Praeothmin wrote:KirkSkywalker wrote:
If the Emperor's best Stormtroopers can be beaten by Ewoks, then wouldn't Wookies would be overkill? Chewbacca alone proved that he could take out the entire division himself.
Actually, I imagined a RotJ where the Empires best troops were beaten
exactly because they were facing enraged 7 foot hairy monsters sporting Bowcasters and throwing Stormtroopers around...
If they were enslaved to the Empire, they wouldn't have Bowcasters; but they would have makeshift weapons, and definitely could be smashing heads.
Losing to them would not be so bad then, and the movie would have been better.
But there wouldn't be the stupid "moral," since the Wookies would just be on the paypack. Also it would be too much like "Planet of the Apes."
Why would the Wookies have helped the Rebels?
Because the Empire attacked and destroyed their home-planet, and enslaved them, perhaps-- and they
hated the empire like nobody's business?
And likewise, they were already raging apes who were such sore losers that they ripped arms off for losing a
game;
And so, again, their joining the rebels would just be
revenge, and that's so icky-poo politically incorrect.
So Lucas figured that in contrast, it would be preferable for the rebels to side with a pack of man-eating baboons who roasted people alive for dinner (hey don't ask me, ask Lucas).
Likewise, the gang wouldn't exactly be in much danger if Han, Like and
Chewbacca got captured by Wookies....
Also, Lucas had bad turns with giant actors. For one thing they're hard to come by; Peter Mayhew was working as an orderly in a hospital when Lucas recruited him to play Chewbacca, since he couldn't find anyone suitable in the acting-business; Richard Kiel was about the only
real professional actor of anywhere near that size at the time, and he was busy doing James Bond films at the time. Meanwhile the guy who played the Yeti in TESB also wasn't a real actor, just really tall; and he failed to pull it off so miserably, that they had to scrap the whole scene and re-shoot it for the DVD (don't ask me why they didn't just use Peter in a Yeti-costume, maybe some stupid actor's-union rule against double-casting).
In contrast,
midgets are a dime-a-dozen in the entertainment world, and readily available-- think "Munchkins in fur suits," and *poof* you've got your Ewoks.
Welcome back, by the way... :)
Why thank you, I've been hella busy...