Info & Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist — Page 312

Hopefully a good model maker will make the dish less...messiaheque :-D

That's more what I had in mind but I couldn't pull it off in a mockup.

Google image search is surprisingly short of giant dishes photographed from a very low angle.

Though I was proposing not blowing up the complex.

Just blowing the connection between the dish and the tower so it snaps off and stops projecting the shield.

Just a thought to make the ending more doable, as much has been said critiquing the realism of the Ewoks and a dozen rebels defeating a legion of the Emperor's best troops.  I've not thought it through enough to consider available footage, just a concept.

The Rebels allow themselves to be captured upon reaching the bunker.  The Ewoks ambush the Imperials.  While the soldiers are distracted, Han successfully hotwires the bunker door and he and a few Rebels enter.  Use the deleted scene coming in the Blu-ray to show a battle within the bunker.  Han manages to sabotage the generator, and from there...I don't know how he escapes.  It just occurred to me.  Someone else can take it from here if they want, and perhaps explore if it's even feasible with available footage.

As Queen Amidala said: [using as little emotion as possible] "The battle is a diversion."

Any thoughts?

Sounds nice. It's certainly more dramatic. Also, when the Bunker and Shield Generator explode, it would provide a significant distraction and morale killer to the Imperials, so the Ewoks can finish them off.
It would also make sense for there to be troopers inside the base still. I mean jeez, it's always wise to have some protection on something as crucial as that.

Actually...one thing that might be cool, but probably impossible to do would be to have Han and Leia watch the Death Star explode sitting in the remains of the fallen dish.

It would be like Han resting on the corpse of a slain dragon.

Imagine something like this:

but wrecked (not being repaired) and tilted with the forest poking through the broken structure and Han bandaging Leia's wounds in the wreckage.

That's actually a good idea... It seems like a nice little romantic moment: Star-Wars style. Would the Ewoks be like right next to them as in the movie, or would you give them privacy as they're the two main heroes on Endor. I vote for the latter.

The set blueprint for the "storming the bunker" deleted scene: http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2011/07/250_251_io9_.jpg

I can't make head nor tails of that!

well thanks! didn't have to do that. very nice of you

Actually having the Endor bunker entrance the entry point to an exterior service elevator for the dish like those on rocket launch pads might work.

A bit like this one (a model shot of the elevator going up the side of the dish after they enter would provide a visual explanation as to exactly where the Rebels are going):

only a few weeks left till it's back to school i have been working on a rotj project since this whole summer and i figured i showed what i have done so far

redoing the lightsaber, and enhancing or creating new background mattes

they are still work in progress

How do they look in motion?

J

pretty good so far

color key had gone a long way to allow me to replace some of the backgrounds

i also had to track the new background with the way the camera moves during the scene frame by frame.  it is a horrible  process since i don't have cs5 and the new rotobrush

I don't use the rotobrush, I tried it, but I just went back to making my own key frames

You gonna youtube some clips? 

J

i am currently rendering out a sample but it may take a while

here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym3jAu9kOe8

Wow! I like the new lightsaber Avatar. Looks much better. Is it be possible to change the overlay to a different color? If so, would you ever consider changing it to blue: the original plan for ROTJ, handicapped by the special effects limitations? Just curious.

The Aluminum Falcon said:

Wow! I like the new lightsaber Avatar. Looks much better. Is it be possible to change the overlay to a different color? If so, would you ever consider changing it to blue: the original plan for ROTJ, handicapped by the special effects limitations? Just curious.

 Even knowing that the original plan was to have his lightsaber be blue, I quite like that its a different color. It adds to the character, shows that he's becoming his own person...foreshadowing that he will not follow in his father's footsteps. Just adds more depth, instead of him just copying his father's lightsaber again

muddyknees2000 said:

It adds to the character, shows that he's becoming his own person...foreshadowing that he will not follow in his father's footsteps. Just adds more depth, instead of him just copying his father's lightsaber again

Very true. Still, you could go the complete opposite direction, as I did in my red saber idea (in another thread), you could create subliminal suspense by having Luke have a lightsaber like his father. This could create fear that Luke will be exactly like his father and the audience gets far more relieved when he decides not to be.

Another possibly impossible suggestion, which might fit in with the Coruscant Insurrection scenario posted a few pages back.

What if we brought back Tarkin?

Only for a few minutes mind.

We could see what appears to be Tarkin alive and then see a firing squad.

He is shot (as a means of placating the crowds on the planet).

We then see the footage at the Rebel briefing and the top brass (knowing Tarkin long dead) speculate as to if it was fake footage or if he was a clone grown purely to serve Imperial Propaganda.

Failing autocrats often make scapegoats and there is no more expendable resource than an already dead one.

It would also (like rebuilding the Death Star) rob the Rebels of a victory in the eyes of the general public.

The Rebels didn't kill him, the merciful Emperor did because of his cruel crimes against the populace.