First Time Watching STAR WARS A NEW HOPE!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Somehow.. in all my years, I've never seen Star Wars. Yes, I KNOW. I'm sorry.
So today, I'm FINALLY taking the plunge and watching all the Star Wars movies!
I'm excited to see what all the hype is about and I'm happy I get to share the experience with you all!! I hope you enjoy!
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New Hope is where a lot of the FX used today were first invented so for us, back then, this was absolutely unbelievable. Oh, and that opening with the 2 ships - in the theater you watch the first ship slowly cross the screen and it seemed huge - then the second ship starts and you see how small the first one is by comparison. It was really something.
For the record, there was no CGI in 1977. However, this is the re-released version from 1997, where CGI was added in to update the movie. But remember, in tghe original... HAN SHOT FIRST!
@@jaredbezes7806 "I saw rogue one" and doesn't react to anything related to rogue one in this film...
Lucass destroyed a classic by adding cgi
correction: there was some CGI in this movie. At the rebel briefing before the attack on the death star the animation of the death star plans was computer generated. It shows nicely what the level of CGI actually was in 1977 =)
@@JohnDoe-rz4dy fair point!
@@emeraldscorpio I noticed that too. Nothing. He needs to go back and watch that one again.
The opening shot with the two ships was not CGI, they were models. What amusing about the models was that the "smaller ship" was the larger model of the two by far, this is because it was made with extra detail as it was going to be the Millennium Falcon before they changed their minds, but still wanted to use the model.
In fact apart from a few scenes adapted in 1997 and later releases, most notably the sandtroopers riding dewbacks, arriving in Mos Eisley and the final battle, it was all visual effects, models, matte paintings etc ... The only "CGI" in the original release were the ones on screens like the death star plans and targeting computers.
Also, the laser blasts weren't cgi either but drawn onto each frame.
To be clear, the added footage of Jabba *was* CGI, and some of the cantina aliens were replaced, as well.
I have the feeling that nowadays, every kind of special effects in a movie is called 'CGI' by people.
@@Skye_Writer Most of the added scenes were CGI, but it was almost unheard of in 1977.
I'm so glad that you recognized that they were two suns in that scene where Luke is reflecting on feeling stuck on the desert planet Tatooine. I have lost count of how many reaction videos call them moons. Tatooine orbits a binary star. Well done. :)
Completely agree, probably my favourite shot of the movie and easily the best piece of music 👌🏼
Now that's what we call a timeless classic ;)
This movie takes place just after rogue one so I don't know if you remember its plot but it was about stealing the death star's plans.
And about stormtroopers, you just saw them hitting and killing a bunch of rebels right at the beginning of the movie lol. The trope of them always missing is kind off because it's mainly because of plot armor for the main characters and it was always an excuse for the bad guys not harming protagonists back in action/adventure flicks for 60's, 70's and 80's
Yeah, it's been quite a while since I watched Rogue One so I didn't really tie the two together until a couple of you guys mentioned but now I remember that it was an earlier story about the Rebellion!
SW came out in "77. I saw it in the theatre then and it blew me away. The movie was so ahead of its time with groundbreaking special effects.
Dude. Princess Leia figured it out. "They let us go. It's the only explanation for the ease of our escape." The stormtroopers were all ORDERED TO MISS. Even when Han encounters a bunch of troopers in the hallway, none of them shoot, they all just inexplicably turn around and run away from him because they were all ordered not to shoot him.
The Rogue One movie is a direct prequel to Episode IV, wherein the plans for the Death Star are stolen and sent off to Princess Leia. So cool to see that after all these years.
Saw it in the theater in 1977. It was beyind amazing. Movies were in a doldrum back then. This story alone was better than most things out at the time. Add in the practical effects and it blew everyone away.
I was 11 when this came out and it blew our minds. There was nothing like it before. I remember how impressed I was with the look and feel of the sets and ships. Everything looked grungy and like it had been used hard. Unless it was new, like the Death Star. Until then, sets in science fiction movies were always pristine looking.
Kind of surprised that you didn't pick up on this, but one of the most impressive aspects of the various bits of tech, architecture, and costumes in this film (especially compared to what was the norm in the '60s) is the fact that, except for C3P0, it _wasn't_ futuristic-looking. It was beat-up, greasy, grimy, and obviously commonplace to the characters. Other movies had their Spandex-suited heroes flying ships whose every surface gleamed; _this_ film made it look *real* .
