Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!cepu!ucla-cs!reiher From: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies,net.sf-lovers Subject: A Modest Proposal Message-ID: <2486@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 02:16:06 EST Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.2486 Posted: Fri Nov 30 02:16:06 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 05:05:58 EST Distribution: net Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 34 Xref: sdcsvax net.movies:4546 net.sf-lovers:4990 That last modest proposal wound up rather more modest than I had planned. Let's try again. Having just seen a different version of "Once Upon a Time in America", I was reminded of someone's earlier posting which postulated what a Star Wars movie directed by Sergio Leone would be like. How about a Star Wars movie directed by Orson Welles? Why not ******************************************* * * * * * Citizen Darth! * * * * * ******************************************* Luke could be dissastisfied with what he knows about his father, so he goes on a quest through the galaxy looking for the real Darth Vader. Everyone he meets would give him a different impression of what Vader was really like. Welles could even do a flashback to Vader's death and reveal that his last word was really "Rosebud". Think how hard it will be for even a Jedi like Luke to turn up a sled out of all the garbage in the universe. Perhaps the Emperor's true hold on Vader was that he held the sled for ransom! Perhaps Annakin Skywalker will be unable to become one with the Force (or whatever) until the sled is recovered. Maybe Han Solo could be sorely tempted to sell the sled for megacredits to some intergalactic souvenir collector. (Extra credit trivia question: Who currently owns Rosebud?) We might have something here. (Or, perhaps, not...) -- Peter Reiher reiher@ucla-cs.arpa {...ihnp4,ucbvax,sdcrdcf}!ucla-cs!reiher