Australian Reacts to Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) | First Time Watching
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How did they have the special effects? They INVENTED THEM. With some help from 2001: A Space Odyssey nine years earlier, but they truly invented fast-paced outer-space action.
That’s honestly so cool 😩😩
@@icedquokka The Special Edition that you watched has some upgraded effects redone by Lucas in the 1990s, especially the Death Star battle at the end. But the effects in the original version looked and still looks stellar; I still remember watching this one in around 1980 when I was 7 and it changed my life. Lucas created a workshop that specialized in practical and visual effects called ILM, the first of its kind I think in the modern era. We also have STAR WARS to thank for movie theaters starting to invest in better sound systems and surround sound. It remains one of the top five most important and industry changing films ever made.
@@icedquokka As someone who experienced Star Wars as a child in 1977 it really was before Star Wars and after Star Wars. From a special effects stand point it was like having a horse and buggy and then the next day someone showed up with a Boeing 747 jet. A major jump in cinema.
What also gets lost to history and a major jump was the movie Rocky. Rocky was released in December of 1976 and Star Wars May of 1977. Rocky the steady cam was invented. This why you get the iconic stair run and you feel you are in the boxing match at the end. Before cameras were so large they had to be mounted on a dolly system, vehicle, etc.....
sure but also before even getting far into this theres like a 99.9% chance this is the special edition so yea theres late 90s cgi as well because god forbid we have an official theatrical cut and very few people see the fan made remasters
@@thoso1973I remember seeing Midway when it came out in 1976 in Sensuround. It was like actually being in battle. Fun times for sure.
Describing Vader as both a lapdog and the muscle is surprisingly accurate.
I’m glad you think so 🤣🤣
He is a lapdog but he was mainly on the Death Star to make sure the moffs stay in their lines and not let Tarkin go against the Emperor
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Spot on I’d say
4:42
"Is He American?"
The actor providing Darth Vader's voice is American actor James Earl Jones, but the actor in the suit is British actor David Prowse
James Earl Jones doesn't have an "American" accent, he has a James Earl Jones accent! His voice is unique and iconic.
Jones is an accomplished theater actor - probably using that old Middle Atlantic accent like Cary Grant
What a cool guy!
David Prowse died a few years ago to Covid. Ironic that Darth Vader died of raspatory decease.
@@llanitedave Yeah, saying that James Earl Jones has an American accent is like saying David Attenborough has a British accent, or Dr. Evil has a Belgian accent.
To clarify the ages of the actors and their characters in the story because this is not said in the films, Luke and Leia are 19 and Han is 32. When filming, Mark Hamill (Luke) was 25, Carrie Fisher (Leia) was 20, and Harrison Ford (Han) was 34. Good reaction, looking forward to seeing the next one.
Omg what??? I thought Leia was older! She seems more mature and sure of herself than Luke 🤔 also crazy that Luke’s actor is 25 hahaha he looks like a baby 🤣
@@icedquokka For Leia this can be explained in two ways. On the one hand it was the desire of George Lucas (the director) to have a young actress who had a certain maturity, he wanted her to appear of royal blood. On the other hand, her haircut also makes her more mature; if you watch interviews from 1977, Carrie Fisher is still younger than in the film. For Luke, I agree that Mark Hamill looks younger than he actually is. But you will see that this will change for the sequel because of a serious car accident a few months after the release of the first film and which caused facial paralysis.
@@icedquokka Carrie was a Hollywood princess, been performing since she was a baby, that could be part of it
Funny, because their characters are a bit younger than the actors. Luke Skywalker and Leia were 19 in A New Hope and Han Solo was 30.
You could say that we will follow her career with great interest!
Referring to Vader as an independent government contractor just sent me LOL
He gives those vibes right 🤣🤣
I mean, in a way, you're not wrong but [spoilers]@@icedquokka
@@icedquokkaVader is a henchman outside the military structure of which Tarkin was the commander. His position is clarified in Empire.
@@icedquokka He was probably further up the chain, but HR kept demoting him for choking people.
Lol
James Earl Jones has his own accent classification.
What a legend 🤣
and it is called 'Legend' 😇
He had an extreme stutter as a child and developed selective mutism. Then through a lot of work with speaking coaches he got one of the most iconic voices known to movies.
Lmao. Factual
Kenneth George Baker (24 August 1934 - 13 August 2016) was an English actor, comedian and musician. He portrayed the character R2-D2 in the Star Wars--- Height 1.12 m (3 ft 8 in)
Ooooo! What a cool dude!
@@icedquokkayeah he was! Check him out in the film, "Time Bandits" (playing Fidget) to see him unshrouded. He's utterly charming.
He was the little one
@@SergioArellano-yd7ik They were all played by midgets you have to be more specific than that 🤔
just teasing you mate yes Time Bandits is an awesome film along with this great reaction from this lovely Aussie .
CHEERS .
This movie was rereleased in 1997 for the 20th Anniversary presentation, which includes a CGI enhancement. Without the CGI, the movie was still very spectacular on the big screen. The original visual and sound effects were unlike anything presented before, and this enhanced version of the movie is a mix of original visual effects and CGI.
Would love to see the original one day!
@@icedquokkasearch online for ‘Star Wars project 4K77’. You can download it, unfortunately I can not remember where as it was a few years back. You should check it out if you can, it looks great and is about 99% the original version without all the crappy cgi added in from the special edition, it even has Han Solo shooting first like it was meant to be.
@@icedquokka You can't buy it or stream it, but it is possible to find a 🏴☠version that takes pieces from many different sources and edits them together, George Lucas has his own ideas about ownership of art and film.
@LaBlueStateGirl I'm really bad at piracy.
@@icedquokka there is a despecialized version put together by fans using various sources , its not commercially available but can be found if you look.
James Earl Jones, who is the voice of Darth Vadar, speaks with a transatlantic accent.
It is indeed an old-fashioned and an accent that was consciously learned primarily by actors and the upper classes.
Yeah I’ve heard that accent before in old movies! Very much british american kinda 🤣 I was so surprised hahaha I expected him to sound more villainy kinda
@icedquokka yeah it is indeed somewhere in between the English and American accent.
You have a good ear. Many people just don't notice.
Winchester from the MASH tv show had the most notable transatlantic accent I ever heard.
Yeah, it was mostly used by actors starting in the early 20th century. Apparently they figured it would sound a bit more universal to customers in English-speaking countries. I saw a very old clip of one actor reciting a Transatlantic accent line, then when the director said "cut, the actor said something in his normal accent. It was quite a difference.
Carrie Fisher also spoke with a mild British Accent in A New Hope for various reasons. She was studying at London Central School of Speech and Drama, was surrounded by British actors and was insecure and nervous. The mix of Brits and Americans led to the inconsistent pronunciation of “Han”, Alderaan and other words throughout the series.
So, Lucas could not get the timing right for the space battles, until somebody suggested they look at old WW II war movies. The whole trench attack was inspired by 3 movies - Squadron 633, Mosquito Squadron (that used EVERY aerial combat footage from Squadron 633), and the Dam Busters. In fact there are videos of the Dam Busters attack run using the Star Wars dialog/radio chatter or running the two movies side by side to show how similar they are.
