A NEW HOPE | *HARMY'S DESPECIALIZED EDITION* | FIRST TIME WATCHING!! 

She knows. Watch her response to your movie.

Your response should have been, Aren't you a little short for a Sith?

Let’s just keep this brain melting stuff to ourselves....

Clearly you’ve been told some fake news. He told you he’s from the planet Vulcan 🖖, but clearly he’s from, uh...the Death Star.

Hey you! Get your damn hands off her!

Too soon!

It’s on fire!

It's called "Harmy's Despecialized Editions". He made all three movies. Because he did such a good job, a Hollywood studio hired him.

You’re shocked? Imagine audiences 45 years ago. This was mind blowing. It earned every bit of its pop culture status.

Han was the _only_ one to shoot.

@@scipioafricanus5871 Thanks for noting the distinction. That phrase always bothered me. So wholly inaccurate.

Only han shot.

That's my headcanon of tarkin now. All business at the top, bunny slippers on the deck. :D

Not entirely accurate. I think Lucas was copying the highfalutin dialog style of the old Flash Gordon serials, which were of course American.

@@ThreadBomb And the villain, Ming the Merciless, was from Elizabethtown, Kentucky, near where I was born!

If you notice, when Leia was talking to others in the Imperial government, specifically Vader and Tarkin, she uses the accent, but with rebels she uses an American accent. It might be explained as some kind of protocol when presenting as a senator.

She also said on an episode of GRAHAM NORTON, that she had been studying in England at the time she got the part, so she did legitimately have a faux English accent, sometimes...

@@Ubernerd3000 "Bi-dialectical". Gillian Anderson and Sandi Toksvig are two examples. Gillian Anderson switches depending on the accent of the interviewer/country of interview. Sandi keeps her posh British accent, but when she does "impersonations" of American accents, it's not an impersonation, it's her childhood New York dialect.

I am baffled with Lucas in that. I mean yeah, people over exagerated something that ultimately doesn't really matter. But at the same time, it is baffling it is so important to Lucas because in the decades since he changed it has even one person said "I am so glad they changed it so Han didn't shoot first... that bothered me!" Said no one... ever... in the history of time. Yet it was SO important to Lucas even after the backlash he caved and changed it but changed it so they shot at the same time because it was THAT important Han didn't actually shoot first. I mean how much money did he spend making multiple changes to something that not one person ever asked for much less appreciated.

Han was a criminal and knew who he was dealing with. Of course he'd shoot first. Any other edit is simply bad as well, because who'd miss that badly from across the table (unless they'd just been shot and then there'd have to be enough time passing to affect their shot, so it can't be simultaneous, and not enough to recover from it). Many things don't matter, this one does. (Totally off-topic, but it sucks that the makers of Deadpool think oxygen is flammable..)

All other things aside, the fact that Han shoots first and then later comes back to save Luke shows character growth. He goes from a mercenary just looking out for number one and grows to become one of the good guys. This character growth is ruined by the subsequent changes to the scene.

@@blechtic If you've never seen the burnt body of a man killed in a Liquid Oxygen fire, or knew nothing about chemistry, you would probably not know that oxygen is flammable lol

@@mutazoia Dude, Greedo was about to shoot him. It's self-defence anyway. And they even added Jabba scene to show his balls.

uhm... okay I won't correct you on that one because... well you know why. But you know why it's not quite accurate and we'll leave it at that.

@@Hiraghm Breha is the queen of Alderaan that is why she is a princess.

@@Hiraghm It was quite accurate

@@k.sammokko4218 I think they’re referring to the fact they’re not Leia’s *real* parents.

*adoptive parents, that is.

We're glad you watched the despecialized version of the movie

Except the Dagobah stuff is the most boring part of the sequel.

@@ThreadBomb Totally. Learning about this phenomenon that exists in the universe that allows Jedi to do unimaginable things. What a snore.

@@ThreadBomb That's the meat and potatoes of Luke's journey to becoming a Jedi. I've never found it boring.

@@ThreadBomb this is the mindset that birthed the prequels lol

@@ThreadBomb Boooooooo!

Yay! Shanelle is badass.

Talk about "burned into the brain". I was 9 years old when Star Wars came out. My father snuck an old audio cassette recorder under his jacket into the theatre and recorded the audio on two cassette tapes. I then spent the next 4 years re-living the movie over and over listening to those two cassette tapes while re-enacting the movie with my Kenner Action figures. I had the audio burnt into my brain so much... that when Lucas redubbed the audio his changes... even the smallest changes were super noticeable to me. One in particular that bugs me to this day is Aunt Beru's inflection in her voice during the scene when Uncle Owen asks her if she'd "seen Luck this morning". Aunt Beru's dialog is exactly the same all the way through the scene... however the inflection in her voice is totally different. Her "I think so" was a caring statement... that was changed into a question with the re-dubbed soundtrack. This archive has the original soundtrack! archive.org/details/StarWars16mm Jump ahead to the 27min mark to hear her original answer with the original voice inflection.

