Randomness Corner: The original 1977 Star Wars trailer wasn't quite the same as you might imagine.

Tonight at midnight across America, people who don't have to work in the morning or who are looking for an excuse to escape various family members will gather en masse to see the latest Star Wars film.

So here's the original trailer from 1977 for the first movie in the franchise. It shows a wonky Star Wars title card and lacks John Williams's famous music, making it all read more like a psychological thriller in its silence than a space opera. I half expected Glenn Close to jump out and try to stab Obi-Wan with a knife.





Darth Vader doesn't even speak. It's like whenever you see a trailer for some foreign language film and the filmmakers try to bamboozle people skittish of subtitles into thinking it's a Hollywood production, so all the characters just walk around and smile charmingly while mute.

Or, in Vader's case, fling bodies around like a beaten pinata.