Omg that’s so cool! The scene definitely gives war movie vibes now that you say that!
@@icedquokka Lucas' then wife Marcia was a film editor. It is thanks to her that the Death Star battle came together in the end, because Lucas just couldn't figure out how to build the sequence towards the climax. So, he did what every sensible man would do; ask the wife how to get it done right. 😃 The three editors of STAR WARS were rightly awarded the Academy Award in 1978, which means that Marcia has something that the Academy never awarded to George Lucas in competition: an Oscar. He did receive an Irving G. Thalberg Award in the 1990s though.
I thought he was inspired by "Battle of Britain" too.
@@thoso1973Marcia got awards for other films, and a part of the reason for the re-editing of the older movies is to get his wifes name off the credits.
Dave Prowse also never got paid because he was signed up for a percentage of the "profit", and apparently SW Ep IV never made a "profit".
@@CheepchipsableMarcia is still credited as editor. Just because Lucas added and removed selected scenes, that doesn't obliterate Marcia Lucas' work on the film. She got residuals from the profits up until 1993 I think when they expired.
Prowse was salaried for his work on RotJ, but as you say he never got a share of the residuals which reflects badly on Lucas.
18:24
"Why Does He Have A Breathing Machine?"
That's explained in the prequels
Oooo Im curious
There are no prequels
@@nac5901Oh, clam up.
@nac5901 Oh, you're one of those people, huh??
@@karlsmith2570 Yeah if he'd said "There are no sequels" I'd be on board with it but "There are no prequels" is just... ugh.
I could be wrong, but I believe the hierarchy for the Empire is Grand Moff Tarkin (the old man at 19 minutes) is the commander of all the Empire’s military forces, while Darth Vader is the Emperor’s representative, so they are both equally important.
Ooooo ok! It was kind of confusing because it seemed like he was telling darth vader what to do and stuff! Makes more sense they would be on the same level tho I get you
@@icedquokka It's not important to the plot in this movie. Like on earth the military takes orders from the leader, in this case the Emperor (who isn't seen) and Vader is his right hand man, who acts as a military advisor.
@@icedquokka Tarkin is a Grand Moff, and the first Grand Moff to ever exist. A Moff is a subsector governor, responsible for multiple star systems, while a Grand Moff either serves as the governor for an entire sector or as a sort of "minister without portfolio," who needed an extremely high rank for whatever their job was. In the case of Tarkin, he was in charge of the Imperial Special Projects organization, which did things like build the Death Star. He needed to outrank most people he met in order to get his job done. Vader is...well, really nobody, technically...but yes, he served as a direct representative of the Emperor. At the time the film takes place, there are only three people with this level of authority directly reporting to the Emperor, each representing something different. Tarkin who represents the Emperor's political power, Grand Admiral Thrawn, who represents the Emperor's military power, and Darth Vader, who represents the Emperor's spiritual power. (That's the lore explanation....the meta explanation is that at the time the film was made, there was Tarkin, the bad guy who commanded the evil fortress place, and Darth Vader, his henchman....this was supposed to be a one-off film that Lucas only made to fulfill contractual obligations.)
A grand moff was more of a regional commander. Like the commander of the various US military regions. Ex. general Schwarzkopf was commander of United States Central Command during desert storm. Regional commander and governor rolled into one
@@ThaCouchpotato Yeah, I get that, but Star Wars has never had a good grasp on military ranks or even clear ideas on political hierarchies and its all over the place. These terms are very...fluid...within the films and background lore. Plus, a "sector" of the galaxy could be literally anything two or more subsectors in size, which means that a Grand Moff might be governing anything from a few tens of star systems, a few hundred thousand systems, or a few million, who knows? In a standard galaxy, with billions of systems, I feel like you could make any number count as "regional."
I've been a Star Wars fan since I was 5, in 1980. There is so much I could tell you, but I won't spoil anything. While seeing your reaction I was thinking - "if only I could see them all again for the first time". To experience the joy and wonder of being introduced to these enchanting stories anew, what a great journey, you have in front of you. My honest thanks, from a fellow Australian.
Awww I love my Aussies 🫶🤍 thank you for sharing your experience! It sounds incredible 🥹
Me too! I was 5 in 1980 also! In Canada, they showed Star Wars on TV in 1980 just before Empire Strikes Back was released, so I got to see those 2 then (Empire was the first one I saw in the movies) and a friend drew his comic of Revenge of the Jedi (as the 3rd movie was originally going to be called) in 1983 before the movie was out. I digitised it and still have it-it was creative, but he was around 9 or 10, so keep that in mind
As far as the lightsaber fight, if it seemed slow to you, it’s because the lightsabers were made of a fragile almost glass-like material that would shatter anytime the actors applied the slightest force when fighting. There’s video of them snapping in half during filming.
Omg it’s glass ??? What!! I thought it was cgi hahaha that’s wild
No not glass, a fragile material like glass. CGI as we know it had not been invented yet so the visual effects specialist had to get really creative . After you’ve watched Empire and Return of the Jedi, lookup Empire of Dreams. It’s a Documentary on TH-cam about the making of the original trilogy.
It's also because the fight action was based on the Japanese style Kendo. At the time it was totally fine - but people have different expectations nowadays.
Not only fragile, but coated to be highly reflective, specially lighted on set, and touched up cell by cell in SFX editing.
@@adaddinsaneIt was the first fight, so worked within that time. The next two movies began to raise the bar, with the prequels even more. There's always the fan made video that creates an earlier meeting between the two before the hanger fight this is far more dynamic. Plus after Rogue One my head canon is that Vader had already had a long day with the damn rebels, and so much more explains his temper with what Princess Leia tells him in the beginning.
It should be noted that episodes 4-6 had CGI effects added in the 90's, as well as some other changes.
The original versions of the movies unfortunatly are not officially available.
Ooooo really??? That’s wild!! So there’s no way to watch the originals without cgi? Maybe if you know someone or something
I think VHS copies of the original cuts are quite valuable, I'm sure collectors will pay a small fortune for them. But if there's a digital copy of the original, maybe it's quite common from *certain sources*
@@icedquokkaThere are two primary fan efforts to restore theatrical versions. George Lucas has refused to have theatrical versions released. One fan restoration is by Harmy called the despecialized version. The other is purely a scan from prints sent to theaters. I heavily recommend you watch the original versions, as Lucas altered some effects and moments… literally superimposing sometimes. Please don’t let that hinder you watching the rest of the original trilogy for us. The two fan projects are available online. i suggest looking for harmy despecialized editions and downloading them. That way, you don’t have to risk much hazard in seeing spoilers during research.
Trust us the movie already looked great... But Geroge did the 1997 Special Editions. OF NOTE: Empire Strikes Back is still 99.9% original movie with most CGI added as windows in Cloud City.
