hi, vultural. hope you’re well!
haven’t been on FE much this year. you might be aware—i’m a hospital doc (a “hospitalist”), so between the pandemic and increased parental duties at home, this year has been superbusy. but i’ll be back on FE when things are calmer!
stay safe, everyone.
If it makes you feel any better, frink, I see you as a youngster :p
shameless plug alert
hey, domcobb, I suspect you’d get a kick out of THE SUKAIWAKA FORTRESS. I was initially going to deploy only one TFA tune (rey’s theme), but found many of the TFA tracks had solid hooks and ended up using quite a few.
part of the reason the TFA soundtrack might not be memorable at first is the way the songs were edited in the movie. on a rewatch of TFA, I noticed that many of the OST tunes were sliced & diced before they could really get going and show their quality.
That’s too bad. TFA only continues to improve for me.
Just goes to show what I said before about people looking for different things in SW. I liked RO, but second viewing didn’t do nearly as much for me, and I’m not aching to see it again. Whereas I can’t help but watch TFA through the end whenever it’s on TV.
I really don’t give a shit about Starkiller Base, it’s dumb but it’s also such a relatively small part of the movie. There are other little things that bother me but they don’t amount to much with the overall story as satisfying as it is.
agree. a year later, i still find TFA superbly entertaining. abrams is great at creating and directing memorable characters. his weak point is often story logic, but i’m willing to overlook that in TFA.
hey, jjdout! thanks for seeking the fortress. will send you a PM.
thanks to everyone who’s expressed interest in this edit thru OT, fanedit.org, akirakurosawa.info, and twitter.
the 1080p version is now available. please PM me for the keys to the fortress.
The edit is available! Please PM me for details.
THE SUKAIWAKA FORTRESS
by ssj
Original movie title: The Hidden Fortress
Genres: Adventure, samurai
Fanedit type: Fanmix
Original release date: 1958
Original running time: 139 minutes
Fanedit release date: September 2016
Fanedit running time: 127 minutes
Star Wars, the prodigal son of The Hidden Fortress, comes home to Papa. Through the music of John Williams and numerous subtitle changes, The Hidden Fortress is transformed into a Star Wars experience.
Intentions:
• to rescore The Hidden Fortress with music from Star Wars
• to rename major characters and places with starwarsian names: Princess Reia, General Kenobi, Atu, Situri, and more
• to make the edit family-friendly by removing a questionable scene and all curse words, and by rewriting dialogue for certain scenes
• to repurpose memorable dialogue from Star Wars
• and to improve the story’s pacing.
Other sources: Various Star Wars original motion picture soundtracks
The Empire Strikes Back—Imperial Audiophile Edition by ABC
Distant Heavy Waterfall sound effect from freesfx.co.uk
Thanks: To ThrowgnCpr for invaluable feedback on sound editing and for a magnificent cover; to Junko for tending to my Japanese script; to Vultural for feedback on the trailer; to ABC for creating the IAE and to darthrush for pointing the way; to Vili Maunula for spreading the word; to blueyoda, Gatos, Neglify, and njvc for inspiration; and to reave for being reave.
Thanks also to addiesin, thecuddlyninja, dangermouse, DigModiFicaTion, DominicCobb, Dwight Fry, Flixcapacitor, JJE-187, Kal-El, Slart, Spaced Ranger, TMBTM, TM2YC, TV’s Frink, Ugetsu, Vultural, yo_yojimbo.
And to Kurosawa Akira, George Lucas, and John Williams for all the amazing movies and music.
Release details:
Video: H.264 MP4, 1280 x 534 and 1920 x 800
Feature audio: stereo, 256 kbps AAC
Commentary audio: stereo, 128 kpbs AAC
Special features: It Is Wonderful to Chronohop, a making-of featurette
Commentary track
Trailer
Changes—cuts and additions
Added:
• music from Star Wars Episodes I, IV, V, VI, VII
• 44 new subtitles
• custom title screen and end credits
Changed:
• 217 subtitles, generally to add Star Wars flavor but also to make the edit more family-friendly
• full names presented surname first
Removed:
• several scenes of climbing and descending hills
• bickering in the ditch
• bits of overacting
• less interesting parts of the spear fight
• discussion of violating the princess
• any singing beyond the fire festival
• serial horseback arrivals to the overlook
The Sukaiwaka Fortress, which incorporates several Imperial Audiophile tracks, will soon be released.
