1/365?

[ironymaiden]

i've been wanting to post more. let's see if i do in 2020.

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a while ago i discovered that the DVDs of the original Star Wars trilogy we own are relatively rare - the second disc of each has the original cut of each film. no 90s CGI. Han definitely shoots first. there is no "Episode IV: A New Hope" in the opening crawl, nor is James Earl Jones credited as Darth Vader. in Return of the Jedi, the final celebration is only on Endor, and the Ewoks sing Yub Nub.

i've made backups now since i assume i'll never see these in HD. (i especially hate the alterations to Star Wars, which won an Oscar for Editing.)

we've been playing the backups in the background all day (need to confirm they're not missing chunks) and a familiar film can be such a pavlovian pleasure. sometimes i just pause what i'm doing to listen to the soundtrack.

Comments

[sistawendy]

Treasure those original versions! That's what we all fell in love with, and Lucas was too stupid to realize that.

It's funny how the first trilogy was as good as it was because of the budgetary & technological constraints on Lucas, not in spite of them. There's a moral in there somewhere, and it isn't just about him.

[annofowlshire]

Good luck on the 365 challenge. I keep thinking I should do that, but I chronically overthink my posts.

Maybe I need to do it so I stop overthinking my posts. XD

[garyomaha]

I'm happy to watch the original Star Wars, partly because it contains the 20th Century Fox fanfare, which has been a favorite of mine my entire life. (I was sad when Disney, which bought Fox, didn't reinstate it on all the episodes.)

And Yub Nub? I liked it.

[jazzfish]

In my head the opening of the Star Wars theme is always supposed to be the 20th Century Fox fanfare.

[ironymaiden]

When I was a kid I thought that fanfare was the start of Star Wars and was crushed if it played on TV followed by a different film.

[dorchadas]

No one ever outgrows the need for an editor, and especially not people who think they've done exactly that.

[ironymaiden]

Favorite story about this sort of thing is that the coconuts in Holy Grail we're used because they didn't have money for horses.

[phosfate]

Retitling Star Wars and changing random things for no reason other than ego was pretty much the end of my ability to enjoy anything about the movies, except the occasional comic or fic. George Lucas' swing from "It's a Saturday morning serial" to "It's the classic hero's journey and I meant for that to happen all along" makes me want to kick him in the ankle.

[pbristow]

Item 1: Hello! I haven't gone randomly looking for new friends on DW for years, and suddenly I am again... [SHRUGS CLUELESSLY AS TO WHY]. I started by clicking "Doctor Who" on the interests list, and here I am.

Item 2: YES, you must definitely treasure and preserve those un-mangled versions on DVD. You know what would really help to ensure they aren't lost to posterity forever? *multiple off-site* backups!

I would be happy to act as host for one of those backups... [HINT, HINT]... =;o]