I was 3 years old when this came out. It's the first movie I truly remember seeing in theatres. I saw it twice during its initial run in 1977. Then in the summer of 1982 they rereleased A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back as a double feature in order to generate excitement for the third installment in the Star Wars franchise, and I saw it in theatres then too.

I was 8, it's burned into mine also... and that 20th Century Fox music... for years, I thought it was just for Star Wars lol.

I was 11. And I've only ever seen standing ovations in theaters at the end of Star Wars movies.

Yeah, same (although I was 18). It's hard to imagine now that there was a time when nobody knew what "Star Wars" was. Other than knowing it was sci-fi, we didn't really know anything about it. From that opening crawl to that first shot of the ships flying over the camera, and then every second that came after is still one of the great movie going experiences of my life. The ending was the first time I had ever seen a movie theater audience stand up and applaud (myself included). Then, there were the years-long waits for the next films, the thrill of standing in line to get to the theaters and, as always, that opening theme with the Star Wars logo hitting the screen. Reacters watching these films (and all films, IMHO) on laptops are missing 95% of the true experience, at best.

Thank You!!!!!

To be fair, that's pretty normal when you don't miss.

>SIGH< Barve, am I ever ambivalent on THAT point . . . .

That's often the way it goes, if you know how to shoot. 😉

Han didn't shoot first... he shot.. (wait for it)... solo. ;-)

Another good example of a MacGuffin is the suitcase in Pulp Fiction.

@@HisKingdomGrows wow you are so unfunny it hurts

I was 10 in 77 and saw this with my dad and older brother, was pretty awesome to see in the theatre for a couple of kids from a little town on Vancouver island ☺️

I was 8 years old n '77 and I had only seen Disney movies or similar up to that point. After watching Sear Wars, my little mind was blown and my love for films and cinema forever cemented.

StarWars is just a overblown knockoff of SPACEBALLS

@@rwbimbie5854 that doesn’t even make sense

@@rwbimbie5854 lol

My thought was, 'He's the baddest mofo for miles around. He could've gone by himself'.

It is dangerous. For the Rebels.

He's the scariest thing those particular rebel soldiers could possibly have seen walking through that particular door hole.

yeah, Rogue One would be a great next step after the original trilogy and omg the hallway scene is epic.

Yes! Mad props to Lance for hooking her up.

More than that, this is the OG 1977 release version -- the opening title crawl doesn't even include the "Episode IV: A New Hope" header, which was added after the release of _The Empire Strikes Back_

Han shot first, MFers!!!

@@mikepeters807 Just as nature intended.

@@mikepeters807 First implies that Greedo shot at all, so that slogan doesn’t really work either.

Always my gif reply to those who send me the new movie gif

General Kenobi!

@@matthewdavidjarvis6039 HA!😁

It's like poetry.

@@matthewdavidjarvis6039 ^_^

Carrie Fisher's real explanation for it is that it's impossible to say the line "I recognized your foul stench the moment I was brought on board" without a British accent.

Proper copper coffee pot :)

@@Rmlohner Yes, but Lucas retrofits in-universe explanations for things all the time. Padme Amidala has a haughty, regal "diplomatic" voice, too - which isn't her natural way of speaking.

_Code switching_

@@Rmlohner Yeah, Americans don't speak like that but diplomats do, so it still works.

yay im glad I could take ya back for a little!

Same for me! I haven't watched the non-disfigured original version for decades. It's like a miracle Shannell got the untouched episode IV. 😲🧡

I saw what you did there!

You will recognize that last quote later in the series, Shanelle......or is it earlier?

@@ShanelleRiccio Good for you for actually finding a fan made De-Specialized Version of this. You actually got to see Star Wars the way I saw it in the theaters in 1977. But why you would think a film that is generally considered to be the greatest film of all time would be be cheesy or corny is kind of messing with me... a lot. And Han didn't shoot first, he shot ONLY. Period. Make sure you watch Harmy's De-Specialized "Empire Strikes Back" as well.

yessss welcome!!

That's a kind of ass pain that one can treasure.

She has the unicorn I want!

Me too! If she saw the "updated" versions, she wouldn't have been able to say it wasn't cheesy.

...and now she knows why "Han shot first" is so strongly held as an eternal truth by those of us Original Fans from 1977.

