![]() only for a strange man with a mullet to materialise next to them and start grinning inanely. Sat amid cavorting bears, Luke Skywalker gazes wistfully out into the forest to see the spirits of Yoda and Obi-Wan gazing benevolently back at him. ![]() At the very end of Return Of The Jedi, The Emperor is dead, Vader is redeemed, freedom and justice have been restored to the galaxy. Don’t get hung up on Greedo shooting first, 'Maclunkey' or the Ewok celebration’s Yub-Nubectomy - there exists a far more problematic change that derails this as the definitive sequence. Lucas spent decades tinkering with his films, so much so that the current ‘original’ trilogy is a far cry from the films that graced our cinema screens in the late seventies and early eighties. The problem is that this is not the original Star Wars experience. This is how the first generations of Star Wars fans experienced the series and it certainly didn’t do us any harm. The twists and turns are kept intact, there’s no attempt to retcon the saga into an ill-fitting Anakin story and we begin the whole endeavour on a high. Starting with the 1977 original, we then move through Empire and Jedi, before experiencing the prequels in all their frustrating glory and picking up the sequel trilogy thereafter. Alas, you’ll have to settle for it in 2D.The purist’s approach, production order maintains the historic authenticity of watching the franchise unfold as first it did. This sort of fanboy rejiggering goes on all the time, but this version actually drew critical acclaim and buzz that extended past the usual internet subjects. ![]() A fan in California took Lucas’ original and made some very judicious snips, from the excision of the aforementioned “Yippee!” to the removal of almost all of Jar Jar Binks’ screen time. > “The Phantom Edit”: The super-cool thing for George Lucas to have done would have been to convert this fan-generated trimmed version of “Phantom Menace” into 3D. > Virtually any online parody of “The Phantom Menace”: Start with this new one from Second City Television: > Turkish “Star Wars”: There are no words for this loony rip-off, except that you need to be watching it RIGHT NOW. This Mike Nichols–directed screen adaptation of her first roman-à-clef definitely counts as a career highlight. “Postcards From the Edge”: Speaking of the women of the “Star Wars” franchise, Princess Leia set Carrie Fisher on the road to fame and fortune (independent of the fame she inherited as the daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher), but she really came into her own as a writer who mined her own life for a series of entertaining novels and one-woman shows. ![]()
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