TServo2049 said:

You may well be right. The heavy smoke may have caused more visible grain with each generation than other scenes, so the negative might not look as grainy as this print.

I shouldn't have said that the shot IS recomposited, because I really can't prove it. I guess I just got that impression from looking at the comparison. The lasers look so different that I just assumed that they were recomposited, like the lightsaber scenes.

When I come up with a theory, I sometimes get carried away and start talking about it like it's definitely true. I apologize for that. The truth is that I have no clue as to whether the lasers were recomposited or not.

It's cool, I was just curious if you happen to know something about it, definitely no need to apologize, I don't state any facts either, I just see the similarities with other red boosted objects, like those lights. It may be a combination of the Lowry algorithm, the artificial sharpening that was applied and of course the unnatural amounts of reds. I have noticed that whenever there is recompositing done on the trilogy, the original timings and/or positioning of those elements are never exactly the same.