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Star Wars (1977) - 'Behind The Scenes / Making Of' images thread — Page 6

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V.I.N.Cent said:

Huh. Looks like the sandcrawler’s side hatch was planned to be a lot bigger at one point (with likely implications for the overall scale).

I think the big hole is there to access the internals (the remote controlled machinery). Only the other side of the sandcrawler was finished and filmed (with the film flipped when necessary)

Han: Hey Lando! You kept your promise, right? Not a scratch?
Lando: Well, what’s left of her isn’t scratched. All the scratched parts got knocked off along the way.
Han (exasperated): Knocked off?!

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This is an interesting photo. I can see Lucas and Kurtz center-right, and someone’s fiddling with a projector in the back, so maybe they’re showing some dailies or a version of the cut or something like that?

One of the few shots were Cushing actually wore his boots.

Shooting the live action plates for the stormtroopers outside the DS hangar bay pehraps?

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Note the two landspeeders on the trucks in the background.

The deleted landspeeder close-shot with the rear-projection turned off.

Pretty cool photo that I’ve never seen before. Seems like its from the scene where Ben and Luke discover the slaughtered Jawas.

Lucas applying some goop to Greedo

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ZkinandBonez said:
I’m not quite sure what scene this is from. Maybe just the actors talking backstage? It seems like they’re standing directly under stage lights though.

Looks to me like they’re standing in front of the Death Star viewscreen. You can just make out the slanted lower edge of the screen area.

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ATMachine said:

ZkinandBonez said:
I’m not quite sure what scene this is from. Maybe just the actors talking backstage? It seems like they’re standing directly under stage lights though.

Looks to me like they’re standing in front of the Death Star viewscreen. You can just make out the slanted lower edge of the screen area.

I had to turn up the brightness of my screen, but yes, it does seem like its the viewscreen in the background. So unless I remember those scenes incorrectly, this means that there’s a deleted scene where Tagge was present, presumably either before Leia enters the room during the destruction of Alderaan scene or some extension of the scene where Vader and Tarkin discuss the tracking beacon.

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I think it might be an alternate take of the scene where Tarkin decides to blow up Alderaan. The actors’ positions are different, but since the scene was filmed in one shot it wouldn’t be an issue.

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ZkinandBonez said:

Shooting the live action plates for the stormtroopers outside the DS hangar bay pehraps?

Yep! And that’s none other than Joe Johnston in the Stormtrooper suit. Hasbro even made his action figure years ago:

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ZkinandBonez said:

ATMachine said:

ZkinandBonez said:
I’m not quite sure what scene this is from. Maybe just the actors talking backstage? It seems like they’re standing directly under stage lights though.

Looks to me like they’re standing in front of the Death Star viewscreen. You can just make out the slanted lower edge of the screen area.

I had to turn up the brightness of my screen, but yes, it does seem like its the viewscreen in the background. So unless I remember those scenes incorrectly, this means that there’s a deleted scene where Tagge was present, presumably either before Leia enters the room during the destruction of Alderaan scene or some extension of the scene where Vader and Tarkin discuss the tracking beacon.

It’s probably this scene from the revised fourth draft:

INT. MAIN CONTROL ROOM - DEATH STAR

Darth Vader and the regional Governor Moff Tarkin stand before a huge screen that shows a million stars. Admiral Motti and General Tagge are standing with them.

MOTTI
The final check out is completed and all systems are operational. What course shall we set?

VADER
She has a great deal of control. Her resistance to the mind probe is considerable. It will still be some time before we can extract any useful information from her.

TARKIN
Perhaps she would respond to an alternative form of persuasion.

VADER
What do you mean?

TARKIN
I think it is time we demonstrated the full power of this station. Set your course for Alderaan…

Originally this scene came just after Luke finds the skeletons of Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru. But (with dialog slightly reordered and some of Tarkin’s lines given to Vader) it’s basically in the final film, but without any alternate angles.

There IS an establishing shot of the Death Star exterior, which isn’t in the script - perhaps the original idea was to use the wide angle of the bridge as the establishing shot, but that didn’t convey the idea of the scene taking place on the Death Star well enough.

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ZkinandBonez said:

This is an interesting photo. I can see Lucas and Kurtz center-right, and someone’s fiddling with a projector in the back, so maybe they’re showing some dailies or a version of the cut or something like that?

I think this is the screening room at the proto ILM warehouse in Van Nuys.

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ZkinandBonez said:

This is an interesting photo. I can see Lucas and Kurtz center-right, and someone’s fiddling with a projector in the back, so maybe they’re showing some dailies or a version of the cut or something like that?

People at projector: George said he wanted to show everyone the old Flash Gordon serials to go over something.
Other person realized that mistakenly they were given not Flash Gordon but Flesh Gordon…

Once again this thread and all these photos really warm my heart. One can almost feel the lips curling of all the British crew in the candids who didn’t believe in the film they were working on.

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Some of them probably worked on Flesh Gordon! 😛

I’d love to know what flop from 1977 shot at Elstree those blokes though was going to go through the roof.

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There’s actually some pretty funny stuff in Flesh Gordon. The “good, there’s oxygen on this planet” gag is a classic.

And I swear the burning wreckage of Not-Princess-Aura’s swan spaceship was an inspiration for the cutscene before the duel with Sariss in LucasArts’ Jedi Knight.

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^ from https://twitter.com/ClassicStarWars/status/1309266366885634049

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^ from https://twitter.com/ClassicStarWars/status/1307680920405671938 (no Dinosaurs 😉)
 

A little patience goes a long way on this old-school Rebel base. If you are having issues finding what you are looking for, these will be of some help…

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A Project Index for Star Wars Preservations (Harmy’s Despecialized & 4K77/80/83 etc) : A Project Index for Star Wars Fan Edits (adywan & Hal 9000 etc)

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^ https://twitter.com/ClassicStarWars/status/1274069440900956161

A little patience goes a long way on this old-school Rebel base. If you are having issues finding what you are looking for, these will be of some help…

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A Project Index for Star Wars Preservations (Harmy’s Despecialized & 4K77/80/83 etc) : A Project Index for Star Wars Fan Edits (adywan & Hal 9000 etc)

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Always wondered what that board hanging from the rafters was for.

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Black or white boards are usually for creating shadows or bounce lighting I think.

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My guess is that it’s a “flag” and that they’re trying to block out some light.

It looks to dark too work for bounce lighting, which is (at least in my experience at film/media schools) usually done with either white boards or silvery/golden cloth.

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Yeah that’s what I’m trying to describe from vague memory.

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Apologies if these have already been posted (please delete if they been posted before in this thread, mods)

 

The FE Renegades thread; from the people who post ‘go kill yourself’, ‘fuck you’, ‘let’s throw abuse’, and more at OT staff & members. Four years on and still throwing accusations, slurs and abuse at the OT & anyone outside their Salacious Crumb filled clique. + FE Discord “to vent” more at the OT. Wook’s take.

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Edit: Tobar pointed out in the post below the following 3 images are from a VW TV advert based on The Cantina scenes which aired around 2012(?) - and are NOT from the making of / behind the scene of the original Star Wars film. Whoops!

Kudos to Tobar for pointing that out…

^ It’s a trap trick!

The FE Renegades thread; from the people who post ‘go kill yourself’, ‘fuck you’, ‘let’s throw abuse’, and more at OT staff & members. Four years on and still throwing accusations, slurs and abuse at the OT & anyone outside their Salacious Crumb filled clique. + FE Discord “to vent” more at the OT. Wook’s take.