Opening Scene - Star Wars (WITHOUT MUSIC)

[@TateLangdon1994]

For some reason, without the music it feels grittier and more brutal

[@FantasmicFilm]

Dylan Klebold agreed

[@hokinko93]

Feels like rough one

[@9965paul]

Dylan Klebold this is insane when you're watching this high it's like youre fucking there

[@Poppen000]

Yup

[@plays4gamer883]

Almost like bladerunner

[@Hursty]

You know your are hardcore Star Wars fan when you know that some of these sound effects came from the lego games.

[@josh.dainty205]

Yep. I must be a hardcore super fan

[@adambutterfield2307]

The rebel death noise😂

[@thebacons5943]

Lmao yep

[@teddyawesome5197]

Hursty that’s what i was thinking! For example when that rebel got shot he did a lego star wars clone wars clone trooper scream and when the star destroyer was shooting the rebel ship then it sounded like ships from lego star wars clone wars

[@hermos3602]

Lego Star Wars 2 The Original Trilogy was my first official Star Wars experience. Yes, I played the Lego game before I've seen any of the films. I didn't know about the prequels until a few years later. This was back in 2010.

[@chrisridenhour]

John Williams is basically 50% (or more) of the magic of Star Wars

[@JordanWeberMusic]

I say John Williams is 120% of what Star Wars is. His music is the only thing that is truly great throughout all 9 films.

[@TheRobloxianTacoLord]

Star Wars is only epic because of John Williams, without his music A New Hope would have tanked. Star Wars would have never progressed.

[@quaychuletseii7163]

I think you all aren’t reading into the actual story of Star Wars. That’s the magic of it.

[@hughjass8502]

@@TheRobloxianTacoLord I think if you remove anything else from the movies they would've tanked. Star wars is so amazing not thanks to one thing, but how well many great things came together to create it. This is why things like the sequels don't feel like star wars.

[@You-ul8qw]

Did you know that when they finished the first SW movie, George Lucas made it known that everything about it was not as good as he hoped, except for the music, which he thought was phenomenal.

[@stevenrowan9244]

3:34 I heard that scream in Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga!

[@shadowninja958]

holy fuck.

[@albiewoodhouse7246]

Yes, I remember whenever you fall off the map that happens

[@teddyawesome5197]

Garfielf no lego star wars clone wars

[@Blentux]

First it was in Lego Star Wars II: The Classic Trilogy, before The Complete Saga came out ;)

[@stevenrowan9244]

Blentux I know.

[@oakstar519]

When Vader walks in and everyone's just being quiet... That is BEAUTIFUL.

[@Senna-78]

Darth Vader's breath is the only real music

[@M1cha3lP]

Francesco Petri Even then it's different to the original film

[@harveymanwaring]

This feels so dark and gritty. I love it

[@Nortic111]

4:12 All these years and I'd never noticed Vader kicking that debris before.

[@doncallangher6177]

Makes you wonder why he didn't just force push it away.

[@ReservoirDolphin]

This movie suddenly feels so incredibly 70s...

[@TheGeorgeD13]

Yep. John Williams almost single-handedly made that movie timeless.

[@mark321123]

Matthew Thomason I completely disagree. It seems more modern without the orchestral score.

[@ReservoirDolphin]

mark321123 I'm referring to the visuals mostly. All the sets and costumes are quite 70s when you strip away the timeless score.

[@rustcohle3803]

yah I agree, it does feel 70s like a cop movie

[@ThreadBomb]

The beige coloring doesn't help.

[@DarthDimadome]

You know you've seen Star Wars too many times when you can tell that some of the original sound effects for the blasters, R2-D2, etc have been replaced with new ones.

[@rhodi112]

+Dreadlord Sinister I would like to inform you 80 hours on a game isn't that much

[@rhodi112]

+Dreadlord Sinister Still not many hours in all honesty

[@teddyawesome5197]

Brandon Silbor yep

[@AzelfandQuilava]

The different DH-17 sound is killing me.

[@SubtleArboreal]

Yeah. The sound on the rebel blasters are all wrong.

[@ronsarcade1448]

Incredibly it works pretty well without the music! Never thought Star Wars having such an iconic soundtrack would do so but proved wrong here!

