Post #689918

Author: doubleofive
Parent topic: Besides "The films need to be the way I want them," has Lucas stated anything as to why the Blu-rays became the travesty that they are?
Link to post in topic: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/689918/action/topic#689918
Date created: 13-Feb-2014, 7:58 AM

StarThoughts said:
unlike some of the other sequences, it was an alteration that was clearly NOT what was originally intended in '77, and it was poorly executed in all versions…

Here's a frame-by-frame comparison of the three takes (1997/2004/2011). Note that until the Blu-ray, Han shot twice. TWICE.

JEDIT: Wikipedia has a GIF of 2004.