Han shot first. I was an eyewitness.
One of my peak movie moments came in grad school, when a group of us went out to see a moving picture show, as they were still known at that time.
I don’t recall what we had been planning to see, but a neatly dressed young man, slacks and polo shirt, approached us and asked if we would be interested in attending a test screening of a new movie in the final stages of development. Free tickets if we wanted them, for the price of providing short feedback afterwards. He couldn’t tell us the title, who was in it, or anything about the plot. He just said it was a science fiction film and that it was suitable for family viewing.
We were there on a mission to see something else, but none of us had ever participated in a test screening, and we thought that was cool. We were also living on grad student budgets, and free tickets were especially cool. After all, movies were already getting expensive. They were probably starting to break the $2.00 threshold by that time ....
We accepted the offer. The movie was Star Wars.
Han shot first.
A moving picture show? Was it a talkie? God knows I love Mary Pickford but the girl has a mouth like a sailor that one! Sometimes silent is golden.
We called them movies in the ‘60’s....