r/StarWars • u/VillainM Anakin Skywalker • Mar 23 '21

I’ve recently been made aware that a lot of younger Star Wars fans (understandably) aren’t aware that Sebastian Shaw was the original ghost of Anakin, and that Hayden was edited onto Sebastian’s body in 2004. So this is for those who might not know! Meta

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u/Splice1138 Yoda Mar 23 '21

Harmy (Warning: Facebook)

I think he's said he might do another version sourced on the more recent 4K77 film restorations.

They have different goals, 4K77 is meant to be pretty much exactly how it was seen in theaters decades ago. Despecialized cleans it up, color matches, etc, without "changing" things.

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u/bubble085 Mar 23 '21

I have the Harmy Despecialised Edition on a USB permanently attached to my TV in anticipation for May 4th. In my opinion it’s the best way to watch the original trilogy.

I THINK it was the following link I used to download it, but I could be wrong.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yLsvexWBVM8IYSGopKuSfsGk5YIgCwQWd23bqb5ryD4/pub

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u/Splice1138 Yoda Mar 23 '21

I've got them on my Plex server, as I mentioned somewhere else close to ten different edits.

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u/SolarisBravo Mar 23 '21

To restate this, the main difference between the two is that Despecialized is a combination of several different sources pieced together to resemble the original release. Future versions will likely never go above 1080p because only one re-release was ever in 4k, and Harmy doesn't have the unlimited resolution of film.

4K77, on the other hand, is literally a film reel from a 1977 theater - it's suffered significant wear over time, making the challenge cleaning it up so that it can be scanned in 4k.

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u/0o_hm Mar 23 '21

I love these. My kid is absolutely mad on Star Wars, has so much Lego, books, talks about it non stop. He just basically lives in a Star Wars world! And he’s only ever seen the despecialised versions of the original trilogy.

I don’t think he’s even aware of the redone versions! But they fuck up so many things that are really key to Star Wars, the despecialised versions are absolutely great and I really recommend them.