The reason some dialogue changed from the OT and the OTSE is because, in the interest of using cuts with better picture quality, a few alternate takes were used. In Empire, after R2 is spat out on Dagobah, Luke used to say, "You're lucky you don't taste very good". And now he says, "you were lucky to get out of there". I was kinda ticked, but only cuz I really liked the old line. There are probably a few more I haven't caught yet. This is also the reason for, in ANH, just before the swing across the Death Star Chasm, when Leia is providing cover fire for Luke, her rifle suddenly sounds like a projectile based weapon (i believe ILM said its a .45, but I could be wrong). They had cuts with slightly different sound effects and they didn't even realize they'd used that one for quite some time. A lot of dialogue (recorded just for the SE's) was added as well. Now in ANH when the stormtrooper bumps his head on that door, the lead trooper says "See to him". And later in ANH, when Han and Chewie are being chased by Stormtroopers in the Death Star, the old version just had the trooper yelling "Open the blast doors! Open the blast doors!". Now, before saying that, they have him saying "Close the blast doors! Close the blast doors!". I guess Lucas thought it was funny. A little to Spielburg for me, but its minor enough to ignore.
Originally posted by mephistodesigns
And later in ANH, when Han and Chewie are being chased by Stormtroopers in the Death Star, the old version just had the trooper yelling "Open the blast doors! Open the blast doors!". Now, before saying that, they have him saying "Close the blast doors! Close the blast doors!". I guess Lucas thought it was funny. A little to Spielburg for me, but its minor enough to ignore.
Actually, the "Open the blast doors, open the blast doors!" line WAS in the originals in the theaters. I remember that line and thought it was funny, the whole premise of them running around the death star was the Empire was this like huge organization that couldn't control a few ragamuffins like Luke, Han & Chewie. Then when it came out on video, the "open" line was cut, while the "close the blast doors" stayed in, keeping only half the joke. It may have been cut to shorten the movie to 2 hours to fit on the first videos.
I was glad to see the line was back in the special editions, but I've a feeling the film they used when they say "open..." was special edition storm troopers... I couldn't remember that far back!