I’m not gonna argue there weren’t some overreaches in the special editions. The creature stuff was probably too much though I did love the starfighter shots.
This though I’m pretty much fine with these days. The way I see it Vader almost never saw himself without the mask since he needed it to live outside that special chamber that had no mirrors in it I could see. So once he came back to the light and became a force ghost why wouldn’t he project the image of himself as Anakin that he knew best? Obi-wan and Yoda had many years to get used to their old bodies and so naturally would project them, but Anakin essentially stopped existing when he woke up in the suit, so of course he goes back to that when he gets rid of it.
Just be thankful they didn’t have deepfake technology back then or they absolutely would have swapped his face into the mask removal scene.
I mean, hows he going to recognize him either way? Not like he raised Luke at all.
He took Vader’s mask off earlier.
And it was a mega disfigured face. Not this one.
It wasn’t that disfigured. When I first saw it when it came out I recognized him, whereas the people that usually watch it in release order now see some young guy they haven’t yet seen, like Luke would. And why is he young but Yoda and Obi-Wan not? Appearance at the end of life as a Jedi doesn’t work, as supposedly he’s been “saved” by Luke.
Now I can easily explain why Luke understand who he is using the Force, they sense who each other is. Same reason why he can see them at all. But it’s one of Lucas’ bad ideas for edits.
You know what edit is the absolute worst that I cringe when I see it? No, it’s not Rick
BermanMcCallum’ (“so much more detail, so dense”) add ons because CGI is so hot. It’s the one originally deleted scene (I think, pretty sure it wasn’t there) of Han and Jabba. I liked the scene, but the manner of edit and CGI work is so bad with Han stepping on his tail it stands out, and then Han’s ending line of “you’re a wonderful human being” leaves new viewers confused.IMO it was disfigured, if I compare both I can’t tell that they are the same person.
“mega disfigured”
i can recognise him
he saw him maskless before dying
fair… but his face was all fucky so idk
The dude behind the mask looked totally different
Luke never saw his father except in that one moment where he took the helmet off. And the “thing” behind the mask didn’t look like Sebastian Shaw as force ghost either.
Watchers from the prequel generation (like me) recognize Hayden, but I didn’t know who the fuck that old dude was when he appeared when I was 10 and when they haven’t replaced him yet.
When Obiwan died his clothes fell to the ground, so shouldn’t his ghost be naked?
He also disappeared, so shouldn’t his ghost be invisible?
Turns out that Ewoks treat their guests to the finest herbs on Endor.
He picked up ghost clothes
you wish he was
We’re digitally replacing Alec Guiness with Ewan Mcgregor, right?
sure sure
As adult Vader it shows he had turned to the light side
As Anakin before he turned evil it shows he never redeemed himself
To be fair, this was changed so that the AUDIENCE could know who it was.
For example, the 1980s movie Firefox takes place mostly in Soviet Russia, but everyone speaks English. This was done so the audience could clearly understand what was being said and what is happening. There are instances where it is simply assumed that if that particular situation was real, the characters would actually be speaking in Russian and not English.
For Star Wars, the audience could only assume the mysterious third Force Ghost was Anakin, but could have been confused as to who it was if they were not paying close attention or if they had missed some parts of the movie. After the prequels released, it could have been more confusing to leave it that way since the original actor looks nothing like an aged Hayden, so the actor was changed. There also could have been a likeness or royalty deal that needed to be renegotiated and it may have been faster/cheaper/better to simply have Hayden instead.
Are the Younglings in Force heaven too?
Would they recognize Anakin? 😏
“You killed all of us as children”
“Awkward this is”
Force ghost =/= force heaven. The kids are somewhere better, while Anakin is stuck as a ghost.
The way i always looked at it was that the appearance didn’t really matter. Either luke just instinctively knew that it was his father because if the fact that he appeared next to yoda and obi-wan, or he knew it was his father because he could sense it in the force that it was in fact him.
Why would he recognize him like this, Vader was burnt beyond recognition and never looked like the man on the left ever in his entire life
