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The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The Empire Strikes Back (also known as Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back) is a 1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner from a screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas. The sequel to Star Wars (1977), it is the second film in the Star Wars film series and the fifth chronological chapter of the "Skywalker Saga". Set three years after the events of Star Wars, the film recounts the battle between the malevolent Galactic Empire, led by the Emperor, and the Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia. Rebel ally Luke Skywalker trains to master the Force so he can confront the Emperor's powerful disciple, Darth Vader. The ensemble cast includes Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, and Frank Oz.
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Back when I was a kid there were only three television channels and no cable. The only video game systems were Pong and the Atari 2600. There were only two movie theaters in town, both had only one screen, and there were no VCRs or DVD players. So, when a movie like Star Wars, Jaws, E.T. or the Empire Strikes Back came to town, everbody including your grandmother got dressed up and went out to see it. And if it was a good movie like Star Wars or Empire, everybody would be talking about it for months, and every kid in every yard would be outside playing lightsaber duels with sticks or pretending a gun shaped stick was a blaster. Back then, films like Star Wars brought entire communities together into a huge shared experience. It was a different time.
And we would go back and watch Star Wars again and again and again, and then brag to our friends "I've seen it 20 times"
@@DeusExMachina50 Not as clumsy or random as streaming. A more civilized time.
Its true. Its all true!
Same here. The days of 3 channels.
Waiting for the newest movie to hit town. Worked in a pizza place 15 years old 1980. Theater next door.
The theater manager would let us watch the newest movie on Thursday night after closing.
Nobody in town had gotten to see yet. Good times.
I remember those days, too.
Greatest dialog: “I don’t believe it.” “That - is why you fail.” Still chokes me up.
For me it's "Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter".
(even though i'm a pretty strict physical materialist in worldview - in other words I think we really _are_ "this crude matter". Doesn't mean we can't be luminous too though :)
"Whatever you think about yourself; you're right."
Law of Attraction stuff - right there
"Do, or do not, there is no try" is an epic line. And words to live by.
This is my least favorite Star Wars movie as it's too much running away. But all the scenes with Luke and Yoda's training were excellent.
" The force is with you young Skywalker, but you are not a Jedi yet". Perfectly delivered line by the legend James Earl Jones.
Among many lines that I love to repeat. That and "Impressive.... most impressive."
Waiting 3 years for Return of the Jedi was rough.
I still get chills. Best fight in all of Star Wars. The whole encounter is like a three-act tragedy via action.
@@Jon_FM It wasn't that tough to wait. Few people hyper-fixated on what today we call fandoms. There was a broader area of interest for most people and they didn't sit in front of their computers or phones and spend all day obsessed with one story, film, or book.
@@Jon_FM I always say "That's it. The rebels are there." whenever I find something I've been hunting for. I genuinely can't help muttering it at this point haha.
I remember hearing that line for the first time, and of course, seeing Vader standing atop that platform in silhouette. Friggin' chilling.
In 1977, when Star Wars was first released, it wasn't called "A New Hope" or "Episode IV". It was just Star Wars. It was a gamble, and Lucas went out on a big limb to get it done. He had a story in his head, but as he flushed it out into a screenplay, he really saw a trilogy, and couldn't put all off it into one movie, so he hoped it would be successful enough for him to be able to do the rest of the stories, but he really had no idea whether the original movie would fly or not.
After release, it of course just blew completely apart. It changed the world - or at least the world of movies. He would have more gambles to come with the next movies, but it was renamed to "A New Hope" and "Episode IV" after "The Empire Strikes Back" was released. This gave everyone the impression that we were in the middle of a story, and that there was more to come. We ate it all up.
Yes, and when Lucas was a child, movie serials like "Commander Cody" and "Trader Tom" were a very popular in theaters. They were released in chapters and kids would go to the movies regularly to watch the latest chapters of their favorite serials. Later renaming of the first SW "Episode IV: A New Hope" was a nod to those old movie serials. It was only nearly two decades later that popular demand (and of course, the sense of huge money to be made) prompted the making of the prequel trilogy I-III. (And later, imho, the obscenities Disney birthed that were episodes VII-IX.) That's why the release order is mixed up.
He wrote a massive script and it was after his pals Coppola, Spielberg and another pal read the script, told him to cut the beginning and end off and just do the middle part, which he did, and this was how the original trilogy ANH, ESB and ROTJ got made first.
@@kristinaF54 Actually NO.
@@kristinaF54 The idea I have picked up from a video about the Force is the early story was more about a grizzled veteran going to help a group of Rebels. That early concept got revised, Luke Starkiller became the young and idealistic Luke Skywalker, and a lot got reworked. I imagine in that, ideas of the backstory were floating around in Lucas' head, but really only got ironed out when the prequels were a serious plan to be filmed.
I think the rename was before Empire, for the re-release
The Luke kiss was both a “glad you’re ok” as well as Leia trying to piss off Han/make him jealous because he was being an ass
It was during the sexual revolution. After the birth control pill and before aids. The 70s were a different time. I was born in 1972.
It was just because she was angry and wanted to make Han jealous
And some incestuous attraction. Somehow I always knew - Leia in Return of the Jedi
#BlueHarvest "I know ... somehow, I've always known" .. .. .. "I'm from Alderann, it's kinda the Mississippi of the Galaxy."
