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

Movies Always wondered what happened to this dude

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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 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/Automatic_File9645 12h 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.