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Solo owes Jabba money, and has just killed a bounty hunter sent after him by the Hut.
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THE 1997 SPECIAL EDITION release of Star Wars included a new scene where Han Solo encounters Jabba the Hut on Tatooine. Others were made just because.įor purposes of understanding George Lucas, it is worth considering two of these changes in some depth: The introduction of Jabba the Hut in Episode IV and the treatment of Anakin Skywalker in Return of the Jedi. Some were made to alter the narrative structure. These revisions demonstrate no consistency of purpose: Some were made to compensate for technological shortfalls. It is enough to note that the changes range in scale from altering how a villain is affected when shot by a laser-blaster, to music cues, to the changing of looped dialogue, to the insertion of entirely new scenes. The catalogue of changes Lucas has imposed on his original Star Wars movies is exhaustive, and shall not be reproduced here. They have been edited and altered into a special-edition-director's-cut amalgam that weakens the originals in almost every way. OF COURSE, the movies now out on DVD are most likely not the Star Wars movies you remember. No, these new DVDs are nothing more than a chance for Lucas to make a fast buck from the old digital format before it's put out to pasture. We know it not because of the film, but because of the toys, the t-shirts, the cookies, and all the other claptrap Lucas used Star Wars to sell. Yet, as Film Threat notes, the word "ewok" is never uttered even once in any of the Star Wars movies. If that sounds like a paranoid distrust of the Lucasfilm commercial juggernaut, consider this: Today, "ewok" is a household word, is synonymous with Star Wars, and is part of the national consciousness. By putting out the Star Wars DVDs now, Lucas gets two bites at the apple: He'll sell a boatload of conventional DVDs now, and then will be able to resell them to the same consumers in a couple years as the HD DVD standard takes hold. The first high-definition DVDs will rollout next fall. The problem with that, however, is DVD technology. It would have made more sense to release these movies on DVD in 2006, after the final prequel had come to disc. And, with the final installment of his prequels due in theaters next summer, this isn't an obvious moment for a look back at the originals. Why has Lucas decided that now is the moment to bring the original trilogy to DVD? He has avoided bringing these movies to the digital platform for years, often citing piracy concerns. Let's begin with the Star Wars DVDs' raison d'être. More than anything else in the last 30 years, this four-disc set is a sign that George Lucas hates you. Yet these are mere quibbles beside the terrible narrative and symbolic failures of the Star Wars DVDs. And, as sound obsessive John Takis noted recently, the rear-channel music score is flipped throughout A New Hope, resulting in what Takis observes is "essentially a 124-minute audio glitch." In spots, the dialogue is not perfectly clean. Despite boasting of a total remastering of the original movies, the color timing is off during the opening scenes on Tatooine in Episode IV. THERE ARE many substantive reasons to dislike the new Star Wars trilogy DVD set. "I've got a bad feeling about this." -Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia, various Star Wars films