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2011 fan-created motion-picture show preservation of the original Star Wars trilogy films

Harmy's Despecialized Edition is a fan-created picture show preservation of the original Star Wars trilogy films: Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983). It is a high quality replica of the out-of-impress theatrical versions, created by a squad of Star Wars fans with the intention of preserving the films, culturally, and historically. The project was led by Petr Harmáček, an English language teacher from Plzeň, Czech republic under the online alias Harmy.

The original Star Wars trilogy was created by George Lucas and released theatrically betwixt 1977 and 1983. For the "Special Edition" theatrical re-release of the films in 1997, Lucas introduced noticeable changes to address his dissatisfaction with the original cuts. These included additional scenes, contradistinct dialogue, new sound-effects and computer-generated imagery. These changes were included in subsequent releases of the films for domicile viewing. As of 2022[update], the original theatrical releases are not commercially available, and have never been officially released in high definition.

Some of the alterations were met with a negative response from both critics and fans. Harmáček felt that altering the films in this way constituted "an act of cultural vandalism". In 2010, he began to create a high definition reconstruction of the films' theatrical versions. He and a squad of eight other fans used the 2011 Blu-ray releases for the bulk of material, the lower-definition 1993 LaserDisc releases every bit a guide to the original version, and various other sources. The showtime version was published online in 2011, and updated versions have been released since.

As a derivative work, Harmy'south Despecialized Edition cannot be legally bought or sold in the U.s. and other countries with treaties respecting US copyrights, and is "to be shared among legal owners of the officially available releases merely".[one] Consequently, the films are mainly bachelor via diverse file sharing methods. Reaction to the project has been positive, with critics by and large praising the quality and aesthetics of the work.

Background [edit]

The words "STAR WARS" written in a large, yellow, outline font against a black background

The original Star Wars trilogy was a Lucasfilm product released theatrically by 20th Century Play a joke on between 1977 and 1983, and was subsequently released on habitation media during the 1980s and 1990s. The films were distributed past CBS/Fox Video on several formats, such equally VHS, Betamax, and LaserDisc.[2] In 1997, to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Star Wars, Lucas re-released new cuts of the trilogy to theaters, naming them the "Special Editions". The purpose of this release was to alter the films to meet Lucas' ideal vision that he could not achieve during their original productions. A number of changes to the original releases included additions of enhanced digital effects, previously unreleased scenes, altered dialogue, unreleased and newly recorded music past John Williams, updated audio-furnishings by THX and Skywalker Sound, and entirely new CGI sequences from Industrial Lite & Magic.[3]

Reactions to the "Special Edition" versions remain controversial, with commentators praising the picture and sound restoration, only criticising unnecessary additions such as computer-generated characters, creatures, and vehicles as well as alterations to the essential story;[four] most notably a brusque scene involving the bounty hunter Greedo shooting at Han Solo from the first moving-picture show drew significant ire.[5] Farther changes to the serial were added to the DVD release in 2004 to establish continuity with the prequel trilogy and to the Blu-ray releases from 2011. The concluding release of the theatrical cuts was in 2006, when unrestored masters used for the 1993 "Definitive Drove" trilogy on LaserDisc were added as a DVD bonus characteristic to a limited run – fans pejoratively termed this release "George's Original Unaltered Trilogy" (GOUT).[6]

Despite a high demand and many online fan petitions, Lucasfilm has refused to release the theatrical versions of Star Wars in HD quality. In 2010, Lucas stated that bringing the original cuts to Blu-ray would be a "very, very expensive" process;[7] equally of 2020[update], the films are still only widely bachelor in their altered versions.[8]

Production [edit]

Conception [edit]

Petr Harmáček (known online past the alias "Harmy") had watched a dubbed version of the original cut of Star Wars at the age of six, and had then seen the Special Editions of The Empire Strikes Dorsum and Return of the Jedi on their 1997 release.[nine] Although initially admiring them, he became disappointed when he learned how much the films had been inverse retroactively; he argued that replacing the original furnishings with re-composited digital effects was "an act of cultural vandalism".[ten] A fan of the original trilogy, he had written his undergraduate thesis on their cultural impact.[eleven] After seeing a trailer for a cutting of the DVD version of The Empire Strikes Back by a fan known as Adywan,[ citation needed ] Harmáček was inspired to create a version of the movie that "undid" the diverse mail-1977 changes and restored the theatrical releases, in high-definition.[12] He described his motivation every bit: "I wanted to be able to prove people who oasis't seen Star Wars yet, like my fiddling brother or my girlfriend, the original, Oscar-winning version, but I didn't want to accept to testify it to them in bad quality."[10] Harmáček'southward edits were the beginning to recreate the theatrical releases in HD.[9]

Editing [edit]

Look at this awesome film that was fabricated in the '70s ... I want to show that to people. I wanted to show my blood brother. He was three when I started working and I showed information technology to him when he was five and he loved it.