I'd wager it's because everyone else started aping that idea after Star Wars, so it's no longer unusual to see.
I'm glad you enjoyed ANDOR! That's been my favorite, thus far (as it was really the only thing aimed at adults). There are things to love in all STAR WARS, especially if you're in touch with your inner child... and I hope you'll react to them all. Keep watching with an open heart and open mind. ✴ #TwoReacts #StarWars #ANewHope
If you really want to be impressed with unexpected high-quality visual effects in an old movie, try Forbidden Planet, made in 1956. It not only looks great, but it was the very first feature-length film with an all-electronic musical soundtrack.
I saw this for the first time in 1977, when it first came out. I was six years old. My Mom and Dad took us to the Drive In Theatre and parked the car in the front row. They laid a blanket on the ground, put two removable speakers near our heads, and we watched the entire thing unfold on that massive drive in screen. It was like the battles were happening in space right above our heads. I was hooked for life.
Two things about the storm-troopers. The shape of the eye-holes in the helmets makes it very hard for the trooper to see things, which can help explain their accuracy, and the reason the troopers were so easily fooled by C3PO is that they understandably expect droids to be completely honest at all times.
Very few people seem to catch the reference about the wamp-rats on Tatooine. Luke used to bullseye them, and they're not MUCH bigger than 2 meters... That's a rat that's more that SIX FEET long, or across!
You did watch the 1997 re-release of "A New Hope", which did have seriously updated effects.
I like how in the '70s, we really had no concept of a digital file... They couldn't conceive of the Death Star plans as being anything but a precious physical item, not simply information that could be copied, transmitted, even broadcast to a million worlds!
Today, we would explain it away by saying the data file was protected by military-grade encryption. And then Leia's line about the plans, _"...my father will know how to retrieve them."_ would clearly mean that he would have the passcodes, or a suitably skilled hacker.
But instead, we got a single physical copy, stuck inside a stubborn droid like a defective floppy! (oh, shit, now I have to explain what the hell a floppy is! lol)
Definitely check out some of the behind the scenes stuff on the original fx. The miniature work was amazing for it's time, and invented a lot of techniques still used today.
I was eleven years old when this came out. The movie trailers that had come out had blown our minds and we were crazy with anticipation. I went to the drive-in with my whole family to watch it. It probably would have been an even more spectacular experience in a good indoor theater, but I would have had to wait another week or two before Star Wars played there and I just couldn't wait. I had many of the action figures, an X-Wing as well as Darth Vader's Tie Fighter, Luke's Land-Speeder, and even a cheap knock-off version of a lightsaber. Seeing what those go for on the collectors market now makes me grimace to think I just passed the toys on to my brother who passed them on to a neighbor and so forth. At least a lot of kids had the chance to enact their own Star Wars adventures with those toys.
No CGI in the original, just models and computerized camera movements with green screen, and matte paintings for backgrounds. AND fantastic sets! The fabulous Millennium Falcon was a FULL-SCALE model!
It was released 1977. There was no CGI, these are practical effects. They re-released it much later with updated special effects. The creature the stormtrooper is riding at 5:33 was CGI added later for the re-release. There are a number of such additions. The entire scene where Han is talking to Jabba was filmed, but cut from the original release, at that time they had not decided what Jabba looked like, they CGI'd him into the scene when they put it back in for the new release.
C-3PO is a drama queen and remains so throughout the series.
I was 4 years old When Star Wars was released. I don't remember commercials for the movie. I remember the news on TV showing massive lines at the movie theater all because of Star Wars. That kind of peer pressure is compelling to a 4 year old. I didn't want to get left out. Living in rural USA at that time meant a one hour drive to the city where it was playing. The movie was like a reality at that age. It blurred the lines of what was possible, particularly in film making. This film changed my world.
I came from another reactor who refused to let themselves be taken over by the wonder, and that's essential for Star Wars, I'm so glad you're letting yourself enjoy this!