There was a DVD boxed set released in 2006 that included the original unaltered version as well as the specialized edition. From what I've read the quality isn't great because of the source used to create the DVDs
_A long time ago, in a movie theater about 50 miles away ..._
*THERE WAS NO EPISODE TITLE*
The studio didn't think this film would make much money. Lucas was crossing his fingers that it didn't bomb. For all he knew, Lucas was making one standalone movie. "Episode IV" and "A New Hope" were added in later releases, to be in line with the numbering adopted with Episode V.
I first saw _Star Wars_ in 1977, at the Indian Hills Theater in Omaha, Nebraska, US (a city of about 1M). The Indian Hills was one of the last remaining Cinerama theaters in existence (it's long gone, now).
Cinerama was an experimental widescreen format seen in the 1950s and 1960s. It had an extremely curved screen, such that films shot in Cinerama used _three cameras_ and _three projectors_ : one for the center of the screen and one for each side. Everything had to be constantly synchronized so that the film looked normal onscreen.
If you see Cinerama films on DVD/Bluray/streaming today, it often looks distorted on the left and right. This is caused by converting a curved film to a flat screen.
So there I was at the Indian Hills at the tender age of 12 -- the film's precise target demographic. The Indian Hills seated 810 patrons: 662 on the main floor and 148 in the balcony. It was completely packed, as was every screening of _Star Wars_ in every theater in the world, until the film left theaters.
I'd gotten to the theater rather late, forcing me to sit in the center seat of row one.
This turned out to be fantastically good bad luck.
Today, the center of row one is a terrible seat due to parallax distortion. In a theater the size of the Indian Hills, that distortion didn't exist because the screen was far enough away from the seats. However, it was close enough so that it filled my field of view from top to bottom.
The screen was large and curved enough so that it filled my field of view from periphery to periphery.
_Star Wars_ was shot in CinemaScope, a more popular widescreen format that we still see today. While not technically the same as Cinerama, it still lent itself well to that screen.
I watched _Star Wars_ with the film filling my entire field of view from top-to-bottom and side-to-side. I didn't have to turn my head to watch it unless I wanted to, and I usually didn't.
It was an astonishingly immersive experience. Not even IMAX comes close.
Add to that the massive audience reaction that shouldn't be overlooked. It was a shared experience that I've only seen at _Infinity War_ and _Endgame_ on their opening nights, when there were a lot of fans present.
This audience reaction happened at every screening, in every theater, everywhere in the world, until _Star Wars_ left the screens.
Imagine 810 people all cheering, clapping, jumping to their feet, and occasionally crying all at once. The shared experience was amazing, as it fed on itself. No one held back, it just kept growing and growing until the destruction of the Death Star -- which prompted massive roaring from the audience.
The film itself was like nothing put to the screen at that time. While cinematically based on old _Flash Gordon_ and _Buck Rogers_ movie serials of the 1930s, this was a big-budget, big-screen version like nothing anyone had ever seen before.
It completely changed science fiction on the movie screen. Until that time, you occasionally got a good science fiction film, but they tended to be years apart. After _Star Wars_ , there were multiple good science fiction movies every year, a trend that continues to this very day.
There would be no modern _Star Trek_ without _Star Wars_ . _Star Wars_ was such a massive hit for 20th Century-Fox that Paramount quickly looked around and said, "Aha! We have this _Star Trek_ thing that Trekkies are always saying they want more of. Let's make it into a movie!"
Thus _Star Trek - The Motion Picture_ was released in 1979. Without that, there would be no _Star Trek_ today.
_Star Wars_ changed filmmaking from a business perspective. The film grabbed audiences like nothing seen in the entire history of cinema. While _Jaws_ was technically the first summer blockbuster, _Star Wars_ cemented summer as the time to release action-heavy, family-friendly films.
The special effects of _Star Wars_ were utterly innovative, and the tools created by the likes of John Dykstra became commonplace in films that don't even have special effects.
Almost all special effects in the Original Trilogy were achieved either in-camera, with optical effects, miniatures, extremely detailed paintings, or a combination of those techniques. CGI that allows an entire film to be shot on a green screen wasn't even a glimmer in anyone's eye.
In 1977, the most advanced computers were the size of an SUV and didn't have the computing power of your phone. CGI as a primary filmmaking technique wasn't popularized until _Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow_ in 2004. By then, computing power/square centimeter had skyrocketed exponentially.
The special effects spawned Industrial Light and Magic, a company created and owned by George Lucas. ILM is still in existence today, constantly innovating with new technologies to create visual effects for many, many films and TV series. From it's inception, ILM has been considered the gold standard of VFX companies.
In short, this film was nothing like what had come before. It changed _everything about cinema_ .
And I got to see it with an audience of 810, on a screen so immersive that I got nauseous during the Trench Run.
That sounds so incredible omg 🥹 I’m so glad you got to live such a fantastic experience!
@icedquokka just one of many perks of being an early Gen-Xer. I occasionally pity the people whose only movie-going experience will be that of massive cineplexes and relatively small screening rooms.
When I was growing up, theaters that seated 1,000 were commonplace. The building was all _one theater_ , which I think is why so many movies today tend to suck. When I was young, theaters had to be careful to book movies they thought would actually put butts in the seats. If there were no butts, the theater didn't make money. If there were too many flops, the theater went out of business.
Theaters actually competed with each other for the consumer's butt.
Today's business model is multiple screening rooms per cineplex. Cineplexes book five to ten movies at a time, so if some of them suck, the ones that are good will keep the cineplex in the green. If a movie is particularly popular, they just allocate more screens to it.
It also helps sell concessions, which is where a lot of cineplexes make money.
Movies seen in theaters are about to become a thing of the past. They just can't compete with streaming, inexpensive 60" monitors, and dirt cheap "concessions" at home.
Thank you for this wonderful write-up that brought back so many memories! I got to see it when I was 13 and because my family happened to be spending the Summer of '77 moving across country very slowly via moterhome, we ended up finally seeing Star Wars for the first time randomly in an old theater in Salina, Kansas. We caught an afternoon show and ended up sitting in the front row of the balcony. My 9 year old sister sat next to me and I did my big sisterly duty of quietly whispering the opening scroll to her because some of the words looked a little bit large for her. My parents were so proud! We both spent a lot of the move on our knees up against the rail watching in awe with absolutely nothing between us and the screen!
When we arrived in Tucson (our new home) we were playground famous because the movie wasn't even opening there for almost 3 more weeks! That's something huge that Star Wars changed, movie distribution! There are so many people that claim to have seen Star Wars on opening day and I really wonder if what they really mean is opening day in their city. A lot of people don't know that it opened in only 32 theaters in the end of May of '77.Tucsoon didn't even get the movie until July! If I remember right, after Star Wars the studios realized that using a staggard distribution model just wasn't going to work anymore!
There is something else that I vaguely remember happening between Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back but it might have been between movies V and VI. Didn't George Lucas hold out for big changes in movie sound systems and say that you could only get the next movie if you upgraded your sound system?
@@SYLTales Us late Boomers were kids too! I was only 13 and I always thought that I was the perfect age to watch all three movies as they came out, and as my sister was 4 years younger, I still got to play with her action figures!
@LaBlueStateGirl we were right next to each other. Officially, the Boomers ended in 1964 and Gen-X started in 1965. I'm a January, 1965 model, so I barely squeeked in.
