I really want someone to interview Lucas and when he starts complaining tell him, "Grow up. They are Disney's movies, not yours."
(George said this to fans restoring the original Star Wars without his edits.)
What I love is when he starts claiming that this or that change was part of his original vision. Like claiming he always wanted Greedo to shoot first, which is not reflected in any draft of the script before shooting or the shooting script or the memory of the actor who played Greedo.
Dude lies so often he doesn't even think people will check.
Han doesn’t shoot first. Han is the only one who shoots. In the original Greedo never fires a shot.
And it works so much better that way. Lucas decided at some point to remove all moral ambiguity from all of his characters and it's nuts.
It's not even that Han was being evil. Greedo was straight up telling Han he was going to kill him. It's Han just not being an idiot and thinking "I better wait for this guy that is saying he's going to kill me to take a shot at me because I need to be 100% sure of his intentions."
Based. I hate "Han shot first." Greedo couldn't get a shot off. I grew up on the "face" editions. The box VHS set.
You can shoot first and last, so it's technically still correct.
Wasn't it always called "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope?"
I never got to see it originally in the 70's due to not being born yet, but I had seen it long before the special edition changes made in the '97 release. It was always something even my dad, who did see the original release, joked about. "Where is episodes 1 through 3?"
Nope. It was originally just Star Wars.
George Lucas (who lies all the time) claims he always planned for it to be Episode IV, but that introduction was only added when it was re-released
beforeafter The Empire Strikes Back came out... and when people initially saw it, they laughed.Edit: Got the chronology wrong
Nope. Not until many years later. Hell it was only ONE movie until it took over the world and people could not get enough of it, so everyone and their dog begged Lucas to make more.
Then ya boi’s all “oh it was always going to be a trilogy” yeah yeah okay George. “And it was always meant to have three prequels which would” George, shutup a minute - firstly there’s no such word as prequel, so - anyway.
Look, you mashed up Metropolis and Dune on a whim and got solid gold, why not leave it alone? Money. Right. Of course. Ah well.
I'd say it's closer to A Princess of Mars than Dune and that Dune also owes a lot to A Princess of Mars.
But the Pellucidar books have that mix of different aliens that instantly grabbed people with Star Wars.
Not MY Star Wars:
As far as I'm concerned, that was a scene with a different Jabba, a big Irish guy in a fur coat. But it wasn't in the movie, so it doesn't matter.
This was such a stupid, stupid scene. Like all the other "humor" scenes he started injecting.
Jabba's way too small. And there's no way in hell he'd let him just stomp on his tail like that. And...sigh.
The humor basically had to be added to the scene, otherwise Han would have stepped through Jabba's tail. It's a shot that is blocked just fine if you shot it with a big Irish guy who didn't have a tail.
Too bad they want you to get it from Usenet. I can't really justify paying for that for just one movie.
https://archive.org/details/05-star.-wars.-4-k-77.1080p.no-dnr.-35mm.x-264-v-1.0-et-hd
Can’t verify at this point as it seems the site is down.
The ultra rare laserdisc version is holy grail
Harmy’s despecalized edition FTW.
Picard: "Original film reel transfers."
Scotty looks surprised
Picard: "Who do you think gave them to Guinan?"
Would be funny if the last panel had George Lucas in the turbolift with a knife
Someone make it so.
And no Jabba in the Hangar either!
That definitely makes more sense, other than him reacting to Han "walking over his tail"
That's the worst one because the dialogue is almost one to one the same as the scene prior.
Exactly. It's a redundant scene. You either have the Jabba scene or have the Greedo scene, you can't put both in there. And the Greedo scene (with Han shooting Greedo be fore he can get a shot off, naturally) is just a stronger scene.
The Jabba scene is something you put in the special features of a DVD, that would be fun. But not in the damn movie.
I believe you are being what RPG circles call a "grognard"
does the computer have access to the original release? or is this thanks to one of the restoration/preservation projects?
Did Lucas actually add to or change anything about the movie for the 1981 re-release with "Episode IV: A New Hope" other than just the title scroll?
The Wikipedia article I linked doesn't say so. I don't think he made any major changes until the Special Editions.
Not the remastered version
