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SomethingStarWarsRelated
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Info & Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
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3-Apr-2010, 2:31 PM

Monroville said:

No problemo, SSWR!

Regarding "the troopers versus Leia" scene (I may have mentioned this already), I don't know what you could do with it.  Some ideas:

(1) just cut it out.  I know it was supposed to be a flip on the EMPIRE scene, but it just comes across as a lazy flip on the EMPIRE scene.  I would replace the "laser graze to the arm" with an actual explosion (a little more to the right of the screen) so Leia takes a schrapnel hit as opposed to a poorly aimed laser blast.  Then it could just segway to the Scout Walker approaching them.  That way you have R2 hit, Leia hit and now comes the SW for the kill; the dramatic tension could really work as opposed to having the "I wuv you; I know" bit let out the steam.

(2) if there was a way to alter the scene so instead of saying "freeze" and all that jive, have the troopers say something to the effect of: "It's the princess! She has a bounty on her head!"  or "My brothers were on the last Death Star...I've been waiting for this for a long time."  Leia:"Yes, I bet you have (which could be done by keeping the shot on the troopers, but adding an out-of-focus stand in for Carrie Fisher [as we are looking over her shoulder, so we'd see part of her head, say on the right side of the screen] and have someone who sounds like CF dub the line, so you don't see her face or mouth when the words are spoken)." followed with FISTFUL OF DOLLARS type shot where you can see the blaster in the foreground as she/it shoots both troopers, followed with Han's look (being that it would implicate that she now has a bit of the scoundrel in her now).

 Hmmm...I really like idea #1. That could be doable...I think.  ;)

Not as fond of idea #2...it just seems a little-...hard to say why...it seems too complicated to pull off...but hey! just about anything is better than what is there! ;P