However, as an official member of _The Gen-X Council_ , I'm happy to give you an honorary mention. Our childhoods must have been very, very similar. I.e. "Go outside and play," followed by the door being closed behind us. 😁
Your comment wondering about how they made the ships wasn't stupid in the least bit. Even today, I've noticed a lot of young reactors surprised by how realistic ships looked in movies from the 70's. They looked real because they WERE. As slick as today's CGI is, the models in the older movies were the result of incredibly talented modelmakers painstakingly detailing bigger sections with surface detail. If you ever get to "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" or "Alien," you'll see more well-crafted models.
From even earlier, in the 60's, "2001: A Space Odyssey" is astounding in its realistic depiction of ships and space stations. Incredibly, the Discovery One ship model was 54 feet (16 meters) long, which accounted for how realistic it looked. It was nothing short of stunning.
I wish more movies did the practical effects and models, it looks so good 😭 I’ll add close encounters and alien and space odessy to my watch list thank you!
@@icedquokkaYes all the dodgy CGI you thought was from 1977 was from the 90s re-release just before the prequels hit cinemas. You can find Harmy's Despecialized Edition (with the 90s CGI removed) of the original Trilogy online though I'm guessing you've already reacted to all three by now.
Watch the 1940s serials. Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers REALLY had primitive effects-the ships were firecracker rockets on string!
For really primitive effects, watch the 1940s serials. Both Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon used firecracker rockets on string for the ships!
The lightsaber duel between Darth Vader and Obi-Wan is definitely awkward. They get considerably better in future movies.
Cant wait!
It wasn't so much "awkward" as it was done in the style Kurosawa which is more akin to fencing. If you watch closely there are very subtle parry moves which portrays the skills of a Master.
Besides, considering Alec's age and how fragile the Lightsabers were, I think the duel was very well done.
I guess it all depends on what you define as "better". The OT duals are still the best of them all, because of the meaning and emotions of the duals.
This is the first time I hear a reactor (or anybody else, in truth) to say Han Solo saved accidentally the life to Darth Vader spinning him out of the Death Star blast. That is a smart and interesting point. Thank you. BTW, subscribed.
Omg really!! I’m surprised how my brain works sometimes 🤣 thank you for subscribing, appreciate you 🫶🤍
True, but one thing is that Han didn't "save" Vader. His pilot crashed into him-Han didn't shoot him down. And if Han didn't show up, Vader would have shot Luke down.
they used compositing film elements together to make it look like they were in space and they used practical fx which means real things like models that were actually filmed in camera and they also added animation for the laser blasts in post production
Oooo cool! Such fantastic direction and production, I’m so impressed 😍
@@icedquokka Seeing pictures of the big painted models, in production photos, really gives a sense of how much work went into it. Crazy stuff.
They invented a camera rig that would deliver the exact same motion over and over so that they could bring dynamic action to all the model effects. It was the standard until CGI took over. This movie invented modern special effects.
1. IRL Sir Alec Guinness didn't want to play Obi Wan, He thought the entire premise was silly, but his wife talked him into taking it. The rest is history.
2. This episode of the saga was released first because Lucas felt it was the easiest one to make and provide an outstanding product with the technology they had at the time.
3. This movie came out way before CGI was available. The scene with Jabba the Hutt, the large critters outside the cantina and the ones being ridden by the stormtroopers are CGI and was put in later with the 25 years anniversary edition.
4. The BEST way to watch these are in the order they were released. Keep in mind that we had to wait years between episodes. there wasn't any internet or memes like. "No, I am your father" as spoilers.
5. The scene in the detention center where Han Solo ends up saying "how are you" is a goof on Harrison Ford's part. He forgot his lines. 🤣
6. In an appearance on Johnny Carson when this came Carrie Fisher said that Chewie is a 300-year-old Wookie.
7. Obi Wan didn't die. He went into the force.
8. The smirk and shrug Chewy gives Luke after he scares the little black droid is 🤣
9. Welcome aboard. You're in for a hell of a ride.
Omg thank you for this!! 🫶🤍
1. Extra Alec Guinness didn't get payed for playing Obi Wan instead he took a percentage of the profits as his fee, no one thought it would make any money.
2. The Original was just called Star Wars, Lucas may have wanted to make more that why the scene of Darth Vader flying off, but if this moving flopped as everything thought it was going to do. Eseentallywhen it was made it was a one off film.
5. Harrison Ford when into that scene intentionally not knowing his lines, he thought it would it much more realistic ad libbing his lines.
10. The movie was 'saved' in the edit by George Lucas' wife at the time, Marcia Lucas. This movie could have been as cheesy as the christmas special if it wasn't for Marcia.
11. Geroge Lucas in the contract kept the merchandising rights which payed for the the production of Episode 5 and the rest is history.
The way I remember Guinness telling the story is, he started reading the script prejudiced because it was a rather cliche genre, but to his surprise, he kept turning the page to see what happened next. Once he finished, he had no solid reason to say no to it.
Guinness negotiated a 2% take on the box office sales, and made Millions!
@@stue2298 Yes, your version of #5 is what I came here to say!
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"It's Like A Dinosaur Lizard Or Something "
In the Star Wars universe, that creature is called a Dewback
Cool 😊
The CGI Dewbacks looked like bad CGI because they were added in, in the late '90s for the rerelease. Same with the "worm" guy aka Jabba the Hutt. The animals that looked better with the big tusks that Sandpeople were riding looked so good because they were real. They were actual elephants in costume.
@@LaBlueStateGirl yeah, those mounts that sandpeople rode were called Banthas
My friends and I saw this as kids in the theater. We all wanted to be like Han Solo instead of Luke Skywalker. He had attitude and his best friend was Chewbacca.
Agreeed!! Han Solo is way cooler 🤣
I was torn, as I thought Han was cool, I loved the Falcon, yet I also thought having force powers was cool. I ended up pretending to be both.
@@icedquokka George screwed that up by having him shoot second.
If you haven't seen the Indiana Jones films, you'll love seeing Harrison Ford in his other iconic role.
I’m adding Indiana Jones to my watch list!! 😍😍
The saber fight between Obi-Wan and Vader was literally an old man who hadnt seriously fought against anyone for over a decade, and crippled man who is probably 75% machine.
@@williamshelton4318In any case, in the prequels, you get to see them and others in their prime, and it does go a lot faster than here.
Not you calling vader crippled 🤣🤣 poor guy
@@icedquokkaPaul gave the good in-universe explanation, which will become evident as you watch the rest of the series. Back when they made this, the props were fragile and kept breaking, so the fight had to be tame. Needless to say, they improved props and special effects so the lightsaber fights were way better in subsequent movies.
And as the franchise continued to grow, age and mechanical limitations had no effect on duels.
@@mikejankowski6321 Lucas also described the lightsaber as supposed to weigh like 30 pounds. It irritated all the actors because they wanted to do flashier sword fights & Lucas wouldn’t let them.
To quote Sir Alec Guiness’ character of Ben “Obi-Wan” Kenobi:
“You’ve taken your first step into a larger world.”
