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Post #559322

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Sluggo
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
16-Jan-2012, 7:09 PM

Ok, here's something I'd like an opinion about.  

Moments before the sail barge explodes, the Luke and the rest of the rebels are able to find some magnets on hoses on a skiff, manage to deploy them to pull the droids out of the sand, pull them up on deck and sail away as the barge explodes behind them.  

I'd really like to see this scene tightened up a bit.   Something more like this:

EXTERIOR: UPPER DECK - SAIL BARGE

 

Luke is warding off laser blasts with his lightsaber, surrounded by guards and fighting like a demon. Leia emerges onto the deck as Luke turns to face another guard.

 

LUKE: (to Leia) Get the gun! Point it at the deck!

 

Leia turns toward the barge cannon, climbs on the platform, and swivels the gun around.

 

LUKE: Point it at the deck!

 

A laser blast hits Luke's mechanical hand and he bends over in pain, but manages to swing his lightsaber upward and take out the last of the guards. He looks at the wounded hand, which reveals the mechanism. He flexes the hand; it still works.

 

Luke runs along the empty deck toward Leia and the barge gun, which she has brought around to point down at the deck.

 

LUKE: Come on!

 

Luke has hold on one of the rigging ropes from the mast. He gathers Leia in his other arm and kicks the trigger of the deck gun. The gun explodes into the deck as Luke and Leia swing out toward the skiff.

 

EXTERIOR: SKIFF

 

Han leans panting against the rail as Chewie helps Lando onto the deck. Luke and Leia land on the skiff with flair.

 

LUKE: Let's go! And don't forget the droids.

The skiff moves in towards the burning barge

EXTERIOR: UPPER DECK - SAIL BARGE

 

Near the rail of the upper deck, Artoo and Threepio steady themselves as Threepio gets ready to jump. Artoo beeps wildly.

 

THREEPIO: Artoo, where are we going? I couldn't possibly jump.

 

Artoo butts the golden droid over the edge and steps off himself; both falling off screen landing the skiff with an enormous thud.

 

EXTERIOR: SKIFF

 

LANDO: We're on our way.

 

The skiff races away as the Sail Barge is exploding in stages in the distance. Half of the huge craft is on fire.