I think you're, I think you're exactly right with that. Um, but, uh, just taking an existing kind of finished film and doing something else with it, I think it'd be enough to call something a fan at it. But just kind of taking something that already exists and kind of re-editing it remixing it, uh, just re cutting it, uh, you know, you'd have, director's cut of a movie or such and such cut, uh, you know, um, things like that, but, um, just it's, it's a broad term all the same, you know, you can have fan edits that take something that they view as problematic and try to, you know, quote unquote, fix it in some way, or just, just remix it, do something totally different with it. Like, I guess my fan that it, um, I have in mind kind of a, like a, a full feature length, um, proper movie, you know, an edit, like more like an alternate cut, maybe like a fan cut and what maybe would have been a more intuitive term. And fan edits and Star Wars have kind of been very closely associated, you know, their whole life's valleys. You know, you have the, the footage that you have, and your job is to take that and spin the best, uh, quality thread that you can from the raw material. All you have are words to move around or, you know, w what have you, uh, with a fan that it you're limited to actual existing footage, um, much like a regular editor on a professional movie. But still, you're kind of building for on the one hand you're building from the ground up and there's total freedom. Both of which, you know, the creator can do anything that they'd like more or less, maybe less so with the fan edit. Well, in your intro you mentioned, you know, fan films and fan fiction. JOSH: So that said, would you be able to give a, definition of what constitutes a fan edit? Just for anyone listening, who's not aware of what that is. HAL9000: I can, I can kind of relate to that in a way, but, you know, I appreciate you. I get a little thrown off when I hear a line or see a scene that's not in your version because I'm so used to the rhythms of your cuts. Like when I catch them playing on TNT or something. Your prequel edits are my go-to additions of the movies to the point where. JOSH: Well, I just want to say off the bat, I'm genuinely a big fan. So I'm thrilled to welcome my favorite fan editor, HAL 9000 to the podcast to talk fan edits with me. And today I'm joined by a very special guest who I'll introduce in a moment, but you've heard a fan fiction probably, maybe even heard of fan films, but today on the pod, we're going to be talking about fan edits, a phenomenon subculture that you may not have been aware exists, but it certainly does. Support TRASH COMPACTOR by contributing to their tip jar: NEXT WEEK: All about TURKISH STAR WARS with filmmaker, writer, and film historian ED GLASER!įOLLOW US /trashcompod /trashcompod1 HAL 9000 can be found posting on the forums at And we ask the all-important question.what does George Lucas think of fan edits? JOSH had the extreme pleasure to chat with one of the best fan editors around, HAL 9000, to discuss what motivates fan editors, how the community rallied around his fan edit of THE RISE OF SKYWALKER, as well as the legal and ethical questions involved with editing someone else's work (and intellectual property). THE PHANTOM MENACE without Jar Jar? REVENGE OF THE SITH where Padmé survives at the end? A NEW HOPE cut up to play like a black and white Republic serial? There's a fan edit for every taste (and to address every nitpick). And for the last 20 years, fans have made innumerable bespoke versions of the Star Wars films. The proliferation of affordable desktop video editing software in the late 1990s and early 2000s led to a new form of fan participation: the Fan Edit. Digital technology allowed George Lucas to realize his true vision for Star Wars.but it did the same for everyone else.
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