From: roy@watson.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Luke and Leia confusion
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 13:07:42 GMT
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Reply-To: roy@trigger.watson.ibm.com
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Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

In <1993Jan1.130637.26359@fy.chalmers.se> support@fy.chalmers.se (F-sektionens Entusiaster) writes:
>Easy. I think you are wrong.
>
>Think about this : if you met a girl that was fast action and very pretty and you had adored
>her curage before, it's not hard for you to fall in love (or atleast think you do) with the girl. 
>I.e Luke falls in love with Leia. The only thing that he does know about her is what he has 
>seen and what Kenobi has told him. I think it's fairly easy for him to fall in love then.
>
>Ok, let's for arguments sake say that Lucas has NOT made up his mind at this moment,
>well he does and Luke finds out. (This is space opera or ?) Ok, if you would find out that
>the girl your in love with is your sister, I think that even you should cool down.
>
>I DON'T think that it's "wrong" of Lucas to let Luke "drool" over Leia in SW:ANH since if
>he DIDN'T fall in love with Leia then and there, the movie would be a whole lot more
>boring, dont you think ?
>
>Just argumenting ofcourse. Comments please ?
>
>// Anders Liden
>Mysse of Kingdoms
>You dont know the power of the dark side of the force.
>al@fy.chalmers.se

This is not a follow-upt to Ander's post, in as much as a clarification of
this whole Luke-Leia relationship and Lucas's intentions.

Lucas himself is quoted in 'From Star Wars to Jedi - The Making of a
Saga' that the final confrontation scene in which Vader taunts Luke
to fight in ROTJ has not well scripted, and that the scene read
something like:  "Vader says something to Luke to make him fight".
Lucas stated that at this point in the movie, Luke was ready to
die instead of fighting, and that something intense would have
to be said to make Luke fight, and use the Dark Side of the Force.
 
I paraphrase, but Lucas then stated:  "We had the answer staring us
in the face right along.  All we had to do was exploit on the Luke
Leia brother-sister relationship which we had already established."
 
I post this just to state to those who think the whole Luke/Leia brother-sister 
relationship was created for the sole use as a confrontation element in the 
final scene of ROTJ are wrong.  Lucas himself had this relationship mapped out 
well in advance.  

My personal opinion is that he has had this one mapped out since the
beginning.  As for Luke being all hot-n-bothered when Leia is around in
ANH and TESB, all I can say is this is natural for a sister you have
never met, and a young farm boy stuck on a planet farthest from the bright
spot in the universe.

Regards,
Tom Rogers
roy@trigger.watson.ibm.com
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