Do we need to see Leia gain admittance though? Just like with Lando, we didn’t see how he got in; he just is already in, which could work the same for Leia also.
Right, with this idea Leia is already in the palace and has probably been there for a while.
If she has already been in for a while, then that tells me she was already accepted, and so then it still makes zero sense for her to surrender Chewie for no apparent benefit. I understand what you were going for with the idea, but we don’t need to see her get the “You go girl” nod from Fett. My point is she could’ve already been accepted in by Fett and everyone else, just as Lando was.
Also with the removal of this whole scene, we then won’t have to worry about seeing Lando pulling down his disguise and essentially telling the audience, “Hey it’s me guys!”
It doesn’t make sense that she would have been accepted like Lando. Lando was a known scoundrel. It’s reasonable to believe that he would have the cred to be accepted into Jabba’s service as someone who recently lost their gig as a city administrator and has fallen on hard times. Leia, on the other hand, is instantly recognizable as a former senator and member of the Rebellion. There’s no way she’d be accepted sight unseen without a really good disguise and plausible Bounty Hunter credentials. Enlisting Boba Fett to help ‘capture’ Chewie solves this problem. Chewie is her price of admission, even if it’s inconvenient later on.
I like your idea but also think it’s making this more complicated than it needs to be 😃 because there’s no way you’d be able to explain that notion to the audience; they are still just seeing her giving up Chewie. Let’s just expect that the palace doesn’t actually know it’s Lando in disguise, and just the same they don’t know that is is Leia as Boushh. How she got in, it may have been different than Lando’s method, sure, but we don’t have to see how. Besides, how would they confirm if it was Lando or not? Did he have to take off his helmet and say, “Yeah it’s me.”? If so, then wouldn’t Leia also have to take off her mask and explain, “No, I’m not actually Princess Leia. I get that a lot, though.”?