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My main beef with this scene is that there is no workprint cut of what it was before they made it more slick.
I assume it was a good decision without seeing any scenes that were filmed or how it was originally in workprint.
But my gut feeling tells me that this sequence was a headache and probably dragged but I would like to have seen it before they changed it.
The special edition forgetting the vader on the deathstar abomination does not mean that the original workprint dragged but they must have cut scenes or deviated from script for good reasons.
I wonder if the script was edited order wise to relate to the footage more closely as Vader watching the falcon (departing) would suggest that scene of him walking on to the landing platform was meant to appear before Luke calls for Leia. Or it's a script writing goof! When Lucas did the special edition he probably got the idea from the cut scene but modified it.
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Having slept on it, if you treat the script as correct and unmodified order it is a shame there is no scene with Vader with said cape blowing in the wind on the Landing platform seeing the falcon re-approach cloud city. It always felt like they got back there too quick than the time that had passed when they escaped. But again without seeing what scenes were filmed and cut and how the sequence played before editing we won't know how it went or if the scene was even shot. This would have been a far more interesting extra scene than what we got for the special edition version. and more canon to the script and not putting in that horrible line by a JEJ impersonator :)
INTERIOR: CLOUD CITY -- LANDING PLATFORM
VADER: Bring my shuttle.
EXTERIOR: CLOUD CITY-- LANDING PLATFORM
Vader enters the landing platform and stops and watches as the speck
that is the Falcon gets closer.(over shoulder POV upper torso) The wind blows at his cape.
The sound of a shuttle engines landing and lights cross over the platform. Vader's cape makes a flap sound as he sharply turns to the right towards the shuttle off screen.
It just makes you wonder how we ended up with what we did in the special edition given some real simple thought to script inconsistancies on the back of the Falcon is returning not flying away.