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In this reaction the girls meet Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan Kenobi, C-3PO, R2-D2, and, of course, Darth Vader!
Tori and Abby begin their Star Wars journey with Episode IV - A New Hope. This reaction was recorded many months ago. We wanted to wait to publish it until we have recorded reactions to The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
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What is your favorite quote from A New Hope?
you picked the wrong version..this one has cgi addon's because lucas wasnt satisfied with the old tech
@RuntotheMovies look at the x-wing carefully. Doesn't it look like a p***s, and the tie fighter looks like a v****a......LOOK CLOSELY
Y’all should have started off with the Star Wars Prequel trilogy first instead
As for lines it’s hard to say because R2 is my favorite character cause he’s a little sass pot. So technically anything R2 says wins for me.
"How could he be so iconic and die so soon?" See, "Sean Bean."
I like the meme that's a picture of Sean Bean with the caption "I will find you...and you will kill me."
Lol
"For England, James?" 30 years ago I had no idea that Goldeneye would be my 1st of many trips down the Sean Bean onscreen death rabbit hole.
Alec Guinness was Sean Bean's godfather. True story.
@@ianstopher9111 "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."
I was 7 when I saw Star Wars in the theaters. I remember when Death Star blew up at the end, the entire theater erupted and cheered, clapped, and hollered like they were at a rock concert. Seeing Star Wars at that age was a mind altering and life changing experience. I BEGGED my father take my cousin and me to see it again the following weekend, which he did.
❤️❤️❤️
Yeah i was 5 and a half....saw it in the theaters 8 times.
I was 11 at the time when SW came out in May '77. it was not released nationwide. It was just a 2 week trial in select theaters and it got so popular in that short time that theaters abroad scrambled to get a copy to show it. I was in Aspen CO when I saw it for the first time visiting my aunt. When I went back home I told my friends about it and got to see a second "premiere" when it was released all over about 2 or 3 weeks later.
I was 6 when a i saw this film with my parents back in 1977. I didn`t understand a thing, about the force, jedi and shi...t. Yes the Sci fi capture my attention but that`s it. I only became fan of SW after watching the Empire Strikes back.
I was 8, and that is why it is the best movie that can ever be. Because I am not capable of loving a movie as an adult the way I loved this as a kid.
It's funny that everybody watching this movie forthefirst time begins slightly aloof, making jokes about some element or the other. By the middle of the movie, everybody starts inching forward in their seats, and by the end they are wooping and cheering the heroes.
Welcome to the club, girls.
And by Revenge Of The Sith they are crying at the end.
@@ronalddobis6782 Probably. I'll admit that I don't watch reactions from any other trilogy but the main one.
To me (your mileage may vary) the Prequel was a disappointment, and the sequel was a masterclass of how not to do movies.
Disneyland and Disney World have the same “Star Wars land“. The only good months to go to FL for pleasant weather is December - February. However, the only hot months in CA is June - August.
PS. I go twice a month to Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge twice a month cosplaying as Jedi Luke Skywalker w/lightsaber.
- The Disneyland Neighbor
Carrie Fisher said that Peter Cushing was lovely to her during filming. She said "He would kiss my hand in the morning just like I was real princess. Just before they put on the handcuffs." and "He smelled like lavender and linen. Saying to a man who smells like lavender 'I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board'...it's a challenge!"
It's amazing how some of the gentlest, kindest humans play the most vile villains on the screen: Peter Cushing and his best friend Christopher Lee (Saruman, Dracula, Count Dooku), Clancy Brown (The Kurgan, Mr. Krabs, Captain Hadley), Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Margaret Hamilton (The Wicked Witch of the West), Christoph Walz (Hans Landa).
@@rikk319 Thomas F. Wilson (Biff Tannen)
He also was uncomfortable on the shoes they had him wear because of his feet they were big. So they gave him slippers to wear so in some scenes she'd look down at his feet to see of he was wearing his slippers
@@mattp6089 How could I forget him? That man is a gem.
Peter Cushing was one of the rare Hollywood types who didn't sleep around or mess around on his wife or girlfriend. He was married to his wife for about 30 years until she died of illness. He loved her so much he was never the same after she died and was still faithful to her, and knew they would be reunited in the afterlife.
They're farming moisture (water in the atmosphere) , a very rare commodity on a dessert planet. 🙂
Very valuable on a desert planet. Everyone needs water. 😄
But why would there be a harvest season for farming moisture? Wouldn't it be a constant harvest all year round?
They use moisture vaporators to get water from the air to then use to grow crops, which are in hydroponic gardens. These are presumably in some of the outbuildings on the property.
@@StuartistStudio1964 Absolutely right. Though there are comics that go into detail of farms. And some even have outdoor crops. I mean real soil instead sand. Though I do not know how they protect the crops from storms. But there is crop dusting on Tatooine. Which makes me wonder what kind of insects are on this planet.
Mmmm, dessert planet.
James Earl Jones indeed voices Darth Vader. But the man actually wearing the costume was a bodybuilder named David Prowse. He's also known for training Christopher Reeve as he prepared to play Superman. Reeve needed to put on muscle to achieve a physique worthy of Superman, so Prowse was enlisted to help him.
Prowse is responsible for teaching a whole generation of Brits how to safely cross the road in his role as the Green Cross Code Man
Which is interesting, because Prowse needed James Earl Jones' help in the form of ADR to bring Vader to life. In fact I just realised the Rick Moranis was basing his Dark Helmet voice on Prowse's Vader.
“What are they farming? It’s just dust.”
As was stated when buying the droids from the Jawas( Oompa Loompas ) they are moisture farmers, they farm water out of the condensation from the air.
I bought Dave Prowse's book "Fitness is Fun" and got him to autograph it at a sci-fi convention in San Francisco. I also got fantasy artist Boris Vallejo's to autograph one of his art books at the same convention. Haven't been cons like that in San Francisco for a long time. Long before crime and filth here became national news the venues had become way too expensive to be cost effective.
David Prowse had the physical presence that Lucas wanted. But Lucas always knew his (Prowse) voice and line reading wasn't going to cut it. Nowhere as intimidating as his physical presense. Lucas told Prowse this much before the movie was released so it wasn't a surprise. If you watch old behind-the-scenes footage from filming this movie, you can hear him (Prowse) say the lines, and it's kinda funny how bad he is. In fact, most of the actors (Carrie Fischer espcially) thought this whole movie was a big funny joke, until it released and was a major success.
"You have taken your first step into a larger world."
The force is with them, but they are not Jedi yet.