Han wasn't really a a$$ hole though. Man had a price on his head and he had to clear his debt.
Bear in mind, it took 3 YEARS to find out what happened to Han; from my freshman to junior year of HS.
I'm curious, were people good about not spoiling the 'father' twist?
@@nickinskeep Nope. I learned about it in the lunch room in school before I could see it
@@nickinskeep Yes I knew in the theater that Darth Vader was his father and I told everyone around me.... they kept saying be quiet Kid... I was 16 in 1980. Then I felt proud when everyone looked at me and acknowledged my ability to reason through everything. Back then no internet... no advance knowledge. We had to wait 3 years for each film, so 1977, 1980 and 1983.... six years. I went from junior high school, to high school to college. From a teenager to a young adult. No one spoiled the "I AM YOUR FATHER" twist outside of the theater. It was great back then....
lol
Yeah, one of my friends saw it first and spoiled it for me.
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.
Not only is "The Empire Strikes Back" the best picture in all of Star Wars, it's one of the best films ever made. Absolute perfection.
100%. It was listed in the top 10 greatest movies of all time for many years
@@Mr_Kennethtop 5
today we get to add Andor up there next to it
I would put Rogue One ahead of Empire. But that is just me. Best films ever made? Well, among the most entertaining, yes! But there are a LOT of good movies out there if you look. Some famous, some obscure. But it definitely was a good followup to the first movie made which was necessary to convince the world it was a worthwhile franchise and hence was a necessary step to everything that followed.
@@davidmichaelson1092 I'd agree Rogue One is the best of Disney era Star Wars.
When the original trilogy appeared in theaters, there were no episode numbers just titles.
Not true. Empire and Jedi always had their episode numbers. The original got its episode number and subtitle with its 1981 re-release.
One of the best film scores of all time. It's #1 in my book. Williams scored the entire film, and they actually omitted much of his Hoth music that was featured on the original double-LP.
The final 20 minutes is a gorgeous suite of music.
One of my favorite moviegoing memories was watching the Special Edition release of Empire. Theaters packed to see the trilogy on the big screen for the first time in years. Audiences had fun with Star Wars, talking, carrying on. It was fine. A whole new, younger audience was responding to it, too. The audience entered Empire with the same light energy, laughing at Leia kissing Luke, etc. Then the carbon freezing scene hit. I looked around. From that point forward, the audience sat quiet and agape, leaning forward, blown away. I loved seeing their attitudes change.
50:26 -- it wasn't called Episode IV when it was released. It wasn't even called "A New Hope." It was just called Star Wars. That's it. No one expected it to have sequels, let alone to change the course of movie history.
@@alexp601Yeah, Lucas was never sure if the 1st would do well enough to get a sequel so he just called it Star Wars but then, before Empire came out, he went back and numbered A New Hope as 4 and called 5 ESB from the get go like you said. He always planned on doing a 4,5,6 then going back for 1,2,3 and hopefully eventually 7,8,9 but it all obviously depended on how the 1st did. Also, there is a book called i believe "Splinter of a Minds eye." It was kind of like a book based on a script of a much more toned down, kinda lowbudget version of episode 5 he would have done incase A New Hope did well enough to get a small budget sequel.
People always give Lucas TOO MUCH credit when it comes to just how well and how much he had planned out for an over all story. Han was frozen because they weren't sure if Ford would come back for Return of the Jedi, and Yodas whole "No, there is another" wasn't referring specifically to Leia but instead Luke's twin sister who wasn't originally Leia. Mark Hamill had gotten into a bad car accident between episode 4 and 5, that's why he gets clawed by the Wampa, they turned his real-life scar Into the Wampa scar to explain it. So, he was a bit of a daredevil and to cover the studios butt's incase something worse happened to him, they had planted the seed for "another" potential savior but when everything worked out they just made Leia be the other.
So, when it was first released did it not have "EPISODE IV, A NEW HOPE" in the title card?
@@alexp601 Not the name of the movie, I have seen title on movie theatres at the time, but I mean the title card. The title card is the intertitle usually written at the start of the movie. In this case it is the start of the opening crawl. I was wondering if it was in the original or was it placed in the crawl after one of Lucas' "updates".
@@nathanc8478 You can search around the RUclipss and see a clip of what the original intro would have looked like minus the Episode IV and A New Hope
@@nathanc8478 Just "Star Wars" then straight into the main text of the crawl originally. Then it was re-released in 1981 with "Episode IV: A New Hope" under the "Star Wars".
(I saw it on original release and still basically think of this as "Star Wars" - among friends my own age we'll often use that interchangeably with "A New Hope" or "Episode IV")
The script actually had Harrison Ford answer "i love you too." But he ad libbed " I know" and it was left in. So much more like Hahn would say.
Q: What is the internal body temperature of a Tauntaun?
A: Luke warm
You're tauntaunting us with your bad puns.
Dad jokes got to love them
well played
Thanks, that was new to me. Maybe something I can pull out on May 4th.
I laughed way too hard at that.
You know the rule of life. If she loves Star Wars she's a keeper.
"C3PO is underappreciated" and "Shhhh, let him fix it" is a good summary of how I feel about him. He walks the line of annoying but is also family.
C3PO's biggest problem is he mealy mouths around too much being polite, because protocol droid duh, instead of being aggressive and just getting to the point so serious people get annoyed and tell him to shut up.
