Theories on Leia's Torture

Yeah it was pretty good. Check out this site...http://www.strangenewworlds.com/issues/feature-09b.html

 

Here's the sections from that script...first one reads just like the movie except that Vader didn't have Leia on the Death Star but on Alderaan.

22-23 INT. ALDERAAN - PRISON CORRIDOR AND CELL 22-23

Two stormtroopers open an electronic cell door and allow a group of Imperial guards to enter. Princess Leia's face is filled with defiance, which slowly gives way to fear as Darth Vader enters with a giant black torture robot.

VADER
Now you will tell me what you did
with the data you gathered. Even
if that information should find its
way to Mouff Tarkin's legions, it
will do them no good. Your plight
is truly hopeless.

Leia stares at the evil lord with determination.

VADER
(continuing)
You will tell me the location of
your hidden bases, and you will tell
me what happened to the data you stole.

The door slides shut. The long cell block hallway appears peaceful with armored stormtroopers marching back and forth. The muffled sounds of the princess' screaming are barely heard.


78 INT. ALDERAAN - PRISON CELL CORRIDOR 78

A cell door silently slides open revealing the unconscious body of the princess slumped on a table-like bed. Vader and two OFFICERS exit the cell and the door silently slides shut again.

VADER
We'll get nothing more out of her.

1ST OFFICER
The hidden bases have to be somewhere
in the southwest. That's something...
I'll start a search operation.

VADER
Start a destroy operation... Wipe out
every system in that sector if you
have to.

The Commander exits. The Officer points back to Leia's
cell.

1ST OFFICER
What about her?

VADER
Terminate her... but make it slow.
We might still get some information.


89-90 INT. ALDERAAN - PRISON CORRIDOR - CELL 89-90

Han stops before cell 2187 and yells something to Chewbacca, who covers his face as the young pirate blasts the door away with his laser pistol. When the smoke clears, Han looks in the cell and an expression of horror crosses his face.

HAN
'Holy Maker,' NO!

Suspended inside the cell by invisible rays, a bloody and mutilated Leia Organa hangs upside down. A strange yellow glow radiates from her eyes.
Chewbacca rushes into the cell past the dazed Han. The Wookiee yells something and Han comes to, firing his pistol at a small control box in the wall. The unconscious princess drops like a rock into the giant Wookiee's arms. Chewbacca slings her over his shoulder and joins Han in the hallway.

 

Thanks k-man & Quest. Very enjoyable.

 

I'd love an MP3 posted!

 

WOW! That torture scene clip is really disturbing. And Vader tells Leia he's her father, no less.

"Yeah, and don't forget Vader was there during the torture. Being mind-probed with a Sith lord present must be quite the experience."

And you'd probably enjoy it, wouldn't you, DLM?

I don't know what you're talking about.

 

I agree with all about the Radio Drama. That scene was particularly powerful. I need to listen to that again in my car.

For all who've never listened to the radio drama(s), you really should. ANH is the best but ESB and ROTJ are ok if you're stuck in traffic.

 

(gotta love Han's suggestion that Leia hold onto the slave outfit- LOL).

That would certainly be an interesting way to end the NJO.

It would have been pretty funny for Chewie to have to carry (Carrie ) Leia through the Death Star.

 

WOW! Those are great! Who's the actress? She did a great job. It's so cool to listen to it without seeing it...like an old Orsen Welles radio theater thing from the 1930's.

PS - I love that tool of an Imperial guard walking in on Vader during the interrogation..."Err...everything alright, Lord Vader?"

 

K-Man thanks for posting that info about Leia's deleted torture scene. I never knew or heard that before that it was more intense then that! Whooo! Yellow eyes! Whoa!

Jedibendibruce you are right, that does sound like a Linda Blair scene! Yikes!

The2nd_Quest, thanks for that link to the audio mp3. Now everybody can hear the radio drama version of that scene. You are right, when Han and Luke were trapped in the shelter in the middle of the snowstorm on Hoth it was really great stuff! Insightful of their growing friendship too. They could always make light and have a sense of humour and be optimistic about the worst.

Yeah, Elf, wasn't that a powerful scene? That's what I was talkin about! Did Brock Peters lay his thing down or what, and Ann Sachs was incredible, she has a great voice too.

Another great scene is in the radio drama of Star Wars A New Hope, when Biggs and Luke talk alone out in the desert about Biggs joining the rebellion and he tells Luke how his feelings about staying to help Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen are holding Luke back from his future.

When Luke said , "But Biggs, they're all the family I got! They're ALL I got!" I felt that! Whooo! That was good acting by Mark Hamill. Their exchange was so real. I think everyone who has ever left home to go to school or follow their dreams could feel that scene. Especially when Luke said something to the effect of, "Do you think I wanna stay here?!, Do you think I like it here?" and Biggs goes , "No Luke, I didn't mean that at all". And Luke goes, "Well that's how it sounded!" Whoooo! Hamill was great here!

I think one of Dark Horse's Comics next stories are gonna reflect Biggs and Luke again during this period. It really is good stuff man!

The speeder race was really good too. I also liked listening to The Shadows of The Empire tape too, though they only used one actor, between him and the sound effects it was pretty good and very insightful, esp about Tatooine. Even Though Billy Dee does not play Lando in Jedi on the radio drama tapes, he comes back to play Lando in the Dark Knight radio drama, (this is from the comic where Luke turns to the dark side) another good radio play, when Luke got to the planet Byss, it was intense, deep, good, scary stuff.

Luke: Where am I?

Emperor's Guard: You are on the planet Byss.

I hope they put this one on CD too. They had to transport Luke in a specially made Jedi transport because of his incredible skills! The sound effects were off the Emperor's hook! Whoooo! This is also the Dark Horse Comic I first learned about the Emperor's clones and they show them. When he tried to get Leia's babies! Whooo again! Good stuff! Very entertaining and scary, good stuff!

These Radio drama plays should of gotten awards! I will definitely buy these on CD when I get the dough saved for them. Shoot! You all are making me pull out my tapes right now! I'm listen to them again this weekend! For the 200th time! (I lost count)

 

Thanks for posting those MP3's! The torture one was a little weird ... it's hard to get used to another guy doing Vader's voice. JEJ really *is* Vader.

I wonder if Vader would have tortured Leia like that if he knew she was his daughter.

 

Thanks for the corrections! I couldnt remember the names! Heehhee!

I will look for those hard to get jimmies! May the Force be with me to find them! WhoooHoo! Gimme a starwars milkshake and some chewie cookies!

 

That was a little... strange. I cringed when I listened to it. Particularly when she said, "Vader, keep that thing away from me!"

Leia is one of my favorite characters, and to hear her portrayed like that was rather disturbing.

 

I have to ask this (for like the bazillionth time on these boards -- I haven't gotten an answer yet). Do you think Leia was tortured on Bespin? Most ESB EU sources suggest it and one NJO novel has Jacen Solo say it outright, but I think they're assuming.

Judging from both Han and Leia's condition in their cell on Bespin, she's not nearly in the shape Han is.

Thoughts?

 

Yeah, I asked the same question in this very thread, k-man. No one answered me either.

I don't know anything about the EU, but as far as the movie goes...

Leia didn't look like she got tortured at all, but I always wondered what "pain" Luke foresaw on Dagobah.

Maybe she didn't get tortured at all, but seeing Han in pain and seeing him frozen in carbonite was the sort of pain she experienced.

It didn't look like they tortured Chewie either.

 

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that torture mp3 was great!!!!