[@bryanzuniga3973]

If Stanley Kubrick directed it

[@Chris_Meade]

Bryan Zuniga It never would've been finished. Carrie Fisher would've murdered him when he inevitably tried to pull his sexist shit on her like he did with all actresses he worked with. Poor Shelly Duvall

[@zfoxfire]

Bryan Zuniga there would be no laser blasts in space sound effects

[@lordchameleon2650]

Chris Meade he acted brutal shelly on purpose, she had to be in a constant stress in her role and stanley helped him as he seperated tom cruse from his wife in real life, to meke them both act more believable..of course its questionable if it is ethical but never sexist.

[@SolarDragon007]

Chris Meade, There's nothing sexist about it. Kubrick was merciless to most of his actors. Malcolm McDowell for example nearly drowned and got a cornea scratched while filming A Clockwork Orange.

[@cosmicg3610]

My thoughts exactly!

[@shreyasks01]

I have to say, this is very helpful for me as I'm trying to practice film scoring, and it's hard to find scenes that don't have music but still have the dialogue, so thank you for this!

[@legobdr]

I just played the music in my head automatically

[@drencrum]

I actually like the scenes where the ship gets captured and the fighting starts as well as when Darth Vader walks out a lot more w/o the music, adds to the already existing tension.

[@Tripod9648]

their is just something so powerful about silence. Music has always been used as a way of conveying the tone of a movie. Music gives Battles a type of tension like no other, intensifying the fight, but scores are one thing but silence and repetitive noises are on a hole different level. U want to intensify or even traumatize the audience, then take away a score and replace it with complete silence. We Saw who effective that was with Infinity war. Who powerful and yet terrifying the scene of the Snap, was. Without Music Star Wars becomes an almost an uncomfortably realistic war film when it was meant to be a film about Adventure.

[@unknownghost1154]

If I may request something, perhaps the Rogue One end without the Hope track

[@infoluminux]

UnknownGhost115 it would be a very very good scene, such as the beginning of luke and vaders duel in bespin (it doesnt have music).

[@patricklush4363]

The scenes feel so cold and dehumanized, which could work for a war picture based in outer space.

[@Zones33]

the music makes the opening scene so much more ominous.

[@TheKASHMIR2011]

this is hauntingly beautiful.

[@rosselliot8971]

I wonder if they were using ambient sound. At 4:08 as Vader appears, he takes several steps which are barely audible, but he kicks a small piece of carbonised material which makes an obvious noise. That's totally hidden by the score.

[@isaphoenix9673]

I love how C-3po and R2D2 both just walk across the fight.

[@SolomonMagnus819]

Imaging the POV of the rebel soldiers hearing the tractor beam take hold of the ship and knowing all they can do is wait before they die is actually pretty scary. Far more so than with the magical music

[@SCHEFFyt]

I feel like a nerd knowing that a large portion of these sounds are not the original sounds but instead new ones being overlayed - both blasters being fired sound different and R2-D2 beeps differently as well as some explosions sound different. The alarm also abruptly changes and doesn't wind down.

[@M1cha3lP]

MiNT SCHEFF And Darth Vader breathes differently. Very noticeable to me.

[@sunsetman22]

I think they snuck in some Force Unleashed grunts for the troopers too

[@MrDaydreamer1584]

@@sunsetman22 C3PO's "There's no escape for the princess this time!" line is missing. (Not complaining, though. Whoever did this did a fantastic job! I like it without the music!)

[@maltdairy2164]

Honestly, as much as I love John Williams's score, I think Star Wars without music would slap. It's interesting because you can actually tease out the cutaways that the mind can only digest with music, and you can start to see in your mind's eye pretty quickly that in order to make a truly compelling version of music-less Star Wars, you would have to frame some shots differently, and cut others in different orders or to different time signatures to maximize the gravitas. It helps me realize how much we actually rely on music to take us through a scene that wouldn't or couldn't play the way it does without said music.

[@m0rShh]

I wonder if Star Wars would have been as successful if it had the kind of synth-heavy score most sci fi movies had back then, like a sort of low-rent Tangerine Dream.

[@restlessbohemian26]

no way!

[@typo1345]

Nope nope everyone would be like, 'what a piece of junk!' (Like what I did there?)

[@yarpen26]

Honestly? I... don't really think so. Yes, it would be remembered as groundbreaking in terms of its storytelling and would possibly still kickstart the whole wave of swashbuckling cinema... but I just don't believe Star Wars would keep that cult following through the '80s. I don't think it would have been reinvigorated like it actually was.

[@typo1345]

Ted Leather Nice Yoda impression!

[@liteoner]

Definitely no. It would've been one of the many sci-fis.

