I watched the documentary on John William's music that's on Disney+ recently and in that George Lucas stated something to the effect that Williams' music was 50% of the movie. Lucas knew how much John's creations enhanced everything from the story to the acting to the effects and helped the audience feel what was happening onscreen and not just watch it. So glad that when Lucas was trying to find someone to do the music for the first film he mentioned it to his friend Spielberg who referred him to Williams. I am so glad that John Williams wrote the Obi-Wan Kenobi theme before retiring from doing Star Wars music. For some reason I don't know if it would have been as special if someone else had created it.
God bless John Williams. I was born in 1974. Lucas and Spielberg in the 70s and 80s did about 49%. John Williams did the rest. He seriously made it fly into our hearts and memories. I am so thankful to be old enough to have been roused by his sublime music the first time around, and every time since.
@ yep, ‘75 here. John Williams will always be the composer of my childhood. Empire Strikes Back was also the first movie I ever watched in a theater. I’d already seen Star Wars when it was aired around the clock so I knew who everyone was, knew the score, I was terrified (yet absolutely loved lol) Yoda & was totally confused as to how…I guess to some people spoilers, so I won’t be specific, but it was also the day I learned where babies came from & how daddies don’t always live with their children🤭)
@@davidfrost901 I was born in 1971 and Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind both came out in 1977 so those two films and their music were my first two real memories of going to the movies. In the documentary of John Williams they showed Williams playing the little 5 tone tune (the one they use to communicate with the aliens with in Close Encounters) on the piano and it was so cool to see him play that himself. Just that little tune brought back memories of watching that film for the first time. His music is definitely something special.
How does it look so good? There are two things happening. First, it's been remastered twice, an effort that included adding effects. But two, and importantly, George Lucas was very passionate about the special effects and was able to innovate film tricks that had never been done before. So while the more impressive effects are new, many of the old effects still hold up.
At one of the premiers two guys came out of the theater and two kids rushed up to them asking for their autographs. They replied, "You wouldn't want our autographs. We just built the models." The kids enthusiastically replied that they DID want their autographs.
The CGI confuses a lot of people who have never seen these movies before. CGI simply didn't exist beyond simple graphics on monitors like the Death Star plans. What you are seeing are the changes from the Speical Editions released in the late 90s which ALSO have been further updated through the years for releases on DVD, Blu Ray and also Disney Plus. So as you go through these anything that is clearly CGI and not a puppet or scale model is from the updated versions.
My aggravation with the Special Editions and other changes since then is that they prevent people from seeing just how good the films were produced originally. Newer viewers just think everything is computer generated, and in today's age, every spaceship and landscape and backgrounds would be computer generated.
@@Tr0nzoidThat’s what annoys me as well. Also, the revised versions really don’t look all that different. The Normies did a reaction to the original versions of the trilogy & it’s almost the same, minus the unnecessary Jabba scene. What’s ironic is it’s now the cgi stuff that stands out & doesn’t hold up.
I was practically dragged to see this film in 1977. I figured it was another tacky, unbelievable space flick. I was getting ready to start college and my mind was other places. It was the very first time I watched a movie in a theater in the new "surround sound." The sound system was really cranking when the opening music began booming. I was completely floored......sitting there mesmerized not believing what I was seeing and hearing. The battle scenes had the fighter craft zooming from one side of the theater to the other and from the front to the back. I must admit, no movie EXPERIENCE has astounded me more than this one. Oh yes....The Empire Strikes Back is the best of the lot when you don't know the "secret."
For the most part ?? Really - first 3 films and rogue one brilliant - the rest utter shite , usual US / Disney Hollywood sanguine rubbish. Nauseating in places - maybe 3 or 4 decent scenes in all the films , last few so bad as to be unwatchable
@@adamwynyard4065 the prequels are OK not as good as the OG trilogy but they are good. The animated series are great too. What's pure trash is the sequel trilogy and the Disney TV series (except andor).
Plenty of people are pointing out how the animals and creatures were mostly later CGI additions. But at the end Tristan mentioned the space shots looking really good. THAT is stuff that really did look like that in the original, and they didn't touch it much for the restorations later. So that was one of the main things that was mind blowing for audiences in 1977. The work with models and miniatures and physical explosions in front of black screens and composited over other background footage was very groundbreaking and still looks really impressive without needing computer effects to enhance it.
46:13 I was 7 years old in 1977 when my parents took me to see Star Wars. When Luke turned off the targeting computer to make the shot itself, the audience went *ABSOLUTELY BERSERK* cheering him on! And when the Death Star blew up- the roof was ready to come off with everyone standing up out of their seats cheering! It was like we won the Gold in World Hockey or something.
I was 9... the late 70's/early 80s were a great time to grow up: Star Wars - Close Encounters - Empire - Raiders of the Lost Ark - E.T. - Return of the Jedi - Temple of Doom - Tron - Back to the Future... man, I miss those days!
@@minnesotajones261 I was 12 when the 1st one came out. I know how you all feel. Now, don't get me wrong...Dune, and many others of the new sci-fi stuff are great...War of the World's, and Independence Day and many others, BUT these were when it was just beginning, and ALL of us were just starting to feel how fantastic films were becoming, and we were kids a lot of us, so that innocence, and wonder of the magic of that first time means so much. And yes, the droids are the best, C3PO, and R2-D2 will be talked about even 100 years from now. My heart goes out to Anthony Daniels who played C3PO in all 9 of the main films. The last being for The "Rise of Skywalker" in 2019....43 year career playing the same character in 9 films!!! And R2-D2 with him all the way!!!! So great that many are still alive yet ages being in their 60s, 70s, and 80s. So sad we lost Carrie Fisher our Leia...RIP dear Carrie/Leia. (she passed in 2016 at 60)
What you don't get watching at home is the BIG SCREEN theater treatment. Sitting up front, the 1st ship feels like it's coming overhead. Its overwhelming.
This was was the first movie I took my wife to when were dating back in 1978. She is a US Marine and I am a US Sailor, we met while we were going to our Military school in Millington Tennessee. We both fell in Love with the movie. Two years later we were married, she was stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma and I was stationed at Naval Air Field El Centro and we lived in Yuma. The first day, first showing of Star Wars Episode V, The Empire Strikes Back we were there. While at the same time the cast and crew were in the sand dunes filming a scene which is in Episode VI, Return of the Jedi. Remember in this movie Luke talking about the Dune sea.
I saw this in the theater many times when it came out (I was 15). Even without the remasters, the effects were groundbreaking and my friends and I had never seen anything like it. It changed the way movies were made.
The CGI scenes were not in the original.... There's not a ton of them but honestly... They are the worst looking parts of the movie and stand out a bit.
@ I agree... Having said that. There is a remastered version of the Obi Vader fight in this movie (it's on TH-cam) it is AMAZING. Just type in "vader vs obi remastered" it's spectacular and I've watched it like 20 times (about to go watch it again).
That's an exaggeration. Many of the digital changes are subtle and look a lot better. The old Dewback creatures on Tatooine were just static rubber props, completely lifeless and unconvincing. The corridor in the Detention block on the Death Star when they rescue Leia was a poorly drawn perspective background, and the new version is a vast improvement. Many of those old effects are extremely poor/dated, and do not hold up. The majority of the X-Wing battle at the end was redone with cgi and is a lot nicer than the old model shots.
@@Rocket1377 I don't hate the CGI... I just think the worst looking scenes in the movie are some of the CGI scenes. And even when it's good. Sometimes the CGI being dotted in does stand out. At least to anyone who's scene the original as many times as I did as a kid (almost wore out the VHS lol)... I say all this to just say. I like the remastered versions. They just feel like if we went back and remastered Jurassic Park with sporadic 2025 CGI... It might be good... But it would look a bit out of place next to everything else.
Another thing is ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) is a special effects studio that George Lucas created for Star Wars. ILM was ground breaking and is now the industry leader in special effects. Episode IV Won an academy award for special effects.
Now ILM uses Epic Games' Unreal Engine 5 for scene rendering. That's how they created the backdrops for The Mandalorian: rendered in UE5 then cast the environment on screens surrounding the set so the cast could actually see the world context of the scenes they shot.
George Lucas founded Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), an American motion picture visual effects, computer animation, and stereo conversion digital studio in 1975 to do the special effects in this trilogy... ILM is the grandfather of every bit of special effects in movies to the current date.... in the 80s, he only used it fully for his films, or projects, it was even partly used in Space Balls, Mel Brooks asked and Lucas agreed with certain considerations, one being he could not use merch for Space Balls, which Brooks joked about throughout the movie...
I love star wars, glad your starting your journeys. A lot of the space scenes, landscapes, and starship are glass painting or miniature models. It's a bit more practical than you would think.
I was 10 when this came out at the cinema, me, me brother and my Dad queued up for 6 hours to get a seat to see it. I've seen thousands of movies since, and nothing, ever, has come close to the sense of disbelif I got there as the ships comes into view in the opening scene. It was magical at the time, and it still is now.
When Obi-Wan Kenobi disappeared, he became part of the Force and went to a sound booth in Pinewood Studios, England. He did voiceover’s at that point in a wheelchair with a console, a cup of tea and a microphone. He would lean forward from time to time and say things like “Luke, the force will be with you.” that’s how the Force works.
Saw this about 10 times in ’77. Some great lines………repeated among friends now for nearly 50 years. The later films cannot compete…….lovely homages to other films, too. The Jabba scenes were added later……..
The making of this movie changed EVERYTHING. A camera was invented JUST for this movie...out of it the company, "Industry Light & Magic" was formed for special effects.
