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star wars - Ben Kenobi's other house


From my earliest watching of Star Wars, I remember distinctly that Ben Kenobi's home on Tatooine wasn't a Tunisian domed house that we know from the movie, but a cave cut out of the rock itself.


The establishing shot was one of the Petra caves, looking something like this


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After decades of talking to people and being greeted by blank stares, I casually brought it up to a guy who remembered the same thing.


Given the n^2 versions of Star Wars out there, was there a version of a New Hope that had this alternate "Kenobi's Home" or is this a bizarre and rare shared halucination?



Answer



Editing and montage makes you think that Kenobi lives in a cave



It is a well known fact that editing saved "New Hope" from being a very poor movie, maybe even worse then "Last Jedi" :D Unfortunately some things had to be cut, so we have a story with very sharp transitions in some parts, and Kenobi's house is one of them.


First, there is a part where old Ben saves Luke from Sand People in front of some caves. We were never shown how Kenobi got there, implying that he lives near by.


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Next we have brief look at Kenobi's house. Unfortunately this is sudden, the trip to it is never shown, and after that we have an indoor scene - a very important one where Kenobi talks about the Jedi and Luke's father, Leia appears in a message, Luke mulls should he go with Kenobi or return home ... Therefore, people tend to forget this shot:


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Also note that the walls in Kenobi's house are very rough, so it's hard to discern if this a house or a modified cave.


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Luke makes the decision he is not coming with Kenobi. Movie cuts to Imperials and after that comes a scene where Luke and Kenobi discover dead Jawas. Again, it is never shown how did they get there, subconsciously implying that Obi-Wan and Luke didn't go far. Scenery in this scene resembles the scenery in the first scene (Sand People attack and rescue). So a casual viewer would conclude that after Kenobi saved Luke they simply hid in one of the caves (Kenobi's home) and after a while they emerged only to find the Jawas attacked and killed.


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