[@pauldonvito6169]

Music in film often 'guides' you to how you should be feeling/what emotions are being tugged at. With music gone, it becomes more uncertain, tense and you sometimes search harder for cues.. I like this!!

[@james52054]

I like it, you feel like there's a battle going on

[@krimzinblade666]

If you play "Hope" from the Rogue One OST at exactly 3:18 in this video, it works perfectly.

[@AkagiZillo15]

This works real well. Some movies have scenes with no music and its perfect

[@gemarrs]

What you do is open up a new youtube window, search for James Horner - Futile Escape - Aliens, and play it along to this. It makes it really dark and intense! Especially if you can get it lined up to where all the instruments kick in the moment the storm troopers break through the door (which I actually did without even realizing it!)

[@gabrieldjatienza6971]

The "help I think I'm melting" was originally in opening scene....but cleverly edited into the later scene at the millennium falcon!

[@davidhoffman6980]

I knew it would work without the music. But I didn't know it would feel like a Kubrick film.

[@kthx1138]

Pretty cool, like a documentary, really showcases Ben Burtt's sound-FX work, makes the scene feel like a real battle.

[@Eli-kv7tx]

It wasn't that bad, to be honest.

[@DanielLopez-zt4ig]

Because of the visual effects and the edition.

[@tronnorth726]

Easier said than done lol. If it's not that bad then they would have kept it that way and no mention of "when will we hear the score" from test viewers lol

[@ajcaraballo95]

The opening theme for The Warriors (1979) goes great with the shootout. Try it.

[@plays4gamer883]

Nearly every score would fit in. Try lord of the rings

[@budgetlifter]

do a Star wars but without sound in space.

[@doodledangernoodle2517]

Aspect Dank just mute the video

[@ameliahepler1988]

I couldn't decide if it was the story or the music I love so much. I love them both so much! But the music is what makes it magical

[@cameroncaws8506]

Something about this feels kind of chilling.

[@haroldflower9095]

Well this showed me this film would be incredible even without music

[@stephencrompton4352]

3:34 is that the sound effect they used in lego starwars?!

[@nethertech2136]

Steve Spencer yes it is

[@moe_rm]

Remember guys, when you take the "epic music" out, guns are guns.

[@benduffy3436]

All i can say is THANK GOD FOR JOHN WILLIAMS

[@Ultimate_Utopian]

I just witnessed the most beautiful scene in my life.

[@kthx1138]

Can you do one of these for the Alex Kintner shark attack in Jaws? It'll be just bubbles, Spielberg's cool shark POV and the sound of the boy gargling, drowning in seawater and his own blood. The Vertigo shot on Brody with the peaceful sounds of the beach will look and feel weird.

[@Zilkenian_Davenport]

Darth Vader being like "It's awful quiet in here, I can hear myself breathe".

[@martinlepaih]

Thank you Mr. Williams 🧡

[@thunderbolt2145]

I read somewhere that Lucas was toying with the idea of filming Star Wars as if it were a documentaty in verite style. The lack of a score would be one element missing. It was an interesting idea, and probably would have been bold at the time, but Im glad he went the traditional route. The music by John Williams lends great impact

[@Memper]

once you hear it you can't unhear it... The Laser sounds, sound like Geese damnit me

[@LTRX_]

Plot twist, there's no sound in space.

[@brianhurrel3249]

Looks fine actually. As others noted, more gritty. It hardly suffers from lack of music.

[@thewewguy8t88]

oddly enough i want to see more of this :)

[@321atmosfear]

Start this video from 1:45 while playing Spiral Knights OST - Crimson in the background, its perfect.

[@jaybonn5973]

I'm giving this a like for the description alone

[@ScisaacFisaac]

I'd still watch.

[@AardvarkSupreme]

Soooo much better without music

[@jahzd4028]

This is basically if Star wars was directed by Stanly Kubrick

[@CarlosRomanZ]

it still works pretty good! very interesting

[@colinj5291]

When Darth Vader puts his hands in his belt, a little fart noise would've been epic.

[@xtopia9758]

The atmosphere feels dangerous without the music

[@FoxBoi69]

at 3:34 you can hear the sound that plays when you die in lego star wars the complete saga!

[@juniorsandoval9624]

THIS IS AWWWWWESOME!!!!!

[@broderp]

I have to admit, this does not seem half bad without music.

[@SolarDragon007]

I feel like you could make A New Hope a silent film after watching this.

