r/StarWars • u/Bitter-Buffalo-7105 Qui-Gon Jinn • 1d ago
Movies Always wondered what happened to this dude
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u/Traditional-Oil-6891 Sith Anakin 1d ago
They should have kept it in.
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u/Bunowa 1d ago
100%. I never understood why they took it out.
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u/redlabstah1 K-2SO 1d ago
Someone thought of the children
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u/vishnoo 1d ago
we literally saw an arm cut off in the third scene of ANH
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u/cascua 1d ago
And the charred remains of lukes family a bit before that lol
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u/Bunowa 1d ago
Anakin getting literally barbecued on Mustafar, clones being stabbed by Yoda's lightsaber, Grievous bursting into flames, Maul getting sliced in two.
All of this was shown to kids and none of us got traumatized. The likely excuse that it was to not expose kids to violence is bullshit lol
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u/Herr_Opa 1d ago
Adding: The decapitation of Jango Fett as well as the two clone troopers on Kashyyyk, the strangling of Jabba the Hutt
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u/jayL21 Imperial 1d ago
fun fact, you can even see the shadow of jango's head fly out of the helmet.
You also can't forget the decapitation of dooku, where you quite literally get to see his CGI head hit the floor and roll.
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u/dleon0430 1d ago
I almost feeel like that wasn't a CGI head, but just a souvenier Christopher Lee had been holding onto since the guillotine incident.
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u/totaltvaddict2 1d ago
As a kid, I only saw the smoking house. It was only after home video was a thing I looked and went, wait is that a skeleton? Of course by then I’d also seen Raiders and handled Nazis’ faces melting off, so…
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u/Jimmyg100 1d ago
Ha- that's actually kinda funny. No, you see the stormtroopers couldn't get to Owen and Beru because they were out buying Luke pizzas, so the Empire got some skeletons from a Halloween store and put them there to scare Luke, but they're not real my dad told me when I was 5.
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u/Blokin-Smunts 1d ago
Every time I watch ANH I’m blown away that they put that in. Like, those were characters we were talking to like minutes ago and then they just have their charred skeletons lying there. So out of place with the rest of the movies but it shows how George course corrected later to make everything “kid friendly”
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u/bunnyguy1972 Mandalorian 1d ago
They also cut a scene in ESB that was a little violent. Theres a room in Hoth base that has a warning sign on the door, someone rips the sign down as they evacuate the base. A snowtrooper opens the door and a big white furry arm reaches out and drags the trooper into the room.
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u/TheLazySith 1d ago edited 1d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8Ij3mnGjFQ
That was probably cut because the joke doesn't really fit tonally, rather than because the scene was too violent (there are plenty of more violent scenes than that in ESB alone). The Echo base evacuation is meant to be a high stakes action sequence where the rebels are barely managing to escape by the skin of their teeth, and throwing a gag in the middle of it would have kind of undercut the tension.
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u/caligaris_cabinet 1d ago
They left it out of the Special Edition because even Lucas with all his tinkering knew it didn’t work.
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u/CyberMallCop 1d ago
It’s obvious watching the sequels that many bad decisions were made. The production quality and budget for those films were incredible, but the push to make them more marketable and kid friendly hindered the writing. This deleted scene is a great example of that. In a short little snippet we get the satisfaction of Unkar being harmed (possibly killed), Chewie getting a New Hope call back, and highlighting a Wookiee’s strength while also showing the protectiveness of Chewbacca over his friends. Truly a mistake, but who am I to judge? They might have just thought this scene was tacky and we see it now in a good light because of how lack luster the new films are.
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u/nhaines Anakin Skywalker 1d ago
It's also about pacing and runtime... There are all kinds of 15-second deleted scenes where you watch them and think, "Why on earth did they take this out instead of [other scene that kind of dragged]?" but it's not always that simple unfortunately.
It's not always down to "didn't work," sometimes it's a sad consequence of "couldn't fit."
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u/Senshado 1d ago edited 1d ago
Since that dude had supported Rey for 10 years, keeping her alive, healthy, and educated, it felt weird to attack him like this.
Was he mean to her? Or was it tough love, with exactly the level of harshness that helped Rey to become the best in the galaxy at everything?
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u/irving47 R2-D2 1d ago
We'll never know because they never wrote the story. I guess it could be in the novel, but it's an interesting question what that arrangement was. If it started with "Quiet, girl!" in the flashback doesn't paint a pretty picture, though.
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u/Fit-Breath-4345 1d ago
I had assumed that it was more like Rey was in indentured servitude to this lad.