31:45 yeah. They're definitely not ready. They are too old, yes. Too old to begin the watching.
The scene with Jabba was originally a deleted scene with Harrison Ford, acting alongside a very human actor. The addition of the alien Jabba the Hutt was in a much, much later “Special Edition”release.
If you pay close attention, you can see where they had to work some Hollywood magic with Harrison Ford, given that he walked behind Jabba in the scene. The human actor who first played Jabba had no tail, but the character of Jabba the Hutt has a really long tail.
Computers today could do that over the weekend. Back then, it took them a year.
It cannot be overstated the impact of John William's score has on elevating this movie.
Carrie Fisher once referred to her Princess Leia hairstyle as "the hairy earphones."
That explains why they'd had hairy headphones on Daphne Zuniga in "Spaceballs"
Which is exactly what they are in spaceballs the movie which is a hilarious spoof on Star Wars. If you have not seen it you really should.
Ya hoid'a me?
33:50 Leia is comforting him about the death of an old man he just met .... after her planet blew up.
I had friends of mine who were all fellow officers that worked as naval psychiatrics watch this movie and tell me what they thought of the characters. They all said if Leia were to come to any of their offices for an appointment they would have labeled her as a sociopath.
@@CDRhammond You should read Expanded Universe then, along with your psychiatric friends. She is in a "Royalty mode" job is not done, she cannot show what she is feeling and she has people around her and across the galaxy relying on her. She did fall apart in private between the Death Star destruction and the victory celebration but she did that in private. And the loss and rage at Empire for the callous disregard for her people, family and home stayed with her for years after to the point it almost dragged her to Dark Side when she was training as Jedi.
As for Luke, Ben Kenobi was a constant presence near his life despite Owen being angry and chasing him away at every opportunity. He also saved Luke´s life at least once that he knows about. Tatooine is not exactly safe.
@@Matej_Sojka They watched all 3 back to back and it was not just what she did in episode 4 that got them to their diagnosis.
Continuity isn't a strong part of this film.
@@jollyjohnthepirate3168 What's wrong with the continuity lol? It's just her trying to comfort Luke.
This is what is so great about having so many people reacting to movies. There's always the opportunity to double back on one that's already been done and have a whole new experience.
Absolutely! Also, because of scheduling issues, it was not possible to film Abby and Tori watching V and VI together, do there will be two videos for each.
@RuntotheMovies also my best advice for reactors is to not compare each of the 3 different trilogies to each other as each set was filmed in different times in special effects development. And most important enjoy.
My Parents took me to see Star Wars in 1977. When the Star Destroyer (the triangle shaped giant ship) appeared at the beginning and kept going and GOING and *GOING* the audience couldn't believe it!
When Darth Vader first appeared, everyone booed the screen instinctively despite knowing literally nothing about Darth Vader.
And when Luke turns off the target computer to make the shot himself with the Force at the end, everyone in the theatre went absolutely BERSERK, standing up and cheering!
It was a turning point in modern cinema!
Which one of the thousand versions of this movie: the real unchanged version or the modern cut the girls are watching? If your comment says "1977" then obviously is the original unchanged version
@@nicolasribeirodossantos6082 The original. From the summer of 1977. When I was seven years old.
It didn't even say "Episode IV: A New Hope" back then.
Of course.
@@kevinburton3948 also, you probably hate the modern edited version and so do i.
@@nicolasribeirodossantos6082 I do indeed. But I have the original completely unaltered version on bluray (4K77).
The "pew pew pew" of the blasters was made by tapping a heavy crescent 🔧 wrench on a heavy duty steel anchor cable that the sound effect guy came across while hiking.
You are, of course, referring to multiple Academy Award-winner Ben Burtt, the master sound designer who, among many other things, created the sounds of the light sabers, the blasters, Darth Vader's breathing, Chewbacca's vocalizations, and all of R2D2's sounds.
And Vader's breathing was created using Scuba gear.
They then added animal growls, screams and explosions for the full sound. Ben Burtt was a genius. He created most of the Lucasfilm sound library.
@@JayG63 He was and hopefully will continue to be for an extended period of time. ;)
"How did they do this in the 70's?"
Exactly how you would think - Anthony Daniels (C3P0) is wearing a metal suit in the Tunisian desert 🥵 and Kenny Baker (R2D2 - RIP) is operating a trash can (he passed out from heat exhaustion several times). The rolling R2 is a remote control unit though.
Yes! These are practical effects as opposed to CGI (computer-generated imagery). Practical effects are where real-world models or miniature models of everything you see in the movie are used and camera and film tricks such as forced perspective and mattes/matte paintings create the effects. Nearly everything in the original series used practical effects. The version you saw was the 1997 20th anniversary "Special Edition" of Star Wars that added CGI elements such as Jabba the Hutt and some of the creatures on Tatooine, the desert planet. Things that director George Lucas said he wished he could have added to the original movie, but wasn't able to at the time. However, these changes angered many fans. Well-done practical effects can stand the test of time and still look good even today, nearly 50 years later, while older CGI is easily identifiable and usually looks cheesy. It's a shame that CGI tends to be cheaper than practical effects, because it's caused the use of practical effects to diminish greatly over time. (Although there's been a slight resurgence lately as audiences are starting to tire of overused, overly-spectacular Marvel-style CGI.)
It's not the original movie, it's a reedit from ~2000.
When I was a kid my mom took me to the first showing, opening day of Star Wars. It was life altering and when that music blared for the first time with those yellow letters - what a memory. Movie ended, we walked out the side of the building and right around to the front to stand on line again. My "adult" mom at the time was only 26 so it's only now that I'm older that I realize how much it had to blow her mind as well.
Fun fact: The Chewbacca costume that the late, great Peter Mayhew wore was not supposed to get wet in the garbage compactor scene. But it did, and considering the fact that the original suit was made of yak hair, It produced a pretty funky odor.
The classic Star Wars are so much better than the recent ones.
Lol, "that was the Space Ball they were in..."
Hail Skroob!
I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate.
I'm breathing...air...
18:36
To answer your questions about the scene with Han Solo meeting with Jabba, they'd originally filmed it with an actual person, but had edited it out of the original release and once George Lucas had felt that computer technology had progressed enough to include scenes that would've been impossible in the 70's, such as Han and Jabba having that conversation, added it into a special edition release of the movie
Also in the original film that scene was cut entirely as it was not necessary as it covered nothing that wasn't covered in the Greedo scene and ruined the reveal of the Millenium Falcon when we see it with Luke for the first time.
