Great reaction! I think it's awesome that you got despecialized editions for this, very few reactors do that. The thing is, the added special effects and additional scenes definitely change the experience, and arguably, not for better. In particular, introducing Jabba the Hut in this film messes with his introduction in RotJ, and throws off the pacing of this film. Glad you enjoyed this!
Carrie Fisher said once, "You try and say the line "I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board" without an English accent and you'll see it's impossible"
If you notice, when Leia was talking to others in the Imperial government, specifically Vader and Tarkin, she uses the accent, but with rebels she uses an American accent. It might be explained as some kind of protocol when presenting as a senator.
She also said on an episode of GRAHAM NORTON, that she had been studying in England at the time she got the part, so she did legitimately have a faux English accent, sometimes...
@@Ubernerd3000 "Bi-dialectical". Gillian Anderson and Sandi Toksvig are two examples. Gillian Anderson switches depending on the accent of the interviewer/country of interview. Sandi keeps her posh British accent, but when she does "impersonations" of American accents, it's not an impersonation, it's her childhood New York dialect.
The reason the "Han shot first" version is better is not simply because it was first, but also because it was based on a famous scene from "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," where Tuco shoots first and then says, "If you're going to shoot, shoot; don't talk."
I am baffled with Lucas in that. I mean yeah, people over exagerated something that ultimately doesn't really matter. But at the same time, it is baffling it is so important to Lucas because in the decades since he changed it has even one person said "I am so glad they changed it so Han didn't shoot first... that bothered me!" Said no one... ever... in the history of time. Yet it was SO important to Lucas even after the backlash he caved and changed it but changed it so they shot at the same time because it was THAT important Han didn't actually shoot first. I mean how much money did he spend making multiple changes to something that not one person ever asked for much less appreciated.
Han was a criminal and knew who he was dealing with. Of course he'd shoot first. Any other edit is simply bad as well, because who'd miss that badly from across the table (unless they'd just been shot and then there'd have to be enough time passing to affect their shot, so it can't be simultaneous, and not enough to recover from it). Many things don't matter, this one does. (Totally off-topic, but it sucks that the makers of Deadpool think oxygen is flammable..)
All other things aside, the fact that Han shoots first and then later comes back to save Luke shows character growth. He goes from a mercenary just looking out for number one and grows to become one of the good guys. This character growth is ruined by the subsequent changes to the scene.
@@blechtic If you've never seen the burnt body of a man killed in a Liquid Oxygen fire, or knew nothing about chemistry, you would probably not know that oxygen is flammable lol
I was 15 years old in 1977 when this moving came out. The first 5 minutes of this movie is burned into brain. In 1977 where I lived (Portland, Oregon) most theaters had really bad speaker systems. This was the first movie I saw with full Dolby stereo. The sound effects were amazing to hear. The soundtrack was amazing. So many things that are tropes in SciFi movies were first seen in this move. When Luke first turns on the light saber the guy sitting behind blurted out 'that's so cool looking'. When the Millenium Falcon makes it first jump to light speed the entire theater gasped "oh my god'. This was also the first movie that I can remember where the laser bolts looked dangerous, not a cheesy effect. When Luke, Han, and Chewie turned around the final the entire theater cheered. Still one of the most memorable movie expereinces I've ever had.
Talk about "burned into the brain". I was 9 years old when Star Wars came out. My father snuck an old audio cassette recorder under his jacket into the theatre and recorded the audio on two cassette tapes. I then spent the next 4 years re-living the movie over and over listening to those two cassette tapes while re-enacting the movie with my Kenner Action figures. I had the audio burnt into my brain so much... that when Lucas redubbed the audio his changes... even the smallest changes were super noticeable to me. One in particular that bugs me to this day is Aunt Beru's inflection in her voice during the scene when Uncle Owen asks her if she'd "seen Luck this morning". Aunt Beru's dialog is exactly the same all the way through the scene... however the inflection in her voice is totally different. Her "I think so" was a caring statement... that was changed into a question with the re-dubbed soundtrack. This archive has the original soundtrack! archive.org/details/StarWars16mm Jump ahead to the 27min mark to hear her original answer with the original voice inflection.
I was 3 years old when this came out. It's the first movie I truly remember seeing in theatres. I saw it twice during its initial run in 1977. Then in the summer of 1982 they rereleased A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back as a double feature in order to generate excitement for the third installment in the Star Wars franchise, and I saw it in theatres then too.
Yeah, same (although I was 18). It's hard to imagine now that there was a time when nobody knew what "Star Wars" was. Other than knowing it was sci-fi, we didn't really know anything about it. From that opening crawl to that first shot of the ships flying over the camera, and then every second that came after is still one of the great movie going experiences of my life. The ending was the first time I had ever seen a movie theater audience stand up and applaud (myself included). Then, there were the years-long waits for the next films, the thrill of standing in line to get to the theaters and, as always, that opening theme with the Star Wars logo hitting the screen. Reacters watching these films (and all films, IMHO) on laptops are missing 95% of the true experience, at best.
Fun fact: Tarkins actor (Peter Cushing) feet hurt in the boots they got for him. So in the shots where you don't see his feet, he's wearing fuzzy slippers.
When Luke goes out and observes the suns setting, I know the guy who played the French Horn solo in that scene. He's a great guy. When we were on an orchestra tour in China together, a friend asked him to play it and he did. Chills.
When this came out it was unlike anything we had ever seen. The scene were the Millennium Falcon jumps to light speed for the first time - the whole theater erupted in cheers! There has been no other reaction to a movie like that I've experienced in the subsequent 45 years.
I was 10 in 77 and saw this with my dad and older brother, was pretty awesome to see in the theatre for a couple of kids from a little town on Vancouver island ☺️
I was 8 years old n '77 and I had only seen Disney movies or similar up to that point. After watching Sear Wars, my little mind was blown and my love for films and cinema forever cemented.
Of all the first-time reactions to this film that I've seen, this is the first time I've seen one with the original theatrical release. It took me back to my own childhood. Congrats, Shannell, on your latest journey, and we'll be watching you with great interest.
@@ShanelleRiccio Good for you for actually finding a fan made De-Specialized Version of this. You actually got to see Star Wars the way I saw it in the theaters in 1977. But why you would think a film that is generally considered to be the greatest film of all time would be be cheesy or corny is kind of messing with me... a lot. And Han didn't shoot first, he shot ONLY. Period. Make sure you watch Harmy's De-Specialized "Empire Strikes Back" as well.
"I want more of the Force. I want more of Luke training with it." You will soon see why Empire Strikes Back is one of the greatest sequels in cinematic history.
More than that, this is the OG 1977 release version -- the opening title crawl doesn't even include the "Episode IV: A New Hope" header, which was added after the release of _The Empire Strikes Back_
Technically, a MacGuffin (a term popularized by Hitchcock) is the object that drives the plot but has no actual significance or other function in itself. An often-cited example is the Maltese Falcon in the eponymous film: everyone is after it, but the statue does not actually _do_ anything, even as a talisman or whatever. In this film, the Plans To The Death Star are not a McGuffin, because they enable the rebels to destroy the Death Star.
Lucas has stated the McGuffin of all the Star Wars original trilogy (and many after it in many ways) was R2-D2. Although using the definition you describe technically rules him out as one since R2-D2 does stuff.
some information for you shanelle: the original deathstar was a spherical battlestation of around 120 km diameter, capable of destroying planets with a several hours cooldown and hyperspace drive. the trench the movie shows in the endscenes is a horizontal trench around the death stars equator, housing the exhaust port they try to hit with torpedoes. most of the mass of the battlestation is taken by the huge machinery that powers its superlaser. the rest is mostly support systems for its massive close quarter weapon supplement (mostly against bigger starships), hangars, crew quarters and what not. it had approximately a crew of over a million people, including troops, gunners, pilots etc.
One thing people today do not realize is that the TECHNOLOGY for this movie was cutting edge for its time. This Movie was AWESOME because there really had never been anything like it before.
Well, I believe the testament to that is seeing someone's first reaction over 40 years later say specifically that she thought she'd have to grade on a curve and didn't have to!
The amount of sheer ingenuity in this trilogy is amazing. Dykstraflex is an obvious example but they basically innovated motion blur with go motion as well.
Right, that's why other Directors like Spielberg and Coppola were in such amazement when they saw this. Modern day directors and film makers have no understanding of what this movie did for the industry, and the technology that came from it.
19:25 "So, Luke just knows how to drive this little craft?" Yes, though it's not mad obvious in the movie and only clarified in the Expanded Universe of novels and sourcebooks. During the garage scene when C-3P0 is being lowered into the oil bath and before Luke starts to clean R2-D2, he's playing with a model of a Incom T-16 Skyhopper while his real T-16 can be seen in the open doorway in the background. The Rebel Alliance were flying Koensayr BTL-A4 Y-Wings and Incom T-65 X-Wings at the Battle of Yavin. The controls for the Incom T-16 Skyhopper and the Incom T-65 X-Wing are very similar and it's why Luke was able to pass the simulator test given to him by the Alliance and brought in on the pilot briefing.
The whole “Han shot first” thing was because Lucas thought it made Han look bad, but IMO it’s the start of his redemption arc that pays off when he saves Luke during the Death Star attack. He grows from a dodgy, selfish scoundrel to a more heroic person
@@adgato75 omg, yes this. The video about how Star Wars was saved in the edit makes it clear that this movie was only good because there were people around him that were better filmmakers who he wasn't so big he could ignore yet.
Also I don’t see how shooting someone who wants to have your head makes someone like totally irredeemable, not in that world where Obi Wan just chopped off a man’s arm lol.
Carrie Fisher's real explanation for it is that it's impossible to say the line "I recognized your foul stench the moment I was brought on board" without a British accent.
@@Rmlohner Yes, but Lucas retrofits in-universe explanations for things all the time. Padme Amidala has a haughty, regal "diplomatic" voice, too - which isn't her natural way of speaking.
