Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:
hairy_hen said:
The grappling hook thing is ridiculous.
I believe that people "remember" the missed grappling hook because every other motion picture with a similar scene includes a miss or two. The brain fills in what we expected to see. It's a common movie scene. I was sure I saw it too (I was 17 at the time and saw SW four or five times in 1977, in two different theaters), but now I'm convinced that my brain simply filled in what it expected - since I hadn't read the book it couldn't have come from there.
Well I still stand by that it was there on premiere day (70mm Paramus, NJ, before they sent out the later version when they expanded 70mm showings). If it wasn't though, I don't think the above would explain it. How many movies had I even seen then? I was pretty young, had only just learned to read not even really a year earlier. And if some zorro on tv or whatnot had had such a thing, it just doesn't fit anyway, at least not in my case. It just wasn't that sort of a memory. The only possibility would've been reading it in the book some months later and then not seeing it in the 35mm regular mono release and then somehow dreaming that night that the extended scene had been in the 70mm showing that had matched the book and then having a very realistic, full detail dream of the entire scene and then dreamed I was watching the 35mm showing and seeing the whole scene again in detail without it and being shocked that it was not there and then somehow a few weeks later forgetting it had all been some very elaborate and realistic dream. I doubt it though.
I'm having trouble finding my original copy of the novel. If it were to have say a 1978 republication date or something then that would prove that there would've been no way for me to have read it in time for that to have even been a possibility. I know I didn't read it right away after having seen the 70mm. I can't quite remember when I did though. I wonder if I go through old audio tapes recorded when I was a kid if there would be any hints about any of this....
I need to try to track down the earliest record of when I wrote down what I though the differences were.