[net.movies.sw] "BIGS was right!"

Smith%CMU-CS-C@sri-unix.UUCP (06/10/83)

From:  David Smith <Smith@CMU-CS-C>

	Patrick A. Fargo:
	     Has anyone an idea as to the identity of "BIGS" in the SW saga?
	In the first SW film, Luke says, "BIGS was right, I'll never get out
	of here". This was in response to his Uncle Owen asking him to stay on
	one more year. I noticed in ROTJ that one or two references were also
	made about BIGS. I can not recall the context but has anyone else
	heard these?

In my first viewing of the original Star Wars movie, Biggs appeared in an
early scene.  He was a friend of Luke's, and was trying to convince Luke
to go with him and join the rebellion.  This scene has been omitted in
subsequent releases which I have seen.  But Biggs still shows up as one of
the fighter pilots who go out to tackle the Death Star, while Luke shows
particular concern for him.

I have a SW4 story book which has a picture of Biggs talking to Luke
on Tatooine.

gh@brunix.UUCP (Graeme Hirst) (06/13/83)

     In my first viewing of the original Star Wars movie, Biggs appeared in an
     early scene.  This scene has been omitted in subsequent releases which I
     have seen.
		-- David Smith

This is the first that I have heard that there might be different versions
of SW films around.  Does anyone have any other evidence on the topic?

	Graeme Hirst, Brown University Computer Science
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alb@alice.UUCP (06/15/83)

In SW:ANH the book, there is a scene in which Luke meets up
with Biggs, his best friend, at a 'gas station' on Tatooine.
Biggs is just about to embark to join the Rebels and he
urges Luke to do the same.  Unfortunately, in seven viewings,
I've never seen that scene in the movie.

However, I know for a fact there are different versions of
TESB out.  When I saw it in Florida, the scene with Vadar
with his mask off (showing the back of his head) was in; when
I saw it in NJ, it was not in.

ables@ut-ngp.UUCP (06/16/83)

I wasn't aware that Biggs was ever in a final release, but ANH and TESB
both had slight changes made to them after they were released.  In ANH,
when Han and Chewie are running from the troops on the Deathstar, you hear
one of the troops in that familiar (cloned) voice say "Close the blast
doors!"  Then Han and Chewie just barely jump through them and the troops
come upon the door just as it closes and you hear "Open the blast doors,
open the blast doors."  The "Close the blast doors" was cut from subsequent
releases.  I don't know why, it takes all the humor out of the next line.
In TESB, when Luke is suspended in the bacta fluid (recovering from the
Wampa attack) there were two views of him.  In one release you saw just
Luke, in another you saw Luke over the shoulder of Han and Leia who were
just outside a glass wall looking in.  I think the one they finally let
out was with Han and Leia in the picture, but I'm not absolutely sure.
-ka

zz1sm@sdccsu3.UUCP (06/17/83)

Yes, there are different prints about. I remember going to the Coronet in San
Francisco to see SW (70mm, incredible sound system, Dolby). There was a scene
when Han and others are running through hallways in the Death Star. As they
approach a blastdoor, a stormtrooper voice says, "Close the blast doors! Close
the blast doors!" Then, as Han, et.al. squeeze through the door laeving the 
stormtroopers on the closed side, the voice yells,"Open the blast doors! Open
the blast doors!". When I saw the film again, at another theater (and perhaps 
not in 70mm) the "Open the blast doors!" lines were missing. I have seen it
many times since then, but always in 70mm, and always without those lines...

Shane
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