The original three movies were all Muppet technology, except the outer space scenes.
Also one of the more hated edits as Lucas didn't get Jabba quite right yet. Too small and too much black and green. They did better with episode one with the digital puppet. The other most hated edit is the new ending to Return of the Jedi, removing the Ewok song and replacing old A. Skywalker with the young one, when it makes zero sense with Sir Alec (Obi Won) next to him.
@charlesmaurer6214 Yeah, I really hated the add-on ending of "Return Of The Jedi," too. That one was perfect as it was.
Like the old saying goes, if it's not broken, don't fix it
Another thing that was replaced in “Return of the Jedi” was a song in Jabba’s palace.
Originally it was a song sung by the character Sy Snootles which was turned into a duet for the Special Edition release.
IMHO the original song called ‘Lapti Nek’, was a BETTER song.
Also, in a behind the scenes documentary, ‘Lapti Nek’ had been sung during filming in English and
re-recorded in the alien ‘Huttese’ language for the released version of the film.
The guy in the C3PO suit is the only person who appears in all 9 star wars movies. From 1977 to 2019, Anthony Daniels played that gold robot in them all.
He's also appeared in other TV shows as him, including "The Muppet Show" and "Robot Chicken".
These movies aren’t Star Wars, they “The Adventures of C3PO”.
I can picture it now, Zac Efron stepping off the bus in Hollywood with a headshot of Mark Hamill, looking for a barber shop.
you’re welcome 😉
6:58
"Is That A Walking Trashcan?"
More like a "Walking Battery Pack"
Gonk droids ftw.
Gonk droids are something hyped up by a certain element the Fandom. Like they are as great as lightsabers or the Force. To me they're nothing but background filler painted cr@p brown.
@@TheMrPeteChannel You better take that back before you get gonked ;)
Fun fact about the age of this film:
It's theatrical release date is closer to the end date of WWII than to today..
And it's NOT close.😎
Enjoy the journey !😎
🤯
Another fun fact: it was released about four and a half years after the last Apollo moon landing.
Eeeehh, get off my lawn, punk!
You talked about Legos. When they built the surface of the Death Star, they used hundred of model battleship kits to fly their model starfighters over.
Wow!
The hobby shop owners in the area must have been especially happy with business at the time. 😄
You introduced Boo!! 🥰🥰🥰
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@@RuntotheMovieswhat a nice looking calico. Please show her more.
Abby and Tori your reaction to Star Wars was just adorable. Abby's ever growing Star Wars wish list did put a smile on my face.
George Lucas had started writing his "space opera" with a rough outline of the entire story of (what became) the Skywalker story - the backstory, the main battle, and the conclusion. The problem was that Sci-Fi movies typically made relatively little money, especially because they were relatively expensive to make, so he decided to focus on the "second act" - the main battle part of the story - only giving vague references to the backstory. As he continued writing, his ideas became much larger than could be shown in one movie, so he broke the "second act" into 3 parts in his outline, and then decided that if he ever worked on the backstory and the conclusion, that they would also be 3 parts each, making it a 9-part series. But he knew that if there was any hope of ever making even one sequel, the first movie had to not just be amazing but had to pull people in, so it needed to be exciting - thus focusing on the main battle, and ultimately on "part 4" of the hypothetical 9-part story.
When Star Wars was released, there was no subtitle and no episode number - the studio was already unsure of its success during production, and it might well have flopped as many Sci-Fi movies before it had done, so the studio didn't want to suggest any promise of a sequel. George had built new companies to do everything on his own from scratch (visual effects, costumes, sound and sound effects, etc.), and they were just getting started. Millions were spent on 4 big visual effects that he ended up rejecting, and placeholder footage was still being used 3 weeks before the premiere. The John Williams music score also wasn't ready until the last minute, so it was hard for people to understand Lucas's vision until it all came together.
But when it was released, it damn near broke Hollywood. Not enough copies of the movie were made initially (it was seen as a second-rate movie by theater chains during its development), and it sold out every single seat in every showing everywhere it was available for MONTHS, even after more copies came available and more screens could show it. McDonald's had turned down a promo, which Burger King subsequently signed up for (a real-glass Star Wars-printed glass free with any large drink, with 4 different print designs), resulting in Burger King outselling McDonalds for the first time in history. Kenner, a small toy company, the only one who had taken a chance on Star Wars, had to sell empty boxes for Christmas with a mail-in card where kids would get the Star Wars figures sometime between Feb and June of the following year, because demand was 100 times what was anticipated. Star Wars eventually got licensed for EVERYTHING - sheets, lunch boxes, toys of all kinds, figures, comic books, novelizations, masks, costumes, and hundreds more. And overnight, it raised the quality bar for movie-making (special effects, costumes, creature design, sound design, etc.) so that other movies suddenly were no longer good enough, and everyone wanted Lucas's companies to work on THEIR movies too.
Of course, a sequel - The Empire Strikes Back - was ordered, quickly followed by a re-release to theaters of the original Star Wars in 1980, with the "A New Hope" subtitle seen for the first time. Eventually all 9 movies were made, but unfortunately, the final, terrible 3 were made by Disney, having tossed out Lucas's outlines, so many people don't really consider them "real Star Wars."
For me, the "real" Star Wars is the original 3
That's a whole bunch of revisionist history. George was quoted previously saying he'd had no actual story planned beyond the first movie(this includes the prequels) until Empire was greenlit. This whole "I had the whole story planned from the beginning" claim didn't come along until the prequels started development(he supposedly wrote treatments for all 9 after Empire but it wasn't until 1999 that ANY information about them came out). The first movies wasn't "Episode IV: A New Hope"(it was changed in 1981, not 1980) because even Lucas hadn't planned on there being a sequel.
@@Tensen01 He had a basic outline - a framework. He definitely didn't have finished scripts or anything, but I never suggested that he did. He did have some basic ideas of where things would go, though, structurally.
Nicely put. Thank you.
@@Tensen01 there’s literally a 1980 interview Mark and Harrison did for Empire when it first came out and Mark talks about the plan to do prequels with young Vader and Obi so they wouldn’t be in it as the characters would be just kids.
As a girl in the 70's and 80's, the three movie icons I looked up to were Princess Leia (Sta Wars), Sarah Connor (Terminator, T2) and Ellen Ripley (Alien, Aliens). My last name also happens to be Ripley, so that was also cool. LOL!
As an Army vet, I can honestly tell you that out of the three of them (Han, Luke and Leia), only Leia actually handles the rifle correctly in the movie (maybe because the prop was heavy? idk). The other two, firing wildly with one hand, would have gotten them whooped by any drill sergeant. LOL!
