Thank you so much! I was surprised to discover so many photos I had never seen before! It's fantastic that the original Star Wars production was so well documented.
A triumphant debut! The significance of this scene goes far beyond its place in the film's runtime. It's hard to overstate the impact these creatives' work would have on Star Wars alien design for years to come!
I was there when there was only Star Wars. It wasn't called "A new hope" back then. The "boring" lightsaber duel was mind-blowing to us. The cantina was incredible too. If you didn't experience the 1970s, especially as a kid, then you cannot imagine the impact this one film had on all of us. It is sacred to us. That is why many didn't like the prequels (though I did). It's also why we spit on the Disney crap. They have no love or respect for it. This was a great video. Thanks. I'm subbing. Will be happy to see more.
One of the best historical videos on film I've seen. Yet alone star wars. This is so amazing, thank you for making this. Idk any of this stuff, it's eye opening.
This was so well done! Time to watch it again! *grabs my blaster and saddles up next to the bar* "what do you mean you don't serve my kind here?! Beep boooop!
This was so awesome! I never noticed some of these beautifully created creatures like the Mantis! Will definitely be looking out for them in my rewatches now!
The presentation was so professional and entertaining. I thought that I knew everything around this sceen but I learned some new details. This was really awsome!
Great production as always! I still remember listening to the original audio version in the gym a few years back. This version deserves to be aired on Disney+ for sure! Can't wait for my favorite episode: the one on Marcia Lucas.
Wow I love this! I watch every "behind the scenes" of Star Wars I can get my hands on, and this is one of the best I've ever seen. Very informative, entertaining and great editing too. Even learned a few things that I've never heard before. Great stuff! Keep then coming!
Very well done, Jennifer! I had no idea that Rob Bottin was involved in the reshoots! In fact, I didn't know about the reshoots at all until this video! You're always so informative! Thanks so much!
Great video Jennifer. My favorite back round character is Kabe, her at the bar going gimme, gimme, gimme for a drink was always rememberable. I got the 2020 Lego cantina set which included a lot of these characters.
Thanks, Jennifer! 🎬 Those images are spectacular. Since you asked, my favorite memories of Chalmun's Cantina was trying to see female patrons, aside from the obvious Tonnika sisters. Nice to learn in your video that many ladies were in there... maybe under masks. 😆
Oh my goodness, how great was that?! Jennifer, you’ve really outdone yourself. I took a break from my frantic last-third reading of Dark Disciple, and sat down with my first cup of coffee to watch this excellent and informative piece. I had no trouble following along, and was only mildly distracted by all those bushy faces… behind the camera, not in the scene! Was there a line item in the budget for beard balm and combs? 😂 Aside from the real-life humans, I think my favorite characters are the Bith musicians Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes. I am a fan of jazz (or jizz/jatz), and I always enjoy it when local bands play a cover of Mad About Me. It’s funny to imagine the heads expanding and contracting as the wearers breathed… hope nobody passed out!
Thanks so much for spending your morning with me! During my research, I came across a story that Jon Berg shared about the scene. Apparently, when the production team realized the Bith band needed air in their masks, Gary Kurtz used a knife to cut openings underneath the cheek flaps on the masks. Then air was pumped into the openings. Jon Berg said he could see the tip of a blade coming into his mask. 😱Thankfully no one passed out, but what an experience that must have been!
I've always been the person in my friend group who knew the most about Star Wars. Today, watching this, I felt like I was a kid again in school learning about the subject I love for the first time. So educational and well produced. I know the amount of work Jennifer put into this from listening to ForceCenter and it shows. This almost made me think I was watching something straight from Lucasfilm themselves. Great work and I can't wait to see what else is in the pipeline.
Absolutely brilliant work! Kudos to Jennifer for gathering all these great behind-the-scenes images to go with the great history and story she tells. As an old original trilogy fan who grew up, loving all those from Star Wars to Jedi making ofs, this takes me back. And it’s so well done, concise, and accurate. Brilliant work, just brilliant, Jennifer! Thanks forcecenter, can’t wait for more of these
Hi team, nice to see my old interview with JON BERG rolled out. If anyone wants to see the complete interview, or my 9 other interviews with cantina characters, I'm working on a documentary that will come to my channel soon, so keep an eye out on STAR WARS 100 INTERVIEWS
Can someone with some authority tell Bog Iger to finally release the theatrical versions of the Original Trilogy? One thing I liked that George did was the digitally composited all of the effects shots which really cleaned things up. But then he went in an added a bunch of new scenes and CGI. Just do the theatrical version on 4K with the digital composited shots so there aren't any matte lines.
Couldn't agree MORE w/producer Gary Kurtz about changing & adding things in scenes like the Mos Eisley Cantina. At most, you can digitally add things like mouth movements & eyes blinking to make the cantina patrons look more alive - less like masks & more articulated. Perhaps add an odd-shaped creature walking or flapping its wings across the bar (think Watto) which couldn't possibly be done as a man in a suit. Same w/that plant-like jellyfish-type in one of the concept drawings. Do that, instead of another man in a mask/puppet insert-shot in place of the wolfman. The Special Edition scene w/Jabba was totally unnecessary too, since the infomation is the same as what we get between Han & Greedo. It's not just unnecessary & adds nothing to the plot, but the money spent on it could've gone to those little additions to the cantina patrons. And don't even get me started w/the Greedi shot first fiasco.
The “main character” that resembled Zeb was the original design for Chewbacca. Later Star Wars movies and shows have used a lot of previously rejected designs
The new two cantina aliens aren't CGI, in fact both are the same puppet with the head of the first one turned the opposite way to look different making two different aliens. The wolfman can still be seen in the background of certain shots. And the original two shots of the wolfman are actually two different masks so it's two wolfman characters in the original scene
Yes, that's true! Regarding the wolfman characters, in the video I state, "two cantina characters were made from that mask." What I meant was that two Star Wars characters (Arleil Schous and Lak Sivrak) were created from Rick Baker's wolfman character. They were most definitely two different masks, especially because they were masks that had been mass-produced for Halloween. However, Rick Baker altered the Star Wars wolfmen masks to have slight variations. And yes, you can still see Arleil Schous in the opening shot right behind Hem Dazon. In regards to the CGI characters, you're right, the new cantina aliens were created from 1 puppet. In my video, I included a photo of that puppet and Howie Weed, the man who sculpted it. The new characters were digitally inserted into the cantina scene which is perhaps why I called them CGI. Or because I still haven't gotten over that CGI Jabba the Hutt scene in ANH. 🫠 Sorry for the confusion!
P.S. So I've had this strange obsession, legitimately not making this up, with the character of Wioslea. I even have her action figure! I absolutely love her, Luke's Landspeeder buyer. But I do so in a very ironic sense. I adore her because she's got to be the worst designed alien I've ever seen. I mean, hands down, one of the lamest alien designs ever made. It's so bad...it's comically good in that sort of saterical way. And I've OFTEN pondered how this even got approved to be in the movie. I speculated, was this like...someone's kids design and they just tossed it into the deep background hoping no one would notice? Was someone really, really drunk? Did this character come out of sheer laziness? After legit like 20 years of wondering and making jokes about it...I finally, at long last, got an answer.
