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How Star Wars was saved in the edit

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What it is

A video essay on how the editors of Star Wars: A New Hope recut and rearranged the footage to rescue the film. It walks through specific changes that improved pacing and drama.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited as a compact account of how editing shaped the original Star Wars, though one commenter notes a rebuttal video disputes parts of it.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “A good video.”

    New material of interest from a film school perspective.

    jerf, 2019-10 · Recommendation · in “In praise of dissenters: It pays to encourage a variety of opinions”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: star wars, editing, video essay, film history, george lucas

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