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#60424
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Does anyone have any Deleted Scenes for the Original Trilogy?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/60424/action/topic#60424
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"the Empire always seemed like such an evil force to be rekoned (sp.) with because they had the ability to brainwash these people into joining the empire....
they could talk millions into helping them take over the galaxy.... and thats what made them seem powerful..."

perhaps the stormtroopers were always dazed in a permanent state of concussion, because of their genetic predisposition to bumping their heads, it made them very easy to coerce. besides when has anyone ever believed something that came out of George Lucas's mouth?
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#60423
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Does anyone have any Deleted Scenes for the Original Trilogy?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/60423/action/topic#60423
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"when Jango knocked his head its a refference to the fact that one of his clones knok there head in A New Hope. This is absolute proff that at least some of the original trilogy stormtroopers are clones of Jango Fett."

Absolute proof???? it's only Absolute proof that one of the 'extras' hit his head on a piece of scenery in ANH, I bet it wasn't in the script to show that he was meant to be a clone. it's crazy, even bloopers are explained away as part of Georges original vision.
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#60395
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Does anyone have any Deleted Scenes for the Original Trilogy?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/60395/action/topic#60395
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If they are clones, how come they are all such lousy shots?

If they were constantly cloning new armies every couple of years , what would happen to all the soldiers once they were too old for service? not to mention the logistical problems involved in sustaining such a rapid increase in population, lets hope the Empire has a good retirement plan. I thought the only reason they used the clones in the first place was because the republic didn't have time to form an army the regular way, and whenever the clonewars is mentioned in the OT it always sounds like it was ancient history in a way that implies that Clones were a thing of the past.

And as for the Empire and Emperor being anti-alien species, isn't this something that was established in the EU only? I know in the Dark Empire graphic novel there was some pretty disturbing stuff about human supremacy, but I don't recall any examples of this in the actual movies, and besides under all that white armour, how canyou tell what is under there? and where did uniformed imperial officers come from?
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#60321
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<strong>Star Wars Radio Dramas</strong> - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/60321/action/topic#60321
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on the subject of Audio adaptions of Star Wars, does anyone know where I can download the old Story adaptions of the trilogy featuring original dialogue and effects from the actual movies, I don't think they ever made it to CD but someone may have converted them from vinyl to mp3 format? I'm sure I wore out the casette years and years ago.
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#60319
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Does anyone have any Deleted Scenes for the Original Trilogy?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/60319/action/topic#60319
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are the Stormtroopers in the original trilogy clones?

I always thought that by the time of A New Hope the Empire was using conscripted armed forces ( In the ANH radio drama Luke was applying to the Imperial Academy) , and that the use of Clones ended back in the days of the clone wars, I doubt they could constantly churn out Jango clones forever, and the clones from AOTC would only have a limited shelf life, what happens to Clones when they are too old to fight? Old Clones Home? and surely all the Imperial officers in the original trilogy rose up through the ranks of Troops and none of them look like Jango Fett.

I think this will probably be explained in episode 3
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#60197
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Episodes 7,8,9?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/60197/action/topic#60197
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how could you possibly replace Harrison Ford with a CGI model, the others maybe... please nooooooooooooo!
Once you've gotten rid of the two most evil men in the universe, Vader and the Emperor, it should end there.

Thrawn doesn't even come close! and don't even get me started on Ysalimiri !

Zahn knew Thrawn was a pussy with no powers
so he gave him some Kryptonite, how lame, it's like deflecting God with a death-metal CD.
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#60174
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Wolfman Back In?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/60174/action/topic#60174
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don't forget the deformed human guy who picks a fight with Luke "he doesn't Like You, I don't like you either!" and those twin girls with the cleopatra braids, in fact there are quite a few humans in that scene, apart from the Jawas and Sand-people, the cantina sequence is the first real chance we get to see different alien species in the trilogy, which is probably why the aliens stand out so much from the humans.

I'm pretty sure I read that most of the creatures in that scene were shot and added in post production to beef up the scene.
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#60164
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Episodes 7,8,9?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/60164/action/topic#60164
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I like that idea of prologue,interlude and epilogue, that'd be cool to see, although pretty unlikely to happen. plus I don't really want to see the character's I grew up with in the original trilogy as old people shuffling about in outerspace, it'd be like watching Cocoon or worse, one of the Star Trek movies.

