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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.
Wake me up when he puts out the one where Han shoots first.
In the 2015 version, the bartender shoots first.
"Get out of that cave! Are you polishing your Lightsaber again? You know she's your sister, right?"
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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.
Luke Skywalker playing with his light saber on Chat Roulette!
If I were a Star Wars completist, I think I would have George Lucas on a list by now.
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Really, a whole 15 seconds (and about as many words) for the $75 collector's edition?
I know we grew-up with it, but there's never going to be anything new until we STOP paying for the same old stuff.
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if the last 15 years is any guide expect a new version of the saga every 2-3 years
late 1990's we had the cleaned up version of the OT followed up by the special edition versions
2000 we had The Phantom Menace
then we had the Phantom Menace DVD scandal where it was released on VHS in 2001 because GL had some grand plan to release all 6 movies on DVD middle of last decade
2002 TPM magially comes to DVD as a special release because of the demand
around this time we had the OT DVD release
then the next to NT movies came out on DVD shortly after the theater releases
i stopped buying after TPM DVD but i'm pretty sure there were a few grand releases later in the decade
after this blu ray release expect the OT movies to come out with no special edition versions
then 3D releases
then a few more releases including an upcoming complete reshoot of all the movies with new modern special effects but the original character's faces and voices to preserve the history of the series
the isuckers/star wars suckers will buy anything their cult leaders tell them to buy, in the case of the SW nerds they probably have 20 versions of each movie already and can't wait to buy more due to the continuous finds of new scenes
... but there was a reason it was left on the cutting room floor. Maybe it added too much of a somber tone, or maybe it was deemed redundant when vader later notes that skywalker had created a lightsaber. The real question ... how long can this franchise hold out when the last episode of any quality was made twenty years ago? Is anyone else bored by this franchise now? And when will it finally, mercifully, be put down?
It looks like they used a puppet for the close up. You see his nose and his chin... looks different from what Hamill looked like (Seriously, just Google RotJ Mark Hamill.. even factoring in the shadows.. doesn't look like his chin, upper lip, and nose). The movement looks stiff... like they tilted the head of damned puppet. They did the ol' Swedish Chef... puppet body, real hands.
"The never-before-seen 56-second clip..."
This sounds like the DLC of movies.
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George Lucas is re-releasing THX 1138 with a different title exclusively for Blu-Ray - "THX 500K4R5"
Yes, but still, I can't help but to be amused when a hundred people go ballistic when they see someone tinkering with a gizmo using a screwdriver.
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I remember seeing the saber construction in the ROTJ novelization as a kid thinking it was a cool bit, but in the flow of the film it makes no sense. I can see why it was cut, or more likely why it was newly created. If this had been in the film you would have the "big moment" of Vader informing his welcoming party the Emperor is coming to check on the Death Star 2 construction. Big fanfare music. Then Vader goes downstairs "Luke... Luke... Join the Dark Side...." ending the scene on a much weaker note. After all, Vader says almost nothing but "Join the dark side" during the final act, so this is redundant. Then we see Luke setting a plan in motion that undermines the tension when hologram Luke offers the droids as a gift, now that we have foreknowledge that he built a saber (as presumably gave it to the droids). I wonder if this is an actual deleted scene or something new to build hype and sell Blu-Rays. After all, Vader in a hallway that could have been built on a shoestring. I've seen bigger shots done for SW fan films. A possible outtake of him on an elevator, followed by an alternate take of him in his meditation chamber. Wipe to a very cloaked Luke, where we only see a hint of his face. Since we barely see his face and he never changes expression it could be Hamill's face digitally painted over a stand-in. The cave is nothing but shadow. The entrance, exterior, and C3PO could all be a digital composite. My gut tells me this is more 2010 than 1982.
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.
NERDS!!!
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.
You'd think by ROTJ Lucas would have thought with all the impending fandom to keep a good ten or more short clips like this to keep the money rolling in with each successive edition of Star Wars.
Anyone reminded of that Simpsons episode where company making the dolls Lisa likes introduce a tiny hat alongside a 'new' doll, and people in their droves rush to buy the same old thing with just a trivial scrap added in?
It's pretty sad that after the prequels people can still get so excited over 15 or so seconds of Luke handling his lightsabre. It's baffling and kind of sad that there's all this cheering and enthusiatic shouting over a mundane snippet like this.
Thanks guys. I always thought I was a geek before I read the comments here - all for 56 seconds of "extra" content for a 27-year-old film.
I'd now like to hand my geek-card in to someone who has a greater need for it.
Search YouTube for Star Wars revisited. A fan by the name of adywan has created his own Special Editions of the original trilogy ...including The Imperial March into the Battle of Yavin IV, as well as there actually being thirty Rebel ships to count (and a bucketload more in the dogfighting department) are included. Episode IV is available in its entirity in 13 parts.
As a teaser, here is the beginning of the battle (YouTube video) showing the DVD version and adywan's version. Notice the engines are now red instead of pink, the increase in ship numbers as mentioned above, and how the gas giant of Yavin is now viewable in cockpit scenes. The annoying discrepancy with the screen countdown (where '7 minutes' to the Rebel base was shown as 18 seconds, counting in 1/24ths of a second) has also been corrected.
Shiny. Let's be bad guys...
The ROTJ lightsaber scene isn't the only new piece of footage going into the BluRay disc set. It's just the one he showed at Celebration V.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
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.
Furthermore, it's actually a fairly dramatic, brief scene with good imagery, so you know some one else made it (Lucas doesn't have that talent any more).
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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