Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[HeavyHitter]

Originally Posted by Braktastic

I had a Raiders of the Lost Art coloring book when I was a kid, and I distinctly remember that instead of Indy shooting the Cairo Swordsman, our hero disarms him with his whip either by removing the sword from his hand with it or by tangling up his feet and tripping him. I think it was the later. One of those two ways were probably how the scene was intended to be filmed as the story goes the Indy shoots the Cairo Swordsman scene was ad-libbed as the result of a long day's filming.

God bless the Internet, here is the page:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eNWraLqlvu...LOST+ARC+5.jpg

It was probably done that way in the coloring book to tame down the violence.

[stvn1974]

The sad thing is a 5 year old with crayons and a coloring book could make Jabba look better than he does in ANH now.

[The Peanut Monkey]

Originally Posted by Georgey-boy

I think about things like that.

What Lucas meant to say is he over-thinks things like that.

[Braktastic]

Originally Posted by HeavyHitter

It was probably done that way in the coloring book to tame down the violence.

Yet there's a page of Indy getting hammered to color along with Toht threatening to burn Marion's face with a red-hot poker.

[Astro Zombie]

Originally Posted by Braktastic

Yet there's a page of Indy getting hammered to color along with Toht threatening to burn Marion's face with a red-hot poker.

Gun violence?

[klauswhereareyou]

I'd guess the Raiders coloring book was made months before the film was finished, and apparently there were early preview cuts done by Spielberg and Lucas which had the original whip fight, and the eventual gun one. Apparently Lucas was hesitant to use the gun one because he didn't think audiences would like it, Spielberg thought it was great, so during the preview when it was shown it got the biggest laugh and was kept in.

[klauswhereareyou]

Funny how Lucas seems to not like Han shooting at Greedo when Greedo has a gun aimed at Han, yet he seems to have no problem with Leia choking Jabba to death with a metal chain in ROTJ. I know when I was a kid I found that far more disturbing than the Han thing.

[IndyMLVC]

Originally Posted by HeavyHitter

Two versions vs five doesn't matter though to what I am saying.

It seems to me many people first and foremost want the version of a particular movie they first saw - whether original version or not. I've seen this with other movies in threads other than Star Wars and E.T.

If the special editions or the 2002 version of ET is the first version that a kid sees, that's child abuse.

[Bickle76]

I have a new hope that an even more special edition comes out some day with Walrusman shooting at Ben first. It always bothered me that Ben chopped his arm off in cold blood like that. Totally inappropriate for a PG rating. Maybe call it the "Special Retard Edition".

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by Bickle76

I have a new hope that an even more special edition comes out some day with Walrusman shooting at Ben first. It always bothered me that Ben chopped his arm off in cold blood like that. Totally inappropriate for a PG rating. Maybe call it the "Special Retard Edition".

I see what you did there

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by IndyMLVC

If the special editions or the 2002 version of ET is the first version that a kid sees, that's child abuse.

Child abuse is forcing your own views on them instead of letting them make their own choices when it comes to what they "should" like and what they "shouldn't".

[IndyMLVC]

Originally Posted by PeterTHX

Child abuse is forcing your own views on them instead of letting them make their own choices when it comes to what they "should" like and what they "shouldn't".

Who said they had to like the original version? I said that it should be the first version that they see.

Nice try, though.

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by Bickle76

I have a new hope that an even more special edition comes out some day with Walrusman shooting at Ben first. It always bothered me that Ben chopped his arm off in cold blood like that. Totally inappropriate for a PG rating. Maybe call it the "Special Retard Edition".

Supposedly the arm chopping is what got them a "PG" rating, rather than a "G"!


I can believe it, the MPAA was pretty liberal in those days. Beneath The Planet of the Apes had people being shot, complete with bloody wounds, and was rated "G". So was Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger the same year SW came out (1977), complete with Jane Seymour nip-slip and violence like people getting stabbed, speared, bloody tiger marks, etc.


These days, anything perceived as violent or scary gets at least a "PG". The "PG" ratings on movies like Frozen or Wreck-It Ralph are bulls--t. There isn't anything there I would consider bad for an unattended child to see.

[Astro Zombie]

Originally Posted by PeterTHX

Supposedly the arm chopping is what got them a "PG" rating, rather than a "G"!


I canbelieve it, the MPAA was pretty liberal in those days. Beneath The Planet of the Apes had people being shot, complete with bloody wounds, got a "G". So did Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger the same year SW came out (1977), complete with Jane Seymour nip-slip.

What I always found weird was that the arm was bloody, but in the prequels there was no blood (Anakin's arm, Dooku's head, etc.)

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by Astro Zombie

What I always found weird was that the arm was bloody, but in the prequels there was no blood (Anakin's arm, Dooku's head, etc.)

Or Empire with Luke's hand. Numerous kills by Luke in Jedi with no blood.


Sabers instantly cauterize, except for Walrus Men apparently. And Ben Stiller.


"WE GOT A BLEEDER!"

[Geoff D]

Heh. Luke's lightsaber in Jedi might as well be a wiffle bat for all of the damage that it does during the sail barge assault.

[Bickle76]

Not to dump on Jedi again, wait, yes actually to very much dump on Return of the Jedi because there is no blood in it.

No blood - no selection into the National Film Registry.

[Bickle76]

What was I thinking, I guess ROTJ did have blood in it.

[Gold Ranger]

Originally Posted by Bickle76

What was I thinking, I guess ROTJ did have blood in it.

All these years and I still hane absolutely no freaking clue what that is supposed to be!

[IndyMLVC]

Originally Posted by KaineKinetic

All these years and I still hane absolutely no freaking clue what that is supposed to be!

Carrie Fisher's merkin.