An Alternate Take In Empire Strikes Back ... Which one will you choose?

I found this Alternate Take yesterday and what is interesting about it is you can only choose one of them. You can’t have both shots as it would not work… SO WHICH SHOT DO YOU CHOOSE AND WHY?

1. The Shot that is in the film… A shot of the Door with voice over from C3-PO saying “No one to meet us”

2. The Alternate take…A Shot of Lando walking with his Entourage through Cloud City

I have chosen the Alternate take because I think the live action is better and we still see that view of the door a couple of shots later… That is just me though… I’m interested in which Shot you would choose…Stick with what’s in the film or go Alternate?

I wish we had a choice as to whether Luke joins Vader or not. I have wanted that for the entirety of my life.

As it pertains to your alternative it matters not really. Switching one or the other doesn’t effect the plot in any way.

Yes It changes nothing plot wise which ever one you choose but which do you think is better i.e. which would you choose.

I honestly can’t think of any other instance of an alternate take in the OT.

I think Lando walking with E, Turtle, and Drama would definitely have been worse.

It would have been the first shot of him in the film…If it had not have been changed

This Trailer also features the whole take of Han Walking Away from The Falcon… Which Is missing from the film. This is Probably where 3PO said “No one to meet us” Han seething in Anger at 3PO’s remarks

Just saying I think it’s interesting.

better version here…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw64m4rMbpc

was this trailer ever re-leased in it’s full aspect ratio? (uncropped)

There is no wrong or right answer to this it’s just what you would prefer

But I do think any Introduction of A character has to start somewhere. And Lando had already been introduced twice mentioned in name. So I personally think it would not be confusing who we were seeing or where it was.

But I do agree the way it is in the film is more mysterious.

I Suppose it’s in keeping with Harrisons fords first shot in the cantina in Star Wars also got scrapped too

There’s a reason why it was edited the way it was in the theatrical.

Yeah, I seem to have actually quite misunderstood this scene of Lando, because I believe it actually refers to alternative sequence where he was actually meeting them on the platform without the main characters waiting and in unease about being there.

So I am now retracting my statement I thought it was a swap but this does not seem to be the case at all… Whoops!

Oh well all interesting stuff though none the less