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BumRushDaShow

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5. He was what? 32 - 33 at the time?
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 10:39 AM
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He had "American Graffiti" under his belt but I don't think that 20th Century Fox was intending on much beyond that first movie.

But my point is that it didn't release as "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" originally but over the past decade, I am slowly seeing "the media" have to keep backtracking on stuff about that movie, especially after Lucas started screwing with it with each consumer video release! I expect some of it was done to "fit" on VHS (including what was apparently a almost imperceptible speeding up of the Star Destroyer sequence after the opening scroll...). It was bad enough arguing about the so-called "deleted scenes", some of which I *did* see (i.e., a scene where Luke pulls out his binoculars, looks up, and sees the laser flashes from the Star Destroyer shooting at Leia's ship).

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