Brand-new Fifth (and final?) Edition
The Definitive...and only...Work on the Star Wars Cantina!
The last thing I want to do to a work like this is "Lucas it;" in other words keep tinkering with it instead of just letting it lie. However, a handful of new sources appeared that included material that really needed to be included. So why not fix some grammar and wordings along the way? At any rate...I don't plan on messing with this behemoth any further! If you have any of the older versions, you will want to replace them with this one.
This book collects and collates all information from 40+ years about the Mos Eisley Cantina. Sourced from everywhere, including books, magazines, documentaries, comics, websites, you name it. All the way from Lucas' first ideas of a spaceport cantina, to what I have called "The Maclunkey Debacle."
So, why read a 300 page book about one scene of the original film? Not a bad question, and this is coming from somebody who rarely reads anything that's not comics....and certainly not anything without pictures (a double-major in English and History did that to me). You like pictures, too? Well, if I said that it had more than 700 illustrations and photos, would that help?
Here are the included chapters:
1) The Evolution of the Cantina
2) The (two groups of ) Artists Who Made the Masks
3) Mapping the Cantina
4) Filming the Cantina (Twice)
5-6) Chapters 5 and 6 offer an encyclopedic look at every single Cantina customer!
7) Cantina Conspiracy
Was the Cantina purposefully left out of early Star Wars marketing, and why?
8) A History of Cantina Toys and Playsets
9) The Star Wars Holiday Special
Can it get any worse? Oh yes, yes it can...bios on all characters are also included!
10) Cantina Appearances In Other Media
Including TV, Comics, and much more
11) Detailed Bibliography and Required Reading
pages and pages, listing hundreds of sources
And all of this is free, free, free! I just give it away. Why? Because I don't want to go to D****y jail, silly.
LINK (5th...and final?....Edition): the cantina compendium (5th edition, 2024)
This is awesome. Nice job!
ReplyDeleteIs there another way to access/purchase your book? The file link is dead.
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ReplyDeleteA fantastic and professional job! Great work!
ReplyDelete@Anonymous - Thank you! I'm very glad my work is being enjoyed!
ReplyDeleteGreat guide! I have been using to track down autographs. Unnoticed a lot of the masked aliens from California are listed as unknown actors. It appears for a few years before the pandemic the people who wore the masks on film were signing autographs at conventions. Here is what I gathered from my research.:
DeleteBith 1: Penny McCarthy
Bith 2: Karen Flakinburg
Bith 3: John Berg
Bith 4: Phil Tippet
Bith 5: Laine Liska
Bith 6: Doug Beswick
Bith 7: unknown, could be Tom Amand or Jibralta Merrill
Bith 8 at Muftak’s table: Doug Beswick
Labria: Penny McCarthy
Myo: Penny McCarthy
Feltipern the Gotal: Penny McCarthy
Dom the Don Rickles: Penny McCarthy
Trinto: Kim Falkenburg
Lak the Hyena Man: Kim Falkenburg
Djas the Coal Man: Kim Falkenburg
Third Duros who wear Ariel’s jacket: Kim Falkenburg
Ariel Wolfman: Kim Falkenburg
Muftak: Laine Liska
Hem Dozan: Laine Liska
Hammer Head: John Berg & Phil Tippet
Bannis the Duros: John Berg
Elis the Skull Face: John Berg
Yam Nose: Phil Tippet
Anonymous, sorry for the late reply.
ReplyDeleteThis is all very interesting! I'd like to do an update, as I'm sure there is going to be another edition sooner than later! Thank you! Let me know if you run across any other info.
Anonymous here again. But you can contact me at ronwolek@gmail.com
DeleteThe Gotal who talks to Hammerhead and the Gotal w/ the robe who walks passed Greedo before he’s shot have been given names in 2017.
“ Cobb Sonbepol was a Gotal who was present in Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina in the Mos Eisley spaceport on the planet Tatooine in the year 0 BBY. When local hermit Obi-Wan Kenobi and moisture farmer Luke Skywalker entered the cantina in search of a pilot, Sonbepol sat at a table conversing with fellow patrons Momaw Nadon and Trinto Duaba.
Behind the scenes:
Cobb Sonbepol was portrayed by an uncredited actor in the 1977 original trilogy film, Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. The character's costume in the film used the same mask and prop claws as Feltipern Trevagg and Hennet Kayn, the two other Gotal characters visible in the cantina. The Gotals were added to the film as part of supplemental footage for the cantina sequence shot during post production on a sound stage in Dovington's Hollywood studio between January 24 and 25, 1977.
The claws had originally been crafted by costume designer Rick Baker as props from the film It's Alive, which Baker had also previously worked on. They were modified with fur for Star Wars by make-up artist Laine Liska, who also created the character's mask after it was designed by conceptual artist Ron Cobb. The cantina character Myo also used a separate pair of the same claw props but without the fur.
Having gone unnamed for forty years after first appearing in A New Hope, the Sonbepol character was first identified in 2017. During the "Behind the Scenes of the Cantina" panel at Star Wars Celebration Orlando that year, Lucasfilm Story Group member Pablo Hidalgo used elements of attendee Sonja Beyer-Paulsen's name to create the name "Cobb Sonbepol."
Also, wookiepedia now identifies the 4th unknown Rodian as Beedo. Beedo, Thuku, Neesh, and Greedo all appear in the cantina; and then Beedo, Thuku, and Neesh appear at Docking Bay 94. Beedo is Greedo’s nephew and also appears in Return of the Jedi inside Jabba’s Palace.
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