I was 7 when Star Wars came out in May '77 and I still remember being enthralled when I saw it in the theater. Granted I was a kid, and it was amazing through a kid's eyes, but back then everyone knew this movie had changed cinema forever. The subtitle "A New Hope" wasn't added until 1980 when the studio greenlit production of "Empire Strikes Back", so original "Star Wars" as it was called then was retroactively subtitled. Back then there was no CGI, it was all practical effects done with real life miniature models and explosions. The entire trilogy got a CGI makeover update in '97 and was re-released in the theaters that year and they were just as big & popular as they had been 20 years earlier.. The actual original '77 theatrical release pretty much doesn't exist anymore. Many people had the VHS tapes of the original trilogy pre-CGI, but they've all long since degraded and vanished (might be a few out there on eBay still but I'm sure the quality is awful after decades), and Lucas himself made sure the original reels were hunted down and destroyed. That's a story I'll let you dig into on your own, but suffice it to say originally Han shot Greedo who never shot back in the original.
The actor who plays Porkins stars in "Indiana Jones : Raiders of the Lost Ark"
Yes, you can definitely say that it looked great, because Star Wars is known for looking great. I saw it on its first release in 1977 and to say it had an effect would be a massive understatement. I wanted to be a filmmaker myself, and last year I shot my first independent feature...not science fiction, but still filled with effects shots. Star Wars really opened up the bag of tricks for filmmakers, and Lucas doesn't get enough credit for how much he revolutionized film. So much was set in motion by him that led to digital sound and video editing (including Avid), Pixar (yes, THAT Pixar), and even Photoshop, which his effects company ILM wrote to aid in effects on The Abyss.
George Lucas gets tons of credit for what he's done for special effects, and it's still not enough credit, imo.
Congratulations on your first independant feature!
Try being there when it came out in the theaters. It was awe-inspiring. Still is.
If you haven't seen them already you should probably check out "Logan's Run" and "Alien" - Logan's Run came out in 76, Alien came out in 79.
Those would be the two closest comparisons to see just how ahead of its time Star Wars was.
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There is also "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" {1979} and Disney's "The Black Hole" {1979}.
Just for context, the version that you're watching is the 2004 edition that has been updated with extra CGI shots and additions. So a lot of the effects you see are not from the original 1977 version
Remember Obi-Wan said to Darth Vader “If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.” . When Vader strikes him down it's more of a transformation than a physical death. Obi-Wan becomes part of the Force and the Force is everywhere, it surrounds us and binds the Galaxy together. So by becoming part of the Force he is more powerful than he ever could have been in his physical form. Why his body disappeared and why Vader was confused by that will be explained later. Luke is very Force sensitive (as Vader stated "The Force is strong with this one.") so now that Obi-Wan is one with the Force he can communicate with Luke through it - through Luke's connection to the Force is how he hears Obi-Wan's voice.
When this was released in 1977 I was 6 and it's the first film I fully remember seeing in the theater. I don't remember a lot else from when I was 6 but I definitely remember seeing Star Wars. So, yeah, left a huge impression.
The scene that you mentioned CGI on was actually all practical effects, models, animation overlays, etc... (CGI) Computers weren't widely used to create special effects until the 1990s. However, a substantial amount of computer generated imagery was added to this film in the late 90s re-release of the film.
Welcome to this galaxy far far away, enjoy the ride. In 1977 there wasn't any CGI, only the Death Star schematics and the targeting computer were computer graphics, which were cutting edge at the time. Everything else was created either in camera or with analog composting techniques. So anything you're noticing as clearly CGI was added in 1997 for the 20th anniversary "Special Edition". That's the only version available for streaming these days. If you search for the "Despecialized Edition" you'll find the film in its original form. Most fans tend to agree that it's even better without the digital enhancements.
Cant wait to see you go through the rest of the films, first timer reactions are rare for Star Wars
FYI, CGI as we know it did not exist in the 70’s. That opening scene with the Star Destroyer was an actual ship that was build for the movie. There are a couple of cringy scenes that were added in the 90’s mostly the cartoonish dinosaur looking animals in the desert.
I saw this when it first came out and it caused something of a cultural revolution. Suddenly the end credits were just as long as the movie. It received quite a few Oscar nominations including best picture which was most unusual for a science fiction movie. At that time, we had never seen anything like it and this was years before CGI.