If Jar Jar Binks had been in Episode IV everyone would love him. If C3PO had turned up in the prequels, he would be hated.
made me really sad to see him in rise of Skywalker because he has that heartfelt moment but the "friends" around him in that scene don't know or care about him at all
@jakestilgard4145 But if he'd been in episode IV, he would have been a puppet, not CGI.
I'm 62 and saw these original three in the theater. And it's so thrilling to see younger generations (and skeptics) appreciate these timeless classics.
And I agree with you, Coby, this one is even better than the first one, even though the ending wasn't as satisfying. I thought it was back then.
James Earl Jones was Vader's voice but the actor in the suit was 6'6" British weightlifter, bodybuilder and actor David Prowse.
Darth Farmer from Yorkshire
Netflix had a great documentary on David prowse a year ago I don't know if it's still available or not
No one ever filled out the suit quite like he did, that's for sure.
Vader was physically played by multiple people and more and more as the sequels were made. ANH was the only time he was the main guy.
No matter what other Star Wars movie is released, this will ALWAYS be my FAVORITE of the Star Wars films!!
Watching this in a theatre really made you feel like you were in the ship battles yourself. It was so great.
R2 and C3PO are "The Odd Couple." They are best friends from very different backgrounds who may bicker constantly. However, if one of them is in trouble, the other will step up to help them without considering their own well-being, and then they will continue to bicker.
This is the first time I’ve seen a reaction of Luke being able to move his lightsaber in the beginning of the movie that was accurate to how all of us who originally saw it in the theater reacted. Seeing Luke be able to move something with his mind was an awesome display of his progress!
I just can't figure out if HAN using the lightsaber is something I reacted to the first time, or if it's more something you do after seeing everything else then you go "yeah Han! the ONLY non-Jedi who gets to use a lightsaber" haha.
As a kid you can't imagine how many times I tried to use the Force (the good side)
As a kid I found it very confusing because the first movie hadn't established force telekinesis (apart from choking) or explained the practical side of being a force user at all. I didn't connect it to the force at all. Additionally the first movie had come out a long time before this (almost half my life at that point) so I couldn't recall much, apart from that it was cool.
@@hattenkofer Understandable. We’re likely about the same age then. I had a group of friends in elementary school and ALL we did was talk Star Wars and reenact it. I think between the force choke, the Jedi mind trick, and Obi making a random noise to distract those storm troopers from tractor beam controls, we just assumed anything was possible.
@@o0pinkdino0o Yeah "as a kid". Cuz I _definitely_ don't _occasionally_ still try it now :).
Before Star Wars IV came out, Lucas was sending his minions out to science fiction conventions around the country touting the film and explaining how the special effects would be done. (They bought every Revell model kit in the country and kitbashed them into space ships, no matter what they were originally supposed to be.) At the end of the presentation the guy begged us all to go see the film- so that George would make enough money to be able to make "A good one" for the sequel.
The movie was pretty much like this with some special effects added. Keep in mind that we didn't have the Internet back then and didn't know when or if there was going to be another one. Plus we had to wait 3 years for the next one. I still remember where and what I was doing when the trailer for Return of the Jedi came on T.V.. I was playing with my brother on the living room floor and it came on. We both screamed!!! We set up our VCR so we could record it if it ever came on again. It took us a week to catch it. We watch that thing so many times till it came out at the theater a couple months later. Saw it opening day.
fun facts: in A New Hope, some the desert shots were film in the deserts of Tunisia in North Africa where the temperatures during the day were in the 100s, other desert shots were filmed in Death Valley, Anthony Daniels (c3po) and Kenny Baker (r2d2) were boiling in their respective costumes. For this film, Hoth was filmed in the Arctic Circle in Norway where temps were in the -20F range, when you see the actors looking like they were freezing, chances are they were VERY VERY cold.
in addition, Yoda's house and the scene with him were built on platforms 6ft off the ground so that Frank Oz (Yoda) could puppet Yoda.
also, the scene with Vader talking to the Emperor was a change/addition to the movie, the re-release of this movie came out after Episode 1 came out in theaters so they replaced the original actor that played the Emperor in that scene and changed the dialogue to include more overt foreshadowing of both the reveal at the end of the movie and hinting at stuff revealed in the prequel trilogy.
As Far as CGI additions to this movie, there weren't that many (not including what i mentioned above), most of what was done was just cleaning up the film. the largest section of additions was all the exterior shots of the Besbin (Cloud City) City.
George Lucas purposefully let the actors pronounce the names as they do. In real life everyone says things differently. So it's Haan or Hawn. Lay-uh or Lee-uh. Makes it a more believable real world.
This is a good point. People pronounce my name differently, and its relatively common!
Even George mispronounces his own name...
When I heard Lucas pronounce the planet Hoth as “Hoath” one time, I knew he was just messing with us. I’m like dude, you’ve totally said it the other way for 40 years.
Really though? You tell someone how you pronounce your name and then they do the same. They don't just pronounce it however they want
People mispronounce my name all the time and I don't bother correcting them. I've had people I work with call me by the wrong name for weeks and just didn't care enough to tell em otherwise.