This was the one that started taking science fiction from failures at the movies to blockbusters. Lucas and Spielberg made this as a one shot movie, and they were so uncertain if it would do well that if I remember correctly they went on vacation to Hawaii, away from televisions, radios, and phones so they wouldn't have to hear the bad news and could just relax. While they were there, after making a movie about space serials they had grown up with, they discussed an idea about making a movie like the adventure serials they had grown up with, with perhaps a treasure hunting archaeologist chasing down iconic lost artefacts like, say, the biblical Ark of the Covenant? As I recall, they started with Episode Four because the middle trilogy had the most complete notes while the first trilogy (which became the prequels) and the later trilogy (which Kathleen Kennedy and Disney Lucasfilm just ignored completely and threw in the trash) were basically just an outline with a few sparse notes. So we started with the original Star Wars. Though it was just called Star Wars and not A New Hope. Lucas created industry behemoth Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), an FX juggernaut, just to make a lot of the technical FX for this movie. The shots of the X-Wings flying over the Death Star were actually overlaid film strips: one strip that was just of the background zooming past, another that was intermediate FX, other ships flying by or whatever, and the third that was the actor inside the shakeable X-Wing cockpit set, then all three overlaid to give the full scenic shot. They had many modelers building props, suits, droids, miscellaneous set and design pieces, everything. ILM became THE company to go to for prime FX for years afterward. As far as why every Stormtrooper seems to be such bad shots. The basic story about the Empire's weapons was that the manufacturers told the Empire that there were three components to weapons manufacture: they could be built fast, they could be built cheap, and they could be built to be good, but the Empire could only get two of the three. The Empire went for fast and cheap and expected that massive inaccurate fire would do more damage than a little accurate fire. Also, the Stormtroopers at this point were basically schmoes given a bit of basic training, some basic indoctrination, and then stuffed into a set of Stormtrooper armor and put on duty. Basically their weapons training was "Point that end in the enemy's general direction, pull trigger, repeat." There is also a theory that those who had some Force ability could unconsciously use it to make themselves more difficult to shoot. The theory is advanced because of the line when Darth Vader is having difficulty targeting Luke: "The Force is strong with this one." What happened to Obi-Wan gets a little more explained in the next movie. Leia was an original bad ass woman hero and we all thought she was great. Even when in distress she was always searching for a way to get out, and finding it, even if it maybe was not an improvement, like the trash compactor. People who think that movies were misogynistic with women who were just fainting damsels before the modern day movies of the last decade need to learn about Leia, Ellen Ripley, and Sarah Connor, among others. Carrie Fisher, Leia, had such a hard time acting opposite Peter Cushing, who played the villainous Grand Moff Tarkin, because Cushing was such a kindly and considerate man that Fisher had a hard time acting like she hated him when the cameras were rolling. And it may have been further aggravated by his wardrobe. When the wardrobe people were purchasing the various costume pieces, they accidentally bought Cushing boots that were not the right size. In fact they were small enough that they were painful to wear. Thus he only wore them for shots where they would be visible. Any other time and for any shot where they wouldn't be seen he was wearing comfortable house slippers. Now could you imagine being nineteen or twenty and having to say mean and spiteful things to a man who you liked and who has been very nice and friendly to you and is also wearing comfy house slippers? That couldn't have been easy. The version you watched was, of course, the remastered one where Lucas crammed in a bunch of crap that added nothing to the story and in some cases took away from it (my biggest gripe about that in a moment). Excess background clutter in shots like stormtroopers riding big lizards in the scene at the escape pod on Tatooine and the half dozen unnecessary entering Mos Eisley shots with extra droids, creatures, and other unnecessary garbage just to show what they could do with CGI and tech. The original was more minimalist, which I think was a better call because there was less background distractions that way. The extra 'splodey 'splosions look cool, yeah, but they don't really add anything of value either. The worst offense was seeing Jabba at the spaceport. We'd just seen the cantina confrontation between Han and Greedo where Greedo told Han that Jabba had put a bounty on him so big that everyone was gunning for Han. Then back at the spaceport CGI Jabba has come looking for Han to talk to him? No. If you've got every hitter out looking to get Han, you're not going to go find him yourself and then just talk to him calmly and listen to him sass you and take it like a chump. Jabba's a major crime figure, not a milquetoast pantywaist. No crime boss would let someone talk to him like that. It just makes Jabba look weak and ineffectual, which is why the scene was cut in the first place. And, in the original scene, the role of Jabba was originally portrayed by a rather portly human male and not a slug creature. And that's why Han called him a great human being, because he originally was a normal human being. There are other poor choices in the remastering of the trilogy, but this was always the most glaring to me. And, in the land of actor crossovers (not a spoiler), when Lucas and Spielberg did get around to making that movie about a treasure hunting archaeologist, Harrison Ford was not the only Star Wars actor who was used in Raiders of the Lost Ark. William Hootkins (side note: Hootkins? Wow. And I thought my last name was difficult to live with through my childhood and school years. Hootkins couldn't have been much easier...), who appeared in a brief speaking role in Star Wars as the ill-fated Jek Porkins, or Red 6, also appeared in Raiders as a pipe smoking plainclothes U.S. Army Major who sent Indy on his mission.
Lucas was heavily influenced by the original Dune novel when writing Star Wars. When this film first came out, Lucas had envisioned its place in the larger story, but not knowing if the sequels (and prequels) would ever be made, the opening crawl did not say “Episode 4” or have the name “A New Hope” as a secondary title. Also, as others have noted, you are watching the “Special Edition” which has updated many of the special effects shots. They were done in 1997 for the 20th anniversary and to test out effect techniques ahead of the prequels which started to come out in 1999.
I don't know why or where this "George was heavily inspired by Dune" thing started, but while anything is possible, George has never said anything about being influenced by Dune. Whereas he has frequently credited inspiration from Kurosawa films and the old Flash Gorden serials. And really, outside of having one desert planet (which a lot of actual planets are), and some messianic themes (which stories have been using for centuries) and, you know, space, there is no real similarity between these two franchises. Everything is circumstantial and could be said of many stories.
@@DigitalJediMaster George Lucas cherry-picked from many sources. He took ideas and imagery from the Dune novels, Akira Kurosawa films, Flash Gordon, The Dam Busters (copying many frame shots as well as dialogue), and the writings of Joseph Campbell. Obi-Wan Kenobi was modeled after Gandalf in Lord of the Rings. Tatooine would not exist as it is without the imagination of Frank Herbert, a literary novelist and Dune’s creator. Herbert once considered suing Lucas for plagiarism, but he refrained in the end because, unlike Lucas, Herbert was neither money-grubbing nor litigious. I have heard some say that Lucas paid Herbert off for plagiarism, but I haven’t encountered any proof of this rumor. Below are several specific examples of when Star Wars copied Dune: * Arrakis is a desert planet with 2 binary moons, giant worms that live under the sand, and inhabitants (Fremen) who collect moisture. Tatooine is a desert planet with 2 binary suns, giant worms (greater krayt dragons) that live under the sand, and inhabitants who work as moisture farmers. * The Jedi (warrior space monks) were modeled after the Bene Gesserit (warrior space nuns). The Jedi mind trick duplicates the hypnotic power of the Bene Gesserit’s Voice. The Bene Gesserit develop their physical and mental abilities through training known as prana-bindu. In the original script for Episode IV, the Jedi Knights were first called Jedi-Bendu. * The spice (also called “melange” in the books) is a valuable mind-altering drug on Arrakis. In the Star Wars franchise, there are several mentions of various types of spice, all of which are also valuable mind-altering drugs. As far as I can tell, none of them are used for cooking in Star Wars. Lucasfilm’s screenwriters could have called them anything else, but nope, they’re all “spice”. * Greater krayt dragons, as seen in season 2 of The Mandalorian (2020), imitate the look and behavior of the sandworms. The Sarlacc in Return of the Jedi (1983) matches the novel’s description of a sandworm’s mouth with its rows of concentrically arranged teeth. The Sarlacc is basically a sandworm in a stationary vertical position. Incidentally, the writers of The Mandalorian also gave a couple of shout outs to Herbert’s work with the character of Cara Dune and the city of Calodan (Caladan is Paul Atreides’ home planet). ****SPOILERS BELOW (if you haven’t read the later Dune books or watched Star Wars sequels and prequels): * In the first Dune novel (1965), Paul discovers that Jessica, his mother, is the secret daughter of Baron Harkonnen. He is the grandson of a major villain. In The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Luke discovers he is the secret son of a major villain, Darth Vader. So, for both franchises, the main protagonist learns a critical discovery (anagnorisis): he is actually descended from his enemy. It’s too much to be mere coincidence when added to all the other similarities mentioned. * Jabba the Hutt, first seen in Return of the Jedi (1983), imitates the appearance of Leto II, the human + worm hybrid and title character of God Emperor of Dune (1981). Worm bosses Jabba and Leto II have as their home base-surprise surprise-a desert planet. * In Revenge of the Sith (2005), Anakin has prescient visions of Padmé dying after giving birth to their fraternal twins, a boy (Luke) and a girl (Leia). His visions come true. This same event happened 36 years earlier to Paul in Dune Messiah (1969). He has prescient visions of Chani dying after childbirth and it all comes true. The children born are also fraternal twins: a boy (Leto II) and a girl (Ghanima). Lucasfilm went back to the Dune series to get this idea. Lucas doesn’t need to admit he was inspired by Herbert’s Dune because the above examples are specific and blatant. It can hardly be called “inspiration” since Lucas and Lucasfilm weren’t clever enough to tweak Herbert’s ideas into something significantly different for the Star Wars franchise. This is why a good number of people who watched Dune for the first time saw similarities with Star Wars. Of course they did, since in the examples I used Lucas did not make any major alterations from Dune, the source of his “ideas”.
I am 71 years old and I was buying a sound system for my turntable and I saw a poster for Star Wars before it even come out. And I was mesmerized and had to go see it when it came. I tried to gon a day that it wouldn't be too crowded. There was a line around the block twice. Waiting to get into the theawe couldn't make it because they ran out of tickets. So I stood in line and waited for the next showing.My mind was blown because before this there was nothing of this quality. On the way home, afterwards, in my little Honda I couldn't help feeling like I was a Star Wars character in a spaceship fighting on the freeway.
Dune was written in 1959, that's 18 years before the first Star Wars release. It's definitely possible that Star Wars took some inspiration from that book for the opening planet. Then again. Frank Herbert and George Lucas very easily could have thought up Arrakis and Tatooine simply independently as Desert is a common mysterious and evocative environment that many humans can identify with.
