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skyjedi2005
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The original ending of Ponda Baba
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6-Sep-2011, 3:23 AM

Well in the novelization and the screenplay was not Ben supposed cut the guy in half, into two gruesome sections from chin to groin.

This like Vader ripping the rebel troops arm off, or stormtroopers heads exploding were toned down for the film.

 

Since this scene is borrowed from one of Kurosawa's film where Mifune kills the guy with his Samurai sword the cut in half part was probably too graphic, and the spurt of blood etc.  In the Kurosawa film it is more implied you don't see the guy literally cut in two.

 

I cannot remember which of the two films the scene was in its either Yojimbo or Sanjuro.