confessionsofanoperaghost: rainbowrowell: drowning-moonlight: thetrekkiehasthephonebox: mightyviper:
confessionsofanoperaghost: rainbowrowell: drowning-moonlight: thetrekkiehasthephonebox: mightyviper: dontbearuiner: lettersfromtitan: kriatyrr: backyarditarian: widdershinsgirl: ohgodhesloose: cheskamouse: jasoncanty01: brightcopperpenny: superpunch2: Female pilots edited out of the Star Wars movies. I saw the tweets about this today, and I was like oh yeah, I remember hearing about that. And then I saw the pictures and just— wow. What it would have meant to have these women in the movie, all this time. I can’t properly articulate it but it’s hitting me unexpectedly hard. Wow thats a shame, even a nice old lady too. These Space Valkyries should have been left in. They really should have. ADSVFISIDCNCIDSVHIUEFUHFIDHuvririahfuwvrui4m8ywmu36 8hthfahuiharahfiargnihiurhurhaigoznifrbogirifrbgorbzo154+849848e54645w8va0 WHAT. THE. FUCK. I lived, ate, and breathed Star Wars from age 2 until 2005 when RotS finally beat the enthusiasm out of me, and I have NEVER, EVER in all my reading on behind-the-scenes and makings-of heard of these shots. It’s a shame there was no relaunched edit of the original trilogy they could have slipped these in OH FUCKING WAIT THERE’S BEEN LIKE 3 OF THOSE NOW. Fuck. FUCK. Whoever decided to edit out and bury these needs to french kiss an angle grinder. I want to see the old lady in the A-Wing. Seriously, it’s like, she’s somebody’s grandma. Some kid in the Outer Rim Territories got greased by the Empire for seeing something she wasn’t supposed to see, and her grandma, the bush pilot, decided “Fuck this, I’m gonna strap on an fighter and make the Empire fucking PAY for the moment it decided to fuck with MY FAMILY.” DON’T. MESS. WITH. GRANDMA. These are quickly being put into the “always reblog” category. Whenever there is a war, there are women who are warriors. Then they get erased from history. Happens in real wars and fictional ones alike. Less than 5% of general aviation licenses go to women. If these had been left in, you can bet that number would be higher. ^^^That knocked the breath out of me. I just can’t believe they not only took them out, but refused to put them back in during the seventeen times they updated the movies. And of course the only possible explanation for this is: you do not belong here. Literally though. How many stupid remasters have they done but THIS gets left out? Ugh for the record the names of these characters are Sila Kott played by Poppy Hands and Dorovio Bold played by Vivienne Chandler. I couldn’t find the name of the old woman though :( http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dorovio_Bold “As well as her appearance in the briefing, footage of the character in a cockpit during the Battle of Endor was also filmed, but not used in the final cut of the movie.” http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sila_Kott “Although played by British actress Poppy Hands in Return of the Jedi, Sila Kott was later dubbed over by an American man’s voice.” I’ve seen these photos before, and it didn’t even OCCUR to me that they could have been restored during the special edition. It would have meant so much. I was struck hard by all the women in The Last Jedi. During that first scene, where you see all the women in every job, in the First Order AND the Resistance… I started to cry. ☝ -- source link