View attachment 366662Sometimes your explosions go off on your actors. As they used to on the imperial officers in the detention area, before the special editions nerfed them.
Yeah, but the sequence with Sonny doesn't have an actual explosion (like the smoking craters left in the walls of Mos Eisley spaceport) occur mere inches from one of the lead's head. That's a bit more dangerous, I'd say, than just your average squib.
Regardless, it's pretty clear George didn't actually shoot the scene that way, which suggests that he didn't really want to at the time, or at least didn't think it was doable. And given how he handled the scene later...it still doesn't really work. Missing at point blank range... :facepalm
Just look at the cropped-down size of the image (left over from the old TV format). If anyone ever wants proof that GL was giving us the middle finger with the unaltered releases, there it is.
GL is the same guy who used to complain about how much worse SW looked on small TV screens. He knew damn well what he was doing when he left the image that small in the DVDs. And there were no big film restoration costs involved in that issue to excuse it.
Listen, I regularly take Lucas to task for his decisions, but the 2006 "bonus" discs was intended primarily to combat the appearance of the laserdisc rips that had started cropping up on Ebay at the time. Seeing as how they're identical and all...
In 2006, the OT had already been rescanned and redone as the 2004 SEs. Going back and redoing it would have been expensive and time consuming. More importantly, Lucas did not want the theatrical or even 1993 LD versions viewed as the definitive edition. Lucas has always been a big proponent of
creator's rights, and I respect that even if I take the creator to task for their exercise of those rights at times. So, from the perspective of creator's rights, I can see why a creator would care about being able to define what the "true" version of their work is.
Particularly with something like Star Wars, though, I still think the creator has a duty to preserve the version that the audience first saw, rather than a heavily edited version.
Take the "Godfather Saga" -- a televised version of Godfather 1 and 2, shown in chronological order (rather than the parallel sequencing in part 2), which Coppola authorized to raise money for the filming of Apocalypse Now. If he decided "That's it. That's the definitive version," and released it to blu-ray, that'd be fine by me. AS LONG AS he also released the original theatrical versions of Parts 1 and 2. Those films are amazing films, and the regard accorded to them comes from the theatrical versions, not from some curio version that he cobbled together later. Go ahead and release them all, but don't say "No. This is my vision, and it's what everyone has to watch now."
Hell, swap Naboo for Alderaan in 1 and 2 and there you go....
Sometimes your explosions go off on your actors. As they used to on the imperial officers in the detention area, before the special editions nerfed them.
