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Re: He just keeps getting dumber - no original cuts? what's next?
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Thu, 26 Feb 2004 04:57:19 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, David Laswell wrote:

The biggest advantage gained by not including it in the original cut was that
Jabba's physical design had never been finalized when it came time to do RotJ,
and none of the ANH-era design proposals that I've ever seen made him seem
nearly as menacing as he does as a giant slug.  I think that has something to do
with the fact that when you look at Jabba lying there on a slab of rock, he
seems like he should be near-helpless and entirely at the mercy of his minions,
but they're all terrified of him.

Was Jabba supposed to be a slug originally? This scene is included in the novel,
and Jabba is clearly human. If the filmed scene was supposed to have an animated
Jabba superimosed over the actor, then why was the actor in costume?

I'd be interested in seeing these pre ANH designs of Jabba as a slug if they
exist.

I also heard once that the scene was cut not due to budgetary restrictions, but
because the scene with Greedo covered much of the same information and it was
deemed redundant.

I discount all these claims from Lucas as being nothing but more of the same
reinventing the past to try and cover up the fact that he really has no idea
what he's doing any more.

Cheers,

Allister



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  Re: He just keeps getting dumber - no original cuts? what's next?
 
(...) No, and that's the one big thing that I like about the scene not being included in the original cut. It left Jabba open for redesign when RotJ came along, since he'd never appeared in the previous two movies. See, if you make a big hulking (...) (21 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.starwars)
  Re: He just keeps getting dumber - no original cuts? what's next?
 
(...) In the interview at the beginning of the Special Edition VHS tape, George Lucas says "Originally I thought Jabba the Hutt would be kind of a furry character, like Chewbacca." - Dan Efran Martian Ambassador (URL) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.starwars)

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  Re: He just keeps getting dumber - no original cuts? what's next?
 
(...) Fine, make me dig out the old video... (ah, I don't believe I've watched it since pre-SE days, so I don't mind) Okay, if you have a copy of "From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga" (released in conjunction with the THX remastered (...) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.starwars)

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