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- mlkmnz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+49Hint, if you're that much of a net nerd that you've seen the same story so many times and feel the need to inform the rest of Digg regarding your l33tness, stop, take a deep breath, and shut the ***** up. It only makes you look lame.
- omatsei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31I agree. I also like the fact that it shows a darker side to being in the Empire. From what comes through in the original films, there really wasn't much negative stuff that could happen once you were in the Empire. I like that Biggs tells Luke that the Empire will take over his uncle's farm and force him to work it without any profit... kinda casts a different light on the Empire, and makes me want to join the Rebellion. Without that little piece of information, every time I watched the movies, I kept thinking "So the Empire is giant and you can't get out? So.... why would you want to?"
- violentvinyl, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32Congratulations!
You beat the Internet!
Try again on a harder level... - billybob476, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25More like "that everyone wishes they hadn't seen"
- uberjurk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16I had hoped to see Luke at the Tashii station picking up some power converters
- TheWalkingDude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16You're right. You can get more info and download a bunch of clips from here:
http://www.starwarscutscenes.com/main.html
I only put the three on YouTube, because I figured it would work better (no digg effect or format issues). Plus, sometimes too much info turns people away.
To crawfordbay above: Thanks for saying something positive; sometimes the Digg comments are a wretched hive of scum and villainy. - cmw72, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14"From what comes through in the original films, there really wasn't much negative stuff that could happen once you were in the Empire."
Unless you happened to live on Alderaan ... - Matteos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14They're not Rebels... they're terrorists!
- whiskeyclone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13re: Cantina clip. Han shot first.
- omatsei, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Only Han shot.
or...
Greedo never shot. - swankidelic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Black and white - now it *really* looks like a Kurosawa film ;)
- mlkmnz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Pretty good clips (the anchorhead ones). Shows a bit more of Biggs Darklighter who shows up towards the end of the film. Wouldn't have seemed out of place in the final cut of Episode IV.
- goldenbb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Yeah, but up until the last couple of years, this was not true. You have to appreciate how much more information is available than ever before.
I went on wikpedia yesterday and located some esoteric information about a car I own and was able to locate a part for it based on that information. In the past, you would have had to buy (or browse) a Chilton manual and those were *****. - humpingmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3dY3taqnqI
This one was interesting in that it features Luke and his friend Biggs discussing the dread of "Nationalizing" the farm owned by Luke's uncle Owen. This comment was followed by a sarcastic jab at working for the "Greater Good" of the Empire. Imagine how the presence of this scene could have impacted the Star Wars generation. Because of the enormous impact of this epic on it's fan base, the concepts of Nationalization as well as the Greater Good being associated with the evil Galactic Empire could have implanted very negative connotations in many young minds. These connotations could have possibly manifested into a shield against altruistic and socialistic underpinnings as well as possibly serving as a future catalyst for true free market thought and inquiry. - tryferos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7As a person who grew up with Star Wars, seeing these cut scenes for the first time 30yrs later is great....
Digg....
As a person who respects the fact that Lucas does whatever he wants with Star Wars, no matter what people will think...
Digg... - jbestrom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5If you really want to get a good copy of what the movie should have been you should try and find the old Star Wars radio drama they pretty much followed what the movie would have been if it wasn't edited down.
- jonnyeh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Hopefully Lucas will keep his word from the previous youtube+star wars story
- Arramol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Wow, gotta love the voice of Greedo in the uncut Cantina footage. (nasal accent)"Going somewheh, Solo?"(/nasal accent)
- llewner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I kept waiting for them to kiss. No kiss though.
- FCon4, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Before correcting others, try to make sure you are actually providing correct information. It is not Lucas Films. The name is Lucasfilm Ltd.
- Saint3k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I can't recommend a documentary by Garrett Gilchrist called "Deleted Magic" enough. It takes all of the original Star Wars footage, including the cut scenes, and re-cuts the movie to be more in-line with George Lucas' original script. It also cuts away now and then to show some interesting behind the scenes footage.
No single film does more to show Lucas as the man he really is - A hack.
http://www.starwarz.com/deletedmagic/ - nixr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Obligatory Star Wars Digg.
- crawfordbay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Thank you for sharing!
- bpwwhirl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yes, it is in the book George Lucas wrote. I have the paperback.
- benitojuarez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3time to let the inner nerd shine through. Lucas didnt write the book, it has his name on it but it was actually written by alan dean foster. I beleive thats his name. The same guy who wrote splinter of a minds eye.
- violentvinyl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Great point. You have to wonder if maybe that's why they cut that scene. Too controversial at the time perhaps?
