Prequels fan watches Star Wars *A NEW HOPE* for the first time (Reaction & Commentary) 

not exactly, he's playin a kenobi that passed thorught a lot of thrauma and war and got over it BASICALLY A VETERAN, prequels is a way more relaxed, funny and sarcastic that was more loyal and obedient soldier

​@@williamshelton4318correct Ewan even said that he studied AG's portrayal of OWK to insure he followed it.

​@@brandonleon4068AG did not know as GL had not done any of the background of OWK when they filmed ANH in fact it wasn't even titled, it was just SW. AG got some info from GL but nothing like was eventually done after SW became what we know now.

@@raybernal6829 I'm talking about coherency in the storytelling not the acting

@@brandonleon4068 yeah ok 🙄

Exactly what I was going to say. I see a few reactions with this same idea of computers being massively powerful since the end of flower power, or old cars being electronic rather than mechanical 🤷🏻‍♂️ To see the most advanced cgi in movies of that era you'd probably need to see Tron I saw the new version of Ep 4 when it came out, and wasn't impressed with most of it, partly because it looks too contrasty and rushed. They should have spent the time on the death star attack at the end: improved its surface and the explosions of the fighters

@@richardfrancis701 The problem is that this film has been altered twice since it's 1977 release, and added CGI in a few scenes not to mention. The Dewbacks that the stormtroopers are riding when they find the empty escape pod on tatooine were added as was the scene where the creature rears as they enter Mos Eisley. I would love to be able to see the film as it was originally released in 1977 and compare the other 2 modifications. As for the 1977 release, it was all model work and Lucasfilm had to come up with new techniques to make the action more dynamic.

@@MsOpportunity68 I like the addition of the dewbacks, the Mos Eisley stuff not so much, and definitely not the landspeeder ride into Mos Eisley which looks almost 2D. My parents have the original trilogy on VHS and will also have recorded them from the TV before that (a couple of shots of the Wampa in ESB must have been censored - eating, and clutching its dismembered shoulder) which I'd have watched dozens of times, but haven't seen them since the early 90s.

@@richardfrancis701Tron ? TRON ??? THE LAST STARFIGHTER ! The Very First Film to feature CGI, from an IBM 3 WITHOUT A Single Computer Graphics program existing in the world yet ! So, Every Single Effect had to be Programmed IN RAW CODE. “You’re saying it’s us, one starfighter, against an entire fleet ?!? IT’LL BE A MASSACRE !” “THAT’S THE SPIRIT !!!”

@@snarflcat6187 you're right, totally forgot about that, and have been wanting to get it on Blu-ray too. I forgot it was from the first half of the 80s; I didn't see it until, maybe, 87

Might be worth a good bit, and I doubt you care.

My story is much like yours (see it among the comments). There are only a few who saw Star Wars without any hype or expectations.

@@edwardjacklewis I heard it was good, so I got my dad to take me to see it. 10 years old. Yeah, I watched it a few more times in the cinema. 20 or so. sit through 3 showings. Mom didn't mind. Cheaper than babysitting & I could walk home. Never repeated the feat. Maybe 4x for Raiders.

Worth a fortune.

​@@augustwest9727only worth it to me 😄.

When Luke asked what happened to his father, and that brief, uncomfortable pause was amazing. Like he took a few seconds to figure out what to say.

Why Alec Guinness got a percentage of the profits in his contract.

@@rayhill5767 Smart man.

You only saw it 4 times in the theater? Impressive. Very impressive.

Curious what sci fi books you liked as a kid. Foundation?

Technically there WAS CGI in 1977. It just looked like the targeting screens of the falcon's quad laser turrets, not what we think of as CGI today.

@@the_omg3242 and the X-Wing's targeting system. ;-) also 7:52 / 21:59 do show this isn't the original version, since *_THOSE_* were cgi. ^^

It's still amusing sometimes, watching first timers thinking these CGI effects existed back in '77 😲.

Well, this IS back in 1997, so I don't know about TERRIBLE. Probably could have been better even by those standards, but, BY those standards, I wouldn't say TERRIBLE.

This movie had some of the first CGI

She said a lot of dumb things in this video. These RU-vidrs are not the smartest.

@@dtz1000 Well that's rude. Intelligence isn't measured by how well you have memorized the dates when Star Wars movies were made.

lol! 🤣 I was thinking the same thing when she said it....

@@corystanish No it's not "rude," it's just being honest... 🤨 Furthermore, you should think before opening your mouth or not say anything at all... 😶

@@Tony-Plinkett Yeah that's something a rude person would say for sure, when sticking up for a fellow rude person

Yup. The PT are basically interpretive dance choreography. The OT, especially "Star Wars" was done in the style of Kurosawa and Samurai style of fighting. All of the Lightsaber duels in the OT had deeper emotional meaning as well.

@@sandman_says_runrunner4701 Bob Anderson used a rather outdated view on bastard-sword techniques for Empire and Return, which isn't a surprise given his fencing and stage-fighting background and the lack of research back then (which really began to take off in the early 90's) although he did well with the better known rennaissance styles in other films. The Samurai stuff came from George's vision in terms of intensity between combatants and making conflict about the characters, not the winners.

