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TristPHT [2020-12-14 22:18:46 +0000 UTC]
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Langlais1954 [2018-06-04 18:10:35 +0000 UTC]
Would have liked to have seen Oola live and join the Rebels.
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sp0rel0rd [2018-05-01 18:24:47 +0000 UTC]
I remember seeing the concept drawings in the RotJ art book years ago. The headpiece/gag is such a nifty design, and together with her being nude it would have made jabba's palace an even darker and more disturbing setting. And surely would have created an even more lasting impression in those that saw it! Great to see that original concept so nicely realized here.
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Thecactusking3 [2018-04-05 04:17:30 +0000 UTC]
As interesting as the PG-13 version may have been, Return in already the most controversial of the original trilogy, not to mention, I think Oola's popularity came from being sexy enough, without being too overt (nipple slip not included). The franchise may have gone in a completely different direction had Revenge been the movie that we got.
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DMZealot [2018-04-04 18:34:01 +0000 UTC]
Man... now I want to see this version of Return of the Jedi.
The version of Oola we got was nice, but... damn, it makes me wish this happened.
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DarkWizard2 In reply to DMZealot [2018-04-04 20:55:56 +0000 UTC]
The second draft before the introduction of Oola had a male starship captain making demands before being thrown into the pit. Imagine the repercussions of not having the lovely Oola except as a background dancer that danced along with the other women on set. Richard Marquand decided to push for Oola as a major plot point of foreshadowing Leia’s enslavement. The unseen director’s cut would have been having Oola escaping, getting captured, and then having her dance and struggle against Jabba, and eaten by the Rancor. I surmise these extra scenes would have been while the droids were walking to the palace, which took an entire day, and C3PO saying if I told you half the things I’ve heard about Jabba the Hutt, you’d probably short circuit.
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DMZealot In reply to DarkWizard2 [2018-04-05 02:24:39 +0000 UTC]
I've never heard about the unseen directors cut, but I do remember reading that second draft. I'm super glad they changed that.
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DarkWizard2 In reply to DMZealot [2018-04-05 03:46:40 +0000 UTC]
I talked to Femi Taylor about unfilmed scenes, specifically Oola escaping. She mentioned in a magazine interview that the director had storyboarded her escaping before meeting her untimely end. It does seem to fit with Jabba's impatience with her, Oola's net outfit that I surmise came from the net that caught her, and Oola's melancholy state. Assuming they used the original concept, Oola would be half naked as she tried to escape in the desert. She gets caught using a net. Taken before the Hutt, she is punished severely and dressed in the net with leather straps, and forced to sit next to the Hutt for her future confrontation and disposal by the Hutt. What a scene that would be.
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DarkWizard2 [2018-04-04 07:08:10 +0000 UTC]
Nilo Rodis Janero came up with the modified design. Phil Tippett made the design. Note how her makeup is like Marta the Orion slave
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demogoron In reply to DarkWizard2 [2018-04-04 16:59:04 +0000 UTC]
Thanks for that. Do you mean that it was Tippet then who made the Bird Lady design and then Janero modified it to the green slave?
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DarkWizard2 In reply to demogoron [2018-04-04 20:42:33 +0000 UTC]
Richard Marquand is the one who suggested a bird lady, simply adding feathers with purple body paint. George Lucas reviewed and asked for the character to be green and more alien.
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