True but the guy is talking about Dune the movie not the books, I’ll bet you 1 million $. As he says the machines ‘look’ like dune. And the movie was well after Star Wars. Only 2001 a space Odessy was before Star Wars. Everything else and since copied it. Even dune.
I was eighteen when I saw this at Graumans Chinese Theater in Hollywood. The line to get in went around the block, but we were damn near first in line and went for first row balcony center, so we were placed right at mid screen height. When the Falcon jumped to hyperspace the graphics were phenomenal in the theater mated with the Dolby sound. When that scene happened you literally heard the sold out theater catch its breath for one or two seconds of absolute silence before we erupted, everyone erupting in excitement and amazement. This movie also had the best humor, the only one in the entire series that was well written in my opinion. Thanks for sharing!
@ well, my (single) dad had a lot of meetings and thus dropped me off for a few hours with some cash. I would buy one ticket, watch the movie, then hang out in the arcade or lobby until the next showing, then sneak back in and watch it again, and so on, until it was time for m’dad to pick me up. Considering the amount of money Lucas made from the film, I don’t think he missed my freebies.
I seen this movie in 1977, nobody saw such a movie before 1977 !!! that was a huge surprise ! This was a a new era for the film industry and spectators.
Welcome to the Star Wars Universe! I was 15 when this originally came out and I've been a fan ever since. You have no idea what it was like seeing this for the first time. At the beginning, when the long ship comes in over the top of the screen, almost everyone in the theater looked up to see if it was flying above us. We'd never seen anything like this before. I adore all the characters (including Darth Vader) and after a while you start to understand R2D2's beeps. It's just so much fun...enjoy the ride!!!
Vaders armor/suit is basically a mobile iron lung. The suit is doing the breathing noises independent of Vader himself. That's why you'll hear it even when he's talking.
Trivia: In Raiders of the Lost Ark, as Indiana Jones finds the ark, there are some nearby obelisks in the background. For about 1/2 of a second, just over Indie's shoulder, you can see a detail of the hieroglyphics. Included among them are R2D2 and C3PO.
I was 11 when this came out and have been a fan ever since, even delving deep into the novels in the '90s & early 2000s. (I have 155 at last count.) Welcome to the fandom. I appreciate your intention of following the theatrical release order in order to keep the experience authentic to original audiences' reactions.
25:30 Sound designer Ben Burtt created alien dialogue out of the sounds of primarily non-English languages, such as Quechua, Haya, and Tibetan. He won an Oscar for his extensive work on this movie creating all the alien and droid languages along with iconic sound FX like the lightsabers, blaster fire, Vader's breathing, and the roar of the TIE fighter engines. He'll go on to win another Oscar decades later for "Wall-E"
C-3PO came on to the stage at the Last Night of the Proms, a classical music season, held at the Royal Albert Hall. The actor practice being the conductor for one piece and received a stupendous standing ovation. The shouts of more more and encore made him conduct again, repeating the only piece that he had practiced with the orchestra. Must have been a wild experience as the Last Night of the Proms is a ruckus affair at best😊
Imagine being in the theater way back (a long time ago...), in 1977, witn George's THX Sound System. I was 14 at the time. The theater applause was deafing. Now, imagine how you felt telling all yiur best buds about this movie. The excitement you felt describing the creatures, space ships, and powerful light sabers. How it felt to carry a flashlight, making the light saber swoosh sounds. Nothing but pure joy and innocence.
Great reaction you two! Always a fun time. When R2-D2 was playing the 3-D Monster Chess game against Chewy, C3PO said "Let The Wookie Win." About 10 to 15 years ago in the USA I was driving acriss Nebraska and Wyoming. They have huge weather road condition signs over all 4 lanes (both directions) and one of the message alerts said: "Road Rage...Let The Wookie Win!" Hilarious!
Two things: When this movie was originally released in May of 1977 it was just called "Star Wars" with no episode number or other name ("A New Hope") because George didn't know whether it would be a hit and whether or not he'd be able to make more movies. But of course it was a colossal mega hit and so the movie was rereleased in November, but this time with the "episode 4" and "A New Hope" attached because he intended to come back at some point and make the prequel episodes (which he did... TWENTY YEARS LATER!). The second thing is that in the original release (including the rerelease in November of that year), Greedo doesn't shoot Han at all. But George felt that he needed to make the point that Han was only firing in defense and not a cold-blooded killer. It's a silly decision for several reasons. First, because Greedo had a blaster pointed at him. Han had every right to shoot him first! Second, in all the years since this movie was originally released I have NEVER heard anyone even hint that they thought Han was a cold-blooded killer. But third and probably most importantly, if George Lucas was worried about this he had PLENTY of opportunities along the way to rewrite the scene: George wrote the scene, rehearsed the scene, filmed the scene and edited the scene and kept it that way through it all.
Thanks for your reaction! Happy to see Sam contextualizing the previous knowledge of Star Wars. I was a baby when this came our and watched it in theater on 1997 with the new CGI.
George Lucas took inspiration from many sources, including Dune. Also took inspiration from classic fairytales, samurai movies and Flash Gordon & Buck Rogers. The "riding a dinosaur" scene was enhanced in the Special Editions (which you are watching) that was released in like 1997.
@@TazorNissen You're probably right. I also remember some artists having worked on the original project previously worked as graphic designers in the Jodorowsky's Dune project. It was a small world back in the days!
The orignial order is always better than chronological. Often it is the suspense of NOT knowing something that happened before - and is explained in a prequel later - that makes the movie worth watching. I honestly don't even know why there is a discussion for the watch order for any series (of films). And the films look good, because they have been remastered, and visual effects have been added. The originals have been forbidden to stream/watch by the creator himself.
I have watched reactors do Machete Order (4,5,1,2,3,6). The revised last moments of Return of the Jedi can be VERY impactful when the viewer recognizes Anakin (you know when).
Great reaction guys. Really appreciate you including the most important parts of the movie where a lot of reactors leave some them out. A lot of people get confused with what happened to Ben, but not you guys. You understood it; he's one with the Force. Look forward to the next one.
I am SUPER excited to go down this REACTION road with you guys. It's SO rare to find couples who haven't seen it. Now imagine seeing it when you were like a kid! Spaceships, lightsabers, aliens! Welcome to the FAM!
As others stated this is not the original release from 1995 and back. This is the CGI remastered with the addition of a bunch of new scenes fully done in CGI. Sadly you cant buy the original cut anymore without these scenes as the story goes that George Lucas after doing this, destroyed the original masters so the original cut cant be purchased anymore. I had an original VHS set from the 1990s before they added all the extra scenes in but they were destroyed in a flood. Tried to get replacements and all you can get is this CGI remastered. Still how ever even the old pre CGI remaster with the added scenes and added people/creatures, it still stands up very well on its own.
I was 9and 1/2 years old when Star Wars came out in 1977. I watched it with my parents at the good old Drive-In Movie Theater in a very small country town. It has changed my life.
I was the perfect age (13) when this movie came out (1977). It was a limited release at first so you had to wait in line for two hours just to get in. It was the coolest thing I had ever seen at the time. That same summer Ralph Bahski's animated movie "Wizards" came out too. As well as Steven Spielberg's "close encounters of the third kind".
I was 8. Remember how EVERY freaking TV show after that had to have a cute robot? Or pew pew lasers? We couldn't get enough. Battlestar Gallactica and Buck Rogers were some of the ones that didn't suck, lol. But all the variety shows and stuff all had to be on the bandwagon. PIGS... IN... SPACE!!!!!!
"I like that they're getting right into it." That’s why Lucas started at Episode IV, so the story would hit the ground running. In literary terms, it's called in media res. Great storytelling technique! Welcome to the Rebellion!
The Star Wars came out when I was 10 years old. I cannot emphasize enough how crazy impact Star Wars had Star Wars mania was a real thing. It was on TV. It was in the radio. It was in the comics it was in the magazines. It was on everything people will be standing around the queue going around the whole block. Totally insane. This kind of culture phenomena is something you will never experience again in the modern world due to the advent of the internet. Despite it being talked about everywhere, you still went to the cinema, totally blind to what is going to be occurring. On the face of it, Star Wars is just a simple fairytale, however, we never saw special effects like this ever. George Lucas not only reinvented the Science Fiction movie and the whole genre but also the whole concept of modern CGI and special effects. This is the granddaddy of them all. It’s rekindled and interest in sci-fi and made Studios invest in films like alien, terminator and Star Trek to just a few .
PIGS... IN... SPACE!!!! Wednesdays was Battlestar Gallactica. They recycled like half a dozen PEW PEW clips over and over due to budget, but we couldn't get enough. All these things came after Star Wars. All we knew before that was cheesy Star Trek phasers.
The scroll is a tip of the hat to the 1930ies and 40ies Saturday afternoon serials that were shown in movie theaters. Before each episode, the audience was reminded of what happened in last week's episode with a sequence of past scenes and a written explanation.
It should be a rule for all reactors to watch this thing. The immediate cultural impact of Star Wars was the TV industry dumping a LOT of BAD stuff onto the airwaves. Every show for the next couple years had a cute robot in it. Variety shows included god-awful space spoofs. Note: Disco also happened during those years.
The reason droids aren't allowed in the cantina, is because the bartender/owner have great issues with them stemming from The Clone Wars where battle droids were used to kill people. You'll see a sample of it in Episode II and III plus the The Clone Wars series.
As to why the first movie is episode IV, the episode number was added to the movie titles years after the first 3 were released. Much like the additional special effects. The original title was just Star Wars.
