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Steve Sansweet possibly confirms new changes to SW trilogy on DVD


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Actually, the only changes from the Special Editions that I hated were the following:

1. Han shoots first: Han is the classic CG character. He's a roguish scoundrel with a good heart. He's a smuggler... essentially a pirate. As such, when dealing with twisted, evil people out to kill him, he shoots first. Being a roguish scoundrel with a good heart essentially precludes being very honorable.

2. Jabba in Episode Four: One of the best things about Jabba the Hutt is that we never see him until the final film. This make the impact of his first appearance memorable and important. It created a sense of mystery for a character who manages to capture Solo in one of the highlights of TESB. You know Solo's scared to death of him and the conversation they have in the launch pad ruins his impact when he appears in RotJ in which he's far more sinister.

Luke's scream: I still don't know why, if he jumped of his own volition in TESB, he would scream. And not only scream, but sound like such an punk while doing it. If anything, what I wanted to see here was Vader stopping his fall with The Force, which was cut at some point from the final script.

Vader's Return to the Executor: After the great tension of Luke's fall, his calling to Leia, and her hearing him and ordering Lando to return to Cloud City, accompanied with a fantastic rendition of The Force Theme, we are then bombarded with a sudden vicious statement of the Imperial March as Vader snaps, "Bring me my shuttle." We then immediately know that the group must hurry because tie-fighters are on the way. That's in the original cut. In the SE, Vader says, "Inform my star destroyer of my arrival," as he walks towards a shuttle. Then we receive cuts of his shuttle flying towards the Executor and then him landing and... Why? Not only does this ruin a great soundtrack, it also (more importantly) destroys the tension that was created in the original cut.

If there's anything I definitely think Lucas should change at this point, it's any opportunity to redo the sabre battles. We know this is possible since we see Count Dooku fighting Kenobi... It looked very good despite the fact that we know that there's no way Christopher Lee could jump around like that. The fact that Dooku was at least as old as Kenobi when he fights Vader in ANH means that Kenobi could be as spry. The same with TESB... To really see the Dark Side used to great effect as all that debris pounds Luke to the dust would be great. And a really intense fight in the end of Jedi instead of a fight not as intense as that in TESB.

Yeah, that's all I see as necessary.
 




Pants said:
More changes?

Urge to buy DVD's... lowering... :\
Why? Supposedly the only scene change will be after Han leaves the cantina we'll see Greedo groggily lift his head up, reach into his burned shirt where Han shot him, pull out his dented lucky flask and say, "Thank God," before rising and going on his merry way.
 

Ok sorry to busrt more bubbles but the dvd's are going to be released in a "trilogy box set" similair to Indy and not availble individualy. Everything seen in the most recent "incarnation" of the films (many were nemtioned above) will be in there and new scenes with Natalie Portman in there. I remember hearing that she was all excited to be finishing shooting her scenes for the trilogy. I'm not sure if she's in flash backs or she's a ghost of some sort.
 



Henry said:
is the only problem I had with the special editions. The rest worked very well.

Mr. Lucas, PLEASE PUT BACK THE ORIGINAL IN THAT SCENE!!!!!!
When I watch the "New Hope" DVD, I intend to close my eyes for that horrible, mutilated split-second right after Han says "Yes, I bet you have". In my mind, Han shall always shoot first.
 

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