Yoda's speech pattern is based off of how even in real life different languages structure their speech differently, while in Star Wars they mostly speak the same language, Yoda is super old and just speaks in the sentence structure he was originally taught
I first saw this movie in its original run in 1980, when I was ten. It's my favorite STAR WARS film and I've seen it COUNTLESS times since then. I have NEVER noticed that Leia is introduced in this movie with her hair representing a crown. I LOVE your intelligent observations and also seeing one of the best sequels and films of all time through brand new eyes. THANK YOU!
Prior to filming ESB Mark Hamill was in a car accident that left scars on his face. The attack by the creature early in the film allowed Lucas to integrate the car accident into the look for Luke. Rather than losing his part as Luke the new look became one of making the character seem less innocent, more rugged, and serious.
Also, anybody old enough to have seen the 1964 Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer stop motion movie will recognize that whoever created the snow creature in ESB was haunted by images from their childhood of the abominable snowman. The resemblance just can't be an accident.
It's okay to like Empire Strikes Back better. Empire Strikes Back is almost everyone's favorite Star Wars movie out of the 9.
And deservedly so.
The Star Wars saga has seven movies. Eps 1-6 and optionally, Rogue One.
Apart from that, there are some really expensive and officially licensed fanfics that, somehow, made it to theaters.
@@NMAforever Those other movies are a case study in Disney having more ego, lawyers and money than planning or good sense.
@@jamesbellefeuille2926 so accurate!
Haha, then I'm the only one here who likes it least😂. My favourite as a kid was always Return of the Jedi. Today, it's the prequels because: Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor!
By the way; like your profile picture. It's always great to meet people who appreciate Piccolo😉
36:50
Lando is Bespin's leader. He's responsible for the lives of every man, woman, and child living there. If he tells the empire "No", they're going to kill some or all of the population.
He sold out _one_ guy to save _hundreds or thousands_ and that was the morally correct decision.
No matter what movie the launch or how incredible spfx got - NOTHING ON EARTH will ever cimpete with the thrill of seeing a New Hope back in 1977, or Empire in 1980 on the big screen. We were fortunate to see lightening strike twice!
I’m legally obligated to point out I was 10 when Empire ended and then 13 when Jedi finally came out. A long wait, indeed.
Han "SHUT HIM UP OR SHUT HIM DOWN!"
Leia "SHUT UP!"
Coby "Shoosh! Let him fix it"
“I don’t know how long I’ve been watching!” is one of the best compliments you can give a film.
19:43 Chewie's "scream" is one of my favourite Chewbacca moments- Han and Chewie have been together for years and have been through a lot of exciting adventures, but *THIS* crazy move is too much for Chewie and he's freaking out!
They even showered together (in the 'Solo' movie)....and possibly did more (but they never showed that because young children watching).
You may have seen the video clip already, but on The Graham Norton show, Benedict Cumberbatch does an excellent Chewbacca scream impression
The imperial officer that grabs Leia when she screaming it's a trap is the man that played Boba Fett, the bounty Hunter.
I love how Chewie laughs when Leia says "I don't know where you get your delusions, laserbrain" lol
The revelation of Darth Vader being Luke's father is one of the biggest, if not THE biggest "Say whaaaaaaaaa?!" moment in movie history.
Often quoted as the biggest reveal. In Pitch Perfect, Anna Kendrick’s character claims she predicted it based on the often mistaken idea that Vader means father in German, but it doesn’t. That’s Vater, pronounced Fa-ter. The name Vader was based on water. It does mean father in Dutch, but it’s pronounced differently. But there’s been a few answers as to where the name came from. Thing was, in early Star Wars drafts, Vader was not supposed to be Luke’s father, and his name was created before the connection.
My dad said that when he saw it during the initial release in the theaters the audience collectively gasped.
@@IslesYankeeLadyDarth Vader = Dark Invader -- according to George Lucas
My Lady, I can not express with mere words how utterly delightful watching, nay experiencing ESB (geek shorthand for Empire Strikes Back, FYI Episode 4 is ANH and Episode 5 is ROTJ) again so many years later with you. Your enthusiasm is seemingly boundless and refreshing in a way that warms my cold, black cynical heart. Forgive a middle-aged fuddy-duddy his flights of fancy, but your smile could light all of NYC through the darkest of blackouts. And the word enthusiasm scarcely seems sufficient to convey your excitement. It takes me back to a time, so pregnant with heady escapism and a sense of wonder that I thought only a 12 year old little boy could manifest. Movies today rarely possess such capacity to exite and hearten the way the OG Star Wars trilogy did and, with your help, clearly still can. So, thank you so very much for sharing so very much with the 12 year old little boy that still haunts my desiccated soul. The beauty of your soul and personality is matched only by your physical beauty. I am in your debt beyond measure. God bless you and never let go of your youthful enthusiasm and joy.
-Jamie
How can someone be so much fun having a monologue with a camera? You are the most natural and entertaining solo reactor ever. I want your reaction to every movie ever made!!! So awesome.
She has an acting career of some sort back from Australia. Yeah, i looked her stuff. She's great 👍
Seeing these movies 45+ years after release just shows how good the story telling has endured and this current generation Y, Z..(after Gen X) are really in for a treat when they see the original for the first time. Seeing your reactions is like watching my kids at Christmas when they still believed in Santa Claus, the magic is still there. Thanks for the nostalgia and bringing that feeling back to my 10-year-old self again!
Interesting fact: Vader tortured Han to trigger Luke's visions in the past (they didn't ask Han anything during his 'interrogation'). So that's why Luke saw his friends suffer when they still seemed to be safe.
