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Post #269335

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zombie84
Parent topic
"Archiving seminar reveals 'Star Wars' tidbit?" Another SE?!
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Date created
2-Feb-2007, 2:00 AM
The cloud city thing i think is just a pacing issue. There was a scene where Lando went outside, tethered himself to the Falcon, retrieved Luke and dragged him back in, but at that point the film is just moving at an incredible rate and it works really well to just have him fall, cut to Lando's voice saying "okay lets go" and then reveal him bringing Luke inside the hatch.

Anyway, as for Hume, while IMDB is user-based and often has inaccurate data, this whole thing is very strange--i mean, why would someone make up such a wild story? It has to come from somewhere. And it certainly is believable.
My first thought was what someone else said: that some of footage that was shot last indeed looks cheap--but then i realised the whole movie looks inconsistently cheap and glossy, depending on shot to shot. All the scenes in the throne room are lit horribly--partially due to the fact that it was an entirely black set that needed to be flooded with light to read detail--and most the shots are just kind of bland and rough. This is because Marquand said he wanted the rough, fastly-shot look of ANH, and Lucas wanted the shoot done as quickly as possible, so it was sort of guerrilla style, just do the minimum lighting, do a take and if you don't get it then move on. On the other hand, a scene like Luke's unmasking of Vader--which was directed by Lucas--is lit in an understated but appropriately dramatic way, and some of the Jabbas Palace stuff is interestingly done.