Please keep an eye on this thread for further details:
http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/The-Sukaiwaka-Fortress-The-Hidden-Fortress-with-a-Star-Wars-score/id/49985
For those who eventually give it a spin, I would appreciate your dropping a review at fanedit.org.
Tenkyu & cheers!
kick-ass cover by faneditor ThrowgnCpr. like it so much, it’s going to be the primary cover for the edit.
awesome, ranger! i enjoyed those. i don’t think those’ll work in the edit proper for a variety of reasons, but i might be able to work one into the commentary track. 😃
update: working on the commentary. hope to release this baby mid-month.
rewatched the original film, which i haven’t done in months. it now sounds to my ears relatively silent without the john williams score.
the 720p version will be released first. then comes the 1080p.
tenkyu, SR!
regarding payment, i accept m. falcons. no tracking devices, please.
the great director kurosawa (deceased) graciously contributed to the sukaiwaka supplemental material. much love and thanks to kurosawa-sama!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV0H0HgOOYU
notes:
• based on the “It Is Wonderful to Create” featurettes that accompany many of the criterion releases of kurosawa’s films.
• it’s true. all of it.
hey, marioxb. yup, without the hidden fortress, there’d be no star wars. it wasn’t the only influence on star wars, but a fairly big one.
if you’re interested in checking out samurai films, some entry-level movies would be yojimbo, the seven samurai, and the hidden fortress. intermediate to advanced: harakiri (1962).
spaced ranger, thanks! i really like how that turned out.
wanting to keep things simple (i’m a simple guy), i think i won’t go into an explanation of star wars’ origins in the trailer. that’s discussed on the cover and will eventually be on the edit’s page at fanedit.org/IFDB, so i plan to keep the trailer relatively clutter-free.
thanks for the interest, dudes. will keep you updated as i get closer to finishing. . . hopefully it’ll be released in september.
for the past couple days, i lived in a trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n58JbCfr0IA
the cover unwakens.
darkjedit: made a few changes, including tweaks to the back cover verbiage.
thanks again, slart.
making excellent use of the imperial audiophile edition! used seven IAE tracks for my SUKAIWAKA FORTRESS edit. i find the IAE sounds especially better than the 1997 remastered release when the particular track is bass-leaning, such as “hyperspace,” “carbon freeze,” and “the asteroid field.”
thanks again to ABC and darthrush.
update:
first draft completed. some stats:
• 34 john williams tunes deployed
• 215 subtitle changes
• 45 subtitle additions
• runtime of 2 hours, 7 minutes (14 minutes removed; about 2.5 minutes added for opening disclaimer & end credits)
before sending this out to previewers, i’ll keep going over the edit to adjust sound levels, tweak dialogue, and make any other adjustments.
still in the works: cover (particularly the back of it), trailer, supplemental featurette, and a commentary track.
Freenk, feel free to use or discard:
Maybe several choice frames of Indy running from the spherical boulder during the rathtar sequence.
raiders music: the second half of “desert chase” during the fight sequence near kanata’s castle. It’ll sound familiar but just a little out of place. 😃
hey there, hi there!
for anybody interested, i completely overhauled the scripts for crouching tiger, hidden dragon and the passion of the christ and turned both into comedies.
http://ifdb.fanedit.org/crouching-dragon-the-tiger-lily-cut/
http://ifdb.fanedit.org/godsmacked/
(trailers available under the “video” tab)
i’ve been with fanedit.org for quite a few years, but i only recently joined OT while working on an edit of the hidden fortress (redecorated with a john williams score and mild alterations to the dialogue to include starwarsian names and references - see the “fan edits of other films” subforum). just discovered this section, which seems to be a reasonable spot for those curious about how new dialogue can change the entire meaning of a foreign-language film.
cheers!
and if you’d like to view these, please PM me.
Then we’ll hear Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? as Kylo kills Han? 😉
this!
parking this here because I don’t know what else to do with it:
pork hammeron
and prequels? what prequels? 😃
HOW SOON IS NOW QUESTION MARK
how can you say
I go about the things the wrong way
another clip. nota sorta bene: there be schpoilers within.
password = fanedit.org
https://vimeo.com/169502486
• tune: yoda raises the ship (TESB audiophile version)
• entirely rebuilt audio: bubbling spring, large waterfall, smaller cavern waterfall. particularly liked how the audio volume for the large waterfall drops sharply as we transition to the cave interior.
