I just realized that the scene in Titanic where Kate Winslet poses nude for Leonardo DiCaprio, wearing only a fabulously valuable necklace, has an extraordinary similarity with a rejected idea for a nude scene in Willow.

In that film, in the scene where Madmartigan enters Sorsha's tent and falls in love with her, she was originally going to be sleeping naked, and would likely have been seen bare-breasted, with a royal medallion on her chest.

The medallion was going to be from her father's kingdom, the hidden Elf city of Tir Asleen. Sorsha was a half-Elf and the kingdom's lost princess, and the medallion was a sign of her heritage. (Insert your own Spaceballs joke here.)

The idea for seeing Sorsha bare-breasted in turn comes from the 1974 SW rough draft, where Leia Aquilae runs around topless during the climactic escape from the Death Star.

The royal medallion derives from the same source. Annikin Starkiller takes it off Leia's neck when he escorts her to safety early in the script.

In the final film Lucas settled for just giving Sorsha Leia Aquilae's red hair--which also passed down to Kate Winslet.

Funny to think about James Cameron reusing George Lucas's more adult ideas once Lucas had determined on "family-friendly" filmmaking.