Star Wars ruined my life! I was living in a small town far away from the brightest corner of the galaxy. Expected to find a menial job and provide for the family. After I saw the film I dared to dream of becoming an artist. Dropped out of college and moved to Canada. I was lost and struggling for quite a while. Found menial jobs so I can pursue an art career. 47 years later I am still struggling as an artist. With several book covers on history and science fiction in my resume. An author for an academic book on Samurai Heraldry. One of George Lucas’s artists calling out my first name in a convention hall one of my fondest memory. Thanks a lot Star Wars! 😜
I relate to this so much more than I expected. The "Making Of" special features on the Revenge of the Sith DVD almost single-handedly made me want to get into the film industry, and led me down a path toward a sort of "Digital Media" degree, which was merely the first domino of many in the zany ride that would ultimately be my adult life. While in college I made friends with a neighbor in a Music/Recording Arts program, he taught me how to use some software to make music, which turned out to be my real passion. I spent years traveling the US living in my van, making music, and going to clubs and music festivals for inspiration, where I hoped to hear or play my own music someday. I never did but dreams and ambitions are good to have....gave me something to live for. But yeah, life as a struggling artist is real....but I wouldn't trade it all for the world. ❤
Star Wars had the same effect on me. I dreamed for years of a career in filmmaking. Eventually I went to film school but due to family obligations I never pursued it. Now decades later I’m free of those obligations and free to pursue my dream. But now I don’t want to conquer the world I just want to make a few good films I can be proud of.
@@spunx44 A George Lucas interview about Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, led me to his film ‘RAN’. I became obsessed with illustrating the samurai army on the battlefield. 40 years ago I bought all the books of the most prolific author in Samurai history. With no definitive references on Samurai Heraldry, I shared my research and illustrations on line and the feedback and help from around the world was incredible. Google ’Samurai Heraldry Illustrations’, to see WIP pages for several books. Some of my other book covers are mentioned. The Flag Heritage Foundation invited to write a chapter on the origin, history and evolution of Samurai Heraldry for their book ‘Japanese Heraldry And Heraldic Flags. I included 10 pages of illustrations. Two years ago ‘that prolific author’ contacted me! I ran out of the house and freaked out my neighbors when I yelled, “YEAH!!!!” His two latest books has my bookcover art!!! ‘Hojo: Samurai Warlords 1487-1590’ and ‘Elephants and Gunpowder: Southeast Asian Warfare 1380-1700’. Thank you, George Lucas.
@@spunx44A George Lucas interview 40 years ago led me to Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s films. I became obsessed with illustrating the samurai army. I shared my research and illustrations on line. The feedback and help from around the world was incredible. Google ’Samurai Heraldry Illustrations’, to see WIP pages for several books. Some of my other book covers are mentioned. The Flag Heritage Foundation invited me to write a chapter on the history of Samurai Heraldry for their book ‘Japanese Heraldry And Heraldic Flags. I included 10 pages of illustrations. Two years ago the most prolific author on Samurai history contacted me! I ran out of the house and freaked out my neighbors when I yelled, “YEAH!!!!” His two latest books has my bookcover art!!! ‘Hojo: Samurai Warlords 1487-1590’ and ‘Elephants and Gunpowder: Southeast Asian Warfare 1380-1700’. Thank you, George Lucas.
I watched this with my neighbors when we were kids. My neighbors dad took us all to the outdoor theater in his old (new at the time) Chevy passenger van. It was so much fun...those were the days. Can you imagine, one day those of us who saw this movie when it was released will all be gone :(....we're a dying brotherhood/sisterhood.
The original premiere did not include the Episode IV subtitle. That was added later once Lucas decided to make it a trilogy and came up with a rough sketch for episodes 1-3. The movie borrows a lot from classics. The trench run particular borrows from the WW2 movie The Dam Busters. Fun fact: The trench wasn’t planned originally. The Death Star model wasn’t supposed to have a trench. But the model maker screwed up, and the outer layer shrunk when it dried. Instead of redoing the work, he convinced Lucas to make it a part of the plot. Prior to this movie, Harrison Ford gave up on his acting career and went back to carpentry. He became friends with a customer of his named George Lucas, so when Lucas needed someone to play a rogue smuggler, he asked Ford
At the tender age of 5 I watched the 1997 remasters and I loved the movies so much that my dad’s boss gave us his boxed set of VCR tapes. And then 2 years later episode 1 came out. I’ve been a Star wars fan 26 years now.
Fun Fact: My brothers wife’s brother used to live next door to the actor that played the character who had his arm sliced off in the Mos Eisley cantina bar fight scene.
As a little personal joke, when the trash compactor stops and Luke reads out the number of the door to open, he said his actual home phone number at the time.
Original theatre title 1977 Star Wars, renamed for the theatrical re-release in 1981 with the title "Episode IV" and "A New Hope" added to the crawl. The breathing you can hear is Darth Vader's life support system on his chest. Dune, the novel was release in 1965, the movie adaptation was released years later in 1984.
What a great reaction video !! Great fun to watch😊you watched an enhanced edition of Star Wars, with a few CGI effects and more creatures added later, but even without that, in 1977, people were blown away by this film. It was a game-changer in movie making. We had to wait 3 years for the next movie... so how lucky are we today! Can't wait to see your next reaction, thanks for joining the fandom !
You haven't seen Star Wars? Listen, the only people who haven't seen Star Wars are the characters IN Star Wars, and that's because they LIVED the Star Wars, man
Unfortunately, you aren't easily able to,see,the original special effects. While Lucas was planning episodes 1-3, he decided to first update the effects of episodes 4-6. Sometimes a visual improvement, sometimes less so. So much of the effects were from the mid-90s. There is no official way to see the original films, without the added CG characters and animals and other effects.
Stated by reactors during the trash compactor scene: "Get up on high ground or something." Obi-Wan would be very proud (as they will learn why later in their Star Wars journey). The movie was a labor of love. George Lucas gave himself a daunting task in what he wanted to bring to life onscreen. One challenge after another to get it completed and on the screen in theaters. But, thankfully, he plowed through every hurdle and got it done. I was 6 when this came out. What a movie to have as my first real memory of going to the movies! Thanks for your reaction. Looking forward to following your Star Wars journey.
0:15 Unpopular opinion, but I believe the best watch order is neither release order nor chronological order. To fully appreciate the six as a whole in my eyes, one should watch 4 and 5 first. Once the Father of All Twists comes into play, you dial the clock back to watch 1,2 and 3 in that order. This gives you a chance to see how the current problem became as bad as it is and leaves you in suspense, wanting to know what happens after the dramatic events of 5. At long last, you roll into episode 6, fully caught up and relieved to see the original protagonists again. You go into it and finally see the culmination of the original saga and the tragic prequels all at once in one climactic finish. That is how I believe Star Wars ought to be watched.
To quote Ben Kenobi “ You have taken your first step into a larger world.”
We will be watching their careers with great interest.
My favorite line: “I find your lack of faith disturbing”
Thank God at 94 years old John Williams is still with us making his magic.
I watched the documentary on John William's music that's on Disney+ recently and in that George Lucas stated something to the effect that Williams' music was 50% of the movie. Lucas knew how much John's creations enhanced everything from the story to the acting to the effects and helped the audience feel what was happening onscreen and not just watch it. So glad that when Lucas was trying to find someone to do the music for the first film he mentioned it to his friend Spielberg who referred him to Williams.
I am so glad that John Williams wrote the Obi-Wan Kenobi theme before retiring from doing Star Wars music. For some reason I don't know if it would have been as special if someone else had created it.
…say u knocked on wood, man. Like ✊👊✊👊✊👊🪵
God bless John Williams. I was born in 1974. Lucas and Spielberg in the 70s and 80s did about 49%. John Williams did the rest. He seriously made it fly into our hearts and memories. I am so thankful to be old enough to have been roused by his sublime music the first time around, and every time since.
@ yep, ‘75 here. John Williams will always be the composer of my childhood. Empire Strikes Back was also the first movie I ever watched in a theater. I’d already seen Star Wars when it was aired around the clock so I knew who everyone was, knew the score, I was terrified (yet absolutely loved lol) Yoda & was totally confused as to how…I guess to some people spoilers, so I won’t be specific, but it was also the day I learned where babies came from & how daddies don’t always live with their children🤭)
@@davidfrost901 I was born in 1971 and Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind both came out in 1977 so those two films and their music were my first two real memories of going to the movies. In the documentary of John Williams they showed Williams playing the little 5 tone tune (the one they use to communicate with the aliens with in Close Encounters) on the piano and it was so cool to see him play that himself. Just that little tune brought back memories of watching that film for the first time. His music is definitely something special.
How does it look so good? There are two things happening. First, it's been remastered twice, an effort that included adding effects. But two, and importantly, George Lucas was very passionate about the special effects and was able to innovate film tricks that had never been done before. So while the more impressive effects are new, many of the old effects still hold up.
The more impressive effects are the new ones...? Are you joking? That's the dumbest thing I've read online this week
I feel like Tristan and I would be best buddies!
@@idiot_city5444 It has to be a joke. The add ons stand out like a sore thumb.
@@idiot_city5444 well your name is idiot so...
You just ruined their awe and wonder. Talk about a spoiler
The first Dune book was published in 1965, but the first movie version of Dune was released on December 14, 1984.
At one of the premiers two guys came out of the theater and two kids rushed up to them asking for their autographs. They replied, "You wouldn't want our autographs. We just built the models." The kids enthusiastically replied that they DID want their autographs.
"Obi-Wan's final troll... He logs out right before Vader wins"
😅
Then they made Luke rage-quit.
Pro-gamer move OG
The CGI confuses a lot of people who have never seen these movies before. CGI simply didn't exist beyond simple graphics on monitors like the Death Star plans. What you are seeing are the changes from the Speical Editions released in the late 90s which ALSO have been further updated through the years for releases on DVD, Blu Ray and also Disney Plus.
So as you go through these anything that is clearly CGI and not a puppet or scale model is from the updated versions.
The sceen showing the line-based graphics of the Death Star plans. THAT was CGI in 1977. The same technology used in the video game Asteroids.
@@klaptongroovemaster- He clearly said, “beyond the Death Star plans.”
My aggravation with the Special Editions and other changes since then is that they prevent people from seeing just how good the films were produced originally. Newer viewers just think everything is computer generated, and in today's age, every spaceship and landscape and backgrounds would be computer generated.
I'm so glad I have the theatricals on DVD
@@Tr0nzoidThat’s what annoys me as well. Also, the revised versions really don’t look all that different. The Normies did a reaction to the original versions of the trilogy & it’s almost the same, minus the unnecessary Jabba scene. What’s ironic is it’s now the cgi stuff that stands out & doesn’t hold up.
