- A new Force Ghost. While it obviously cannot be the 2004 version, Shaw’s isn’t much better. After the “I am your father” twist, which puts Vader as still a regular human at least 9 months before Luke is born, it means he’s in his 50s, guessing Anakin was in his 30s when Luke was born, PT notwithstanding. Shaw doesn’t look the part at all - in fact, he looks older than Guinness! So I would love a new ghost, an aged-up Hayden, but unfortunately I don’t know how that could come to be.
Yeah feel like what gets lost in the discussion of how bad the Hayden ghost is is that the Shaw ghost is just as bad. People complain that Hayden’s expression wasn’t even for that… well Shaw had no idea what he was filming that for either. And he was older than Guinness, 77 years old.
^ Love that mockup, RL!
I think, if it’s doable, getting a music-free version of the scene would be a great starting point, then put something else into place if it feels empty.
Temple of Doom provides a good example of a diegetic ritual track that could be much more menacing. Obviously you wouldn’t use that one but you could do something along those lines. Some basic tribal drums could underscore a SFX driven scene.