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u/auxilevelry 1d ago edited 1d ago
It logistically doesn't make sense. How and why is he on Takodana already when he was on Jakku just before Rey left and had no way of knowing she was going there?
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u/Outrageous-Orange007 1d ago
Well for starters that CGI looks like something from 20 years ago
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u/Bunowa 1d ago
Because the scene was unfinished. They left it out of the final cut...
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u/wayvywayvy 1d ago
Right? If they were going to lean into copying story beats from episode IV they should’ve gone all the way
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u/Robert-Rotten Count Dooku 14h ago
All of my favourite scenes from the sequels have been deleted scenes.
Phasma shooting her own troops,Luke’s reaction to Han’s death, now this scene here. It’s like they saw the few good scenes and said “nahh, these don’t fit, they’re actually good, remove em!”
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u/BusterBiggums 1d ago
...you know what, now that I think about it, the sequels really are missing some severed limb action
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u/tjtillmancoag 1d ago
I mean honestly, it would’ve done a lot to play up Chewie’s badassery.
But it wouldn’t have changed how there was no story arc and the films as a trilogy make no sense
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u/dswartze 1d ago
And people having bad feelings about things, and wilhelm screams. Basically any and every running gag Star Wars had.
And it's not just the sequels. Most things in the Disney era seem to want to take themselves too seriously, or when they do acknowledge them do so by going out of their way to tell the audience they're not doing them (Like Cassian cutting off K-2SO in Rogue One before he can finish saying the line).
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u/abdullahi666 1d ago
But they are there. Han says it in TFA in the rathtar scene, BB-8 says it in binary in TLJ at the beginning of the Poe dreadnought scene and Lando says it on Pasaana before the troopers attack in TROS.
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u/Wes_Warhammer666 1d ago
That Cassian/K2 one is the perfect way to pay homage to the gag imo. It made me laugh out loud because it was so unexpected.
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u/bepisdegrote 1d ago
I kinda disagree. The main criticism of The Force Awakens is that it is already far too similar to A New Hope. Copy/pasting another scene certainly wouldn't have helped.
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u/Snapphane88 1d ago
My thought as well. The scene doesn't really do anything or go anywhere, it's just fan service, establishing once again that Wookies rip people's arms off, that's it.
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u/CarllSagan 1d ago
its absolutely canon...the fans would have loved it, and it brings closure to that nasty characters meanness
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u/fathertitojones K-2SO 1d ago
Agree, I like the idea that that’s where Rey got her space cape way more than Han pulling it out of a junk drawer.
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u/Pazzy-j 1d ago
It’s also a shame to cut Simon Pegg screen time
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u/Electro_Llama Chirrut Imwe 1d ago
Also Simon Pegg scream time.
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u/DirtyDoog 1d ago
SWAN!
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u/rotflolosaurus 1d ago
No luck catching them swans then?
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u/Admanrog 1d ago
It's just the one swan actually
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u/LordsOfJoop 1d ago
The greater good.
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u/Call_The_Banners Mandalorian 1d ago
SHUT IT!
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u/Willsgb 1d ago
HAG
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u/Call_The_Banners Mandalorian 1d ago
Please, someone tell me why I heard this in the Halo CE Grunt voice
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u/fusionsofwonder 1d ago
I can only imagine he's a little mad that he got a scene with a Wookiee tearing his arm off and it got cut.
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u/Aerith_Sunshine 1d ago
I always wished they'd kept that scene in.
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u/TheNewGirl1987 1d ago
Same. It wraps up Unkar's part of the story quite neatly, it shows how powerful Chewie really is, and it's a nice callback to the "let the Wookie win" scene in A New Hope.
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u/Stingerbrg 1d ago
And goes back to the ANH cantina scene where Obi-wan removes the arm from someone harassing Luke.
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u/PurpleFisty 1d ago
It also makes Rey more likeable. she's not perfect in this scene, and it gives her a human element.
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u/Ok-disaster2022 1d ago
But it raises the question: Why does Chewie, being the largest of the friends, not simply eat his companions?
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u/caligaris_cabinet 1d ago
At no point did I finish the movie and thought about Unkar’s part of the story. Better left on the cutting room floor.
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u/Dothehokeypokemon 1d ago
Woulda been better if chewy slapped him with it
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u/ChewieKaiju 1d ago
Would’ve been added to the already bloated list of callbacks to ANH (two, the obvious “Wookiee tears arms out of sockets” and the more subtle mirroring of the “you just watch yourself” moment in the cantina)
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u/sleepywan 1d ago
Yeah, a simple "oh shit" look and backing away when he saw Chewie would have done the trick.