I saw this in the theater when it came out, I was only 7 years old but it was like nothing else. Yes, the special effects were considered ahead of the times and new. The only movie that came close to that was a year later when the original Superman with Christopher Reeve came out.
Great reaction! You've taken your first step into a larger world... enjoy!
The animals the stormtroopers were on were CGI added in the 90's they did not use any CGI in the original. Those ships were models.
This movie is what started it all. I was around then and had no idea what this was going to mean to movie going from then on.
Fun Star Wars trivia. The scene with Luke looking at Tatooine's two suns wasn't any sort of special effect. It's a fairly common natural mirage that happens under certain conditions where they filmed the exterior scenes During certain times of the year, it happens roughly one morning in four.
Wow, I never knew that! Ya learn something new every day!
Yeah bro I saw it in 1977 in the movie theater and of course I loved it . I’m jealous that you can marathon watch the trilogy .We had to wait as a kid it seemed like forever till Empire Strikes Back & Return of the Jedi to come out for us . Enjoy they are definitely 3 epic movies
Dude, if you saw Rogue One, this movie starts LITERALLY minutes where Rogue One left off!
I got to see Stars Wars when it came out in 1977 at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood. I was shown in 70mm film and Dolby sound. There had never been anything like. Mind blowing
The only CGI in this movie from the original release in 1977 was the wire frame images showing the missle going into the death star during the briefing before the battle. That was the extent of CGI at that time.
That was drawn cel animation, normal for the time, and what everyone thought 'Computer Screens' would show in the future. It became a reality in the 1980s (for movies), but did exist in the laboratory.
For early film 'CI' (Computer Imaging back then), see 'TRON' by Disney, from the mid-1980s.
Computer Imaging put on film, and a lot of hand-drawn cel animation combined.
Compare with all the 'computer screens' in 2001: A Space Odyssey, made more than ten years earlier, or the first Star Trek movie, both of which had animation films shown by projectors behind screens built into the sets, and synchronised electronically with the frame-rate of the cameras to avoid jittering.
20:35 Protocol droids are common in the Empire so stormtroopers really can't differentiate if its owner is from ally or foe.
So you have seen Episode 1, Rogue One and Andor, Rogue one and Andor are set around about the same time just before the events of Episode 4 A New Hope, SOLO is set just before Andor,
I'm glad you caught the bigs wedge final fantasy reference not many people do
I can see in the side bar that you've already done Episode V, but as you go through Star Wars you'll quickly learn that R2-D2 is the MVP in everything. He's like Sam in Lord of the Rings, always there to support, always there to carry, always saving the day, and always getting not nearly enough credit.
This picks up where "Rogue One" left off, the mission at the end of Rogue One was for the Death Stat plans.
The Trench run on the theatre screen would take your stomach.
I saw the first Star Wars in the theater. Something you might like is the documentary “Light and Magic” where it shows how everything was developed and created. Miniatures, it was all miniatures. 😁
- and cel animation.
It was such incredible fan service at the end of Rogue One watching Princess Leia in her ship jumping to hyperspace to go get Kenobi.
Welcome to the Star Wars galaxy (again). I'm looking forward to watching the journey!
"I saw Rogue One, which was really good!"
*five minutes later... *
"Okay, I think I might kind of know about the Death Star."
First time? Wow, surprises me when somebody says that, I was around 15 when this came out and still love it
this was all practical effects in 1977 - the ships, the explosions, the aliens - and there was nothing like it back then - it's why everyone went crazy for the franchise.
Extra CGI has been added to the version you've watched... (inc. some of the creatures, ships & big explosions) i.e Jabba was added later, the original film had a human actor in his place.