I was practically dragged to see this film in 1977. I figured it was another tacky, unbelievable space flick. I was getting ready to start college and my mind was other places. It was the very first time I watched a movie in a theater in the new "surround sound." The sound system was really cranking when the opening music began booming. I was completely floored......sitting there mesmerized not believing what I was seeing and hearing. The battle scenes had the fighter craft zooming from one side of the theater to the other and from the front to the back. I must admit, no movie EXPERIENCE has astounded me more than this one. Oh yes....The Empire Strikes Back is the best of the lot when you don't know the "secret."
Release order is the superior way to watch the franchise.
You are in for a great ride... for the most part at least😅
If you know, you know 😉
This is the way.
For the most part ?? Really - first 3 films and rogue one brilliant - the rest utter shite , usual US / Disney Hollywood sanguine rubbish. Nauseating in places - maybe 3 or 4 decent scenes in all the films , last few so bad as to be unwatchable
@@adamwynyard4065 the prequels are OK not as good as the OG trilogy but they are good. The animated series are great too.
What's pure trash is the sequel trilogy and the Disney TV series (except andor).
@@leeregno First two seasons of Mando was decent and then went to utter garbage. Andor is definitely the best thing Disney has done for Star Wars.
Plenty of people are pointing out how the animals and creatures were mostly later CGI additions. But at the end Tristan mentioned the space shots looking really good. THAT is stuff that really did look like that in the original, and they didn't touch it much for the restorations later. So that was one of the main things that was mind blowing for audiences in 1977. The work with models and miniatures and physical explosions in front of black screens and composited over other background footage was very groundbreaking and still looks really impressive without needing computer effects to enhance it.
Now you've done it. You've gone and opened the Pandora box of "Star Wars." Have a nice ride!
46:13 I was 7 years old in 1977 when my parents took me to see Star Wars. When Luke turned off the targeting computer to make the shot itself, the audience went *ABSOLUTELY BERSERK* cheering him on!
And when the Death Star blew up- the roof was ready to come off with everyone standing up out of their seats cheering! It was like we won the Gold in World Hockey or something.
I was 9... the late 70's/early 80s were a great time to grow up: Star Wars - Close Encounters - Empire - Raiders of the Lost Ark - E.T. - Return of the Jedi - Temple of Doom - Tron - Back to the Future... man, I miss those days!
Same age for me, it definitely became an absolute core part of childhood then.
5 years old in a drive in theater. still the place went wild! 😀
@@minnesotajones261 I was 12 when the 1st one came out. I know how you all feel. Now, don't get me wrong...Dune, and many others of the new sci-fi stuff are great...War of the World's, and Independence Day and many others, BUT these were when it was just beginning, and ALL of us were just starting to feel how fantastic films were becoming, and we were kids a lot of us, so that innocence, and wonder of the magic of that first time means so much. And yes, the droids are the best, C3PO, and R2-D2 will be talked about even 100 years from now. My heart goes out to Anthony Daniels who played C3PO in all 9 of the main films. The last being for The "Rise of Skywalker" in 2019....43 year career playing the same character in 9 films!!! And R2-D2 with him all the way!!!! So great that many are still alive yet ages being in their 60s, 70s, and 80s. So sad we lost Carrie Fisher our Leia...RIP dear Carrie/Leia. (she passed in 2016 at 60)
Same age as I, you are.
I watched this in the theater .. six years after returning from Vietnam. That opening scene with the Battle Cruiser (?) blew our minds in the theater.
Thank you for ur service
Rather be in Vietnam or a Star War?
@@ethanwinnegrad3402thanking someone for the atrocities committed by US soldiers in Vietnam?
What you don't get watching at home is the BIG SCREEN theater treatment. Sitting up front, the 1st ship feels like it's coming overhead. Its overwhelming.
"That's Darth Vader!"
"No it's not. That's the princess"
New head canon unlocked.
In 1977 it was mostly practical effects and model ships. Lucas added some CGI shots on the later re-releases and DVD versions.
This was was the first movie I took my wife to when were dating back in 1978. She is a US Marine and I am a US Sailor, we met while we were going to our Military school in Millington Tennessee. We both fell in Love with the movie. Two years later we were married, she was stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma and I was stationed at Naval Air Field El Centro and we lived in Yuma. The first day, first showing of Star Wars Episode V, The Empire Strikes Back we were there. While at the same time the cast and crew were in the sand dunes filming a scene which is in Episode VI, Return of the Jedi. Remember in this movie Luke talking about the Dune sea.
I saw this in the theater many times when it came out (I was 15). Even without the remasters, the effects were groundbreaking and my friends and I had never seen anything like it. It changed the way movies were made.
The CGI scenes were not in the original.... There's not a ton of them but honestly... They are the worst looking parts of the movie and stand out a bit.
George re did it because he wasn't able to do it the way he wanted it originally. So I prefer these. His true real vision
I prefer the Despecialized versions that remove all the additions that ruin them, imo
@ I agree... Having said that. There is a remastered version of the Obi Vader fight in this movie (it's on TH-cam) it is AMAZING.
Just type in "vader vs obi remastered" it's spectacular and I've watched it like 20 times (about to go watch it again).
That's an exaggeration. Many of the digital changes are subtle and look a lot better. The old Dewback creatures on Tatooine were just static rubber props, completely lifeless and unconvincing. The corridor in the Detention block on the Death Star when they rescue Leia was a poorly drawn perspective background, and the new version is a vast improvement. Many of those old effects are extremely poor/dated, and do not hold up. The majority of the X-Wing battle at the end was redone with cgi and is a lot nicer than the old model shots.
@@Rocket1377 I don't hate the CGI... I just think the worst looking scenes in the movie are some of the CGI scenes. And even when it's good. Sometimes the CGI being dotted in does stand out. At least to anyone who's scene the original as many times as I did as a kid (almost wore out the VHS lol)...
I say all this to just say. I like the remastered versions. They just feel like if we went back and remastered Jurassic Park with sporadic 2025 CGI... It might be good... But it would look a bit out of place next to everything else.
"Wow, that really looks good for 1977!" Stanley Kubrick - "Hold My Beer!"
Hold my pint
True.
Yeah, and he did it in 1968....
Another thing is ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) is a special effects studio that George Lucas created for Star Wars. ILM was ground breaking and is now the industry leader in special effects. Episode IV Won an academy award for special effects.
Now ILM uses Epic Games' Unreal Engine 5 for scene rendering. That's how they created the backdrops for The Mandalorian: rendered in UE5 then cast the environment on screens surrounding the set so the cast could actually see the world context of the scenes they shot.
I can just see all the tears to come...
George Lucas founded Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), an American motion picture visual effects, computer animation, and stereo conversion digital studio in 1975 to do the special effects in this trilogy... ILM is the grandfather of every bit of special effects in movies to the current date.... in the 80s, he only used it fully for his films, or projects, it was even partly used in Space Balls, Mel Brooks asked and Lucas agreed with certain considerations, one being he could not use merch for Space Balls, which Brooks joked about throughout the movie...
I love star wars, glad your starting your journeys. A lot of the space scenes, landscapes, and starship are glass painting or miniature models. It's a bit more practical than you would think.
You've taken your first step into a larger world.
We will look forward to these reactions with great interest.
I was 10 when this came out at the cinema, me, me brother and my Dad queued up for 6 hours to get a seat to see it. I've seen thousands of movies since, and nothing, ever, has come close to the sense of disbelif I got there as the ships comes into view in the opening scene. It was magical at the time, and it still is now.
When Obi-Wan Kenobi disappeared, he became part of the Force and went to a sound booth in Pinewood Studios, England. He did voiceover’s at that point in a wheelchair with a console, a cup of tea and a microphone. He would lean forward from time to time and say things like “Luke, the force will be with you.” that’s how the Force works.
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Yep. And he wasn't really killed by Darth Vader...he was killed by the screenwriters!! 😮
The dark side has cookies. The light side has tea.
Watching in release order is absolutely ESSENTIAL for first time viewers, in my opinion.
Glad to see you choose wisely. Have fun and buckle in.
May the force be with you through your Star Wars adventure.
Saw this about 10 times in ’77. Some great lines………repeated among friends now for nearly 50 years. The later films cannot compete…….lovely homages to other films, too. The Jabba scenes were added later……..
I was 9 when this movie came out. We had not seen anything like it before and were completely blown away.
23:12 It was composed by John Williams as well and on set, they nicknamed it JIZZ which became the canon name for it.
Thank you, always nice to get a first impression of something that is so loved. Looking forward to your future reactions
The making of this movie changed EVERYTHING. A camera was invented JUST for this movie...out of it the company, "Industry Light & Magic" was formed for special effects.
This was the one that started taking science fiction from failures at the movies to blockbusters. Lucas and Spielberg made this as a one shot movie, and they were so uncertain if it would do well that if I remember correctly they went on vacation to Hawaii, away from televisions, radios, and phones so they wouldn't have to hear the bad news and could just relax. While they were there, after making a movie about space serials they had grown up with, they discussed an idea about making a movie like the adventure serials they had grown up with, with perhaps a treasure hunting archaeologist chasing down iconic lost artefacts like, say, the biblical Ark of the Covenant?
As I recall, they started with Episode Four because the middle trilogy had the most complete notes while the first trilogy (which became the prequels) and the later trilogy (which Kathleen Kennedy and Disney Lucasfilm just ignored completely and threw in the trash) were basically just an outline with a few sparse notes. So we started with the original Star Wars. Though it was just called Star Wars and not A New Hope.
Lucas created industry behemoth Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), an FX juggernaut, just to make a lot of the technical FX for this movie. The shots of the X-Wings flying over the Death Star were actually overlaid film strips: one strip that was just of the background zooming past, another that was intermediate FX, other ships flying by or whatever, and the third that was the actor inside the shakeable X-Wing cockpit set, then all three overlaid to give the full scenic shot. They had many modelers building props, suits, droids, miscellaneous set and design pieces, everything. ILM became THE company to go to for prime FX for years afterward.
