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...editor, is an English concentrator in Holworthy Hall. Salacious Crumb is the small cackling being who tries to rip out C-3PO's eye in Return of the Jedi. Peter Mayhew played Chewbacca. And the ice creature of Hoth who attacks Luke in The Empire Strikes Back is a Wampa. As for Boba Fett's third cousin twice removed, she recommends you ask Melissa...
...Empire Falls Short" (Feb. 27), Benjamin Cavell's substantive mistakes mar his aesthetic evaluations. I would agree with his assertion that computer-generated scenes seem jarringly incongruous with the charm of the original Star Wars movies. However, Mr. Cavell's main source of disappointment--the new footage of the wampa creature on Hoth--is actually not a computer-generated (CG) creation. Rather, just as in the good old days of film-making, an actor got dressed up in a wampa outfit to shoot the new scenes...
...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's assertion--in no way was the pacing of the wampa scene changed (the musical score and cuing, for example, remain identical). Mr. Cavell did miss the one instance in which the re-release altered the original pacing: Vader's leaving in his shuttle after his duel with Luke, but once again there was little or no CG here; rather, the (offending...
...newly released version of The Empire Strikes Back is not as dramatically altered as Star Wars (which contains entirely new scenes), but the differences are big enough to be noticed even by someone with a cursory knowledge of the original version. The major changes are limited to the Wampa, the abominable snowman-like creature which attacks Luke on Hoth, and the appearance of Cloud City, the mining colony overseen by Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams...
...Empire Strikes Back, it appears that he has thought less about improving than about showing what he and his friends at Industrial Light & Magic can do with a few more millions. They can make computer-animated views of Cloud City and the Wampa which look like what every other piece of computer animation (barring Toy Story) you've seen looks like: computer animation. The wonderful thing about the Star Wars movies was that, bound by the lack of technology, the film-makers had to opt for the more difficult process of location shooting and make Tunisia look like Tattoine...
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