The original Star Wars question...

[praneetha]

Has the GCI been updated from the original? I assume the film was digital remastered, but characters such as Jabba look quite good, especially for the 70's.

 

[Apu D]

Yeah he touched up the original trilogy in 1997 and he did it again with the release of the DVD's recently.

 

[Rubluffin]

Ah, I thought they looked too good to be from the 70's. Thanks.

Oh, another question (for anyone who can be bothered). Is there any subtitles when Jabba the Hut is speaking to Hans Solo in A New Hope? Or is it just a case of we accept what's going on? Usually there's no subtitles for alien languages, but I thought I might be missing something...

 

[Adrianna Gabriella j]

Well there was subtitles with Greedo.

I think we can assume why there is no subtitles for Chewwy because there isn't any language being spoken by him.

 

[Lanie_Loo]

Chewwy has a language

"Rahhh Rahhhh Rahhhh"

 

[brokencydexxlover]

You can kind of get what he's saying from Han's reaction which is why you don't need subtitles

 

[bri babe]

But it is more grunts and hand signals then any language.

 

[Rose Black]

Are the subtitles on the actual film, or are they a seperate thing? I can't seem to get them to work! Strange...

 

[hawaiianbrandee]

Ther should be subtitles on the actual film, I watched the original trilogy the other day and there were subtitles on the scene in question.

 

[eliebellie]

Mine doesn't seem to have it, then! I'm only talking about A New Hope, btw...

 

[I ♥ Music]

In the original cinema release, Jabba was a fat Irish bloke. Its unknown if George just forgot he'd already cast Jabba when he then did RotJ but the scene was soon removed in New Hope. That's the reason why they had to come up with the walking-on-Jabba's-tail joke when they put the slug Jabba back in the remastered version of New Hope in the 90s.

 

[Nich!]

I seem to remember Greedo having subtitles but then I remember when the DVD set was released some people said they had disappeared.

 

[thorrnydevil]

That scene was never in the original release. It has only ever been put in since the Special Editions.

 

[User#725]

This post proves a little knowledge is a lot more dangerous than none at all.

 

[mitchellg103]

The only CGI work in the Special Editions were additional scenes, except Han killing Greedo, which was changed in 1997 so Greedo shot first, and in 2004, to reduce the gap between Greedo shooting and Han shooting.

Also, all of Chewey's lines are scripted in English, and spoken on set by Peter Mayhew.
For example, when they first get to the room where they find out where Leia is being imprisoned :

Chewey : The old man is mad
Han : You said it Chewey

Jabbas scene in Episode 4 was never in the original film, it was put back in for the Special Editions.
Even Boba Fett was put into that scene in the Special Edition, he wasn't in it the original shots.

 

[latinagrl_88]

Ive got some shots of a totally naked Princes Leila with Jabba, and are at least ten years old judging from the crusty images. Are you sure these are just on the special edition upgrade ?

 

[LindseyxLovesxyahh]

the original jabba was a fat scottish guy!!

 

[zimmezumm]

ISTR he was from Northern Ireland. He was also in Raiders of the Lost Ark, as the opponent Marion Ravenwood out drinks in her Nepal bar.

 

[Mz.Swaggerific]

He definitely was Irish. I have on tape somewhere an old old (and I mean ancient - the Oracle subtitles were on page 170!) copy of a "making of Star Wars" special that aired somewhere around 1985. The scene with Fat Irish Jabba is on that. He was supposed to be replaced in post production with a stop-motion animated character, but the budget wouldn't allow it.

Same reason why a lot of the creatures in Mos Eisley don't actually do much - they are just static masks no anamatronics.

DP
(Star Wars geek!)

 

[Say it like it is]

The same reason why you have a giant cricket in the Cantina bar!