And remembeer these are light sabres, which are probably way lighter than swords with metal blades and so bounce off each other more forcefully, thus one false move and it will easily travel through your own body.

Plus the way the lightsaber props were built, for this movie only, basically precluded anything really intense for the choreography, or they'd break.

if sabers were used IRL, everyone would fence. All you have to to is get them with the tip, and fencing is how you do so most efficiently. ALL the fights in the films, ALL the fights in ALL the shows are stupid. But cool.

I can remember a news story (I think it was done by our local station but maybe not) of interviewing people at the theater after it had been out for awhile, asking how many times they had come to the theater to see the movie. Kids and adults were saying 5, 9, 14 times. Of course I don't think management always kicked you out between showings if it wasn't sold out, so you could watch it two or three times in one day on one ticket purchase. Seems I remember staying to watch not the whole movie featured, but the cartoon before hand that played, again. I think the movie was "What's up Doc", but we stayed to rewatch the Winnie the Pooh cartoon that played too. Then left after it finished.

I saw it for my 9th birthday in 1977. It was life changing. I count myself very lucky to have been born when I was. No SW film since has come close, especially not the prequels. I really liked TLJ, by the way.

Ironically, these fight scenes were inspired by historical fighting and samurai techniques. It's the modern nonsense that's comical.

@@headhunter1945 Nonsensical, yes, but there is the Rule of Cool.

@@cyberingcatgirls7069 Well, it's a matter of taste and what you're accustomed to. To me, who has spent a lot of time in HEMA and such, the nonsense just ain't cool. However, of course, if you really wanna make bank, you make the masses happy.

​@@cyberingcatgirls7069💯

​@headhunter1945 That would be accurate to describe Empire Strikes Back where they were able to get someone who could duel in the Vader costume. In this, David Prowse was attempting to do his own fight scenes. Or, you could argue that their cyadica was acting up

As a14 year old who saw this in the theatre in 1977, that scene makes me cringe EVERY TIME!

i believe george had all the prints of the original version destroyed which is sad

What is really ridiculous about the tail walking thing is that it was done for gimmickry's sake and not for any practical reason. Because, in reality if somebody like Han was worried about Jabba having a bounty on his head and he was trying to get in his good graces, he wouldn't be pissing him off by walking on him.

@@loganmaximus2160Actually, it was done because they couldn’t figure out any other way to get Han to walk behind a CGI Jabba. The scene was filmed with a human stand-in, but Lucas didn’t have the money to insert a stop-motion Jabba in place of the actor. Once CGI was available, George decided to add the scene back in. The trouble- they didn’t know what Jabba would look like when they filmed this and got stuck with a big slug with a tail. They shrunk him a little so Han could look him in the eye, but the tail walk was just about their only way to complete the scene.

One of the sad thing about the trilogy DVD set from the early 2000s is that in the commentaries, George keeps bemoaning about how much better this or that effect would've been "if done digitally." Yet all of the digital tinkering he did with the trilogy with the intention of "modernizing" it now stands out like a sore thumb, especially the hideously awful musical number in Jabba's palace, while the great practical effects only look better and better. (The bloated Jabba himself should never be seen walking around -- like Paulie in "Goodfellas", he doesn't have to move for anybody.) And the fact that Lucas slathered so much silly digital nonsense into the scene with Luke and Obi-Wan arriving in Mos Eisley seriously undercuts the joyously jump-cut into the alien-filled cantina sequence.

Didn't george have a whole 9 part story to begin with but chose to start on part 4, i'm sure he gave AG some extra back story

@@bigstevie1690 He had a long story called The Star Wars planned but what we got here is very different. He didn't have anything major planned about Luke's father. Certainly not that he was Darth Vader.

Yoda is cool but knowing now that obi-wan was originally supposed to be in that role hurts my heart

@@bigstevie1690 No. Lucas had a 12 part story outline, that became his 6 movies. Some material was completely cut, but extensive background was created for I-II-III before 1977. And VII-VIII-IX was supposed to be Luke searching for his sister, training her, and only in the 9th movie Palpatine is defeated by her. Not Luke. Still, Lucas did not tell anything to Alec Guiness about the Obi-wan / Anakin back story, as that was not developed yet. Sir Alec Guinness did this on his own. Pure genious.

@@fixipszikon6670that’s not correct. He had nothing beyond this first movie planned out before this movie. That’s why it was not called episode 4 until years later when it was a success and then Lucas began to outline 1,2, and 3.

Plus when this movie was shot there was no plans for any others. It wasn't till they saw the success on this one that they decided for more.

@@davidkrutsinger5414 correct GL only had ideas but nothing tangible

So, its just a coincidence that "father" is "vater" in German? 🙄

​@@acecombatter6620 Yes, it is. In the first draft of the script there was a character named Darth Vader that had nothing to do with the protagonist and wasn't even a Force user. Lucas later gave that name to the main villain in the third draft, so he just liked the name.

Lucas wrote the whole trilogy as one story with one death star being destroyed at the end. When they got serious about making it, he saw it was too long so he cut it down and destroyed the death star much earlier.

