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Re: Young Obi-Wan's Head
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Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:53:29 GMT
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> > > Doesn't Leia say in ROTJ that her mother died when she was very young?
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> Huh. I'll have to go back and listen more closely.
Here's the section in question:
LUKE
Leia... do you remember your mother? Your
real mother?
LEIA
Just a little bit. She died when I was very
young.
LUKE
What do you remember?
LEIA
Just...images, really. Feelings.
LUKE
Tell me.
LEIA
(a little surprised at his insistence)
She was very beautiful. Kind, but...sad.
(looks up) Why are you asking me all this?
He looks away.
LUKE
I have no memory of my mother. I never knew
her.
Interesting... in the version of the script I've got, there is also some
dialog of Ben's that I don't recall in the movie (did we know that Owen is
Ben's brother?):
LUKE
Leia! Leia's my sister.
BEN
Your insight serves you well. Bury your
feelings deep down, Luke. They do you credit.
But they could be made to serve the Emperor.
Luke looks into the distance, trying to comprehend all this.
BEN (continuing his narrative)
When your father left, he didn't know your
mother was pregnant. Your mother and I knew
he would find out eventually, but we wanted
to keep you both as safe as possible, for as
long as possible. So I took you to live with
my brother Owen on Tatooine... and your mother
took Leia to live as the daughter of Senator
Organa, on Alderaan.
Luke turns, and settles near Ben to hear the tale.
BEN (attempting to give solace with his words)
The Organa household was high-born and
politically quite powerful in that system.
Leia became a princess by virtue of
lineage... no one knew she'd been adopted, of
course. But it was a title without real
power, since Alderaan had long been a
democracy. Even so, the family continued to
be politically powerful, and Leia, following
in her foster father's path, became a senator
as well. That's not all she became, of
course... she became the leader of her cell
in the Alliance against the corrupt Empire.
And because she had diplomatic immunity, she
was a vital link for getting information to
the Rebel cause. That's what she was doing
when her path crossed yours... for her foster
parents had always told her to contact me on
Tatooine, if her troubles became desperate.
Luke is overwhelmed by the truth, and is suddenly protective of
his sister.
Huh. I'll have to go back and listen more closely too. :-)
-Steven
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| (...) ***snip of Ben's monologue***> (...) I'm almost entirely certain that most of Ben's long speech does not appear in the film, because it would be terribly conspicuous piece of narrative exposition, much of it irrelevant to the story at hand, (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| Steven Vore wrote: < Snipped initial dialog > (...) This section is not in the movie. I would have picked up the political cues. Where did you get this from? Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> ssanburn@cleanweb.net Systems (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Huh. I'll have to go back and listen more closely. (...) That's the real problem- it's easy to tell Leia that her mother died, so has to go live with the Organa household, and shouldn't expect to dsee her again. hen Leia tells Luke her mother (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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