It's actually a British Sterling SMG with the stock folded forward. NOBODY was using them properly. ua-cam.com/video/tExpRlELoZA/v-deo.html watch for the blank brass in close ups.
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I think she's the closest, because she was trained from childhood to be a gorilla fighter, as well as a diplomat.
@@michaelconnor1542 Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
@panzerdeal8727 why she has better form is neither.
Especially if she hits more often or is better at suppression fire.
The farm Luke lived on is a moisture farm. Tatooine is a desert world, so water is the most valuable resource. Uncle Owen mentions several devices used on the farm:
_"What I really need is a droid that understands the binary language of moisture vaporators."_
_"I want them [the droids] up on the south ridge working on those condensers."_
5:46 fun fact. On set, R2D2 sounded like a munchkin, cursing like a sailor. That is what C3PO is replying to. Also, Vader sounded like a British body builder on set.
_A long time ago, in a movie theater about 50 miles away ..._
*THERE WAS NO EPISODE TITLE*
20th Century-Fox didn't think this film would make much money. Lucas was crossing his fingers that it didn't bomb. For all he knew, Lucas was making one standalone movie. "Episode IV" and "A New Hope" were added in later releases, to be in line with the numbering adopted with Episode V.
I first saw _Star Wars_ in 1977, at the Indian Hills Theater in Omaha, Nebraska, US (a city of about 1M). The Indian Hills was one of the last remaining Cinerama theaters in existence (it's long gone, now).
Cinerama was an experimental widescreen format seen in the 1950s and 1960s. It had an extremely curved screen, such that films shot in Cinerama used _three cameras_ and _three projectors_ : one for the center of the screen and one for each side. Everything had to be constantly synchronized so that the film looked normal onscreen.
If you see Cinerama films on DVD/Bluray/streaming today, it often looks distorted on the left and right. This is caused by converting a curved film to a flat screen.
So there I was at the Indian Hills at the tender age of 12 -- the film's precise target demographic. The Indian Hills seated 810 patrons: 662 on the main floor and 148 in the balcony. It was completely packed, as was every screening of _Star Wars_ until the film left theaters
I'd gotten to the theater rather late, forcing me to sit in the center seat of row one.
This turned out to be fantastically good bad luck.
Today, the center of row one is a terrible seat due to parallax distortion. In a theater the size of the Indian Hills, that distortion didn't exist because the screen was far enough away from the seats. However, it was close enough so that it filled my field of view from top to bottom.
The screen was large and curved enough so that it filled my field of view from periphery to periphery.
_Star Wars_ was shot in CinemaScope, a more popular experimental widescreen format of the era. While not technically the same as Cinerama, it still lent itself well to that screen.
I watched _Star Wars_ with the film filling my entire field of view from top-to-bottom and side-to-side. I didn't have to turn my head to watch it unless I wanted to, and I usually didn't.
It was an astonishingly immersive experience. Not even IMAX comes close.
Add to that the massive audience reaction that shouldn't be overlooked. It was a shared experience that I've only seen at _Infinity War_ and _Endgame_ on their opening nights, when there were a lot of fans present.
This audience reaction happened at every screening, in every theater, everywhere in the world, until _Star Wars_ left the screens.
Imagine 810 people all cheering, clapping, jumping to their feet, and occasionally crying all at once. The shared experience was amazing, as it fed on itself. No one held back, it just kept growing and growing until the destruction of the Death Star -- which prompted massive roaring from the audience.
The film itself was like nothing put to the screen at that time. While cinematically based on old _Flash Gordon_ and _Buck Rogers_ movie serials of the 1930s, this was a big-budget, big-screen version like nothing anyone had ever seen before.
It completely changed science fiction on the movie screen. Until that time, you occasionally got a good science fiction film, but they tended to be years apart. After _Star Wars_ , there were multiple good science fiction movies every year, a trend that continues to this very day.
There would be no modern _Star Trek_ without _Star Wars_ . _Star Wars_ was such a massive hit for 20th Century-Fox that Paramount quickly looked around and said, "Aha! We have this _Star Trek_ thing that Trekkies are always saying they want more of. Let's make it into a movie!"
Thus _Star Trek - The Motion Picture_ was released in 1979. Without that, there would be no _Star Trek_ today.
_Star Wars_ changed filmmaking from a business perspective. The film grabbed audiences like nothing seen in the entire history of cinema. While _Jaws_ was technically the first summer blockbuster, _Star Wars_ cemented summer as the time to release action-heavy, family-friendly films.
The special effects of _Star Wars_ were utterly innovative, and the tools created by the likes of John Dykstra became commonplace in films that don't even have special effects.
Almost all special effects in the Original Trilogy were achieved either in-camera, with optical effects, miniatures, extremely detailed paintings, or a combination of those techniques. CGI that allows an entire film to be shot on a green screen wasn't even a glimmer in anyone's eye.
In 1977, the most advanced computers were the size of an SUV and didn't have the computing power of your phone. CGI as a primary filmmaking technique wasn't popularized until _Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow_ in 2004. By then, computing power/square centimeter had skyrocketed exponentially.
The special effects spawned Industrial Light and Magic, a company created and owned by George Lucas. ILM is still in existence today, constantly innovating with new technologies to create visual effects for many, many films and TV series. From it's inception, ILM has been considered the gold standard of VFX companies.
In short, this film was nothing like what had come before. It changed _everything about cinema_ .
I got to watch film history with an audience of 810, on a screen so immersive that I got nauseous during the Trench Run.
Oh, and for the record: *Han shot first.*
My experience was nothing like yours. Lol I was 23 y/o. I walked to the theater which was a few blocks from my apartment. Smoked a joint on the way over and had a blast. It was the 70s and I was an adult. Great way to spend an afternoon!
I miss the Indian Hills theater. If i remember correctly the screen was roughly 25ft high and 75ft across (if measured straight) 105ft across (if measured along the curve). The theater was torn down to make room for parking. There was an effort to save the theater by not only some of the people of Omaha but the movie industry (for the historic significant of the theater. Being 1 of 3 built.)also.🤓
I don't know about the US release but it was definitely titled as Episode IV - A New Hope on the initial release in the UK. I remember it puzzled me on my first viewing in the West End cinema where it premiered . I therefore watched some of the many promotional interviews given by George Lucas in which he explained how he had written a 9-part story as 3 trilogies but had to make the middle trilogy first as it was the most visually impressive and therefore the one that financial backers expected to get the biggest return on.
