Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 3:10AM Lucasfilm Confirms Audio Changes in 'Star Wars' Trilogy Blu-Ray Are Real?!

Tuesday night I wrote about a couple of rumored audio changes made to scenes from Stars Wars Episode IV A New Hope and Return of the Jedi for the upcoming release of the Blu-Ray Star Wars series. After watching the two clips that die hard Star Wars fans were up in arms about, including my older brother, all over the Internet, I assumed the audio changes were most likely fake. Turns out I was wrong, and I still can't believe it.
Lucasfilm confirmed on Wednesday to Moviefone the scenes that include the new audio are real and would be on the new Blu-Ray collection. I believe this is what the youngsters would refer to as an epic "fail".
What I don't understand is why George Lucas and co. would have Darth Vader shouting "Noooo!", after it was universally panned by seemingly everyone when Darth Vader uttered the same thing in Episode III Revenge of the Sith. Makes no sense to me.
Here are the two clips again that angered Star Wars fans everywhere, and currently has my brother questioning his undying loyatly to all things Star Wars.
To me, having Vader speak in this scene kind of downplays the meaning and significance of his actions. Actions speak louder than words, I guess.
The second one surprises me the most because it's unintentionally comedic. This is the scene in Star Wars when a cloaked Ben Kenobi emerges from afar and puts a scare into the Sand people who have just finished knocking out Luke Skywalker. Apparently the scream is supposed to resemble a Kraytt dragon, which the Tusken Raiders are afraid of. My friend back in high school used let out a shriek like the one below when he would drink too much beer and listen to metal.
This isn't as big of a deal to me as it clearly is to some others, but I can understand the disappointment in learning these changes are the real thing. They don't improve the quality of either scene, in my opinion.
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Thanks for the video
Vader's "new" dialogue still fits within the tone of the scenes leading up to that moment and it still fits within the overall broad tone and style of the saga. The only thing is it changes Vader's motivation to one of a silent sacrifice to now an act of defiance. It's okay, but Lucas could've just as well left it alone. Oh well - it bothered HIM for some reason, so now we reinterpret what it means and how it changes the color, style and shape of the saga - again. The krayt dragon sound I guess always did sound a little TOO much like something NO HUMAN could replicate - although maybe we just assumed old Obi Wan was just using the force somehow on the minds of weaker beings. It also maybe sounded a bit much like the very sandpeople he's scaring off, so maybe now it sounds more distinctly different from them. This new sound, perhaps, comes accross like something he could actually do - and I suspect - it's maybe more in line with an appearence of the heretofore unseen beast on the animated "Clone wars"series.
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