KilroyMcFadden said:
ratpack1961 said:
Mos Eisley is the biggest reason I prefer the Original Untouched Trilogy to the SEs. What made ep. 4 so special was the lived in believability of the environments. It came from the European comic books Lucas was into (he has a copy of the book Valerian in his office which is a great Heavy Metal-esqe comic).
The original Mos Eisley looks run down, not alot of people, and overall dumpy. Its a very used looking Space Port. The special edition version is populated with CG characters that our eyes know are completely unreal. It takes us out of the scene and reality of the movie completely.
The dewback scene, which comes earlier, is similar. The Dewbacks in the background of the OUT are not moving but our eyes can't make them out that well so it looks real. The CG dewbacks are obviously animated so the reality of the situation is lost.
I agree this this wholeheartedly. I feel the same way about Ben's hovel. The ranch house that he now seems to own in the SE is not in line with the dirty unwashed desert dweller's robes he is wearing when we first meet him. The original hut reminds me of the dwellings you would find in spaghetti westerns of the 60's and is in every respect the dwelling in which I would expect to find a desert hermit. Additionally, Ben is said to live at the edge of the dune sea, a geographic feature that is not visable in SE version, but is _definitively_ implied in the bleak, sandblasted windowless hut of the OOT.
I'm amazed this needs explaining 'round these parts.
imperialscum said:
this "supposed to" is entirely your assumption. Tatooine is indeed meant to be harsh environment. But harsh does not equal ugly. A lot of desert environments offer some of the most beautiful scenery on Earth. In fact I would argue that in all other episodes Tatooine shots are nice.
You're missing the point. Making the environment unpleasant to look at conveys its harshness. It doesn't matter whether it was an intentional decision or an accident resulting from the limitations during the actual shoot, or budget restrictions, or whatever else. Tatooine isn't set up as a magical place. Quite the contrary: it's a dump. Making Tatooine "magical" and easy on the eyes is basically the exact same thing as making Luke scream as he's supposed to be falling to his voluntary death in ESB. It shows that whoever made these changes didn't understand the scenes he was changing and the implications of these changes. The same goes for, say, Greedo trying to shoot Han.