- eth3l, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3These were originally included in some CD for PCs about Star Wars, can't remember if it was a game or a demo CD.
Always Digg SW schtuff. - TheAnti, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was always confused about that too, I'm glad I actually got to see it instead of just reading about it.
- NJank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's been too long, was this scene in the book? I remember reading the book, (which I can't remember if it was written before or after the movie) and it had much more of the Biggs/Luke interaction, but the memory is failing me at the moment.
- BluKnight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2To be honest, while the scenes add more depth into the movie, they really just don't fit quite right. I can see why they didn't make the final cut. However, in the book, they totally belong. In general, books give more detail. The flow of the paperback pulled these scenes in beautifully.
- cheeze5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I had a childrens oriented book of eIV and it had a picture and a paragraph with the dialouge from the outdoor Biggs "I joined the rebellion" clip.
- JustJon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The CD you're trying to remember was called Behind the Magic.
- TheAnti, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@TheWriteGuy
Um, Beru dies in the first movie, so therefore, you could not see her again. - craptacuIar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Woah.
As a kid, it always bothered me that the "reunion" scene towards the end of the film was strangely unexplained. I learned what was going on through reading the comic book and novel versions, and it bothered me that Lucas would leave things unexplained. The reunion with and mourning over some random guy was... annoying.
I was always convinced that Lucas had shot those scenes, but that when they didn't appear in the Special (crappy) Edition release I simply assumed that they were lost.
Ahhhh. A gap in my childhood, filled. This would have been more satisfactory if the new films hadn't been such a "let's throw together feature-length toy commercials for a new generation of kids with some antiseptic computer graphics" disappointment, though.
Dugg for my happy inner child. - humpingmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Maybe George thought it would hinder ticket sales in the commie market.
- mos6507, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think George's instincts regarding Star Wars were almost always wrong or half-baked. What made SW work originally was due to the people around him who were able to channel his ideas into something that actually worked. When he was making A New Hope he was green enough that he had to allow the people around him more creative input, which is why the SW movies took a dive after Empire when Lucas assumed more autocratic control.
George is good at writing story treatments and action scenes but not fleshing out a full movie. Team him up with a great director and you get great stuff like Indiana Jones but left to his own devices he falls on his face. - Ubermensch423, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i dont understand the confusion. luke refers to his friends that have gone off to the academy when talking to aunt beru and uncle owen. it should not be shocking that he had close friends in the past and would mourn their loss. any extended exposition of close friendships that should be an expected part of any person's life would seem to have been superfluous if added to the film. but the scene was interesting nevertheless.
- TheWriteGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ever noticed that there are only two females, Leia and Beru, seen in SW, but in Empire it's just Leia?
- Ubermensch423, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that would not be too controversial at the time. anti-communist sentiments were popular in the late 1970's with the soviet invasion of afghanistan and such.
- goldenbb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I had trading cards that depicted some of those scenes and my friends and I (we were like 5) marveled at those scenes since they were cut from the actual movie in 1978. I also had a kid's book with scenes from the movie that showed pics of Luke using his binoculars to watch the battle taking place above the planet.
I guess things were happening too fast for Lucas to keep a hold on. Weird. - riverrunner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The chick is hot - in the third vid.
- WVUChrisF, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Didn't the Luke and Biggs scene get shown on TV when Ep. IV was first shown on CBS(I think).
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1All the Anchorhead scenes are in the original StarWars comic books.
- Ubermensch423, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"any other person"? it's not the fact that lucas is lucas that people enjoy his additions to the star wars franchise, it's the fact that he created the story and universe. any person who created the star wars universe, whoever they were, would receive the same admiration and respect as lucas. it's the material that people are attached to. who the creator is is only incidental. and all artists copy other artists--does william shakespeare ring a bell? as far as your comment about the first one being lucky it didn't lose money, that makes no sense at all. yes, movies are lucky that viewers respond to their story and wish to see them. and if you were not such a star wars haterboy you would have appreciated the quality film that lucas last made, revenge of the sith.
- TheWalkingDude, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4A lost Boba Fett cartoon from 1978 here:
http://digg.com/videos_animation/Boba_Fett_Cartoon_That_Aired_Only_Once - astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Or better yet, Vader doing "I'm a Little Tea Pot" dance...
That would be more wortha digg. - standsolid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Woah... Han DID shoot first!
- miker71, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The book was ghost written by Alan Dean Foster IIRC.
- iMatt711, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1id be willing to bet gl was the uploader after all he did just tell youtube to leave up all the star wars stuff, just in case im dling before it gets removed.
- HomrZodyssey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I gotta digg this because of those awesome leather pants!!!
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