I find 'A New Hope' hard to watch nowadays
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I don't think there's any question about it.
Yes! All three editors were excellent and added much to the final film. One thing Marcia was wrong about though, IMO, was wanting to keep the Luke, Tosche Station and Biggs scenes. George made the right call, the movie is better without them.
It's worse. At some earlier point Blue Six (later Red Six) was supposed to be some kind of blue pig alien named Porkins. That idea was rejected but the name stayed. Not Star Wars at its most sophisticated.
On the subject of ejecting into space:
Brandon Alinger, Star Wars Costumes, The Original Trilogy:
Prototype breathing masks were constructed for the pilot helmets, though these were scrapped as they obstructed the actors' faces from the camera and made it difficult to follow the action. The oxygen mask was a holdover from McQuarrie's original pilot design. "I envisioned them as having a helmet which would be capable of supporting life if their ship was damaged. It would be something like an oxygen mask. A very miniaturized backpack would hold the life supports," McQuarrie says, alluding to the way the chest pack was intended to interface with the helmet.
In addition to the audience being able to tell who was who, I would also guess that it was desirable to have human faces on the rebels as a contrast to the TIE pilots.
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Even if they had an ejection system that protected them from the vacuum of space it would be only a matter of minutes before you'd be blown up with the Death Star anyway.
Poor piggy
In my headcanon, I've supposed that was why Porkins resisted it.
I just hear it as him calling out "Jek!!!!" shouting his first name.
Maybe the name Porkins was just that: a little joke. No need to analyze it
Porkins' original name was going to be Obi-Siti Piestalker before someone convinced Lucas to tone it down a bit.
ANH is the only SW film that retains some of that unconventional, film-school, indie feel. It's a kind of magic. It's lightning in a bottle. Once it all blew up and became a big franchise of movies, it lost its way and never felt like that again. From ESB onward, everything is heavily produced, with too much of the big-budget, manufactured corporate polish that defines blockbusters to this day, at the expense of a more human touch.
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That doesn't make it better.
it's just mildly amusing, and ultimately harmless. What's the big deal? that it generated a meme or two 36 years after the film?
The same big deal that generates internet furor in all of these films. In the big picture-none. In fandom lots and lots of discussion.
Hootkins is one of the... top men in our favorite sci-fi/fantasy films. 
Who?Hootkins is one of the... top men in our favorite sci-fi/fantasy films.
Top men.
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Also.. "Hey Eckhart..think about the future!
"You ain't got no future Jack!"
"better not be writing this stuff in your newspaper Knox.. it will ruin your already worthless reputation"
"You ain't got no future Jack!"
"better not be writing this stuff in your newspaper Knox.. it will ruin your already worthless reputation"
Fun fact about William Hootkins: he had a connection to the assassination of President Kennedy, albeit a completely coincidental and innocent one. Hootkins was a native of Dallas, Texas and knew Ruth Paine, the Quaker woman who befriended and knew Marina and Lee Harvey Oswald and allowed the former as well as the couple's two small children to live in her home in the Dallas suburb of Irving. Hootkins was 15 years old and was interviewed by the FBI about Ruth Paine during their investigation of Ruth and her boarding of Marina, June and Rachel Oswald in her home at the time of the assassination.
It HAS to be researched.
Entertainment Weekly has posted a new interview with Dennis Muren about the Death Star trench run from the end of A New Hope. I hadn't heard about it originally starting with three different widths before.
The three early trench types were mentioned and illustrated in The Star Wars Sketchbook back in '77.
From the article:
The initial idea for trenches in the first place is unclear, but concept artist Colin Cantwell recently claimed on a Reddit AMA that he came up with the idea to solve an early design problem with the Death Star orb model. “I didn’t originally plan for the Death Star to have a trench, but when I was working with the mold, I noticed the two halves had shrunk at the point where they met across the middle,” Cantwell wrote. As fixing the mistake would have taken a week, Cantwell went to Lucas suggested a trench.
If that's the origin of the trench run, all I can say is it's a hell of a coincidence:
