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Seems like it'd be a spherical range type of thing. But we're talking 1970s FX. That might've been the height in computer graphics in that day.

 

I know this is kind of after-the fact, but I happen to be reading "From a Certain Point of View" for ESB right now. In it there's a story specifically about how there are a lot of meteorites that are falling to the surface, and the officers in the Empire in charge of monitoring the probe droids were thankful for all the meteorites cos it masked the arrival of their probe droids. That, coupled with Reikaan's comment about not being able to spot incoming ships specifically cos of meteorites really says it all. I mean-let's not forget; Hoth IS right in the vicinity of a dense asteroid field, which is presumably where all those meteorites are coming from!

As to whether the one Luke specifically saw while talking to Han is a droid or not, I'm inclined to believe it was simply just a meteorite-cos generally the timeline in SW movies-especially the OT-is pretty much linear. Also, the story simply needed a reason for Luke not to head straight back to the base, thus leading to him getting attacked. HOWEVER, I do really think it would be a nice storytelling element if it WERE a droid, and his being attacked by the wampa prevented him from finding out that the Empire is coming WAY earlier! If those shots were recut to show Luke being attacked, and THEN the droid emerging from the crash, IMO that would be a really compelling element to include; the irony that Luke missed discovering the coming of the Empire by mere moments.

 

I’m sure it’s been asked before — probably by me — but what did the droid say to C-3PO in Cloud city. When he replied “how rude!”

i have an idea.

 

Ee chuta!

 

What @Sarge said. It's just a huttese curse. I don't think (or maybe hope) there's no direct translation. I'd love it if it meant something like "blue monkey" and was just considered rude when said that way.

 

Personally, I never interpreted that as a curse, more like a "mind your business" type of thing.

 

To me, I think it was basically saying to the effect of: "**** off!"

 

I interpret it as “up your chute.”

 

What's the story with Dengar? I see these pictures of him on the Executor's bridge with the other bounty hunters, but it doesn't seem to be in the actual film. Are they deleted scenes?

 

He's visible early on in the sequence, though a bit out of focus:

 

Yeah, but he's barely visible. There clearly were more in-focus shots of Dengar, but they're just not in the final cut. How and when did we find out that this character existed?

 

We don't see Bossk either. I figured they were inserted as "random bounty hunter" and someone gave them a story later.

 

Bossk is one of the few we do get a good look at - glowering at Piett after he remarks about how "we don't need that scum" before the camera focuses on Vader and his speech to them.

 

During that same scene, true. I'm just saying the only bounty hunter we see thereafter in the movie was Fett.

 

True. I'm told Dengar and Bossk are both visible on Jabba's sail barge momentarily in the next movie though.

 

Basically it's a torchbearer part. An extra. A named extra, to be sure. But still an extra. Then the actor can say, "I was in Star Wars!" And have it on his resume with a name instead of "bit part."

 

My guess would be a gradually coalescing combination of promotional set photographs, his inevitable action figure, and his later roles in EU material.

 

He was pretty prominent in the Marvel SW comics long before the Bantam era.

 

In Empire Strikes Back, does anyone know how long Luke was training with Yoda on Dagobah and how long the Empire was trying to find the Millennium Falcon?

From what I have seen it's something like 2 weeks, although that's because of the time moving slower on Dagobah, and no clear answer on how long the Millennium Falcon was being followed.

 

That's a question that's been discussed here more than once. The short answer is that there is no answer. Your guess is as good as any.

 

Can someone tell me from which Interview/documentary these clips are from?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2JX3Y54f1ds
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/idzsAu9Vo1c
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RevtVMO1JOw
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w0-AKt486WE
thank you

 

Don't know where they came from but the sandstorm scene wasn't cut because the dialogue was rubbish, they say virtually the same words but from a far shorter scene involving only Luke in his X-Wing and Leia and Han offscreen. GL was supposed to have dealt with shots requiring SFX, Marquand just wasn't experienced with that type of film making. Overall I think it's unfair as Marquand died long before they were interviewed.

 

I found it.
Its from a documentary called icons unearthed : star wars.
Its a six part series about the 6 star wars movies.

Sadly there no way to watch it in Germany which is a shame, since they have a lot of people of the OG crew there.

And yeah Richard Marquand gets **** on pretty hard, especially by Anthony Daniels.

 

Geez, what happened?

 

Speaking of rubbish dialogue, I was watching the ESB deleted scene of Luke in the hospital room talking to Leia. A bunch of people in the Youtube comments section were all saying it was great and should've been kept in the film, but I was all "no...this is terrible and cringeworthy, it's good it got cut".