At 20.40 of your video, there are people at the planning table. The older portly guy on the far left with the big moustache is my best friend's dad. He is also next to C3PO and R2D2 at the medal presentation. I saw the movie in 1977 when it was first released fortunately on a huge screen in London.
Back in 1977, Han Solo was a true rogue. Charming, but ruthless, if necessary. I liked him that way. And, yes, Han didn't shoot first. He was the only one shooting. Poor Greedo.
Regarding Carrie Fishers accent. She actually talks a bit about it in her very funny stand up show "Wishful Drinking". She was more or less fresh out of London's Central School of Speech and Drama. and had sort of a meandering "high" British theatre voice that came and went.
She was so hilariously mortified by her bad accent in that first scene and recounts it well in both “wishful drinking” and “the princess diarist” which came out shortly before her passing. In the latter book she finally let the cat out of the bag regarding her affair with Ford during the filming of “new hope” - if interested I recommend the audio book read in her voice. Her humor and sharing of her own diary from age 19 on set is not to be missed.
Being nitpicky about it, the original “Star Wars: A New Hope” from 1977 is simply “Star Wars.” It’s so cool that your first viewing was this one. It makes one appreciate so much more what was accomplished with the technology of the day.
@@ShanelleRiccio -- Shanelle, I do not know if you will see this in time (not sure how far ahead you are on your Patreon), but I am BEGGING YOU DO NOT WATCH THE ORIGINAL AND PREQUEL TRILOGIES IN RELEASE ORDER!!!! A few years ago, before the Sequel Trilogy was made, someone online made an argument for what has colloquially become known as THE MACHETE ORDER -- it recognizes that if you watch them in the order of "Original Trilogy then Prequel Trilogy" there are twists/moments in the Prequel Trilogy that lose weight an narrative impact. Instead watch them in this order: IV, V, I, II, III, VI (Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back - The Phantom Menace - Attack of the Clones - Revenge of the Sith - Return of the Jedi) Episode V (Empire Strikes Back) ends with some major twists/moments, and if you jump back to the Prequel Trilogy instead of watching Episode VI (Return of the Jedi), it narratively works like a long extended flashback of "How Did We Get To This Point Where The Twist Makes Sense", and it gives you extra time to digest and process the impact of those moments. Plus, there are a number of narrative parallels between the trilogies, especially so between Episode III (Revenge of the Sith) and Episode VI (Return of the Jedi) -- because George Lucas was a big fan of rhyming story arcs -- and seeing the version of the arc play out in Episode III adds extra weight to their parallels with the arc in Episode VI because you are forced to wonder if they will play out the same way or if different choices will be made. As a storyteller who understands film yourself, hopefully you will see the value in what I laid out above -- I promise you, your viewing experience will be much better for it.
@@kristopherheenk2710 If I were to offer unsolicited advice for watch order, it would be skip 1 2 3 because they are horrific, and add nothing aside from minor Vader & Stormtrooper trivia. Especially to someone who already knows who Vader is. Meesa inna badda trilogy.
@@kristopherheenk2710 Please stop pushing machete order. It is absolutely not the way to watch it. It isn't the way it was intended to be watched, and it isn't the way one would watch it if they were interested in the scripts or film making. It is a poor recommendation to Shanelle especially.
Carrie Fisher went to London's Central School of Speech and Drama in 1973 and the UK accent comes out when she is with British villain actors. Han and Luke were American so she is more natural with Rebels. Lucas made the Queen in later films speak more British in official situations to make it a royal dialect. Lucas claimed to have had 9 films written but mostly it was made up as they went along. For example: Vader was not Lukes father until the 3rd script rewrite for Empire & the Ewoks were originally Wookies based on Viet Cong in the jungle defeating the USA Empire in Vietnam but Chewbacca became to mechanically inclined to fit the theme of nature beating machines.
Given that you're a filmmaker yourself, I have to give a shoutout to Marcia Lucas, George Lucas's first wife, who was absolutely instrumental in the success of this film. She was the editor who completely saved this film in the editing room, turned the finale from a pointless slog into one of the most exciting action sequences of all time, and really set the tone for the action that dominates the later Star Wars films and everything that came after them. It's criminal how often her contribution is forgotten to this film. So many people came together to do something that had never been done before. It took a lot of people to get this right.
that's so messed up ! I didn't really even see much about her on the trivia for this! But I did keep the trivia really short on purpose because that section can get really long on my videos :(
@@MrEvers Yes, absolutely! This film works because of Marcia, John Williams, and sound designer Ben Burtt. (But of the three, I'd say with five Oscars and 52 nominations, John Williams is not the one who people have forgotten about).
I think people tend to forget that Star Wars was nominated for 10 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director, Best screenplay, best supporting actor (Alec Guiness). it won Oscars in Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Sound, Best Film Editing, Best Effects, Original score, and given a special achievement award in sound effects. Also been watching your channel for a while and when i saw that youve never seen this, i cried out a little.
Yes! SW has been SOOOOOO bad for SOOOOO long that people forget how amazing, technically superior, well written, well acted, well scripted, and revolutionary the OT was. The franchise has gone through enough bad times to sink a dozen movie franchises and yet fans are as loyal and rabid today as they were 40 years ago. That says a lot about how phenomenal these movies were.
Lucky you. I hate what they did with the bad CGI added here and there in a completely unnatural way, so different to the surrounding elements. It gets you out of the movie.
I wasn’t even sure you could get that anymore. I knew people had made fan versions where they restored it to the original, but i didn’t know you could get it other than through fan sources these days.
I have a Despecialized box set somebody put together. Included are raw unedited film scans from somewhere. Some popular and fan made documentary. Dozens of commentary tracks. The Holiday Special and Star Tours. Favorite thing I have.
When this movie was first released it was just called Star Wars, the “new hope” bit was added years later. I remember seeing it when it was first released at the cinema and it was so terrific.
If you read no other comment, you should read this one. As a filmmaker, you'll really enjoy it. I was 12 when _A New Hope_ premiered. As the precise target demographic for the film, let me tell you about how I first watched it. In 1977, _Star Wars_ grabbed audiences like nothing seen to that point. It was basically the first "summer blockbuster." I first saw it at the Indian Hills Theater in Omaha, Nebraska (a city of about 1M). The Indian Hills was one of the last remaining Cinerama theaters in existence (it's 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 projectors_ : one for the center of the screen and one for each side. The projectors had to be constantly synchronized so that the film looked normal onscreen. If you see Cinerama films on DVD/Bluray 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, a theater that 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 in _Infinity War_ and _Endgame_ on their opening nights when there are a lot of fans present. This audience reaction happened at every showing and in every theater 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 science fiction film, but they tended to be years apart. After _Star Wars_ , there were multiple science fiction movies every year, a trend that continues to this very day. There would be no modern _Star Trek_ without _Star Wars_ . It 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 itself, both from an artistic and business perspective. It was the first summer blockbuster. Its special effects were utterly innovative, and the tools created by the likes of John Dykstra became commonplace in other films that don't even have special visual effects. All special effects in the Original Trilogy were achieved either in-camera, with optical effects, or miniatures. There was no CGI. This was at a time when computers were the size of an SUV and didn't have the computing power of your phone. CGI didn't become commonplace until about 20 years ago, when computing power became smaller and faster. The special effects spawned Industrial Light and Magic, a company created and owned by George Lucas that first did work for _Star Wars_ . ILM is still in existence today, constantly innovating with new technologies to create visual effects for many, many films and TV series. In short, this film was nothing like what had come before. It changed _everything_ . And I got to see it with an audience of 810, on a screen so immersive that I got nauseous during the Trench Run.
Well put. I had similar experiences when I saw it in the theater in 1977. It was really a phenomenon. Slight annoying correction, though … “Jaws” is considered to be the first summer blockbuster.
Great recap, but I would add this very important point: many scenes, especially the opening scene and the "trench run" scene at the end can only be fully experienced watching on a theater (not home theater) -sized screen. Many people hopefully will have that chance - it will be like watching it anew. I was 13 in 1977, BTW.
Love this reaction! This is going to sound very old man-ish, but it can’t be emphasized enough what a mind-blower this movie was in 1977 for 8-15 year olds. 2001: A Space Odyssey came well before it, and was visually impressive in its own way, but few of us had seen that. All we had was the original Star Trek, which was a whole different vibe. We were quite literally stunned at what we were seeing. The fundamentals were all great of course. And the mythology was so rich, even in just the first film. But it’s the visual aspect that I think cemented it all. At the same time, it also had something for every other age group ... including our parents who could relate to the handsome heroes and beautiful, gutsy heroine, ... and our grandparents, who could detect echos of old movie and radio adventure serials and pulp sci-fi novels. Star Wars is great, and always will be. But it also benefitted from its particular place in time and popular culture.
I was eleven in 1977, and yes, this film was mind-blowing! It was the first time I ever saw a movie in the theater more than once (three times that summer, with the second time in the front row since the theater was sold out).
@@kathyastrom1315 I think Star Wars was one of the first (and few) times that people walked out of a movie theater and IMMEDIATELY got in line to watch it again. Ron Howard walked out of the theater and said to the people he was with, "We have to see it again."
As someone who first saw these movies when i was like 4 it always surprises me when people haven't seen them. lol. I think Star wars is one of those movies that people assume every ones seen. Fun reaction, looking forward to the next.
Greetings from New Zealand Shanelle!! Stubbled across your channel because of this Star Wars reaction. Then saw your Back to the Future reactions and was hooked!! 👌😄
So here's what you have: A space princess a young farm boy a wise old man who trains him a mercenary with a heart of gold comic relief robots a bad guy so evil that he wears black all the time. This is classic pulp fiction
If anybody has netflix, watch the Toys that Made Us. . . Stars Wars is first episode. The history of toys, advertisements for movies, tv shows like My Little Pony, WWF, Barbie, He-Man and more.
