|
|
Post by Celebith on Feb 3, 2017 12:49:12 GMT -5
Do we have a thread for fan films, edits like 'The Phantom Edit', Backstroke of the West, or just weird passion projects?
Here's a 'grindhouse' edit of Star Wars, and another of Empire. The first incorporates a lot of cut footage with Biggs, changes the way the Force works, adds some more gore and a definite 70s vibe, and Neil Young in the cantina scene. They made some interesting changes in the death star battle, and despite adding a lot of cut stuff, tightened it down to 90 minutes.
The changes to Empire are even more radical. It wasn't as fun as the first one, but it diverges more, based on story decisions there.
|
|
|
|
Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Feb 3, 2017 12:53:14 GMT -5
More relevantly, do you know where I can find the original cut of Star Wars? Minnie has never seen it and it is still inexplicably commercially unavailable.
|
|
heroboy
AV Clubber 
I must succeed!
Posts: 1,185 
|
Post by heroboy on Feb 3, 2017 14:40:02 GMT -5
More relevantly, do you know where I can find the original cut of Star Wars? Minnie has never seen it and it is still inexplicably commercially unavailable. If you want something legal that was actually released by LucasFilms, the closest you can get is a bonus disc on the StarWars Special Edition DVD. Otherwise you'll have to find a VHS, with the THX Remastered Version being the best quality though even then these have been altered slightly from the 1977 first run.
Team Negative1 put out a release last year that was based on a restoration of a 35mm print, and is supposed to be the most faithful to the original version.
There's also the Despecialized version which you can find in torrents. It is mostly based off of the Blu-ray releases which has been edited together with other sources to make something close to the original, though with different color and lighting.
|
|
|
|
Post by Ben Grimm on Feb 3, 2017 16:00:57 GMT -5
I've got DVDs ripped from the laserdisks of the final THX cut of it, but it's probably the same thing you'd find on Torrent sites. A friend made them for me ages back.
|
|
|
|
Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Feb 3, 2017 17:10:51 GMT -5
heroboy Well, that's an article about the 35mm. EDIT: Nevermind, the Wayback Machine has it!
|
|
heroboy
AV Clubber
I must succeed!
Posts: 1,185
|
Post by heroboy on Feb 4, 2017 10:10:05 GMT -5
heroboy Well, that's an article about the 35mm. EDIT: Nevermind, the Wayback Machine has it! Yeah, I'm not sure what the official rules are, but I prefer to err on the side of caution and not link directly to pirated materials. I just included the link to the article since it contains an interesting background on how this release came to be, and would provide enough info to find it yourself. |
|
|
|
Post by Celebith on Feb 7, 2017 1:48:20 GMT -5
I've never put the effort into the mother of all fan edits on my own, and this has been up on youtube for 4 years, so I'm assuming that it's safe to link to Dark Side of the Rainbow.
|
|
|
|
Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Feb 18, 2017 12:06:19 GMT -5
God I love stuff like this. One can find a lot of information about fan edits (primarily, but not exclusively, Star Wars related) at originaltrilogy.com, but for legal reasons, none of the actual edits. There are a number of silent films on YouTube uploaded with custom made soundtracks, typically something someone has written themselves, but in this example, someone provided a Portishead soundtrack to the camp cult classic Salome. And as far as fan films, TROOPS - a Star Wars COPS parody - was kind of canonical to the Star Wars fan film world. |
|
|
|
Post by King Charles’s Butterfly on Feb 18, 2017 17:11:50 GMT -5
God I love stuff like this. One can find a lot of information about fan edits (primarily, but not exclusively, Star Wars related) at originaltrilogy.com, but for legal reasons, none of the actual edits. There are a number of silent films on YouTube uploaded with custom made soundtracks, typically something someone has written themselves, but in this example, someone provided a Portishead soundtrack to the camp cult classic Salome. I’m seeing the opera version of this next weekend! |
|
|
|
Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Feb 18, 2017 23:30:25 GMT -5
I’m seeing the opera version of this next weekend! I actually got to see the other opera version down in Wexford a few years back - the Wexford festival focuses on operas outside of the canon, so the Antoine Mariotte Salome, a French opera that used the original text of the play, got a rare showing there. This production: Richard Strauss's one is superlative though so enjoy. On topic, this video for a Raumpatrouille Orion fan film (in German, no subtitles) seems a lot like equivalent Star Trek fan films, including an older actor who I assume is part of the original cast (I've seen the series - now on YouTube with subtitles - but can't identify him offhand.) He mentions McLane, the hero of the original series, and later a Raumpatrouille-type starships are seen fighting the starships of the Frogs, the alien species whose hostile first contact formed the arc of the short lived program. |
|
|
|
Post by Celebith on Feb 24, 2017 0:19:25 GMT -5
Cracked published an article about fan edits that covers the Star Wars grindhouse I linked above, along with Godzilla, Lord of the Rings and a couple of other passion projects. |
|
