Last week, Lucasfilm shocked the world with the announcement that its plans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of star Wars with a theatrical re-release it would mark the first official release of the first theatrical cut A New Hope for the first time in decades. But the legacy of tweaks george lucas has done star Wars as long as star Wars‘Being itself … and what it means to be “real” means that it has been changing, from somewhere, from the beginning.
No one, least of all Lucas, can predict the path star Wars would change pop culture as we knew it when it was first released in 1977. The movie that made it to the theaters of the millennium was about to be released, with things that were cut and processed and built and built and built and built and built and built and built and built and discarded and built and built and built and built and built and built and have been discarded and built and have been discarded and built and donated and built and built and built and donated and built and have been abandoned and built and built and built build and build and build and build and build and donate and build and build and build and build and build and build and build and build and build and build and build and build and build and build and build and build and reduce and donate and build and build and build and build and build and build and have abandoned and donated and donated and have abandoned and have abandoned and have they were abandoned and given away. A moment star Wars Hit Theater, the director was not made to suppress what he can change, he found positive success establishing a long history of his return to the movie that changed his career forever. Here is a timeline of the changes made, from 1977 to the latest version of the film to be broadcast on Disney. +.
In 1977
Later star Wars‘Released in May of 1977, many changes were made between its initial presentation and wide theatrical run later in the year: Four visual errors in the film were corrected, including new laser effects and explosions between Millennium FalconEscaping from Mos Eisley, retrieving the matte painting often shows the exterior of the Massassi temple in Yavin IV, and changes to the clouds shot of the Rebel Fighters leaving the death star. The last change made did not affect the film itself, but its final sequence, which was again and again redone with formatting and sound.
Lucas also did a lot of dialogue and audio changes between the 35mm 6-track audios of the films, and little change compared to anything usual, although some Voiceover lines are changed for characters like Stormtroopers and C-3PO. Perhaps the most noticeable difference includes the complete recording of Shalagh Fraser’s lines as Aument Beru, done in the true belief of its take on the British, “explosion, where are you, where are you?” During the death star attack, rather than angry biggs (will be important later!).
1981
The first significant change in star Wars that’s when it becomes official A New Hope. It was re-released in theaters after the launch of The state is striking back A year before that, star Wars‘Crawl’s opening is updated to include the “Episode IV: A New Hope” setting to match The stateIts use of episodic composition. There were several other updates to crawl the opening of the most obvious: A new Starfield background was used, to match The state‘as it were star Wars Title Card, and a slight change in the waist of the capital “Rebel” in its second section.
Those weren’t the only tweaks for the reissue, though: the first shot of Tantive IVThe pursuit was reworked to remove some visual parameters, as were minor changes to other effects such as the engine light and the placement of the planets behind the chase.
1982-1993
A New HopeThe first home release included some minor changes. The first vhs, betamax, and ced releases of the film used the 35mm soundtrack in Dolby Stereo, removing the line of C-3PO added to the mono mix when R2-D2 demonstrated that Demor’s internal tractor gerator could release the station’s tractor engineers Frektali to release the Millennium Falcon. The limitations of CED and Laserdisc as a format mean that those originals also had a unique change: The film was edited to fit on one disc, cutting its running time from two minutes.
Laserdiscs release of A New Hope He used the newly redistributed soundtrack, but there were further changes to the various Laserdissk editions of the film over the remnants of the 1980s and 1990s. 1988 release of Laserdisssk A New Hope In America it was based on the Master used for the Japanese release from 1986, which was changed to respond to the Japanese language below. Attempts to correct the changes eventually caused a problem where the screen looked tense during the film, but this was corrected in the 1992 re-release.
Laserdiss000’s 1993 release of the entire trilogy, called Descriptive collectionused another suitable new audio mix A New Hopethis installation includes material from all three Dolby stereo, 6-track, and mono mixes, including audio conversions. This same adaptation of the film was released on Laserdisc and VHS in 1995, marking the last time that the “original” versions of all three films would be available in a triple-disc format.
