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Was the FULL Biggs/Luke Yavin 4 scene in the 77 TE?

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Did that scene orginally play in theatres? The one where Luke and Biggs talk, and Red leader mentions flying with Luke's father. If it was in the 77 release, will it be on the DVD?
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It wasn't in the movie until the 1997 special edition.

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Lucas felt it detracted from the flow of the scene, especially since Biggs was also cut from the Tatooine scenes. You can see where the cut is if you know what to look for.

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It's one of the worst edits ever (in the SE). I love how the bluescreen guy walks across and everything jumps forward about 16 seconds. I call him "Time Distortion Man". He's the kind of guy, when he's at the office - he walks past the water cooler/coffee machine, and people look up and say 'Hey Time Distortion Man!', but they look at their drink and it's finished - BECAUSE HE'S DISTORTED TIME, AND THE DRINK IS FROM THE FUTURE - WHEN YOU'VE ALREADY FINISHED IT!

Hahah. To say nothing of what happens if Time Distortion Man ever *waves* at anyone. His arm goes into blue-screen artifacting mode. Woah.....

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Originally posted by: Zebonka
It's one of the worst edits ever (in the SE). I love how the bluescreen guy walks across and everything jumps forward about 16 seconds. I call him "Time Distortion Man". He's the kind of guy, when he's at the office - he walks past the water cooler/coffee machine, and people look up and say 'Hey Time Distortion Man!', but they look at their drink and it's finished - BECAUSE HE'S DISTORTED TIME, AND THE DRINK IS FROM THE FUTURE - WHEN YOU'VE ALREADY FINISHED IT!

Hahah. To say nothing of what happens if Time Distortion Man ever *waves* at anyone. His arm goes into blue-screen artifacting mode. Woah.....

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this cheap trick was used to "cut" the line of red leader about luke's father

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I need evidence of this. I have never noticed Time Distortion Man...but I really, really want to. Information please.
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There was lines where Red Leader says something like "Skywalker! I knew your father when i was a boy--if you're half as good a pilot as him, you'll do alright."

There is a foreground wipe using an extra to cut this line. Thats why Red Leader goes from "so you think your a pilot, eh?" to "you're gonna make such a good pilot!" in about two seconds.
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R2's position in the background also jumps.

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"he walks past the water cooler/coffee machine, and people look up and say 'Hey Time Distortion Man!"

Why does this make me think of Ice-Cream Machine Man.

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Is this on the '04 DVD or the SE version? I only have the SE version and I don't remember the line "So you think you'd make a good pilot?" I do remember a "You think you can handle her? -- Sir, Luke is the best bush pilot this side of the galaxy. -- You'll do alright" lines, but I don't remember anyone walking in front of the camera.

But now that I think about it, that dude didn't need much convincing that Luke was a great pilot.
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That's because there are only, like, three bushes on Tatooine, so there's not a lot of competition. Lucas added two more CGI bushes in the Special Edition, but they don't look as good as the originals.

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Originally posted by: Invader Jenny
Is this on the '04 DVD or the SE version? I only have the SE version and I don't remember the line "So you think you'd make a good pilot?" I do remember a "You think you can handle her? -- Sir, Luke is the best bush pilot this side of the galaxy. -- You'll do alright" lines, but I don't remember anyone walking in front of the camera.

But now that I think about it, that dude didn't need much convincing that Luke was a great pilot.


I was paraphrasing his attitude with that "so you think your a pilot eh?" line. Because he's all skeptical of Luke then Biggs basically says "no Luke is good," and all of a sudden Red Leader is like "your right Biggs, Luke will do fine!"

If you watch closely, right after Biggs says "Sir Luke is the best bush pilot in the outer rim" a man walks in front of them carrying a case of equipment. Its in the 2004 SE. This is extra comped in to hide the cut. The line cut out was about Luke's father where Red Leader says something like "Skywalker, eh? I knew your father when i was a boy, he was a great pilot. If your half as good as him you'll do alright." Only the last half of the last sentence remained. The wipe is pretty seamless but i always noticed that Red Leader abruptly changed his attitude.

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Yeah I noticed that the fisrt time I saw it. It's R2..It's a big giveaway.

He does Kinda jump up pretty quickly!! Whhooopp there it is!! Whhooopp there it is...sort of thing.

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Yeah, it is a bit of a fast change. I never noticed R2 was even in that scene before. I'll have to go back and look. I have to admit, though, that that was one of the only SE changes that I like, because Biggs needed an introduction. I still don't want it in September's DVDs, though!

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Maybe we could get the Biggs scenes in deleted scenes or something? I know, it won't happen, but one can wish...
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Talking about error... ever noticed in the Jabba szene, when Jabba and Han are walking next to each another along the Falcon, they had to retouch some portion of the background (the "rim" on the falcon) that got covered by Jabba's original performer, and that part of the image wobbles around, changes perspective in a very odd way, and then snaps back to normal. But I guess I couldn't have done it any better.