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Originally posted by HausOfCarlos
what book is this
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It's "The Making of Return of the Jedi." All three of the books have such interesting little factoids and cool stock photography.
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A bit more jaw-dropping was the fact that Lucas apparently didn't think of putting in a scene where Luke burns Vader, or of accounting at all for what happened to Vader's body after he died in the Death Star hangar bay; Dwayne Dunham apparently mentioned the problem to Lucas, and according to him, "George got pretty heated; it's rare to see George like that, but obviously that hit a nerv"e. I said, 'Okay, sorry I asked...' The next thing I knew, the funeral pyre scene was in the film." Apparently, Dunham had caught Lucas with his metaphorical pants down."
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I was mistaken the other day. It wasn't Kasdan, it was Kurtz that disagreed with Lucas and left.
"“We had an outline and George changed everything in it," Kurtz said. “Instead of bittersweet and poignant he wanted a euphoric ending with everybody happy. The original idea was that they would recover [the kidnapped] Han Solo in the early part of the story and that he would then die in the middle part of the film in a raid on an Imperial base. George then decided he didn’t want any of the principals killed. By that time there were really big toy sales and that was a reason.”
The discussed ending of the film that Kurtz favored presented the rebel forces in tatters, Leia grappling with her new duties as queen and Luke walking off alone “like Clint Eastwood in the spaghetti westerns,” as Kurtz put it.
Kurtz said that ending would have been a more emotionally nuanced finale to an epic adventure than the forest celebration of the Ewoks that essentially ended the trilogy with a teddy bear luau."