Most authentic reconstruction of "Star Wars" to watch in HD
stories told in the "Star Wars" - is a classic. Every few hundred years it regurgitate again, as we have a tendency to repeat done. Power corrupts, and when you're at the helm, you begin to do what you think is right, but in fact this is not true. Blockquote> George Lucas interview with Wired em>
While Disney studio again preparing to desecrate the corpse three times already raped the original trilogy of "Star Wars" and seriously thinks about stereoscopic reissue, it is worth remembering that, as it relates to the creator of his own creation. The first three films - and it is not about three episodes filmed much later (thank you, Lucas, for this need for explanation) - a reissue on Blu-ray received many blatantly unnecessary changes.
Lists in "Wikipedia" can be seen as a kind of statement of fact or a specific characteristic of the object. So, list of lists of lists demonstrates the breadth and ordering online encyclopedia, and the список Brezhnev awards better than any article shows vice secretary general of the deceased. Only 60 kilobytes only partial text description of changes in the reissues of films "Star Wars» perfectly illustrate the amount of rework that had accumulated since 1981, 1997, 2004 and 2011.
Of course, some of the changes associated with the primitive technology of the era of special effects of the original trilogy, but many fans do not agree, for example, the fact that the cut of the first episode of the scene with Jabba the Hutt was worth the return. Lucas himself said that the original version was only 25-30 percent of what he intended to do. But should we blame the audience for what they can not come to terms with growing from edition to edition number of new unusual changes?
A group of loyal fans working on the project Star Wars Despecialized Edition. This - the triumph of the art of video editing and restoration, performed by non-professionals. No one specifically did not provide a master copy, all materials used in the project are made available to the general public.
The most obvious example of stupidity changes reissue 2011 on Blu-ray. Judging by the statements of Lucas, undeveloped technology video editing and special effects '34 prevented him add this extra stone. This picture has already become internet meme em>
Project Star Wars Despecialized Edition provides the ability to approximate as closely as possible the viewing experience to the original rental 1977 as HD. (Most likely, the quality 720p - not 1080p - chose not to make too obvious apskeyl set of scenes.)
There will be a speech about the project recreating the movie "Star Wars. Episode 4: A New Hope ", which is in the original box bore the name of" Star Wars. " The project was started by a group of participants of the forum site OriginalTrilogy.com .
Comparison of the 2006 edition GOUT, for some reason, the added crowds stormtroopers in a special edition of 2004 and Despecialized Edition em>
There is only one [version of each of the films]. And it will not be what I would call a pre-wired, it will be the final cut. The rest will be only some artifact of looking at that, people will say: "Was and the earlier draft." The same happens with plays and earlier versions of the books. Essentially, the film never completely ready, just throw them. At some point someone is saying, "Okay, ready" pulls you out of the picture until you mashesh fists and shouting. The situation should not be quite so. Sometimes you can go back and create a new version of its own, which I did with the movie "American Graffiti" and «THX 1138"; such films remain in eternity. So I basically becomes what looks like DVD-version, because that's what everyone will remember. Other versions will disappear. Even existing 35mm film "Star Wars" will not last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years later the only version that will be remembered will be DVD-version [Special Edition], and you will be able to project it on a standard movie screen with perfect quality. I believe that the return and pereobnovlenie film - director is a privilege, not a studio. Blockquote> George Lucas about the special editions , 1997 em>
Sources
When it comes to special editions, it is worth remembering that in addition substantial amounts of added objects were also changed color. Therefore, by the way, is much altered edition of 2011 on Blu-ray is not the best in quality and requires serious revision. Nevertheless, it is the main source project.
Are you familiar with the disappointment of that edition in 2011 obtained from the same master copy of that edition and on DVD in 2004, which led to inherit all of the same problems? Edition on Blu-ray has the same black color, which drown many important details, and a very heavily modified color palette. Fortunately, the source bit rate and resolution allowed to adjust to a certain extent, these artifacts.
For the primary editing colors should thank You_Too, who wrote the script for AviSynth and removed the hideous purple color in most scenes, especially noticeable in the scenes of shootings blaster.
More color correction postsenovo use well-preserved copy-Foil Technicolor.
Also in the edition on Blu-ray was performed cell purification, so some of the scenes look very, very unnatural. This problem has been partially corrected.