I agree, especially regarding her watching ESB, Darth Vader at his most ruthless. Empire Strikes Back is the very best Star Wars movie of them all (in my personal opinion), but still needed the ground breaking Star Wars (77) to set it up. The 77 theatrical release brought swashbuckling romance, adventure, and fun to science-fiction/fantasy that wasn't present in sci-fi movies prior to it (except perhaps a couple of scenes in "Forbidden Planet"). I couldn't believe how quickly that movie went; it seems funny to think she feels this movie's pace is slow, maybe it is, in comparison to current film offerings, but back then it was all over all too soon. Another point she made, that I find interesting, is that they built up the characters so that we'd feel for them (have an affinity with who they were), even after all this time has passed I clearly recall the characters' names, I can't say the same for many/any of the characters names from many recent movies. We don't have any feeling/empathy for them. Name one character from "Avatar" for instance (without "Googling" it!), yet even "minor" part players in "Star Wars" even the likes of Uncle Owen, and Aunt Beru are easily recalled decades later (by the way, I only saw the theatrical releases once each, until the release of the special edition VHS tapes, and even then I only saw each film maybe twice more). No such caring, empathy, affinity is felt for characters in current/recent blockbusters.

Well no. Serialized movies had been a thing right from the silent era onward. Complete with cliffhangers tied to the rail tracks with a steam train barreling down. Then in the next episode there is the continuity breaking of suddenly free from the ropes and escaped after all!

It also has a lot to do with the mix of English and American actors. Carrie Fisher had lived and studied in England at the time and was said to have been intimidated playing opposite veteran actor like Peter Cushing and seems to affect a British accent in episode IV as well. The pronunciation of Han and Alderaan also varies.

Same with how people pronounce Han. They even have an in-universe joke about it in the Solo movie

the older I get (51) the more i appreciate the different pronunciations. I've travelled to 4 of the 5 continents and they pronounce MY name differently in Japan, Uganda, Trinidad, or Venezuela. Different regions ("it's regional," is George Lucas's response to different pronunciations) enunciate different syllables in different orders. For instance, in Uganda, the speak the last half of a word slower and the first half quicker, so "William" sounds like Wil-LEEEEYAAAM," but in Japan the whole word is shorter and brusque, like "Wyim." When you hear words pronounced SLIGHTLY differently, you get a real sense of being SOMEWHERE ELSE than home. It's a nice touch, in addition to the wear and tear he puts on all the set pieces.

They are now instead doing that Queen's English is the language of the Empire.

3PO saying "prin-CESS" instead of the American way to pronounce princess got child me to start saying it the British way decades ago, and I've never stopped.

So cool!

@@BecauseBecaBeBeca Harrison Ford was in one of George Lucas' first films called 'American Graffiti' (1973), which is a big reason why he was chosen for this role.

​@@libertyresearch-iu4fy George had auditioned many others and in fact HF was used in those auditions as a reader as HF was there initially working on lightning and sets. Finally GL decided to offer the role to HF. HF after ANH didn't want to commit to both sequels as MH and CF did. That is why Han's fate was open in the end of ESB and Lando was part in the end was teaming with Chewie... Obviously HF decided to do ROTJ. 😊

@@raybernal6829 As one of the two most recognizable characters Harrison Ford ever played for whatever reason he didn't like playing Han and wanted him dead in ESB. Apparently he only agreed to do The Force Awakens if they killed Han.

@@ronweber1402 then he came back to do a scene in The Rise of Skywalker so nothing is permanent (certainly he did it as a tribute to Carrie).. 🥰

Someone remade the Vader/Obi fight... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-to2SMng4u1k.html

It wasn't a peck on the cheek. That was edited in years later when full-on-the-lips movie kiss was spawning memes.

It makes sense to me that being called a human would probably hit about the same for a hutt as it would for a human to be called a slug. Unflattering, to say the least, “wonderful” or not.

he stepped on Jabbas tail. thats why the the upstep

The shoot never made it to the screen. I saw this when it first came out and Jabba was a slug

And then he was nominated for Best Original Screenplay lol

Yes all three MH HF and CF have all said that on interviews 😂

but I thought crummy dialogue was only an issue with Disney SW... 😜😜

@@kaygee2121No, it’s quite obvious on the prequels

@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 indeed!

But if you can literally see the immediate future you can afford a couple of stylish pirouettes here and there to intimidate your opponent 😜

@@7Rendar Not if your opponent can do the exact same thing, that leaves you at square one

@@roguehart Knowing something will happen and being able to stop/counter it are two different things.

@@7Rendar yes but the advantage of foresight disappears when your opponent also have foresight.

@@roguehart Sure, but there's a difference between how much foresight you have and how well you're able to react to it changing on you on a split seconds notice. That's what makes a pirouette in combat so intimidating - you're basically showing off. Or maybe it's just because they thought it would look cooler on film. 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂

You are right... in fact, in the original theatrical release, Han not only shot first but he was the only one to shoot.

