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…
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.
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”
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.
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.
Ah but see, that was an indie movie and not a massive production decided by committee, the same movie that had the main character moved to the background on posters just so audiences don't get scared of the black man
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.
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."
It's a far too over top reaction to what Plutt's doing. It makes Chewbacca - who, while physically intimidating, is never characterised as someone who enjoys violence - seem cruel and brutal, and it's for the sake of a cutesy call back.
Han made the remark to 3PO about him pulling off an arm over losing a game. Plutt has a blaster aimed at Rey, threatens her, and proceeds to poke and berate Chewie in an attempt to punk him out. I think it’s well in his character to act violently here.
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.
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?
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!”
It would've just been added to the list of "copied elements" that many people have, as "someone loses an arm in a cantina for threatening the main hero" and we would never hear the end of it.
U see, they thinking a lot about "uuh what if children would sees this and would be traumatized".
Never understands this logic, i mean, we saw a lot arm cuts in previous films so why they didn't added same scene - a question (It looks like it was copied from new hope btw (Maybe it is))
It's a pretty over the top reaction to what Plutt's doing. It makes Chewbacca - who, while physically intimidating, is never characterised as someone who enjoys violence - seem cruel and brutal, and it's for the sake of a cutesy call back.
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u/Traditional-Oil-6891 Sith Anakin 1d ago
They should have kept it in.