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Once had a discussion with some coworkers that legit didn't know the original cut had no Jabba. They were so certain that they actually almost had me convinced for a moment.
George Lucas is one of a handful of people on the planet where you can accurately say "They ruined my childhood."
Like, if you're a massive fan of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but hate the most recent incarnation, you can still go back and watch the original. Lucas has gone out of his way to make that more difficult for Star Wars fans. It's an impressive level of aggression and back-stabbery for the people who made him wealthy to begin with.
Original cut of Ep4 only, right? Because some of the others did have Jabba.
E: oh, I see. Yes. 'Star Wars', as in Ep4. Cool. Yes. No Jabba.
There’s only one StarWars ma’am and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t have a CG Dinosaur.
What kind of Mandela effect shit is this?
I’ve spent more time than I would like to admit trying to fact check this. I swear when the special editions came out one of the behind the scenes was about restoring the scene with the fur coat Jabba that had appeared in the first pre-title-crawl version. Now all I can find are references to it being rereleased at least 4 times before the special edition but nothing about scene edits.
As I understand it the original jabba scene where never in any release. It was recorded but scraped during editing.
I remember they had to edit solo going up as he walked around to simulate him going over his snail tail
Which was a pretty dumb edit because Jabba didn't seem like the kind of guy that would let Solo get away with stepping on him. And Solo would have also known that and not casually stepped on his tail.
Not to mention Jabba also didn't seem like the kind of guy to meet with a smuggler he had a bounty on alone in a random ship bay. Even if Solo wouldn't have been willing to just shoot his debt and bounty away, Jabba couldn't have been sure about it and Solo already wasted a bounty hunter that caught up to him.
Would have been better to just edit the audio to make the other guy a representative of Jabba instead of sticking to the "this is Jabba but filmed before we decided to make him an alien slug so now we need to make it look like Jabba". Even without the tail step, he looks ridiculous walking around like that compared to the massive thing he was just a year or so later, like he's Jabba's younger brother or nephew.
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