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Original film name: Return of the Jedi
New film name : Return of the Jedi: Dan Edit
Film studio name : 20th Century Fox
Date Original Film Was Released : May 1983
Date Edit Was Released : August 2010
Audio: 2.0 (sorry to 5.1 fans)
Video: Xvid Avi (1.2 gigs)
Original Runtime : 129 minutes
New Runtime : 102 minutes
Amount of time Cut/Added : 27 minutes cut
Intention:
Whenever I watch The Empire Strikes Back I get a hankering to put Jedi on, and whenever I do I'm massively disappointed. The first hour feels largely unnecessary, with the bloated Jabba's palace sequence feeling like filler, and then of course, there's the infamous Ewoks. Rather than building an interesting film about Luke coming to terms with his roots, and Leia starting on a path to become a Jedi, Lucas gave Leia nothing to do in the whole film, and until the last half hour disregarded Luke's emotional struggles.
Unfortunately these problems are much too fundamental for a newbie editor like myself to fix (hopefully Adywan will eventually get round to dealing with them), but by cutting back the Jabba's palace stuff, and reducing the infantile Ewok behaviour, the film becomes much more enjoyable.
Hardware and software information: Sony Vegas 9, WinX Platinum Ripper, Auto GK
Time needed for the edit: Between February and August 2010, on and off
Persons involved in the edit: Just me
Cuts and changes:
Reduced chat between C-3P0 and Bib Fortuna
Boba Fett taken out of the whole film!
Less laughter from Salacious Crumb
Gave Jabba new dialogue throughout
Took out entire droid torture scene
Took out the Jedi Rocks musical number
Took out beat where Boushh threatens Jabba with thermal detonator
Reworked whole scene where Chewie is led in, set to 'Bounty For A Wookiee' from the soundtrack, rather than the Max Rebo Song
Took out horrible beat where Lando very slowly and deliberately reveals his face from under the mask
That frog outside the palace doesn't burp
Substantionally reworked Leia and Han being caught by Jabba, taken out bad humour, added tense music from soundtrack
Took out entire scene between Chewie and Han in the dungeon
Added new exterior shot of palace for pacing reasons, since the aforementioned scene is gone
Reworked scene where Luke confronts Jabba, many small cuts and changes to heighten drama
Tightened up Rancor sequence to take out bad special effects, shots of Fett, and muppetry
Reworked the 'sentencing' scene with tense music, and Han/Luke cheesy dialogue excised
Many changes to Sarlacc sequence, to take out Fett, Salacious Crumb, and generally to ramp up the drama
Took out Ben’s lines about ‘from a certain point of view’
Took out Lando’s cheesy grin after Han describes him as the respectable one
Took out Han’s ‘good luck, you’re gonna need it’
Took out 3P0’s line ‘exciting is hardly the word I would choose’
Took out entire scene between Lando and Han in the ship’s hangar.
Took out Han worrying about the Falcon.
Reworked shuttle scene: the intent being to remind the audience of the scene near the end of TESB, where Luke and Vader are communicating while on separate ships; this adds foreboding and tension that Han's jokes took away from
Removed Han’s line ‘Hey, it’s me!’
No longer does Han walk on the twig and the stormtrooper turns round. It always bothered me that Chewie growls a moment earlier. So I made his growl loud enough that the stormtrooper hears, turns, and sees Han.
Made several small pacing cuts to the speeder bike chase
After Luke lightsabers the speeder bike and it crashes into the tree it no longer makes that annoying, comic, out-of-control sound
Whole scene between Leia and Wicket has gone
Han’s line ‘I hope she’s all right’ has gone - it’s too on the nose
Small cuts to the gang’s first scene with the Ewoks, fewer Ewok shots and Han’s ‘proper?’ also taken out
Several cuts during the scene where they’re going to be cooked for dinner. As much cutesey Ewok stuff as posible edited out
Threepio's story telling scene has been tweaked, to reduce Ewok cute stuff and Han's bad jokes
The beat outside between Han and Leia now plays out in near silence: He asks her what’s up, she looks sad then says hold me
When that Ewok (Paploo, or whoever) takes the speeder bike, he zooms away and that’s the end of the scene
When the Rebel fleet appears and ‘it’s a trap’ the ships fly towards the Empire’s fleet… it cuts to Luke watching the battle
During the big battle sequence there are many cuts, mostly from the Ewok section, to reduce silliness and build drama between these three fights
The awful call-back to Empire, where Han says I love you, Leia says I know, has been replaced by tense music
When Luke is hiding from Vader I made the image slightly darker to make his hiding more plausible - it’s always bothered me
Took out the humongous exploding shield generator. It seems to wipe out half the forest
Took out Lando ‘Yeehaaa’ or whatever cheesy line it is, when they escape the Death Star
Then the ending:
I used a section of the end credits music, it's an uplifting piece, but with a hint of melancholy, which seems appropriate; most importantly it feels Star Wars, unlike both Yub Nub and the SE music
The Ewok party is cut right back, I used the Han/Leia/Luke hugging from the GOUT, which is longer, then cut to:
Sebastian Shaw’s ghost
I'll begin uploading the files to Rapidshare in a few minutes time. I have a slow connection so it'll take all night. I'll update this thread when it's all online.
