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did putting the word jedi in the title alienate audiences?

posted a year ago by rateater (10247)
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not everyone knew what a jedi was.

[–] Martoto (5191) 10 months ago

[–] moviechatterer (16326) 10 months ago

not even after BK carefully explained it in the first movie.
And luke spent half the second movie training for it?

[–] [deleted] 10 months ago

If you didn't know what a Jedi was in 1983, you didn't exist.

[–] Ilyathe2nd (178) 9 months ago

If by "hurt" you mean grossing half a billion in 1983, then yeah, hurt me as well, daddy. Although ESB is the more respected sequel and a tighter narrative, this is still a massive cultural phenomenon!

[–] quartz (482) 9 months ago

it was called Revenge of the Jedi originally. but Lucas changed it because 'revenge' wasn't something that Jedi pursued in principle. #TrueStoryYouMightHaveAlreadyKnown

[–] pjl69 (2647) 9 months ago

Yeah, there were posters and shirts which had Revenge of the Jedi printed on them. Might be valuable collector's items now.

[–] parkerbot (10724) 9 months ago

Uhm, everyone alive at the time knew what the movie was about.