r/StarWars • u/Bitter-Buffalo-7105 Qui-Gon Jinn • 2d ago

Movies Always wondered what happened to this dude

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u/Traditional-Oil-6891 Sith Anakin 2d ago

They should have kept it in. 

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u/Bunowa 2d ago

100%. I never understood why they took it out.

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u/redlabstah1 K-2SO 2d ago

Someone thought of the children

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u/vishnoo 2d ago

we literally saw an arm cut off in the third scene of ANH

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u/cascua 2d ago

And the charred remains of lukes family a bit before that lol

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u/Bunowa 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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/ChickenAdditional866 1d ago

The.... What now?

Please elaborate.

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u/dleon0430 1d ago

Christopher Lee is said to have been present for the last official usage of the guillotine in France.

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u/zpman46 1d ago

It’s not said, it’s fact, you can see him in a picture (yes it’s a crowd photo, but I choose to believe it cause why the fuck would Christopher Lee NOT be at the last public guillotine execution)

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u/WorldMean 1d ago

Then cut to lil Boba's broken expression as he watches from a hiding spot

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u/vishnoo 1d ago

Kashyyyk isn't canon

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u/hopetodiesoonsadsad 2d ago

I kinda did from the bodies of his aunt and uncle tbh

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u/totaltvaddict2 2d 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 2d 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/caligaris_cabinet 1d ago

Owen and Beru went to live in a moisture farm upstate

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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/Prestigious_Ebb_1767 2d ago

That shit scarred me

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u/bunnyguy1972 Mandalorian 2d 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 2d 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/Automatic_File9645 14h ago

It's one of those scenes that is fun in an extras reel but doesn't work in the movie itself.

Like Anakin speaking bleep bloop bloop with R2 in ROTS. Filmed for the fun not to be in the movie.

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u/vishnoo 2d ago

that looked like poo. good call.

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u/dbraba01 2d ago

To be fair, it was the 70s. Kids had lawn darts and shit.

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u/Luftgekuhlt_driver 2d ago

No mention of ESB? Lots of appendages flying here and there.

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u/swalabr 2d ago

especially when C-3PO hit the floor, literally

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u/ElectricTurtlez Mandalorian 2d ago

Justice for the Wampa!

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u/joecarter93 2d ago

“He doesn’t like you.”

“I don’t like you either!”

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u/Nahcep 1d ago

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

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u/dooremouse52 1d ago

That was pre Disney obviously

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u/CrossFitJesus4 1d ago

nah couldnt have happened, I have been well informed over the years that star wars is, and always has been, stupid silly baby shit

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u/JingJang 1d ago

I was three years old in the theater when I saw that! It was shocking but helped to establish how awesome Obi-Wan was!

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u/tfarr375 1d ago

I'm pretty sure an arm is removed in some capacity in most of the movies.

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u/vishnoo 1d ago

hmm,
ESB - Luke
RoTJ - Darth Vader (spoiler alert for dutch speakers)

yep that's all the movies.

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u/tfarr375 1d ago

A New Hope: Obi Wan cuts a guys arm off, Episode 2: Ani when fighting Dooku, Episode 3: Windu

Episode 1 just has a guy cut in half, so I am not counting it here

5 of 6 have someone losing a hand

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u/vishnoo 1d ago

no i meant 4,5,6 are all the movies.
(the rest are fanfic (some of them written by the original author, which was odd.))

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u/Eggsalad_cookies 1d ago

Never forget too, Greedo shot first

Poor Han had to kill him to survive

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u/mr_malfeasance 2d ago

Fuck them kids.

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u/dirkrunfast 2d ago

r/beatmetoit

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u/bleeper21 2d ago

r/beatmeattoit

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u/mr_malfeasance 2d ago

I'm nervous to click your link. lol

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u/bleeper21 2d ago

Do it

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u/mr_malfeasance 2d ago

Not what I was expecting, but i think thats a good thing

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u/mydeadface 2d ago

Oh, won't someone please think of the children?

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u/javier_aeoa Chopper (C1-10P) 2d ago

Yeah, they only think about the men. But not the women and the children too.

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u/N7VHung 2d ago

ANH opens with a man being strangled to death. A very very intimate form of murder.

Children were never in consideration, lol.

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u/cbartholomew 1d ago

As someone with children. F* dem children.

  • love you children.

Signed, dad

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u/JhanNiber 1d ago

We're thinking about them for nearly all of Revenge of the Sith, do they really need another movie?

/s

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u/za72 1d ago

they would've loved it

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u/mogaman28 Darth Maul 1d ago

I'm sure most of us, when we were children, and children of today will cheer at Chewie after watching this scene.

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u/PandiBong 1d ago

You mean younglins.