[CENTRAAL] "Star Wars"-Topic R2D2

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Lucasfilm has announced that this September fans can look forward to the long-awaited DVD release of the original theatrical incarnations of the classic "Star Wars" trilogy!

In response to overwhelming demand, Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will release attractively priced individual two-disc releases of "Star Wars," "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi." Each release includes the 2004 digitally remastered version of the movie, as well as the original theatrical edition of the film. That means you'll be able to enjoy "Star Wars" as it first appeared in 1977, "Empire" in 1980, and "Jedi" in 1983.

See the title crawl to "Star Wars" before it was known as "Episode IV"; see the pioneering, if dated, motion control model work on the attack on the Death Star; groove to Lapti Nek or the Ewok Celebration song like you did when you were a kid; and yes, see Han Solo shoot first.

This release will only be available for a limited time: from September 12th to December 31st. The international release will follow on or about the same day. Each original theatrical version will feature Dolby 2.0 Surround sound, close-captioning, and subtitles in English, French and Spanish for their U.S. release. International sound and subtitling vary by territory.

"Over the years, a truly countless number of fans have told us that they would love to see and own the original version that they remember experiencing in theaters," said Jim Ward, President of LucasArts and Senior Vice President of Lucasfilm Ltd. "We returned to the Lucasfilm Archives to search exhaustively for source material that could be presented on DVD. This is something that we're very excited to be able to give to fans in response to their continuing enthusiasm for Star Wars. Topping it off with a new interactive adventure makes September 12 a red-letter day for Star Wars fans."

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Op donderdag 4 mei 2006 19:53 schreef Dagonet het volgende:

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http://comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=14373

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Op donderdag 4 mei 2006 19:51 schreef Tokus het volgende:
ik neem aan dat het wel de opgepoetste THX versies uit 1995 zijn.

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Op donderdag 4 mei 2006 20:08 schreef Dagonet het volgende:

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Ik denk dus van niet.

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Op donderdag 4 mei 2006 20:07 schreef Tokus het volgende:

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daar staat toch weinig in wat niet op starwars.com staat, behalve dat bij A New Hope geen IV zou staan. Maar dat lijkt me sterk.

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Op donderdag 4 mei 2006 21:04 schreef Wer-Al_Zwowe het volgende:

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Als het de originele versie is, dan ontbreekt "Episode IV A New Hope" wel degelijk. Deze is namelijk later toegevoegd. Als ik me niet vergis tijdens de rerelease kort voor het uitkomen van Empire.

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Op donderdag 4 mei 2006 20:09 schreef Tokus het volgende:

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en waarom niet? Denk je dat ze echt een of andere gare oude band hebben opgerakeld en dat op dvd zullen rammen? De THX versies zijn gewoon de originele versies hoor, maar dan wel met opgeschoond beeld en geluid.

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Lucasfilm has announced that...blah blah lang verhaal...

... day for Star Wars fans."
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Bron: http://comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=14373

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Op donderdag 4 mei 2006 22:19 schreef japzooi het volgende:
Nou het kan mij inmiddels niet meer zoveel schelen of er nog een originele originele versie uitkomt. Bij het enige stukje in A New Hope waar het me wel iets doet, doe ik gewoon m'n ogen dicht en blijf tegen mezelf zeggen:

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...and that's all she wrote...

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Op donderdag 4 mei 2006 20:07 schreef Tokus het volgende:

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daar staat toch weinig in wat niet op starwars.com staat, behalve dat bij A New Hope geen IV zou staan. Maar dat lijkt me sterk.

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Doubt that Darth Vader was originally intended to be Luke Skywalker's father, partly due to the lack of any explicit teaser in Episode IV.

Doubt that Leia was originally intended to be Luke's sister, largely due to the thus-incestuous romantic tension between the characters in Episodes IV and V (although Yoda does make a cryptic reference to "another" last hope in Episode V and that Leia hears Luke calling her through the Force).

Doubt that many aspects of the prequel fims were pre-planned, such as the structure of the Jedi Order, the nature of the Padawan/Master mentorship, Palpatine's rise to power and the political situations which gave rise to the Empire, all due to the lack of any mention of them in the original trilogy.

Specific doubt that the nature of Anakin Skywalker's induction to the Jedi Order was originally planned to take place as it was depicted in Episode I, due to the seeming incongruity of Obi-Wan Kenobi's "later" recounting of the situation to Luke in Episode IV. His dialogue makes no mention of Qui Gon Jinn and even seems to suggest that it was he himself who discovered Anakin, and many feel that it originally indicated that Anakin was older than a nine-year-old child upon their first meeting.

Doubt of the Jedi Code's prohibition of "attachments" and thus romantic relationships was conceived prior to Episode II, on the basis that it is a major plot point for the final two films and yet is not even alluded to in Episode I.

Doubt that the Stormtroopers were originally intended to be the clones referred to in the Clone Wars as mentioned in Episode IV, due to the lack of specific (as opposed to contextual) indications. Whether the Stormtrooper indeed are still clones by the time of the original trilogy is another source of debate.

Doubt that Boba Fett was originally supposed to have any connection to the Stormtroopers.

Doubt that Obi-Wan was originally ever supposed to be a Jedi Master as opposed to merely a Jedi Knight, given the fact that prior to Episode III this had not been the case, including the chronologically "later" original trilogy in which Kenobi refers to himself as a Knight.

