JCVD1 wrote:I've got a question for you.
How dare you saying Greedo shot first?!
"Greedo is an associate of Jabba the Hutt, a Tatooine based crime lord for whom Han also used to work. At the time of the events in A New Hope, Jabba has put a bounty on Han, who had been transporting cargo for the crime lord, but was forced to dump it in order to avoid capture by an Imperial search party. Greedo accosts Han and pulls his blaster on him. Han tells Greedo that he has accumulated enough money to pay Jabba back. Greedo demands the money and grows angrier when Han tells him he does not have it in his possession. As Han begins to ready his own blaster, Greedo tells him that Jabba has run out of patience with Solo and that he, Greedo, had been "waiting for a long time" to take out his former associate. Han replies, "Yes, I'll bet you have", and shoots him dead with a concealed blaster.
In the original theatrical version of the film, immediately after we see just Han saying "I'll bet you have", to Greedo, a cloud of smoke then blurs the screen showing Greedo face-on, and the next shot shows Greedo's corpse, from behind, slumping over the table. When the film was released in its first modified form in 1997, an additional second of footage was added showing that Greedo shot at Han from point blank range and missed, with the cloud of smoke coming from Han's blaster after he returned fire. Thus, the phrase "Han shot first" is a retort to director George Lucas' explicit cinematic assertion that "Greedo shot first".
The alteration of the scene was disagreeable to a number of longtime fans of the series, provoking some to create an online petition demanding that the changes be retracted. The primary objection to the revision is that it alters Han's initially morally ambiguous character, making his later transition from anti-hero to hero less meaningful. Since the 1997 Special Editions, there have been two DVD releases. In the 2004 DVD release, the disputed scene was altered again. In this version,
Greedo still shoots before Han does and still misses at close range, but the timing is altered so the shots are fired at nearly the same time and to depict Han "dodging" the shot (digital manipulation is used to "lean" the character to one side).
The 2006 DVD had two versions—the 2004 changes and the original theatrical version. The theatrical version features no changes, including Han shooting first. When announcing the dual-version DVDs, Lucasfilm noted that the scene was included by saying: "...and yes, [viewers] see Han Solo shoot first."
For the 2011 Blu-ray release, the shot of Han and Greedo firing at each other from the 2004 DVD has been tightened up by several frames.
In a 2012 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Lucas altered his previous statements by announcing that
Greedo had always shot first, stating that a combination of bad close-up shots and the audiences' inaccurate perception of the Han Solo character was what actually caused all the confusion. Lucas stated
"The controversy over who shot first, Greedo or Han Solo, in Episode IV, what I did was try to clean up the confusion, but obviously it upset people because they wanted Solo to be a cold-blooded killer, but he actually isn’t. It had been done in all close-ups and it was confusing about who did what to whom. I put a little wider shot in there that made it clear that Greedo is the one who shot first, but everyone wanted to think that Han shot first, because they wanted to think that he actually just gunned him down."
Despite this claim from Lucas, drafts of the original shooting script on the internet make no mention of Greedo shooting at all, only Han.
Peter Mayhew, the actor who played Chewbacca in the original series, was asked in a Reddit AMA, "Mr Mayhew. Did Han really shoot first ? You were there. You saw it first hand. The truth needs to come out !" His response was "uughghhhgh uughghhhgh huuguughghg."
When the guy who wrote it says Greedo shot first, you kinda gotta go with it. Don't make me email Lucas (again) to say it.
Happy to report internet service has been restored (knocks on wood) although it is hard typing with gloves on. 