— Petr "Harmy" Harmáček explaining his motivation for creating the Despecialized Edition [11]

Harmáček began creating his new cuts in 2010.[vii] At the time, he was working equally an English teacher in Plzeň and had no professional experience with film editing.[ix] Instead, he taught himself programs such as Avisynth and Adobe After Effects equally the project progressed, beginning with Photoshop skills that he had developed in college.[3] [xi] To remove the post-1977 changes, Harmáček went through the film frame-by-frame, correcting colors and rotoscoping.[2] [13] Undoing some shots took but an hour, while others took hundreds. Lightsabers were color-corrected, shots of the Millennium Falcon cockpit were un-cropped, Boba Fett'south original voice was restored, and CGI characters and backgrounds were removed.[3]

Sources [edit]

Most of the source material used for Harmy'due south Despecialized Edition was taken from Lucasfilm's official Blu-ray release of the films in 2011, while other sequences were upscaled from previous home video releases.

These include:

  • The 2-disc "Express Edition" DVD release from 2006. This set contains a low resolution re-create of the theatrical cuts on a bonus disc. Harmy refers to this disc as "George'southward Original Unaltered Trilogy" (GOUT).[14]
  • The official trilogy on DVD box set up from 2004, primarily the HDTV broadcasts of those versions of the films.
  • The 1997 "Special Edition" re-releases, most notably digital broadcasts of those cuts along with their LaserDisc releases.
  • The 1993 LaserDisc "Definitive Drove" box set.
  • Digital transfers of a Spanish 35 mm Kodak LPP and lxx mm film cels, a 16 mm print.
  • A drove of still images of the original matte paintings.

Harmáček edited these sources together using programs such as Avisynth and Adobe After Furnishings.[10]

Harmáček was assisted by a group of like-minded fans from the website OriginalTrilogy.com. In full, they estimated that the project took thousands of hours of piece of work between them.[ten] In 2011, one year after the projection had begun, the starting time version of Harmy's Despecialized Edition was published online;[15] new and updated versions were created regularly in the five years that followed.[5] As of Oct 2021[update], the virtually recent versions of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi are v2.7, v2.0 and v2.5 respectively.[xi] [16] Every bit a effect of the project, Harmáček was able to quit his teaching job and in 2015 was hired past UltraFlix to ready and restore a library of 4K-encoded films for sale and hire. He has since joined UPP, a Prague-based VFX firm, every bit a 2nd digital compositor and worked on such projects as Blade Runner 2049, Wonder Woman, and AMC's The Terror.[3] [7]

Legality [edit]

The legality of downloading Harmy'southward Despecialized Edition is contentious.[2] As a fan edit, the cutting cannot exist legally bought or sold, and treads a line between fair employ and copyright infringement.[17] OriginalTrilogy.com states that the edits are "made for culturally historical and educational purposes" and that they are "to exist shared amongst legal owners of the officially bachelor releases just".[seven] Consequently, the films are only available via various BitTorrent trackers and through specialized rapid download programs using file sharing sites.[iv] [18] Harmáček himself remarked: "I'chiliad convinced that 99% of people who download this already bought Star Wars 10 times over on DVD."[11] Every bit of 2015[update], he had received no legal challenge from Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, the owner of Lucasfilm and 20th Century Studios, over the Despecialized Edition.[x]

Translated versions [edit]

In 2013, Italian blogger "Leo", from the blog DoppiaggiItalioti.it – which discusses Italian adaptations of foreign films, both satirizing dubbing and translation errors and endorsing expert dubs – worked on an Italian-linguistic communication version of Harmy's Despecialized Edition for the original Star Wars movie, together with other people, and with Harmáček's permission.[xix] He used original 35mm prints of the localized Italian-language edition, also equally a rare 1991 VHS copy, to reproduce the opening clamber, subtitles, and cease credits (fifty-fifty preserving some typos) of the moving-picture show, as they were seen in Italian theaters. This version is no longer bachelor, since it is based on an outdated version of Harmáček'southward work, although an update to the blog post assures that when a "definitive" edition is released, the localization volition be adapted to that one. The update besides refers to another "multilanguage" version of the Despecialized Edition, featuring several audio tracks – the Italian i is taken from the Italian version of the 2006 limited edition DVD – over the original English-language video.