[@SchardtCinematic]

These scenes without music is going to give me alot of editing runtime on my PC. I found a download of the cantinas scene I had downloaded last year and for the fun of it. I edited the song Bad Luck by Jared Dines into the background. What a diffrence a country song makes in the background.

[@guitarsimon1]

Wow that was pretty intense honestly, in a Saving Private Ryan kinda way

[@sprdrums]

This was amazing! Please do vaders hallway scene with no music please 🙏

[@ThePhoenixSpaz]

BRILLIANT!!! Thank You!

[@coltseavers6298]

Nice. Now I would LOVE to watch this with the music only, please.

[@terranceeisner8958]

3:05 I've always wondered about this guy, is he the architect from the towering inferno? I'm pretty sure given his lack of screen time that the answer has to be no but then, why does he look so familiar?

[@MrVideoVagabond]

So some people this may seem "better" and "more real" without the music, but remember -- you've already seen Star Wars with John Williams' score, and the sequence thus makes sense to you because Williams was there to communicate the emotional subtext when you originally saw it. Someone who had never seen Star Wars would be baffled by this sequence, because the music is not there to establish the tone of the film.

[@weavehole]

Weirdly. This is how i first remember experiencing it. Way back when. Before the times of soundtrack awareness. Or something.

[@IanHollis]

How did you do this!? I'd love to see the entire saga like this.

[@loadiegirl48]

the first alarm i heard is when the main solar fin got hit followed by the regular alarm heard in rogue one when it escaped scarif...

[@Quadrenaro]

You know, is actually watch it without music. It gives it a more ominous tone.

[@SchardtCinematic]

How do you get these scenes without the music. This is really awesome.

[@samuelcoyle1245]

my teacher had me watch this as a music task

[@justinsmolik2834]

so all this time the music was inside everybody's heads? mind blown. pun intended

[@andyderksen8455]

HOW did you strip the music out of these scenes???

[@cjhpianohero]

John Williams is like 50% of the movies

[@coryv5679]

So much better without music. I wish most movies wouldn't have music. Feels so unrealistic if there is random music without something in the movie making it.

[@CALJ154]

2:15 PA: "Attention all crew; battlestations!" "Attention all crew; battlestations!"

[@WeaselWeaselW]

Is that an Adywan reference?

[@josiahmeece3381]

This is... dark

[@CATDRL2]

Did you ever made one that only had organ music (like the old movie theaters days) with no voice (only test cards that show for a few seconds)?

[@richardched6085]

Love it! Frakking Lego Star Wars II Rebel sound effect lol.

[@matthieuchristian500]

now , Star Wars without noise in space !

[@mario209]

why does the death star alarm from rogue one sounds in the rebel space ship?

[@adambutterfield2307]

Mario 209 maybe the alarms in Star Wars are universal across ship making like one alarm for most ships

[@M1cha3lP]

The same alarm was used in the final scene of Rogue One because they were aboard the SAME SHIP.

[@RedTribeCinema]

Wrong sound effects for the turbloasers.

[@thesenate2676]

that opening crawl tho

[@Pernection]

I can almost play Holst -" The Planets" classical score with this

[@SciFifan2109]

Any chance you could do this for the space battle from The Phantom Menace? Or the escape from Naboo scene?

[@justinsmolik2834]

wait...if there's no air in space, then how can we hear the turbolasers outside the ship?

[@rick_271]

The comments: Great now do the same clip with only the Music and no SFX Me: Just go to your local SW concert symphony and support a friendly fan musician

[@r3n3gad33]

Palpatine: I am inevitable *snaps fingers and sees that the infinity stones in his gauntlet are missing, turns to rey* Rey: *gets powered up with all the infinity stones in her gauntlet* Palpatine: *expression of shock* Rey: And I. Am. The Rise of Skywalker. *snaps her fingers* (scene cuts to black) (this exact scene without music plays) (cuts to credits) Directed By J.J. Abrams

[@gabrieldjatienza6971]

Without the music.... snores.

[@ryanledak9349]

It feels incredibly dark

[@TheOldScrapIron]

there are no sounds in space so the space shots should have been silent great video by the way

[@davidguy209]

i want to see the whole movie with no music! is this possible?

[@Trinity_General_School]

3:34 Death sound from the complete saga

[@oweng1756]

It's that elephant again form the Rogue One trailer.

[@M1cha3lP]

O Gard It was always in this scene.

[@oweng1756]

Quite right. I never noticed it before. Thanks for pointing it out. :)