You have to remember that when Star Wars: A New Hope came out in ‘77, that a) no one had ever attempted to do this kind of storytelling on an epic scale, and b) the original effects for the film were rather advanced for its time. When the film received an upgrade for its 20th anniversary; and in nearly all forms of physical media (DVD, Blu-Ray, 4K UHD), the effects received an upgrade to show a more detailed look to all the ships and battle scenes, and even creating a CGI version of Jabba the Hutt for a scene that was originally deleted in 1977, but was placed back in for its release; known as the “Special Edition”.
Such a fantastic movie 😍
How did they make the lightsaber glow? Hint: IT'S NOT A GREEN SCREEN! Green screens were invented when computers were made. New Hope came out in 1977. So how did they make a lightsaber, well they put a metal rod in the graflex handle (the hilt) and they put retroreflective tape over it. And they put a dremel in the handle to make the lightsaber spin so it looks like plasma. And BOOM a lightsaber!
(sorry if this is long guys)
The original trilogy was my childhood and will always be the best movies ever to me.
That’s amazing! 😍
The Bantha (the animal the Sandpeople ride) actually is a dressed up elephant. And for the floating effect of the Hovercraft they used mirrors on the side which would reflect the ground. All practical effects back then.
I hope the elephant was ok 🤣😭
Watching Star Wars in 1977 was almost overwhelming. The opening scene when you first saw the rebel ship was impressive but then how massive the Imperial Destroyer was just took my breath away! The special effects by ILM (Industrial Light & Magic) were so impressive, like nothing I'd ever seen before, so realistic! I must have gone back 3 or 4 times with different friends, I couldn't get enough. And then we had to wait 3 years before The Empire Strikes Back! It was fun, interesting and entertaining to watch your reaction. Looking forward to more.
That’s incredible !! It took my breath away as well honestly! Such a beautiful movie 😍 thank you! 🫶🤍
Kenny Baker was in R2D2.
Wait there was an actual person in there??? Controlling from the inside??
@@icedquokka Kenny had been a stage performer, but this was his big break. Any 1980s movie with little people actors, there's a good chance Kenny is in it.
When his third leg is extended, it's a remote-controlled unit. On two legs, if he's moving at all Kenny's in there.
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The actor, David Prowse that played Vader was English but his voice were not intimidating so George Lucas redubbed all his lines with an American, a young James Earl Jones, also known as "my"(Kions) grandfather Mufasa, the Lion King.
Ooo! I feel kinda bad for the original English dude 🤣
@@icedquokkaHe remained pretty salty about it for the rest of his life.
David had what is called a West Country Accent such as how Hobbits talk in the Lord of the Rings Movies. Another famous person with a West Country Accent is Comedian Bill Bailey.
“Don' ac’ so s’rprised, yer ‘ighness. Y’ain’t on no mercy mission dis time, by gum.”
@@Gwill22567 He was salty because they ripped him off by claiming SW never made a profit so they didn't have to pay him under the contract.
Alec Guinness was 62 at the time. Perhaps one of the reasons the saber duel looks a bit clunky.
Bless him 🫶
My favorite movie as a kid. Still enjoy it quite a bit, although the next one is my all time favorite star wars film.
Reaction for empire strikes back will be up next Friday 😊🫶
You asked a question about R2-D2 yes, there was an actor inside the little trashcan robot. The actors name was Kenny Baker. I was lucky enough to have met the man once he sadly died in 2016.
So awesome!! But Sad he died 😭
I remember vividly as a small boy the marquee in Mexico City in 1977 said "Las Guerras de Las Galaxias." That's was the translation in Spanish and while I was too young to be allowed to see it - my family recalls everyone was talking about it.
Wow 😍 I hope you saw it soon after!!
Funny translation. All this happens “solamente en una galaxia, no galaxias.”
No one ever notices that all obi wan is doing is waiting, so that the others can get to the ship. He then sacrifices his life because he knows he can help Luke more that way. Han was higher to take them, he did that. Then he did extra helping to free the princess. Have you ever asked your Uber driver to help you break someone out of prison.
Yeah I noticed he looked at luke and paused and let himself get hit! LMAO next time I’m in prision I’m gonna get my Uber drive to break me out
Any CGI or Technical Special Effects were So Limited at the time. Director George Lucas had much Highers Hopes but could only do So Much with what he was able to Accomplish. That is Why the Fight Between Obi-Wan and Darth Vader seems so simple. Lucas Film ended up Creating their own Special Effects Company from Scratch later Called Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). Lo-Key MVP R2-D2!
That’s honestly so awesome!! He did a great job with what he had! 😍
That is the reason why "Star Wars" (without "A new hope") was groundbreaking and breathtaking at that time.
This was the first time, spaceflight didn't look cheesy but dynamic. And as others state, Lucas's crew had to invent the effects, because they never had been done before.
Omg that’s perfect! It was not cheesy at all, it was so captivating 😍
I saw it in the theater when I was 9. One must understand that the effects seen here are an amalgam of the original work and the modern upgrades. When it was made, there was no CGI. Lucas has to create Industrial Light and Magic from scratch to do the film. Please watch 'the making of ~' and you'll get an idea of how the movie magic was possible... and may the Force be with you.
I’ll watch it! Thank you so much!
James Earl Jones who voiced Darth Vader was a stutterer in his youth so he had to have a vocal coach teach him how to deal with it.
Oooo interesting! His theatrical voice sounds fantastic
That was a great reaction. You were very observant. Looking forward to your remaining Star Wars reactions. 🙂 Although you are seeing an enhanced version of the movie, it can't be overstated how groundbreaking the special effects were for this movie. It was far ahead of what others had done to that point.
Omg thank you! I really enjoyed it 😊 yes I did hear about it being enhanced! Would love to watch the proper original one day I think 😍🫶🤍
The amount of people in the last 5 years that have not seen Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter is absolutely astounding. You've taken your first steps into a larger world.
BTW CGI did not exist in 1977, the “doggy” CGI you were referring to was added in the 1990’s
Omg 🤣🤣🤣🤣
CGI did exist by 1977. It was used in the original.
@@jm329 yeah, but it was just the wireframe stuff during the debriefing scene, that's closer to being a powerpoint than cgi
@@crawlingmind Just tired of people saying CGI didn’t exist until the 90s when it was first used in 1958.
Including the scene where Han is talking to Jabba The Hutt at the hanger where his ship's docked
I saw this when it was released (when it was still just called "Star Wars"). It was a lot of fun.
There wasn'r really affordable useful CGI at the time - the effects are done with models, puppets and things like directly modifying the film to get the light saber effect.
George Lucas made changes to the films after, however.
Interesting point: James Earl Jones provides the voice of Darth Vader, but the man in the suit was actually a British actor and bodybuilder named David Prowse.
The people on the Death Star were just part of the Empire's forces.