So happy that you were able to see the original version! Later versions just don’t have the same ambiance. There was room for touch ups and improvements, but the special additions over did it and, yeah, changed the ambiance. So happy to see the original!
Ewan McGregor's uncle Denis Lawson played Wedge Antilles in 'Star Wars' as one of the Rebel Pilots in the final battle. He's in the following films as well.
Thank you for watching the original version of the first Star Wars movie. It's been a long time since I've seen it. I'm one these people who are old enough to remember the original, for I saw it way back in 1977 when I was 10. I don't know if they still do it, as I haven't been to a cinema for over 10 years, but back in the 1970's, here in the UK, they used to display outside photos of movie scenes for people to look at so as to attract them inside. The first action figure I got was R2-D2. I placed him by my bed and fell asleep looking at him. Great reaction 👏. All the best, Trev from East London, UK.
Princess Leia is a Princess of the planet Alderaan. Her accent changes were due to her rookie status as a movie actor and exactly what you said. She talks about it in a cable special she did on HBO.
The film was probably released in German cinemas in 1978. Back then I convinced my girlfriend to go to the cinema with me to see “Star Wars”. We were 13 and 14 years old at the time. :-D But then I had to promise her that I would watch "Saturday Night Fever" with her, which we did.
Not just Alderaan. She was a princess in the Empire, stating in the opening scenes that she's a member of the Imperial Senate. Up until this point, Leia was acting as a mole in the Empire for the Rebels. Though based on Vader's attitude towards her, it's clear that the Empire had suspected her to be an undercover Rebel for sometime. Her "diplomatic mission to Alderaan" was a cover story, giving the Rebels a method of smuggling the Death Star plans to Alderaan. However, it's worth noting....if the Rebel base was on Yavin IV, why were the plans taken to Alderaan?
@@sixstanger00 Well, I always assumed that since she was taking the plans to her father (who is also a member of the Rebels) that he'd have his people analyze the plans and tell the rest of the rebels about it. Probably figured they'd be safe on Alderaan. They'd probably take their time to get some forces together and launch an assault on the Death Star at some future date. They'd probably prefer to have a much larger attack force but when they showed up at Yavin IV it kind of forced their hand. Also, I don't remember it ever being said that Leia was a princess in the Empire. She was a senator in the senate, I know that, but I don't think her royal status really meant much as far as the workings of the Empire was concerned.
I was 12 when this came out in 1977. I, and my friends became all about the “Star Wars” as you can imagine and saw this countless times in theaters. It was fun to watch your reaction to a movie that was so important to my own love of movies and movie making. Love your channel!
As a director myself, I really commend you for watching the original theatrical versions of Star Wars instead of the remastered special editions for your first time
@@ShanelleRiccio Nice, I thought I was the only one who still has the original versions of Star Wars lol After you watch all the 3 films, I recommend you a book called Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, its the same book George Lucas read in college which he used as the frame work for Star Wars particularly the Luke Skywalker character
The way you said "Cool" after the Falcon went into light speed reminded me of the episode of "That 70's Show" when they're seeing Star Wars in the theater! That was an awesome reaction that cracked me the hell up!
Hello Shanelle! First time watching a video of yours! It's great to see another person watch Star Wars for the very first time! It's also cool that you saw the original edition! I am one of the few who saw the original editions as well! I saw them so often as a kid I can identify differences between the original and special editions. Granted, for the first film, I did see the version with "Episode IV: A New Hope" added to the opening crawl. But yeah, welcome to the world of Star Wars! To quote Obi-Wan, you've taken your first steps into a larger world! Oh, and to answer your question on whether there are Star Wars rides at Disney, yep! There are three: Star Tours, a motion stimulator ride; Smuggler's Run, a motion stimulator ride letting several guests pilot the Millenium Falcon; and Rise of the Resistance, an immersive motion ride. There is even a Star Wars area called Galaxy's Edge!
"More of the force" is definitely Empire Strikes Back, and Luke's training on Dagoba. It is likely why Empire Strikes Back tends to be the favorite in the trilogy. I will keep it to the trilogy to not step into controversy for now.
The lack of “cheesy” was what got it so much attention. It was the first time for something like it. It was such an adventure. Saw it a couple times the summer it came out. Wasn’t much into sci-fi before seeing it.
I think we all bow to you for watching the original “untinkered” version because, as a filmmaker yourself, you value the importance of preserving a film’s integrity as much as possible. Highest props for that, Shanelle. 👏🏽
"They must have planned these!" "Well yes, but also no". gif Lucas planned out lots of lore, including a lot that never made it to film, and imagined multiple episodes, like the old sci fi serials of old, but he made up a LOT of it as he went, including retconning stuff and even directly contradicting the previous movies.
He borrowed heavily from everything from Greek Mythology, Shakespeare, different religions and folktales and classic literature. History Channel has a documentary on all George's sources and influences from a historical perspective..
Lucas had more planned then a lot of people think and was more involved in Empire and Jedi than many fans give him credit for. Essentially the other 2 directors were better with actors than George and these projects are so big that he focused his attention on effects and editing. Really if we want to be accurate the credit should go half and half for Lucas and Irvin Kershner on Empire, same with George and Richard Marquand. Would it have improved the prequels to have those extra hands absolutely and it would’ve been better if the sequels stuck with George’s vision. In the originals we get our cake and ate it to.
@@Jerome616 I agree that George had a much bigger vision to the overall story in the mid 70s than what we saw in the original movie. I also agree that his story did evolve over the years into what it has become.
@@Jerome616 Lucas' plan was to just tell the story of the original trilogy. He didn't intend to do prequels or to expand on the clone wars at all. The original plan was a single movie but the script he wrote ended up being _way_ too long and worked out a way to cut it down to a single movie with the possibility to continue the story if it was successful. He brought forward the destruction of the Death Star so that, even if it wasn't successful and didn't get sequels, it would still be a self-contained movie with a proper resolution. This meant that he needed to rework the climax of the trilogy.
You're better at this than your contemporaries. You actually seem to know what you're talking about a bit rather than just being someone who hasn't seen something. You seem to actually analyze the art form better than others. Good job. I'm subscribing.
I can't tell you how unbelievably f---ing awesome it is that you watched the despecialized version. Bravo! Please stay with these versions if you continue watching the OT. I will be with you for all. If you never watch a DSW movie I will finance your next film project as a thank you.
I saw this in the theater when I was 13. It was filmed on 70mm film stock, which meant it had to be played at a speciality theater. It was a roadshow film, so, it traveled from one town to the next
The reason why Obi-Wan 'died' is that in Alec Guinness' contract, he wouldn't sign unless there were two provisions. One, that he would get killed off in the first movie because he hated the idea of his character getting dragged on and on in sequels. Second, he wanted a percentage of the merchandising proceeds. Of all the cast, he made the most money by far because of that.
During the early eighties, my grandma lived alone in a tiny town that for some reason rented laserdisc players right before Christmas and we were able to watch Star Wars on Christmas Eve. It is such a magical and special memory that is deeply ingrained into my mind. I miss you grandma.
I really enjoy first time Star Wars reactions from film students / film buffs / people who appreciate the craft and not just average watchers. Hard to find. Really looking forward to your ESB reaction.
Peter was reputedly a much better sport about being approached by SW fans than Sir Alec was, likely because of all those "plebeian" horror films he (Peter) was already known and loved for lol
Knowing Grand Moff Tarkin was walking around in comfy slippers because Peter Cushing hated the boots and realized his feet weren't in any shots in no way removes the gravitas of Grand Moff Tarkin.
Its super cool that you are watching an original copy! @11:08 *NEVER* forget that Han didn't shoot "first".... because Gueido didn't shoot at all. Shooting "first" implies that there is a second shooter. As you saw, there wasn't. Han just blew him away. If you ever watch the "remastered" ones you'll understand what I mean. Gueido DIDNT ever shoot at Han, and Han just outright murdered Guiedo.
You might have already seen the trivia concerning Laia's accent; she found whenever she talked to Governor Tarkan, she felt the need to do a British accent. In other words, she isn't British
19:30 Luke mentions his T-16 he flew back home. In the extended material, You learn they are built by the same company as the X-Wing. The controls are very very similar.
So glad to see you watching the OG version of the movie, Shanelle! It's so much better without all the unnecessary CGI and alterations (ie. Han shoots Greedo first in the original). I was 12 years old when the movie first came out and was in the first audience to see it when it came out in my home town. Back then, it wasn't called 'Episode IV: A New Hope' (it was just called Star Wars) as no one predicted what a huge cultural phenomenon the movie would become. You're right... It doesn't look cheesey, and that was a HUGE PART of it's appeal back in the day. Everything you're seeing is practical effects -- miniatures, matte paintings and brilliant costumes, sets, etc., and no one had seen anything like it when it came out. It played to packed houses for MONTHS, and my family friends and I saw it well over 20 times that summer, as did millions of other people all over the world. These movies are still among my favorites of all time, and it's great to see new generations discovering them!
This has been great. I’ve loved getting to see your fresh perspective on this film I know so well, and with you being a filmmaker and obviously someone who has a great understanding of the craft it’s really enjoyable to watch along with you.
To continue the trivia about the scene with Jabba the Hutt, they filmed the scene with a stand-in actor, and they had planned on inserting a stop-motion creature in post, but I guess time constraints prevented them from following up on it, so the scene was ultimately cut from the original release and never saw the light of day until the Special Edition, but the way Jabba looked in that version was unpleasant to say the least. Thankfully, they graphically tweaked his look in the 2004 release, and he looks much better there. Even if you were gonna watch this film, I would've recommended the 2004 release. Sure, there were still changes made, but some of them are really cool, like the effects during the climactic battle over Yavin 4. But I am glad you watched the despecialized edition because the worst change in this movie, for me, is in the part where Old Ben Kenobi scares away the Tusken Raiders. Originally, he imitates the call of the Krayt Dragon (the skeleton of which you can be seen when Threepio sees the Jawa's Sandcrawler). In the 2004 release, it was changed to a ghostly howl, which made sense, since it was a desert planet. But the 2011 release... I only have one word for THAT change, and that is... WHY?! Seriously, when I watch that scene and know it's coming, I have to mute it so I don't have to hear it! They should've either kept it as it was or changed it back to the Krayt Dragon call! UGH.
this. seriously. I'm amazed they haven't re-released this version as a simple cash grab because a lot of people would buy them, including me. But yeah they are really hard to find.
