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00:00Each lightsaber stroke and screaming tie fly by, every line of dialogue and swell of John Williams' score is etched into the minds of generations of devoted Star Wars fans.
00:10However, the Star Wars the world knows today could so easily have been very, very different as it goes.
00:16In fact, in some places, George Lucas' initial treatments for the series showed little relation to what ended up on screen down the road.
00:23So I am Gareth from WhatCultureStarWars, and here are 10 unused Star Wars scenes that would have changed everything.
00:31Number 10, Director Krennic's Alternative Demise
00:33Orson Krennic is one of the finest villains the whole Star Wars series has to offer.
00:39An odious rear echelon bureaucrat who serves as Rogue One's antagonist.
00:43His end is a fitting one too, when his is obliterated along with a sizable chunk of the planet Scarif in a Death Star test-firing-slash-scorched-Earth operation,
00:52authorised by Grand Moff Tarkin.
00:55But that wasn't the original fate the filmmakers had in mind for director Krennic.
00:58In an unused scene, Krennic escaped the surface of Scarif and returned to the Death Star, only to encounter Darth Vader,
01:05who promptly throttled him with the power of the Force for failing so spectacularly to defend the secrets of the Empire's superweapon.
01:12In the end, it was decided Krennic's escape from the fiery apocalypse on Scarif was a bit unlikely,
01:17and robbed him of the ironic death via the lasery Armageddon of the weapon he'd oversaw.
01:22But then, sadly, it also robbed the audience of another iconic Vader moment.
01:26Number 9. The Empire Strikes Back's Whomper Attack
01:29The Battle of Hoth is one of the finest set-pieces you'll find in the entire series,
01:34with its frantic surface battle and panicky, claustrophobic scenes below ground as the rebels evacuate the icy tunnel system.
01:41The first iterations of the sequence, however, added a whole subplot about a pack of Whompers held captive by the rebels.
01:47During the build-up to the battle, they are seen stalking the rebel soldiers,
01:51and C-3PO cheekily removes a warning sign so the Imperial troopers blunder into the Whomper's holding pen.
01:57An Imperial snowtrooper walks obliviously into the room and is then hilariously devoured off-screen to the bemusement of all,
02:04including a certain Darth Vader.
02:06The scenes were justifiably cut for pacing, because they messed with the urgency of the Imperial attack.
02:11The Whomper design in general is also arguably one of Star Wars' least inspiring,
02:15being nothing more than a big, angry yeti, and the costumes were particularly ridiculous.
02:20With the scenes included, Hoth would have been a far less successful sequence,
02:24and the Whompers would have likely attained further notoriety in some corners as one of the original trilogy's worst ideas.
02:31Number 8. Grand Moff Jagerard vs. Darth Vader
02:33Return of the Jedi features the character Grand Moff Jagerard,
02:38the hapless Death Star commander whose primary purpose is to be utterly terrified by the knowledge
02:42the Emperor is coming to the battle station to cast a jaundiced evil eye over his progress.
02:48The original cuts of the movie featured an expanded role for Jagerard,
02:51including the Emperor ordering him to blow up Endor when the Death Star 2's shields go down.
02:56The most significant loss, however, was a scene where he encounters Darth Vader for a second time.
03:01Evidently having grown a bit of a spine since the opening scene,
03:04Jagerard refuses Darth Vader leave to enter the Emperor's throne room.
03:08Vader responds with his customary force choke,
03:10almost killing Jagerard until he explains the Emperor himself gave the order.
03:15The scene completely alters the power dynamic of the Empire.
03:18Darth Vader is a commanding, unquestioned force in Return of the Jedi,
03:22answering only to the Emperor.
03:23Jagerard's obstruction of Vader suggests the Imperial officers are on par with Vader,
03:28a situation much more in keeping with what we saw of the Death Star's commanders in A New Hope.
03:33Number 7. Senator Amidala argues against the Clone Army
03:37Senator Amidala and the various assassination attempts against her kick off the plot of Attack of the Clones.
03:43The reasons for wanting to kill her are made a lot clearer in a deleted scene, however,
03:47where she argues in the Senate against the proposal for a Grand Army of the Republic.
03:51Later revealed to be the Clone Army of the title,
03:54Amidala rails against the use of violence against the Separatist movement instead of diplomacy,
03:58and argues in favor of democracy and freedom.
04:01The scene was probably again cut for facing reasons,
04:04and because there was too much political nonsense in the prequels anyway.
04:07But it does help confirm just what is going on during the over-complicated sequence of events
04:12surrounding Palpatine's rise to power.
04:14It also emphasizes the issue of why nobody honestly suspected Palpatine
04:18as the origin of the assassination attempts,
04:20since the scene confirms Amidala as a vocal opponent of Palpatine's policies.
04:25Number 6. The Force Awakens Stormtrooper Encounter
04:28A rather charming sequence cut from the Battle of Maz's Castle in The Force Awakens
04:32was presumably once more snipped for pacing reasons,
04:36which is a bit of a shame because it would have come equipped with everyone's favorite smuggler
04:39back to his quick-thinking best.
04:41Han, Finn, and Maz are confronted by dastardly Stormtroopers in the basements of Maz's Castle,
04:46and Han, in classic lovable rogue form, tries to talk his way out of it.
04:50He even refers to Finn's Stormtrooper boots,
04:52filling in a missing plot point about how Han was able to guess Finn's ex-Stormtrooper origins.
04:57We see both Han's winning princess-stealing smirk
05:00and his equally adorable flummoxness when things inevitably go wrong.
05:04Sadly, it all ended on the digital cutting room floor, though,
05:06so we're left to merely imagine how the veteran space dog Han
05:09had kept up with his fast-talking ways of old.