George Lucas utilized the works of Joseph Campbell, who did a lot of research into common themes in the stories of world cultures. One such theme is "the hero's journey." Look into that and you'll see how many elements GL used: the young innocent farm boy, the elderly experienced mentor, the princess in need of rescue, the rogue, venturing into the unknown and returning much wiser...

There was also the hard work Luke had to put in to go from sniveling teenager to Jedi. Of course, Rey didn't have to do anything. She just suddenly became a Jedi Master, all she needed was to pick up a lightsaber. Story telling!

If you want to see some acting range from Alec Guinness in a comedy movie, please watch Kind Hearts and Coronets. He is wonderful in lots of movies, and as an older actor in the TV series "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and "Smiley's People".

@@parissimons6385 And of course "Lawrence of Arabia."

That's Sir Alec Guinness. Sir, because he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

@@parissimons6385 Ladykillers

@@DavidGarcia-kw4sf Bridge on the River Kwai; Great Expectations - that's a David Lean triumvirate of titles with this fine stage and screen actor.

Well stated - when I first heard her say they definitely had CGI in the 70s, I realized how difficult it'd be to say, "Yes, but not like you're imagining," in a way that was comprehensive. Also worth noting that there wasn't a ton of money spent on the production of this film. The budget was 11 million dollars, which is roughly equivalent to $55 million today.

when they're shooting at the tie fighters from the Millennium Falcon, the tactical display on the guns are CGI, and so are the tactical displays (wireframe graphics) on the targeting computers when they're flying into the death star. 🙂

@@DarkStone1979 It's amazing to think about the fact that this movie had the lowest budget by far of any Star Wars movie ever made.

It would be great if she got a hold of the un-retouched IV-V-VI and see how vastly updated they were!

The torpedo animation is cgi done by the same company that eventually did Tron

Technically, CGI in films has been around since the 50's, the first use being "Vertigo" with its opening sequence spirals. The first combination of live action and CGI, or what we think of it as today, being "Tron" in 1982. You are spot on though with the only CGI in "Star Wars" being the wire frame Death Star and Trench Run. She should watch the Theatrical Releases to fully appreciate the original effects. The SE are sacrilege!

And it's very much open to debate how much of that original trilogy he had mapped out. He sure as heck didn't plan to have Leia be Luke's sister from the beginning.

CHAPTER IV yes? I grew up on chapters. Episodes were a prequel thing. I hated the change. (Sadly too young to have seen the OT in theaters but grew up on the vhs)

Really interesting! Poor Jar Jar. Get's a lot hate yet was the first fully CGI action character!

I think the CGI in Phantom Menace is fine. The pod race looks incredible and the likes of Jar Jar and Watto generally look good. Jar Jar is a distraction, not because he's CGI but because of the character. It's a testament to the cgi that the complaints about Jar Jar are directed towards the performance, not the technology.

Given that Phantom Menace was more or less contemporary to Lord of the Rings, and the LotR CGI was superb, I don't think that's much of an argument. Also, Phantom Menace was half a decade after Jurassic Park, which looked better with earlier tech.

I really think TOM his up very well. Some of it is even better than the two next movies

@@BlunderMunchkinyeah. I always say that JURASSIC PARK came out long before and looked better.

To be honest, I saw the prequels when I was really young and barely understood them, but I always knew those spoilers growing up. I don’t think when I saw the movies as a kid that I understood really the luke/leia stuff. However, it was so talked about that it was almost impossible to avoid. People in school would quite “Luke, I am your father” or joke about luke and leia. So since I already knew these spoilers, I decided to watch it as an adult as 1-6 and I have to say i’m glad I did. For me, watching 1-6 made Vader’s story incredibly impactful and heartbreaking. (Stayed tunes fir the other commentaries) I would definitely say that if you have somehow avoided these major spoilers, you should watch them as they were released.

What many people miss about the "mysteries" is that they were never mysteries to be solved. We didn't wonder who Luke's father was, we already knew: it's Anakin. We didn't wonder who Luke's sister was, that was never even a question until it's revealed. They were unexpected twists. The mistake in the Sequels (7, 8, 9) is to set up mysteries to be solved (which lead to wild speculation and unsatisfying resolutions) instead of just revealing them.

I WANT to see more people watch 1-6. I think Anakin falling to the dark side is FAR more powerful and surprising than vader being lukes father.

@@theendistheend123 Ben Spiller is one of them, he's doing everything in chronological order.

Most people do know the main spoilers of the original trilogy, and chronological order just makes more sense for newcomers now, with all the content available. Even George Lucas himself said chronological order is the way to go. People stick with release order because they just want people to experience it the way they did. Vader being Luke's father is one of the most well known things in pop culture whether you've seen Star Wars or not.

I know this is a joke but I think the spinning lart do this wasn't much of a choice.

*42:09

Guinness actually did grow to appreciate the mythology by the time of the second movie.

He owed Lucas nothing. He did it because Lucas was upcoming and script was a page turner despite the dialogue.

Can anyone here provide sources?

