Hey folks,
So here is my question, what if in 1997 George Lucas just cleaned up the deleted scenes, added them back into the original films, and nothing else?
I have been looking at this for quite some time perhaps 2 years on and off and it’s not as straight forward as you might think.
Adding the deleted scenes back in radically changes the opening of the film amongst other cut’s and splices when you start to deep dive it is not only deleted material but even in existing material within the film is in the incorrect order especially gun battles or repeated sections of film and audio synch issues.
To say the deleted scenes do not belong in the film I would agree that with Jabba the scene is totally obsolete. Luke and Biggs are not however and I think that this is something worth trying to achieve.
To understand how these scenes work was and still is a long process. It is a slightly different film but not that different, but different enough to make it a different experience,