chris@ism780.UUCP (10/17/84)
I recently saw "Once Upon A Time In The West", the Sergio Leone
movie. This is not a review of it (that follows later). This is
a thought that came up after seeing that movie.
There is a scene missing in RotJ. The final confrontation between
Han and Boba Fett ends up being comic relief rather than mythic
adventure. It happens so fast, and so much is happening that it
is easy to miss altogether. This is not very satisfying.
I find it a general problem that RotJ isn't very satisfying.
The movie should have had some elements of greek tragedy in it.
Instead we get furry ewoks, cartoonish fights on Jabba's barge,
and several death scenes that just don't wrench at the heart.
I think the problem is that Lucas had to make a PG movie, but
the material demanded a much harder edged treatment. This resulted
in artistic compromises.
I'm going to propose a slightly different end to the Han/Boba Fett
grudge match. Boba Fett should have escaped the "giant euphemism buried
in the sand". The scene could still have been played for laughs.
Perhaps the jet pack would throw him head first into a sand dune.
Maybe he gets a pie in the face, or his pants catch on fire.
After this he rides after Han, no longer for a bounty, but now
just to blast Han out of space. ("This galaxy ain't big enough
for the both of us") He shows up at the new Death Star, and Vader
sends him down to harass the rebels. (Vader and Boba Fett get
along fine, they both get high on hate)
Instead of the ridiculous scenes in which cute furry ewoks use
wood and leather to defeat the best fighting troups in the galaxy,
we have a ridiculous scene where Han and Boba Fett stare at each
other for minutes before they slap leather. Han draws faster and
blasts Boba Fett right through the face plate.
Think we can talk Lucas into letting Leone make one of the other
six "Star Wars" movies?
chris
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"Book 'em Danno, stupidity one!"lmaher@uokvax.UUCP (10/22/84)
> /***** uokvax:net.movies / ism780!chris / 5:46 pm Oct 18, 1984 */ > I'm going to propose a slightly different end to the Han/Boba Fett > grudge match. Boba Fett should have escaped the "giant euphemism buried > in the sand". A friend firmly insists that the *only* way to start off the next Star Wars film is to show Boba Fett crawling out of the dead sandbeast, and striding off into the desert intent on vengeance. Then again, he rooted for Darth Vader, so what does he know? :-) Carl {allegra,ihnp4}!convex!ctvax!uokvax!lmaher
moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime) (10/29/84)
>A friend firmly insists that the *only* way to start off the next >Star Wars film is to show Boba Fett crawling out of the dead >sandbeast, and striding off into the desert intent on vengeance. I have a tough time seeing Boba Fett STRIDE anywhere... "DANGER is my BUSINESS" Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. UUCP: {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsrgv}!uw-beaver \ {allegra,gatech!sb1,hplabs!lbl-csam,decwrl!sun,ssc-vax} -- !fluke!moriarty ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA