The Making of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (Enhanced Edition) by J. W. Rinzler

Author:J. W. Rinzler [Rinzler, J. W.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780345543585
Publisher: LucasBooks
Published: 2013-10-21T16:00:00+00:00

Marquand and crew film Prowse’s close-ups as Vader for the Emperor’s arrival scene (McDiarmid is not on camera perhaps to afford the crew their preferred angle).

A group shot of Imperial extras from the Emperor’s entourage.

Dolly grip W. C. “Chunky” Huse, operating cameraman Alec Mills, focus puller Mike Frift, and second assistant cameraman Simon Hume.

Watching Shaw as Vader gave Kazanjian an idea. “George was terrific and would sometimes listen to suggestions,” he would say. “So I said, ‘When Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi are in that ghost effect at the end of the picture, why don’t we have Darth Vader there?’ The next day he said, ‘Let’s do it,’ and I felt good, because I was contributing something to the film that George liked and accepted.” (Though perhaps forgotten, it had been Lucas’s original idea, in an early outline, to bring back Vader as Anakin in the end.)

“It’s always daring to take off the mask, whether it’s the Phantom of the Opera’s or Dr. Doom’s, because people’s imaginations are far more comprehensive, so there’s always a chance that you will disappoint them,” Hamill would say. “But to see Vader that vulnerable, laid out on the ground, with a scarred face and the bald head, it was very poignant; it was very moving, given the fact that he had found redemption and turned on the Emperor that way. I remove the helmet and I do it very gently …”

“When that dreadful mask was taken off, Mark nearly took my ears with it,” Shaw remembers. “But Mark was absolutely delightful to work with. He was very kind and maybe even appreciative, to an old actor like me. He was also very nervous with the scene because, quite suddenly, a new dimension came into the whole thing, a real and genuine emotion. There weren’t hundreds of takes or anything like that. Mark Hamill had a few, for his close-up, because he was so terribly anxious to get it just right.”

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