Despite its huge success it took so long to get the backing for the prequel trilogy that he had to remaster the original releases with updated graphics as promotional / cash-in material for the prequels.
@@gomikmay wow, you're the second person I've met who knew about the Indian Hills! Greetings from Lincoln!
James Earl Jones was the voice of Mufassa, Darth Vadar and played KING JAFFE JAFFUER in COMING TO AMERICA and Terrence Mann in THE FIELD OF DREAMS.
And Admiral Greer in Hunt For Red October and Clear and Present Danger
@@tpw84101 YES !!! But I don't think she will ever see those classics anytime soon.
Little interesting fact: The "Stand By"-guy(Death Stars Main gunner) delayed firing the Super laser on the Rebel base on purpose, due to feeling EXTREME guilt over Alderaan. So at the final battle, he delayed the final ignition, while hoping something would happen. Even the button pressing is slower when compared.
Jabba and the Dewbacks (lizard hippos) were CGI they put in back in the 90s(? I think) using deleted scenes, most everything else was practical or drawn in.
The red signify evil,blue signify good
17:33 I prefer the Han Solo shoots first from the original cut, not the special edition version of greedo shots first. 18:20 😂
Yeah, the change, and the given reasoning for it are both just silly, and unnecessary.
I prefer all of the original elements over the special edition versions. I especially dislike the Jabba scene. It reduces the seriousness of Han's back story.
For the LONGEST time, "Han Shot First!!" was a thing.
imagine you came up with a story, created back story for your story, the story became popular so you made sequels and prequels... this is the story of star wars
Abby gonna love Star Wars the more she watches 🙌🏽💯😃 let's gooo great reaction & always love seeing Boo 🐈
James Earl Jones voices Darth Vader, David Prowse, a body builder, actually played Darth Vader physically.
True. James Earl Jones never met any of the other cast until he met the first one Carrie Fisher on the Big Bang Theory.
At least in this movie :)
in fact, in order to keep a certain reveal secret for as long as possible, David Prowse was given fake lines and James Earl Jones overdubbed the real dialogue.
also, Prowse's voice (which you can find in clips on YT) is much less impressive than Jones's 😆
I saw this in the theater when I was 10. The audience went nuts. After than end shot when the credits rolled the entire audience stood up and cheered and gave this fil a standing ovation. Never seen that since., It changed my life.
That sounds incredible. Being part ten-year-old myself, I can image it must have made a HUGE impression.
Only other times I've experienced a faint echo, is in The Empire Strikes Back, when You-Know-Who says You-Know-What to You-Know-Who. Then when IM did in Thanos, that got a hearty round of applause. And then waaaay back, also in 1977, during Close Encounters of the Third Kind. There's a scene near the beginning, where lineman Roy Neary is lost, and stopped on a country road in the middle of the night. Cars keep coming up and passing him, until finally you see yet another one come up to him from behind. But this one slowly moves....up. I saw it on opening night, and the whole audience went "Whooooaaaa". 😳
@@yelnikigwawa1845 Changed my life, out stars in my eyes. I had an even better time seeing Alien two years later and Empire the year after that
“Did you see this thing back here? Behind us?”
I’m pretty sure that’s just a moon.
Note 'Walking trash can' and 'Wall-E' are on the bingo card. Very few acknowledge the setting of the suns, which _is_ very pretty.
The "walking trash can" is called a gonk droid, because it keeps repeating the sound "gonk", but it's actually supposed to be a power pack droid - a droid that recharges other droids and machinery.
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"How Did They Do This In The 70's?"
Well, there's a documentary titled "Empire Of Dreams" That'll answer a lot of the questions you have about the original trilogy
I would recommend an actual REACTION to that documentary, its VERY entertaining!
_"Let's not, and just say we did"_ - That made me laugh.
chewie not getting a medal is the biggest insult givechewieamedal
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Abby & Tori
Rebel base is on Yavin 4, fourth planet of Yavin Star System. Battle of Yavin is the famous battle of the rebellion.
The planet is the gas giant Yavin. Yavin 4 is the fourth moon of the gas giant planet Yavin.
Abby's right, James Earl Jones voiced both Vader and Mufasa. Mark Hamill(Luke) is also the most iconic voice actor for the Joker.
Yes, it was freaking amazing, back in '77, not just because it was so new with nothing to really compare it to, but because I watched it on a HUGE screen, with a really good sound system!
Good ears! - he voiced Darth Vader, but wasn't the actor in the suit.
- What are they farming?
- Dirt, lol.
Actually they are moisture farmers. A moisture farm was an area of land devoted to the production of water through the drawing of moisture from the dry air.
It depended on vaporators, a type of device that could harvest excess atmospheric humidity. On hot and arid desert worlds like Tatooine, moisture farming was a vital activity - and very profitable.
Ever since I saw this at age 14 in 1977, my main question is Why didn't Chewbacca get a medal?🥉🥉🥉
That error was corrected at (if memory serves) one of the Academy Awards shows or similar event.
Red = Sith(Dark side)
Blue = Jedi Knight
Green = Jedi Consular
Yellow = Jedi Sentinel
ofc it was later changed because they wanted more colors for some reasons, but that is the base
You fool! You spoiled it!
And purple for "Bad Motherfukers"
Purple = Bad Mother Fucker
There's a lot I could comment:
George Lucas had to get permission from the Guilds to open it the way they did. Normally, you have credits roll for the director, main actors, writers... this opens with the blast and the scrawl.
This follows classic storytelling, so that's another reason it's so iconic.
Darth vader: Leia go to your room. Laia. MY ROOM WAS ON ALDERON
You gotta see the family guy spoof Blue Harvest after this. It's hilarious. 🤣
Producer's note: once they've watched all the films, we plan to do that. Everyone here is a Family Guy fan.
All the effects were practical in the 1970s. If it looks CGI then it was added in the 1990s.
Vader was physically played by British actor David Prowse and was voiced by James Earl Jones
Star Wars(1977)
Superman (1978)
Alien(1979)
The holy trifecta of sci fi movies.
blue, green, purple = good guy
red, orange = bad guy
this is more helpful than you know 🙏🏼
Red, orange = one who truly understands the force!
