George Lucas

I feel like I’ve been the subject of George Lucas’ booty calls for way too long now.

This summer Chewbacca stars in Wookiee Season. Picture: AP

I was too young to experience his creation, Star Wars, in all its glory. Born in 1980, my mother tells me she was pregnant with me when she went and saw The Empire Strikes Back in the cinemas. I like to think that it infused me with an appreciation of what the real Star Wars experience was like. Unfortunately, I’ll probably never know.

Each time the films have been released, they’ve been altered ‘for the better’ in an endless amount of ways. Scenes have been rewritten, added, and edited. Dialogue has been altered. Special effects beefed up. Characters and actors replaced. Han shot first. Then Greedo shot first. Then they shot at the same time. No two releases of Star Wars have been the same.

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  • St. Michael, Jedi Master says:

    11:14pm | 09/03/11

    For your continuing Page 2 of The Punch entertainment, I now present: the top ten sexually tilted lines of the Star Wars trilogy! 1.  “There’s an awful lot of moisture in here…” 2.  “Get in there! Get in there, ya big furry oaf! I don’t care what you smell!” 3. … Read more »

  • St. Michael says:

    11:07pm | 09/03/11

    That would be “The Phantom Edit”, which apparently is the best one of the lot. The urban myth goes that people were out in video stores replacing the George Lucas version of the film with the Phantom Edit instead. Read more »

 

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