Original Trilogy Changes Thread

[Raveers]

I'm not sure if anyone would be interested but I thought I'd offer anyways.

In a couple of weeks here I'm going to be making an excel file that has three sheets. Each sheet will contain the changes made to all three Original Trilogy movies, from their theatrical editions to the 1997 to the 2004 editions. I am going to go pratically frame by frame for each movie and compare the three releases then type down the changes made.

So who here would probably be interested in the file once I am finished with it?

[Lightivity]

I sure wish I had the same amount of time so spare. Christ.

[royalguard96]

I'm not sure if anyone would be intrested but I thought I'd offer anyways...

In a couple of weeks here I'm going to be making an excel file that has three sheets. Each sheet will contain the changes made to all three Original Trilogy movies, from their thearatical editions to the 1997 to the 2004 editions. I am going to go pratically frame by frame for each movie and compare the three releases then type down the changes made.

So who here would probably be intrested in the file once I am finished with it...?

I've actually thought about this before. Your sheet would illustrate how little those original movies have been changed since their original releases. I still say the Han-Greedo issue is the most overrated, over-hyped half-second in film history.

It could be "an inconvenient truth" for those OT purists out there

[MasterKyobi9d9]

I'm not sure if anyone would be intrested but I thought I'd offer anyways...

In a couple of weeks here I'm going to be making an excel file that has three sheets. Each sheet will contain the changes made to all three Original Trilogy movies, from their thearatical editions to the 1997 to the 2004 editions. I am going to go pratically frame by frame for each movie and compare the three releases then type down the changes made.

So who here would probably be intrested in the file once I am finished with it...?

I'd be interested to see it. Good luck.

[Raveers]

Ya I bought the original thearatical letterbox editions of the OT on VHS and re-bought the 97' Widescreen Special Editions on VHS from ebay. I'll be sending payment to the sellers on the 3rd of August when I get paid, so when I get those sets I'll definitely start working on the list of changes. I'm actually gonna have to do have three seperate excel files for each of the movies. Either way when I am done I'll post a link for the files.

I had the 97' Special Editions before on VHS but I gave them to my brother Rick before he moved down to Cedar City since he didn't have the OT at all so that is why I re-bought it.

[ETandElliott]

The differences between the THX O-OT (the theatrical versions have not been released on home video) and the 1997 Special Editions have already been documented here. Most of the major and many minor changes for the DVD release were documented by DVDActive here.

[Raveers]

Thanks for those links ETandElliot. Well guess that saves me the trouble of having to do all that work, eh?

[Bandersnatch]

Resurrecting this old thread, since I recently discussed this particular SE change elsewhere on the Internet, and was curious what you all thought:

Most of the major and many minor changes for the DVD release were documented by DVDActive here.

http://www.dvdactive.com/images/editori ... d1977a.jpg

http://www.dvdactive.com/images/editori ... d1997a.jpg

http://www.dvdactive.com/images/editori ... ed1977.jpg

The DVDActive site cries "censorship!" when it comes to the blaster hits the Imperial officers receive being removed in a few shots, but also points out that this is rather inconsistent. Personally, I don't think it was censorship of violence, but perhaps they just cleaned up a couple of sloppy shots. Notice how one little firey splat is cleaned up, but a bigger one is left alone? Maybe the bigger one looked better in the first place. The blast hits that were "censored" always looked weird (to me anyway, even back in 1977). They seemed to blow out, like a squib or something that didn't go exactly right. So maybe, just maybe, that's why they were changed? Just speculating, of course...

And if Lucas wanted to censor the violence, then why leave in the gooey arm on the Cantina floor?
And why pick at a minor detail like that, and ignore lightsaber color issues, Luke's lightsaber retracting sound effect in the cave in ESB, etc...



...Random thoughts for a boring Wednesday...

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