You’ve taken your fourth or fifth step into a larger world
@@jaredbezes7806 you don’t know the guy and your calling him a liar wow your full of yourself aren’t you
Liked and subbed. I love seeing someone go down the Star Wars rabbit hole for the first time. I'd suggest watching everything in release order
This was great watching you see this film for the first time. Great reactions! There is, however, one thing you missed that’s almost impossible to comprehend. This is how George Lucas changed cinema forever: up until Star Wars came out, all movies were shown with mono sound. Every movie theatre had one large speaker behind the screen and that was it. Lucas worked with Dolby to create Dolby stereo sound for motion pictures and he refused to allow Star Wars to be shown in any theatre unless they installed Dolby stereo systems. I was 15 when this movie came out. I’ll never forget sitting there with the previews playing and the sound being normal. Suddenly the screen went black and the Fox intro came up and the Dolby system kicked in and I saw every head turning around looking around the theatre. Something was happening that no one had ever experienced. And then the sounds of the ships were heard to our right before we ever saw the ships, people were turning and looking at the walls, and as the ships appeared on screen and went left, the sound tracked with them. It was absolutely mind blowing. And movies have never been the same since. But again, so great watching all your reactions. Btw, what part of the UK are you from. Not quite placing the accent. I worked for the BBC on Lovejoy back in the 90s, it was my first time in Britain, but can’t quite place what area your accent is. Cheers.
The Reason why the storm troopers don't hit anything they wanted them to escape to lead them to the rebel base. The stormtroopers have good aim because the kill Luke aunt and uncle and the jawas. Obi wan said only stormtroopers have that kind of accuracy, even princess Leia said it was to easy, they let them escape and put a tracking beacon on the ship.
They barely hit anything in the sequels either
@@seanmalloy0528 By then it was a trope, and also a film-making trope that bullets do not hit characters with Script Immunity.
One interesting fact about this film is that it was released before the days of worldwide simultaneous releases. It debuted in the US in May 1977. As a science fiction fan I had to read through all my SF magazines saying how fantastic it was but had absolutely no chance of seeing it until it was released in the UK on 17th December 1977. Seven months!!
This was not only before the internet, this was before the first VHS recorder came out in the UK. There may have been copies floating around on Super 8 or something but I was starting my first year at University and had no knowledge of the pirate world!
Still, it was worth it to sit in the cinema as the scrolling text gave way to the Star Destroyer chasing down Leia's ship. The only sci-fi that was really around was Star Trek and they never did shots like that. The only thing I could compare it to was 2001, and there the camera was steady, the shots long; this thing *moved*. No CGI in that early version, just practical effects and a genius director and crew. What an amazing piece of art it was.
'Super 8' films tended to be shorter edits, with whole movies being reduced to 10 or 20 minutes, as each reel of film could cost £40 back then, a substantial sum then.
When this came out in 1977 I was a 13-year-old girl with ZERO interest in seeing it. Both my brothers wanted to see it, and when my Dad took them to see it, my Mom gave me the choice of going with them or cleaning my room. So I went with them, but I wasn't going to like it (here you imagine a pouting, stubborn 13-year-old girl). But despite my efforts, I loved it. I REALLY loved it - and Han Solo. I saw it 16 times in the 9 months it was in our local cinema.
You have to realize, things were very different then. You saw a movie in the theater, and MAYBE it would eventually show on ABC, NBC, or CBS (we got the three local affiliates with an antenna - and sometimes the PBS station). No cable. No Internet. No streaming. This was long before DVDs, and even before VHS - we had no way of buying or renting movies. Star Wars was like nothing we'd ever seen, and we saw it as many times as we could while it was in the theater - to relive the thrill, and because we weren't overrun with choices anyway. And we knew when it left our theater, it would be years before we'd ever get a chance to see it again.
As others have said, it was filmed without CGI, though some was added in the late 90's for a special re-release. George Lucas and his team had to invent new equipment and ways of shooting. The smartest thing Lucas did - and he was one of the first - instead of negotiating for a big cut of the profits, he kept the merchandizing rights - and then basically invented the massive marketing tie-ins that are so common now. THAT is where he made his money, and he turned the department he had to create to make the new special effects into a company - Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) that has been the gold standard in special effects and taking advantage of CGI when it did come in. So the special effects you see in action movies now were quite possibly created by Lucas' ILM, and certainly owe a lot to what was created for and funded from Star Wars.
When I finally saw STAR WARS it had been out in major cities for months. It was already the highest grossing movie of all time. I was blown away, of course. The unique way George Lucas does not over explain what is happening made fans go back again and again. The slow rollout to theatres created a demand that made it sell out every showing. I love R2-D2 best as well!