As far as why every Stormtrooper seems to be such bad shots. The basic story about the Empire's weapons was that the manufacturers told the Empire that there were three components to weapons manufacture: they could be built fast, they could be built cheap, and they could be built to be good, but the Empire could only get two of the three. The Empire went for fast and cheap and expected that massive inaccurate fire would do more damage than a little accurate fire.
Also, the Stormtroopers at this point were basically schmoes given a bit of basic training, some basic indoctrination, and then stuffed into a set of Stormtrooper armor and put on duty. Basically their weapons training was "Point that end in the enemy's general direction, pull trigger, repeat."
There is also a theory that those who had some Force ability could unconsciously use it to make themselves more difficult to shoot. The theory is advanced because of the line when Darth Vader is having difficulty targeting Luke: "The Force is strong with this one."
What happened to Obi-Wan gets a little more explained in the next movie.
Leia was an original bad ass woman hero and we all thought she was great. Even when in distress she was always searching for a way to get out, and finding it, even if it maybe was not an improvement, like the trash compactor. People who think that movies were misogynistic with women who were just fainting damsels before the modern day movies of the last decade need to learn about Leia, Ellen Ripley, and Sarah Connor, among others.
Carrie Fisher, Leia, had such a hard time acting opposite Peter Cushing, who played the villainous Grand Moff Tarkin, because Cushing was such a kindly and considerate man that Fisher had a hard time acting like she hated him when the cameras were rolling. And it may have been further aggravated by his wardrobe. When the wardrobe people were purchasing the various costume pieces, they accidentally bought Cushing boots that were not the right size. In fact they were small enough that they were painful to wear. Thus he only wore them for shots where they would be visible. Any other time and for any shot where they wouldn't be seen he was wearing comfortable house slippers. Now could you imagine being nineteen or twenty and having to say mean and spiteful things to a man who you liked and who has been very nice and friendly to you and is also wearing comfy house slippers? That couldn't have been easy.
The version you watched was, of course, the remastered one where Lucas crammed in a bunch of crap that added nothing to the story and in some cases took away from it (my biggest gripe about that in a moment). Excess background clutter in shots like stormtroopers riding big lizards in the scene at the escape pod on Tatooine and the half dozen unnecessary entering Mos Eisley shots with extra droids, creatures, and other unnecessary garbage just to show what they could do with CGI and tech. The original was more minimalist, which I think was a better call because there was less background distractions that way. The extra 'splodey 'splosions look cool, yeah, but they don't really add anything of value either.
The worst offense was seeing Jabba at the spaceport. We'd just seen the cantina confrontation between Han and Greedo where Greedo told Han that Jabba had put a bounty on him so big that everyone was gunning for Han. Then back at the spaceport CGI Jabba has come looking for Han to talk to him? No. If you've got every hitter out looking to get Han, you're not going to go find him yourself and then just talk to him calmly and listen to him sass you and take it like a chump. Jabba's a major crime figure, not a milquetoast pantywaist. No crime boss would let someone talk to him like that. It just makes Jabba look weak and ineffectual, which is why the scene was cut in the first place.
And, in the original scene, the role of Jabba was originally portrayed by a rather portly human male and not a slug creature. And that's why Han called him a great human being, because he originally was a normal human being. There are other poor choices in the remastering of the trilogy, but this was always the most glaring to me.
And, in the land of actor crossovers (not a spoiler), when Lucas and Spielberg did get around to making that movie about a treasure hunting archaeologist, Harrison Ford was not the only Star Wars actor who was used in Raiders of the Lost Ark. William Hootkins (side note: Hootkins? Wow. And I thought my last name was difficult to live with through my childhood and school years. Hootkins couldn't have been much easier...), who appeared in a brief speaking role in Star Wars as the ill-fated Jek Porkins, or Red 6, also appeared in Raiders as a pipe smoking plainclothes U.S. Army Major who sent Indy on his mission.
Lucas was heavily influenced by the original Dune novel when writing Star Wars. When this film first came out, Lucas had envisioned its place in the larger story, but not knowing if the sequels (and prequels) would ever be made, the opening crawl did not say “Episode 4” or have the name “A New Hope” as a secondary title.
Also, as others have noted, you are watching the “Special Edition” which has updated many of the special effects shots. They were done in 1997 for the 20th anniversary and to test out effect techniques ahead of the prequels which started to come out in 1999.
I can't help but mention that the particular film that was of influence for Lucas here was Kurosawa's "Hidden Fortress"...
Probably other writers in the golden age of science fiction also influenced Lucas, like Asimov, Vance, A.E. Van Vogt, Niven, Clarke.
I don't know why or where this "George was heavily inspired by Dune" thing started, but while anything is possible, George has never said anything about being influenced by Dune. Whereas he has frequently credited inspiration from Kurosawa films and the old Flash Gorden serials.
And really, outside of having one desert planet (which a lot of actual planets are), and some messianic themes (which stories have been using for centuries) and, you know, space, there is no real similarity between these two franchises. Everything is circumstantial and could be said of many stories.
@@DigitalJediMaster
George Lucas cherry-picked from many sources. He took ideas and imagery from the Dune novels, Akira Kurosawa films, Flash Gordon, The Dam Busters (copying many frame shots as well as dialogue), and the writings of Joseph Campbell. Obi-Wan Kenobi was modeled after Gandalf in Lord of the Rings. Tatooine would not exist as it is without the imagination of Frank Herbert, a literary novelist and Dune’s creator.
Herbert once considered suing Lucas for plagiarism, but he refrained in the end because, unlike Lucas, Herbert was neither money-grubbing nor litigious. I have heard some say that Lucas paid Herbert off for plagiarism, but I haven’t encountered any proof of this rumor.
Below are several specific examples of when Star Wars copied Dune:
* Arrakis is a desert planet with 2 binary moons, giant worms that live under the sand, and inhabitants (Fremen) who collect moisture. Tatooine is a desert planet with 2 binary suns, giant worms (greater krayt dragons) that live under the sand, and inhabitants who work as moisture farmers.
* The Jedi (warrior space monks) were modeled after the Bene Gesserit (warrior space nuns). The Jedi mind trick duplicates the hypnotic power of the Bene Gesserit’s Voice. The Bene Gesserit develop their physical and mental abilities through training known as prana-bindu. In the original script for Episode IV, the Jedi Knights were first called Jedi-Bendu.
* The spice (also called “melange” in the books) is a valuable mind-altering drug on Arrakis. In the Star Wars franchise, there are several mentions of various types of spice, all of which are also valuable mind-altering drugs. As far as I can tell, none of them are used for cooking in Star Wars. Lucasfilm’s screenwriters could have called them anything else, but nope, they’re all “spice”.
* Greater krayt dragons, as seen in season 2 of The Mandalorian (2020), imitate the look and behavior of the sandworms. The Sarlacc in Return of the Jedi (1983) matches the novel’s description of a sandworm’s mouth with its rows of concentrically arranged teeth. The Sarlacc is basically a sandworm in a stationary vertical position.
Incidentally, the writers of The Mandalorian also gave a couple of shout outs to Herbert’s work with the character of Cara Dune and the city of Calodan (Caladan is Paul Atreides’ home planet).
****SPOILERS BELOW (if you haven’t read the later Dune books or watched Star Wars sequels and prequels):
* In the first Dune novel (1965), Paul discovers that Jessica, his mother, is the secret daughter of Baron Harkonnen. He is the grandson of a major villain. In The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Luke discovers he is the secret son of a major villain, Darth Vader. So, for both franchises, the main protagonist learns a critical discovery (anagnorisis): he is actually descended from his enemy. It’s too much to be mere coincidence when added to all the other similarities mentioned.
* Jabba the Hutt, first seen in Return of the Jedi (1983), imitates the appearance of Leto II, the human + worm hybrid and title character of God Emperor of Dune (1981). Worm bosses Jabba and Leto II have as their home base-surprise surprise-a desert planet.
* In Revenge of the Sith (2005), Anakin has prescient visions of Padmé dying after giving birth to their fraternal twins, a boy (Luke) and a girl (Leia). His visions come true. This same event happened 36 years earlier to Paul in Dune Messiah (1969). He has prescient visions of Chani dying after childbirth and it all comes true. The children born are also fraternal twins: a boy (Leto II) and a girl (Ghanima). Lucasfilm went back to the Dune series to get this idea.
Lucas doesn’t need to admit he was inspired by Herbert’s Dune because the above examples are specific and blatant. It can hardly be called “inspiration” since Lucas and Lucasfilm weren’t clever enough to tweak Herbert’s ideas into something significantly different for the Star Wars franchise. This is why a good number of people who watched Dune for the first time saw similarities with Star Wars. Of course they did, since in the examples I used Lucas did not make any major alterations from Dune, the source of his “ideas”.
I am 71 years old and I was buying a sound system for my turntable and I saw a poster for Star Wars before it even come out. And I was mesmerized and had to go see it when it came. I tried to gon a day that it wouldn't be too crowded. There was a line around the block twice. Waiting to get into the theawe couldn't make it because they ran out of tickets. So I stood in line and waited for the next showing.My mind was blown because before this there was nothing of this quality. On the way home, afterwards, in my little Honda I couldn't help feeling like I was a Star Wars character in a spaceship fighting on the freeway.
Dune was written in 1959, that's 18 years before the first Star Wars release. It's definitely possible that Star Wars took some inspiration from that book for the opening planet. Then again. Frank Herbert and George Lucas very easily could have thought up Arrakis and Tatooine simply independently as Desert is a common mysterious and evocative environment that many humans can identify with.
True but the guy is talking about Dune the movie not the books, I’ll bet you 1 million $. As he says the machines ‘look’ like dune. And the movie was well after Star Wars. Only 2001 a space Odessy was before Star Wars. Everything else and since copied it. Even dune.
I was eighteen when I saw this at Graumans Chinese Theater in Hollywood. The line to get in went around the block, but we were damn near first in line and went for first row balcony center, so we were placed right at mid screen height. When the Falcon jumped to hyperspace the graphics were phenomenal in the theater mated with the Dolby sound. When that scene happened you literally heard the sold out theater catch its breath for one or two seconds of absolute silence before we erupted, everyone erupting in excitement and amazement. This movie also had the best humor, the only one in the entire series that was well written in my opinion. Thanks for sharing!
