After watching your video this was the main point of contention regarding the falcon gun special effect shot. I know you got that info from a wikipedia page that I feel is incorrect info and I don’t blame you for taking that statement at face value.
The link above describes the shoot out where Greedo comes to collect Jabbas money and they both get caught up with the stormtroopers. Greedo dies and Han escapes.
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I could see George thinking about changing when the Greedo scene happened and how it happened and getting something alternate, but I’m pretty sure that if this was filmed that it was never in any cut.
What you see in the finished film “is” this scene with the greedo / Rhodian character edited out.
And how can you tell? That scene described is not in the script where everything else in the film is. IF it was filmed, and that is a big if, it was an alternate take. You are taking one actor’s word over everything else we have that says that there was never anyone else in that scene. Because one actor says he was in a scene that shouldn’t exist is no reason to insist it should exist. It most certainly wasn’t in the Lost Cut that we are talking about. Or any other cut. From the scene as finished, only Han is shooting. So no trace of it in the script, no trace of it in any known footage, and the conclusion is no alternate scene and the actor is mis-remembering. You have to use logic and reason when researching these things and when you don’t find the evidence, then it never existed. Just like the shot of Luke throwing the grappling hook and missing before he succeeded. I clearly remember it, but there is not a shred of evidence that it ever existed outside the book. It was never in the script. One of those clumsy edits in the film does hint at it, but as far as we can tell, it is just the shot that fit when editing, even though the continuity is off.