• frog_brawler@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    Weird. I’ve called it “A New Hope” to differentiate it from the other movies since 1990 or so. At the beginning of the movie, when the words are scrolling, it says, “A New Hope.”

    • friedmag@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      21 hours ago

      That’s kind of his point. The original release didn’t say that. The rerelease in 1978 did.

      • frog_brawler@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        18 hours ago

        The original release didn’t say “A New Hope” in that scrolling text at the beginning of the movie?!?

        • Saryn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          18 hours ago

          No, it didn’t because at the time Lucas didn’t expect to make more movies. He did have the basics for a larger story on his head, but the first movie was made as a standalone, telling the middle part of a larger story. If i remember correctly, when the first movie was being made, Lucas hadn’t even decided that Vader would be Luke’s father. He thought of that after the movie’s success and when it became clear it would become a series.

          Edit: To finish the story - the title credits for the first movie were added later, after the original release, when it was clear that more movies would come out and that each one would need its own title. But before all of that, the first movie was simply titled “Star Wars”

          • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            17 hours ago

            Also Luke was “Starkiller” for most of the length of the development of the movie.

            The scene where Luke rescues Leia from the jail, they filmed it with him being called “Luke Starkiller”. Here’s Mark Hamill himself telling the story.

            https://youtube.com/shorts/w3pvz7rM48Y

            Also, don’t you mean before that, titled “The Star Wars”? (I honestly don’t know, but didn’t someone earlier say the original had “the” in the title?) (Edit oh yeah there is a comment saying that but it’s another thread on this same post, dk about the veracity)

    • hardcoreufo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      Their “alliance” with the ewoks during the battle of endor definitely broke the prime directive.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I finally found the original, un-fucked with Star Wars without all the Lucas edits and CGI. So much better than the crap they messed with.

    • Owl@mander.xyzEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      Yes

      Idk why they called it Christmas “special”, since it’s a single movie-

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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      12 hours ago

      No! And the reason I say no is because Greedo didn’t shoot at all! In some versions they both shoot and in some Han shoots first and in some second. In the one I grew up with (VHS box set, face edition) he is the only one to shoot.

    • Zagam@piefed.socialEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Yeah, no. That green fucker never even had a chance to pull his trigger. Han capped him in the coldest of blood then sauntered out with less bothers than Winnie-the-Pooh with a tummy full of hunny.

      • dalekcaan@feddit.nlEnglish
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        2 days ago

        God forbid a character start out as an asshole so he has room for character growth.

        • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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          11 hours ago

          What I hate so much about the modern versions is that not only do they try to make him not a bad guy, but they out that stupid scene with Jabba in right after it. Narratively it serves the same purpose as the previous scene and the dialogue is nearly identical. Plus it really cheapens how big of a threat Jabba should be. Han steps on him. Jabba was throwing people into a pit just for shits and giggles. Why would he let someone step on him? Some scenes really should stay deleted.