Seeing so much activity doesn’t feel like villainy. Random references to other Star Wars ephemera takes you out of that moment. He’s going into the sketchy part of town with a nearby hermit to illegally hire someone to take them to another planet. Sure, he wanted to go adventuring, but not like this. The Mos Eisley entrance should be a scene where the audience feels with Luke just how alone and desperate he really is. The only real dread in this scene is that the ride in takes forever. This is a relatively small but pretty lively town, with maybe a slightly overbearing police presence in the form of the stormtroopers. This isn’t the bad neighborhood you don’t want to go into unless you have another choice. How bad can it be when so many people are wandering around? The animals in the background and foreground aren’t just distracting with their presence – they’re doing things that are kind of whimsical, lightening the mood. The CGI is from made in 1997 and it shows, feeling worse than the original movie.Īll of this adds up to a place that doesn’t match its reputation. All of that is compounded by the age of the new effects. There are more people around, making it look livelier than before, more like Mos Espa from The Phantom Menace (released two years later). The new version is much longer, adding in everything from Easter eggs like Dash Rendar’s ship, the Outrider to CGI animals messing around in the background and walking in front of the camera, obscuring Obi-Wan and Luke when they should be the focus of the scene. Right after Obi-Wan gives the famous “wretched hive of scum and villainy” line, the A New Hope Special Edition starts to diverge from the original. See also Star Wars The Rise of Skywalkers 15 Biggest Spoilersīefore the movie even gets there, big problems showed up on the way into Mos Eisley. It became one of anger and disappointment, much of it focused on Greedo now shooting before Han Solo in their Mos Eisley Cantina confrontation (which has been changed again every release since). After it was released and fans discovered that there were bigger changes made, however, the tone started to shift. There was excitement about seeing the movies in the theater again, or for the first time, just with an improved look. The original trilogy was made in the late ’70s and early ’80s, so the effects aging was inevitable. In theory, the Star Wars Special Editions had a good idea behind them. Over the years, this has been made especially frustrating for fans, as Lucasfilm has never released a high-quality version of the non-Special Edition movies, even under Disney after the Fox acquisition, leaving fans to go to great lengths to get their old movies back. For the 1997 re-release (and all versions of the movie that have followed), a number of adjustments were made to Star Wars, many of them infamous for substantially altering key elements of the original movie. In Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope’s Special Edition, Mos Eisley doesn’t live up to its reputation of being a “wretched hive of scum and villainy”. You Are Reading : How Star Wars’ Special Edition Ruined Mos Eisley’s Scum & Villainy The Star Wars Special Editions made a lot of changes, but the CGI redo of Mos Eisley’s scum and villainy remains one of the most perplexing. How Star Wars’ Special Edition Ruined Mos Eisley’s Scum & Villainy
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