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Chrille
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STAR WARS: EP V "REVISITED EDITION"ADYWAN - 12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW
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16-Jun-2009, 8:45 AM
RoccondilRinon said:

That's more or less what I assumed. A more radical edit might make the time difference more explicit — the Bespin scenes and the Dagobah scenes are intercut in the original and ESB:R, whereas a time-stretching edit would place the Bespin scenes after most of Dagobah.

The only problem with this is that the Han/Leia romantic subplot plays out like they were only on the Falcon for a few days. You could justify this in a harder piece of SF by citing relativistic effects — they take a few months to get to Bespin, giving Luke the requisite time to train, but they only perceive a few days — but in something like Star Wars it comes across as handwaving.

 

Well, I always thought they behaved very differently towards each other on Bespin, more tenderly and such. Like some time had passed since they first left the asteroid field. Of course, the movie itself isn't very good at conveying this passage of time - indeed it feels like merely a few days (except for Han's comment about Bespin being "pretty far" away).

It's a shame really, because a simple line from C-3PO about how "this long trip is finally over" or something like that would have probably done the trick.