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Post #558773

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DominicCobb
Parent topic
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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Date created
12-Jan-2012, 6:04 PM

darth_ender said:

Well, it could satisfy the desire of so many to see something of this sort while simultaneously allowing us to stay truer to the original movie in story and in feel (something hard to duplicate if we include any non-OT footage).  It's just a suggestion, and not something I'm going to be part of.

 

So I'm on the last part of the script, and I have to bring up something again, though we voted it down: Anakin's ghost at the pyre scene.  Let me argue for it one more time.  If we show the Ewok celebration and all three Force ghosts smiling, there is Luke's resolution, as well as the audience's.  We know Luke is cool with his old man, and so are we.  But if we follow that with the pyre scene (which we voted to do), he is now sad and emotional, burning his father's carcass and armor (or at least the armor).  This does not capture the right emotions then.  If, however, we simply show Luke smiling while looking at Ben and Yoda, and then after burning his father he comes to terms with him as he sees his ghost, I think it would be a far better fit.  Let me sum it up like this: if we keep the Force ghosts, the pyre scene needs to come before it.  If we put the pyre scene at the very end, we need to remove the Force ghosts.  UNLESS...if we remove Anakin from the trio and reveal him DURING the pyre scene (as Aalenfae will show us in an upcoming mockup), then we can keep both scenes and the desired order.

Can we include this once again in the next vote, or is it really dead?  I really think the logic is quite sound.

Could we bring up the vote to get rid of ghost Anakin altogether again? I really think my logic as to why was incredibly sound.

Although I wouldn't be as much against Anakin just showing up at the pyre ONLY IF he disappeared shortly after he appears.