Who is the man in the dark suit, white shirt, red bow tie and colourful wig? My first thought was BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY but that can't be 'cuz he would have been about 26 or 27 in 1983 but that man in this clip can't be 26 or 27.
I don't know where Disney gets this idea that only "nerdy white guys like Star Wars" when you can clearly see there are a lot of blacks and females in the crowd, wanting to see the movie.
I took a bus to the Roosevelt Field mall with a few friends to see this when we were in 6th grade. I remember how psyched we were to be going on our own, we were men! The best times, and the best friends!
Black, brown, white, men and women, adults and children, full families and just individuals... All fans of the movie, all speaking like normal clear thinking people. Everyone dressed appropriately....what has happened since 1983?
I was there. Tickets were sold out for Wednesday. I waited until Saturday only to find out that was sold out also. I got up early the next Saturday and rode my bike to the mall. I waited from 9ish AM until 12 noon for the first showing that day. These teenagers kept cutting in line in front of me until an older gentleman behind me gave them a warning. At the time, it was the greatest movie experience ever for me since it was the first time I went to see a film by myself. Best $4.50 I've ever spent.
this is yet another evidence star wars never needed to be "changed for modern audiences" because it already appealed to everyone... now it appeals to no one other than twitter loonies lol
This was back in the day when Star Wars was simply a trilogy of great sci-fi films. There wasn’t much for fans to complain about back then. No “expanded universe” of previously-written stories poorly adapted into Star Wars novels. No “special editions” to beef-up an Oscar winning trilogy with unnecessary special effects. No continuity bending prequels, no Disney… Yeah, this was back in a glorious age when “Star Wars” was just known as the prefect movie trilogy… just like “Back to the Future” is STILL known as today. They didn’t need a prequel to explain why Doc invented time travel, or how he became friends with Marty. They didn’t require a sequel to further the adventures of Doc Brown & family skipping through time & space in a flying steam engine. Oh, well. I’m just glad that I was alive back then. Back when “Star Wars” wasn’t excused as a “kids film”. Back when it appealed to everyone. Just look at the footage… men, women, black people, white people, and if any of those people were LGBTQ, it would be NONE OF OUR DAMNED BUSINESS. Oh, well. Like I said, I’m glad that my frame of mind includes a time when Luke Skywalker was brave, Darth Vader wasn’t orphan Ani, Han wasn’t an absentee father, Leia wasn’t a bratty child, and Boba Fett was a faceless mystery. RIP Star Wars 1977 - 1983.
This is the kind of time I’d want to be alive in. No worthless TikTokers running around making people miserable, no social media, just people living in the moment, enjoying a film. Ironic how Disney whines about making Star Wars diverse when it always _has_ been. See the crowd of people waiting for the first showing of _Return of the Jedi,_ countless different people from different backgrounds just there to enjoy the film. No identity politics infesting it or people shoving agendas into it, but people just simply playing characters in a film or people going to see the film. Back then, films didn’t rely on virtue signalling to carry them, they were just incredible works of art made by people who cared, plain and simple.
"Return of the Jedi is the 3rd flick of a 9 part series." Did you catch that all you people who weren't alive when these came out, but insist that Lucas didn't conceive of the prequels ot sequels until much later? Let's put that nonsense to rest.
Wow it’s almost like Star Wars has always appealed to all races and genders and to act like what they are doing now is somehow making things better because of “muh forced diversity” is actually just not knowing why they are talking about.
This video alone proves Disney's entire approach is wrong. You can see even back in the 80s the Star Wars fanbase was pretty diverse. If you create a film with a compelling story and cool visual effects, all different types of people will show up to see it. You get much better results through competent writing than pandering to people.
