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While cleaning up my hard drive I found my 'old' edit of Passengers, inspired by the Passengers, Rearranged video by Nerdwriter.
Here is the video if you're interested (HEAVY SPOILERS):
If you're not familiar with Passengers, it's a film set in a 'dystopian' future where you can travel to other planet colonies for a 'new life'. The spaceship-journey to get there lasts over a century, so passengers are put in 'hibernation' state. However, on this trip, two passengers, Jim (Chris Pratt) and Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence) wake up 90 years earlier than they're supposed to.
The original release is a pretty boring movie, we follow Chris Pratt's character, Jim, throughout the film, and see his personal struggles with his fate, and his relationship with Jennifer Lawrence's character, Aurora, flourish. If you've seen the movie then you know the plot, but, if you haven't, then that's all I can really tell you without ruining it.
Essentially what this edit does is rearrange the movie to follow Aurora, which makes for a much more interesting viewing experience - activating the psychological elements that the original film set up.
The following is essentially what’s been changed. (SPOILERS)
- Cards
- FE Warning
- FE.org new Netflix style Bumper
- My logo bumper
- Opening shots
- Same opening shot, with Aurora added under Passengers in matching style
- Rearranged/removed some shots
- Cropped some establishing shots to get rid of cheesy location info
- Aurora/Jim
- Starts with pods opening 'simultaneously'
- Jim walks around alone for a bit before running into Aurora
- Movie pretty much carries out as normal until the "reveal"
- The "Reveal"
- Spliced in 'flashbacks' of Jim's year alone with Aurora's 'freakout'
- Adds to the tension/sympathy to Aurora as opposed to Jim
- I chose clips that make him seem more insane than sympathetic
- Adds to the tension/sympathy to Aurora as opposed to Jim
- Spliced in 'flashbacks' of Jim's year alone with Aurora's 'freakout'
- Third Act
- Laurence Fishburne unfortunately gets even less screen-time in this edit.
- Really didn't cut that much, just some unnecessary shots and some dialogue changes
- Got rid of many 'cheesy' lines/tropes
- Credits
- Replaced Levitate by Imagine Dragons with an infinitely more fitting Across the Universe by The Beatles
- Again added Aurora under Passengers in matching style.
- Logo cards to fill the blackness as the song fades
Please PM me if you’d like a link.