Por que Greedo atirou primeiro?

Sim, Lucas abordou essa controvérsia em uma entrevista com The Hollywood Repórter em 2012:

Lucas: The controversy over who shot first, Greedo or Han Solo, in Episode IV, what I did was try to clean up the confusion, but obviously it upset people because they wanted Solo [who seemed to be the one who shot first in the original] to be a cold-blooded killer¹, but he actually isn't. It had been done in all close-ups and it was confusing about who did what to whom. I put a little wider shot in there that made it clear that Greedo is the one who shot first, but everyone wanted to think that Han shot first, because they wanted to think that he actually just gunned him down.

Ele passa a comparar essa mudança para substituir o fantoche Yoda em Phantom Menace com o modelo CGI usado em Attack of the Clones e Revenge of the Sith . Em última análise, este é um exemplo de Lucas usando CGI para tornar os filmes mais antigos mais fiéis à sua visão criativa; na mente de Lucas, Greedo sempre atirou primeiro.

Interessante, isso é contradito pelo script :

Greedo I've been looking forward to killing you for a long time.

Han: I bet you have.

Suddenly the slimy alien disappears in a blinding flash of light. Han pulls his smoking gun from beneath the table as the other patron look on in bemused amazement. Han gets up and starts out of the cantina, flipping the bartender some coins as he leaves.

"Over my dead body," Solo said unamiably.

[Greedo] was not impressed. "If you insist. Will you come outside with me, or must I finish it here?"

"I don't think they'd like another killing in here," Solo pointed out.

Something which might have been a laugh came from the creature's translator. "They'd hardly notice. Get up, Solo. I've been looking forward to this for a long time. You've embarrassed me in front of Jabba for the last time."

"I think you're right."

Light and noise filled the little corner of the cantina, and when it had faded, all that remained of the unctuous alien was a smoking, slimy spot on the stone floor.

Solo brought his hand to the smoking weapon it held out from beneath the table, drawing bemused stares from several of the cantina's patrons and clucking sounds from its more knowledgeable ones. They had known the creature had committed its fatal mistake in allowing Solo the chance to get his hands under cover.

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Nenhuma menção é feita a Greedo em tudo . Acredite no revisionismo histórico de Lucas, eu acho.

No entanto, eles estão corrigindo isso lentamente com versões subsequentes:

• A controvérsia inicial veio do lançamento da edição especial de 1997

• No lançamento do DVD de 2004 , o tempo é ligeiramente reduzido; Greedo dispara primeiro, mas apenas apenas. Um YouTuber diligente comparou a cena de 2004 com a de 1977

• No lançamento do Blu-Ray 2011 , ele é encurtado novamente; Han e Greedo agora filmam basicamente ao mesmo tempo. A cena de 2011 também está no YouTube .

TheStarWars O Trilogy.com reuniu uma composição das quatro versões disponíveis no YouTube :

¹ Eu entendo que este é um tópico que incita a paixão. Por favor, mantenha a discussão em comentários respeitosos com todos ² , especialmente aqueles com opiniões diferentes. Somos todos amigos aqui, vamos continuar assim.

² Exceto George Lucas, para quem Nerd Rage foi justificado (mesmo obrigatório) desde 1997