1997
We’ve reached the Big One: The release of the star Wars special arrangement. In addition to recalling and returning all three films for the sake of reliability, A New Hope, The state is striking backagain Return of the jedi All of them received cosmetic updates to their visual effects, including a new, redesigned gun, and an extended use of additional items from random Universe media from Swoop Rundes and Rendar’s Dash. It’s deviant in Mos eisley from Shadows of the empire).
But perhaps for the best, each film received some narrative tweaks and additions, many of which are still contested to this day. We will stick to A New Hopeas is our focus here: two high-profile scenes that have not been added include Han Solo’s encounter with JABBA at Mos Eisley, now with CG recreations of the character’s appearance from Return of the jedi (Removed the scenes from the original film where this was taken from Jabba as a person, leading to the jun fled after the death of Lavin IV where the death star died. The special edition Cut and restores the “explosion, Biggs” Line of the first change was modified in the mixing of the film, it may have been shown to show Luke and Lubgs’ Bond.
Anyway, of course, the tweak is all yours: The special program adds the perfect shot fired by CAINGO during the HAN encounter, creating a HAN We won’t go into it, but we desire Get ahead of yourself with this whole idea of time, because people are going to spend years being angry about it.
2004
The first DVD of the Trilogy’s First, based on a special edition, is included with some changes beyond the compatibility of the format, changing some things connected to the Prequel Trilogy, with full changes during the release.
In the case of A New Hopemost of the changes are based on audio, adding effects to certain lines of dialogue or adding new sounds from time to time – perhaps the most in terms of sound performance was the reorganization of the voice filter used in Darth Vader, for better synchronization A New Hope With the rest of the original trilogy – and the correction of Color Grading errors introduced in certain sequences, such as the pinkish hue above the scenes showing Luke and Obi-Wan arriving at Mos Eisley. A newly updated CG model of JABBA to replace the special edition’s additions as well, and for the first time, the English language logo seen throughout the film was replaced with Aurebesh typography, marking the history of the word written inside star Wars.
Then, tatooine is also the home of another change: The combination of Han and Chage is changed again so that the fire is both in time at the same time (although the greed is based, first to pull the trigger). No one remains satisfied with this.
2006
A 2004 DVD cut of the original trilogy was released for a limited time two years later, with one important addition. Along with the newly established versions of the 2004 versions, each release came with a bonus disc containing versions of the so-called original versions of the films, available for the first time in home format since 1995.
Honestly, these versions were stupid. However A New Hope they brought back the first, pre-1981 first opening from the remaining print, the entire audio and visual world was available in versions made for laserdisc transfers of the original trilogy released as Descriptive collection. Until 2027, this will be the last official release of any version of the pre-film versions.
2011
The release of the saga on Blu-ray is the first time that some changes have been introduced beyond those of 2004 and 1997. hide from Obi-Wan in).
That does not mean that the place of han and -haha does not get however forward Well, tweaks. A few frames from the moment of the blow of the wind have been taken away, bringing the time of the modified area closer to the line to the original, as it keeps the close tweaks, which began to be exaggerated in the year 2004. No one remains satisfied with this.
In 2019
The launch of Disney + in the United States brought another transformation of the film, part of the process of bringing the film back to broadcast quality 4K. The broadcast type of A New Hope It contains a few other changes to the special film genre after APPER CLEAR throughout the 21st century, color correction issues in scenes introduced in 1997, 2004, and 2011.
That doesn’t mean it’s a very laid-back place star Wars History descended on Scott for free. Now the meeting of Hani and Chaha’s climax cut by the Awkard cut shouting “Ma Kloukee” before the fire. The scene otherwise maintains the pacing of the 2011 iteration, although it also removes the short visible shot of the ahaha dummy before violently exploding. Not only that no one continues to be satisfied with this, they are very confused, Birthing a New star Wars Invite to the process.
2027
That takes us back a few weeks ago to the news of what was announced as the 50th Anniversary Screen of 25 A New Hope now you will not only come to the beginning in 2027, but in the “original” film version. As with everything we’ve gone over above, what is said is what it means star Wars He certainly lives in Flux, and Lucasfilm has yet to provide any kind of details about this release beyond its existence. A statement released by the studio simply described it as “a re-invigorated version of the classic star Wars (1977) theatrical release. “
We have two years before we find out how far away the Galaxy is, the latest definition of “real” is.
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