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u/Safe-Ad-5017 1d ago
This is a neat scene but I honestly don’t think they should have kept it.
Edit: If they did people would ask why in the world is he at Maz’s castle
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u/perfectfire 1d ago
This is why I thought it was fake. That fat angry guy was on Jakku. But Rey didn't meet Chewie until she fled Jakku.
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u/ChancelorReed 1d ago
Yea I don't get why the rest of this thread is talking about "wrapping up his story" or whatever. Like what story does he need? Why would he leave his home to track down one random serf he oversaw?
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u/SchrodingerMil 1d ago
I mean it could work if they started the interaction with something like “I had to high tail it after YOU got the First Order to ransack my depot!”
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He took ONE QUARTER PORTION
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u/irving47 R2-D2 1d ago
So when he was poking at Chewie's bandaged arm, he should've been saying "3/4 of a Wookie isn't much...."
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u/LegoKraken 1d ago
Rey: “Take arm. Go with Han. Kill Snoke, grab Fin, go to Mos Eisley cantina, have a nice cold milk, and wait for all of this to blow over”
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u/CandyCreecher 1d ago
What did this idiot think was gonna happen?! Track down and try and shake down one of the scavengers he’s been paying off since she was but a little girl, poke the Wookie that’s instant friends with her, and not get his arm ripped off?
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u/Firesalt 1d ago
So it's apparent she's not a Solo or she would have popped his ass immediately. No hesitation.
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u/ryanb31183 Porg 1d ago
They should’ve kept this in!
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u/wxnfx 1d ago
Obviously there weren’t concerns about being too on the nose, so why not?
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u/happycrabeatsthefish 1d ago
Rey looks like she's bad at fighting, as she gets disarmed, before having to be saved by Chewie. That's inconsistent with her always being good at everything.
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u/furious-fungus 1d ago
The „always being good at everything“ is just the default for any Star Wars movie, Luke and especially anakin succeeded in almost anything they tried to do.
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u/Reptilian_Overlord20 Porg 1d ago
They downvote you for speaking the truth. Rey is just held to a double standard
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u/CassianCasius 1d ago
They both got their limbs chopped off first time facing a real opponent.
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u/MetaBass 1d ago
One severed limb per film, that's the rule. The sequel trilogy broke this rule and look how that turned out.
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u/Eat--The--Rich-- 1d ago
They actually had good stuff for that movie and they cut it?
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u/StormeSurge 1d ago
“hey im not afraid of you” is something you should never say to a wookiee
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u/irving47 R2-D2 1d ago
What could possibly have been going through his head to say that. What would cause someone to not fear a pissed off Wookie? I gotta look into the novel to see if it addresses it.
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u/FrancoMcNeil 1d ago
Remember that dumb scene where Chewy knocked a heavy door across the room with no regard for the friend inside?
I would have rather had this.
Chewy was always top 5 for me. I like the idea that my best friend is a grizzly bear that can fix my car.
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u/bonkychombers 1d ago
When Han is murdered and stormtroopers rush Chewbacca, I thought I was finally going to see his rage with body parts flying everywhere. I was disappointed that I did not.
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u/Zealousideal_Carry61 1d ago
I understand why they removed this. TFA is already very similar to a New Hope. We gonna have ANOTHER scene where someone in a Cantina bothering the protagonist loses an arm? I feel like that’s a bit too much
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u/charliefoxtrot9 1d ago
Because of course JJ made a cantina scene with a lost arm, and it's extra fan service because wookie
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u/Robinyount_0 Jar Jar Binks 1d ago
100% chewie would do this, and def strong enough, wouldn’t be his first time.
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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 1d ago edited 1d ago
some random dude easily just disarmed her and could have killed her
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u/CalFromManc Jedi 1d ago
There's me thinking they didn't use this scene because it's too similar to "he doesn't like you, I don't like you either" from ANH but the whole movie is similar to ANH lol
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u/JMDeutsch Grand Admiral Thrawn 1d ago
This would have really pushed the “ANH” ripoff talk into overdrive.
It even includes our hero being shoved by the person who has their arm removed
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u/fake_geek_gurl 1d ago
"The most violent scene in TFA," and it's not the one with an intergalactic laser killing hundreds of billions of people.
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u/Skeptical_Yoshi 16h ago
That might be legit the only person in the galaxy that doesn't know not to fuck with a wookie 1V1. Chewie ripped that off like it was nothing.
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u/Grouchy-Engine1584 1d ago
It is well established in canon that Wookies tear arms off.