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...remember the first time I saw it, but I do remember that I forced my mom to take me so many times that she eventually began to sleep through it. Sometimes I would poke her before one of the more exhilarating moments--Han Solo killing the bounty hunter Greedo; Han making the jump to light speed in his jalopy, the Millennium Falcon; Han doing just about anything--and her eyes would momentarily flutter. I was so astonished she could sleep through the movie that I was worried something might be seriously wrong with her. But it also felt vertiginous, even...
Furthermore, it is not so much the use of CG editing itself which is disturbing, but rather how it is used. In the Star Wars: Special Edition, we "purists" feel more than "slight resentment" at certain CG effects because they change more than cosmetics. The altered Han Solo-Greedo scene, for example, revises Han's behavior; and by implication his character, and some of the new Mos Eisley scenes add humor where none existed before. By contrast, the minor changes made in Empire were minor: the Cloud City additions are merely cosmetic back-ground elaborations, and--contrary to the reviewer...
...Lost Ark where Indiana Jones drops his bullwhip and casually guns down an Arab swordsman. In fact, one of the changes to Star Wars modifies a gratuitously violent encounter in the cantina scene during which Han Solo shoots one of his creditors, a green anteater-like thing named Greedo. In the new version it's made clear, thanks to an added blaster shot that ricochets around the room, that Greedo fired first and that Han killed him in self-defense--perhaps a small victory for Hollywood's moral scourges, but a victory nonetheless...
...HAVE TO MAKE AN ADMISSION AT THE OUTSET: I AM NOT A TRUE "JEDI." I DON'T claim to know the name of every creature in George Lucas' universe, nor can I recite perfectly all of Greedo's lines (Jabba wa-NEEN-chi ko...Ah, forget it). I can engage in a conversation about the Trilogy with a true fan for only so long before he or she exposes my shortcomings, such as my inability to recite the names of the fat, scruffy pilots in those X-shaped planes (I know, I know, X-wing fighters) who look like they...
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