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Has anyone stopped to wonder why in the hell they killed Luke instead of LEIA? I mean... Fisher died a FULL YEAR BEFORE THE RELEASE OF THE FILM... they SHOULD'VE killed off HER character, and since she was sucked out of that ship... THAT SHOULD'VE BEEN IT! But NOOOOOOOOOOOO.... They kill Luke instead, and have painted themselves into a corner. NOW they (Abrams and whoever he got to cowrite the script) have to come up with something feasible to explain Leia no longer being around.
So again I ask... have any of you seen anything online or in print about this?
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Feb 23, 2018 - 2:36 PM
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Rian Johnson finished shooting the movie and was well on the way to editing it. He and Lucasfilm thought that it would be appropriate to honor Carrie Fisher's performance by not altering it.
http://comicbook.com/starwars/2018/01/17/star-wars-the-last-jedi-carrie-fisher-death-changes/
"It's impossible not to change watching it, the filter you watch it through and all of her scenes just become a lot more complicated watching them back. Absolutely it did," said Johnson. "And then, obviously, her scene with Luke [Skywalker], suddenly it becomes a goodbye scene in a much more profound way than it was before.
"She passed away around New Year's. We got back after the holiday break and went in the edit room and looked through all of her scenes and had a conversation with [Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy] and the question briefly arose, 'Do we try and do something? Do we try and manufacture an ending for the character or something?' I felt strongly and we decided pretty quickly no, we're gonna let this performance stand."
Johnson thought whatever they attempted to conjure up in post production would not be as effective as what the next film in the saga could do, but he had another important reason.
"And also because her performance, I thought, was beautiful and I thought that if we did that, we'd have to lose some element of it," Johnson said. "Whether it was the scene with Luke or the scene at the end with her and Daisy [Ridley] in the Falcon. I want, especially now, I want to leave the movie with Carrie Fisher having told me the words of hope at the end of this movie. I wanted the world to have this performance of hers."
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Feb 23, 2018 - 3:24 PM
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Tom Servo
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Rian Johnson finished shooting the movie and was well on the way to editing it. He and Lucasfilm thought that it would be appropriate to honor Carrie Fisher's performance by not altering it.
http://comicbook.com/starwars/2018/01/17/star-wars-the-last-jedi-carrie-fisher-death-changes/
"It's impossible not to change watching it, the filter you watch it through and all of her scenes just become a lot more complicated watching them back. Absolutely it did," said Johnson. "And then, obviously, her scene with Luke [Skywalker], suddenly it becomes a goodbye scene in a much more profound way than it was before.
"She passed away around New Year's. We got back after the holiday break and went in the edit room and looked through all of her scenes and had a conversation with [Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy] and the question briefly arose, 'Do we try and do something? Do we try and manufacture an ending for the character or something?' I felt strongly and we decided pretty quickly no, we're gonna let this performance stand."
Johnson thought whatever they attempted to conjure up in post production would not be as effective as what the next film in the saga could do, but he had another important reason.
"And also because her performance, I thought, was beautiful and I thought that if we did that, we'd have to lose some element of it," Johnson said. "Whether it was the scene with Luke or the scene at the end with her and Daisy [Ridley] in the Falcon. I want, especially now, I want to leave the movie with Carrie Fisher having told me the words of hope at the end of this movie. I wanted the world to have this performance of hers."
Thanks for posting this, I was about to do the same! I totally agree with Rian Johnson's decision and summation of the entire situation. Manufacturing a death for her in the film through post-production tricks might have felt inauthentic. And its important she survives the entire film, one reason so she and Luke can have their final scene together and two, so she can represent hope and inspiration from the previous generation to this new one (Rey, Poe, Finn).
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The Solium Dilemma
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Maybe the next Star Wars outing won't have to find something for its geriatric legacy actors to do.
That has been the traditional burden of Star Trek movies, which has done it worst, and a blessing of Superman-related productions, which do it best. Star Wars falls in the middle: some good scenes, some cringes.
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I have to admit to not being overly fond of these new STAR WARS movies at all. They actually make the prequels look pretty good. Yet I continue to watch them, of course. It's just that it is not so important to me what happens in them. The thing I enjoy most about them are the scores by John Williams.
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