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Much more ambitious is Adywan’s Star Wars Revisited, an obsessive fan edit of A New Hope. The result is a stronger film, but also less interesting: by removing the worst of its excesses, we’re left with just another bland space opera. The Star Wars prequels, for obvious reasons, have inspired the most revision, starting with the famous Phantom Edit, which removes much of The Phantom Menace‘s exposition, its talk of trade disputes and midichlorians, and most of Jar Jar Binks. The revisionist tendency is somewhat more problematic. I’ve been watching it with something like awe all weekend, and when I finally have the chance to show Star Wars to my own children, this is the version I’m going to use. In many cases, the apparent restoration is an illusion, with new mattes and rotoscoping used to recreate the original effects, but it’s an incredibly compelling one. The result is a community of intelligent, informed preservationists who are as concerned with restoring the correct color balance to The Empire Strikes Back as they are with making sure Han shoots first, with the undisputed masterpiece of the form being Harmy’s Despecialized Edition, which painstakingly restores the original trilogy to something like its pristine state. The preservationists are the ones concerned, and rightly so, with the fact that no adequate high-definition print of the original, unaltered Star Wars films is currently available, and Lucasfilm seems to have no interest in ever providing it. In the world of fan edits, there are two prevailing tendencies, which I’ll refer to as the preservationist and the revisionist (although there’s a lot of overlap). And like fanfic, they often reveal surprising things not just about the fans involved, but about how we think about storytelling in general. Fan edits, at their best, can serve as a showcase for considerable talent in editing, film restoration, and special effects. In the case of Star Wars, fan editors recut, restructure, and even radically augment the original films to fix problems, address perceived shortcomings, or serve an artistic agenda of their own. Fan edits are a sort of fanfic executed with Adobe Photoshop and Final Cut Pro: a chance for enthusiastics to engage directly with their favorite-or most hated-works of art, in a way that is guaranteed to reach a small but receptive audience. George Lucas, which I watched twice in a row one night last week. Over the past few days, I’ve found myself sucked into the curious world of Star Wars fan edits, thanks to the wonderful documentary The People Vs. Wells said, and he was perfectly right-except, of course, for the passion among certain fans to create their own version of Star Wars. “No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft,” H.G.