Re: David Prowse Almost Ruined TESB!

> But supposedly, as noted, no one on set was told that Vader was Luke's
> father, with the exception of Mark Hamill, who was told just moments
> before the scene was shot.  (David Prowse said something *else*, and they
> let him do this because they were going to overdub his dialogue with James
> Earl Jones anyway.  Interestingly, Jones says he was convinced, at the
> time he recorded the dialogue, that Vader was lying.)
>
> ***which would have made a more interesting plot twist to me.

Oh, I don't think so. Villains are *supposed* to lie, so that wouldn't
really have been a "twist," would it? I think it was pretty gutsy and
unexpected to go through with it. I know that, at least among my
circle of little friends, everyone figured it would be exposed as a
lie in the third film.

***true.  But then again I would not be haunted with the images of Luke kissing
his sister...

**But really, the conflict of searching out the truth and the lie had they gone
that route would have been more interesting, and would have made DV's conversion
at the end more dramatic.   Making dad save his son was neat, but at the same
time, somewhat predictable.  Yes, a nice satisfying happy ending and all that,
but still.



I think I've lived with the films for so long, and they're so embedded
in the cultural consciousness, that I sometimes take for granted how
stunning it was for the writers to have taken one of the screen's most
ruthless and iconic villains, and not only made him sympathetic at the
last minute, but even completely redeemed him. It was a pretty neat
trick.


***Having no paternal interest would have made it more profound.

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