Purple = Bad Mother Fucker
@@abbywatchesmovies The color of the light saber is determined by the crystal used in the construction of the weapon. The whole process is very detailed, very boring, and not at all important to the plot.😀
So the original was just called Star Wars and was meant to be a one-off film but ended up becoming a massive hit. In 1981, they re-released it retroactively, adding the "Episode 4: A New Hope" as George Lucas began to conceptualize the whole series of prequels and sequels. Originally, this movie contained only practical effects using models and blue screen for the ships and actors in suits for R2D2, C3PO along with the Jawas and other droids. Each special edition re-release added changes and created new scenes using CGi. Most infamous scene that was changed was the interaction between Han and Greedo which created the phrase "Han shot first" uttered by every truly hardcore fan that had seen the original version
So vader was supposed to get away in the end/live at the end of the story (if it was meant to be a one-off)… damn.
@@johndough3809 Yeah I guess so 😅. Unless that scene was filmed for the re-release in 1981 which I could see George doing or he had a bigger picture in mind in the beginning but didn't know for sure that it would be attainable at first.
No, Lucas said that he wanted to call it episode four from the beginning, but the studio refused. They thought it would be confusing.
Wuuut this is so fun! I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS!!
A genuinely new reaction to the first Star Wars film in these days is a rare treat. It seemed like this reaction was nearly a continuous chorus of "Ooohh WOW, I want one!!" which was cool.
Well, yall just summed up my youth as a 70's kid: Munchkins, Oompa Loompas, & Jawas!😅
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10:22 "What do they farm? Dirt?"
Actually, they have moisture vaporators that suck moisture out of the air, store it in underground tanks and use it to water crops. If you've ever had a relative with a severe respiratory illness, there is a similar device but I haven't seen one since the 1980's.
Actually, what they were farming was the moisture from the atmosphere. On a desert planet water would be an in demand commodity.
@@JCG52577 I got the info from one of the first SW books that came out in the late 70's. I lost the book (and a lot more) in a house fire in 2011.
I’m sorry you lost what you did but I think you’re remembering incorrectly.
@@JCG52577 The name of the book was "Splinter of the Mind's Eye."
David Prowse was the actor who was under the Darth Vader costume. He was never seen on screen.
Furthermore, since his voice did not seem “dark” and imposing enough to George Lucas, he was dubbed in post-production by James Earl Jones.
At the beginning, he even considered the voice of Orson Welles, only by then his voice was even more recognizable than that of James Ear Jones. That's why you think "Mufasa" was Darth Vader 😅
I’m so happy that Abby is getting to see these classics for the first time. You both caught that Darth Vader is voiced by James Earl Jones! He’s an iconic actor who also voiced Mufasa in the Lion King. The person inside the Darth Vader suit is an English actor, bodybuilder, and strongman named David Prowse. The role of C3PO was played by an English actor and mime artist named Anthony Daniels. As for RD-D2, there really is a little person inside that robot. His name is Kenny Baker, an English actor and comedian who sadly passed away in 2016 at the age of 81. The actor who played Chewbacca, Peter Mayhew, also passed away recently in 2019 at the age of 74.
You ladies got to watch the special edition version of Star Wars that was theatrically released in 1997. It features a few deleted scenes and additional special effects. One of those deleted scenes was the conversation between Han Solo and Jabba the Hutt at the space port. In that scene, they employed Irish actor, Declan Mulholland, as a stand in for Jabba. Lucas planned to replace Mulholland in post-production with a stop-motion creature. When this scene was restored in the 1997 special edition, Lucas used a CGI version of Jabba in place of Mulholland.
When this movie came out in 1977, it was simply called Star Wars. Even though this was a long-time passion project for George Lucas, he feared that Star Wars would flop, and it wouldn’t be successful enough to go beyond one movie. Star Wars ended up becoming the highest grossing film of 1977, and a massive cultural phenomenon. In 1981, the film was re-released as Star Wars: Episode IV- A New Hope. This was done a year after the sequel, The Empire Strikes Back, came out. The success of the Star Wars franchise allowed Lucas to continue telling this epic story he had envisioned and expand upon the galaxy in which it takes place.
Unfortunately Obi-Wan Kenobi dies in the duel with Darth Vader. When he is killed, he became a “Force Ghost.” Even though his physical body is gone, his spirit becomes one with the force. This will allow Obi-Wan to keep guiding Luke in his journey to become a Jedi. Force Ghosts can return as voices, dreams, or apparitions, so that they can help those in need of their guidance.
The color of the lightsaber depends upon the type of kyber crystal in the hilt (handle) that’s used to power the weapon and the individual who wields it. The crystals are attuned to the force and those who wield that power. The lightsaber therefore comes to symbolize the manifestation of the users connection to the force.
Blue is the most common color of lightsabers used by the Jedi as they are said to represent loyalty, righteousness, bravery, and justice.
Green is the second most common color of lightsabers used by the Jedi. It represents growth, wisdom, harmony, and spirituality. These are traits closely associated with the wisest and most senior Jedi.
Red represents power, aggression, hatred, and anger. These are traits closely associated with the Sith and the dark side. Unlike the Jedi who bond with the kyber crystals, the Sith channel all their hate, fear, and negative emotions into the crystal in a process known as “bleeding” that turns it red.
Purple is a rare color typically associated with Jedi who have a strong connection to both the light and dark sides of the force. It represents nobility, wisdom, and a balance between the light and dark. The purple lightsaber was made famous by Jedi Master Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson) in the prequel trilogy. It turns out Jackson’s favorite color is purple and he insisted his character have a purple lightsaber.
Yellow is closely associated with Jedi temple guards and sentinels. Like purple, it’s a rare color. Those who wield yellow lightsabers are often highly skilled and dedicated to the Jedi Order.
White is an incredibly rare color said to represent purity, redemption, and perseverance. The white lightsaber was made famous by Ahsoka.
Orange is extremely rare and mysterious. This one is a bit of an enigma as it’s relatively new, and I’ve read different interpretations of the color. In Star Wars canon, the only known Jedi to wield the Orange lightsaber is a survivor of Order 66, the mass murder of Jedi by the Empire. It’s possible that those who wield Orange lightsabers use both the light and dark side of the force.
At some point you definitely have to watch the original Indiana Jones trilogy. If you want a great comedy for laughs, I would absolutely suggest seeing “Spaceballs.” It’s a spoof of the Star Wars films made by Mel Brooks in 1987.
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Awesome reaction of my favorite Star Wars movie!!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊
We love your enthusiasm so much, every time! 😸
The “farming” they are doing is moisture farming! Those tall white structures pull moisture from the air and condense it into usable water. (If you listen to them, you’ll hear them talking about “moisture vaporators.”)
At the time the technology was mostly fiction, but now it’s real. You can now easily buy devices that pull water from the ambient air, condense it and filter it!