Dan.
New film name : Return of the Jedi: Dan Edit
Film studio name : 20th Century Fox
Date Original Film Was Released : May 1983
Date Edit Was Released : August 2010
Audio: 2.0 (sorry to 5.1 fans)
Video: Xvid Avi (1.2 gigs)
Original Runtime : 129 minutes
New Runtime : 102 minutes
Amount of time Cut/Added : 27 minutes cut
Intention:
Whenever I watch The Empire Strikes Back I get a hankering to put Jedi on, and whenever I do I'm massively disappointed. The first hour feels largely unnecessary, with the bloated Jabba's palace sequence feeling like filler, and then of course, there's the infamous Ewoks. Rather than building an interesting film about Luke coming to terms with his roots, and Leia starting on a path to become a Jedi, Lucas gave Leia nothing to do in the whole film, and until the last half hour disregarded Luke's emotional struggles.
Unfortunately these problems are much too fundamental for a newbie editor like myself to fix (hopefully Adywan will eventually get round to dealing with them), but by cutting back the Jabba's palace stuff, and reducing the infantile Ewok behaviour, the film becomes much more enjoyable.
Hardware and software information: Sony Vegas 9, WinX Platinum Ripper, Auto GK
Time needed for the edit: Between February and August 2010, on and off
Persons involved in the edit: Just me
Cuts and changes:
Reduced chat between C-3P0 and Bib Fortuna
Boba Fett taken out of the whole film!
Less laughter from Salacious Crumb
Gave Jabba new dialogue throughout
Took out entire droid torture scene
Took out the Jedi Rocks musical number
Took out beat where Boushh threatens Jabba with thermal detonator
Reworked whole scene where Chewie is led in, set to 'Bounty For A Wookiee' from the soundtrack, rather than the Max Rebo Song
Took out horrible beat where Lando very slowly and deliberately reveals his face from under the mask
That frog outside the palace doesn't burp
Substantionally reworked Leia and Han being caught by Jabba, taken out bad humour, added tense music from soundtrack
Took out entire scene between Chewie and Han in the dungeon
Added new exterior shot of palace for pacing reasons, since the aforementioned scene is gone
Reworked scene where Luke confronts Jabba, many small cuts and changes to heighten drama
Tightened up Rancor sequence to take out bad special effects, shots of Fett, and muppetry
Reworked the 'sentencing' scene with tense music, and Han/Luke cheesy dialogue excised
Many changes to Sarlacc sequence, to take out Fett, Salacious Crumb, and generally to ramp up the drama
Took out Ben’s lines about ‘from a certain point of view’
Took out Lando’s cheesy grin after Han describes him as the respectable one
Took out Han’s ‘good luck, you’re gonna need it’
Took out 3P0’s line ‘exciting is hardly the word I would choose’
Took out entire scene between Lando and Han in the ship’s hangar.
Took out Han worrying about the Falcon.
Reworked shuttle scene: the intent being to remind the audience of the scene near the end of TESB, where Luke and Vader are communicating while on separate ships; this adds foreboding and tension that Han's jokes took away from
Removed Han’s line ‘Hey, it’s me!’
No longer does Han walk on the twig and the stormtrooper turns round. It always bothered me that Chewie growls a moment earlier. So I made his growl loud enough that the stormtrooper hears, turns, and sees Han.
Made several small pacing cuts to the speeder bike chase
After Luke lightsabers the speeder bike and it crashes into the tree it no longer makes that annoying, comic, out-of-control sound
Whole scene between Leia and Wicket has gone
Han’s line ‘I hope she’s all right’ has gone - it’s too on the nose
Small cuts to the gang’s first scene with the Ewoks, fewer Ewok shots and Han’s ‘proper?’ also taken out
Several cuts during the scene where they’re going to be cooked for dinner. As much cutesey Ewok stuff as posible edited out
Threepio's story telling scene has been tweaked, to reduce Ewok cute stuff and Han's bad jokes
The beat outside between Han and Leia now plays out in near silence: He asks her what’s up, she looks sad then says hold me
When that Ewok (Paploo, or whoever) takes the speeder bike, he zooms away and that’s the end of the scene
When the Rebel fleet appears and ‘it’s a trap’ the ships fly towards the Empire’s fleet… it cuts to Luke watching the battle
During the big battle sequence there are many cuts, mostly from the Ewok section, to reduce silliness and build drama between these three fights
The awful call-back to Empire, where Han says I love you, Leia says I know, has been replaced by tense music
When Luke is hiding from Vader I made the image slightly darker to make his hiding more plausible - it’s always bothered me
Took out the humongous exploding shield generator. It seems to wipe out half the forest
Took out Lando ‘Yeehaaa’ or whatever cheesy line it is, when they escape the Death Star
Then the ending:
I used a section of the end credits music, it's an uplifting piece, but with a hint of melancholy, which seems appropriate; most importantly it feels Star Wars, unlike both Yub Nub and the SE music
The Ewok party is cut right back, I used the Han/Leia/Luke hugging from the GOUT, which is longer, then cut to:
Sebastian Shaw’s ghost
I'll begin uploading the files to Rapidshare in a few minutes time. I have a slow connection so it'll take all night. I'll update this thread when it's all online.
Dan.