Why arent there any Zero Gravity scenes in the movies?

This has bothered me because it would be pretty awesome to be able to float around inside starships while traveling in Outer Space but nobody ever does during the movies,it would have been nice to see Luke deflect Laser blasts while floating around in ANH or someone floating around,real Astronauts do it all the time and enjoy it yet nobody in Star Wars knows how to have a little fun with Zero Gravity,has this been done in the EU?

 

There have been scenes in the EU where characters did operate in Zero-G. The most notable place is in the Black Fleet Crisis where Lando spends months (was it months) aboard a ship with no artificial gravity. In the series Lando is a major character, so he gets plenty of "screen" time.

As for the movies, all of the ships have artificial gravity. It would have been cool to see the gravity aboard a ISD at Endor stop working and all the men start floating.

 

Also, back in the days there weren't too many scenes done because they'd "look cool", unlike these days

 

Are'nt there Space Trooper Stormtroopers in the EU also?

Also in the original drafts of SW Darth Vader was supposed to emerge right from the vacum of space when he enters the Blockade Runner.

 

Yeah, there are space troopers. I forgot about them. They were in the Thrawn Trilogy (perhaps other EU as well) and they were used mainly for anti-fighter platform and to board Rebel ships with mole miners.

Interesting. I had no idea that Vader was supposed to board directly from space in the early screenplays.

 

There is some Zero G action in the Jedi Academy Trilogy as well. But the closest to actually seeing something that even resembles Zero G would be Kit Fisto's under-water fight in Clone Wars.

 

Im mainly referring to seeing people goofing off on ships or just floating around on them doing repair work on ceiling lighting or something similar,it would be pretty funny seeing Threepio or Chewie floating around and bumping into things or see Han and Leia floating around inside the Cockpit waiting to detach the Landing Claw.

Of course sometimes Weightlessness would be a bad idea like during persuits with lots of Flips,Twists and Turns constantly taking place, or when a ship is about to jump into HyperSpace in which case the floater would go flying into a wall or something else and get hurt and then fall down after their in hyperspace, i can see why the Star Destroyer crews dont float around onboard their ships but it might be easier for Tie Fighter Pilots to get to their vessels which hang from secured racks on the ceiling's with small overhang bridges and ladders leading to Tie Fighters.

 

Interesting. I had no idea that Vader was supposed to board directly from space in the early screenplays.

Yeah. That was the original reason for why he wore the mask.

 

Out-of-universe, I think its because LucasFilm didn't actually have the resources and technology to film a scene like that.

 

You just use Cables with body harnesses that lift somebody off the ground and thats not hard even by 70's or early 80's standards,all they would have to do is remove the cables and whatever else is being used digitally,they removed the Wheels from the Landspeeder this way in ANH,Lucas even refers to it in the Special Edition before the movie starts.

 

There just wasn't any reason to have zero-g scenes in the films.

 

Yeah...and that.

 

Weren't there Space Troopers in ANHSE when the Falcon is brought into the Death Star?

 

Possibly. They did look like they were in space.

Also in ROTJ when Vader's shuttle is approaching the docking bay.

 

Bib you have a way of defeating the whole purpose of people's Thread's sometimes

 

Weren't there Space Troopers in ANHSE when the Falcon is brought into the Death Star?

Those weren't Space Troopers as much as they were Stormtroopers in space.

...Space Troopers look a lot cooler.

There must've been some sort of artifical atmosphere for those guys.

 

Out-of-universe, it just seems too "normal scifi". Too much having the fantasy of SW colliding with actual physics. How weird would it be to have two actors floating out in space while they can still hear the sounds the ships are making?

 

You can see a picture of a spacetrooper in the Essential Chronology.

 

Why were there no zero-g scenes in the OT?

Go watch 007 Moonraker. That's why

 

Easy, Star Wars was filmed on Earth. On the ground. There tends to be a lot of gravity on the ground. Hence, no zero-G scenes.

 

back in the days there weren't too many scenes done because they'd "look cool"

*cough*Opening shot of ANH

 

hmmm That wasn't there to only look cool - it had a purpose. It was required to show the battle. Nothing in the story requires Zero-G scenes.

 

Besides not fitting in the films, zero-g is a bad thing. Prolonged exposure results in the weaking of all the bodies major systems: skeletal, muscular, circulatory, etc. Travelling for long periods of time in zero-g would mean devoting a large portion of the day to strenuous exercise. That would kinda cut down the efficiency on a warship.

 

Nothing in the story requires Zero-G scenes.

Well, IMHO the asteroid scene in TESB would have been much better and much realistic with zero gravity... and full spacesuits.
I think if there were no zero-G scenes in SW, it is also because they were too difficult to make.

 

I think the Asteroid was large enough to have gravity. Also, they had to hurry outside - putting on full space suits doesn't really convey a need for hurry. And in the belly of a living beast there is obviously no need for suits

also, it's the Star Wars universe. If they hear sound in space, they may walk in space without floating and without suits