Wow!
20:07 Out of all of the reactions I have seen for this movie, that reaction is one of the best for that particular scene I've ever seen. Well done, girls.
We will be watching your careers with great interest.
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when the lion king came out we all said hey that's darth vader
The original version without all the crappy added CGI is much better.
Lucas was a class act to the working man. This was most visible in the UK, which was still very class conscious at that time.
He had to film some scenes at the largest sound stage at that time--in the UK's Elstree studio. Unlike the way British working class people were treated elsewhere, he honoured them.
BEFORE official opening, Lucas rented the largest cinema in London and showed the movie to those working men AND their families.
All your questions are answered with subsequent Star Wars movies.
“I think James Earl Jones is his name.” 😂😂 WOW!!!
James Earl Jones is the voice of Darth Vader, the actor inside the suit is David Prowse. James Earl Jones is 6'2", David Prowse is 6'6".
Also, Anthony Daniel's the actor that plays C3PO. In case you're interested, the tribute to Carrie Fisher is very special to all Star Wars fans. All The Star documentaries are fun to watch as well! I was 12 in 1977 and I still remember opening day for the premiere of Star Wars A New Hope May 25th 1977, a wonderful experience as a young boy in 1977! I'm 58 now and still love Star Wars!
Hello Abby and Tori! Shout out from the US Marine Corps! Yes, yes and yes! I am so happy to see you guys go down this rabbit hole! These are 1 of the few films where everybody and their mother wishes they could erase their brain and rewatch them all again! I actually was lucky enough to see return of the Jedi in theaters. And I still remember being like, "WOW WOW WOW!" Yes, I'm getting old. But besides that, I am so excited! Honestly, I'm not going to tell you, but I think Luke is going to get with Leia too! Just a feeling in the Force I have! 00:20 All will be explained in time my young Padawan! It excites me so much to see new people watch these films for the first time because they always blow everyone away! I would not recommend reading the comments, as some people are assholes and might put spoilers in there for you! Maybe have someone proof read the comments to see which ones need to be deleted! Anyways, I cannot wait for Empire Strikes Back. You have no idea! Hi Hannah and Toy as well! I think I finally know all your names! Kekek Love u ladies and Hello Booo! (I have cats as well stuck w/ me by my X but they grew on me and I love them!) ❤🤍💙💛
The hanger scene, with Jabba, ŵas originally cut from the film and was shot with Jabba as a human. After they showed the slug version of Jabba, in Return of the Jedi, they decided to put the original scene back in the remastered version of the original film and use CGI to replace the human Jabba.
Darth Vader was played by two different people. The Voice was James Earl Jones like you thought the person in the Darth Vader suit was another guy named David Charles Prowse.
It’s a moisture farm. The towers spread out around the farm draw moisture out of the air.
As a desert world, water is very valuable.
32:21 The red light saber, represents Evil. Every to other color light saber is good. Just a visual representation of Good and Evil ✌️😸
If I'm not mistaken, this was the first movie to pan across a star field in space.
James Earl Jones was the voice actor for Vader, but thete were a couple other actors in the suit.
Fun fact Luke Skywalker AKA Mark Hamill is the same guy that played the voice of the Joker in Batman the Animated Series
Luke uses a Batman utility belt to cross the ravine on the Death Star.
I can not wait to see your reactions to Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi.....the journey you have begun!!
The desert scenes were all shot in and around Tatouine, Tunisia, in northern Africa. George Lucas named the planet "Tatooine" in honor of the village and its people.
James Earl Jones was the voice of Darth Vader and Mufasa. David Prowse, a body builder, played Vader in the suit.
Lucas was so exhausted and unsure about movie reception that he initially hid on a Hawaiian beach... and then word of its success trickled in.
Abby had the best reaction I've seen by a reactor at this scene. Luke looks up and sees the Millennium Falcon for the first time and says, "What a piece of junk!" It was meant to be funny and Abby got it! In the theater, I remember being bowled over, seeing this incredible spaceship, and thinking "Wow," after which Luke calls it a piece of junk. I thought that was hilarious. I've seen this movie 50 times with other reactors, who all just looked blankly at the screen, not reacting at all. Abby was the only one to get the hilarity of the scene.
I think this reaction is the most that I've seen both Abby and Tori being invested before and I'm here for it!
Jedi Lightsabers come in blue, green, and in one case purple. The Red lightsaber is typically for Sith, the Jedi who have fallen to the dark side or trained in the Dark Side of the Force.
1. Sir. Alec Guinness/Obi-Wan didn't want the part. Being a Shakespearian actor, he thought the entire idea was silly and was beneath him, but his wife talked him into taking the part.
2. The shrug Chewy gives Luke after he scares the tiny black droid is 🤣
3. These movies were put out in a certain order because there was limited technology and Lucas used and pushed forward the images needed to make a quality product. The best way to watch the is in the order they came out. We had to wait years for the next one. There was no internet where we had access to them whenever we wanted.
4. No need to go into anything after VI. Disney took over and the quality dropped. I realize you have to.
5. The only CGI was put in for the 25th anniversary package in this film are the critters the stormtroopers were riding at the beginning of the search for the robots, a couple of the huge critters outside the pub, the scene with Jabba the Hutt and other minor changes. Those were put in later after CGI was available. Otherwise, everything is what we had in 1977.
6. Obi-Wan sacrificed himself after he told Vader he would be stronger than ever. He went back into the force. He knows it's Luke's job to take over.
7. The awkwardness in the detention space is because Ford didn't know his lines. It was kept in the movie anyway because it worked.
8. IMVHO the next two are the best of the series. Enjoy
George Lucas started a company just to create the special effects. Industrial Light and Magic is the name. Everything was done with scale models, special slow motion effects, actors in alien suits and some remote controlled animated robotics. No one had done special effects like these ever before. All the CGI scenes that were added later were put into the original films and they were all re-released in theaters right before Episodes 1, 2 and 3 came out.
The movie got a CGI enhancement for the 1997 20th anniversary re-release. The scene when Han Solo is speaking with Jabba (Slug) was not in the original movie. It wasn't included for the 1977 release. There was an actor playing Jabba but he was covered by the CGI Jabba. This movie is spectacular on the big screen. The special visual effects and sound was unlike anything we experienced in movies.
History in the making.
The first installment of the saga.
This was our cinematic myth and legend.
The 3rd film by George Lucas, who as an filmmaker and storyteller pushed the boundaries of what could be done in entertainment.
A lot of everything in this was being done for the first time.
The way it was made took the best of the best with a little bit of time and luck.
