Heck yes. It may have been corny as hell and jarringly out of character, but damned if it still wasn't awesome.Ukomba said:#8 makes me think of all the old school Lucas Arts games, especially Dark Forces 2. Light Side endings tend to be the canon ones.
I think it would be doable, but it would take a writer/director far better than Lucas to have pulled it off.canadamus_prime said:#8 doesn't make any sense to me. Luke just finished defying the Dark Side before that whole mask removal scene. Having him don the mask a go to the Dark Side after all that just doesn't work. I'm glad they didn't go with that ending.
It'd basically require an entire re-write of the Luke and Emperor sequences throughout the end of the movie, underlying how he was defying the Emperor more so than the Dark Side. Perhaps if they had gone with the Dark Sider ending then those sequences would have played out differently as well.canadamus_prime said:#8 doesn't make any sense to me. Luke just finished defying the Dark Side before that whole mask removal scene. Having him don the mask a go to the Dark Side after all that just doesn't work. I'm glad they didn't go with that ending.
The whole time I was writing that one up, all I could think about was Christopher Walken as Han Solo. It was really weird, even in my head.flying_whimsy said:I think it would be doable, but it would take a writer/director far better than Lucas to have pulled it off.
OT: Those are some cool facts. I guess Kubrick's interference was worth it, though, considering how awesome the Shining turned out. I also didn't know that Harrison Ford got the part feeding lines to people who were auditioning for it. Sucks to be them.
Presumably they scenes leading up that would have been a bit different to support Luke being swayed to that, but who knows.canadamus_prime said:#8 doesn't make any sense to me. Luke just finished defying the Dark Side before that whole mask removal scene. Having him don the mask a go to the Dark Side after all that just doesn't work. I'm glad they didn't go with that ending.
Yeah, I'm having trouble figuring out how he would sound and move. I suspect Walken would have been a terrifying Han Solo: a man so intimidating and sinister that no one would dare question that he'd shoot first.ffronw said:The whole time I was writing that one up, all I could think about was Christopher Walken as Han Solo. It was really weird, even in my head.