On the big screen was just mind blowing. I saw it 24X and still watch it on DVD at least once a year.
24x... you must have been rich ! lol
@ well, my (single) dad had a lot of meetings and thus dropped me off for a few hours with some cash. I would buy one ticket, watch the movie, then hang out in the arcade or lobby until the next showing, then sneak back in and watch it again, and so on, until it was time for m’dad to pick me up.
Considering the amount of money Lucas made from the film, I don’t think he missed my freebies.
I seen this movie in 1977, nobody saw such a movie before 1977 !!! that was a huge surprise ! This was a a new era for the film industry and spectators.
R2-D2, “we don’t know what he’s saying”
The original “I Am Groot” 😂😂
I personally think R2-D2 usually is just cussin'
@ 🤣🤣🤣 somebody’s gotta have a voice video of that. I think I’d put it on loop and watch it every day.
Now I'm imagining an alternate universe where R2-D2 was voiced by Vin Diesel. 😂
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Welcome to the Star Wars Universe! I was 15 when this originally came out and I've been a fan ever since. You have no idea what it was like seeing this for the first time. At the beginning, when the long ship comes in over the top of the screen, almost everyone in the theater looked up to see if it was flying above us. We'd never seen anything like this before. I adore all the characters (including Darth Vader) and after a while you start to understand R2D2's beeps. It's just so much fun...enjoy the ride!!!
Vaders armor/suit is basically a mobile iron lung. The suit is doing the breathing noises independent of Vader himself. That's why you'll hear it even when he's talking.
Trivia: In Raiders of the Lost Ark, as Indiana Jones finds the ark, there are some nearby obelisks in the background. For about 1/2 of a second, just over Indie's shoulder, you can see a detail of the hieroglyphics. Included among them are R2D2 and C3PO.
I was 11 when this came out and have been a fan ever since, even delving deep into the novels in the '90s & early 2000s. (I have 155 at last count.) Welcome to the fandom. I appreciate your intention of following the theatrical release order in order to keep the experience authentic to original audiences' reactions.
25:30 Sound designer Ben Burtt created alien dialogue out of the sounds of primarily non-English languages, such as Quechua, Haya, and Tibetan. He won an Oscar for his extensive work on this movie creating all the alien and droid languages along with iconic sound FX like the lightsabers, blaster fire, Vader's breathing, and the roar of the TIE fighter engines.
He'll go on to win another Oscar decades later for "Wall-E"
Chewbacca is a mix of animal sounds. I know one is a bear but can't remember the others.
@@LordVolkov- Also a walrus.
The blaster sound is made by striking a high-tension wire used for anchoring tv and radio antenna with a metal wrench.
Glad you guys did this in release order. It's the BEST way to watch this franchise.
C-3PO came on to the stage at the Last Night of the Proms, a classical music season, held at the Royal Albert Hall. The actor practice being the conductor for one piece and received a stupendous standing ovation. The shouts of more more and encore made him conduct again, repeating the only piece that he had practiced with the orchestra. Must have been a wild experience as the Last Night of the Proms is a ruckus affair at best😊
Imagine being in the theater way back (a long time ago...), in 1977, witn George's THX Sound System. I was 14 at the time. The theater applause was deafing. Now, imagine how you felt telling all yiur best buds about this movie. The excitement you felt describing the creatures, space ships, and powerful light sabers. How it felt to carry a flashlight, making the light saber swoosh sounds. Nothing but pure joy and innocence.
Great reaction you two! Always a fun time.
When R2-D2 was playing the 3-D Monster Chess game against Chewy, C3PO said "Let The Wookie Win."
About 10 to 15 years ago in the USA I was driving acriss Nebraska and Wyoming. They have huge weather road condition signs over all 4 lanes (both directions) and one of the message alerts said:
"Road Rage...Let The Wookie Win!"
Hilarious!
Dianoga attacks in the trash compactor: "Can't they get to the high ground or something?"
Yeah, about the high ground...
The force will be with you...always.
Two things: When this movie was originally released in May of 1977 it was just called "Star Wars" with no episode number or other name ("A New Hope") because George didn't know whether it would be a hit and whether or not he'd be able to make more movies. But of course it was a colossal mega hit and so the movie was rereleased in November, but this time with the "episode 4" and "A New Hope" attached because he intended to come back at some point and make the prequel episodes (which he did... TWENTY YEARS LATER!).
The second thing is that in the original release (including the rerelease in November of that year), Greedo doesn't shoot Han at all. But George felt that he needed to make the point that Han was only firing in defense and not a cold-blooded killer. It's a silly decision for several reasons. First, because Greedo had a blaster pointed at him. Han had every right to shoot him first! Second, in all the years since this movie was originally released I have NEVER heard anyone even hint that they thought Han was a cold-blooded killer. But third and probably most importantly, if George Lucas was worried about this he had PLENTY of opportunities along the way to rewrite the scene: George wrote the scene, rehearsed the scene, filmed the scene and edited the scene and kept it that way through it all.
For 50 years, I've had same 3 heroes. Spider-Man, Paul McCartney, and Luke Skywalker ❤❤❤
Thanks for your reaction!
Happy to see Sam contextualizing the previous knowledge of Star Wars.
I was a baby when this came our and watched it in theater on 1997 with the new CGI.
30:42 In every Star Wars movie someone will says “ I have a bad feeling about this.” It’s a common phrase in the Star Wars universe.
Who knows if it was borrowed from or used to pay homage to, but the line is used in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey".
So neat to hear your questions and speculations. I can’t wait to see more reactions! May the force be with you.
George Lucas took inspiration from many sources, including Dune. Also took inspiration from classic fairytales, samurai movies and Flash Gordon & Buck Rogers.
The "riding a dinosaur" scene was enhanced in the Special Editions (which you are watching) that was released in like 1997.
Thanks! Not sure about Dune. But it's true. It's a pulp fiction with some Arthurian legends mixed with an ounce of Oz.
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I believe George Lucas said it in an interview. In any case; desert planet, spice, big earth worms? Sounds a bit familiar.
@@TazorNissen You're probably right. I also remember some artists having worked on the original project previously worked as graphic designers in the Jodorowsky's Dune project. It was a small world back in the days!
Anikan "Now this is STAR WARS"
The orignial order is always better than chronological. Often it is the suspense of NOT knowing something that happened before - and is explained in a prequel later - that makes the movie worth watching.
I honestly don't even know why there is a discussion for the watch order for any series (of films).
And the films look good, because they have been remastered, and visual effects have been added. The originals have been forbidden to stream/watch by the creator himself.
Yep, anybody suggesting otherwise should locked up as they're clearly a danger to both themselves and non-crazy people.
I have watched reactors do Machete Order (4,5,1,2,3,6). The revised last moments of Return of the Jedi can be VERY impactful when the viewer recognizes Anakin (you know when).
Great reaction guys. Really appreciate you including the most important parts of the movie where a lot of reactors leave some them out. A lot of people get confused with what happened to Ben, but not you guys. You understood it; he's one with the Force. Look forward to the next one.
So first of all Tris & Sam, welcome to the Star Wars family, your embarking on an incredable journey!! .. but dont worry, we’ll all be with you 😉
I am SUPER excited to go down this REACTION road with you guys. It's SO rare to find couples who haven't seen it. Now imagine seeing it when you were like a kid! Spaceships, lightsabers, aliens! Welcome to the FAM!
As others stated this is not the original release from 1995 and back. This is the CGI remastered with the addition of a bunch of new scenes fully done in CGI. Sadly you cant buy the original cut anymore without these scenes as the story goes that George Lucas after doing this, destroyed the original masters so the original cut cant be purchased anymore. I had an original VHS set from the 1990s before they added all the extra scenes in but they were destroyed in a flood. Tried to get replacements and all you can get is this CGI remastered.
Still how ever even the old pre CGI remaster with the added scenes and added people/creatures, it still stands up very well on its own.
Star Wars lore IS very deep. Not just the movies - there are a bunch of novels and several video games that all have in-canon storylines.
The Jaba scene was not in the original release in 1977. Also Han Solo defiantly shot first in the bar scene.
Guys, I just loved watching this with you. Your commentary was so authentic, curious and engaged. Can't wait to watch the rest with you.
I was 9and 1/2 years old when Star Wars came out in 1977. I watched it with my parents at the good old Drive-In Movie Theater in a very small country town. It has changed my life.
I was the perfect age (13) when this movie came out (1977). It was a limited release at first so you had to wait in line for two hours just to get in. It was the coolest thing I had ever seen at the time. That same summer Ralph Bahski's animated movie "Wizards" came out too. As well as Steven Spielberg's "close encounters of the third kind".
I was 8. Remember how EVERY freaking TV show after that had to have a cute robot? Or pew pew lasers? We couldn't get enough. Battlestar Gallactica and Buck Rogers were some of the ones that didn't suck, lol. But all the variety shows and stuff all had to be on the bandwagon. PIGS... IN... SPACE!!!!!!
It was a limited release because everyone thought it would be another 2001 A Space Bore, and theaters didn't want it.
"I like that they're getting right into it." That’s why Lucas started at Episode IV, so the story would hit the ground running. In literary terms, it's called in media res. Great storytelling technique! Welcome to the Rebellion!
The Star Wars came out when I was 10 years old. I cannot emphasize enough how crazy impact Star Wars had Star Wars mania was a real thing. It was on TV. It was in the radio. It was in the comics it was in the magazines. It was on everything people will be standing around the queue going around the whole block. Totally insane. This kind of culture phenomena is something you will never experience again in the modern world due to the advent of the internet.
Despite it being talked about everywhere, you still went to the cinema, totally blind to what is going to be occurring.
On the face of it, Star Wars is just a simple fairytale, however, we never saw special effects like this ever. George Lucas not only reinvented the Science Fiction movie and the whole genre but also the whole concept of modern CGI and special effects. This is the granddaddy of them all.
It’s rekindled and interest in sci-fi and made Studios invest in films like alien, terminator and Star Trek to just a few .