@@miralande220 yes, i cant Post the link, but here on YT search Alec Guinness about Star Wars 1977 He Talks about, the stuff not beeing for him but still turning pages, the Bad dialouge and what he wanted George to change and the 2% of Star Wars he asked for

@@miralande220 no they can’t. It’s all head cannon. 😂😂😂

I call BS on that. Sounds like something Lucas came up with after the fact. Seems to me he had no idea what he was doing at the time, and by sheer luck created one of the most iconic franchise in human fiction.

@@jovetj He made comments like that in 1980 and 1981, so before Return of the Jedi was out. If it is true, I'd really like to see what he originally had in mind for the sequel trilogy. Supposedly, he did send something to Disney, but they canned it and wrote their own script for The Force Awakens. No idea if what he sent Disney in 2013 or so had anything to do with what he was thinking in 1980, or, if as you suggest, what he said in 1980 was just bluster.

100%! Lucas made up the "History" as time passed. Star Wars was a stand alone film.

Yup, Stockholm syndrome. I was shocked when I first hears about that.

​@@perssontm1628I think you mean the Mandela Effect. Stockholm syndrome is where a kidnapped person starts to feel for their kidnapper.

@@Ravenpoe121 Oh dang you're right, i mixed them up.

close enough

one of the most misquoted lines in cinema history 😅

I still have my original versions on VHS. Sadly, I have no machine to play them on. Given that they haven't been played in about 20 years, I don't wanna know what condition the ribbon is in

@@Hoeech I have the originals on LaserDisc! I also haven't played them in about 20 years.... I should try

Yes there was, in fact CGI in films has been around since the 50's. The wire frame Death Star and Trench Run were CGI.

Wish I could experience that. I’m sure it was amazing.

Even in 1977, 10 million wasn't a lot for a film. Even with that small amount, something like 7-8 million of the budget went into trying to get the special effects right, as they were inventing a lot of techniques on the fly.

@@homiedclown It helps that massive name actors weren't massive named actors yet (except Alec Guinness & Peter Cushing, but they didn't have that much of screentime).

If you like realistic warmovies, go rewatch Platoon (1986), now armed with the knowledge it was actually an indie movie too.

Remember, the video games going through the deathstar's trench? I played that so many times...wow the quarters we all dumped into the arcades of the '80's!

Dang! That’s so cool.

He was in the end though

@@BecauseBecaBeBecaSome other media also confirms that Anakin is the Chosen One, but some characters in Star Wars think that Luke is.

@@BecauseBecaBeBecaI’d like to pinch your cheeks

There was a lot of attrition of clones, their growth had been accelerated and at this stage the youngest clones would have been physically 40 years old and Kaminoan society was destroyed by the Galactic Empire to stop rivals using the cloning technology.

Wow, thanks for all the facts!

First of all Rogue One isn't that bad Krennic and The Death troopers were great as was the whole battle of Scarif for example also that droid Chewie scared off is called a Mouse Droid it made squeak noises like a mouse

Re: #5 IIRC, GL also added more fighters into the background when they were flying toward the Death Star from Yavin.

@@slimjimnyc270 and other minor changes

Didn't she talk about Luke teaching Rey something? I thought she watched prequels and sequels first lol

Wrong. The original version had "episode IV" on it but the studio had them take it off becuase they thought it would be confusing. When it was a hit they put it back in just a matter of weeks after the release.

@@alphanerd7221 I know when I saw it when it first came out, it was just “Star Wars.” I know that IMDb can be wrong, but this is from IMDb: “When first released in 1977, this movie was simply titled "Star Wars," as it was intended to be a stand-alone movie. The sequels were not considered until after it became wildly successful. The name of this movie was changed to "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope" in 1981 to fit in better with the names of the other movies. The later print was the first one to be released on mass market video (an earlier Betamax release did not have the subtitle), and all video, LaserDisc, DVD, and Blu-ray releases have featured the subtitles. The theatrical cut DVDs, released in September 2006, were the first time that the original opening crawl, without subtitle, had been released on home video. The reason George Lucas created the title card "Episode IV" in the first movie was as an homage to 1940's Saturday afternoon "cliffhanger" serials, like Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. He also used the "text crawl" the same way each of those series opened up new chapters. He did not, at the time, have Episodes I, II, and III already planned. In fact, at one point, Twentieth Century Fox wanted the "Episode IV" title removed so as not to confuse moviegoers. There are some prints of the movie that do not have that title card.”

@@Dej24601 You are confused. Though the official tittle may have been changed later, the prints of the movie put out to keep up with the demand after it was doing great in the theaters all had the "Episode IV: A New Hope" in the crawl. Lucas was also always planning on doing a series if it made enough money. I have no idea what the studio's plan was.

@@alphanerd7221 then you should write to IMDb to tell them their entry is wrong (what is in the quotation marks in my comment above) and that your information is correct and they should replace what they have with your remarks. I was assuming IMDb had verified information from authentic sources. But I am not confused about what I saw in early 1977. And that when I saw the film when re-released in later years, the opening was different as well as the few CGI alterations/additions.

@@Dej24601 Like I care that IMBD is wrong about one of a million things. Your ignorance is tedious and redundant.

That makes sense! I didn't catch that line but that's hilarious!

