Dark Resurrection vol1 - English Release -Online!

On Stage 6
http://stage6.divx.com/user/DarthCorrado/video/1481921/Dark-Resurrection---Vol-1---(Language:ITA---Subtitles:ENG)

On You tube:


Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iAtBb3U4is
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrsdIM_REGs
Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nK4lsKu218
Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wPU0ODxheU
Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BBayGIFhRc
Part 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUCIKYzRr8I

 

The youtube version is just not working for me at all.

 

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Worked fine for me.

Pretty good, though a little hard to follow at times. Effects wise there are some things in this that I haven't seen before in a fan film. Storywise, it's a little disjointed and erratic at times, constantly jumping around between present time and flashbacks, but overall it's pretty good. Some of the lightsaber work seemed pretty basic though. The Force powers seem inspired by the Knights of the Old Republic games, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but you need to remember that they're Jedi, not Supermen.

Definitely looking forward to part 2

EDIT: Organa...any relation to the Skywalkers? maybe a descendant of Leia?

 

Wow, i'm on part 1 at the moment i write this and i just want to say Wow, wait i've already said it, the sheer quality of it, especially a fan film, i will definately watch the other 5 parts, but A VERY BIG THANK YOU for adding subtitles, watching many english fan films on here, people haven't been bovered to add foriegn subtitles to thank you very much for them

 

So, I watched it...and, well...

Okay, the FX were amazinmg; this is one of the most visually-pleasing and well-shot fan films I've ever seen, if not the best. Italian or not, it's also clear that the acting is way above par; clearly, this wasn't a case of casting your best buddies. I don't speak Italian, despite having some in my genetic makeup, but the emotions came through clearly, and that's what's important in a performance. The costumes were lovely, the sets--both real and virtual--were very good; I detected the faint odor of KOTOR waved at this fan film more than a little...

HOWEVER...I'm not sure I liked it very much, regardless.
It just didn't feel like Star Wars. The washed out color made it look more like Saving Private Ryan or possibly Lord of the Rings. The pacing was and mood was certainly not very Star Warsian, either. Not that that's a huge problem, but it wasn't to my taste.
On top of that...doesn't anyone have any NEW stories to tell in the Star Wars universe? However much the details may change, the non-parody fan films people are making these days tend to be nothing more than re-workings of the Skywalker Family Spat: "I'm the Master!" "I'm the Apprentice!" "I'm the Sith!" "At least one of us has a mysterious past!" "One of us has an absolutely stupid amount of power!" "One of us--probably the one with the mysterious past and stupid amounts of power--is really vulnerable to the dark side!" "Okay, now that we've established that, let's fight until one of us dies, one of us turns to the dark side, and then we whinge about fate, destiny, and how much one of us has under-estimated the other!" The details may change--who turns on who, who turns to the dark side, who gets killed--but the basics never change.
I mean, c'mon...it's been done. First Lucas did it, and it was great. Then a few fan films did it, and it was kinna nifty. But now, having passed the thirtieth anniversary of the introduction of Star Wars to the world...I gotta say, s'gettin' kinna old. Star Wars was painted with a very broad brush, and I think it's high time we, as fans and filmmakers, explore its other aspects for a while, come back to the whole Jedi-Sith-Force thing after a few years, maybe it'll be fresh and fun again. My fan film will do this in spades, and I've spoken to other Star Wars fans in person; I KNOW I'm not the only one who feels this way...
Okay, okay, I'll get off this soap box. But still...I'm just sayin'.

In any case, to sum up: Great visuals, great acting, great costumes, great sets, great FX, been-there-done-that story (alas). S'my opinion; take it or don't.

 

I agree, Star Wars fan films do tend to follow the same basic formula all the time, and it's really only parodies that do something different. I've got a ton of ideas and stories that don't always follow the same pattern, but I just don't have the resources to turn them into films.

 

Wow very nice! I found it hard to follow, maybe because of the subtitles, but I was very mpressed with the effects! The camera work and color tones was awesome. Very Lord of the Rings!!!