Getting to see the original theatrical versions nowadays is a treat, they can be tricky to find. I highly recommend watching the documentary 'Empire of Dreams' after finishing all three films; it's a very in-depth look at the entire process of making the original trilogy, told by the people who made it. I'm extremely excited to see what you think of The Empire Strikes Back, as that is my favorite (and arguably the most iconic) of the first three films.
I didn't see if it had the interaction between Biggs and Luke on Tatooine. If not, then this is 1978 re-release, which I saw when I was 8 years old. I wanted to see it so bad when it first came out, my mom promised if it came out again she would take me to see it. I was so confused that what I saw on the screen didn't match what I saw in the book.
@@UTU49 if you can Google a way to download them, watch 'Harmy's Despecialized' editions, for as close to the theatrical releases, without the cgi but cleaned up for modern displays... You will realise how bad those laserdisc versions were, and how great Star Wars can look and sound, even today
@Jedi & Romanovs Oh, man, I totally agree. For me also, the music scene in Jedi is one of the worst changes -- probably the single worst. The tone of it could hardly be farther away from anything else in the original trilogy. I think Sy Snootles and that stupid other singer both look straight into the camera. What in the infernal fuck did they think they were doing? lol. I need to think about something else. Incompetence enrages me. XP
George Lucas had a dog named Indiana, so in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade they add in a scene that says "Junior, why does he keep calling you Junior?" where Sean Connery says "because that is his name Henry Jones Junior", closely followed by "we named the Dog Indiana"
I enjoyed your reaction very much. I wanted to share with you about the first time I saw Star Wars in the theaters. I saw it for first time in June of 1977, I was 8 years old the best age for this movie. My father told me about a movie he heard about on the news and thought I would enjoy it. He said it's about outer space and robots. He asked me if I wanted to go see it. Of course I said yes. Before I go on some background on my Dad. He was at the time a Dad who didn't spend much time with me, he didn't take me to movies at all. Actually he didn't do much with me at all. So when he offered to take me to the movies I was excited. We went to go see it and it was magical I never felt so close to my Dad as I did then. Flash forward to 1999 when Star Wars A Phantom Menace came out. I wanted to repay the favor my Dad did for me in 1977. I took my Dad to see the new Star Wars movie. It was like old times. Afterwards he told me how much it meant to him that we saw it together. I told him I will never forget the time he took me to see Star wars. To this day I have a special relationship with Dad that I will cherish forever. Thank you for letting me share this with you. God Bless.
Yeah dude,cool story 😎. My dad took me and my big bro to see this in 77,I was only 10 but remember it like it was yesterday. Greetings from British Columbia
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Darth Vader once came over to my house and told me if i did not take this girl Lorraine out to a dance he would melt my brain.
She knows. Watch her response to your movie.
Your response should have been, Aren't you a little short for a Sith?
Let’s just keep this brain melting stuff to ourselves....
Clearly you’ve been told some fake news. He told you he’s from the planet Vulcan 🖖, but clearly he’s from, uh...the Death Star.
Hey you! Get your damn hands off her!
"it's a party at alderaan, baby!"
yeah, that place is really blowing up.
Too soon!
It’s on fire!
Han Solo * enters movie *
Shanelle * touches hair *
He has that effect a lot lol
I teared up....this is the first time I've seen this version since I stopped owning a VCR....Han shot first!
It's called "Harmy's Despecialized Editions". He made all three movies.
Because he did such a good job, a Hollywood studio hired him.
You’re shocked? Imagine audiences 45 years ago. This was mind blowing. It earned every bit of its pop culture status.
Han was the _only_ one to shoot.
@@scipioafricanus5871 Thanks for noting the distinction. That phrase always bothered me. So wholly inaccurate.
Only han shot.
Great reaction! I think it's awesome that you got despecialized editions for this, very few reactors do that. The thing is, the added special effects and additional scenes definitely change the experience, and arguably, not for better. In particular, introducing Jabba the Hut in this film messes with his introduction in RotJ, and throws off the pacing of this film. Glad you enjoyed this!
Carrie Fisher said once, "You try and say the line "I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board" without an English accent and you'll see it's impossible"
Not entirely accurate. I think Lucas was copying the highfalutin dialog style of the old Flash Gordon serials, which were of course American.
@@ThreadBomb And the villain, Ming the Merciless, was from Elizabethtown, Kentucky, near where I was born!
If you notice, when Leia was talking to others in the Imperial government, specifically Vader and Tarkin, she uses the accent, but with rebels she uses an American accent. It might be explained as some kind of protocol when presenting as a senator.
She also said on an episode of GRAHAM NORTON, that she had been studying in England at the time she got the part, so she did legitimately have a faux English accent, sometimes...
@@Ubernerd3000 "Bi-dialectical". Gillian Anderson and Sandi Toksvig are two examples. Gillian Anderson switches depending on the accent of the interviewer/country of interview. Sandi keeps her posh British accent, but when she does "impersonations" of American accents, it's not an impersonation, it's her childhood New York dialect.
The reason the "Han shot first" version is better is not simply because it was first, but also because it was based on a famous scene from "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," where Tuco shoots first and then says, "If you're going to shoot, shoot; don't talk."
I am baffled with Lucas in that. I mean yeah, people over exagerated something that ultimately doesn't really matter. But at the same time, it is baffling it is so important to Lucas because in the decades since he changed it has even one person said "I am so glad they changed it so Han didn't shoot first... that bothered me!" Said no one... ever... in the history of time. Yet it was SO important to Lucas even after the backlash he caved and changed it but changed it so they shot at the same time because it was THAT important Han didn't actually shoot first. I mean how much money did he spend making multiple changes to something that not one person ever asked for much less appreciated.
Han was a criminal and knew who he was dealing with. Of course he'd shoot first.
Any other edit is simply bad as well, because who'd miss that badly from across the table (unless they'd just been shot and then there'd have to be enough time passing to affect their shot, so it can't be simultaneous, and not enough to recover from it).
Many things don't matter, this one does. (Totally off-topic, but it sucks that the makers of Deadpool think oxygen is flammable..)
All other things aside, the fact that Han shoots first and then later comes back to save Luke shows character growth. He goes from a mercenary just looking out for number one and grows to become one of the good guys. This character growth is ruined by the subsequent changes to the scene.
@@blechtic If you've never seen the burnt body of a man killed in a Liquid Oxygen fire, or knew nothing about chemistry, you would probably not know that oxygen is flammable lol
@@mutazoia Dude, Greedo was about to shoot him. It's self-defence anyway. And they even added Jabba scene to show his balls.
I was 15 years old in 1977 when this moving came out. The first 5 minutes of this movie is burned into brain. In 1977 where I lived (Portland, Oregon) most theaters had really bad speaker systems. This was the first movie I saw with full Dolby stereo. The sound effects were amazing to hear. The soundtrack was amazing. So many things that are tropes in SciFi movies were first seen in this move. When Luke first turns on the light saber the guy sitting behind blurted out 'that's so cool looking'. When the Millenium Falcon makes it first jump to light speed the entire theater gasped "oh my god'. This was also the first movie that I can remember where the laser bolts looked dangerous, not a cheesy effect. When Luke, Han, and Chewie turned around the final the entire theater cheered. Still one of the most memorable movie expereinces I've ever had.
Talk about "burned into the brain". I was 9 years old when Star Wars came out. My father snuck an old audio cassette recorder under his jacket into the theatre and recorded the audio on two cassette tapes. I then spent the next 4 years re-living the movie over and over listening to those two cassette tapes while re-enacting the movie with my Kenner Action figures. I had the audio burnt into my brain so much... that when Lucas redubbed the audio his changes... even the smallest changes were super noticeable to me. One in particular that bugs me to this day is Aunt Beru's inflection in her voice during the scene when Uncle Owen asks her if she'd "seen Luck this morning". Aunt Beru's dialog is exactly the same all the way through the scene... however the inflection in her voice is totally different. Her "I think so" was a caring statement... that was changed into a question with the re-dubbed soundtrack. This archive has the original soundtrack! archive.org/details/StarWars16mm
Jump ahead to the 27min mark to hear her original answer with the original voice inflection.
I was 3 years old when this came out. It's the first movie I truly remember seeing in theatres. I saw it twice during its initial run in 1977. Then in the summer of 1982 they rereleased A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back as a double feature in order to generate excitement for the third installment in the Star Wars franchise, and I saw it in theatres then too.
I was 8, it's burned into mine also... and that 20th Century Fox music... for years, I thought it was just for Star Wars lol.
I was 11. And I've only ever seen standing ovations in theaters at the end of Star Wars movies.
Yeah, same (although I was 18). It's hard to imagine now that there was a time when nobody knew what "Star Wars" was. Other than knowing it was sci-fi, we didn't really know anything about it. From that opening crawl to that first shot of the ships flying over the camera, and then every second that came after is still one of the great movie going experiences of my life. The ending was the first time I had ever seen a movie theater audience stand up and applaud (myself included). Then, there were the years-long waits for the next films, the thrill of standing in line to get to the theaters and, as always, that opening theme with the Star Wars logo hitting the screen. Reacters watching these films (and all films, IMHO) on laptops are missing 95% of the true experience, at best.