PIGS... IN... SPACE!!!! Wednesdays was Battlestar Gallactica. They recycled like half a dozen PEW PEW clips over and over due to budget, but we couldn't get enough. All these things came after Star Wars. All we knew before that was cheesy Star Trek phasers.
The scroll is a tip of the hat to the 1930ies and 40ies Saturday afternoon serials that were shown in movie theaters. Before each episode, the audience was reminded of what happened in last week's episode with a sequence of past scenes and a written explanation.
Chronologically, the next one is Star Wars Holiday Special, 1978. No spoiler!👍
You have to be "medicated" with a certain weed to enjoy the Holiday Special. Not saying it as an insult. But nobody can deny it. LOL.
Happy life day!
@@daveb947 You're right! But if you're fond of Boba Fett, it's the original "Métal hurlant"'-like first appearance.
It should be a rule for all reactors to watch this thing. The immediate cultural impact of Star Wars was the TV industry dumping a LOT of BAD stuff onto the airwaves. Every show for the next couple years had a cute robot in it. Variety shows included god-awful space spoofs. Note: Disco also happened during those years.
@@daveb947 Obijuana weed?
The reason droids aren't allowed in the cantina, is because the bartender/owner have great issues with them stemming from The Clone Wars where battle droids were used to kill people. You'll see a sample of it in Episode II and III plus the The Clone Wars series.
As to why the first movie is episode IV, the episode number was added to the movie titles years after the first 3 were released. Much like the additional special effects. The original title was just Star Wars.
Incorrect. The episode IV was added during a re-release of "Star Wars" right before episode V "The Empire Strikes Back" was released.
You two are in for the treat of your lives. I envy you seeing this for the first time.
Star Wars ruined my life! I was living in a small town far away from the brightest corner of the galaxy. Expected to find a menial job and provide for the family. After I saw the film I dared to dream of becoming an artist. Dropped out of college and moved to Canada. I was lost and struggling for quite a while. Found menial jobs so I can pursue an art career. 47 years later I am still struggling as an artist. With several book covers on history and science fiction in my resume. An author for an academic book on Samurai Heraldry. One of George Lucas’s artists calling out my first name in a convention hall one of my fondest memory. Thanks a lot Star Wars! 😜
I relate to this so much more than I expected. The "Making Of" special features on the Revenge of the Sith DVD almost single-handedly made me want to get into the film industry, and led me down a path toward a sort of "Digital Media" degree, which was merely the first domino of many in the zany ride that would ultimately be my adult life.
While in college I made friends with a neighbor in a Music/Recording Arts program, he taught me how to use some software to make music, which turned out to be my real passion. I spent years traveling the US living in my van, making music, and going to clubs and music festivals for inspiration, where I hoped to hear or play my own music someday. I never did but dreams and ambitions are good to have....gave me something to live for.
But yeah, life as a struggling artist is real....but I wouldn't trade it all for the world. ❤
Star Wars had the same effect on me. I dreamed for years of a career in filmmaking. Eventually I went to film school but due to family obligations I never pursued it. Now decades later I’m free of those obligations and free to pursue my dream. But now I don’t want to conquer the world I just want to make a few good films I can be proud of.
what are some of your books? I'd like to check them out.
@@spunx44 A George Lucas interview about Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, led me to his film ‘RAN’. I became obsessed with illustrating the samurai army on the battlefield. 40 years ago I bought all the books of the most prolific author in Samurai history. With no definitive references on Samurai Heraldry, I shared my research and illustrations on line and the feedback and help from around the world was incredible. Google ’Samurai Heraldry Illustrations’, to see WIP pages for several books. Some of my other book covers are mentioned. The Flag Heritage Foundation invited to write a chapter on the origin, history and evolution of Samurai Heraldry for their book ‘Japanese Heraldry And Heraldic Flags. I included 10 pages of illustrations. Two years ago ‘that prolific author’ contacted me! I ran out of the house and freaked out my neighbors when I yelled, “YEAH!!!!” His two latest books has my bookcover art!!! ‘Hojo: Samurai Warlords 1487-1590’ and ‘Elephants and Gunpowder: Southeast Asian Warfare 1380-1700’. Thank you, George Lucas.
@@spunx44A George Lucas interview 40 years ago led me to Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s films. I became obsessed with illustrating the samurai army. I shared my research and illustrations on line. The feedback and help from around the world was incredible. Google ’Samurai Heraldry Illustrations’, to see WIP pages for several books. Some of my other book covers are mentioned. The Flag Heritage Foundation invited me to write a chapter on the history of Samurai Heraldry for their book ‘Japanese Heraldry And Heraldic Flags. I included 10 pages of illustrations. Two years ago the most prolific author on Samurai history contacted me! I ran out of the house and freaked out my neighbors when I yelled, “YEAH!!!!” His two latest books has my bookcover art!!! ‘Hojo: Samurai Warlords 1487-1590’ and ‘Elephants and Gunpowder: Southeast Asian Warfare 1380-1700’. Thank you, George Lucas.
I watched this with my neighbors when we were kids. My neighbors dad took us all to the outdoor theater in his old (new at the time) Chevy passenger van. It was so much fun...those were the days. Can you imagine, one day those of us who saw this movie when it was released will all be gone :(....we're a dying brotherhood/sisterhood.
WOOHOO 🍿📺
The original premiere did not include the Episode IV subtitle. That was added later once Lucas decided to make it a trilogy and came up with a rough sketch for episodes 1-3.
The movie borrows a lot from classics. The trench run particular borrows from the WW2 movie The Dam Busters. Fun fact: The trench wasn’t planned originally. The Death Star model wasn’t supposed to have a trench. But the model maker screwed up, and the outer layer shrunk when it dried. Instead of redoing the work, he convinced Lucas to make it a part of the plot.
Prior to this movie, Harrison Ford gave up on his acting career and went back to carpentry. He became friends with a customer of his named George Lucas, so when Lucas needed someone to play a rogue smuggler, he asked Ford
Sam's humor and dry delivery are top notch😀 Could totally see her pranking Tristan with the Chewbacca impressions🤣
Great chemistry, level of commentary, and editing. This was delightful.
brooo wtf, im so damn hyped for this.
At the tender age of 5 I watched the 1997 remasters and I loved the movies so much that my dad’s boss gave us his boxed set of VCR tapes. And then 2 years later episode 1 came out. I’ve been a Star wars fan 26 years now.
I love R2-D2 and I never thought I would like a Star Wars droid as much...
But K-2S0 was bae.
I like BD-1 from the games Jedi: Fallen Order and Jedi: Survivor.
It's hard for me to comprehend that there's a generation now that has not seen Star Wars.
Release order is always the way to go with any franchise.
100%
"The Force - It has a light side and a dark side, at it binds the universe together."
"Oh, you mean it's a name-brand for duct tape."
They added some CGI (like the "dinosaur") to the movie on the 20th anniversary in 1997.
Dewback
@@Pinkielover racist
@@PinkieloverThat's a Ronto (the Star Wars version of a Brontosaurus). The Dewbacks are the lizard creatures the Sandtroopers ride around on.
And Jabba
Fun Fact: My brothers wife’s brother used to live next door to the actor that played the character who had his arm sliced off in the Mos Eisley cantina bar fight scene.
The first REAL Star Wars movie . . .
As a little personal joke, when the trash compactor stops and Luke reads out the number of the door to open, he said his actual home phone number at the time.
Original theatre title 1977 Star Wars, renamed for the theatrical re-release in 1981 with the title "Episode IV" and "A New Hope" added to the crawl.
The breathing you can hear is Darth Vader's life support system on his chest.
Dune, the novel was release in 1965, the movie adaptation was released years later in 1984.
The Dune novels are far superior to any movie adaptation. None of the movies have ever come close to capturing the essence of Dune.
Please react to Taboo season 1. With Tom Hardy. It’s unbelievably good and a terrifying experience.
What a great reaction video !! Great fun to watch😊you watched an enhanced edition of Star Wars, with a few CGI effects and more creatures added later, but even without that, in 1977, people were blown away by this film. It was a game-changer in movie making. We had to wait 3 years for the next movie... so how lucky are we today!
Can't wait to see your next reaction, thanks for joining the fandom !
You haven't seen Star Wars? Listen, the only people who haven't seen Star Wars are the characters IN Star Wars, and that's because they LIVED the Star Wars, man
Unfortunately, you aren't easily able to,see,the original special effects. While Lucas was planning episodes 1-3, he decided to first update the effects of episodes 4-6. Sometimes a visual improvement, sometimes less so. So much of the effects were from the mid-90s. There is no official way to see the original films, without the added CG characters and animals and other effects.
I have old VHS tapes with the original not "enhanced" versions.
@ Yeah, but VHS is in SD, and presumably is cropped. (If letterboxed, the detail is terrible, losing a huge amount of the screen information.)
Stated by reactors during the trash compactor scene: "Get up on high ground or something." Obi-Wan would be very proud (as they will learn why later in their Star Wars journey).
The movie was a labor of love. George Lucas gave himself a daunting task in what he wanted to bring to life onscreen. One challenge after another to get it completed and on the screen in theaters. But, thankfully, he plowed through every hurdle and got it done. I was 6 when this came out. What a movie to have as my first real memory of going to the movies!
Thanks for your reaction. Looking forward to following your Star Wars journey.
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Unpopular opinion, but I believe the best watch order is neither release order nor chronological order. To fully appreciate the six as a whole in my eyes, one should watch 4 and 5 first. Once the Father of All Twists comes into play, you dial the clock back to watch 1,2 and 3 in that order. This gives you a chance to see how the current problem became as bad as it is and leaves you in suspense, wanting to know what happens after the dramatic events of 5. At long last, you roll into episode 6, fully caught up and relieved to see the original protagonists again. You go into it and finally see the culmination of the original saga and the tragic prequels all at once in one climactic finish.
That is how I believe Star Wars ought to be watched.
I do support the machete order, but even more important... watch Rogue I at some point. In fact, you could watch it right now.
Agreed. I've always wanted to see someone react in that order!
"They're putting R2 on the ship?" R2's a mechanic; that's his job. All the short droids of his style were built to repair spacecrafts in flight.