Can't wait for part 2!
~Rory

 

Random thought: If you're going to the trouble of underlining why not properly italicize?

Well, I haven't watched the film yet, I'll try and get to it in a day or so when I'm not so busy. Sounds good from what people have said so far.

Regarding the "this story's been done before... a lot" thing: While I believe there is some merit to wanting to do something very different, and occasionally wishing other might do the same, I can't really blame folk for doing something tried and true in making a(Star Wars) fan film. Why do I say that? Because this is space opera. Not the newer "hard" space opera, with its technical nitty grittiness and subtle ambiguities, I mean grand ol' space opry. Characters tend to be good or evil, and not much in between; conflicts are on a vast scale, cosmic even, with often the highest stakes possible going to the victor (fate of mankind or the universe type stuff). It's generally bright and vibrant, and very grandiose.

And, really, it can be hard to get more grandiose (over the top even?), and show the conflict of good against evil better, than with Jedi and Sith, or some variant thereof.

"The details may change--who turns on who, who turns to the dark side, who gets killed--but the basics never change."

Correct, and they haven't for hundred of years more or less. Because that description could be leveled at Macbeth or any number of other pieces of classic literature from Shakespeare's time up to now. And why do the basics never change? Because they work. The devil is in the details, not the big picture which almost always still boils down to the conflict of good versus evil.

Don't misunderstand me. I watch quite a bit of atypical foreign and independent cinema, and appreciate people doing things outside of the box. Even there though, often times similar elements to mainstream films can be found, only presented in a unique way. More importantly, in doing things outside the box one should still be conscious that the box exists. If the box is Star Wars, or more generically space opera, how far outside it can you get before it ceases to be recognizable?

There's irony in that, of course, as people here often complain that people don't do more original takes on Star Wars (all anybody wants to do is a lightsaber fight), and then when someone does suddenly people say it's isn't Star Wars-like enough. You want to eat your cake and have it too?

My apologies for getting very far off-topic.

 

Underlining titles is an accepted writing convention in English. If you mean the actual italics that are present, well, I write how I speak; people who know me in person look at the stuff I write and hear my voice in their head, speaking it to them. People who don't know me in person usually don't get it, and end up with a truly bizarre--and often quite angry, strangely--idea of my demeanor, which boggles me to no end; I've often thought of narrating a message or two and putting them online, just to see if what people read matches what I write... Regardless, the italics I use are there to emphasize as I would emphasize in speech; if I were to stress a word in a certain way, I'll probably italicize it. I find it provides context and focus to sentences that could be interpreted improperly if the emphasis were placed on a different word.

But that's just it: to me, Star Wars has always been about the Galactic Civil War, which is pure space opera. And yet, if there's every a non-parody fan film set during the Rebellion, it's usually got a Force-sensitive character in there somewhere for the purposes of having them struggle with their light side and their dark side.
It's not necessary to tell a story that is both pure Star Wars and pure space opera; a story told entirely about Rogue Squadron with no one ever even being waved at the dark side could be a very beautiful thing and very deeply Star Wars, no Jedi required. I'd like to see that...and it doesn't even go outside the bounds of what you've described.

But that's just it: I actually want people to do stuff within the box, I just want them to make the box bigger. As I said, Star Wars is a rich and multi-faceted universe; limiting oneself to only Force-based stories denies Star Wars it's full glory. Are we fans of the GFFA...or just the Force?
Telling a story within the Star Wars box and within the space opera box without entering the Jedi/Sith/Force box is easy...and should come perfectly naturally to the open-minded and experienced Star Wars fan. And yet...so few do it in a non-parody context, which I find both bizarre and dismaying.