You can even see it is as it doesn't have "Episode IV: A New Hope" at the start of the crawl (added in the re-release)

🤣

@@randomfangirl2503 You cruel person. :P

Cheeky

@@KevinLockamy :D

Really? I didn't know that!

Luke went on to be the joker And Vader mufsa

she had to be called out--- 😂

I loved Carrie Fisher and “Wishful Drinking” was wonderful. RIP princess.

She was so hilariously mortified by her bad accent in that first scene and recounts it well in both “wishful drinking” and “the princess diarist” which came out shortly before her passing. In the latter book she finally let the cat out of the bag regarding her affair with Ford during the filming of “new hope” - if interested I recommend the audio book read in her voice. Her humor and sharing of her own diary from age 19 on set is not to be missed.

@@pretzelsalty Thanks, pretzel. That sounds good.

In the Canon, that accent is called High Coruscanti which is there to explain why there are so many British people in the Imperial fleet.

She also picked it up from Peter Cushing (whose accent was very real) and it's much more pronounced when she's around him.

You are correct sir! :-)

Hey Chef... his name was Greedo... what you wrote is a racial slur towards Italian-Americans.

Holy shit. I always assumed the original also had Greedo shooting. It is clear that in this original theatrical version he never did.

ha yes! This was a big deal for Eric Foreman in That 70s Show, I always thought that was so funny!!

@@ShanelleRiccio yep he went like 20 times to see it. And dreamed of Donna dressed up as Leia.

I think I wanted to see these entirely because Eric Foreman loved them so much! haha

I remember all the effect houses at the time were not up to George's vision, hence he built one from the ground up (I.L.M.) w/ John Dykstra's crew

Well, I believe the testament to that is seeing someone's first reaction over 40 years later say specifically that she thought she'd have to grade on a curve and didn't have to!

That and then every non-Star Wars movie of the 80s look like it came before these films did. Super impressive.

The amount of sheer ingenuity in this trilogy is amazing. Dykstraflex is an obvious example but they basically innovated motion blur with go motion as well.

Right, that's why other Directors like Spielberg and Coppola were in such amazement when they saw this. Modern day directors and film makers have no understanding of what this movie did for the industry, and the technology that came from it.

EXACTLY! Lucas had so much more of a shallow worldview than I could ever have imagined.

@@AnthonyL0401 The reason these films were better is that he wasn't so big that people wouldn't tell him "That idea is stupid". It happens a lot .

@@adgato75 omg, yes this. The video about how Star Wars was saved in the edit makes it clear that this movie was only good because there were people around him that were better filmmakers who he wasn't so big he could ignore yet.

@@j.f.fisher5318 Yep. It happens to a lot of creators. Anne Rice is one , in the literature world.

Also I don’t see how shooting someone who wants to have your head makes someone like totally irredeemable, not in that world where Obi Wan just chopped off a man’s arm lol.

Also a classic knights tale. ^^

Chewie just not exist to you? 🤣

@@Drummer4President Buster the Wonder Dog

@@Drummer4President Oh, you mean that guy that didn't get a medal? :P

literal Greek Mythology

yes! I think I figured that out after!

@@ShanelleRiccio -- Shanelle, I do not know if you will see this in time (not sure how far ahead you are on your Patreon), but I am BEGGING YOU DO NOT WATCH THE ORIGINAL AND PREQUEL TRILOGIES IN RELEASE ORDER!!!! A few years ago, before the Sequel Trilogy was made, someone online made an argument for what has colloquially become known as THE MACHETE ORDER -- it recognizes that if you watch them in the order of "Original Trilogy then Prequel Trilogy" there are twists/moments in the Prequel Trilogy that lose weight an narrative impact. Instead watch them in this order: IV, V, I, II, III, VI (Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back - The Phantom Menace - Attack of the Clones - Revenge of the Sith - Return of the Jedi) Episode V (Empire Strikes Back) ends with some major twists/moments, and if you jump back to the Prequel Trilogy instead of watching Episode VI (Return of the Jedi), it narratively works like a long extended flashback of "How Did We Get To This Point Where The Twist Makes Sense", and it gives you extra time to digest and process the impact of those moments. Plus, there are a number of narrative parallels between the trilogies, especially so between Episode III (Revenge of the Sith) and Episode VI (Return of the Jedi) -- because George Lucas was a big fan of rhyming story arcs -- and seeing the version of the arc play out in Episode III adds extra weight to their parallels with the arc in Episode VI because you are forced to wonder if they will play out the same way or if different choices will be made. As a storyteller who understands film yourself, hopefully you will see the value in what I laid out above -- I promise you, your viewing experience will be much better for it.

