It’s clear that this film has a lot of backstory things its story presupposes that the audience hasn’t seen. Why Episode IV? Why not ∾pisode I? Why start a story in the middle? They had already seen the movie from its original set of prints, and (not being as in touch with the fan magazines as I was at the time) they weren’t expecting the new line. I remember the first time that I saw the new lines in the opening crawl, and I heard people around me in the theater saying, Huh? What? Episode IV? as soon as they saw it. George Lucas, who conceived, wrote, and directed Star Wars, always envisioned it as part of a larger whole, and as soon as it became apparent that the series was successful enough for the sequels Lucas intended, a new batch of prints was ordered, and audiences began to see ∾pisode IV A New Hope added to the opening crawl (the words that float up the screen at the beginning of the movie).
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