Han shot first, What's on second.

I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with the "Han shot first" controversy surrounding a scene in the Star Wars movie A New Hope in which Han Solo kills Greedo. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter on February 9th, George Lucas claimed that Greedo always shot first:

                    GEORGE LUCAS

          The controversy over who shot first, Greedo or Han Solo, in Episode
          IV, what I did was try to clean up the confusion, but obviously it 

          upset people because they wanted Solo [who seemed to be the one who 

          shot first in the original] to be a cold-blooded killer, but he 

          actually isn’t. It had been done in all close-ups and it was 

          confusing about who did what to whom. I put a little wider shot in 

          there that made it clear that Greedo is the one who shot first, but 

          everyone wanted to think that Han shot first, because they wanted to 

          think that he actually just gunned him down.

I don't know, Mr. Lucas. I still think Han is the only one who fired his blaster. Take a look at this clip from the theatrical version of A New Hope.



I don't know what you see, but this is my perception of the scene: Han and Greedo talk, while Greedo points his blaster at Han. Han secretly goes for his blaster under the table, and the audience can see this. Greedo heavily implies that he is about to kill Han. One shot is heard, sparks and smoke are seen in front of Greedo. Here, I think the editing was supposed to be ambiguous. It's one of those classic and cliche movie scenes where there is gunfire, and for some amount of time, the audience doesn't know who was hit. It gets the audience involved in the scene because they are concerned for one of the characters until it is revealed who actually got shot. That's what happens in this scene in A New Hope until a second or two after the blaster fire when Greedo falls onto the table. Not only did Han shoot first, but he was the only one to shoot.