@@kristopherheenk2710 If I were to offer unsolicited advice for watch order, it would be skip 1 2 3 because they are horrific, and add nothing aside from minor Vader & Stormtrooper trivia. Especially to someone who already knows who Vader is. Meesa inna badda trilogy.

@@kristopherheenk2710 Please stop pushing machete order. It is absolutely not the way to watch it. It isn't the way it was intended to be watched, and it isn't the way one would watch it if they were interested in the scripts or film making. It is a poor recommendation to Shanelle especially.

@@kristopherheenk2710 Shanelle... Do not do that

😁

@@ShanelleRiccio You've just taken your first step into a larger world. ;-)

Lucky you. I hate what they did with the bad CGI added here and there in a completely unnatural way, so different to the surrounding elements. It gets you out of the movie.

I wasn’t even sure you could get that anymore. I knew people had made fan versions where they restored it to the original, but i didn’t know you could get it other than through fan sources these days.

@@elzar760 well it was "given to her" so I assume that's exactly what that is...

Yes! SW has been SOOOOOO bad for SOOOOO long that people forget how amazing, technically superior, well written, well acted, well scripted, and revolutionary the OT was. The franchise has gone through enough bad times to sink a dozen movie franchises and yet fans are as loyal and rabid today as they were 40 years ago. That says a lot about how phenomenal these movies were.

Millions of voices cried out in terror.

"Where did you get this hovercraft? " "It's not a hovercraft baby, it's a landspeeder."

Zed's dead baby

@@mgordon1100 "I'm sorry, baby, I had to crash that landspeeder."

Jedi consider Death to be a quaint concept.

EXACTLY!!!!

Must watch in surround sound indoor theater PLEASE

I wish I had the theatrical version

Was. #scnr

@@peterampee-kleisius Too soon.

@@ChrisMaxfieldActs My thought as well. Have you no decency, Peter? :P

Not just Alderaan. She was a princess in the Empire, stating in the opening scenes that she's a member of the Imperial Senate. Up until this point, Leia was acting as a mole in the Empire for the Rebels. Though based on Vader's attitude towards her, it's clear that the Empire had suspected her to be an undercover Rebel for sometime. Her "diplomatic mission to Alderaan" was a cover story, giving the Rebels a method of smuggling the Death Star plans to Alderaan. However, it's worth noting....if the Rebel base was on Yavin IV, why were the plans taken to Alderaan?

@@sixstanger00 Well, I always assumed that since she was taking the plans to her father (who is also a member of the Rebels) that he'd have his people analyze the plans and tell the rest of the rebels about it. Probably figured they'd be safe on Alderaan. They'd probably take their time to get some forces together and launch an assault on the Death Star at some future date. They'd probably prefer to have a much larger attack force but when they showed up at Yavin IV it kind of forced their hand. Also, I don't remember it ever being said that Leia was a princess in the Empire. She was a senator in the senate, I know that, but I don't think her royal status really meant much as far as the workings of the Empire was concerned.

Agreed! Unexpected, but I approve. ;)

Truly a woman of quality. Of course if she really wanted to go galaxy brain, she'd watch the laserdisc versions.

@@kevinramsey417 haha some ultra rare Japanese only laserdisc cut that still has the Koo Stark scenes in it.

Absolutely agree! The way they were originally intended to be seen, not the "bedazzled" versions that came out years later.

So old that Han still shot first.

I was eleven in 1977, and yes, this film was mind-blowing! It was the first time I ever saw a movie in the theater more than once (three times that summer, with the second time in the front row since the theater was sold out).

@@kathyastrom1315 I think Star Wars was one of the first (and few) times that people walked out of a movie theater and IMMEDIATELY got in line to watch it again. Ron Howard walked out of the theater and said to the people he was with, "We have to see it again."

@@kathyastrom1315 Yup, I was 12.

And Ewan's brother is a pilot in the RAF, and his his aviator nickname is Obi-two.

Peter was reputedly a much better sport about being approached by SW fans than Sir Alec was, likely because of all those "plebeian" horror films he (Peter) was already known and loved for lol

Peter Cushing was also the Doctor! Well, not in canon, but in two movies from the 1960s.

@@kathyastrom1315 Who? ;)

Knowing Grand Moff Tarkin was walking around in comfy slippers because Peter Cushing hated the boots and realized his feet weren't in any shots in no way removes the gravitas of Grand Moff Tarkin.

He borrowed heavily from everything from Greek Mythology, Shakespeare, different religions and folktales and classic literature. History Channel has a documentary on all George's sources and influences from a historical perspective..