Must have been an incredible experience! Such a great movie 🫶🤍
Same here - there was nothing like it before
Yeap! George found Davids voice as goofy sounding and didn’t command respect so he changed the voice lmao if you go back and listen to the original with David prowse it is kinda goofy😂
The Voice Recording for both C-3PO and Darth Vader is called AUDIO DUB RECORDING, (ADR) a Post production process, that both actors did for their characters :D
Awesome!
Some of the effects look like CGI because they are. This version of the film is based on the Special Editions released in 1995, which began George Lucas' obsession with going back and adding/changing things with CG in new releases. Stuff like the dewbacks and animals for example are CG additions.
Cant believe he went back and changed them 😭 surely that shouldn’t be allowed hahah
While a lot of the changes are very pedantic or silly (re-adding that scene with Jabba where Han calls him a "wonderful human being" which was filmed before they had decided Jabba wouldn't be a human, or CGI'ing a rock in front of R2 when he's hiding from the Sand People, a few of them actually are pretty decent changes. The ending ceremony for example wasn't meant to be viewed in high definition and most all of the "soldiers" standing in the dimly lit areas were actually cardboard cutouts in the original. The special editions CGI'd in actual actors and that was a pretty positive change. There was also restored dialog, enhanced original special effects, and a couple of characters get more screen time. Overall Lucas is kind of a weirdo haha but honestly he made some okay changes along with many of the stranger ones.@@icedquokka
Ah, I forgot maybe the most "controversial" change! In the Mos Eisley cantina, Han shoots first in the original release. In the rereleased, Lucas wanted to make him more "heroic" (which is silly since he's a literal smuggler) so he CGI'd in a weird neck jerk along with Greedo firing first, then Han. "Han Shot First" is a slogan among the fans even today haha.@@icedquokka
I'm a sheltered kid too. I've never left my planet either.
Honestly same, what are we doing with our lives 😩
This movie was released in 1977. George Lucas invented more than 300 special effects for it. It was the foundation of his special effects studio, Industrial Light and Magic. For many of the scenes there was an actor named Kenny Baker inside R2-D2.
What a legend!
I don't know that George invented them, he paid others to do it.
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"Natalie Portman Was In One.Of The Movies"
Actually, she's in all 3 of the movies in the prequel trilogy
Cant wait to watch them 😊
You should search for and react to: "Star Wars Scene 38 reimagined".
This video accurately represents what we, as eight year old kids, had bouncing around in our imaginations all summer after we saw Star Wars multiple times.
Interestingly, you are commenting on the awkward fight scene, which is scene 38, right at the 38:00 mark in your video!
It contains some mild spoilers, but I think we're well past that point now.
45 years as a star wars fan and ive just realized that the empire would never have been defeated if the first R2 unit didn't have a bad motivator.
That is the main "problem" that many newcomers to the franchise have. There are SOO many memes and spoiler clips over thevyears. They are all over the interwebs, TV parodies and posts everywhere else you can think of, that reference something from this expansive material source, that it becomes confusing when expecting answers at the start. But be patient, all the beautiful pieces will fall into place as you progress lol! 😆
Yeah I kind of wish I didn’t know about darth Vader being his father before I watched it! But tbh that’s the extent of my Star Wars knowledge so hopefully the upcoming films I’ll be more surprised 😊
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To answer your question about the ships and all, they were models, and they'd use quite a few practical effects techniques
That’s so cool omg 😩
2:48 most of it is practical effects. George Lucas invented a lot of today’s movie magic back then. He made Pixar cause he needed a certain kind of effect that wasn’t available at the time. He then sold off most of it to Apple’s Steve Jobs so he could I believe have money for another movie. 4:11 the issue you’re having is they made prequels to this trilogy in 1999 and into the early 2000s so the actors playing the parents are younger. Once you’re done with the original trilogy you should look at the documentary they have on Disney+. 19:04 Vader is the Emperor’s right hand/apprentice and Tarkin is the left hand and more of the leader of the military. 38:25 two old guys fighting. They don’t have the agility.
Ooo I didn’t know there was a documentary! I’ll have a look!
This film invented "special effects" as you know them today. The bantha animals that the sand people were riding are elephants wearing costumes. Seriously. The land speeder had wheels, but the hung a mirror from the side that the camera was facing. The mirror hid the wheels, and reflected the surrounding desert, making it look like you could see the desert under the vehicle, like it was hovering. There is a Little Person named Kenny Baker inside R2-D2 controlling it. The weird animation effects (the lizard mounts the stormtroopers were riding in the desert) the bad animal animation in Mos Eisley are all early CGI effects added in the 90s. When Luke and Leia swing across the deactivated bridge thing, the platform they are standing on is about 3 feet off the ground, which has been covered in pillows for safety sake. Many of the epic backgrounds used are actually paintings with appropriate sized hole cut into them. The film the background, then film the action separately. Then they fit the two pieces of film together, so that the action in the scene fits in the hole in the painting, The ships are all models that were built by purchasing airplane model kits from the hobby store, along with model kits for race cars and stuff. They would then dump it out on a table and use the pieces to make a Star Wars ships or vehicle. Most of the explosions and impacts on the surface of the Death Star are made by blowing up firecrackers or other small explosives on the Death Star model while they filmed it, etc.
So cool honestly
George Lucas basically invented special effects
What a legend 🥳
The guy in the suit is British and the voice of Darth Vader is American, they found Davids voice (the brit who physically plays him) to be goofy and non threatening so they hired James Earl Jones to voice vader.
Not him getting cut because he’s too goofy 🤣🤣
@@icedquokka lmao yeah, you can actually hear david prowses voices in the original cuts.
They didn't pay him either.
He plays the disabled guys home assistant in A Clockwork Orange
The concept of Star Wars was risky at the time George Lucas was going to ask the studio for money. So he asked a friend who read it for advice. They suggested filming the heart of the story and if it failed he would know not to tell the rest of the saga. That’s why out of nine parts he started with number four. He actually didn’t want to do the prequels but he couldn’t ignore fans for decades who wanted them.
He remastered the parts 4-6 in the late 90’s with technology he didn’t have at the time they were originally filmed.
Oh wow! That’s actually so cool, I thought it was so strange that it started with 4 but that makes a lot of sense!
@@icedquokka If you continue your journey through Star Wars there are behind the scenes documentaries for each movie that show how they made the costumes, masks and how they had to invent ways to to bring George’s vision to life. Something to watch after.
Have fun. 😊
It's amazing how well this film holds up after almost 50 years.
On behalf of all of us, Welcome to the Star Wars family, .. you have great journey ahead of you … but don’t worry, .. we’ll all be with you.
Thank you so much! 🫶🤍
18:47 The old man who told Vader to release the other man is Grand Moff Tarkin. Tarkin is second in command, with Vader being third.
Ooo that makes sense! Thank you! 🫶🤍
In the context of the Death Star, more or less. The Death Star was a battlestation built by the Galactic Empire. It wasn't the "headquarters" of the Empire, more like an equivalent of a really big and powerful warship.That said, the Empire's leader is - of course - the Emperor, there are no spoilers in knowing that. As for the station, Grand Moff Tarkin was in command of Death Star which is why Vader deferred to his decisions while aboard. As to what exactly Vader's authority in the larger scale is, I think it's best to wait for the next episodes.
