Han - Solo Movie ** Spoilers ** — Page 8

HansiG said:

Lord Haseo said:

HansiG said:

If this is handled well, it could end up great. Tarantino movie in space (without the violence, obviously). If it’s not, wel…

Don’t you mean excessive violence?

In my book, if there’s not blood, it’s not violence

Even early Tarantino wasn’t excessively violent like Kill Bill, Django, and The Hateful 8, which actually depict more blood and gore than is realistic for the given situations. Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction had blood, sure, but it was realistic levels for the violence at hand. Star Wars is certainly violent, but not bloody, as most of the wounds are caused by lasers.

The Alan Dean Foster ghosted SW novelization actually gets graphic in it’s depiction of blaster hits. A tad gruesome when I was a kid!

SilverWook said:

The Alan Dean Foster ghosted SW novelization actually gets graphic in it’s depiction of blaster hits. A tad gruesome when I was a kid!

I specifically remember a description of a stormtrooper’s helmet melting along with the flesh after being shot on Tantive IV, with bone even being visible. That’s stark contrast to the mostly family-friendly movie.

moviefreakedmind said:

SilverWook said:

The Alan Dean Foster ghosted SW novelization actually gets graphic in it’s depiction of blaster hits. A tad gruesome when I was a kid!

I specifically remember a description of a stormtrooper’s helmet melting along with the flesh after being shot on Tantive IV, with bone even being visible. That’s stark contrast to the mostly family-friendly movie.

Well, early drafts of the film was far more violent than the final cut, so he probably got these descriptions from that. The Tantive shootout is quite gruesome in the original storyboards.
Heck, even ANH was censored slightly in the SE.

Some of Tavoularis’ storyboards for the Tantive IV scene;

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20535561/SW storyboard art by Tavoularis - Stormtrooper shot.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20535561/SW storyboard by Tavoularis - stormtrooper helmet blown off (smaller).jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20535561/SW storyboard art by Tavoularis - Vader rips off rebel arm.png

moviefreakedmind said:

SilverWook said:

The Alan Dean Foster ghosted SW novelization actually gets graphic in it’s depiction of blaster hits. A tad gruesome when I was a kid!

I specifically remember a description of a stormtrooper’s helmet melting along with the flesh after being shot on Tantive IV, with bone even being visible. That’s stark contrast to the mostly family-friendly movie.

That’s the part I was thinking of. There was also Red Leader ruminating on the fact some of his pilots could end up chunks of frozen meat orbiting Yavin. One passage that was really terrifying to me at the time was the description of troopers and other Imperials on the Death Star being sucked out a hull breach, into “a bottomless black tomb”.

What’s hilarious to me now is I got the novel at a book fair held at my elementary school. 😃

DuracellEnergizer said:

Yeah, all those women in physically abusive relationships – I’m sure they’re just fine and dandy as sour candy as long as their partners are careful enough not to draw blood.

Believe it or not, that’s still the law in some countries.

Let’s not derail the thread.

Surprised the news hasn’t hit this thread yet:

Alen Ehrenreich confirmed to be playing young Han Solo in Phil Lord & Chris Miller’s HAN SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY. Will have cameo appearance in ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY.

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/scifi_movies/star_wars/star-wars-alden-ehrenreich-confirmed-to-play-young-han-a141354

They just had to cast someone whose jaw structure is twice as wide as Ford’s. 😉

Density said:

a George Lucas movie that stays the same after its theatrical release. It just doesn’t compute.

Harmys 1977 Star Wars computes pretty well.