just do not buy that Anakin would kill those kids in cold blood (and no it's not like killing the Sand People, which was done in blind rage).
For me this is the moment that kills the film, it's Lucas' biggest screw up in the prequels, and if you could somehow make that change it might make his turn believable.
Possessed: thanks for the kind words re: my edit.
I understand where you're coming from - it's pretty exhausting and depressing watching the same clips day after day. How Adywan does it year after year is unbelievable to me.
I find that taking a week or two off, promising yourself you won't touch it... maybe even trying a quick stress-free fanedit just for yourself - I'm doing an edit of T2 now just for fun (that thumbs up had to go :p) - can help a lot.
Whoops. Double post.
I didn't explain that too well - I wasn't trying to suggest a conversation was going on between them, just that they are aware of each other, and making that the point of the scene, rather than Han's bad jokes. It's the first moment in the film where the conflict between father and son is brought in, and that should be the sole focus of the scene, IMO.
What I really wanted to do with that scene: when Piett asks Vader what he should do, is take out Vader's 'I will deal with them myself' dialogue and just have him thinking. It worked great when I tried it, added to the drama of the scene - except that the score I replaced the dialogue with is tinny and sounds nothing like it does in the film.
I checked the sound when the carbonite hits the floor, my edit and the original are both the same. I can't see anything wrong with it.
Thanks for the feedback!
As far as the noticeable cut at the end, I'm aware of it, and I'll probably do a v2 at some point which deals with that.
As for the Han carbonite sound delay, I'll take a look at it compared to the original.
In Shuttle Tydirium I was looking to build up the Luke/Vader conflict. In my edit the scene resembles the Luke/Vader ship to ship conversation at the end of TESB. Which is a good thing to be reminded of. As soon as I get my hands on a decent copy of the Luke lightsaber building scene it'll definitely be going in to try to add some more to this conflict - which the original film neglects.
Glad you like the new Jabba subs.
The reason I'm not sure when a v2 of my edit will be online is because of my internet probs. Last week my modem stopped working - to get online now I'm having to use a USB dongle, with blazing fast speeds of 5k/second.
If you want the RS links send me a PM!
Brilliant work, Bob.
I'd agree with the concept of (in an ideal world) taking out Palpatine using his lightsaber altogether, but I appreciate it might be impossible.
"That's not a "deleted" scene. Mark H. himself said that he never did that scene. What you see is someone else playing Luke. Big whoop."
Nonsense. It's a deleted scene that was cut out late in post, hence the score and effects being complete.
The question is, will these deleted scenes be remastered? If so, big frikkin wow.
Thanks, Possessed. That was just me being slack - I checked the SE disc by mistake. Yeah, it's on the GOUT.
Just checked. Han's 'trust me' isn't on either the GOUT or LD.