Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi: Boba Fett (Jeremy Bulloch)

Comments for death : Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi: Boba Fett (Jeremy Bulloch).



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/11/2006 09:36PM by Mr Mouseburger.

This death was crap.

Greatest bounty hunter in the galaxy gets killed by a blind guy... on accident! I mean, sure, he's Han Solo, but again, it was an accident. Give me a friggin' break. At the very least, Daddy Jango was killed by a much more competent opponent, in a much more equal playing field, in a much more gruesome and cool way.

I myself wouldn't count this as a death, considering basically everyone BUT Lucas has had Fett blast his way out of the Sarlacc. The books, the comics, etc.



However, there is a point raised about the penis rings.

"Greatest bounty hunter in the galaxy gets killed by a blind guy... on accident!"

Keep in mind that at the time the film was made, Boba Fett was, in the eyes of most people, just another one of Jabba the Hutt's anonymous goons. Boba never even really does anything interesting in either Return of the Jedi or The Empire Strikes Back. All his fame and prestige comes from the comics and novels and so forth.

In appreciation of the comments here, I have now assigned this death to the "unsatisfying" category.

"Keep in mind that at the time the film was made, Boba Fett was, in the eyes of most people, just another one of Jabba the Hutt's anonymous goons. Boba never even really does anything interesting in either Return of the Jedi or The Empire Strikes Back. All his fame and prestige comes from the comics and novels and so forth."

I disagree. I was a kid when Empire and Return came out and I instinctively knew that Boba Fett was special, and so did my friends. I didn't get to see Return of the Jedi until it was on television years later. None of my friends saw the film at the cinema either, and we hadn't read the books or comics, but we instinctively knew from playing with the toys that Boba Fett was as cool as a prawn. There was something magnetic about his costume, his visor. Like Wolverine from X-Men, there was something magic about his design.

The other bounty hunters were ridiculous (one of them was a walrus, another one was a man with a lizard mask on his face) and nobody wanted to play with them, but Boba Fett was intrinsically, objectively, and instantly cool. He stood out immediately. Anybody at school who had a Boba Fett action figure was guaranteed to have company.

From what I have learned since, Boba Fett first appeared in the Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978, in a cartoon section. I surmise that the reaction from fans was so positive that he was written in to Empire and Return. It was a silly idea to kill him off, and to do so in such a ridiculous way.

HELLO! Same thing with Greivous!

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You never see him die and if you read the books...

Fett isn't dead!

He's as dead as anyone else who fell into the pit, moreso because in the Special Edition it's changed from just them falling in to the beaklike extending mouth actually eating them. And the SE's are now more or less the official versions according to Lucas.

The books are take-em-or-leave-em anyway, and most of the stuff in the first stories saying Fett survived (particularly Tales of the Bounty Hunters) has been flatly contradicted by the prequels. So, as far as the movie is concerned, Fett is dead.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/08/2006 07:42AM by Kooshmeister.

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Keep in mind that at the time the film was made, Boba Fett was, in the eyes of most people, just another one of Jabba the Hutt's anonymous goons. Boba never even really does anything interesting in either Return of the Jedi or The Empire Strikes Back. All his fame and prestige comes from the comics and novels and so forth.

I disagree. Much of Fett's cool comes from a single moment in Empire: When briefing Fett and 5 other hunters, Vader announces "I want them alive," then turns to address Fett specifically and adds "No disintegrations." This conveys a sense of Fett's character and history with a subtlety sadly lacking in the prequels.

Compare: Darth Maul is designed to look cool and evil. They really pulled out the stops to make every aspect of his appearance scream menace. But when all's said and done, he doesn't actually do much evil. He even fights with a measure of honour, clearly displaying the second blade on his lightsabre before the fight starts, rather than waiting until mid-battle and taking his foes by surprise.

Fett, on the other hand, doesn't actually look that tough. Unremarkable build, battered old armour, neutral colours. His aura of menace comes from the way he carries himself and the way others (especially Vader) react to him.

That's the main one, but there's a bit more later on.

Afterward, while the other hunters drop out of sight, and the Imperials give up their search and depart, Fett is the only one who figures out where the Millenium Falcon is hiding. It is due to his savvy that the Empire tracks Han & co to Bespin. As such, he sets up the entire second half of the film!

Later, Fett expresses his concern that Solo could be damaged by the carbon freeze. Instead of throttling him like an insubordinate minion, Vader promises compensation. Again, there is the suggestion that this man has earned Vader's respect.

In attributing Fett's 'fame and prestige' to the books & comics, you're putting the cart before the horse. Do you think they just picked a character at random and said 'let's make that guy with the jetpack cool'? No. They saw that he was already cool, so they wrote about him.