Doubt what was the fate of the Jedi and how and when they perished. The Jedi seem long past and distant. Motti expressed disbelief in the Force although it was the main 'religion' only twenty years ago.

Doubt that Obi-Wan was to previously have been in contact with the droids R2 and C-3PO. In A New Hope, he has no memory of them. However, he stated that he did not remember owning a droid. He never said that he did not know them.

Doubt that Padmé was to die as early as she did. In Return of the Jedi, Leia states she has memories of her mother, yet in Revenge of the Sith it is shown that she dies in childbirth.

Doubt that Anakin was originally to have built C-3PO, given that he later does not recognize the droid (although they never meet face-to-face in the original trilogy, and there is little to distinquish C-3PO visually from other droids of the same model).

Doubts about narrative perspective. Initially, Lucas claimed that the whole story was to be told from the droids' perspective, but this is not true of the prequels, particularly given that C-3PO's memory is wiped at the end of Episode III.

Doubts regarding Obi-Wan and Yoda's fates in Revenge of the Sith as, in the later films, it is clear that Vader expected them both to be already long-dead. While he might have expected the ancient Yoda to die of old age, Obi-Wan was only 57 years old in Episode IV.

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Op zondag 30 april 2006 14:06 schreef Mip1988 het volgende:
heb ik eindelijk de OT laserdisc 2 DVD transfer binnen, zijn mn dvd-r's op
trouwens ook MakingMagic en DeletedMagic gedownload en gekeken, aanraders!

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Doubts regarding Obi-Wan and Yoda's fates in Revenge of the Sith as, in the later films, it is clear that Vader expected them both to be already long-dead. While he might have expected the ancient Yoda to die of old age, Obi-Wan was only 57 years old in Episode IV.

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Op dinsdag 16 mei 2006 15:46 schreef Mip1988 het volgende:
mja hij zegt wel:
'I haven't felt this presence since...'

maar wat mij wel duidelijk lijkt is de fout dat Leia wel herinneringen van haar moeder heeft en Luke niet, terwijl hun moeder sterft bij de bevalling
dit zou juist aangeven dat Leia eerder is geboren dan Luke

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Op vrijdag 12 mei 2006 22:26 schreef Mip1988 het volgende:
een lijstje met dingen die niet totaal overeenkomen, zoals ze eerst werden uitgelegd in de OT.
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leuk om te lezen
had er zelf ook al een paar gezien

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Doubt that Darth Vader was originally intended to be Luke Skywalker's father, partly due to the lack of any explicit teaser in Episode IV.

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Doubt that Leia was originally intended to be Luke's sister, largely due to the thus-incestuous romantic tension between the characters in Episodes IV and V (although Yoda does make a cryptic reference to "another" last hope in Episode V and that Leia hears Luke calling her through the Force).

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Doubt that many aspects of the prequel fims were pre-planned, such as the structure of the Jedi Order, the nature of the Padawan/Master mentorship, Palpatine's rise to power and the political situations which gave rise to the Empire, all due to the lack of any mention of them in the original trilogy.

Specific doubt that the nature of Anakin Skywalker's induction to the Jedi Order was originally planned to take place as it was depicted in Episode I, due to the seeming incongruity of Obi-Wan Kenobi's "later" recounting of the situation to Luke in Episode IV. His dialogue makes no mention of Qui Gon Jinn and even seems to suggest that it was he himself who discovered Anakin, and many feel that it originally indicated that Anakin was older than a nine-year-old child upon their first meeting.

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Doubt of the Jedi Code's prohibition of "attachments" and thus romantic relationships was conceived prior to Episode II, on the basis that it is a major plot point for the final two films and yet is not even alluded to in Episode I.

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Doubt that the Stormtroopers were originally intended to be the clones referred to in the Clone Wars as mentioned in Episode IV, due to the lack of specific (as opposed to contextual) indications. Whether the Stormtrooper indeed are still clones by the time of the original trilogy is another source of debate.

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Doubt that Boba Fett was originally supposed to have any connection to the Stormtroopers.

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Doubt that Obi-Wan was originally ever supposed to be a Jedi Master as opposed to merely a Jedi Knight, given the fact that prior to Episode III this had not been the case, including the chronologically "later" original trilogy in which Kenobi refers to himself as a Knight.

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Doubt what was the fate of the Jedi and how and when they perished. The Jedi seem long past and distant. Motti expressed disbelief in the Force although it was the main 'religion' only twenty years ago.

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Doubt that Padmé was to die as early as she did. In Return of the Jedi, Leia states she has memories of her mother, yet in Revenge of the Sith it is shown that she dies in childbirth.

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Doubts about narrative perspective. Initially, Lucas claimed that the whole story was to be told from the droids' perspective, but this is not true of the prequels, particularly given that C-3PO's memory is wiped at the end of Episode III.

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Doubts regarding Obi-Wan and Yoda's fates in Revenge of the Sith as, in the later films, it is clear that Vader expected them both to be already long-dead. While he might have expected the ancient Yoda to die of old age, Obi-Wan was only 57 years old in Episode IV.

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Op dinsdag 16 mei 2006 16:11 schreef Dagonet het volgende:

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Het is sowieso al raar, zoiets restrictiefs.