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Post #363917

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Bingowings
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The ANH:SE Redux Ideas thread (Radical Ideas Welcome).
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Date created
5-Jun-2009, 10:50 PM

Janskeet said:

Sixth, I will be removing the "Wookies are known to do that" line. Unnecessary dialogue.

A) if you going to remove every non-essential line from the film you will end up with an almost silent movie, real life is full of non-essential information which provides colour and flavour to life. People don't spend their time just saying pertinant things, which is one of the reasons why much of the dialogue in the PT seems forced, it's mostly exposition and people don't talk that way so it doesn't sit well when they do it in fictional drama.

B) I think the line is pretty much essential as I explained earlier. It demonstrates the relationship between droids and non-droids, and provides us with a bit of character set up for the droids, Chewie and Han.

Like removing the Han smile I can't see how removing the line improves the scene in anyway.

You seem to be making changes just for the sake of making changes.

Changes should only be made when the material as it currently is causes or adds to a problem and removing it improves or clarifies some aspect of the story.

In this case the line doesn't cause any problems, in fact it serves a purpose and removing it improves and clarifies nothing.