You were almost talking over one of the greatest improv lines. Han was supposed to say to Leah, "I love you, too" but Kershner wasn't feeling it. Ford was given permission to say whatever and he came up with the iconic "I know." Absolutely brilliant!
I'm here for Coby and her fun comments... Her smile and cute giggle on Yoda's "size matters not" 😉❤
Re Darth Vader: I was a severely battered kid - my father was a sadistic psychopath (also a very large man) and my mother and my brothers and I barely survived. He disappeared from my life when I was ten.
A decade or so later, I was in the Marine Corps and was overseas when the film Star Wars came out. It was a phenomenon - people coming from the States kept talking about it. One of the first things I did after I got back was to go to a theater and see Star Wars (it was still playing in theaters.) I was sitting there with my Coke and chocolate raisins enjoying this space western, when Darth Vader appeared on screen. My stomach instantly clenched into a knot, I got what felt like an electric shock of adrenaline, and the words "Fuck! It's him!" went through my mind. I've never been able to see Darth Vader without remembering that.
When Darth Vader sliced Obi-Wan Kenobi down, Obi-Wan became part of what's called the Living Force and he has the ability to make himself become a Force Ghost, so he's not technically gone. That's why he told Vader that if he cut him down, he'd become more powerful than even Vader could imagine.
The Living Force comes from all life. Obi-wan became part of the Cosmic Force.
@@kentamikuriya1873 *yawn* - people arguing over non-canon EU theories about the force.
Probably already mentioned, but Yoda remains one of the absolute best physical puppet characters ever created for a motion picture. (Gollum being the digital equivalent) He was designed by the legendary Stuart Freeborn, who described the process as "sitting in front of a mirror with a photo of Albert Einstein beside me". The reason Yoda is SO believable and charming is because 1) He was operated (and voiced!) by none other than Kermit himself: Frank Oz. 2) How Mark Hamill interacts and engages with what is basically just a Muppet. 3) The way Director Irvin Kershner shot the scenes involving Yoda at basically eye-level, and having slots built into the studio floor enabling Yoda to move around. All these factors makes for timeless movie magic.
I remember watching with a packed theatre back when this came out and the whole auditorium erupting into cheers when the first AT-AT went down.
"The Empire Strikes Back" is, hands down, THE BEST film in the Star Wars saga! That's why you liked it so much -- the best story, the best cinematography, the best humor, and THE BEST REVEAL IN MOVIE HISTORY! It was the best written, the best directed and the best scored of them all (with The Imperial March, and the romantic theme for Han and Leia). It is still to this day my favorite movie of all time, not just my fav Star Wars episode. And BTW, you mentioned the confidence to title the first as Episode IV, etc., when, in fact, the title of Episode IV- A New Hope was added years later, after the major success in 1977, and Lucas knew he could then continue with more films.
every movie john williams does id the best movie score lol
@@TonyMezz imo The Empire Strikes Back has some of the best character work and one of the best narrative structures ever on film.
@@manvirshergill1739 exactly; you said it better then me!
@@MATTHEW-rp3kqYou're absolutely right! I stand corrected; they're all epic scores!
@@TonyMezz sorry my reply was meant for another account lol
The film quality looks so good, because it was shot on actual film. 35mm low iso film actually holds more detail than most digital sensors can pull these days (about 110mb per shot). It's why the 1870 portrait photo of Bismark on medium format film has such crazy detail. Combined with in the 2000s they did high res scans of the film reels and cleaned it up again (you can do that very well with film due to films insane detail and recoverability). I love film, and wish more movies still used it. One of my favorite films is "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" which has an homage to film and was shot on film in the late 2000s. I carry around my 1981 Nikon F3 and shoot a lot of film.
Sadly, the cost of movie film is such that only the largest movies can afford it now. 11 minutes of 35mm movie film comes in around $1k-$1500 to shoot, develop, and scan. Take your roll of 35mm for your Nikon and consider that's about 1 second worth of a movie.
I was born in '75. Star Wars absolutely dominated my childhood.
It’s so cute when Coby goes “This was in the Seagull video! 😂😂😂
The shot of the Falcon turning around behind a cloud layer at 47:30 blew me away first time I saw it - this is pre CGI - it's so cinematic.
Coby, fun fact: they didn’t know there would be a sequel. When the first movie came out in 1977, it was just called “Star Wars”. In the original film, there is no episode IV in the original crawl or subtitle (a new hope). It did so well, they re-released it in theaters againI think a year or two later as Episode IV with the new subtitle because it was a hit. Lucas chose “the middle” of his massive story.
Yep. The "Episode IV: A New Hope" subtitle was added in 1981 when it was re-released.
"No, I am your father" (often misquoted as "Luke, I am your father") is quite literally the biggest twist in cinematic history. Even people who have never seen Star Wars know it or have heard it because it became part of the pop culture lexicon. It's been so endlessly referenced, homaged, and even parodied that it's taken on a certain irony that it isn't even much of a twist anymore because it's so well known.
Annoyingly, if it wasn't misquoted it would be less obvious which movie was being spoiled.
@Nexus-1068 Planet of the Apes is a good one though. I might personally rank that twist above Vader/Luke reveal
That bloody Homer Simpson spoiled it for everyone! 😉
@Nexus-1068 Lack of attention span is such a weird flex...
