Well here it is, my guide to the wonderful world of STAR WARS !! STAR WARS is a life for me. The movie broadened my senses that there is more to life than just running around performing daily duties and ceasing to have fun. STAR WARS opened my eyes that life is filled with wonder and that you should not take it for granted. SW filled the imagination with hope and wonderment and that any one person can create a "galaxy." The movie broadened my senses that there is more to life than just running around performing daily duties and ceasing to have fun. STAR WARS opened my eyes that life is filled with wonder and that you should not take it for granted. SW filled the imagination with hope and wonderment and that any one person can create a "galaxy." George Lucas amazed us all in 1977, when he introduced the imaginative places called Tatooine, Yavin 4, Bespin, Hoth, Dagobah, and Endor, our imaginations never ceased to think up other worlds and species. Just the scene from Mos Eisley's cantina bar was enough to broaden our minds to think of new species that (might be/are) out there in our galaxy/universe. Without George Lucas, Science fiction would still be a myth, but no, now it is here, and very influential over our lives. No offense to whoever is out there, but Star Trek was dead for several years until STAR WARS appeared. The Star Trek fan club wasn't even thought of until the success of SW. During the time period after Star Trek (the original series) movies were mainly about Westerns and Romantics, don't get me wrong, I like those genre of movies, but they lacked the excitement that Science-fiction brings to us today. STAR WARS caused the success for such movies and films as "Aliens," "Star Trek: The Movie," "Terminator," "Abyss," and many others. You can say that this is the dawning of the new age of movies--SCI-FI!! Science Fiction still has a long way to go before it is over. There is only too much you can do with Westerns, Romantics, and Fairy Tales, but with SCI-FI, the mind is the gateway to the imagination.
 
 

           Now let us travel through the brilliant idea George Lucas proposed to 20th Century Fox back in 1975. First off, George Lucas tried several times to get his movie idea passed. He went to Universal Studios, Paramount, Touchstone Pictures, Tri-Star, and many others....and you know what, they refused and rejected his idea. They said "No one would like that kind of stuff." Well guess who was wrong. I bet you those other companies are kicking themselves in the butt that they passed on the deal of the century. What could go wrong, the story line had: action, romance, SCI-FI, heroism, suspense, and mystery. It had everything. The first conceptions of SW were little drawings of the all too familiar droids: C-3PO and R2-D2. The drawings looked nothing like the actual droids we are used to seeing in the movies. Here is a question: Do you know how R2-D2 got his name?? Well here it is: George Lucas did not have a name for this small, chubby droid, all he new was how it looked like, on the secondary of filming, they were beginning to film a scene with at the time a no-name droid, finally at the last moment before filming, George Lucas looked over his shoulder and saw "Reel 2, Day 2" on the movie reel case. From then on, this little, stubby droid was called R2-D2.
 
 

        Another interesting fact about the first movie is that the bounty hunter Greedo is a woman. Some of you may already know about that, but when I stood in line to get Greedo's autograph, it shocked me that a woman was standing there. She is really friendly and enjoys her work. You know she was actually wearing high heels in the movie, but the camera never went down to show her feet. She also told me that she would constantly pass out because of how hot it was under that platex mask. The mask she was wearing had only a tiny little hole through the mouth, that a straw went through to help her breathe. Can you imagine breathing through a tiny little straw with all of that heat building inside that mask?? I can't! She said that she couldn't see, hear, and barely breathe. George Lucas had to actually use CPR on her because she had stopped breathing under that mask. She said that if it wasn't for George's fast thinking, she would be dead right now. That one role in SW, made her an easy life because she will never stop getting royalties from Lucasfilm Ltd. She continues to travel with the tour with other SW actors/actresses.
 
 

        The best place to get autographs those actors/actresses and you live in Florida along the mid-west coast, Emerald City Comics is a place to go. At least once a year they have the SW actor or actress come and sign autographs. Emerald City Comics has already had Jeremy Bullouch (Boba Fett), Mike Carter (Bib Fortuna), (Greedo), and Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca). Emerald City Comics' next tour actress is Femi Taylor (Oola) (Jabba's dancer that got thrown in the Rancor Pit) (TBA).
 
 

        Some of you may already know that when George Lucas made his fantasies to be real and seen by everyone, that he made some changes than what he had originally planned in the script. Even though cutting scenes out of movies are typical, it is just fascinating to learn what didn't make the final product. Most of you have no knowledge about a certain girl named Camie.
 
 

        In the beginning of SW there is a scene where Luke Skywalker talks to all of his friends on Tatooine. This may come as a shocker that Luke has friends because in the movie he is always complaining and that none of his friends visit him. There is no mention of any friends, except for Biggs and Wedge at the end of the movie. In the scene that was cut, Luke visits a power station, "waking The Fixer, a ruged mechanic and Camie, a sexy, dishelved girl who has been asleep in his lap. They grumble as [Luke] races through the office, yelling wildly." One of the most fascinating thing that I learned from this cut scene is that Luke actually had some enemies, just like an ordinary teenager, he had people pick on him too. Camie refers to Luke as "wormie" and by the tone of the passage her and the mechanic don't look too kindly at our young hero. Further down in the passage Luke "bounces into a small room behind the office where Deak and Windy, two tough boys about the same age as Luke, are playing a computer pool-like game with Biggs, a burly, handsome boy a few years older than the rest. His flashy city attire is a sharp contrast to the loose-fitting tunics of the farm boys." This is the first mention of Biggs in the script and would add more meaning at the end of the movie (Special Edition) if he had put this scene into the movie. There is also a scene where Luke comments that there is a "battle going on...Right here in our system," but Biggs passes it bye, by saying it is a fueling tanker instead of the all familiar scene of the Rebel Blockade Runner being bombarded by the Star Destroyer.
 
 

        Actually there is more to that scene that George cut out. George cut out a long dialogue between Luke and Biggs, which is filled with irony because Luke talks about joining the Imperial Academy instead of the Rebellion. Luke is "amazed and stunned" that Biggs would even have thoughts about converting from the Imperial side to the Rebellion side. There are lots of minor cut-outs, but most of them have no importance to the overall story line.
 
 

        The Empire Strikes Back also had very small changes, which is surprising because of the constant trouble they had in shooting all of the different scenerios. Even though some people don't like the middle movie of the trilogy, this movie opened our minds to the harsh environments that exist on other planets. From Tatooine in Star Wars(heat to the extreme),
 
 

... to the world of Hoth (coldness to the extreme),
 
 

... to Dagobah,
 
 

... through the asteroid field,
 
 

...and then finally to the Cloud City of Bespin...
 
 

        Since The Empire Strikes Back had so little of cut-outs, Return of the Jedi had plenty to make up for it. First off, even the title was changed. The original title was Revenge of the Jedi. George had a change of mind because he thought the original title would be too frightful and too harsh for a movie about the redemption of a Jedi. So after articulately going though all of the synonyms, he came up with "Return." Another HUGE change with the script of The Return of the Jedi is that someone at the end of the movie was supposed to die, instead of surviving. George Lucas thought that with war there should be sacrifices. Near the middle of the movie when Han Solo remarks toward Luke about his ship: "Yeah I just got a funny feeling. Like I'm not gonna see her again." In the old script that phrase was going to be a foreshadow to the end of the movie. Lando Calrissian was supposed to die at the destruction of the second Death Star. After Wedge Antilles exits the second Death Star, the pseudo-moon blows up, killing Lando with it. I guess after viewers reviewed the ending of the movie, they found it too dark and not a "happy ending," so George Lucas had to change the ending and have a big celebration at the Ewok village...including Lando Calrissian.