chewbacca in A Sentence

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    George Lucas Chewbacca.

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    Ironically, in one very questionable Expanded Universe comic called, Into the Great Unknown, Chewbacca and Han Solo crash into a forest on Earth.

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    When asked why Chewbacca got stiffed on the medal front, Lucas explained that the Wookiee people“do not care for medals” and as a result, Chewbacca simply didn't want it.

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    In it, Chewbacca is given a medal by Princess Leia in a small private ceremony, with Leia having to stand on a table so that she can reach him comfortably.

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    This is strange, because according to the film's novelization which was released six months before the film and was supposedly written by George Lucas, Chewbacca did get a medal during the award ceremony.

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    Lucas explained that because Princess Leia was so much shorter than Chewbacca, who is canonically stated to be 7 feet 6 inches tall(3 inches taller than Peter Mayhew, the actor who physically portrays him), she couldn't place the medal around the Wookiee's neck.

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    However, throughout the trilogy, Chewbacca could be seen piloting and fixing the Millenium Falcon as well as demonstrate his proficiency with laser guns, and Lucas realized that they would accidentally made Wookies too technologically advanced, so he had to invent Ewoks instead.

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    According to Peter Mayhew, the actor who plays Chewbacca, during the filming of the Endor scenes, he wasn't allowed to walk around the forest in costume without other people with him because the crew were concerned that he would be shot by a hunter, perhaps mistaking him for Bigfoot.

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    Exactly why Lucas decided to make this change during his many revisions of the script isn't clear, because he eventually went back on his explanation that Wookiees don't place value in tangible rewards in a later interview with the Official Star Wars Fan Club, instead claiming that Chewbacca did get a medal in a small ceremony after the one seen in the film.

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