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Post #557427

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darth_ender
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Collaborative Fanediting: An ROTJ Proposition (BACK ON TRACK WITH EMANSWFAN AT THE HELM--SEE POST 1488 OR OP FOR A LINK!)
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4-Jan-2012, 2:31 PM

So I was thinking about what you said, Ronster, regarding Madine's death.  I had this thought, based on your suggestions: We see Madine in his chair from afar while apparently one of his bridge officers is talking to him (maybe the black guy, but we'd digitally have to move his mouth.  "General, the Death Star is preparing to fire again."  Close up of Madine.  Madine says, "May the Force be with us all."  Then the DSII fires and blows up the second Mon Cal cruiser.  If done well, minimal mouth movement would need to be added.  It would probably be appropriate to somehow insert Lando or Ackbar or someone else's sorrow at the loss of Madine, saying something like, "Liberty!...Madine..."  That way there is no doubt about which ship was destroyed and we feel some emotional connectedness and loss at his death.  If we carefully trim unnecessary lines (i.e. cutting a portion of Lando's, "That blast came from the Death Star!  That thing's operational!" in a careful manner), we can probably produce a few seconds to make that last trick work.  Good suggestion, Ron.