The inaccuracies in "How Star Wars Was Saved in the Edit" — Page 2

adywan said:

Ejn said:

I thought this was an improvement over the first video, with the only complaint being that he was a bit too flippant about Lucas adding and then removing Luke’s scream. (However, this again would’ve been a great time to note that according to Matthew Wood, it was an error that Lucas never approved of in the first place and that Ben Burtt put it in himself and must’ve forgotten to ask.)

According to Matthew Wood, the scream was added at George’s request for the '97 Special edition. It was when it came around to doing the mix for the 2004 DVD’s that Mathew , who hated the scream, removed the sound effect and George didn’t notice it had gone, so it stayed that way.

I didn’t know any of this was documented. Do you happen to remember where, Adywan? That scream is still burned into my brain.😑

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

George I had faith in you!!!

Omni said:

adywan said:

Ejn said:

I thought this was an improvement over the first video, with the only complaint being that he was a bit too flippant about Lucas adding and then removing Luke’s scream. (However, this again would’ve been a great time to note that according to Matthew Wood, it was an error that Lucas never approved of in the first place and that Ben Burtt put it in himself and must’ve forgotten to ask.)

According to Matthew Wood, the scream was added at George’s request for the '97 Special edition. It was when it came around to doing the mix for the 2004 DVD’s that Mathew , who hated the scream, removed the sound effect and George didn’t notice it had gone, so it stayed that way.

No that’s incorrect. He said George didn’t remember approving it for 1997 so they removed it for 2004.

Actually, Mathews original story was that he took it out because he hated it and George didn’t notice. When asked about it for the Blast Points podcast he gave your answer. But Ben Burtt has also stated that nothing was changed in the 1997 SE’s without George’s approval.

Ejn said:

Actually, Mathews original story was that he took it out because he hated it and George didn’t notice.

Curious, where did you hear his original story as you put it?

https://blastpointspodcast.com/2022/04/26/episode-308-the-special-luke-scream-mystery/