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Lost Star Wars Scene In the Wild
Someone managed to get a clip on-line of the lost Star Wars scene from Jedi where Luke is shown crafting his Lightsaber. The full clip will apparently be included on the Blu-ray box set expected to come out in 2011. Hit the link below to see what is circulating. It's not much, but it looks real. Can't wait to see what they include in the 2015 version.
Update: 08/16 22:44 GMT by S : Lucasfilm complained, and YouTube took the video down.
Update: 08/16 22:44 GMT by S : Lucasfilm complained, and YouTube took the video down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XczClAxhCEM
This "leak" aught to fan the flames of hype for yet another re-issuing of the SAME movies you all already have. So hurray! Let's all celebrate another billion dollars for George Lucas! And watch, as an entire generation of nerds continues to allow itself to be defined by the endless marketing and hype over some mediocre movies that aren't even really science fiction (Star Wars has far more in common with fantasy movies like the lord of the rings than it does actual science fiction like 2001). Pathetic.
while on the subject of rare Star Wars footage, check out Return of the Ewok, a mockumentary shot by the original cast and crew during the filming of Return of the Jedi.
It's got a lot of funny interesting tidbits pretty rare to find, even on the net (and much much harder to find than the Star Wars Christmas special), so check it out.
Warwick Davis as Wicket is the protagonist and it's pretty interesting how he was just a kid when they shot ROTJ. The name of the film was actually even Revenge of the Jedi during filming of Return of the Ewok.
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http://www.starwarsuncut.com/ - fan remake of episode IV, shot by shot.
amusing, awesome and scary all at once, well 15 seconds at a time.
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Kind of true here. They're running a little thin on marketable materials if the scene addition is a short little 15-30 second clip that adds nothing to the plot. There are probably a few more deleted scenes that will be released in the next ten years.
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For me, it's a complete turnoff. I went to see the digitized releases of IV, V, and V in the theaters in the late '90s. It took away from the movies. Then they keep changing things within the scenes. Han shot first. Live with it. After I, II, and III came out, they removed the original ghost of Vader at the end of Return of the Jedi and replaced him with the Canadian actor that played Anakin Skywalker in II and III. WHY?
As Mel Brooks pointed out 23 years ago, it's all along the lines of "Moichandizing! Moichandizing!". They know that they have a franchise that they can milk for years to come. Some sci-fi geeks take things a little too far, and where there is this amount of submission, you can bet that the pocket books are open. Don't get me started about my small collection of pewter TNG starships.
Where would this have been in the actual movie? Seems like it would have to be right at the start so really not a very interesting way to start things.
Interesting that they added the blade special effect. Either this was cut very late or they added the special effects for the cutscene.
while on the subject of rare Star Wars footage, check out Return of the Ewok,
I think a quote from the comments section of the video on YouTube sums it up nicely. Better than The Phantom Menace
Wasn't one, maybe. He grew. As far as I'm concerned, his voice acting in the Dini animated Batman is *still* the definitive take on the classic Joker.
I think you can give Lucas a bit more credit. In Phantom it is clearly established that the Jedi council thinks Anakin is too old to be trained, that there is an issue with fear of loss of his mother. Early in Clones, with the sand people, it is demonstrated that Anakin is susceptible to the suggestions of Palpatine - and indeed, in this instance, Anakin's worst fears are realized. In Revenge, Anakin's susceptibility to Palpatine is again demonstrated when he kills Dooku at Palpatine's order. Anakin is consistently shown as insecure and arrogant, which Palpatine uses to alienate Anakin from the rest of the Jedi. Anyway, I think there are enough plot points in the movies that lay enough ground work to make it reasonable to turn Anakin. Not like a switch - for years Palpatine carefully maneuvered Anakin to the balance point, and at the end it took just a tiny shove to flip him to the dark side.
And then at the end of Return, Luke is able to tip him back to the light side.
Anyway, when I think about Anakin's whole story, I find there are a lot of things to think about. For the most part, I think Lucas's dialog writing sucks - but overall, the story works for me.
Not to mention, memory is tricky and anyone claiming to see the "A New Hope" in the 1978 crawl is probably remembering it from the 1981 crawl or even the VHS releases. Some may even be remembering the SE in theaters. Time plays tricks. I do remember seeing the 1981 crawl and being taken by surprise. I knew that was the title, but I didn't know they were putting it in the crawl. I was home on leave from the Air Force and had taken my little brother to see it. I was distracted through the movie trying to figure out if they had changed anything else.
As an aside: I missed a showing of Star Wars at my High School. MH was a student of my High School in Japan. While they were in Japan promoting it, they stopped by the school with a print. They had a school assembly in the base theater and showed the movie. Blast!
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