@@TarisSinclairSuccinct and well stated. I commented elsewhere that Vader is a henchman outside the military structure of which Tarkin is commanding. It works for this stage of exposure.
The original special effects were ALL done with actual, physical models and motion controlled cameras! NO CGI in 1977! BUT some CGI was edited into the movie when it was re-released in the 1997. And if you look, every laser blast is followed by a "Flash Frame" one or two actual movie film frames of just a white screen to give the audience an allusion of a real blast. Lucas pioneered that.
That’s awesome!!
@@icedquokkaOh and I am old enough to have watched the Movie in the theater when it came out in 1977! And been involved with props, special effects and movie making since then too.
Star Wars is the story of a little robot named R2-D2 who goes on adventures and fights the evil Empire with the help of Luke, Han, C3-PO, Chewie and the Princes.
R2D2 main character forever 😍
Great reaction:) Excited to see the next ones ❤
Thank you so much! 🫶🤍
Obi Wan became one with the Force.
Hope the force is taking care of him 🙏🏼
World record broken for how many times the word cute was usedin this reaction video!
Luke is basically an old old kid, just looking for his first taste of the real world.
Nice, glad to watch the journey.
Thank you for watching! Appreciate it 🫶🤍
Lucas created a seperate company called Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) while making Star Wars and had them focus on creating special effects for the movie. ILM makes effects for many movies, and were industry leaders in practical effects and then later, computer effects for many years (and in some ways, still are leaders in tech).
That’s so cool! They have come so far!
Star Wars received seven Oscars, most of them technical, such as sound effects, visuals and editing, in addition to John Williams' iconic soundtrack. Although the vast majority of special effects are practical, using miniatures and computer-controlled camera movements - way ahead of its time -, a few scenes were updated with CGI in the Special Edition (the giant lizards, "dinosaurs" and Jabba), the rest were done with puppets and makeup. In my opinion, only the lightsaber duel and some hairstyles were dated.
Omg I never knew it won Oscar’s! That’s awesome!
@51:24 Honestly I am surprised more people don't call this point out. That instant "fast friends" whiplash sets unrealistic expectations IRL 😅
Literally 😭😭 I take like 6 months so make a proper friend hahaha and they did it in like 2 days!
Fun fact. It was Ben that murdered Luke's family so he would come with him and join the evil rebels!
LMAO
Stop that!😂
Just wait until she sees the princesses love scene with chewie!🤨😶😁
Actually "Luke, i am your father is not in ANY movie " 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah I realised that 🤣🤣🤣 I got the most important line wrong, bloody classic 🤣
Tarkin (basically): "Thanks for your information, but I'm gonna destroy your planet anyway."
Omg literally 🤣🤣
Horror movie legend Peter Cushing
I was 5 years-old when Star Wars was released, and I've been a fan ever since. Your reaction was a joy to watch and I'm looking forward to your journey through the movies.
Aww thank you so much!! 🥹🫶🤍
The actor in the Darth Vader suit is English (David Prowse), but the voice is that of James Earl Jones. There's a clip somewhere of the scene with his original voice, and it's hilarious.
Omg I need to watch that hahaha
Yeah David Prowse had a British Cornish accent and it's so non-threatening - but he was tall and a body-builder.@@icedquokka
That was James Earl Jones that did the voice of Darth Vader.
What a cool guy!
I remember being in junior high school when this came out. After my dad took me to see Star Wars for the first time, I spent about an hour talking a mile a minute to my mom, telling her about everything she had missed, even down to the trench run and how it felt literally like riding a roller coaster on the big screen. My mom, a Nebraska girly farm girl, was politely interested but never got it. My classmate Nancy, though, was as nuts for the movie as I was, and we immediately began collecting and trading stickers that you could get from the local ice cream truck. We both convinced our parents to let us see it at least three more times in the theater. Those were great times.
What you are watching is the re-edited version from 1997 where they added some cgi stuff like the Dewback Lizards the stormtroopers ride and some other things. They also changed when Han Solo shoots Greedo under the table. Originally Han was the only one to shoot, but Lucas felt in hindsight that it made him look bad so he added in the Greedo shot. A lot of us fans were upset about that so you'll sometimes see people wearing shirts that say "Han Shot First" which in a way is wrong because he was the only one to shoot at all.
I do want to add, that the majority of the cool "real" looking stuff is from the original they did an amazing job with practical effects. I don't want to make it sound like the original wasn't an amazing sci-fi work.
Love the practical effects so much 🫶🤍
i was 13 Years old in 1977 when I saw Star Wars in the Movie Theatre. The Special effects were ahead of its time. The movie was originally just called Star Wars because George Lucas did not know if he would be allowed to make more Star Wars Movies, It was renumbered Episode IV when Episode V The Empire Strikes Back was released in 1980. George Lucas Started with the first movie of his Middle Trilogy.
Oh wow it must have been an incredible experience!! 😍 that’s some awesome history
I was hoping people would react to the "de-specialized" edition without the later changes and CGI stuff, but I guess its a bit tricky to get it.
yes that would be awesome, but I think it's true, hard to do. Maybe soon it will be more easily available
I would love to do that but apparently it’s really hard to find and costs a lot of money 😭
I saw a recent reaction where greedo didn't shoot first. I was pleasantly surprised to see that.
might have been the first DVD release, that is the best one imo apart from harmy's despetialize@@SergioArellano-yd7ik
There was virtually no CGI in the original movie. If you want to see the state of CGI at the time, look at the scene near the end where the rebel general is explaining the plan to destroy the Death Star using a wire frame schematic. That's pretty much what CGI was limited to at the time this movie was made. But the version of the movie you are watching was altered later by inserting some CGI elements. This is mostly in things like establishing shots, the dinosaur-like creatures when the stormtroopers are looking for the droids is an example. The scene with Han talking to Jabba was cut from the original film because they didn't have a way to do a creature like that convincingly, it was filmed with Jabba as a man but Lucas didn't like that. So when they remastered it after CGI was available Lucas took the cut footage of the scene and used CGI to put Jabba (as eventually seen in The Return of the Jedi) in. Personally, I think this was a mistake - the part where Han walks on Jabba was necessary because in the original scene he walked around behind Jabba in a way that wasn't really possible with the new look of the character, but it seems really strange that he just steps on Jabba and Jabba doesn't even complain. More importantly, the scene serves no purpose given the scene with Guido (the bounty hunter that Han shoots in the bar). I'm sure that scene would have been different if Lucas had been able to film the Jabba scene the way he wanted it back in the day, but as it is the two scenes cover exactly the same information and even have many identical lines. The Jabba scene now serves no purpose beyond giving you an early glimpse of Jabba that isn't really needed.