The project also restored the original Italian trailer for the film, which Leo produced using the video from the original United states trailer and sound from low-definition copies, likewise as completely remaking the text sections.[20]

Alternate projects [edit]

Star Wars 4K77 is a fan project to scan and restore original 35mm prints of Star Wars from 1977. The project name refers to the 4K resolution used and the motion picture'due south release twelvemonth of 1977. In 2016, a few 35mm prints were located and donated to a group of fans called "Team Negative 1" (TN1), who scanned these prints at 4K resolution. TN1 released the film online in May 2018, showtime in the course of a 4K UHD file and then a 1080p downscale. According to the Project 4K77 website, 97% of the restored video came from a single print that was dubbed in Spanish, with the remainder from an alternate print and some frames upscaled from the official Lucasfilm Blu-ray.[21]

TN1 followed 4K77 with Project 4K83, based on an original 35mm print of Return of the Jedi (released in 1983) that was discovered and scanned in 4K. Co-ordinate to their website, this print required little cleanup, and the restoration was released in Oct 2018.[22]

Project 4K80, a restoration of The Empire Strikes Back (1980), was begun by TN1 in 2020, reporting that although they accept multiple prints, some were faded and they required essentially more than cleanup, with a project 2-year fourth dimension frame to complete.[23]

Reception [edit]

Reaction to Harmy's Despecialized Edition has been universally positive. Writing for Inverse, Sean Hutchinson placed it at number one on his list of the best Star Wars fan edits, and described information technology as "the perfect pre-1997 manner to experience the saga".[5] Whitson Gordon of Lifehacker called the edits "the best version of Star Wars you tin can picket", and named them "the version of Star Wars we've all been clamoring for the last 20 years".[iv] Similarly, Nathan Barry of Wired praised the films equally "an absolute joy to watch",[13] while Gizmodo described them as "very, very adept".[15] In an commodity listing Ars Technica's favorite Star Wars items, Sam Machkovech selected Harmy'due south Despecialized Edition, calling information technology "a treat".[18]

References [edit]

  1. ^ "The Ultimate Introductory Guide to Harmy'southward Star Wars Trilogy Despecialized Editions". docs.google.com. Archived from the original on 22 February 2017. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
  2. ^ a b c Goldberg, Matt (December 14, 2015). "Yes, an HD Version of the Unaltered 'Star Wars' Original Trilogy Lurks Online". Collider. Archived from the original on December 21, 2015. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d Miller, Daniel (Dec 2015). "Restoring Star Wars". Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on December fourteen, 2015. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  4. ^ a b c Gordon, Whitston (December 14, 2015). "Watch the Original Star Wars Trilogy As It Was Before George Lucas Screwed It Upwards". Lifehacker. Archived from the original on December fourteen, 2015. Retrieved Jan 27, 2015.
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  8. ^ Hutchinson, Lee (May 10, 2014). "Could Disney finally give us the remastered, unedited Star Wars nosotros want?". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on May 11, 2014. Retrieved April xix, 2016.
  9. ^ a b c Jun, Dominik (November 8, 2014). "The Czech guerilla restorationist battling to 'save Star Wars'". Prague: Radio Prague. Archived from the original on November xiii, 2014. Retrieved April 25, 2016.
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  13. ^ a b Barry, Nathan (February 12, 2013). "Star Wars – The Fandom Editors". Wired. Archived from the original on October 31, 2015. Retrieved Jan 27, 2016.
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  16. ^ "Harmy'due south Return OF THE JEDI Despecialized Edition HD - V2.5 - AVCHD DVD9 & NTSC DVD5 (Released) - Original Trilogy". originaltrilogy.com. Archived from the original on 2021-x-21. Retrieved 2021-x-21 .
  17. ^ Broughall, Nick (December 18, 2015). "Awakening the Forcefulness in my son was easier with the Harmy Despecialized Editions". TechRadar. Archived from the original on January 20, 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  18. ^ a b Machkovech, Sam (November 26, 2015). "Star Wars beyond the films: Ars' staff picks its fave games, toys, more than". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on November 29, 2015. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  19. ^ "Doppiaggi Italioti presenta l'originale Guerre stellari (che non esiste più)". Doppiaggi italioti (in Italian). 2013-06-17. Archived from the original on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 2021-10-21 .
  20. ^ "Trailer dell'edizione despecializzata di Guerre Stellari (1977)". Doppiaggi italioti (in Italian). 2013-06-29. Archived from the original on 2021-04-12. Retrieved 2021-10-21 .
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  23. ^ "Project 4K80 | The Star Wars Trilogy". Archived from the original on 2020-10-01. Retrieved 2020-10-04 .

External links [edit]

  • Harmy's aqueduct on YouTube
  • Star Wars Trilogy Despecialized Edition on Facebook
  • Why watching the best version of Star Wars is actually illegal via Looper
  • Star Wars: Despecialized Edition Remastered V2.5, Introducing the Sources at IMDb

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