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[lostcarpark]

George Lucas has just started re-editing a new version of the original Star Wars trilogy. Apparently in this version, Han no longer shoots Greedo. There is in fact a third gunman on the grassy knoll outside the cantina's window. In an interview Lucas claimed that this was always his intention, but the technology has only now reached the point where this is possible to depict.

If you look very carefully, you can in fact see a small jawa gunman through one of the windows of the cantina in a single frame of the original film. Or perhaps it could be a smudge on the celuloid...

Comments

[davesangel.livejournal.com]

The thing is, ObiWan died before Vader/Anakin. Thus, if Anakin looks young, surely it should be a young ObiWan as well? Or why not leave them both at the age they died, when they were old?
Lucas is just being an arse again, methinks! :D

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

But Obiwan's ghost was old because he was good all his life. However, as Obi explains in RotJ, when Anikan turned to the dark side, the good person who was Anikan died, and became the evil Darth Vader, therefore the ghost represents Anikan before he turned to the dark side.

But it's a load of pants, really.

[davesangel.livejournal.com]

Ah right. Fair enough then.But it's still stupid, it was fine as it was I think :D

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

I can see some logic in changing it, but not to a 20-something Anikan. There is a long established tradition of aging make-up in theatre and cinema, so it wouldn't even need CGI to turh Hayden into a 50-something Anikan, which would make some sense. But it has to be said there was no need to meddle with the scene.

[davesangel.livejournal.com]

Agreed on all counts! :D