The effects in the original Star Wars trilogy were ground breaking, but not because of the use of CGI. Lucas created a special effects company, Industrial Light and Magic, to develop the effects for the Star Wars films and it became the gold standard for movie effects for decades afterwards. But Lucas felt like he'd pretty much reached the limits of practical effects with the original trilogy - at least part of the reason there was such a gap between the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy is that Lucas saw that CGI was coming but didn't feel like it was good enough yet to do what he wanted with the next set of films. Industrial Light and Magic was a significant player in the development of CGI, though the graphics group was later sold off and became Pixar. As good as the original Star Wars movies are, for me the pinnacle of practical effects was not these movies but rather The Lord of the Rings. CGI was used in those films and they probably couldn't have been made without it, but it wasn't good enough yet (and was still too expensive and slow) to be used where there was another option so most of the effects are still practical.
I actually liked that scene of them explaining the plan 🤣 even tho the cgi was bit off hahahah
As a crotchety old man who thinks everything is gone to hell, it's fun to watch a much younger person appreciating practical effects. I'm not saying all CGI is crap. There are some very talented people working in CGI. But generally speaking, CGI is about doing more cheaper and faster, not doing it better.
I agree with you! I much prefer special effects and cgi to make something beautiful rather than for a quick end product!
We will follow your Star Wars reactions, with great interest
Thank you so much 🫶🤍
I see what you did there...
This is NOT THE ORIGINAL FILM. This is a 1997 re-release with added special effects and scenes. It also changes the Cantina scene. In the original Han shoots Guido without warning, instead of in self-defense. It's really a lie to call this a 1977 film but everyone does it.
I’m going to try find the original so I can check it out!
GOOD LUCK. it's not easy.
If you watch Mallrats then you'll hear the line "which is an even dumber idea than greedo shooting first" how did he miss at point blank range? That clumsy CGI Dodge Han Solo did.
A few years ago a family with couple of girls, one 6 the other 11 moved into my building. Their father was killed by a truck the week they moved in so I fostered the kids for 2 years 'till they moved away. Mostly the 6 year old needed me so we got close. When they moved away I told the kid she shouldn't pay any attention to Star Wars until she watched them in this order, I wrore it down for her. 4, 1, 2, 4 again, 5, 3, 6. You can't watch 3 before you watch 5 because 3 will spoil 5. You can't watch 1, and 2 after you watch 5 because 5 will spoil 1, and 2. After 5, 3 is a good explanation for 5. Watching 4 again before 5 catches you up the the characters before 5. Then 3 closes out that part of the after 5, and 6 closes out that part.
I miss the kid. Saw them a few times after they moved out but they haven't stayed in touch. That's the way it goes. I wonder if the kid took my advice.
I’m watching it in release order 😊
Most of the original special effects are in the film but SOME of them have been updated over the years with newer technologies. Realistic CGI wasn’t really a thing until the mid-90s. Visual effects before that were achieved with models, miniature sets, matte paintings on glass, stop-motion photography, and animatronics.
The movie was not expected to be a big success so the budget was really small. The budget for the next film was much bigger so it has had fewer alterations made to it over the years.
So crazy it had such a small budget but still looked fantastic!
The original special effects were all done with models and mattes. Star Wars was the first movie to use computers to sync camera movements, so that multiple spaceships and background elements all look like they're part of the same shot. When the original trilogy was re-released in the 90s, they replaced most of the original special effects with CGI.
That’s so awesome 😩
@@flexydex8754 Have you ever seen the original version of Star Wars? Because it sounds like you haven't.
They did not replace the original special effects, they added some CGI in the background and the background mapping and added an extra Scene with Han and Jabba the Hutt
They didn't replace any effects, they augmented a few shots and added a few scenes (much to the detriment of the films). Ironically the original effects have stood up much better than the "Special Editions".
The original 3 are Epic movies. I saw this in the theater I was a kid.
Must have been such a cool experience 😍
The original 3 are the only 3, and the CGI rerelease ruined them.
@@nac5901 indeed
@@icedquokka I was blown away by it . lucky got to tag along with my older brother and friends to go see it .
@@icedquokka same with U2 in 1987. With my brother That was amazing also.
The lightsaber fight was awkward for a couple of reasons. #1 was the lightsaber effects was a new technique and they kept it simple. #2 was the fact that Alec Guiness was fairly old like his character, so Obiwan wasn't going to be doing back flips and somersaults in any case.
Would be hilarious seeing him do a back flip tho 🤣
That "horror movie scream" that Obi-Wan makes around 14:00 is the roar of a krayt dragon, the apex predator on Tatooine which is also the owner of the massive snake-like skeleton buried in the dunes near where the droids' escape pod lands at the beginning. The Sandpeople recognize this sound, which is why they flee so quickly.
Great reaction, looking forward to more!
Thank you! 🫶🤍
The duel between Vader and Kenobi was, in reality, because they used two men to play Vader. The usual actor, David Prowse! was tall, to convey Vader's menace, but untrained and hampered by the costume. The sword-fight stunt coordinator also wore the costume whenever possible but he had trouble seeing. Guiness (Kenobi) was not all that agile. In universe, though,, neither man enjoys a sparring partner to kerp their dueling skills up to par. Kenobi is also not a young man, and has been a desert hermit for many years. He is unlikely to be in fighting trim. Vader has the suit, which is not built for flexibility, and with a breathing machine, he probably doesn't get a lot of cardio work in, so he isn't in peak fighting shape either.
Ooo I get you! Makes sense!
2:58 they used models and blue screen! The later they re-released it with CGI, Also I think A New Hope was 1977!
6:48 Kenny Baker was inside the little droid, and Antony Daniels in the gold one
9:30 ish - Luke is 19 here
22:31 The force has a strong influence on the weak minded :P the stormies are human
25:40 aw you think Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones) is cute? :D
34:15 Leia is 19 :Han is about 32
40:00 ish Obi-Wan became one with the force, so yeah he died
44:58 he didnt even get it in, he just exploded next to the hole /sus
I agree that the friendships were a little too fast but I'm glad you liked the movie! Marry me? lol
Omg I didn’t Han Solo was in Indiana Jones hahahah I’ll have to watch it
@@icedquokkaHan is Indy!
I’ve been grinning from ear to ear. Love seeing new Star Wars fans. I signed up for your Star Wars journey. Great reaction!
Awww thank you!! Appreciate you! 🫶🤍
Fun Fact: Do you remember in the desert, the line where C-3PO says, 'You'll be malfunctioning in a day."? Well, R2-D2 did, almost every day they used the remote-controlled rolling droid. Close-ups had a little person named Kenny Baker seated inside.
After 40 years, I am still upset that Chewbacca didn't get a Medal at the end of the movie!
Omg true!! Chewie and R2D2 and c3po all deserved a medal in my opinion 😭
27:08 you're watching the remastered version of this (don't worry everyone watches this one the original is very hard to find), this scene and all the prior scenes where the "dinosaurs" were in this was added later, there was no such thing as CGI in 1977, but that's the biggest changes Lucas made to the movie, that and made it crisper looking, and in the original Han shot Greedo first in very cold blooded fashion which made Han Solo super gangsta back in the day, Lucas changed this to make Han look better and not so cold handed but us old schoolers lover the cold hearted Han just murdering Greedo.
I don’t know if I would prefer cold hearted Han or honorable Han 🤣
"The Force can have a strong influence on the week minded."
This is why you should be month minded.
LMAOOOO