I would have thought the twenty years between Rise of the Sith and A New Hope could be worth exploring, you could keep Ewan Mcgregor , Jimmy smits, bring back David Prowse if he still fits the suit Chewbacca, I'd love to see the Jedi Purge in more detail, the formation of the Empire and the subsequent Rebellian, perhaps even a bit of Han Solo's back story and how he came to team up with Chewie, this would have been a very turbulent time period, it seems odd that between episodes 3 and 4, nothing worth documenting seems to have happened
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#59720
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Changes in 2004 DVDs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/59720/action/topic#59720
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ET was originally supposed to be deleted after X-mas 2002, but there are still plenty of copies floating around cheap on sale (in Australia anyway) either it didn't sell as well as expected or they lied and kept churning them out, It was also a film where Spielberg said he would only release the original theatrical version on a more expensive 4-disc box set, yet he caved in to public demand and included it on the regular two disc set in the U.S, everyone else in the world got stuck with just the Special Addition, where he digitally replaced FBI agents guns with walkie talkies, 'Hey Greedo, don't point that walkie talkie at me!' alway the rest of the 'enhancements' were more subtle and didn't detract from the film.
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#59718
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Editing the '2oo4 Editions' - which changes would you revert?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/59718/action/topic#59718
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I always thought it was strange that if it was always Georges intention of adding a stop-motion character over the human actor, why then was the actor in full costume and physically interacting with Harrison to the extent that he does, wouldn't it have made more sense from an effects point of view to have Han playing the scene to a guy in a blue suit or filming Han talking to thin air , besides if you look at the only other piece of stop motion character animation in the film the chess board sequence, it's pretty primitive compared to animating a life size figure that interacts on screen with live action elements, I don't think they had the ability at the time to pull it off convincingly.

when you look at the scene itself, it is pretty redundant, there is nothing in the scene that wasn't already explained in the previous Han shooting Greedo scene, I think Lucas cut it from the film because of time constraints, and made up the excuse of wanting to replace the human Jabba (years later) to cover his ass.

If i can remember correctly, the original Jabba from the original comic book adaption, I believe he was a humanoid character that looked a bit like walrusman with whiskers who could've been played quite convincingley by a guy in a rubber mask.
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#59562
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Lucas's Explanations
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/59562/action/topic#59562
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it's funny, but with the exception of inserting Jabba into A New Hope, all the major changes that the fans hated had nothing to do with the limitations of technology at the time. Greedo shooting first, dialogue switches, Jedi Rocks!,Boba Fett picking up chicks in Jabbas palace, Audrey 2 in the sarlaac pit, the ewok celebration, the recycled footage from Jedi of Vader returning in his shuttle from bespin, were all cases of Lucas simply changing his mind.

To be honest I can quite happily live with the changes that were made to genuinely improve previous effects shots, like the dewbacks,the windows in cloud city, the tentacles in the sarlaac, space battles etc.
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#59479
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<strong>Star Wars Radio Dramas</strong> - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/59479/action/topic#59479
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I agree Dushku, Jedi was a little bit sucky in the way it felt it had to describe everything that was about to happen visually and without Mark Hamill, but I loved the way the first two expanded so much on the backstories, especially early in Star Wars, where you get all the back story of Luke applying for the Imperial academy and threading the needle in his skyhopper, and Leia's backstory on Alderaan, Brian Daley was a genius.

I think one of the reasons why ROTJ didn't work so well is because it was so visual and so many story threads, which is why i don't think the prequals would translate well either, and we colud well do without extended scenes of the Anakin Padme courtship. peeyoosa!
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#58953
Topic
Editing the '2oo4 Editions' - which changes would you revert?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/58953/action/topic#58953
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I agree Luke, the prequals have been made knowing that everyone is familiar with the events of the original trilogy, In the unlikely event that someone who had never seen any of the films was to sit down and watch all 6 in their correct episodical order, the events in episode three would ruin any of the surprises and revelations revealed in episodes 4-6, but at least that way the series will start off crap, have an amazingly good middle section and a bad ending.