The above is quite obviously an ill conceived, poorly orchestrated and extremely low budget holovid for as all Loyal Imperial Citizens know ...
The Empire is Victorious on ALL Fronts!
The climactic fleet battle from Return of the Jedi, with all the Endor and Ewok action cut out
I want some wiz kid to do the math and see how many Armada points it took to field the Imperial and Rebel Fleets at Endor.
Bonus points if they do the math for Imperial Assault for the Battle at the Endor bunker.
This is so great. Now if only someone would film a Rebel commando operation in the California Redwoods and then replace all the Endor scenes with a rebel commando vs stormtrooper battle, we'd have a hell of a movie.
This is so great. Now if only someone would film a Rebel commando operation in the California Redwoods and then replace all the Endor scenes with a rebel commando vs stormtrooper battle, we'd have a hell of a movie.
"Scum?!"
That may be my new favorite Han line.
I hadn't seen that deleted scene before, I'm surprised that they cut it. Maybe the test audiences giggled at the huge pile of stormtroopers.
Its funny that a pile of dead bodies don't look nearly as shocking when they are covered head to toe in white body armor.
They just look like a pile of action figures.
What do they say about how killing is easy when you dehumanize your opponent? Well, the creators of Star Wars do a pretty good job of dehumanizing the empire (who's troopers and pilots just get slaughtered onscreen). There's a reason you get to see the faces of rebel troopers and pilots, whereas TIE pilots and Stormtroopers are always helmeted. And the prequels sidestep that all by just using Droid and Clone troopers.
I'm curious to see how Disney will handle that. They do a pretty thorough job of hiding the mass carnage that happens in their superhero movies. During the Avenger's climax, I just kept thinking that there obviously would have been huge civilian casualties... but you never see it happen on-screen. By contrast, Star Wars (and other movies of the era) doesn't pull it's punches.
Oh, and funny thing from that clip - did it look like Harrison Ford grabbed Peter Mayhew to lead him down the right path? That quick "no Chewie, this way!" seemed like it was just ad-libbed.
I often think of the human deaths you don't actually see on screen. I think during the 2nd Transformers they destroy an aircraft carrier. I'm thinking well there goes a couple thousand sailors. No one cares because they aren't Bumblebee.