The Complete Star Wars Saga Re-edit (God Father part II style)

The Complete Star Wars Saga Re-edit (God Father part II style)


For those people that has seen The God Father part II, would know what kind of re-edit that I?m referring to I think it would be a cool way to introduce the people that has never seen Star Wars to the saga..

I would begin the saga as it original was released to the public with the opening of Episode IV A New Hope and let things play out until Luke meets up Obi Wan Kenobie and he gives Luke his father?s lightsaber and tells Luke the story about the Jedi Knights being the gaurdians of peace for a thousand generations yadda yadda yadda before the dark times ......

From there I would insert a flashback of a shortened version of Episode I : The Phantom Menace and perhaps the begining of Episode II up to the point where Obi Wan and Anakin captures Zem Wezle outside the Cantina on Corascant..

From there I would resume the rest of A New Hope into Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back up to the point where Luke meets up with Yoda and they?re eating soup in Yoda?s hut and Yoda tells Obi Wan that there is so much anger in Luke like his father .

From there I would insert another flashback of the rest of Episode II (Note: Anakin?s anger is showcased a lot through out the rest of Episode II) up to the point where Anakin and Padme gets married.

From there I would resume the rest of The Empire Strikes Back (Note the impact and element of surprise from Vader?s revelation ?I am your father? to Luke can remain intact for first time viewers) and then on to Episode VI : Return of the Jedi up to the part where the dying Yoda confirms to Luke that Darth Vader is in fact Anakin Skywalker and Luke meets up with the spirit of Obi Wan Kenobie and he tells Luke that what happened to his father was his fault..... from a certain point of view.....

From there I would insert the final flashback of Episode III Revenge of the Sith that shows Anakins downfall and transformation into Darth Vader.

From there Return of the Jedi would resume (Darth Vader turns back to Anakin and he destroys Sidious) up to end..

Is that great or what? I thought it up myself.

 

I must admit that I haven't seen the Godfather movies (shock) nor have I seen ANY James Bond movies, even though I was asked to work on one once,(but that's a different story), BUT, I do see what your trying to do here.
I like it.
I don't know how much you've actually gone through the details, do you think you'd be able to completely re-edit it without any additional footage? Would you cut out some of the subplots and try to make the story a little tighter and more focused, or would you try to retain all the 'nuances' of the trilogies?

 

Well to sum up The God Father part II, the story focuses on Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) dealing with his present family crisis while at the same time the movie would often go into flash back scenes of Michael father Vito Corleone (Robert DeNiro)and tell the story of Vito's rise to power from a young slave boy to the most feared and respected crime boss. The story from the movie would shift back and forth from Michael to Vito.

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Right now it's only in the planning stages and it's floating around in my head but it was GF part II that inspired the idea.

 

A three hours GodWars Epic? Interesting though a lot of major stuff would need to be cut out. I would consider doing it in two parts.

 

I was always curious how the movies would work with intermissions. If there were. I would place them (in chronological order):

"After Darth Maul launches the probe droids."

"After Obi-Wan deactivates his lightsaber after the fight with Jango Fett."

"After the shot of Anakin marching into the Jedi Temple."

"After the Millennium Falcon enters hyperspace."

"After Boba Fett follows the Falcon in the trash field."

"After the Rebel fleet enters hyperspace."

 

Chronological order using this reedit?

 

The only problem I have is, wouldn't be kind of weird to see Anakin go sith, directly followed by him turning back?

 

Not really. The Original Trilogy would serve as the present storyline with inserted footage from the prequel (inserted during relevent moments throughout) serving as flashbacks to provide some backstory.

It's good point but it was the only way to keep imact of Vader's revelation to Luke in ESB intact.

I thought that was the most powerful moment in the entire SW Saga.

 

It's a cool idea, but I like SW the way it is personally.

Adding scenes in of the PT in the OT would just be...wrong. It's art on film and not even George Lucas should be allowed to make some of the changes he has.

 

One quick note. The Godfather part 2 begins in a flashback. About 10 minutes or so of Don Vito as a small boy. So you might think of starting with a tiny bit of Anakin as a small boy to kick off your edit.

 

Interesting post, ironically, when the two were shown on TV once, they re-edited them in chronologial sequence!

Anyone remember that? It went Deniro scenes, GF1, then the rest of GF2.

 

You never know. This may be actually on the drawing board for a future mega saga theatrical release. Say about 15 years from now. People would show up in hordes to see the saga completely re-edited and cut down. They've even kinda tested this already with AOTC on IMAX and I enjoyed that immensely. For the saga it may not work, but for a stand alone film it was a great because it was faster paced, like one of the OT films. It had snap.

 

I think something like that would work if the films weren't divided by the opening scroll. At first I thought you were talkin about the Godfather parts 1 and 2 edited together in chronological order for the TV presentation back in the day. Anyway I always thought that was kinda cool but I prefer the Godfather in it's original part 1 part 2 form. These are def worth seeing if anyone hasn't done so already. These and Apocolypse Now are F.F.C.'s greatest works. Godfather 3 is .... well ...... eh ....... I guess if ya have to see it go ahead, but it doesn't do much that hadn't already been done except ....... well if I tell ya then I wreck the first two films hehe.

 

I love your re-edit. I actually think that, if done right, this version would end up being better than the way it is.

 

The TV version of Godfather with things put in chronicological order and deleted scenes restored is the Godfather Saga. I really hope this version is released (officially) one day on DvD. I don't think the versions I've seen available are legit.

As far as a SW with PT flashbacks goes -- I'd love to see something like this.

 

It seems a bit confusing to me.


It's art on film and not even George Lucas should be allowed to make some of the changes he has.


Yes, he should. They are his movies. He can whatever he wants with them. And you can either accept his changes and buy the copies . . . or refuse to accept the changes.

 

I thought about this again driving home last week, and the more I thought about it, the dumber it seems.

 

Actually I think it would be interesting.

My first reaction to the initial post was, hell no that's frickin crap.

But then I thought about it as an alternate edition, if somebody had re-edited the movie as such (with less Jar-Jar, thank you very much).

It would really tie the movies together the way Lebowski's rug really tied the room together (dude, they peed on his f---in rug).

It would be a nice mantlepiece edition to sit next to the original six movies. It would be interesting if someone took on this project and, as Picard would say in past tense, made it so...

 

people always talk about what actors, what director, etc. will redo star wars in 20+ years say....i always envisioned that happening in a trilogy and not a 6 part saga for some reason, with the movies blurring into each other, so that the new versions would have there own distinct feel, this could work well for it

however, i don't realistically see george doing this himself any time soon

 

hey that ORSUM! but a few ideaS:
*When Luke says to Obi-Wan "You were in the clone wars!" you should put a flash back of the clone wars cartoon series.
*When leia meets the first ewok there could be a shortened flash back of the Ewok adventure movies.

 

How about:

The first time we see Chewie, the movie cuts to that excruciating 15-minute scene of Wookiees talking to each-other without sub-titles from the Holiday Special?!?!

EDIT: In all honesty, I do like this idea of a "Godfather Edit." I've once actually viewed the movies in the order of IV-I-V-II-VI-III.

Next, I want to view them in a sort of "Memento Edit." i.e.: VI-V-IV-III-II-I.

 

This is an excellent idea.

However, it MUST have LOST-style "Schwooop"s every time there is a flashback, with a character gazine into the middle distance mysteriously