I call bull. No one except Jones knew about the father/son thing in the cast. This whole scene would not have made sense before Empire.

No, it's a real deleted scene, though undoubtedly cleaned up and finished for the next release. It was to come right before Luke goes into Jabba's palace.

There are probably a lot of scenes in Return of the Jedi that wouldn't have made sense before Empire.

I was actually at Celebration 5 this last weekend where this was debuted at.

The scene is "all done up" with effects and all because it was cut JUST before the film was released. It was a rare instance of a scene that was fully finished being cut at the end, so it preserved the original music and effects... which is why it's important... but I agree... not "HELL YEAH!" important like some of the schmucks made it out to be.

In the digital re-release of this scene a bantha will wander across the screen.

In the special blu-ray edition, an actual bantha will walk through your living room in front of the TV while you're watching.

In the limited edition director's cut, George Lucas will break into your house in the middle of the night dressed up like slave Leia and skull fuck you at gunpoint while screaming 'DADDY LOVES ME, DADDY LOVES ME'

Nerds, man.
http://poetv.com/video.php?vid=81936
Nerds.

that clip is uber nerdy

I cringed and had to mute it. *shudder*

Yeah, my laserdisc player broke three years ago and I'm still holding onto my laserdiscs just because. And I'm not even a huge Star Wars fan.

Also, this scene sucks and was a good cut, much lie the 15+ minutes cut from Aliens that reveals the fate of the colonists BEFORE Ripley even agrees to go there, hence eliminating all suspense from the first half of the movie.

Hear all those gibbering tards offscreen? They have pockets.


Honestly, this is a pretty tactful scene considering what else Lucas has done. No cartoons bouncing around like it was The Mask 2, no 22000 layers of special effects, no acting like it was directed by Zoidberg's uncle. I still won't pay a penny to see it.

Imagine if you knew you could make 200 million dollars just by taking a film you made 30 years ago and adding a minute of footage to it.

I mean, holy shit.

Between the scene where Luke first uses his new lightsaber and the scene near the end where Vader comments he built a new one, 40% of nerds in the audience will have shat their pants wondering where the new saber came from. Half of those will have lapsed into a smelly pants shit coma.

*****

George Lucas wrote "subtlety" on a brick and just hurled it through your window.