"I am Darth Ted" ... ... "Oh Yeah. Well I'm Luke Bill, and you're not my father"
My wife somehow didn't know who Luke's father was, watched it for the first time with me. She actually jumped off the couch stabbing her finger at the screen yelling "B*llsh*t!" "He's lying, isn't he?" "HE HAS TO BE LYING!!!" One of my favorite movie moments with her.
Thats badass and so pure!
What else can be said about how entertaining this lady is. Kobe 🐐 #8, #24. MaLady you make it seem like we are watching movies together and that is appreciated. The shriek when Darth tells Luke he is his father was priceless to see for those who have already seen this movie dozens of times. To me this is the best Star Wars movie ever made, followed by Rogue One which is absolutely amazing
Your comment about the group of pilots and Top Gun cracked me up. I was in the Marine Corps and was stationed on an air base at one point. The Navy's Blue Angels demonstration flight team came there once, and my wife and I were at the Officers' Club when they came in. She stared at them for a minute, then said, "So those are the Blue Angels?" I said they were. She said, "Well, that's a disappointment. None of them look like Tom Cruise."
When Star Wars first came out, it was not labeled Episode IV. It wasn’t until after the sequels started that the credits went back and the Episode IV was added to the opening credits.
It was added in 1981.
@Nexus-1068 Incorrect, it was given the title “Episode IV - A New Hope” in its April 10, 1981 theatrical rerelease, not 1982
Still she is right. He had the 6 stories in mind right from the beginning but felt Episode IV was the most self-contained and had the best change of success. So, he did have that confidence. Although he did give Episode IV its own satisfying ending in case it would be the only one. Apparently he had Episodes 7-9 in mind as well, but sadly Disney decided not to use his story for those.
You're right about the pronunciation of the princess's name. It was not consistent throughout the trilogy. In Episode IV, everyone called her Lee-ah. But in Episodes V and VI, she tended to be called Lay-ah (though as you noted with C3PO, there are still occasions where she was called Lee-ah. Han's named also changed. In the first movie it rhymed with ban. But in Empire and Return it tended to rhyme with dawn.
39:43 : The timing on this is funny because she says, "I must admit I'd choose Han Solo over Luke," and then it cuts to Harrison Ford saying, "I know." 🤣
You got to see the LEGENDARY John Williams TWICE?? How incredibly awesome! Super jealous. Great reaction, Coby!
When Star Wars first came to theatres in 1977, nobody knew it as “Episode IV - A New Hope”. It was just Stars Wars. Even the Crawl at the beginning of the film didn’t say “A New Hope”. That was completely absent. The same was true when Empire Strikes Back came out a few years later. It wasn’t called “Episode V”, it was just Empire Strikes Back. Nobody knew they would be coming out with all of these sequels and prequels. Same for when Return of the Jedi came out. Nobody knew it as “Episode VI”. They only started to re-label them as Episodes when they started coming out with the prequels. When the first prequel came out, they called it Episode I, and at the same time they also relabeled the original Star Wars as “Episode IV”, Empire Strikes Back as “Episode V”, and Return of the Jedi as “Episode VI”.
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The wings are normally flat, but open into an X shape in combat
The ships they use to fight the AT-AT Walkers on Hoth are airspeeders (commonly called snowspeeders), they mentioned they were having trouble adapting them to the cold when Han asked if they could use them to search for Luke.
The ship Luke uses to fly around is an X-Wing, the same as the one he used to destroy the Death Star, the wings just fold down when he’s not in combat. You can see them opening in the original when Red Leader says, “Lock s-foils in attack position.”
The bounty hunter chasing Han is called Boba Fett, he’s got much more mythology and backstory than is shown in the movies. His ship is called Slave I, it’s a very unique design, even for a Star Wars ship.
Boba Fett is the helmeted bounty hunter who took Han Solo's frozen body, and he turned out to be very popular background character from the movies. He's from a race known as Mandalorians and almost everyone's heard of that series on Disney+!
Bob Fett is actually not a Mandalorian. He just wears the armour used by Mandalorian soldiers.
Now imagine waiting for the next movie to find out if Vader was lying or not.
Yeah, even James Earl Jones had to wait to find that out (just not as long as we had to). Well, that’s Vader for you. Couldn’t even be trusted by his own voice.
yeah, it was the source of endless debate in the years leading up to Jedi. Everybody was talking about it.
You cannot even begin to imagine how good it was seeing these films when we knew nothing at all. Wwe didnt know who Yoda was. We didn't know who Darth Vader was. It was all new.
Saw Star Wars, I was 13.
Epic. We left the theater speechless.
It's always a moment to see Leia's face wracked with grief as Solo's last painful moment is laid before her.
Knowing Seagulls without knowing Star Wars is mind-blowing.
Watching in the theater was incredible! Imagine having to wait 3 years between each movie, uuuughh, thanks!
A note about the X-Wing appearance:
X-Wings have four "wings" or "S-foils" which can be "closed" or "opened," depending on the situation. During combat, the foils are "opened" (giving it the "X" appearance). The opened wings keep the four laser cannons (one per wing tip) from being too close so they don't overheat. It also increases aerodynamic drag, allowing for greater maneuverability in atmospheric flight. For non-combat situations or flights, the foils are "closed" (as shown here), which provides increased speed. However, the cannons won't fire in this configuration.