Reading your post, I begin to think you've misunderstood me. It's not that I want Star Wars stories told in a non-Star Wars way, like if we brought Quentin Tarantino or John Woo in as a guest director. It's that, if you watch the Original Trilogy, you might notice characters like Han Solo or Princess Leia or Lando Calrissian or Wedge Antilles or Admiral Ackbar or Captain Piett or Greedo or Boba Fett or Jabba the Hutt, and so on, and all of them have stories that can be told, and in a way that will be inherently recognizable and deeply familiar as Star Wars...and yet, no Jedi, no Sith, no Force, no getting all emo about how conflicted you are, no Masters getting killed, no Padawans turning to the dark side, none of that. One might begin to recognize that all of that isn't necessary to tell a story in the GFFA, and that, in fact, all those characters I listed above and the lives they lead a

 

Very nice! I left you a few comments on the last one on YouTube!

 

I didn't know there was going to be two movies.

It was very good looking cinematically. I can see where people say it wasn't very Star Wars, but I thought it was good. As for story and characters, I'm not so sure, but I'll reserve judgment until I see the second.

 

Just wanted to voice I appreciated the "new-approach" on the Star Wars galaxy. Being not "StarWars-like" but creating your own feel while still in the same universe . . . I felt thrilled.

My italian was good enough to understand most, but not all (my little translator suffered for being a Star Wars hater) but the story, as well-known as it is, has still it´s charme when performed on such a high-level.

 

I thought the cinematography and acting were both well above par for an independent fan-based production, and the film was, in general, well made. The muted colors, the emotion in the actors in both the delivery of their lines and their facial expressions, and the brilliant digital effects work, all added a certain charm to this piece that is often completely lacking in your average on-line fan-release. I appreciate the work that went into this film and I was, at times, entertained, though mostly through the visuals (it is not my intention to say this is a bad thing). That said...

This simply wasn't Star Wars.

-TheMcGuffin (after all, I'm only here to advance the story)

 

I liked the film, even before I started watching it with sub-titles, and I don't understand Italian for the life of me.

I see where Rocketgirl is coming from. I too would like to see more movies with less to zero Jedi in them. So many guys are so hyped over lightsabers, you'd think we were compensating for something. But anyway, I enjoyed the film. And I'm equally interested in seeing movies like Tydirium get finished because I know it's going to look and be quite spectacular. And the story will be far different than what most fan film producers are releasing right now.

 

That's not quite what I'm getting at. I mean, yes, I prefer Rebellion-based stories set during the OT, which by necessity means having next to no Jedi. But even in a Jedi-centric story, I'd like to see one that isn't a rehash of Anakin's story-arc, one that isn't someone dealing with their dark side. Heck, I'd just like to see a Jedi adventure, the kind of things Jedi do normally, romping around the universe righting wrongs...because I flat guarantee that they're not always teetering on the brink of emotional disaster that will manifest itself as a turn to the dark side.

 

That was entertaining. It left me wanting to see the predictable ending whenever that is coming out. I liked it a lot. When I sit down to watch any film, from children in their back yard to adults with too much money/time on their hands, I sit down with no expectations. Now I must admit for part 2, I'll have high expectations... probably the down fall of any film project when its broken up into parts. I can only hope the creators will deliver a worthy ending to their beginning.

I would put this on any list of fan films one must see. It has been a while when a serious fan film has come around that I didn't feel the need to fast forward through the ?yak yak? parts. AND no traditional crawl, added bonus.

It entertained. It didn't bore. And it sure was pretty to watch. Hardly a film to complain about.

 

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I've seen the first two minutes now, and I must say I got reeled in. It looks interesting, and I am now downloading the HQ divx version from the stage6 website.

I was always a fan of the "washed out" colors in Saving Private Ryan. And since you don't see it at all in star wars fanfilms it is original for sure. The visual effects in the first part I saw where stunning, they have some really good people + software backing this production up. Also, and I can't believe I am saying this, because normally I piss on every language that is not Dutch/German/English because I can't understand it, this language is actually pleasing to the ear.

I can't wait to see the rest, and then I'll be able to say if my initial thoughts where well or not.

 

Does anyone know when the 2nd episode will be out and how long it would take to subtitle it in English? I thought the first episode was pretty good. Just found it odd that all the characters were human, other than the R2 unit, of coarse. (probably more affordable without the alien costumes)

 

I'm 3 minutes into it and I'm hooked.
Best looking fanfilm I've seen so far; VFX wise and cinematography.

