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Star Wars
The worst counter-attack
The fans had awaited it for seven years and their disappointment is immense.

Because the Trilogy repatouillée by the Master George Lucas does not have great any more a deal to see with the original version. One does not touch with the madeleines.

By Samuel DOUHAIRE Friday September 24, 2004 (Release - 06:00)

Star Wars Trilogy Comprend the Star Wars, a new hope (1977), the empire counter-attacks (1980) and the Return of Jedi (1983). Fox. Box 4 DVD, 49,99 Euro.

ls had between five and seventeen years when Star Wars entered their life. It was in 1977, and they never recovered from the discovery, on large screen, of the intergalactic adventures imagined by George Lucas. According to with passion episodes of the saga, ruining themselves in figurines, models and other by-products, deteriorating their video K7 through visionnages intensive. It is little to say that the admirers of Wars Star watched for impatiently the rebirth of the saga in DVD. Seven years after the birth of the numerical support, their waiting is finally filled. Since Tuesday, the DVD of the Star Wars, a new hope, Empire counter-attack and of the Return of Jedi invaded the whole world. As for launchings of the novels of Harry Potter or the Playstation consoles, of the large signs made sleepless night so that, as of the twelve blows of midnight, the most enthusiastic fans are the first to hold in their hands the magic box. The "original Trilogy" promises to be the largest paperboard of the history of the DVD: in France, where 700 000 specimens will be placed in the vats by the end of the month, the précommandes are enough to place it in the ten best sales before even its marketing. But as the Force of the knights Jedi, this triumph announced has an obscure side. That one could summarize by the heartfelt cries which run on innumerable Internet sites devoted to the saga: "but where are our Wars Star of antan?", or more directly: "George, whore, return to us our Wars Star of origin!!!"

Third version.
On DVD, the Trilogy "originale indeed "only the name has. These are not the films that the thirty year ones and quadragénaires of today discovered in rooms in 1977, 1980 and 1983. Nor "special editions" of 1997, re-examined and corrected by George Lucas with new special effects, a few new minutes and a band boostée in THX. But a third version still altered by the realizer-producer, to not only benefit from the last numerical projections, but to be perfectly "connection" with the three other episodes of the saga turned since - the phantom Threat in 1999, the Attack of the clones in 2002 and the Revenge of Sith scheduled for May 2005 (1).

Petition.
The rumour ran since more than one year, but the fans of the first hour still refused to believe in it. A petition was even launched on the Web (2), to require of George Lucas to reconsider its decision and to leave in DVD films in their original measurings: more than 62 000 Net surfers, from San Francisco in Istanbul while passing by ÷rnsköldsvik (Sweden) already claimed that "these traditional of the science fiction and the history of the cinema" "does not fall into the darkness". George Lucas had already answered them by anticipation, proposing its vision of artist, and expressing his frustration not to have been able to do all that he had wanted in 1977 for questions of time, budget, and, especially, insufficient performances of the special effects.

In the "special Editions" of 1997, "All has the real air but the new buildings, the new creatures, all artificial, are created on computer, explained it at the time in Libération. And that tells finally the history that I wanted to tell." With hearing it, the witness would have some more for his money: more soldiers in the corridors of Star of death, more creatures odd in the village of Mos Esley, more vessels and shooting stars in the space battles, not to speak but about One new hope. Lucas had just forgotten a thing: Star Wars is the madeleine of Proust of a good part of the post-68 generation. To modify would be this only one image of the original saga, it is to break a memory of childhood idealized by nostalgia. Still more furious than disappointed, of the fans forget any precaution of language to evoke a "lamentable cinematographic revisionism". Certain actors were thus purely and simply unobtrusive of a blow of electronic paint system: when the emperor appears in hologram in the Empire counter-attacks, it is from now on the face of Ian McDiarmid (holder of the role in episodes I, II and III) which is used; identical blow of brush in the sequence of the phantoms of the Return of Jedi, with the detriment this time of poor Sebastian Shaw, replaced by Hayden Christiansen (which plays Anakin Skywalker, future Dark Vador, in episodes I, II and III)...

Surviving VHS.
The fans are all the more furax that no technical constraint prevented Lucas from associating with the DVD of improved films, their original version, for example by way of no-claims bonus on an additional disc. A party taken that Fox had adopted besides last year with four films of the Alien series, proposed in only one box in their "traditional" version rooms and in their new worked over again assembly. But, with Star Wars, all occurs like if the first films, however seen by hundreds of million people, had been only drafts now good to throw to the basket. As if no trace were to remain about it, once that the surviving VHS of the Nineties will be irremediably damaged, even if more nerds already transferred their Star Wars "vintage" in DivX format... Ultimate concern for the fans, or, more precisely, for their porte-monnaie: do the DVD put on sale this week present well the final version of the first Trilogy? Where George Lucas won't it will benefit from possible upheavals of numerical technology for rebidouiller its films and draw any from new profits? The serial Wars Star, at least in his dimension "cow with milk", is not ready to be concluded.

(1) Also called episodes I, II and III, because located chronologically before the action of the Trilogy. George Lucas ensured the last Festival of Deauville that there will be never episodes VII, VIII and IX.
(2) http://originaltrilogy.com

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Originally posted by: Biggs_lives

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"George, whore, return to us our Wars Star of origin!!!"

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LOL!!! Now there is a great signature line.

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