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Post #409510

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Bingowings
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Info & Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
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16-Apr-2010, 9:10 AM

Sevb32 said:

Bingowings said:

This might sound like a petty suggestion but Vader's movements in ROTJ especially during the final duel are rather blandly composed ( I imagine partly to mask that Bob Anderson wasn't as tall as David Prowse...once again please correct me if I wrong here).

If it were possible to get someone of the right build and in the right suit to do more dramatic movements (not just during the fight scenes but generally speaking too) it may lift the character who looked rather dull in this outing most of the time compared to ESB.

This bit of art (from the Story Of ESB story album) points somewhere in the direction I hinting at :

 

Not all of the time obviously but for some key moments a shot like this would add a bit of the old Vader charm to ROTJ.

 But Anderson was also the guy in Vader suit in ESB. Anderson is 6'1", Hamill is like 5'7", and I am sure Anderson was wear 2 or 3 inch lifts anyways.

I think the sets helped in that case because most of the time the camera was either looking up at him or he was in heavy shadow.

In Jedi you can really tell when they are trying to position the camera more with an eye to hiding the difference in the actor than composing an interesting shot.

The whole "You are unwise to lower your defenses" bit is painfully clunky to these eyes.

That said though even some of the shots of Prowse look a bit dull compared to ESB.

Vaderios posted elsewhere :

Angelutor

These could also serve as concepts for the ship being blown to bits on it's way to ramming or falling onto either one or another Death Star.