Fun fact: Tarkins actor (Peter Cushing) feet hurt in the boots they got for him. So in the shots where you don't see his feet, he's wearing fuzzy slippers.
That's my headcanon of tarkin now. All business at the top, bunny slippers on the deck. :D
When Luke goes out and observes the suns setting, I know the guy who played the French Horn solo in that scene. He's a great guy. When we were on an orchestra tour in China together, a friend asked him to play it and he did. Chills.
When this came out it was unlike anything we had ever seen. The scene were the Millennium Falcon jumps to light speed for the first time - the whole theater erupted in cheers! There has been no other reaction to a movie like that I've experienced in the subsequent 45 years.
I was 10 in 77 and saw this with my dad and older brother, was pretty awesome to see in the theatre for a couple of kids from a little town on Vancouver island ☺️
I was 8 years old n '77 and I had only seen Disney movies or similar up to that point. After watching Sear Wars, my little mind was blown and my love for films and cinema forever cemented.
StarWars is just a overblown knockoff of SPACEBALLS
@@rwbimbie5854 that doesn’t even make sense
@@rwbimbie5854 lol
"What is Leia the princess of?"
Alderaan. Her father is a senator and her mother is the queen of the planet.
uhm... okay I won't correct you on that one because... well you know why. But you know why it's not quite accurate and we'll leave it at that.
@@Hiraghm Breha is the queen of Alderaan that is why she is a princess.
@@Hiraghm It was quite accurate
@@k.sammokko4218 I think they’re referring to the fact they’re not Leia’s *real* parents.
*adoptive parents, that is.
Of all the first-time reactions to this film that I've seen, this is the first time I've seen one with the original theatrical release. It took me back to my own childhood.
Congrats, Shannell, on your latest journey, and we'll be watching you with great interest.
yay im glad I could take ya back for a little!
Same for me! I haven't watched the non-disfigured original version for decades. It's like a miracle Shannell got the untouched episode IV. 😲🧡
I saw what you did there!
You will recognize that last quote later in the series, Shanelle......or is it earlier?
@@ShanelleRiccio Good for you for actually finding a fan made De-Specialized Version of this. You actually got to see Star Wars the way I saw it in the theaters in 1977.
But why you would think a film that is generally considered to be the greatest film of all time would be be cheesy or corny is kind of messing with me... a lot.
And Han didn't shoot first, he shot ONLY. Period.
Make sure you watch Harmy's De-Specialized "Empire Strikes Back" as well.
THANK YOU for watching the Despecialized version. You're certainly the first reactor that I've seen watch it vs the Specialized versions.
Yay! Shanelle is badass.
"I want more of the Force. I want more of Luke training with it." You will soon see why Empire Strikes Back is one of the greatest sequels in cinematic history.
Except the Dagobah stuff is the most boring part of the sequel.
@@ThreadBomb Totally. Learning about this phenomenon that exists in the universe that allows Jedi to do unimaginable things. What a snore.
@@ThreadBomb That's the meat and potatoes of Luke's journey to becoming a Jedi. I've never found it boring.
@@ThreadBomb this is the mindset that birthed the prequels lol
@@ThreadBomb Boooooooo!
Han didn't shoot first. Han was the only one who shot at all.
Thank You!!!!!
To be fair, that's pretty normal when you don't miss.
>SIGH< Barve, am I ever ambivalent on THAT point . . . .
That's often the way it goes, if you know how to shoot. 😉
Han didn't shoot first... he shot.. (wait for it)... solo. ;-)
How do I give more thumbs ups for her watching the untouched films?
Shout out to whoever Lance is! The og de-specialised versions are the one!
Yes! Mad props to Lance for hooking her up.
More than that, this is the OG 1977 release version -- the opening title crawl doesn't even include the "Episode IV: A New Hope" header, which was added after the release of _The Empire Strikes Back_
Han shot first, MFers!!!
@@mikepeters807 Just as nature intended.
@@mikepeters807 First implies that Greedo shot at all, so that slogan doesn’t really work either.
Technically, a MacGuffin (a term popularized by Hitchcock) is the object that drives the plot but has no actual significance or other function in itself. An often-cited example is the Maltese Falcon in the eponymous film: everyone is after it, but the statue does not actually _do_ anything, even as a talisman or whatever. In this film, the Plans To The Death Star are not a McGuffin, because they enable the rebels to destroy the Death Star.
Another good example of a MacGuffin is the suitcase in Pulp Fiction.
@@HisKingdomGrows wow you are so unfunny it hurts
Lucas has stated the McGuffin of all the Star Wars original trilogy (and many after it in many ways) was R2-D2. Although using the definition you describe technically rules him out as one since R2-D2 does stuff.
some information for you shanelle: the original deathstar was a spherical battlestation of around 120 km diameter, capable of destroying planets with a several hours cooldown and hyperspace drive. the trench the movie shows in the endscenes is a horizontal trench around the death stars equator, housing the exhaust port they try to hit with torpedoes. most of the mass of the battlestation is taken by the huge machinery that powers its superlaser. the rest is mostly support systems for its massive close quarter weapon supplement (mostly against bigger starships), hangars, crew quarters and what not. it had approximately a crew of over a million people, including troops, gunners, pilots etc.
I'm so glad you're watching the original version of Star Wars
You watched the ORIGINAL 1977 version! The force is strong with this one!
We're glad you watched the despecialized version of the movie
One thing people today do not realize is that the TECHNOLOGY for this movie was cutting edge for its time. This Movie was AWESOME because there really had never been anything like it before.
I remember all the effect houses at the time were not up to George's vision, hence he built one from the ground up (I.L.M.) w/ John Dykstra's crew
Well, I believe the testament to that is seeing someone's first reaction over 40 years later say specifically that she thought she'd have to grade on a curve and didn't have to!
That and then every non-Star Wars movie of the 80s look like it came before these films did. Super impressive.
The amount of sheer ingenuity in this trilogy is amazing. Dykstraflex is an obvious example but they basically innovated motion blur with go motion as well.
Right, that's why other Directors like Spielberg and Coppola were in such amazement when they saw this. Modern day directors and film makers have no understanding of what this movie did for the industry, and the technology that came from it.
OMG the Despecialized version is so good, I haven't seen Star Wars look like this since the 80s.
19:25 "So, Luke just knows how to drive this little craft?" Yes, though it's not mad obvious in the movie and only clarified in the Expanded Universe of novels and sourcebooks. During the garage scene when C-3P0 is being lowered into the oil bath and before Luke starts to clean R2-D2, he's playing with a model of a Incom T-16 Skyhopper while his real T-16 can be seen in the open doorway in the background. The Rebel Alliance were flying Koensayr BTL-A4 Y-Wings and Incom T-65 X-Wings at the Battle of Yavin. The controls for the Incom T-16 Skyhopper and the Incom T-65 X-Wing are very similar and it's why Luke was able to pass the simulator test given to him by the Alliance and brought in on the pilot briefing.
The whole “Han shot first” thing was because Lucas thought it made Han look bad, but IMO it’s the start of his redemption arc that pays off when he saves Luke during the Death Star attack. He grows from a dodgy, selfish scoundrel to a more heroic person
EXACTLY! Lucas had so much more of a shallow worldview than I could ever have imagined.
@@AnthonyL0401 The reason these films were better is that he wasn't so big that people wouldn't tell him "That idea is stupid". It happens a lot .
@@adgato75 omg, yes this. The video about how Star Wars was saved in the edit makes it clear that this movie was only good because there were people around him that were better filmmakers who he wasn't so big he could ignore yet.
@@j.f.fisher5318 Yep. It happens to a lot of creators. Anne Rice is one , in the literature world.
Also I don’t see how shooting someone who wants to have your head makes someone like totally irredeemable, not in that world where Obi Wan just chopped off a man’s arm lol.
“Bold move to have your leader in the ranks, isn’t that dangerous?”
Someone show her the hallway scene ^_^
My thought was, 'He's the baddest mofo for miles around. He could've gone by himself'.
It is dangerous. For the Rebels.
He's the scariest thing those particular rebel soldiers could possibly have seen walking through that particular door hole.
yeah, Rogue One would be a great next step after the original trilogy and omg the hallway scene is epic.
That's Leia's proper "diplomatic voice". Not the way she actually speaks.
Carrie Fisher's real explanation for it is that it's impossible to say the line "I recognized your foul stench the moment I was brought on board" without a British accent.
Proper copper coffee pot :)
@@Rmlohner Yes, but Lucas retrofits in-universe explanations for things all the time. Padme Amidala has a haughty, regal "diplomatic" voice, too - which isn't her natural way of speaking.
_Code switching_
@@Rmlohner Yeah, Americans don't speak like that but diplomats do, so it still works.
At 20.40 of your video, there are people at the planning table. The older portly guy on the far left with the big moustache is my best friend's dad. He is also next to C3PO and R2D2 at the medal presentation. I saw the movie in 1977 when it was first released fortunately on a huge screen in London.
Back in 1977, Han Solo was a true rogue. Charming, but ruthless, if necessary. I liked him that way.
And, yes, Han didn't shoot first. He was the only one shooting. Poor Greedo.
Regarding Carrie Fishers accent. She actually talks a bit about it in her very funny stand up show "Wishful Drinking". She was more or less fresh out of London's Central School of Speech and Drama. and had sort of a meandering "high" British theatre voice that came and went.
I loved Carrie Fisher and “Wishful Drinking” was wonderful. RIP princess.
She was so hilariously mortified by her bad accent in that first scene and recounts it well in both “wishful drinking” and “the princess diarist” which came out shortly before her passing.
In the latter book she finally let the cat out of the bag regarding her affair with Ford during the filming of “new hope” - if interested I recommend the audio book read in her voice. Her humor and sharing of her own diary from age 19 on set is not to be missed.
@@pretzelsalty
Thanks, pretzel. That sounds good.
