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- #891865
- Topic
- Despecialized vs my memory
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I even remember getting angry when my purchased VHS tape didn’t include this scene, because it made me believe that lots of scenes could be missing and that I had purchased some sort of shortened version of the film.
I also was shocked to see Vader’s ship straighten out, because I remember us all assuming that Vader had died (the first three viewings were all with the same crowd). With his ship straightening out, it is obvious that he survived, and I doubt that all of us would miss that.
I remember getting angry also. I knew that there were things missing. I never dreamed that there were so many versions of the film floating around. As I remember it, I saw the ship straighten out, the scene with Biggs was missing and the grappling hook worked first try. Most of the differences came at the end and I was sure the film had been shortened.
I love discovering weird things about the truth of our past. Here is a couple you might get. I listened to a taped recording of Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road for years and when I bought the CD I realized that the tape had a record skip in it. When young they had a show called The Electric Company on PBS that helped teach reading. One of the regular segments was Fargo North Decoder. Fargo North played by a woman and she solved word mysteries. My brother was in his 30s when one day he just started laughing. He had just realized the play on words.
The real magic in Star Wars is that almost 40 years later there are a lot of us who saw it in the theaters and still really care. There are so many things in the intervening years that seemed so important at the time that really don’t matter at all, but this little thing still does.