Film
In the original Star Wars film, Obi Wan Kenobi states that Luke Skywalker's father Anakin was betrayed and killed by Darth Vader; in The Empire Strikes Back it is famously established (and later confirmed by Kenobi in Return of the Jedi) that Vader is Anakin. Similarly, Princess Leia Organa, an upper-class romantic interest for the farm boy Luke, is changed to be his sister in Return of the Jedi. An outline of the series confirms they were not originally part of the story, and were therefore retcons. Furthermore, in the original version of Star Wars, Han Solo takes the first, and only, shot at Greedo, a bountyhunter working for the Hutts. The special edition of the movie implies Greedo shot first, to which Han retaliated. This retcon is most commonly referred to as "Han shot first", even if there was no second shot in the original footage.
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Famous quotes containing the word film:
“All the old supports going, gone, this man reaches out a hand to steady himself on a ledge of rough brick that is warm in the sun: his hand feeds him messages of solidity, but his mind messages of destruction, for this breathing substance, made of earth, will be a dance of atoms, he knows it, his intelligence tells him so: there will soon be war, he is in the middle of war, where he stands will be a waste, mounds of rubble, and this solid earthy substance will be a film of dust on ruins.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
—Ingmar Bergman (b. 1918)
“You should look straight at a film; that’s the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.”
—Werner Herzog (b. 1942)