In the Canon, that accent is called High Coruscanti which is there to explain why there are so many British people in the Imperial fleet.
She also picked it up from Peter Cushing (whose accent was very real) and it's much more pronounced when she's around him.
As soon as you said that you'll be watching the unaltered versions, I fell off my seat.. my butt hurts.
That's a kind of ass pain that one can treasure.
She has the unicorn I want!
Me too! If she saw the "updated" versions, she wouldn't have been able to say it wasn't cheesy.
...and now she knows why "Han shot first" is so strongly held as an eternal truth by those of us Original Fans from 1977.
You can even see it is as it doesn't have "Episode IV: A New Hope" at the start of the crawl (added in the re-release)
Being nitpicky about it, the original “Star Wars: A New Hope” from 1977 is simply “Star Wars.” It’s so cool that your first viewing was this one. It makes one appreciate so much more what was accomplished with the technology of the day.
yes! I think I figured that out after!
@@ShanelleRiccio -- Shanelle, I do not know if you will see this in time (not sure how far ahead you are on your Patreon), but I am BEGGING YOU
DO NOT WATCH THE ORIGINAL AND PREQUEL TRILOGIES IN RELEASE ORDER!!!!
A few years ago, before the Sequel Trilogy was made, someone online made an argument for what has colloquially become known as THE MACHETE ORDER -- it recognizes that if you watch them in the order of "Original Trilogy then Prequel Trilogy" there are twists/moments in the Prequel Trilogy that lose weight an narrative impact.
Instead watch them in this order: IV, V, I, II, III, VI (Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back - The Phantom Menace - Attack of the Clones - Revenge of the Sith - Return of the Jedi)
Episode V (Empire Strikes Back) ends with some major twists/moments, and if you jump back to the Prequel Trilogy instead of watching Episode VI (Return of the Jedi), it narratively works like a long extended flashback of "How Did We Get To This Point Where The Twist Makes Sense", and it gives you extra time to digest and process the impact of those moments.
Plus, there are a number of narrative parallels between the trilogies, especially so between Episode III (Revenge of the Sith) and Episode VI (Return of the Jedi) -- because George Lucas was a big fan of rhyming story arcs -- and seeing the version of the arc play out in Episode III adds extra weight to their parallels with the arc in Episode VI because you are forced to wonder if they will play out the same way or if different choices will be made.
As a storyteller who understands film yourself, hopefully you will see the value in what I laid out above -- I promise you, your viewing experience will be much better for it.
@@kristopherheenk2710 If I were to offer unsolicited advice for watch order, it would be skip 1 2 3 because they are horrific, and add nothing aside from minor Vader & Stormtrooper trivia. Especially to someone who already knows who Vader is.
Meesa inna badda trilogy.
@@kristopherheenk2710 Please stop pushing machete order. It is absolutely not the way to watch it. It isn't the way it was intended to be watched, and it isn't the way one would watch it if they were interested in the scripts or film making. It is a poor recommendation to Shanelle especially.
@@kristopherheenk2710 Shanelle... Do not do that
Carrie Fisher went to London's Central School of Speech and Drama in 1973 and the UK accent comes out when she is with British villain actors. Han and Luke were American so she is more natural with Rebels. Lucas made the Queen in later films speak more British in official situations to make it a royal dialect. Lucas claimed to have had 9 films written but mostly it was made up as they went along. For example: Vader was not Lukes father until the 3rd script rewrite for Empire & the Ewoks were originally Wookies based on Viet Cong in the jungle defeating the USA Empire in Vietnam but Chewbacca became to mechanically inclined to fit the theme of nature beating machines.
I'm glad you took the extra step to see the despecialized edition.
Given that you're a filmmaker yourself, I have to give a shoutout to Marcia Lucas, George Lucas's first wife, who was absolutely instrumental in the success of this film. She was the editor who completely saved this film in the editing room, turned the finale from a pointless slog into one of the most exciting action sequences of all time, and really set the tone for the action that dominates the later Star Wars films and everything that came after them.
It's criminal how often her contribution is forgotten to this film. So many people came together to do something that had never been done before. It took a lot of people to get this right.
that's so messed up ! I didn't really even see much about her on the trivia for this! But I did keep the trivia really short on purpose because that section can get really long on my videos :(
Marcia's editing + Williams music. the initial edit was still without a soundtrack, making it drag even more.
@@MrEvers Yes, absolutely! This film works because of Marcia, John Williams, and sound designer Ben Burtt. (But of the three, I'd say with five Oscars and 52 nominations, John Williams is not the one who people have forgotten about).
@@ShanelleRiccio This movie invented quick cut editing, Executives on the film thought it would make moviegoers sick
Is it? People mention all the time.
I think people tend to forget that Star Wars was nominated for 10 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director, Best screenplay, best supporting actor (Alec Guiness). it won Oscars in Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Sound, Best Film Editing, Best Effects, Original score, and given a special achievement award in sound effects. Also been watching your channel for a while and when i saw that youve never seen this, i cried out a little.
Yes! SW has been SOOOOOO bad for SOOOOO long that people forget how amazing, technically superior, well written, well acted, well scripted, and revolutionary the OT was. The franchise has gone through enough bad times to sink a dozen movie franchises and yet fans are as loyal and rabid today as they were 40 years ago. That says a lot about how phenomenal these movies were.
Millions of voices cried out in terror.
Wow you're watching the pre-special edition version even prior to them adding the Episode IV in the title sequence.
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@@ShanelleRiccio You've just taken your first step into a larger world. ;-)
Lucky you. I hate what they did with the bad CGI added here and there in a completely unnatural way, so different to the surrounding elements. It gets you out of the movie.
I wasn’t even sure you could get that anymore. I knew people had made fan versions where they restored it to the original, but i didn’t know you could get it other than through fan sources these days.
@@elzar760 well it was "given to her" so I assume that's exactly what that is...
ty for playing the original version, i was 4 when this was released, mind still blown.
I have a Despecialized box set somebody put together. Included are raw unedited film scans from somewhere. Some popular and fan made documentary. Dozens of commentary tracks. The Holiday Special and Star Tours. Favorite thing I have.
HOW IN THE ABSOLUTE HELL DID I FORGET OBI-WAN's FIRST WORDS WERE: "Hello there"!!!
Always my gif reply to those who send me the new movie gif
General Kenobi!
@@matthewdavidjarvis6039 HA!😁
It's like poetry.
@@matthewdavidjarvis6039 ^_^
The actress that played Princess Lea and the voice of Vader never met until they were on The Big Bang Theory together.
Really? I didn't know that!
Luke went on to be the joker
And Vader mufsa
I can't wait to see your reaction as Luke and Leia's relationship evolves.
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@@randomfangirl2503 You cruel person. :P
Cheeky
@@KevinLockamy :D
I’ve been hoping someone on UA-cam would start by watching the original unedited versions of these. Finally! Thank you. 😁
When this movie was first released it was just called Star Wars, the “new hope” bit was added years later. I remember seeing it when it was first released at the cinema and it was so terrific.
If you read no other comment, you should read this one. As a filmmaker, you'll really enjoy it.
I was 12 when _A New Hope_ premiered. As the precise target demographic for the film, let me tell you about how I first watched it.
In 1977, _Star Wars_ grabbed audiences like nothing seen to that point. It was basically the first "summer blockbuster."
I first saw it at the Indian Hills Theater in Omaha, Nebraska (a city of about 1M). The Indian Hills was one of the last remaining Cinerama theaters in existence (it's 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 projectors_ : one for the center of the screen and one for each side. The projectors had to be constantly synchronized so that the film looked normal onscreen.
If you see Cinerama films on DVD/Bluray 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, a theater that 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 in _Infinity War_ and _Endgame_ on their opening nights when there are a lot of fans present.
This audience reaction happened at every showing and in every theater 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 science fiction film, but they tended to be years apart. After _Star Wars_ , there were multiple science fiction movies every year, a trend that continues to this very day.
There would be no modern _Star Trek_ without _Star Wars_ . It 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 itself, both from an artistic and business perspective. It was the first summer blockbuster. Its special effects were utterly innovative, and the tools created by the likes of John Dykstra became commonplace in other films that don't even have special visual effects.
All special effects in the Original Trilogy were achieved either in-camera, with optical effects, or miniatures. There was no CGI. This was at a time when computers were the size of an SUV and didn't have the computing power of your phone. CGI didn't become commonplace until about 20 years ago, when computing power became smaller and faster.
The special effects spawned Industrial Light and Magic, a company created and owned by George Lucas that first did work for _Star Wars_ . ILM is still in existence today, constantly innovating with new technologies to create visual effects for many, many films and TV series.
In short, this film was nothing like what had come before. It changed _everything_ .
And I got to see it with an audience of 810, on a screen so immersive that I got nauseous during the Trench Run.
Beautifully stated.
@@mikejankowski6321 thank you, sir!
Well put. I had similar experiences when I saw it in the theater in 1977. It was really a phenomenon.
Slight annoying correction, though … “Jaws” is considered to be the first summer blockbuster.
@Danny Dolan I saw it at least 20 times in the theater. It was the only way to see it! I was also 16. 😀
Great recap, but I would add this very important point: many scenes, especially the opening scene and the "trench run" scene at the end can only be fully experienced watching on a theater (not home theater) -sized screen. Many people hopefully will have that chance - it will be like watching it anew. I was 13 in 1977, BTW.
Love this reaction! This is going to sound very old man-ish, but it can’t be emphasized enough what a mind-blower this movie was in 1977 for 8-15 year olds. 2001: A Space Odyssey came well before it, and was visually impressive in its own way, but few of us had seen that. All we had was the original Star Trek, which was a whole different vibe. We were quite literally stunned at what we were seeing. The fundamentals were all great of course. And the mythology was so rich, even in just the first film. But it’s the visual aspect that I think cemented it all. At the same time, it also had something for every other age group ... including our parents who could relate to the handsome heroes and beautiful, gutsy heroine, ... and our grandparents, who could detect echos of old movie and radio adventure serials and pulp sci-fi novels. Star Wars is great, and always will be. But it also benefitted from its particular place in time and popular culture.
