Varför sköt Greedo först?

Ja, Lucas tog upp denna kontrovers på en intervju med Hollywood Reporter 2012:

Lucas: The controversy over who shot first, Greedo or Han Solo, in Episode IV, what I did was try to clean up the confusion, but obviously it upset people because they wanted Solo [who seemed to be the one who shot first in the original] to be a cold-blooded killer1, but he actually isn't. It had been done in all close-ups and it was confusing about who did what to whom. I put a little wider shot in there that made it clear that Greedo is the one who shot first, but everyone wanted to think that Han shot first, because they wanted to think that he actually just gunned him down.

Han fortsätter att jämföra denna ändring för att ersätta marionetten Yoda i Phantom Menace med CGI-modellen som används i Attack of the Clones och Revenge of the Sith . I slutändan är detta ett exempel på att Lucas använder CGI för att göra äldre filmer mer sanna mot hans kreativa vision; i Lucas sinne, Greedo alltid sköt först.

Intressant, detta motsägs av manuset :

Greedo I've been looking forward to killing you for a long time.

Han: I bet you have.

Suddenly the slimy alien disappears in a blinding flash of light. Han pulls his smoking gun from beneath the table as the other patron look on in bemused amazement. Han gets up and starts out of the cantina, flipping the bartender some coins as he leaves.

Noveliseringen (som trots att Lucas namn på omslaget var faktiskt skrivet av Alan Dean Foster och förmodligen godkänd av Lucas) strider också mot Lucas uttalande:

"Over my dead body," Solo said unamiably.

[Greedo] was not impressed. "If you insist. Will you come outside with me, or must I finish it here?"

"I don't think they'd like another killing in here," Solo pointed out.

Something which might have been a laugh came from the creature's translator. "They'd hardly notice. Get up, Solo. I've been looking forward to this for a long time. You've embarrassed me in front of Jabba for the last time."

"I think you're right."

Light and noise filled the little corner of the cantina, and when it had faded, all that remained of the unctuous alien was a smoking, slimy spot on the stone floor.

Solo brought his hand to the smoking weapon it held out from beneath the table, drawing bemused stares from several of the cantina's patrons and clucking sounds from its more knowledgeable ones. They had known the creature had committed its fatal mistake in allowing Solo the chance to get his hands under cover.

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Det finns inget omnämnande av Greedo-skytte alls . Krita det till Lucas historiska revisionism, antar jag.

Men de har långsamt rättat till detta med följande utgåvor:

• Den ursprungliga kontroversen kom från 1997 Special Edition release

• I 2004 DVD release förkortas tidpunkten något; Greedo bränder först, men bara bara. En flitig YouTuber har jämför 2004-scenen till 1977 .

• I 2011 Blu-Ray release förkortas den igen; Han och Greedo skjuter nu i stort sett exakt samma gång. 2011-scenen finns också på YouTube .

TheStarWars Trilogy.com har monterat en komposit av alla fyra versionerna, som finns på YouTube :

1Jagförstårattdettaärettämnesomuppmuntrarpassion.Vänligenhålldiskussionenikommentarermedrespektföralla2,särskiltdemedolikaåsikter.Viärallavännerhär,låtossbehålladetpåsåsätt.

2MedundantagförGeorgeLucas,förvilkenNerdRageharvaritmotiverad(ävenobligatorisk)sedan 1997