It’s a cultural artifact that permeates my whole being. I confess that I love Star Wars far too much. The galaxy far, far away that fans like me fell in love with is a different film entirely. This means that a whole generation of supposedly passionate fans have been living a lie. That impromptu shootout in the first Star Wars is but one of the sequences that diverges from what audiences saw when the movie was originally released in 1977, and it’s perhaps the most infamous of writer/director George Lucas’s endless tinkering with his beloved space saga. Without batting an eye, Han fires a return blast under the table, killing the bounty hunter and sauntering away from the grisly yet PG-rated scene. After some tense chit-chat, the amphibian-looking barfly pulls a gun and fires a laser blast inches from Solo’s head. An alien bounty hunter pulls up a chair to confront him. The roguish anti-hero Han Solo sits alone at bare table in the Mos Eisley cantina. It’s a scene etched into every Star Wars fan’s mind.
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