Do you think he would have suited directing this, especially all the Death Star II and Palpatine scenes?
David Lynch on the topic of almost directing Episode VI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJQ4vCu-S0U
Fan made trailer imagining how his vision could have been:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PALjbTo1D5U
That fan trailer makes it look like Lynch would have turned it into a horror movie. lol.
The big problem is how to make ewoks look creepier than what they turned out to be. It would be pretty hard to do, but this seems to be one of the biggest complaints about ROTJ. The cutesy little ewoks turned a lot of people off.
But still, I thought it was a solid film. Not sure what Lynch could have done to make it any better. Unless he set out to make it appeal to the mushroom junkies of the world that just want to lay around all day and hallucinate.
"The big problem is how to make ewoks look creepier than what they turned out to be."
He could have a radiator mysteriously appear in the forest and a Ewok with mumps step from behind it and sing a song.
>>>He could have a radiator mysteriously appear in the forest and a Ewok with mumps step from behind it and sing a song.<<<
Sounds very Dune like.
Lynch probably would have raised more funding and used Wookies on Endor instead of Ewoks, like the original script called for.
share>>>probably would have raised more funding and used Wookies on Endor instead of Ewoks, like the original script called for.<<<
That might have been better. The Ewoks didn't bother me that much though. They're okay. The advantage of using them as opposed to Wookies was that Ewoks were very primitive and short in stature which made their improbable victory over the empire even more perplexing.
In some ways, it was a good idea to change the script.
It's nice of Lynch to include the rancor keeper!
shareAside from what is considered his most bizarre films -- Eraserhead, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire -- he directed a film called The Straight Story, which was a straightforward film telling the true life story of a man traveling to Wisconsin to see a brother he'd not seen for over 10 years -- on a riding lawnmower! It was also G rated and a Touchstone film!
My point is that Lynch would not have gone out of his way to insert oddities into RTOTJ. He would have directed it in his own way but stayed true to what Lucas intended.
And I think it would have been much better. Perhaps the actors wouldn't have all come off so stiff and bored throughout the entire affair.
no offense to richard marquand but rotj felt the most commercial to me of the 3 films. lynch may have added a more mysterious alien feel to the film.
shareIt would've Dune meets Alien meets the Star Wars ROTJ we got (rated pg13. first film ever)
shareAs much as I liked Lynch's Dune, I'd still jump to the timeline where Jodorowsky did it. That said, there's not even a crack of doubt in my mind that Lynch wouldn't have improved RotJ in many drastic ways.
shareUndoubtedly.
But I have a hunch the Emperor would have been taking heavy hits of amyl nitrite in between his snarky exchanges with Luke.
I'm inferring you must have meant the *actor playing* the emperor... :D
shareI'm commenting that within the story, the fictional character would inhale the gas.
The actual actor would not be inhaling the real gas.
As in Dennis Hopper didn't actually inhale amyl nitrate during the filming of Blue Velvet, but his character did.
Though with Hopper, he surely must have tried it in real life at some time or the other . . . .
I must admit it's been ages since I've seen Blue Velvet and had only heard of amyl/alkyl nitrite(s) as a vapor evaporating from its liquid form, thus didn't make the connection. Didn't know it came as gas in canisters, either. Such a square... :D
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