Really glad you enjoyed it! Very interesting to know you've only seen The Phantom Menace and Andor before this. I can't imagine what that feels like, as I am an Old and I have only ever seen everything in release order. I think you are definitely going to have to go back and watch TPM, lol, because there was a lot of connections from there to here. I'm really excited to see your reaction to The Empire Strikes Back!
Him after watching the opening space battle, "Wow... this is like crazy CGI"!!
- Yeah, sorry kid... there was no such thing as CGI in 1977. It would be almost 20 years before computers were able to produce anything even remotely worthy of putting on a movie screen.
OB1's disappearance was a big question for a lot of people in 1977/, me included. It is explained to certain degree in the other movies, but it still a mystery.
When I saw it back then (I was 7 years old), I just thought he was disintegrated by a full light saber hit. Made perfect sense.
Obi-Wan (Sword-belt Bay) vanishes into the force to escape, let Luke and those others escape, find their own destiny without him, and to show Vader that he's lost and unfinished learning the Force.
This has an effect on Vader in later movies.
Many of the CGI that you see was added later in the special edition and DVD/Blu-Ray releases. I wish D+ would have an option for the Theatrical version. If you are interested in watching the original cut, they are on disc 2 on the limited edition DVDs.
remember wedge hes a small character in all these original movies that kicks arse!
All the CGI in this version, along with some edits that have angered fans, was added in 1997
A parsec is 3.26 lightyears, so the Kessel Run gag is quite obtuse
Imagine seeing this in 1977. I saw it 3 or 4 times that first summer. It was playing all summer long. The last time was at a drive-in.
There wasn't any CGI, but Lucas and Lucasfilm added CGI in the 1997 "Special Edition". Still, the original would hold up today.
So I just discovered your channel, and I’m very glad to see you reacting to this masterpiece of cinema history. I’m excited to more reactions. 🌌🛸🔫⚔️💙❤️💛🖤
20:53 - Was it really necessary to trademark Comlink?
There was no CGI in Star Wars other then the Death Star plans. Everything was done with models and matte paintings. The CGI that you see were added in the remastered versions of the movies. Sadly, it's almost impossible to find a copy of the original version of the movie.
Heey!
Youre the first one Ive seen catching the Star Wars - Final Fantasy link xD
Nice.
Also, R2D2 is basically the MVP through all of Star Wars...
He looks and sounds cute and tiny but thats is one tiny fakking beast of a droid.
Excited to see more of your reactions :D Let it be known that I was Subscriber #354.
Hi Two. I loved your reaction to Star Wars and it earned you a new subscriber. When a Jedi dies, they can chose to become 'one with the force', that's what happened to Obi-Wan, so yes he is gone, but always on hand to help Luke. Looking forward to Empire Strikes Back. Keep up the awesome work. 👍
I was 13 Years old in 1977 when I saw Star Wars in the Movie theatres. The special Effects were way ahead of its time. It was not renumbered Episode IV until Episode v The Empire strikes Back was released. Please watch in release order IV V Vi then I Ii and then III. The original Trilogy gets more explaining in the prequels. The Sequels are episodes VII VIII and IX
22:59 I'll try spinning; that's a good trick.
Released in 1977, any CGI you see was added in 1997 and was done so for the upcoming release of the Prequel Trilogy. A lot of people don't like the updates, but the only one I don't like is the Han vs. Greedo fight. In the original release, Han Solo shot Greedo before the green thug could even fire. I otherwise don't have a problem with the changes, most of them are cosmetic and they don't change the story.
"Jabba, you're a wonderful human being." ...was Han Solo's way of insulting Jabba. Why does everyone think Han is calling Jabba a human? 🙄
Not only is Obi-Wan dead, he's super dead. He did not disappear anywhere. Obi-Wan was already dying, so he let Darth Vader finish him off.
Han Solo told Luke Skywalker "May the Force be with you." the same way I would say "Happy Hanukkah" to my Jewish friends, even though I am not Jewish. Have you not done that yourself?
Go in Peace and Walk with God. 😎 👍
That scene with Han and Jaba was filmed with a human as Jaba but it was not included in the movie.
It was later when Lucas decided to add the scene it was edited with Jaba as a Hutt.
Driger Dranzer ...George Lucas always intended to replace the "human" actor, but due to budget and technologic limitations, he left the scene on the cutting room floor. Please, if you are going to add context, don't forget anything.