@@BecauseBecaBeBeca That scene didn't even appear in the original theatrical release. It was shot with an actor playing Jabba as human but was cut and only re-added much, MUCH later, long after Jabba's final look had been established in Return of the Jedi. So, not only did they have to cover up the actor in the footage, but when Han walked around him, he now had to (disrespectfully, to be sure) step up on Jabba's tail....and THAT bit of digital manipulation looks particularly janky.

@@Pixelologist What's worse is that there's duplicate dialogue in the added scene; some of what Hans says to Jabba is the same as what he said to Greedo.

The original scene is on the disks of the films, as well as on RU-vid and similar sites.

I think that either they shouldn't have included the Jabba scene or that they should have made him a hologram. I don't buy the whole "stepping on the tail" thing. Jabba would have had a very different reaction if someone did that to him.

Everything in those sentences is wrong. And I am not the last Jedi.

It was not due to any "constraints." And the lightsabers weren't expensive. They were sticks, with the glowing effect drawn onto the film later.

@@elbrucesthey were delicate rotating sticks with movie screen reflective tape on them

Initially, the theatrical release didn't have any episode number, but after it was a smash success and they knew for a fact they were going to make a trilogy and they anticipated prequels, they re-released it with the inclusion of Episode IV in the opening crawl.

@@janetcarr1576 Yes, but it was clearly starting mid-story, as if there was story before that we missed. The scrolling text at the start functions as a recap before this episode. Adding "Episode IV" to it only accented the feel of coming into the middle of a sequence of serials.

That's exactly correct. Lucas himself stated as much in an interview, though I don't recall the source. He was a huge fan of the old serials and wanted to replicate the feeling of coming into the middle of an ongoing story. That's also the reason for the opening scroll, which orients the viewer in the same way the opening narration did in old WW2 newsreels. The technique is even used more directly in the Clone Wars series, with a literal narrator.

There is some serious revisionist history about Star Wars being a hexalogy, or even a trilogy. The "Episode IV subtitle in the opening crawls was not originally part of the movie, and it is unnecessary to get the in media res feel of old Flash Gordon serials. In reality, the basic story of Star Wars is Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress" with some pulp adventure added on. Moreover, we can tell that the Star Wars films and the prequels being some pre-planned "Saga of Darth Vader" is a complete lie. If we look at Vader's character in this movie alone, it is clear that he is *not* the big bad or the Emperor's right hand. In this movie, he is simply the muscle. Grand Moff Tarkin has no problem ordering him around, Princess Leia is clearly under the impression, as is everyone else, that, scary as Vader might be, he is not calling the shots - Tarkin is. The other military officers are in no way afraid to talk disrespectfully to Vader, and even though he does demonstrate his Force powers on one of them, there is no indication that he is at liberty to use them when and however he wants. SPOILERS BELOW Once we get to Empire, there is a remarkable switch in Vader's character. He *does* become the Emperor's right hand in that movie, apparently with the power to do what he wants with an entire fleet and accompanying ground forces. *This* is when the "Saga" that Lucvs has claimed the franchise to be started. However, even with this, we see that the character relationships had yet to be fleshed out - in particular Luke and Leia being siblings. The reason why Luke and Leia are siblings is because the filmmakers were able to get Harrison Ford back for the third movie. Alan Dean Foster's 1978 "Splinter in the Mind's Eye" was based upon an outline that Lucas had prepared for a budget Star Wars sequel in the event that the original film bombed. Of course it was a blockbuster, so he got to make Empire Strikes Back instead. However, in Foster's original novel (I understand that more recent printings have reconned the text), the Luke-Leia romance was furthered, thereby demonstrating that Lucas had not always planned to have them be siblings. Moreover, Empire also advances this potential romance because of Leia's affection towards Luke both on Hoth and at the end. Had she always been intended to be his sister, it would not have been portrayed as it was because the whole unintentional incest trope is for K-Dramas, not Western space opera. Knowing the behind-the-scenes story, it is clear that the development of the Han-Leia romance in Empire created a serious love triangle problem once Han Solo was to survive the carbonite freezing and then rescued. Lando was initially supposed to replace Han as the rouge-with-a-heart-of-gold archetype, and with Han out of the way, Luke and Leia could get together. However, with Han back, the filmmakers needed a way to resolve the love triangle such that nobody "loses" or has hard feelings. By making Leia to be Luke's sister, it conveniently gets him out of the love triangle while maintaining everybody's friendship with each other as it was before. There is also some lazy retconning from the prequels, but I am done writing for now.

While "Episode IV: A New Hope" wasn't in the original 1977 version, the second movie did start off with "Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back" and the next year, in a 1981 re-release, is when the number and subtitle were added to the opening scroll of the first movie. And yes, it was in order to create the feel of being parts in the middle of an ongoing serial. There were no plans at the time to go back and actually create episodes 1 through 3 or 7 and beyond.

I looked at the fight between Obi Wan and Vader as they were both older and weaker. Last time they fought each other they were much younger. It dose look silly today but episode 5 and 6 improved big time on the lightsaber fights.

That fragility resulted in a sword fight that looks more realistic than the cartoonish fighting in the prequels.

