Re: can you answer CHICAGO question?

On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 17:32:29 -0700, Michelle Steiner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Dick Sidbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> > The ones released in 1997 and subsequent are what Lucas had in mind 
>> > originally; the originals had been edited for length at the 
>> > insistence of the studio.
>> 
>> Then please explain why Greedo shoots first in the special edition 
>> and not in the original version.
>
>Greedo shooting first makes more sense; I don't know why it wasn't that 
>way in the original, other than to save a bit of time--a second here, 
>and a second there, and pretty soon you're talking full minutes.

That's all beside the point.  Dick has it exactly right - if Lucas had
originally wanted Greedo to shoot first, he would have done that.
Instead, he didn't.  That scene is proof that Lucas is revising
post-fact, not revising to complete an original vision.  He came to
regret that Han Solo shoots first *later*.

Mike
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