There's in disney+ to verry good documentaries on how the original trilogy was made in 77, 80 and 83. and another on that but more on the side on how Industrial Light & Magic was created, which is the company that did the special effects for the star wars movies and that George Lucas had to created since by the late 70's most studios had closed the special effects departments and was no like no normal to be independent companies doing special effect outside on the studios own departments. And ILM later did special effects to pretty much every mayor Sci-fi movies since then.
The documentaries are called
- Star Wars, Empire of Dreams - (is like and hour and 40 minutes)
- Light & Magic - (is a 6part series with each part around 50 minutes)
they are crazy good both.
I'm not sure if you're aware, but Mark Hamill...the actor who plays Luke Skywalker also plays another iconic character. If you've ever watched Batman The Animated Series or played the Batman Arkham games he voices The Joker.
"Crazy CGI" - nope. All models & practical effects.
3:07 The CGI in this is nearthe end when they show the Death Star plans on screen. The best they could do in the 70's with cgi was draw a line in a few different colors. Computers started having monitors in 1974.
No CGI in the original film, just like films from earlier, such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, the 'computer screens' are animation, being a film projected into the screen (or composited over a screen later).
What reveals compositing in these films is the way the camera cannot move while it is playing.
a) It isnt "CGI", because the light-effects from the blaster-bolts were HAND DRAWN on EACH IMAGE OF THE MOVIE.
b) there were added scenes in the 20th anniversary edition ... that arent really that good
c) everything else is real effects/models
I find it hard to believe you never seen A New Hope.
First of all remember, this film was made LONG before CGI in film was a thing. In the opening scene you commented on how 'good the CGI' is. THAT WAS NOT CGI, that was real hand built, piece by individual piece, each little detail, most of which never read on camera but are necessary for how they cast light a shadow on larger details. Again they are real objects, some even exist today, in museums and private collections. Any of the obvious CGI that you see (any dinosaur creature, the mice things going into Mos Eisley, Jabba the Hut) are all not part of the original work, but some one thought that a classic needed fixing, and added them nearly 20 yrs later for the rerelease around 2000.
There was no cgi in the original movie in 1977. Everything was done with practical effects. The cgi you saw in your video was added a few years later in George Lucas' Special Editions. I recommend watching "Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy (2004)." You can see some of the model work there.
A first time viewer of this film nowadays really needs some background references to understand why it's such an important milestone in cinematics.
One should first sit through the contemporary "Star Trek the Motion Picture" to see what Sci-fi looked like, and perhaps "The Spy Who Loved Me" to see what action movies were like.
Then, after waking up again from those sleeping pills, it's time for Star Wars...
When I watched this film as a kid in the late '70ies it took all until about half of the Star Destroyer had come into view in the opening scene before I was totally hooked...
While I understand it's commonplace nowadays to associate special FX with "CGI" since nearly all FX are done that way, back in the 1920s-1990s, FX were primarily done with models. Pretty much the entire Death Star assault sequence was done using physical models shot against bluescreen. That said, it's incorrect to say, "the CGI looked great in this," as 95% of it _wasn't_ CGI; it was practical FX. All of the aliens in the cantina were puppets or actors in makeup. The Banthas the Sandpeople rode were elephants completely decked out in costume. The lightsaber FX were done with rotoscoping. No imaging software back then, so no CGI.
For this film's production, George Lucas created the FX company _Industrial Light & Magic,_ because at the time, movie FX methods were unsatisfactory for how Lucas wanted SW to look, so ILM was tasked with basically starting from scratch and coming up with a completely new way of doing modeling shots. This technology was so fundamentally groundbreaking, that the techniques ILM created to make this film were used in Star Trek, Back to the Future, Stargate, Jurassic Park, and dozens of other films after 1977. ILM became the largest FX company in the US, and still is. Pretty much all of the FX in the Guardians of the Galaxy films (albeit now done entirely with CGI) are handled by ILM.
STAR WARS was released to theaters in 1977. What was impressive about it was that it had special effects that were on a par with 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY ( 1968 ) but, was used in such a casual, matter of fact manner.
I'm really annoyed at you thinking that the 1970s are "OLD" - you have no clue of the special effects of the 1930s and 40s!