I remember seeing the "remastered" versions in the cinema in the 1990s (because I wanted the Star Wars big screen experience, the only original I had seen in the cinema as a kid was Return of the Jedi back in '83) and thinking the remastering just made the movies worse. The only things that were better were the explosions (Alderaan and the Death Star) and some of the rebels' "computer simulations". Every other addition just felt like cheese, especially the bounty hunter shooting (and missing) Han Solo first. My feeling was it did not bode well for the prequels which had been announced, turned out my feeling was right.

@@theMosen I didn't like any of that. Especially the explosions with the expanding halo. And everything had a pinkish tint to it. What I did like was the polish on the dogfighting over the Death Star. That was kind of nice. But also unnecessary. The rest of the effects, especially those in Mos Espa were (and are) just incredibly annoying.

When it was just called Star Wars not A New Hope

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She, like many a fan saw the prequels in theater as kids and were never exposed to the originals via tv or dvd. It is very common.

@@kevinkenyon1254 Really, that's a crime against humanity

As stories and visual storytelling the prequels are very good. We also were introduced to worlds and characters that were intriguing and likeable. And some of the action was excellent. Rough dialogue and Jar Jar (and some lorebreaking) aside, they're very good movies.

tbf, people enter SW by many, many different methods now. I came in at 13 years old in 1999 with the prequels. Some grew up on the cartoons. Some are entering now through Disney Plus, and some became fans through video games. No crimes here. Fans come in many forms.

Not to mention, with all the content now, I really feel chronological order is best for newcomers that are wanting to embark on the whole SW journey. It makes more sense that way. There's no right or wrong way to get into, or enjoy SW (so long as we all keep in mind where it all started).

In The Empire Strikes Back, they still didn't know what the emperor looked like. The footage they used was of course later overwritten by Lucas.

Interestingly in the novelization there was a short prologue which made the Emperor out to be an idiot who was manipulated by the Senate.

He had a 12-part story in mind, inspired by the 12-part black-and-white cliffhanger serials from the 40s. He wanted to do twelve two-hour movies (grouped as four trilogies) of a larger story, rather than twelve 20-minute episodes, and wanted them to come out three years apart, 1977-2010. He started with the second trilogy, which (intentionally or not) mirrors the way Wagner wrote the Ring of the Nibelung cycle of operas in the 1800s, starting with #2 and then writing #1, 3, and 4. By the time GL had made three movies (now called episodes 4-6), he had a family and didn't want this project to consume his whole life, so he took a break. Unfortunately, he ended up selling Lucasfilm to Disney, and they took the story in weird directions. I don't fault him for selling, because he deserves to be rewarded for what he did; I'm just sad that his original vision got hijacked.

Actually "Star Wars" wasn't officially re-titled until a year AFTER "The Empire Strikes Back" had been theatrically released. There was a lot of confusion over "Empire" having "Episode V:" in front of it. "What is that title all about?" was the comment of the day. "Star Wars" had a theatrical re-release in 1981 and that's when it debuted the new "Episode IV: A New Hope" sub-title. Other than re-doing the opening crawl to account for the added sub-title (and the added time length affecting the music beats during the pan down revealing the 1, 2 and 3 planets in view so that the beats are now slightly off), nothing else was changed. Unless you want to discuss the slight sound mix differences between the mono, Dolby Stereo and 6-track 70mm mixes during the theatrical release. And which was used and what was re-mixed again for the various home video releases over the years up to the Special Editions and their various home video relesaes. That can be a whole other discussion. Since the first home video release ever of "Star Wars" wasn't until '82, the new sub-title was now permanently burned into everyone's minds from then on.

Lucas would go back and basically use some of those elements of the Hidden Fortress in the Phantom Menace.

The number and name "Episode IV: A New Hope" was added in a 1981 re-release to bring it in line with Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. So while it's not original to the 1977 version, it came well before the 20th anniversary release in 1997, which is when most of the other big changes (particularly CGI) came in.

Those two clowns were soldiers? I thought they were just house servants.

Thank you, so many people think GL had some grand plan, but the studio wasn’t expecting SW to make any real money (that’s why Lucas successfully retained the merchandising rights, or a good chunk of them, I forget) its surprising success then led to Empire and Jedi. Heck, Anakin and Vader were two different people until right before ESB, Leia wasn’t Luke’s sister..

@@tonyclements1147 What happened with the merchandising and sequel rights is that after American Graffiti became a huge hit, Fox wanted to ensure they held on to Lucas because he was the hot new director in town so they offered to renegotiate his contract and give him more money. Lucas declined but asked for the sequel and merchandising rights. Nobody expected the movie to get a sequel and merchandising wasn't really a thing so Fox agreed. Then of course Star Wars became a massive hit. Kenner Toys were overwhelmed and rushed to make Star Wars toys that didn't come out for a year so at Christmas, kids would get vouchers for Star Wars toys that didn't exist yet. Fox owned that movie and made a lot of money but had no power over the now inevitable sequels and so Lucas held them over a barrel and gave them distribution rights for the sequels on his terms (though Fox did get to improve the deal somewhat after they helped Lucas secure a loan to fund Empire).

