Jabba vs. Dancer...

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hezekiaah's avatar
Jabba vs. Dancer...

Maybe I'm off base here, but I feel like Lucas changed the whole Jabba vs. his Dancer fight to make it less controversial or disturbing.  I watched the two scenes side by side recently...

In the old one, Jabba is clearly trying to do something nasty with her...and she knows it, as it must have happened before, and she freaks out.  Jabba, not handling rejection from a slave well (and understandably so...what was she thinking?), kills her.  Disturbing, to say the least.

In the NEW one...It really seems like the hapless girl hits Jabba accidentally with her chain, and then he gets mad at her.  She begs for mercy, and then he kills her.  Almost all of the leering is taken away, and Jabba never points to himself as though demanding something "more", and he announces her fate "boscka" quite a bit before he drops her in.  Her lines proclaiming her disobedience (foolishly as it were) are more limited too. 

Is this another example of Lucas "kidifying" Star Wars so that it's less adult?  Seems like the whole change makes it less that the dancer was freaking out about Jabba's depraved demands, and more that she screwed up somehow and paid for it.  I don't know.  I could be just imagining it. 

 

 

DuracellEnergizer's avatar
RE: Jabba vs. Dancer...

Short answer: you're probably right.

Last edited on March 27, 2011 at 7:00 AM by DuracellEnergizer

God doesn't think in terms of black or white - or even shades of gray - but in big, bright, bold hues of blue and orange.

hezekiaah's avatar
RE: Jabba vs. Dancer...

 

Right.  And in the first she was screaming for help as SOON as she got down there, like she knew what punishment was coming...While in the re-edit it's like she kind of ignorantly thinks everything is fine (she was quite composed for just being dumped into a pit filled with bones) when she's in the pit, up until the gate rises up and she sees she didn't win a new car or something. 

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