The original was amazing for its time, this version is remastered and then redone with CGI added in some places. Many of the effects are original though and still look good. I saw the original in the theater when I was 2 so I don’t remember that viewing, but I do remember seeing the original version on VHS. It is an extremely well don movie but the musical score really takes it over the top to a great movie.
A Padawan is boarding the Tantive IV. What will he make of this "old, long, slow-moving, character-centered, jargon-filled, no-DFX" 1977 movie? So Two has seen Everything but "Star Wars," which will be interesting. 4:21 Welcome to Tatooine, did you bring your own water? 4:52 A Jawa collecting scrap metal. 5:32 This is the George Lucre version, with DFX not seen in 1977. Imperial Storm Troopers are riding Dewbacks. 6:54 In 1977, I thought that Luke was looking at the twin sundown, wondering if he'd ever leave dull Tatooine for the exciting Imperial Space Academy. 7:25 Sand People and a Bantha. 7:40 A Krayt Dragon call. 8:48 The Jedi Light Saber, enthralling audiences of the time. 9:41 Dark Side Choke. 10:16 Imperial Storm Trooper interrogations can be...final. 10:58 Jedi Mind Trick. 11:58 Don't piss off a Jedi! 12:56 Greedo was about to terminate Han Solo. 13:21 In the original trilogy, Jabba the Hutt didn't show up until "Return of the Jedi" (1983). 14:30 Going to Light Speed, enthralling audiences of the time. 19:47 A Dianoga. 22:28 Incredible Space Heroics. (MAD Magazine of the time.) The rest you will see unfold...;)
Jabba the Hutt was a man, Declan Mulhallalan, who wore furs and Han Solo walked around (but did not climb over) in film shot for but cut from the original release of Star Wars.
There are many other shots that still exist, such as Luke looking up with macrobinoculars and seeing the two ships meeting at the start of the movie and seeing them shooting, telling some people he knows, meeting Biggs (who later dies in the Death Star attack), etc.
These scenes were removed for two reasons: they stopped the movie dead right at the beginning, and they were unfinished, with no real close-ups or inserts.
It seems unlikely that they will ever be re-insterted, unless something big changes with movies, or George Lucas' inheritor decides to ruin this movie.
Obi-Wan did sacrifice himself, but you need to watch the prequels to discover how he still exists. After this trilogy, watch the prequel trilogy, then a few of the stand-alone films and the Obi-Wan series.
It came out in 1977
2001 opened the door for Star Wars to be made... and yes, the FX were definitely inspired from it.
I saw it with my brother when we were on vacation somewhere in rural Utah. I was 13...it was awesome.
The original film came out in 1977 and the special effects were pretty great for the time but what you're watching now is the latest edit of the film, with most of the effects made with modern(ish) special effects. I had the original trilogy on VHS back in the day (the original edit) and it kills me that I lost it at some point, for it's very different from this edit. Was it better? Can not say, it's been decades since I last saw them and Lucas has changed them umpteen times between then and now :)
It's not "very" different at all. Most of the added shots are replacing stiffer, less dynamic versions of the same shots, as in the final battle. The only real structural change was putting the Jabba scene back in. Even Greedo shooting is now edited so short you barely notice it.
I was only 3 when it came out. but it is the first non cartoon movie i ever remember seeing and remeber remebering the movie really well. it blew my mind. but older kids were all absolutely also just shocked beyond crazy at this thing. people lined up around the block to watcht his
OK first of all, did you not see Al the rebel soldiers the Stormtroopers killed in the opening scene on the Blockade Runner? Secondly; what about Luke’s Aunt and Uncle, who do you think killed them? And finally, the reason none of the main characters got shot was because Tarkin and Vader planted a tracking device on the Falcon so the could lead them to the rebel base. As far as the Stormtroopers believing 3PO, don’t forget C-3PO’s model is an imperial droid, so as far as they where concerned he belonged there.
Liked and subbed, always cool to see someone check out the original star wars trilogy for the first time!
In the 90s and early 2000 all 3 orginal star wars movies where overworked twice, yet u can't watch anymore the originals nowhere besides maybe a friend have them still on vhs. Disney claims they got lost but probaly keep them safe somewhere not showing or seeling them for reasons noone knows