Darth Bizarro said:

Kurt said:

ray_afraid said:

twooffour said:

that one line about Jabba's intolerance for lousy smugglers is really the only "sore thumb" in the whole business.

ALSO it ruins the big reveal of who and what Jabba is in Jedi.

it also shows the Millenium Falcon before it´s actual "introduction"

Did Lucas put ANY thought in this before making the changes ?

@OP

interesting read !

Yeah, especially considering that when Luke and company walk into the see the falcon for the first time, the big swelling reveal music which reaches it's height only to be cut of by "what a piece of junk" is completely stupid since we just saw the damn thing like 2 minutes ago.

This is a perfect example. John Williams wrote that music specifically to create the comedy moment, which is based on the fact that no one had seen the Falcon before. It was written knowing there was no Jabba scene, and had the Jabba scene been included this music piece would not only be different, it would probably be completely absent, because the joke wouldn't work. The music was never meant to be heard with a Jabba scene preceeding it. It is areas like this where other artists involved in the film have their work distorted and misrepresented--what would otherwise be considered a violation of their "moral rights". But it also highlights what happens when you go back and put stuff back in; this is just a scene, but it works the same way as a whole film does (think of the Jabba scene as a "prequel scene" and the piece-of-junk scene as the "original scene"). But the effect is that the film had not been structured to accomodate such material added before, voiding a lot of the structural changes that were originally made. If you watch the scene after the film is over, as a bonus feature, the film is fine; just like if you watch a prequel as the sequel it is, then it is fine. Place it before the original material, you make the original material now act as the sequel, which undermines its entire structure.