A Question on Imperial Lasers — Page 2

One question I have always wondered:

Why in the heck are Imperial officers using Rebel blasters in the detention block on the Death Star???

Maybe it's a standard sidearm for both sides?

Or maybe the prop guys just didn't anticipate people would someday be able to scrutinize the film frame by frame. ;)

DuracellEnergizer said:

I just noticed a big fail that's bringing this thread down: too many attempts to answer my question using in-universe explanations.

I don't want those, people! You can explain anything in-universe. I want out-of-universe, real world behind-the-scenes answers.

Good question and something I have never given any deeper thought. But I would guess it was an easy way to show the audience who is shooting who in space battles and perhaps an aesthetic reason, looks quite good. But it doesn't answer your question why the regular gun fire is always red on both sides. Maybe the different colors was a very late addition in post which only was applied to space fx shots due to time limit?

I recall the walkers in Empire had blue lasers originally, seen in one of the teaser trailers, probably changed because of the blue sky and the snowy environment just like Luke's saber was made green in Jedi due to the blue sky making it not stand out so well.