The ships used during the Battle of Hoth are "T-47 speeders" or "snowspeeders." They're a different type of ship, and can't fly outside of atmospheres.
Love how it goes from Han telling 3PO to shut it, then Leia, and by the end of the video Coby is yelling at him hahahaha
Coby is cute her laugh when she puts the references together
Ah....the Incom T-47 snowspeeder. One of my favorite star wars ships when I was a kid. I had the toy. I never got an AT-AT walker as a kid. I now have a vintage one, a Power of the Force model and the larger version with the Z-74 speeder bikes. As well as 3 vintage snowspeeders, 2 different Hoth base playsets, vintage and POTF Tauntons and a Wampa. Hoth is my favorite sequence of the film. Living in Michigan our winters were long and all I needed was a baseball cap, a scarf and old safety goggles and I was Luke Skywalker.
Apparently, Frank Oz had a car that had the letters PYK on its license plate, and he would tell people they stood for "Piggy, Yoda, Kermit"
He didn't play Kermit though. He was one of Henson's.
My birthday is in the beginning of June so when Star Wars first came out in 1977 my parents took me to a drivein movie theater to see the movie for my birthday. I remember that it was called "Star Wars" and there was no "episode 4" and no "A New Hope" in the title. It was nice called "Star Wars". Then when the first movie did so good and they decided to do more movies, that's when they added the " Episode 4 A New Hope" to the title and they started making this movie "Empire Strikes Back". I would tell you more but this comment is getting really long already. I'm really glad that you're enjoying these movies. It's amazing that these movies have been around for 47 years. What's crazy is that I remember watching this movie when it first came out. I was so little (young) at the time. Most people do like Empire Strikes Back more than A new Hope.
"Wait, is the gunner dead?"
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"Oh. He dead now."
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11:08 - Getting to see John Williams in concert at the Hollywood Bowl. Now that’s a little slice of heaven. 😇
Empire was always the best Star Wars film. Even after 7 more episodes, still the best.
meh, ROTJ always for me.
A New Hope! :)
We had to wait 3 years to find out what happened after each movie. Love that you're watching these.
50:26... The original Star Wars wasn't released with the subtitle "Episode IV - A New Hope." That was added to it when it was re-released in 1981.
Ms. Connel, I'm so glad I found this video today. It's been nothing but rain outside and I can't work in my garden. But your smile is all the sunshine I need to brighten my day again. Please, never stop smiling.
Empire by far is my favorite Star Wars movie. It’s a shame that the big twist is now ingrained in pop culture so much that many people going into the movie for the first time already knows it. As a kid I saw it and I had no clue it was coming and even when it happened I was like “is it true? Is he lying? I mean he is evil so it might be a lie.”
And we had to wait 3 years to find out if what Darth Vader said was true.
This is why I disagree with people who nowadays insist release order is the only proper way to watch Star Wars movies.
For the longest time I assumed that the first movie retained the title "Star Wars", and that it was only with the mid-90s rereleases that it was it was retitled to Episode 4. But you know what it is to assume this, "just making an ass out of u and me" (ha ha), I just looked it up before leaving this comment: Lucas re-distributed the movie in 1981, changing the name on the title sequence to 'Episode IV: A New Hope' from 'Star Wars'. Interesting stuff 🤓
It was fun watching your reaction video btw, the first time in over a decade since I got to experience someone else watching this movie for the first time! I probably haven't watched it since before COVID, I've seen it so many times though I'll never be able to capture the joy of having forgotten most to it and rediscovering it :(
41:39 L O V E D her facial expression when Luke activated his lightsaber! She was like, “A for effort, kid, but you ain’t even close to ready.”
I'm glad you're finally watching the Star Wars movies, despite knowing some of the things the original fans didn't know until they were revealed in the movies. It still brings back the cool memories of seeing these movies in the theater for the first time. I love being able to share this experience with you Coby. 🙂
What people don't realize is that Vader never actually kills Obi-Wan. He disappears right before the lightsaber strikes. He became one with The Force.
This isn't true at all
wrong, the light saber did kill him, they just didnt have good special effects back then to show it, so easier to do it that way.
Then why did Obi-Wan remark that *if Vader strikes him down* he would "become more powerful than you can possibly imagine"? He said those words because he knew that either he would strike Vader down or Vader would strike him down (with 'striking one down' meaning 'killing'). We all know from the subsequent films that no one becomes 'one with the force' until they are dead; death is the 'doorway' into the next state of the jedi's existence. So, Obi-Wan *had* to have been killed by Vader. No one chooses to disappear and become one with the force. If they could, why would Obi-Wan wait until Vader swung his lightsabre at him? Why would he fight him at all? He could have toyed with Vader, dancing this way and that without even drawing his lightsabre, all to distract him while the others got to the Falcon and escaped. Then he could disappear and leave Vader confused. This didn't happen. He fought Vader, tried his best to beat him, and got cut down.
@@brianm2238 You're correct that he was killed but I'm not sure they didn't have the special effects to show it better. I think Lucas made the decision to have Obi-Wan disappear as quickly as he did to avoid the otherwise inevitable unpleasantness of seeing him cut in two, the parts dropping heavily to the floor, and then disappearing a moment later. It would certainly have been possible to do it that way *but* it would probably have been too horrific to get the family audience certification that was wanted.
