swlucasverse:Mos Eisley was one of the scenes that actually prompted this whole adventure of redoing
swlucasverse:Mos Eisley was one of the scenes that actually prompted this whole adventure of redoing the movie. Because there were some scenes in there with the speeder - that was obviously supposed to float across the landscape - and in the Mos Eisley sequence coming up to the cantina, they never really accomplished that. And all the best they could do was to put some vaseline on the lense to kind of fudge out the wheels under the car, but it didn’t look like it was floating, it was sitting right on the ground and it was this sort of orange blob underneath it that we jokingly called the ‘Force field’.That combined with the fact that I wanted to have Mos Eisley to be more exotic and to be larger, to have spaceships and more creatures running around - more like a real city - is what really prompted a lot of this redo on the film. So, we designed a series of shots which show Mos Eisley in a much grander scale. We pulled back and see the whole city, we see a lot more beasts of burden moving around in the city, more activity and it just gives you a better sense of what Mos Eisley is. — George Lucas -- source link