Lucasfilm Ltd and 20th century Fox (now Disney companys) believed in it when no other studios could understand it or reject it.
Beloved characters, hero or villain that were defined by particular personality, look and swagger with how they carried themselves in this galaxy.
Although it's about the battle of good and evil, it also pushes deep into the philosophy of it all.
Seeing the light and dark within all things, to make a choice, have a destiny.
Signature moments and lines that are without a doubt, unforgettable.
Most importantly The G.O.A.T. in film composition, John Williams with his first of 9 amazing scores for the saga, setting the high bar.
Because of it's time for release, Episode IV also played a role in bringing out more blockbusters for release during the Memorial Day holiday.
In terms of film franchises from merchandise to fan base, also a remarkably huge following.
Winning multiple awards including 6 Oscars and for nearly 7 years it was the no.1 movie of all time.
Episode IV with the Trilogy Special Edition (20th anniversary) was the highest-grossing re-release of all-time.
RIP to castmembers Carrie Fisher (Leia), Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) and Kenny Baker (R2-D2).
RIP to prod.designer John Barry & art designer Ralph McQuarrie, definitely no Star Wars without them.
The original trilogy, top-tier.
The prequel trilogy, some love/some hate.
The sequel trilogy, you'll just have to watch those and make up your own mind.
To this day, many fans are pissed off that Chewbacca didn't receive a medal. He gets one later but..... well, I don't wanna spoil. :)
He does have the last in the movie though.
It's fun to see a first reaction to a movie I have been watching all my life! I enjoyed it girls!
darth vader's voice was done by James Earl Jones, but the man in the suit is David Prowse, he also played the body builder in clockwork orange, thats a strange agressive movie to watch
Great reaction video! I can't wait to see your Empire Strikes Back reactions.
Great reaction from Tori and Abby, my two favorite "what faces will they make in this reaction" reactors. 😀
First of all, the "Chapter IV" and "A New Hope" weren't in the opening of the original movie. It was just called Star Wars as it was expected to do nothing much in theaters as science fiction films weren't any kind of draw at all. George Lucas had written an outline for a big story: a prologue done in three acts, a middle bit done in three acts, and an ending bit done in three acts. He thought the middle bit was the most interesting and complete of the three, so when he got approval and a limited budget ($11 million, roughly equal to $40 million today, or one and a half episodes of the She Hulk TV show) he decided to start at the first act of the middle part (thus Chapter IV) and make that for a quick movie that might make back the budget and might have a tiny chance to get him an opportunity to someday make the next chapter. Then he and Spielberg went off to Hawaii and talked about what they might want to do next, staying away from any media so they wouldn't have their vacation ruined by reading that this movie bombed. Imagine their shock when someone finally got ahold of Lucas to tell him that it wasn't only not a bomb but was a huge success.
Peter Cushing, who played the villainous Grand Moff Tarkin, was in reality a very nice and kind man. Carrie Fisher talked about how difficult it was to look pissed and say mean lines to him because he was always so very nice to her (and everyone) when the cameras were off.
He also had the biggest costume issue on the set. When the costumers were getting everything for everyone, they mistakenly got Cushing boots that were painfully small for his feet. There wasn't really time or money to get a properly sized pair made for him, so he only wore them for shots where they would be visible. In the rest of his shots he is wearing his own pair of fuzzy house slippers. 😀
Most of the "special edition" added in FX are easy to identify. If there's a bunch of characters and movements cluttering up the shot, those are the added in FX, as the original sets were relatively austere. From the scene of the Stormtroopers searching around the escape pod on Tatooine (all the lizard riding Stormtroopers and some of the additional Stormtroopers walking around and doing nothing of value) to the additional street scenes in Mos Eisley where no main characters are visible (except briefly when the land speeder is passing by) a lot of the "improved" shots were just garbage and served no purpose. Some extra shots of aliens in the cantina were added I think, but that was cool to just show a variety of weird creatures. And of course the destruction of the planet of Alderaan and the Death Star were made extra 'splodey, which was also unnecessary and not special. But the worst addition of them all was the Jabba scene. Originally Jabba was just a rather portly human, and the scene with him was cut because it made zero sense. Greedo just tried to kill Han in the cantina, and had said that Jabba had put a price on his head so high that every bounty hunter was looking for him. But just a bit later Jabba has come to Han's ship for a chat, and Han has pretty much talked some smack at Jabba and Jabba is acting like Han is his favorite? Um, no. Jabba isn't a bipolar amnesiac. He wanted Han brought to him, alive or dead, and didn't much care which (though he'd probably pay more for alive so he could torture him, like the criminal kingpin he is) so having this scene added back in makes no damn sense. Except to show off what they could do with computers now.
As much as I have worked with computers in my life, I'm absolutely a practical FX guy raised on Harryhausen (don't get me started, just Google it). Industrial Light and Magic was created by George Lucas solely to invent/update a lot of the practical FX that were in this movie when I was a kid. It was magic as far as we could tell, and it helped make a sci fi film that was expected to do nothing much into the phenomenon that it became.
I'll quit lecturing now. Sorry. 😲 But as always love your reactions!
Great reaction! Welcome to the Star Wars fandom community!
"Star Wars" was released as "Star Wars", and was only renamed when it was a hit and the sequels would be green-lit. Then it was called Episode 4- A New Hope.
Seeing the original in theaters was mind-blowing for 1977, and it was a social phenomena unlike anything else that had come before, not just in special effects but in story-telling and pacing. The cut you're watching has a lot of improvements made by George Lucas and his team at ILM. 15 minutes of extra footage which George believed were important to telling the overall story arc of the trilogy, but changed the pacing a bit. The original cut was a non-stop rocket ride. That's one of the reasons people were going to see it dozens if not hundreds of times.
The effects were OUTSTANDING! They've been cleaned up in places where the effect were rushed to get he movie out. ILM was a small company on a small budget. The animated stormtrooper lizard mounts, Jabba the Hutt meeting Solo in the hanger, some of the bar aliens, some of the desert speeder footage, and some of the Death Star battle footage was added in later releases. Han shot Greedo first.
John Williams soundtrack for this film is INCREDIBLE!! Iconic and a perfect blend with the plot and the video effects.
Darth Vader's voice is the same as Mufasa - James Earl Jones. He also played Thulsa Doom in Conan the Barbarian, and numerous other roles. :-)
David Prowse played the man in the Darth Vader suit.
The little critters that captured R2 and 3PO were jawas. The sand-people "fuzzy" mounts are called banthas.