Detailed Empire Strikes Back DVD Change List

JSDopefish writes "The DVD news site DVDanswers.com is back with Part 2 (of 3) of the series by Chris Gould showing in detail the changes between some the various iterations of the Star Wars original trilogy movies. In Part 2, Chris covers The Empire Strikes Back, showing such important changes as the color of Han Solo's jacket before he's frozen in carbonite, as well as other things like the change in actor for the Emperor, and more on light saber colors. Chris has screen captures from the original, the 1997 remaster, and the 2004 DVD versions, plus some audio clips for you to check out. There is an existing Part 1 covering A New Hope, and a forthcoming Part 3 covering Return of the Jedi." Very detailed synopsis. Worth a read if... well, you're me.

Comments

...been there, done that.

[wertarbyte]

http://www.schnittberichte.com/sw.php Although this is in german, the pictures speak for themselves. They also have Episode 1 as well as Episode 4/5/6.

slashdotted

[GerbilSocks]

Thank goodness I read the article 6 hours ago before it got Slashdotted to hell.

Basically, the baddest changes occured with Boba Fett's voice now dubbed by Temura Morrison. Also some changes in dialogue for Vader that helped with continuity, plus an extended scene with the Emperor.

Visual changes include details shots of the Wampa, Cloud City exteriors, and a scene of Vader heading back to the Star Destroyer recycled from Outtakes from RoTJ.

Re:Empire strikes back?

[OverlordQ]

Yes, in the Book "Tales from Jabbas Palace".

The sarlacc (well one of the other digested minds) and him have some conversations, and Boba desides he really hates this Sarlacc so he manages to escape by flipping on his rocket pack (while in the sarlacc) which proceeds to explode (since he's entangled in the sarlacc) which sets him free but also cracks open his Mandalorian armor. He uses some remaining concussion grenades to knock some sand down into the pit for him to climb out. He later comes back in Slave II and hovers right over the opening and burns the crap outta the Sarlacc with the jet exhaust, but he returns the favor of Slow Digestion by not killing it entirely.

Of course this is all from memory which might not be too accurate.

Solo's jacket

[Aidtopia]

At last, Lucas made a change that makes sense. He fixed a continuity problem. Han Solo's jacket appears and reappears in different shots before they freeze him in carbonite. (Neat trick since he was wearing handcuffs.)

Re:Solo's jacket

[CoreyGH]

Well, if you RTFA you'll note that Han was never wearing a jacket that shot; the lighting cast a shadow on his shoulders that made them appear darker. They did end up lightening his shoulders to put such speculation to rest.

Another good site...similar stuff

[jmcmunn]

I know I posted the same thing when the story for a New Hope came out here on Slashdot...but if they make repetitive front page stories, I get repetitive posts.

Here's another site that has detailed changes as well that I was reading a few WEEKS ago.

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/reviews3/starwarscha nges.html

Interesting

[indros13]

This guy is pretty insightful in his analysis of the changes. I particularly like that you can download the dialogue changes. I'm bummed about the removal of Luke's ad-lib on Dagobah, "you're lucky you don't taste very good," to R2. I wonder if Lucas was more interested in improving visual than audio (as could also be argued for his choice to change the voice for Boba Fett--lame).

Anyway, I'm still going to be thrilled to have the "original" trilogy on DVD, my VHS copy is wearing out!

Re:As Dr Hibbert would say...

[gwynnebaer]

haven't you heard of adblock?

Re:They left one out

[The Only Druid]

Actually, you can still see that in the new DVD versions, and Lucas has also added a sound effect for it. That's mentioned on the DVDAnswers page for ep. 4.

Re:Fully armed and operational...

[Buran]

*taptaptap* Excuse me?

We fangirls don't like it when you talk like that. ;)