Re: can you answer CHICAGO question?

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 20:24:59 -0400, "jere7my tho?rpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Mike Kohary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> "Michelle Steiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> > No; at the time, he envisioned Jaba as a human being.
>> 
>> That's incorrect.  What's your source?
>
>     Jabba was humanoid, at least, in the 1978 comic adaptation of Star 
>Wars -- sort of jowly and yellow and furry, which would have been easy 
>to do with makeup (or, to go the other way, it would have been easy to 
>make him giant and sluglike in the comic).

It's interesting you bring that up - that's true.  In fact, the comic
(which I have right here) contains every deleted scene from the movie,
including some actual "screen time" for Biggs on Tatooine.

The reason that Jabba is humanoid in the comic book is because he was
humanoid in the scene that Lucas shot (and presumably, the comic was
working off an advance screening of Star Wars that must have included
all scenes, even those that were eventually deleted).  Lucas could
have just left the scene in there as it was, and that would have been
Jabba, I suppose.  But Lucas has said that one of the reasons he ended
up cutting that scene out is because, even though he filmed it with a
humanoid as Jabba, that's not what he really wanted.  He wanted a
creature, and since he didn't have the time, budget or technology to
make it happen the way he envisioned it, he decided to cut the scene
and revisit Jabba later if he got a chance to do any more movies.
It's a compromise he chose not to make, in other words.  Sorry, I
don't have a reference handy for that, but I've read that story many
times over and am pretty sure that's what happened.

Mike
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