Han Never Shot First, Lucas Says

 I have a theory on that (which I’ve posted elsewhere, but here we go):

I should state up front, I am not really a
fan of the Star Wars movies. But a good friend is.

And I said to him a few years ago, “The
reason Lucas changed the Greedo scene is that Lucas doesn’t understand
subtlety. He was forced by writers and the stars of his film to change
parts of the script — which Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford have discussed in several interviews — b/c his script was too simplistic and the characters didn’t act realistically. So, while anyone
with ANY understanding of human emotion and human subtlety understands
that Han shot first b/c he KNEW he was in imminent danger, Lucas doesn’t
get that.”

My belief is that Lucas did NOT write the scene we all saw in the original. And he never understood it. So here we are, with Lucas proving my point. No one EVER
thought Han was a cold-blooded killer; Han realizes he’s going to be
taken away dead or alive…his choice was to remain alive — and stay
where he is. The only way out was to shoot first. So he did. 

Again, Lucas simply doesn’t have the capacity to understand it.

Not to state the f*ckin’ obvious but Luke was also responsible for killing hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people on the first Death Star at the end of Star Wars. 

The fact that he was not haunted by this act (righteous or not) shows just how simplistic, childlike, and shallow the whole Star Wars mythos is (and according to Lucas, was meant to be.)  The franchise is a B -grade Saturday morning Radio serial as Lucas intended it to be, so seriously who gives a shit if Solo shot first or not.  His best friend’s a mass murderer who more interested in getting a medal at the end of Star Wars and hitting Princess Leia’s ass than being remorseful about being the worst mass murderer since Grand Moff Tarkin.

Shit – Luke’s killed more poor bastards than Schwarzennegger in Commando and Stallone in Rambo 3!!!!  Sick bastard!!!

Lucas’ own words in the film’s script:

GREEDO: That’s the idea. I’ve been looking forward to killing you for a long time.HAN: Yes, I’ll bet you have.Suddenly the slimy alien disappears in a blinding flash of light. Han pulls his smoking gun from beneath the table as the other patron look on in bemused amazement. Han gets up and starts out of the cantina, flipping the bartender some coins as he leaves.HAN: Sorry about the mess.

It’s not so much about who did what first to whom and more to do with the fact that he inserted not only an additional laser-shot but if you look really closely, he has Han’s head jerk slightly to the right, effectively “dodging” Greedo’s shot with ninja-like reflexes. Or, to put it another way, it’s to do with the fact that he went back and changed stuff in a 30-year old movie to bring it up to date. Something only an insane idiot would do.

Obvious troll is obvious.

I’d say that George is just messing with fans, but considering the lengths he went to when he re-edited the original films, I doubt it.  George must be someone who sees the world in black and white and can’t deal with shades of grey.  

Han shot first because Han wasn’t an idiot.  He knew Greedo was planning to kill him, so he shot him.  Killing his would-be murderer doesn’t make him a “cold-blooded killer,” it makes him smart and alive, instead of stupid and dead.  

Lucas says Han Never Shot First.  However, does admit Luke slipped Leia the finger when she sleeping in the Millenium Falcon.

Han shot first. And Greedo is a punk.