theprequelsrule said:
The Aluminum Falcon said:
Hmm... perhaps the most glaring thing of ROTJ to me about the movie is its lack of grandeur and its wholly inconsistent tone.
I probably would have made Endor a far more exotic planet, maybe filled with unearthly plants... It wouldn't look like Earth's forests.
An aesthetic change I'd make is having Luke have a red lightsaber and Darth Vader have a blue light saber, having retrieved his old lightsaber from the duel on Cloud City. It would be like the "Revenge" poster and also hint at a change in the two characters. Vader going back too good and Luke possibly falling to the Dark Side. It would enhance the reverse symbolism greatly in the end duel... speaking of duels,
Another thing I would have is a double-duel between Obi-Wan and the Emperor and Vader and Luke. As in the early drafts, Obi-Wan would have been resurrected back in the flesh with more power than Vader imagined... equal if not better to the Emperor. The Vader and Luke duel would be lightsabers, as in the movie. On the other hand, the other duel would be using the force... going as far as to shift the environment with the force. It would be somewhat like Scanners...
Speaking of Scanners, I think that ROTJ could have used a better director to fix the wholly inconsistent tone. It would have been nice to have either Croenberg or Spielberg. Croenberg could have provided a much more cerebral ending, while Spielberg could focus on the "family" aspect of the movie, since it's a recurring theme of his movies
I'm sorry my man, but all these ideas are terrible. The irony is that they sound like something that post-1990 George Lucas would approve of. Shifting the environment with the force? Really? Sometimes less is more and The force works much better as a concept when it is something subtle - but that went out the door with ESB.
... a movie where Lucas had very little impact on during its production.
Fail.