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#770438
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Idea & Info: Star Wars Deleted Scenes - Reincorporated?
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team_negative1 said:

Here is the video for the previous deleted scene:

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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k6mjPIzy9DoxAmbaYeh

Since we are a team, we have people doing independent projects, and testing. And the one member was testing out some rendering and cleaning with other footage. The deleted scenes were a part of that.

Currently, it is not our focus, and we did not plan to do anything with the deleted scenes. It's up to that member to decide when, and if they will be used.

We are putting it up here to show the possibilities of what the clean up with software can do.

We're sure that if people wanted to use these scenes, they would have been working on them for the last few years that they were out.

This work was done in a few weeks.

Team Negative1

 Honestly, most people have no idea how to do this.

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#770277
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The OT.com J. R. R. Tolkien & Middle Earth Discussion Thread
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TheBoost said:

generalfrevious said:

... ...a greedy bastard who bashes the system for the very thing he is guilty of. The Hobbit/Lord Of the Rings means nothing to him except as an intellectual property he can milk to build his second mansion. 

 While I usually don't think building narratives about creators is a useful way to analyze work, it might be worth noting that Peter Jackson still lives in the same house he lived in before starting LOTRs.

 With significant additions, no?

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#770256
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The OT.com J. R. R. Tolkien & Middle Earth Discussion Thread
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DuracellEnergizer said:

timdiggerm said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Whatever happened to Left and Right Earth?

 Well, Left Earth, aka Valinor, was removed from the normal world when the world was made a sphere at the end of the Second Age. Right Earth is never really talked about.

Ask a silly question, get a serious answer. 

 I thought I might try to revive Akwat's dream

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#770094
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Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
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Anchorhead said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

^Shame to waste a beautiful actress by having her play some goofy CG alien.

 I have to say, I've been very surprised by that also.  If I had her in the cast of a film, I'd want her on screen as much as possible.  That's an awful lot of talent and beauty to cover up with an animation.  

 As much as I get it, I guess this is a good way of showing that she's valued for her acting not just her looks, you know?

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#769731
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Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
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Akton said:

Bingowings said:

Focusing on a core group of characters isn't universe shrinkage.

Falstaff appearing across a group of plays doesn't make Shakespeare's oeuvre smaller. It's enriching it with detail over brevity.

It is 100% fan service but fan service can be done well it doesn't have to be to the general PT level of naffness.

Adding new characters however is universe enlargement.

 Very salient points.

And, lest anyone forget, Boba Fett's very creation as a character was a kind of fan service... His appearance in the Holiday Special was, in essence, a fan service two years ahead of his first proper film appearance. What I'm hoping for in his possible inclusion in TFA, and his possible portrayal by an actor of such gravitas as Max Von Sydow, is to finally see some substantive incorporation of the character into the Saga; to justify the hype machine created around him that's nearly as old as the franchise itself. That'd be the very opposite of mere fan service. To me, fan service is Han Solo saying "I always shoot first" or some such stupid (but hopefully not inevitable) thing.

 Ugh, that potential Han line would be awful. :(

And his appearance in the HS is not fan service; it's promotion.