 

Downloading now.. I'll watch it after class. I did sneak a peek at the first 15 seconds on YouTube, and Rocket Girl's right. Even in the very beginning it feels very Lord of the Rings, especially with an opening such as that.

Should be interesting.

-Vaportrail

 

this film really blew me away. I know it's not really conforming to the Lucasian formula for storytelling and cinematography, but I really don't care. In fact, I like the fresh approach. It's a different style and it gets the story told very effectively. Why make someone conform their style just because it's different from Lucas'? Lucas has his style, these people have theirs. And I'm applauding them for trying something different. It works.

 

It was different but very cool

can't wait for part 2

 

someone can explain me why the film is removed for the second time from stage 6?

 

Warning - Huge Rant and opinions you might not agree with!

I'm going to have to side with RocketGirl on this one... not very Star Warsy. A lot of hard work and money was obviously put into this film, the effects are spectacular, but the script just isn't good. This film doesn't have the exciting, adventurous feel that even the weaker Star Wars movies have. It isn't fun to watch. "Fun to watch" is what sets movies like Star Wars and Indiana Jones apart most modern action movies. Most Star Wars fanfilms manage to mimic Star Wars superficially by adding lightsabers and spaceships, but they completely miss the "soul" of the movies.

Sadly, most fan films are of a style similar to the Matrix (and its billions of ripoffs) and kinda fall flat. While the (first) Matrix was a great and innovative movie, as soon as it came out, every single action movie copied it, and thus the Matrix killed the action film. There's plenty of fighting, but no sense of fun or adventure.

In Star Wars (and Indy), we have a diverse group of characters, traveling to unknown places, getting in serious danger (The Death Star Trench scene and the scene in Raiders where Indy fights a nazi in front of a flying wing almost literally have me on the edge of my seat, even after watching them hundreds of times), and still, this movies manage to keep a very tongue-in-cheek nature. Most movies today have an all-power hero (or villain) who can kick the butt of nearly anyone who wants to fight him, and they take themselves way too seriously.

What saved Transformers is that the movie knew it was silly premise and added a few laughs. Had the movie been totally serious, I would have felt it was an insult to my intelligence like a lot of other movies, but since it openly admitted it wasn't to be taken seriously, there was no insult taken and it was a whole barrel of fun to watch. One thing that makes the Star Wars movies so superior to the EU is that the movies are there so that you can have two hours of escape and enjoyment, while the EU is usually too damn serious. Even ESB and ROTS had a good deal of humor to lighten the mood when it was getting too dark.

Hell, I don't even mind a movie with Jedi, and I think people unfairly target them. Jedi are something that makes Star Wars, well, Star Wars. Still, everyone does the same damn thing with Jedi over and over. To sum up almost every serious fan film: 1) Jedi are training on some primitive, earth-like planet, 2) One of the Jedi is brooding and teetering on the Dark Side, 3) Sith show up \ Jedi become Sith, 4) Jedi and Sith fight, 5) Jedi win.

All we ever see are lightsaber fights. The Jedi do a lot more than just fight Sith... actually... the Jedi rarely fight Sith - you got a few centuries between Darth Bane and Sidious.

Let's see the Jedi acting as peace keepers, going on adventures to bizzare new worlds we've never seen before (a bluescreen is fairly cheap and usually much more cost effective than filming on location). Let's see how the Jedi coped with Order 66, and maybe watch them on the run from Darth Vader. Let's just see them doing something different.

We know that people can make some kickass special effects. But I would honestly prefer a movie that uses toy X-Wings hung on fishing lines and with aliens in cheap rubber masks with good story and characters than a movie with awesome special effects, but with a forgettable plot and characters. Even the older Star Wars films look a little dated compared to the prequels, but we know which movies most fans prefer. George Lucas himself said that special effects without a good story make an iffy movie, and I think his fans should listen to him.

Still, that's just my take on it. Those who worked on it certainly put a lot of work into it, and I am by no means trying to degrade the work they did. I just... didn't really enjoy watching it.