Bobocop said:ben_danger said:well they could get right close towards the climax in the tower, as all hell is breaking loose anyway.
as oppose to a fighter, why not a burning star destroyer crashing into the surface of the DS (aka force unleashed trailer), maybe as it crashes down, the tower shakes and at allows for luke to charge vader.
bits could then fall from the ceiling, and more sparks would fly. it would parallel ROTS with events happening on geonosis that directly intereact with the duel, like when the shields get disabled on the platforms?
I think you mean Mustafar :P
But all nitpicking aside, that sounds like a cool idea. Certainly not necessary, but would add a bit more worry for Luke's safety as it reminds the viewer that the station he is in is under attack.
For me the sabre duels are metaphors for the conflicts going on between and within the character's minds (which is why the duel in TPM doesn't work at all for me because we can't hear the thoughts in the form of dialogue...but then George did say that he thought they were just people bashing sticks together).
So having ships falling into the duel (while fun in video games) takes away from the personal, almost conversational, aspects of the duel.
In ROTS the environment boiling around Anakin and Obi-Wan serves as a metaphor for Anakin's rage that is about consume him.
While the Death Star coming apart might work as a metaphor for the Empire breaking apart (and perhaps more could be made of that when the Emperor dies) it doesn't really work with Luke and Vader's fight which is more of a internal stuggle between a fallen father who is trying to reclaim the idealism of his youth (as represented by his son) while at the same time trying to pass on the same damage and replicate his failure to validate it and a falling son who is struggling not to make the mistakes of his father while at the same time trying to repair the damage those mistakes made.
Luke and Vader are almost one character from two different points in time struggling to achieve balance and anything that gets in the way of that subtracts from that mythical struggle.