And also positive in the work on the special edition had the opportunity to go back and do the original "Star Wars: A New Hope" just as George wanted. As he wrote them. No matter whether it is pleasant to people, it's his movie, and he could not do it right the first time because he was going to so many compromises. Blockquote> Rick McCallum, 2001 em>
At the moment, the official publication of the original, unaltered film "Star Wars: Episode 4 - A New Hope" acceptable quality just is not there. There is only the edition on DVD 2006 (it is widely known among fans as "the unmodified original trilogy of George», Geoge's Original Unaltered Trilogy, briefly GOUT), disk that was not a major in the publication, and went a bonus and the quality is poor.
GOUT - it neanamorfnaya copy of 1993, and this, unfortunately, the best official source unaltered trilogy. In addition to its poor quality, terrible aliasing pictures and faded colors in some scenes he has artifacts primitive algorithm removing digital noise: fast moving objects leave a trail of their own image on the previous frames.
As it was obtained an impressive picture quality even in the changed scene if another source was not simple?
Apskeyl this outdated picture to close it looked acceptable in HD-scenes, and its color correction - no easy task. This work was performed dark_jedi. But often used only part of the picture of GOUT.
The aforementioned 2004 edition on DVD, too, was used as a source, but it does not take the edition on DVD, and HD broadcast of the same master copy on television. This translation was the main source of first editions Despecialized Edition and remains a source code of some scenes of the current version.
In order to remove some of the changes in the 2004 edition, use the analog PAL-SD recording quality infamous first special edition in 1997. We all "appreciate" reissue, made in honor of the twentieth anniversary of the original rental, the first appearance of the computer Jabba the Hutt in "A New Hope».
Self-respecting fan of the original trilogy can easily stretch grumble about it for a few tens of minutes. The fact that this scene does not appear in theaters in 1977, as it was planned to use a stop-animation moushen replacement understudy to sliznepodobnogo gangster, Harrison Ford on the set of circled tolstyachka Declan Mulholland . In 1977, Lucas was not satisfied with the result, and computer animation, thank God, was not, so the scene is simply not included in the film. It makes an appearance in the Hutt "Return of the Jedi" event. During the two previous films, we were able to hear about it ringleader tatuinskih bandits only the stories of the other characters, but we did not know how he looks and speaks. Now his appearance did not cause any particular impression. Incidentally, digital Hutt 1997 and its later look bad and unnatural.
Another reason to hate Lucas is the scene at the bar. The phrase "Han shot first" became a symbol of defiance to the will of the spectators director. In the 1997 edition of technology has made it possible to change the scene so that the hero is not Ford's first shot, although originally from Greedo was not a chance to do anything. Han Solo, coolly and without hesitation fry bounty hunter and throw the outlet "Sorry nasoril» ("Sorry about the mess") speaks about his character ready for anything smuggler much more than forced defending character. Of course, in Despecialized Edition scene recreated in the original version.
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for the benefit of [...] - is the barbarians [...] blockquote> George Lucas, 1988 em>
Again, some of the shots of the final result shall be a part of the 1997 edition. It was taken only a portion of the corridor in the background.
But some of the shots were replaced entirely. In the edition of 2011 on Blu-ray, these inscriptions are made at the Imperial.
The following sources are somewhat exotic, and we owe them the appearance of the occasion, as well as a healthy share of DIY. In tenacious hands creators Despecialized Edition Team Negative1 got made at home scan 35mm film scene in the Mos Eisley spaceport.
Despite the relatively good image quality for its improvement Laserschwert party had to remove a lot of dirt and grit using AviSynth. And again, to hide the addition of special publications were used as whole frames, and only part of the picture, as shown below.
In addition, one of the auxiliary sources had a copy of a 16-mm film called Puggo Grande. Timings and location of subtitles in dialogue with Greedo Han Solo had been taken from them. In this picture, it was used to minimize aliasing wing X-wing / X-Wing Pictures GOUT.
The last group served as a source of still images with 35-mm film, obtained from various sources, some of whom prefer to remain anonymous. The image quality was also quite rude, but after the digital cleaning were used to reconstruct the scene with Matt-PAINTING technique and improve picture quality with GOUT.
They were also used to cover the changes in the publication of 2011 on Blu-ray. It even had to animate some movements and use rotoscoping.
Left - Adding edition of 2011 with the use of computer graphics to the right - it restored version em>
In this album you can find many screenshots with comparisons showing the improvement Despecialized Edition 2.5 version of the project with respect 1.0, GOUT (the only official publication of the unmodified film) and Blu-ray (the maximum number of controversial changes).
The finished project the current version 2.5 can be found at Pirate Bay for the search query
Star Wars Despecialized Edition mkv code> pre>
In the same hand there are Russian subtitles, and several species of the sound track. Do not forget about the nature of ad hoc networks, remain on hand for a while.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/241130/