Lucas had more planned then a lot of people think and was more involved in Empire and Jedi than many fans give him credit for. Essentially the other 2 directors were better with actors than George and these projects are so big that he focused his attention on effects and editing. Really if we want to be accurate the credit should go half and half for Lucas and Irvin Kershner on Empire, same with George and Richard Marquand. Would it have improved the prequels to have those extra hands absolutely and it would’ve been better if the sequels stuck with George’s vision. In the originals we get our cake and ate it to.

It’s not weird for directors to make changes to their intellectual property either. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xaeTOMvf67c.html

I got lucky! Happy my guy Lance, hooked it up! He's here in the comments somewhere...

@@ShanelleRiccio Nice, I thought I was the only one who still has the original versions of Star Wars lol After you watch all the 3 films, I recommend you a book called Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, its the same book George Lucas read in college which he used as the frame work for Star Wars particularly the Luke Skywalker character

It really is the best way to experience them for the first time.

I didn't see if it had the interaction between Biggs and Luke on Tatooine. If not, then this is 1978 re-release, which I saw when I was 8 years old. I wanted to see it so bad when it first came out, my mom promised if it came out again she would take me to see it. I was so confused that what I saw on the screen didn't match what I saw in the book.

Yeah dude,cool story 😎. My dad took me and my big bro to see this in 77,I was only 10 but remember it like it was yesterday. Greetings from British Columbia

this. seriously. I'm amazed they haven't re-released this version as a simple cash grab because a lot of people would buy them, including me. But yeah they are really hard to find.

@@j.f.fisher5318 Not sure they can, Lucas allegedly destroyed the original master copies after making his edits.

Yeah I've had an archive of them for 20+ years ripped from LaserDisc :)

Goodwill stores and resale shops, especially the local crappy church ones. They always have old media.

They’re the Despecialized versions, you can find them online

that's so messed up ! I didn't really even see much about her on the trivia for this! But I did keep the trivia really short on purpose because that section can get really long on my videos :(

Marcia's editing + Williams music. the initial edit was still without a soundtrack, making it drag even more.

@@MrEvers Yes, absolutely! This film works because of Marcia, John Williams, and sound designer Ben Burtt. (But of the three, I'd say with five Oscars and 52 nominations, John Williams is not the one who people have forgotten about).

@@ShanelleRiccio This movie invented quick cut editing, Executives on the film thought it would make moviegoers sick

Is it? People mention all the time.

Every time I read, "A New Hope" I'm like which is that I only remember it as Star Wars when I went to the theater in 1977.

@@ThePharaz I actually thought I was crazy because I remembered the original but couldn't find it until maybe five years ago.

@@ThePharaz Apparently Episode IV and "A New Hope" was added for the 1979 theatrical re-release.

In Archer's voice: "you can just say, 'Star Wars'"

@@dernwine The episode number and subtitle were added when they decided to make sequels and prequels.

This was my thought as well. With that beautiful hair he has I don't doubt it was Maybelline...

@@MysterClark You'd have even less doubt after watching him in The Star Wars Holiday Special; they actually put eyeliner on him. (heavy pancake makeup to hide scars from an accident)

Also a movie called LOOKER was the first to do realistic human form CGI. It's brief in a scanning chamber where the female lead is being scanned in the nude.

Actually yes, but he changed details over the years.

@@Jerome616 I agree that George had a much bigger vision to the overall story in the mid 70s than what we saw in the original movie. I also agree that his story did evolve over the years into what it has become.

Yeah but I'm not sure they planned anything after Return Of The Jedi, and the prequels may've just skimmed off of these to create their storylines.

@@Jerome616 Lucas' plan was to just tell the story of the original trilogy. He didn't intend to do prequels or to expand on the clone wars at all. The original plan was a single movie but the script he wrote ended up being _way_ too long and worked out a way to cut it down to a single movie with the possibility to continue the story if it was successful. He brought forward the destruction of the Death Star so that, even if it wasn't successful and didn't get sequels, it would still be a self-contained movie with a proper resolution. This meant that he needed to rework the climax of the trilogy.

Retroactive planning...

EXACTLY.

His effects company, Industrial Light and Magic, is still a giant in the field.

Because of Star Wars....🎯

I've never heard anything like that before.

If anybody has netflix, watch the Toys that Made Us. . . Stars Wars is first episode. The history of toys, advertisements for movies, tv shows like My Little Pony, WWF, Barbie, He-Man and more.

I was literally seconds away from making this comment on Leia's accent. I imagine it was meant to make a connection with the swashbuckling romances of Hollywood's golden age, which were among the many cinematic influences that went into Star Wars.

And in both canons I believe, he flies in a flight simulator.