You have to realise that when two force users fight, it's not a swordfight. Those lightsabers are just a means to damage the opponent when one hits. The real fight is invisible; it's a struggle to control the force around them. What Obi-Wan does is relinquish all control over the force and instead become one with it. He lets go (in a way a dark-side user never could) and uses the pressure Darth Vader employs on the force to help him along.
Yoda is a true master. He doesn't need help, he's in an emotional state where he can let go completely. As is (ep6 reference), although for different reasons. But Obi-Wan needs the additional push---he isn't that different from any other force-user who ever died and we don't see all of them hanging around.
So, what's pushing him over the edge isn't the lightsaber. It's Vader taking control over the force not just around but inside his body. The lightsaber hits a couple of moments later, but then Obi-Wan already has dissolved into the force.
The Empire Strikes Back meant EVERYTHING to me at eight years old. The greatest Star Wars movie ever! 🎬
This movie caused the audience to scream when Darth Vader said he is Luke's father! The movie became a classic on that last line alone. Darth Vader did not kill Luke. He used the Jedi method of cutting off his hand. The lightsaber cut the hand but it chorterized the wrist. Jedi's were forbidden to kill. Okay next is Return Of The Jedi! Can't wait to see it!
Jedis or Siths perform over 15 dismemberments in the first 6 chapters of the saga...
I don’t remember any screams. What I remember is a packed theater of completely silent people. Everyone was in shock and processing what they just heard.
As a five year old, I remember gasping with disbelief. I never saw any of them in the theater, I either wasn't born, or, as in the case with Jedi, too young. I was 2 when it hit my country, but it was still very, very much in toy stores when I grew up to be five or six. I watched them on VHS - rented.
WHOOOAAAAA WAIT YOU SAY DARTH IS LUKES FATHER??????!!!!!!!! SPOILER ALERT MUCH????? JESUS YOU'VE BLOWN MY MIND!!!! WHY YOU GOTTA LIE LIKE THAT? I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU???? 😢😢😢😢
Hands and wrists are also the most exposed parts of your body. Saw lots of people be like: "how are there so many cut of hands and arms in star wars?" when injuries to those parts are like the most common in fencing due to the nature of it.
Always loved how when R2 fixes the hyperdrive at the end of the film the front of the ship lifts up and everything falls backwards like it popped a wheelie!
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Which, when you learn about L3 and her personality, kind of makes sense.
When Empire 1st came out, some people didn't like it because it did not have a "proper" ending like the typical movie. They didn't realize it was the middle chapter in a Trilogy. Now, the majority of people today consider this to be the best of the three.
Like folks who stare at the screen in disbelief when Fellowship of the Ring ends... lol
ROTJ will always be my favourite, then ANH, then ESB.
Throughout the years, I've seen many different surveys which ranked the Star Wars movies (1st six) and usually ESB is either #1 or #2. Doesn't mean your opinion isn't valid- it's just what I've PERSONALLY notice. Peace. P.S. My favorite is ANH.
You may have heard the stories from your parents or grandparents but we eagerly waiting for this movie to come out and we waited in line for hours, sometimes wrapped around the movie theater to get a chance to get the tickets for the next few times. Waiting in line was an event, I vividly remember.
"He's gonna fix it and jump to lightspeed!"
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Coby not yet picking up the theme of Empire - failure
The Falcon's constant state of disrepair is my favorite part of Empire. It doesn't really have that problem in New Hope or Jedi, but I love that in Empire it is the most fickle ship in the galaxy.
It's all those Solo special modifications that make her a fast but fickle ship.
This is nearly every car or truck I've owned over the last 30+ years. My latest pride and joy/bane of my existence is a neglected high mileage 99 F350. I've named her the Perennial Piglet.
The rule of three "woooooomp wooomp womp womp womp"s just makes R2D2's victory all the more sweet :)
Empire Strickes Back is my favorite Star Wars movie,, can't believe it's 44 years old and it still holds up quite good
Coby, you do not yet realize your importance. You have only begun to discover your power. Join me, and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy. It is your destiny..
Coby dressed as a sith would be hot
Darth Stalker, is that you?
Eeewww…..but good!👍
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The numbering is retroactive. Originally the titles were just _A New Hope_ and _The Empire Strikes Back_. The numbering only started at the third mlvie or the prequel trilogy, which is why the first movies is episode 4.
The fact that the Bad Lip Reading channel is Coby's main star wars exposure is hilarious, very millenial, scary, and brilliant all at the same time
She’s almost 40. Insane that she’s never seen these
@@crispy_338 Dang, I thought she was 30 max
@@tru3sk1ll Same. She barely looks 30
No it's more than that since she recognized all the main characters faces and names. Probably over the years seeing it referenced all over
@@joshr8666 Sorry "main" experience, she definitely knew other things but she knew the lip reading video VERY well, super funny
The Seagull video is next level, I found it a few months ago and watched it about 20 times. Hysterical!
coby + empire? yes please
Coby with her feet resting on my shoulders - 🤤
I love that you called Yoda "a little tiny frog". Lol.
That was a snow creature. Known as a Wampa. It is native to the Hoth planet.
Yeah, think of a Yeti on steroids! ;op
"Wampa beast"
A snow wookie.
The Emperor’s line naming “Anakin Skywalker” is a recent interpolation. That name was never spoken in a movie until Return of the Jedi three years later.