General Star Wars Random Thoughts Thread — Page 43

Verboten said:

Apologies if this has been covered.

It's recently been noted that the exterior shots of the Falcon cockpit have been cropped in Empire. Unless I'm mistaken, there has been some mystery as to why this was done.

Well, the answer seems to lie in The Making of the Empire Strikes Back. See, when George had the cockpit set designed for Star Wars he wanted it be a cramped set in order to reflect real world cockpits.

When it came time to rebuild the set for Empire, Kurtz requested that it be built a bit more spaciously. Why? Apparently, the actors had complained to him that the cramped quarters of the original set were hindering their performance. Lucas didn't know about the change and was not pleased once he found out, but by then the set had been completed and he could not afford the time or money to have it rebuilt.

So, over twenty years later he has the cockpit frames zoomed in and cropped to give the appearance of a more compact space. Why he simply didn't have Kershner film it that way in the first place remains a mystery.

Yeah, almost as if Lucas wasn't the director.

Oh wait

For which version of ESB does the cropping take place? On the blu-rays? 2004? 1997?

georgec said:

For which version of ESB does the cropping take place? On the blu-rays? 2004? 1997?

On both the '97 and '04 editions, not seen the blu-ray so I don't know if further alterations have been done, a few shots were still left alone on the DVD.

msycamore said:

georgec said:

For which version of ESB does the cropping take place? On the blu-rays? 2004? 1997?

On both the '97 and '04 editions, not seen the blu-ray so I don't know if further alterations have been done, a few shots were still left alone on the DVD.

Interesting. Never knew of or noticed this change before.

Heh. Darth_Ender called Han fat. Lawl.

Also: It's good to see people finally coming around to our point of view... oh wait, no. No they aren't.

French fries, of course. They're delicious.

darth_ender said:

 

Frink and Xhonzi comin' over?

Depends... what they cooking? Dog?

Here's a random thought...

If you could only choose one... would you rather:

1) have LucasFilm release an absolutely perfect, pristine, unaltered version of SW on blu-ray,

or

2) get to see the entire "lost cut" of SW.

I'm actually kinda leaning towards #2...

Can we have both?

SpilkaBilka said:

1) have LucasFilm release an absolutely perfect, pristine, unaltered version of SW on blu-ray,

or

2) get to see the entire "lost cut" of SW.

From what we've seen of the lost cut, its boring as sin. I'd rather have the original versions.