05:12Number 5. Toshi Station
05:14Remember when Luke whinged about going to Toshi Station to pick up some power converters?
05:19The station was the setting for a scene that kicked off an entire deleted subplot in A New Hope.
05:24Luke encounters his friend Biggs Darklighter,
05:27who is joining the same Imperial Flight Academy Luke envisages as his way off the dusty nowhere of Tatooine.
05:33Luke then confides in Biggs that he intends to jump ship and join the rebellion.
05:37Not only does this set up a link between Luke and Biggs later on,
05:40but it also helps explain one of A New Hope's most baffling gaps,
05:43how a teenage farm boy became a fighter pilot with apparently zero training.
05:47Biggs emphasizes here how Luke is the best bush pilot around,
05:51confirming the vague hints of Luke's flying skills in the film's final cut.
05:55The fact the scene is just two guys talking for a couple of minutes
05:58explains why it was cut out of an already sometimes sedate first portion of A New Hope,
06:02but it does help fill in some notable blanks all the same.
06:06Number 4. The Reunion
06:07The second slice of the Biggs subplot sees Luke encountering his old friend at Yavin 4,
06:13prior to the big showdown against the Death Star.
06:15It's a short scene that nevertheless confirms Biggs joined the Rebel Alliance as he promised,
06:20and explains why he's given a featured part in the final Trench Run Assault.
06:24Perhaps most crucially, another pilot interrupts the boy's loving
06:27to say he fought with Luke's father, who was a great man.
06:30Of course, this little nugget would have thrown a massive spanner in the works of the whole
06:34no I am your father thing in one movie's time,
06:37and suggests strongly that Luke and Vader's familial connection
06:40wasn't actually on George Lucas' radar when he was crafting A New Hope.
06:44As minor as this scene is, it really could have changed everything,
06:48by potentially forcing the filmmakers to come up with a new twist for the final throwdown at Bespin,
06:52and changing the entire course of the movie series, Vader's character, and Luke's destiny.
06:58Number 3. Revenge of the Sith's Elevator Sequence
07:01Revenge of the Sith has its share of cheesy, peculiar, and illogical moments,
07:05but it would have had a hell of a lot more if this bonkers sequence had been included.
07:10The scenes in question focus on Anakin and Obi-Wan fighting, bumbling, and wisecracking their way
07:14through General Grievous' ship, and an eventual confrontation with the four-armed asthmatic cyborg.
07:20Firstly, there's the all-round absurdity which sees the two Jedi demonstrate an ability
07:24to perfectly mimic R2-D2's blooping, beeping machine-speak,
07:28a skill that makes no sense and has never been referred to before.
07:31Also, on top of some more comedy mugging where they ultimately get cornered by an elevator full of battle droids,
07:36the duo witness Grievous executing Shark-T, a Jedi we've barely seen before and have no reason to care about.
07:43The two then escape that Grievous encounter after the sequence is Nadir,
07:46involving a bout of mustache-twiddling, sign language, to coordinate them running through the deck and fleeing.
07:52It's the absolute worst of the prequels' non-comedy and makes the pair look like sophomoric idiots.
07:58Number 2. The Rebellion is Founded
08:01The prequel series boasts an awful lot of politics, but you knew that already,
08:05and if the original plotline had been followed, it would have included a whole mess more, yay!
08:10A whole subplot was cut out involving Senator Amidala, Bail Organa,
08:14and a young Mon Mothma concocting an opposition to Palpatine's increasingly oppressive policies.
08:19It's understandable why the scenes themselves ended up in the bin.
08:22They consist of characters sitting around talking for a bit,
08:24while Amidala exhibits increasingly outlandish hairstyles.
08:28Their absence, however, leaves out an important piece of Star Wars history never addressed openly,
08:32the foundation of the Rebellion that emerged to oppose Palpatine's new empire.
08:37The scenes imply that Mon Mothma, Bail Organa, and the other assaulted figures founded the Rebellion,
08:42turning their political conspiracy into a military insurgency.
08:45If the cutscenes had been a whole lot more, you know, interesting,
08:48that element of Star Wars might have survived intact, too.
08:52Number 1. The Opening to Return of the Jedi
08:55After its opening scene of Vader arriving at the Death Star 2,
08:59Return of the Jedi kicks off with R2-D2 and C-3PO trundling and waddling, respectively,
09:04towards the gates of Jabba's Palace on Tatooine.
09:07They proceed to bumble their way towards an audience with the malevolent Mafia slug.
09:11In the original cuts of the movie, though, this sequence was preceded by shots of Luke Skywalker
09:15preparing for his mission to rescue Han and Chewie by building a new lightsaber to replace the one he lost at Bespin,
09:21along with the hand holding it.
09:23As he broods in a cave near the palace, Darth Vader tries to contact him with the Force
09:27and convince him to join in overthrowing the Emperor.
09:30The scene would have helped explain what Luke's been up to since Bespin
09:33and shown him in an even darker mode, hooded and grim.
09:37It also reiterates Vader's motivation to make Luke into his apprentice.
09:41Hinted at during his previous confrontation with Luke.
09:44The scene was fully filmed, but was still left out of the final cut, though.
09:48And that's our list of any other unused Star Wars scenes that would have changed everything.
09:51Let us know all about them in the comments section right down below
09:54and do not forget to like, share and click on that subscribe button while you're at it.
09:57I've been Gareth from WhatCultureStarWars.
09:59May the Force be with you, as always.
10:01Thanks a lot for watching this video today, and hopefully I'll see you very, very soon.
10:05Bye-bye!
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