darth_ender said:

Ronster said:

darth_ender said:

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.

No need to even do that.... Have am alarm sound like the tractor beam from ANH "whats that flashing" on the falcon while he is swinging round in his chair and then the close up the force be with us and then Boom!!!

I think it would work better on the second cruiser now as the first one is all about surprise

Definitely agreeing with your last statement. The first is the surprise; the second packs the emotion. And maybe you're right about how to pull it off with just an alarm too, but I worry that the audience might wonder how they know the Death Star is about to fire. Maybe it would be enough, I dunno.

The Alarms going so we know somthing is wrong.... The next thing we here is "The Force Be with us" .... BANG.... It was too late to even do anything so I think it might work...