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Post #1328058

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ATMachine
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The Empire Strikes Back - a general Random Thoughts thread
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Date created
7-Mar-2020, 2:05 PM

Tack said:

Adherence to ‘tradition’ makes the opening a little irksome to me. Jambe Davdar’s reconstruction of the storyboarded opening crawl is something I personally find a lot more interesting; a blue crawl over a snow-covered landscape, altogether different from the first film yet similar enough that an audience would be sure they came to the right film. Not to mention, opening with the launching of the probes removes a bit of the tension and mystery that was in the script; there are two threats, one to Luke and one to the Rebellion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdXzAcwyVrY

There’s one thing in that reconstruction that isn’t quite right: as I understand it, the original idea was to have the background plate be a top-down view of the snowy Hoth plains, so it would nearly be a featureless white.

Once the crawl finished, Luke on a tauntaun would ride into frame, and then the film would cut from a top-down view to a normal perspective.

Also, according to Rinzler’s Making of ESB, “a million worlds” was changed in the shooting script to “a thousand worlds”.