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#1488875
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KENOBI: A STAR WARS STORY [The Radical "Help Me Obi-Wan Kenobi" Cut]
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headtaker18 said:

Anjohan said:

Great points made by everyone. Been thinking about the changes I will need to make. Sitting her with a fever and the flu I suspect is corona again, I can’t bother to sit down and edit right now, but:

Things I will change:

  • Reeva attempting to kill Vader will be the thing to interrupt him from grabbing the second ship, so there are no inconsistencies to his actions to leave Vader looking silly or with a drained stamina bar.

  • Episode 4 might have to be included (as I struggle to find a believable way to have the ship be tracked) without episode 4. Episode 4 also builds heavily upon Tala’s character (which they killed too early you ask me).

  • Reeva won’t get back up and crawl to the holo-communicator-thingy, we’ll leave her wounded, with the camera panning down to it. The rest can happen off-screen (for what I suspect to be the season 2 change rumored that Disney has done).

  • Leia “The Engineer” reaching the wires and then fixing it will happen without a five minute gap. It looks like she’s struggling to move away wires for way too long.

  • Removing some of the prolonged shots in which Stormtroopers have way too much time on their hands to actually kill civilians but just… don’t.

And probably more.

Love everything about this, I’ve felt the show to be average at best, although I have enjoyed it for the most part, but I know there are a lot shots and pieces of dialog that if taken out could really elevate the show

I am praying it lands well, because easily a C show that can turn into an A movie.

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#1488840
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KENOBI: A STAR WARS STORY [The Radical "Help Me Obi-Wan Kenobi" Cut]
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Anjohan said:

  • Episode 4 might have to be included (as I struggle to find a believable way to have the ship be tracked) without episode 4. Episode 4 also builds heavily upon Tala’s character (which they killed too early you ask me).

Why? A tracking device actually makes Vader letting Obiwan go even more likely.

I wonder if it’s easy to have it have Obi escape from Vader and remove the fire scene to only be tracked?

I am so excited to see better music in the movie version. The music is just so generic and that has surprised me (in a bad way.)

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#1488839
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KENOBI: A STAR WARS STORY [The Radical "Help Me Obi-Wan Kenobi" Cut]
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jrs81 said:

Depending on what they do in episode 6, it may be best to end a movie edit with episode 5. The Reeva character’s death here may be the best option we get, just cut her final moments with the communicator. I just completed a movie workprint for eps 1-5 and the length is exactly 2 hours 2 min. For me, I am quite satisfied with the movie I was able to get out of these 5 episodes. I am over the moon with Ewan’s performance at times, and using the edit to fix some of the bad writing and editing, it isn’t that bad of a TV movie. Nearly on par with Attack of the Clones in my opinion.

I have a feeling, that Reeva finding the communicator and now knowing about Luke, was about setting up season 2 which will take place entirely on Tatooine with Reeva as the Antagonist. I don’t think we see her in episode 6.

You are not selling me with that last statement.

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#1488422
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STAR WARS - A New Hope [Modernized] [Prequel-OT Bridge]
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WitchDR said:

Really nice work 21C! Probably the best I’ve ever seen that scene implemented. Though I do think the shot of Vader at 0:38-0:41 needs to go. It looks very out of place compared to every other shot.

It’s the slow motion that feels jarring.

Agree, this is the best I have seen so far and excited to see once it gets added to Adywan’s inevitable version that updates the lightsabers. It lifts the saber fight quality up while working within the material.

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#1488316
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Obi-Wan Kenobi Redux Ideas Thread
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mrbenja0618 said:

Bingowings said:

You could remove most of episode 2 and 3 and have the kidnappers take Leia straight to the Spanish Inquisition. Cut the Vader vs Kenobi bit because the suit doesn’t fit and it looks like a fan film. Cut a lot of the in fighting with the Spanish Inquisition. I know the Empire like pitting the military against each other but these guys answer to a very difficult boss and it gets repetitive.

And then I don’t know what to do with the escape in Ep. 4. So comical and I don’t think it was intended. The trench coat reminded me of The Little Rascals short where the kids were stacked in a coat pretending to be an adult. So awful.

So bad

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#1488315
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KENOBI: A STAR WARS STORY [The Radical "Help Me Obi-Wan Kenobi" Cut]
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mrbenja0618 said:

I apologize if I missed it, but Bingowings suggested in another thread that eliminating most if not all of episode 2 and three, and just have Obi-Wan going straight to the fortress corrects a lot of problems. Yes, it eliminates the Vader fight, but I guess he agrees with me in that it wasn’t very good. Just my opinion.

It was never meant to be a fight … where it succeeded was obi fearing Vader … I thought that was much better than how bad episode 4 was.

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#1488271
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STAR WARS - A New Hope [Modernized] [Prequel-OT Bridge]
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Sirius said:

Hi, Anjohan. I don’t know if your son already saw Rogue One, but lantern51 released an ANH edit that put the hallway scene of Vader in the beginning of the movie. It fits surprisingly well with ANH, and really make the movie feel more modern (it also can help into gather the attention of a younger audience). In his edit he included sc38 too, and it flowed really well with the rest of the film. If you have interest:

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/A-New-Hope-Vader-edition-Released/id/67644

I think a drastically shortened sc38 mixed with a better movie (Adywan’s one day) will sit better.

Maybe a few more lens flares through the movie (I sm not kidding) so the effect doesn’t look out of place.

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#1488270
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STAR WARS - A New Hope [Modernized] [Prequel-OT Bridge]
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Vaders voice goes a bit in and out and doesn’t have the same pitch, different actors. Either way, I love the idea so something to work on. The affects for Palpatine’s hologram still need a bit more work but getting there. Any chance at showing from a second angle so it’s less “fan edit” looking?

I would possible cut the Yoda reference as it drags out the conversation, but love the idea of keeping in Kenobi.

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#1488229
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Obi-Wan Kenobi Redux Ideas Thread
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paja said:

To kick off the thread here’s an edit I have been playing around with that cuts roughly 95% of E04.

https://streamable.com/ek6zgd

Cut from Vader at the fire to Obi-Wan in the ship with a few trims
Removed Leia being captured and short scene with the Inquisitors
Trimmed Bacta sequence
Added cues from ROTS AND ANH
Moved shot of Obi-Wan attempting to move the tool into the scene with him and Leia

How did he get from bacta to ship?

Make sure and flip the screen where obi is by himself so it matches side with Leia. (That flow worked well otherwise)

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#1488007
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KENOBI: A STAR WARS STORY [The Radical "Help Me Obi-Wan Kenobi" Cut]
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leftshoe18 said:

Anjohan said:

Video Update

https://streamable.com/uukjme

Tell me if you think this works. I did some re-editing to make the droid save Obi-Wan quicker, as suggested by Acbagel, and then re-structured the line (that i actually had removed from earlier) “The years have made you weak” with a slowed-down and disappoined “Obi-Wan” at the end of it. The purpose is to almost make Vader give up an immediate hunt because he is disappointed - but without it feeling to on the nose with something like “Escape. I will find you” or some clichè line you’ve heard in countless films and series.

I like this but I think you should cut the “obi-wan” out of Vader’s final words there simply ending on “weak”

The Obi-Wan on the end makes it feel very stitched together.

Or put Obiwan at the beginning