I was eleven in 1977, and yes, this film was mind-blowing! It was the first time I ever saw a movie in the theater more than once (three times that summer, with the second time in the front row since the theater was sold out).
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I think Star Wars was one of the first (and few) times that people walked out of a movie theater and IMMEDIATELY got in line to watch it again.
Ron Howard walked out of the theater and said to the people he was with, "We have to see it again."
@@kathyastrom1315 Yup, I was 12.
Now matter how many Times I see this movie, the ways John Williams uses the French Horn always gets me! So beautiful!
1977 Star Wars wow that’s how I saw it 20 something times when I was a kid. Good job Lance.
As someone who first saw these movies when i was like 4 it always surprises me when people haven't seen them. lol. I think Star wars is one of those movies that people assume every ones seen.
Fun reaction, looking forward to the next.
When this came out in 1977, it was not “the New Hope”. This was just Star Wars.
Every time I read, "A New Hope" I'm like which is that I only remember it as Star Wars when I went to the theater in 1977.
@@ThePharaz I actually thought I was crazy because I remembered the original but couldn't find it until maybe five years ago.
@@ThePharaz Apparently Episode IV and "A New Hope" was added for the 1979 theatrical re-release.
In Archer's voice: "you can just say, 'Star Wars'"
@@dernwine The episode number and subtitle were added when they decided to make sequels and prequels.
I can't thank you enough for watching the original version!
When Darth Vader told Obi wan he should not have come back I believe he was saying he should not have come out of hiding.
You are correct sir! :-)
Greetings from New Zealand Shanelle!! Stubbled across your channel because of this Star Wars reaction. Then saw your Back to the Future reactions and was hooked!! 👌😄
So here's what you have:
A space princess
a young farm boy
a wise old man who trains him
a mercenary with a heart of gold
comic relief robots
a bad guy so evil that he wears black all the time.
This is classic pulp fiction
Also a classic knights tale. ^^
Chewie just not exist to you? 🤣
@@Drummer4President Buster the Wonder Dog
@@Drummer4President Oh, you mean that guy that didn't get a medal? :P
literal Greek Mythology
The movie that totally changed the Paradigm of movies, merchandise, effects, and pop culture, all in...
EXACTLY.
His effects company, Industrial Light and Magic, is still a giant in the field.
Because of Star Wars....🎯
I've never heard anything like that before.
If anybody has netflix, watch the Toys that Made Us. . . Stars Wars is first episode. The history of toys, advertisements for movies, tv shows like My Little Pony, WWF, Barbie, He-Man and more.
So happy that you were able to see the original version! Later versions just don’t have the same ambiance. There was room for touch ups and improvements, but the special additions over did it and, yeah, changed the ambiance. So happy to see the original!
Ewan McGregor's uncle Denis Lawson played Wedge Antilles in 'Star Wars' as one of the Rebel Pilots in the final battle. He's in the following films as well.
And Ewan's brother is a pilot in the RAF, and his his aviator nickname is Obi-two.
To quote Obi-Wan, "You have taken your first step into a larger world."
Major props for getting a hold of the Despecialized Editions! Few others do for reactions.
Now you know why people in 1977 literally went to the theater dozens (not joking) of times to see this movie, it changed everything.
ha yes! This was a big deal for Eric Foreman in That 70s Show, I always thought that was so funny!!
@@ShanelleRiccio yep he went like 20 times to see it. And dreamed of Donna dressed up as Leia.
Thank you for watching the original version of the first Star Wars movie. It's been a long time since I've seen it. I'm one these people who are old enough to remember the original, for I saw it way back in 1977 when I was 10. I don't know if they still do it, as I haven't been to a cinema for over 10 years, but back in the 1970's, here in the UK, they used to display outside photos of movie scenes for people to look at so as to attract them inside. The first action figure I got was R2-D2. I placed him by my bed and fell asleep looking at him. Great reaction 👏. All the best, Trev from East London, UK.
I like that you are watching the original theatrical versions and not the special editions 👍 great video!
Agreed! Unexpected, but I approve. ;)
Truly a woman of quality. Of course if she really wanted to go galaxy brain, she'd watch the laserdisc versions.
@@kevinramsey417 haha some ultra rare Japanese only laserdisc cut that still has the Koo Stark scenes in it.
Absolutely agree! The way they were originally intended to be seen, not the "bedazzled" versions that came out years later.
So old that Han still shot first.
Princess Leia is a Princess of the planet Alderaan. Her accent changes were due to her rookie status as a movie actor and exactly what you said. She talks about it in a cable special she did on HBO.
The film was probably released in German cinemas in 1978. Back then I convinced my girlfriend to go to the cinema with me to see “Star Wars”. We were 13 and 14 years old at the time. :-D
But then I had to promise her that I would watch "Saturday Night Fever" with her, which we did.
Leia is the princess of the planet Alderaan. This makes me so excited!!!
Was. #scnr
@@peterampee-kleisius Too soon.
@@ChrisMaxfieldActs My thought as well. Have you no decency, Peter? :P
Not just Alderaan. She was a princess in the Empire, stating in the opening scenes that she's a member of the Imperial Senate. Up until this point, Leia was acting as a mole in the Empire for the Rebels. Though based on Vader's attitude towards her, it's clear that the Empire had suspected her to be an undercover Rebel for sometime.
Her "diplomatic mission to Alderaan" was a cover story, giving the Rebels a method of smuggling the Death Star plans to Alderaan. However, it's worth noting....if the Rebel base was on Yavin IV, why were the plans taken to Alderaan?
@@sixstanger00 Well, I always assumed that since she was taking the plans to her father (who is also a member of the Rebels) that he'd have his people analyze the plans and tell the rest of the rebels about it. Probably figured they'd be safe on Alderaan.
They'd probably take their time to get some forces together and launch an assault on the Death Star at some future date. They'd probably prefer to have a much larger attack force but when they showed up at Yavin IV it kind of forced their hand.
Also, I don't remember it ever being said that Leia was a princess in the Empire. She was a senator in the senate, I know that, but I don't think her royal status really meant much as far as the workings of the Empire was concerned.
I was 12 when this came out in 1977. I, and my friends became all about the “Star Wars” as you can imagine and saw this countless times in theaters. It was fun to watch your reaction to a movie that was so important to my own love of movies and movie making. Love your channel!
As a director myself, I really commend you for watching the original theatrical versions of Star Wars instead of the remastered special editions for your first time
I got lucky! Happy my guy Lance, hooked it up! He's here in the comments somewhere...
@@ShanelleRiccio Nice, I thought I was the only one who still has the original versions of Star Wars lol After you watch all the 3 films, I recommend you a book called Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, its the same book George Lucas read in college which he used as the frame work for Star Wars particularly the Luke Skywalker character
It really is the best way to experience them for the first time.
The way you said "Cool" after the Falcon went into light speed reminded me of the episode of "That 70's Show" when they're seeing Star Wars in the theater! That was an awesome reaction that cracked me the hell up!
I think I wanted to see these entirely because Eric Foreman loved them so much! haha
Hello Shanelle! First time watching a video of yours! It's great to see another person watch Star Wars for the very first time! It's also cool that you saw the original edition! I am one of the few who saw the original editions as well! I saw them so often as a kid I can identify differences between the original and special editions. Granted, for the first film, I did see the version with "Episode IV: A New Hope" added to the opening crawl. But yeah, welcome to the world of Star Wars! To quote Obi-Wan, you've taken your first steps into a larger world! Oh, and to answer your question on whether there are Star Wars rides at Disney, yep! There are three: Star Tours, a motion stimulator ride; Smuggler's Run, a motion stimulator ride letting several guests pilot the Millenium Falcon; and Rise of the Resistance, an immersive motion ride. There is even a Star Wars area called Galaxy's Edge!
"More of the force" is definitely Empire Strikes Back, and Luke's training on Dagoba. It is likely why Empire Strikes Back tends to be the favorite in the trilogy. I will keep it to the trilogy to not step into controversy for now.
The lack of “cheesy” was what got it so much attention. It was the first time for something like it. It was such an adventure. Saw it a couple times the summer it came out. Wasn’t much into sci-fi before seeing it.
I think we all bow to you for watching the original “untinkered” version because, as a filmmaker yourself, you value the importance of preserving a film’s integrity as much as possible.
Highest props for that, Shanelle. 👏🏽
"They must have planned these!"
"Well yes, but also no". gif
Lucas planned out lots of lore, including a lot that never made it to film, and imagined multiple episodes, like the old sci fi serials of old, but he made up a LOT of it as he went, including retconning stuff and even directly contradicting the previous movies.
He borrowed heavily from everything from Greek Mythology, Shakespeare, different religions and folktales and classic literature.
History Channel has a documentary on all George's sources and influences from a historical perspective..
Lucas had more planned then a lot of people think and was more involved in Empire and Jedi than many fans give him credit for.
Essentially the other 2 directors were better with actors than George and these projects are so big that he focused his attention on effects and editing. Really if we want to be accurate the credit should go half and half for Lucas and Irvin Kershner on Empire, same with George and Richard Marquand.
Would it have improved the prequels to have those extra hands absolutely and it would’ve been better if the sequels stuck with George’s vision. In the originals we get our cake and ate it to.
It’s not weird for directors to make changes to their intellectual property either.
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I am glad you watched it in its Purest Form . I saw this at 17 in 1977 it was life changing back then. Welcome to a larger world :)
"They must have planned these."
George Lucas: Ummm, uh, yes, of course!
Actually yes, but he changed details over the years.
@@Jerome616 I agree that George had a much bigger vision to the overall story in the mid 70s than what we saw in the original movie. I also agree that his story did evolve over the years into what it has become.