@@jedsithor I was one of the “early bird” kids that got the voucher, I miss my collection..I had everything until the SW Droids cartoon merch came out. It’s insane how much the original trilogy figures, vehicles and playsets are going for nowadays.

George Lucas had written a much longer story and plot ideas but he knew it was too long and he had to shorten it to make this one a commercial success to get more funding. SO the first movie was like the first third of his story BUT much of the remaining story was dropped and much more stuff was added by the time Empire and Return were made. The story morphed.

Like Avatar in 09’, its success was largely in its effects.

"she's padded to look pregnant." Makes sense. After all, her name is Pad-me.

Not sure Lucas even _had_ the Emperor yet in Ep4's story, wasn't his first appearance in ESB?

@@irrelevant_noob the Emperor didn't appear in episode 4, but he was very briefly mentioned. So Lucas had some ideas in mind for him, but probably hasn't fully fleshed him out in his mind yet.

​@@homiedclown His initial idea for the Emperor was that he was a powerless figurehead, with the Imperial bureaucracy being the real power, a concept Lucas would revisit in the prequels. I don't think it was until _Empire_ included a scene where Vader bows to the Emperor and calls him "Master" that he started thinking, "what kind of person does Vader call 'Sir'?"

The Force speaks in mysterious ways.

That's what I said when I walked into the theater to see episode VII.

Do y'all know the game "describe your sex life with a Star Wars quote"? There's always a bunch of people answering with that quote.

The reason the fight was shot this way is that Alec Guinness was an old man and not spry. There was no serious existing back-story.

​@NoHandleGrr and now there is

Ah that makes sense, but still better! Haha

Technically they were added just before the prequels. Before the first prequel released in 1999, a bunch of special effects were done for new scenes added for the 20th anniversary rerelease in theatres in 1997. It also served as a test run to see if ILM(Lucas’s special effects company) was ready to handle a new Star Wars movie that relied more on digital effects over the more difficult practical effects/model work used in the Original Trilogy. While there were some very minor tweaks made to some scenes after the prequels for things like the DVD release, boy-ray release and release on streaming, 95% of the added work was for the big ‘97 rerelease. For a lot of fans like myself who were just starting grade school the last time one of the Star Wars movie opened in theatres, the ‘97 rerelease was our first chance to see the Original films on the big screen(larger tv’s were a lot less common too. Our 27” cost more than a 55” today).

Some people say that George Lucas is a hack and a fraud

I have a copy. It was a backwater.

They did move him up and down in post-production because he just walked around at floor level while filming it

@@IvoB1987 also since this scene was not in the original takes, they must've pieced it together from some random walking he did somewhere else, which seems to have been on level ground. xD

​@@irrelevant_noob They did film this scene for the original, but it was cut and never made it into the movie until they remastered it (with the CGI Jabba) for the 20th anniversary re-release.

I 1000% recommend watching Harmy's recut. It's the best version you will see that's as close to what the original theatrical release looked like as possible. It takes OUT all the janky CGI that feels so out of place and restores it to how it was originally presented.

4K77, 4K80, and 4K83 are also solid choices.

Why would fans bother "fixing" it, when the DVDs come with both remastered and original theatrical release versions? Just get a legit 20th anniversary DVD and watch the theatrical release version that's on disc 2. Those should still be available, aren't they?

@@Niwashi_ The problem with those releases is that they are old standard definition laser disc copies slapped onto a DVD. The quality is pretty shitty, and they're not even anamorphic widescreen, so you get massive black bars on every side of the image. The only way to get a worse version of those movies is to pop in an old VHS tape.

@@Niwashi_ They are fairly rare because people aren't giving them up. It's also lower quality because they didn't bother remastering them at all and they used a pretty average source for them. I still prefer it over the Special Edition, though. The added CGI is the most jarring in the OG Star Wars; especially in the Tatooine scenes. While you still notice the additions, it's not nearly as bad in Empire and Jedi. The frustration is there's no legitimate reason not to give the theatrical release versions a 4K treatment instead of altering the films. Especially with George Lucas himself espousing the dangers of digitally altering classic films before Congress back in 1988; yet goes and does exactly that himself. The hypocrisy is strong in this one. What projects like Harmy's version does is attempt to restore and preserve the original version; that's why it's valuable, since Lucas certainly shows no interest in doing so.

Yea so it works they both may still have the force but there bodies are older can’t move as quickly with the force as they did when they were younger.

10 years. Episode 3 wasn't the last time they fought. That was in the Kenobi tv show which takes place 10 years after episode 3.

@@IvoB1987 When the movie was made that history wasn't there.

Then, too, Vader's prosthetics were doubtless hastily prepared and would give him more or less constant discomfort, so that despite his relative youth, the two are equally matched. 🤓

Not entirely true. George bankrolled "Empire" and "RotJ" himself. Fox only stayed on as the distributor.

No, it started a little more slowly. Excitement only began to build by word-of-mouth after the movie had been out. The trailer was lame and there was no anticipation.

@@harpfully For the time that was lightning fast.