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Post #386511

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INVAR
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Info & Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
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20-Nov-2009, 3:54 PM

If Adywan still has the strength to do a fan edit of Jedi - for me - the biggest wish I could hope for is a complete digital re-do of the Executor smashing into the side of DSII.


Sorry - but that has bugged the crap out of me since I first saw it in 1983 and was disappointed with all the other 'extras' added to Jedi that it was not updated.

In my mind's eye - after the shot of Home One's POV of the Executor listing towards the DSII - that the long shot of the ship diving straight down is fine - but then it needs to cut to a closer shot of the bow slamming into the surface and crunching upwards, causing towers on the Executor to collapse down towards the surface with interior explosions on the Executor rising up.  The DSII surface should be breached somewhat - with an expanding ripple perhaps of the metal surface expanding outward towards camera.  The Arizona explosion in Pearl Harbor is somewhat the idea when the deck bulges upwards before it explodes.

Then cut to a long shot of the entire ship collapsing into the surface - with cracks and interior explosions traveling up through the doomed ship (maybe even parts raining down off the sides like some of the building collapse shots in 2012) until the interior explosions hit the rear engines.  Then have them go nova - with big parts meteoring down to the DSII surface (after all the Death star does rotate to create it's own gravity).

I think a 'hold my privates' shot like that would be far superior to the 'flamethrower' up out of the Death Star shot that is currently there.

Sadly the Executor destruction suffers the same fate as Boba Fett.  Quick and without proper justice.  For such a prominent ship in the OT - I thought it deserved a better end than a quick flaming roman candle that we got.

I'll see if I can Photoshop some storyboard ideas to convey what I have in my head - and if someone with far more skill and talent than I can do it - then I think that addition to an Adywan Jedi edit will top the "Here they come" TIE fighter shot in ANHR which gave me goosebumps.

Just wishing out loud.