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Re: Early ESB trailer
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lugnet.starwars
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Fri, 18 Feb 2000 10:33:52 GMT
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I know this is an old post, but being the star wars nut that I am I just had to
correct one little thing!
In lugnet.starwars, Matthew Wilkins writes:
> <puts on Star Wars Freak hat>
> Okay, this was a scene that was originally slated to be in the original
> theatre release of ESB; Lucas and Co weren't happy with the way the Wampa
> looked (alternately like a man in a furry suit or a jumpy, stop-action
> miniature) so they cut this whole sequence from the film. This is also the
> reason that the scene where Luke is captured by, then escapes from the Wampa
> is a bit rushed. In the Special Edition release, there is a CGI Wampa that
> Luke fights,
The wampa in the special edition is not cgi, it is actually a man in a wampa
suit. This wampa suit is of course, much better than the one they had in the
original ESB.
Garett
but Lucas had already decided that the scene where Threepio
> tricks the Stormtroopers was a loss, for several reasons:
> 1) the live action stock from the original shooting didn't lend itself to
> reworking,
> 2) the scene in question didn't much advance the story of an already long movie
> c) (I'm not very good at indexing) it was somewhat out of character for
> Threepio.
>
> This is not offical Lucas word, just my semi-pro opinion based upon too many
> fan magazines and press releases.
>
> -Cheese
> <takes off Star Wars freak hat>
>
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| <puts on Star Wars Freak hat> Okay, this was a scene that was originally slated to be in the original theatre release of ESB; Lucas and Co weren't happy with the way the Wampa looked (alternately like a man in a furry suit or a jumpy, stop-action (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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