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Post #246069

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Obi Jeewhyen
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What's Original '77 and What's Not?
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Date created
19-Sep-2006, 8:07 PM
Yeah, was Beru's original Aussie voice ever heard in any version?

Thanks for the responses so far, folks. They are in line with what I've surmised from my long experience, but I haven't done any actual research.

Of the "sweetening" sounds added post-'77, the surveillance camera explosions and the asteroid swooshes really stand out, bug me no end, and pull me right out of the 1977 euphoria granted me by the opening crawl - which, if it is a fake, is a darn good one. My gut tells me it's a fake, btw.


Of course, my gut also told me that 3PO's tractorbeam rant and a stormtrooper's "Close the blast doors" were in the 70mm, stereo mix that I saw many times June thru September in '77. After that, thru the end of the year, I saw the film in a second-run house that must have had the mono mix, and that's where I must have picked up those lines of dialogue. Hence, I will forgive their absense from the newly released DVD.


I wish those later-added sound effects didn't bug me so much. Other folks are bugged by the ghosting, the grain, the non-anamorphicality ... but I am only bothered by the non-seventysevenness in a product labled "original theatrical release." Bah.


(oh well, to each his own quibble.)