Yeah but I'm not sure they planned anything after Return Of The Jedi, and the prequels may've just skimmed off of these to create their storylines.
@@Jerome616 Lucas' plan was to just tell the story of the original trilogy. He didn't intend to do prequels or to expand on the clone wars at all. The original plan was a single movie but the script he wrote ended up being _way_ too long and worked out a way to cut it down to a single movie with the possibility to continue the story if it was successful. He brought forward the destruction of the Death Star so that, even if it wasn't successful and didn't get sequels, it would still be a self-contained movie with a proper resolution. This meant that he needed to rework the climax of the trilogy.
Retroactive planning...
You're better at this than your contemporaries. You actually seem to know what you're talking about a bit rather than just being someone who hasn't seen something. You seem to actually analyze the art form better than others. Good job. I'm subscribing.
yessss welcome!!
I can't tell you how unbelievably f---ing awesome it is that you watched the despecialized version. Bravo! Please stay with these versions if you continue watching the OT. I will be with you for all. If you never watch a DSW movie I will finance your next film project as a thank you.
I saw this in the theater when I was 13. It was filmed on 70mm film stock, which meant it had to be played at a speciality theater. It was a roadshow film, so, it traveled from one town to the next
The reason why Obi-Wan 'died' is that in Alec Guinness' contract, he wouldn't sign unless there were two provisions. One, that he would get killed off in the first movie because he hated the idea of his character getting dragged on and on in sequels. Second, he wanted a percentage of the merchandising proceeds. Of all the cast, he made the most money by far because of that.
During the early eighties, my grandma lived alone in a tiny town that for some reason rented laserdisc players right before Christmas and we were able to watch Star Wars on Christmas Eve. It is such a magical and special memory that is deeply ingrained into my mind. I miss you grandma.
I really enjoy first time Star Wars reactions from film students / film buffs / people who appreciate the craft and not just average watchers. Hard to find. Really looking forward to your ESB reaction.
Grand Moff Tarkin, the British legend, Peter Cushing. And, of course, Sir Alec Guiness.
Peter was reputedly a much better sport about being approached by SW fans than Sir Alec was, likely because of all those "plebeian" horror films he (Peter) was already known and loved for lol
Peter Cushing was also the Doctor! Well, not in canon, but in two movies from the 1960s.
@@kathyastrom1315 Who? ;)
Knowing Grand Moff Tarkin was walking around in comfy slippers because Peter Cushing hated the boots and realized his feet weren't in any shots in no way removes the gravitas of Grand Moff Tarkin.
Its super cool that you are watching an original copy!
@11:08 *NEVER* forget that Han didn't shoot "first".... because Gueido didn't shoot at all. Shooting "first" implies that there is a second shooter. As you saw, there wasn't. Han just blew him away.
If you ever watch the "remastered" ones you'll understand what I mean. Gueido DIDNT ever shoot at Han, and Han just outright murdered Guiedo.
Hey Chef... his name was Greedo... what you wrote is a racial slur towards Italian-Americans.
Holy shit. I always assumed the original also had Greedo shooting. It is clear that in this original theatrical version he never did.
You might have already seen the trivia concerning Laia's accent; she found whenever she talked to Governor Tarkan, she felt the need to do a British accent. In other words, she isn't British
19:30 Luke mentions his T-16 he flew back home. In the extended material, You learn they are built by the same company as the X-Wing. The controls are very very similar.
And in both canons I believe, he flies in a flight simulator.
So many props to you for watching the unaltered versions of these films! Huge props to the champion who sent them to you...HERO!
So glad to see you watching the OG version of the movie, Shanelle! It's so much better without all the unnecessary CGI and alterations (ie. Han shoots Greedo first in the original). I was 12 years old when the movie first came out and was in the first audience to see it when it came out in my home town. Back then, it wasn't called 'Episode IV: A New Hope' (it was just called Star Wars) as no one predicted what a huge cultural phenomenon the movie would become. You're right... It doesn't look cheesey, and that was a HUGE PART of it's appeal back in the day. Everything you're seeing is practical effects -- miniatures, matte paintings and brilliant costumes, sets, etc., and no one had seen anything like it when it came out. It played to packed houses for MONTHS, and my family friends and I saw it well over 20 times that summer, as did millions of other people all over the world. These movies are still among my favorites of all time, and it's great to see new generations discovering them!
This has been great. I’ve loved getting to see your fresh perspective on this film I know so well, and with you being a filmmaker and obviously someone who has a great understanding of the craft it’s really enjoyable to watch along with you.
To continue the trivia about the scene with Jabba the Hutt, they filmed the scene with a stand-in actor, and they had planned on inserting a stop-motion creature in post, but I guess time constraints prevented them from following up on it, so the scene was ultimately cut from the original release and never saw the light of day until the Special Edition, but the way Jabba looked in that version was unpleasant to say the least. Thankfully, they graphically tweaked his look in the 2004 release, and he looks much better there. Even if you were gonna watch this film, I would've recommended the 2004 release. Sure, there were still changes made, but some of them are really cool, like the effects during the climactic battle over Yavin 4. But I am glad you watched the despecialized edition because the worst change in this movie, for me, is in the part where Old Ben Kenobi scares away the Tusken Raiders. Originally, he imitates the call of the Krayt Dragon (the skeleton of which you can be seen when Threepio sees the Jawa's Sandcrawler). In the 2004 release, it was changed to a ghostly howl, which made sense, since it was a desert planet. But the 2011 release... I only have one word for THAT change, and that is... WHY?! Seriously, when I watch that scene and know it's coming, I have to mute it so I don't have to hear it! They should've either kept it as it was or changed it back to the Krayt Dragon call! UGH.
Wow, do you have any idea how hard it is to find original release versions? The guy who gifted them to you is MVP
this. seriously. I'm amazed they haven't re-released this version as a simple cash grab because a lot of people would buy them, including me. But yeah they are really hard to find.
@@j.f.fisher5318 Not sure they can, Lucas allegedly destroyed the original master copies after making his edits.
Yeah I've had an archive of them for 20+ years ripped from LaserDisc :)
Goodwill stores and resale shops, especially the local crappy church ones. They always have old media.
They’re the Despecialized versions, you can find them online
Getting to see the original theatrical versions nowadays is a treat, they can be tricky to find. I highly recommend watching the documentary 'Empire of Dreams' after finishing all three films; it's a very in-depth look at the entire process of making the original trilogy, told by the people who made it.
I'm extremely excited to see what you think of The Empire Strikes Back, as that is my favorite (and arguably the most iconic) of the first three films.
"Where's Ben?"
"Ben's dead, baby."
"Where did you get this hovercraft? "
"It's not a hovercraft baby, it's a landspeeder."
Zed's dead baby
@@mgordon1100 "I'm sorry, baby, I had to crash that landspeeder."
Jedi consider Death to be a quaint concept.
I'm addicted to Shanelle. I love the cute, authentic reactions. My favorite is when she has that lower "ha haaaaaaa" thing.
I haven't seen many reactions to the unaltered theatrical release. This is awesome. Thanks for this!
Glad you enjoyed it!
As a life long Star Wars fan I think you did an excellent job of reacting/reviewing the movie for your first time watching. Keep up the awesome work!
Oh wow this is the original theatrical release version. This is not that easy to find. Respect.
I didn't see if it had the interaction between Biggs and Luke on Tatooine. If not, then this is 1978 re-release, which I saw when I was 8 years old. I wanted to see it so bad when it first came out, my mom promised if it came out again she would take me to see it. I was so confused that what I saw on the screen didn't match what I saw in the book.
OMG you scored the 77 version im soooo jealous! i havent seen that cut in 40 years.
They're not that hard to find really. There's tons of people on Ebay selling the 2008 DVD editions that have the theatrical cuts.
@@SteveJ2008
How much do they go for? Because I have them.
@Jedi & Romanovs
To me that is fully satisfactory.
I just don't want to see all that shitty unnecessary CGI crap.
@@UTU49 if you can Google a way to download them, watch 'Harmy's Despecialized' editions, for as close to the theatrical releases, without the cgi but cleaned up for modern displays... You will realise how bad those laserdisc versions were, and how great Star Wars can look and sound, even today
@Jedi & Romanovs
Oh, man, I totally agree. For me also, the music scene in Jedi is one of the worst changes -- probably the single worst.
The tone of it could hardly be farther away from anything else in the original trilogy. I think Sy Snootles and that stupid other singer both look straight into the camera. What in the infernal fuck did they think they were doing?
lol. I need to think about something else. Incompetence enrages me. XP
George Lucas had a dog named Indiana, so in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade they add in a scene that says "Junior, why does he keep calling you Junior?" where Sean Connery says "because that is his name Henry Jones Junior", closely followed by "we named the Dog Indiana"
I enjoyed your reaction very much. I wanted to share with you about the first time I saw Star Wars in the theaters. I saw it for first time in June of 1977, I was 8 years old the best age for this movie. My father told me about a movie he heard about on the news and thought I would enjoy it. He said it's about outer space and robots. He asked me if I wanted to go see it. Of course I said yes. Before I go on some background on my Dad. He was at the time a Dad who didn't spend much time with me, he didn't take me to movies at all. Actually he didn't do much with me at all. So when he offered to take me to the movies I was excited. We went to go see it and it was magical I never felt so close to my Dad as I did then. Flash forward to 1999 when Star Wars A Phantom Menace came out. I wanted to repay the favor my Dad did for me in 1977. I took my Dad to see the new Star Wars movie. It was like old times. Afterwards he told me how much it meant to him that we saw it together. I told him I will never forget the time he took me to see Star wars. To this day I have a special relationship with Dad that I will cherish forever. Thank you for letting me share this with you. God Bless.
Yeah dude,cool story 😎. My dad took me and my big bro to see this in 77,I was only 10 but remember it like it was yesterday. Greetings from British Columbia