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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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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.
"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
You know the rule of life. If she loves Star Wars she's a keeper.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
12:40 "Oh he can do the bad force, the chokey force even through the telephone" omg I laughed out loud 😀love these first reactions
Great reaction Coby. Born in 69, i was a kid when this trilogy came out. It was literally as huge for the time then the last 2 Avenger movies. Maybe even bigger. Aside from Rogue 1, it seems to be hard for them to replicate the same “magic” as 4-6…
But every time i watch this trilogy, it still brings back the magic. Even watching it thru U. Your reactions are extremely on point. You keep it compelling 👍🏻
All righty. The changes made to The Empire Strikes Back. First of all, I gotta mention, this movie was altered the least in the Special Edition and subsequent DVD and Blu-ray releases, so the only major changes made were for continuity purposes to connect these three films with the Prequels. So, with that said, let's get into the matter at hand. To start off, we have Boba Fett being recast in terms of his voice actor. Originally, he was voiced by this guy named Jason Wingreen (I've never heard of him nor do I know any of the movies he was in before this one, so please don't ask), but here, the lines were re-recorded by a new actor, Temuera Morrison. If you're a Disney fan, then you might recognize him as the voice of Moana's father. As for the Emperor, originally, he was originally physically portrayed by actress Elaine Baker and voiced by actor Clive Revill (the voice of Kickback from gen. 1 Transformers), but here, he's now voiced by Ian McDiarmid, even though Revill is still credited in this film. McDiarmid re-recorded Revill's lines from the original release for the Special Edition for the sake of continuity with the next film, while the former change was made to maintain continuity with the Prequels, though when Episode III came out, the scene where Vader contacts the Emperor was changed again, making it a bit longer by adding a couple more lines. Also, Cloud City was originally more claustrophobic, and George Lucas most likely wasn't satisfied with it, so they added digital windows for the interior shots and even expanded one shot during the scene when Lando, Leia, Chewie, Threepio, and Artoo are chasing after Boba Fett. Nice touch, really, but that's just one of many minor changes. Boba and the Emperor are the only two parts of the film with the biggest changes. The Wampa cave scene was originally given the Jaws effect in that you don't really see much of the creature, but for the Special Edition, they filmed new shots of it eating its food, reacting to Luke trying to escape, and thriving in pain after its arm gets sliced off. They had a different costume planned for it, but it looked terrible while they were filming a deleted scene that was supposed to happen during the escape from Echo Base, so they just decided not to show it after that embarrassment. A new suit was made, and it looks much better. It almost looks like the puppet that you saw. Edit: Also, Mark Hamill was in a car accident at the time of filming Episode IV, so that's why his face looks a bit different. You'll wanna look up the whole story for more details. Edit: 10:28 to 10:37 - More like she was just proving her point, and Luke was just sitting there thinking, "She's got him there." 2nd edit: You mistook James Earl Jones for Laurence Fishburne? Wow. I never imagined anybody would think that was Cowboy Curtis voicing Vader. 3rd edit: The Ion Cannon disabled the approaching Star Destroyer. 4th edit: I like how you were speechless during Vader and the Emperor's coversation! 5th edit: The vision in the cave showed Luke turning to the dark side, hence why his face was in the mask. 6th edit: Vader was trying to draw Luke out throughout the rest of the film by targeting his friends. He knew Luke was out there somewhere, so Vader figured going after Han and the others would force Luke to face him, and it worked.
In the original movie, the Emporer says, "the son of Skywalker must not be a Jedi". Anakin was never mentioned. When they updated the graphics, they added the comment about Anakin, as well as changed the projection of the Emporer to match the actor in episodes 1-3.
*must not become a Jedi (The actor playing the Emperor in ROTJ is the same actor in the prequels, Ian McDiarmid. He replaces the holographic version, played by Marjorie Eaton (with overlaid chimpanzee eyes) in the earlier release of ESB.)
Mark Hammil was in a car accident between the first and second movie, so they used the injuries he got while he was lost in the ice to give him the same scars he got in the accident.
This was great - loved seeing you enjoy something so many have before you. This is what Star Wars is all about.
Well, on original release it wasn't called Episode IV, because Lucas didn't know that he could make another movie. That was added in later releases.
(and originally there was only one Death Star...but since that would have been destroyed in the third movie - and he wasn't sure he would get all of them made - he moved that plot point to the first movie and added a second Death Star for the third movie)
The Seagulls video is so funny. I used to work with someone named Brenda and every now and then I'd cue it up. The entire office would crack up.
I saw this with my brothers when it came out. Cheering the heroes when they first entered frame and hissing Vader. Quite exciting!
Yoda's speech pattern was originally intended to be part of his camouflage as a crazy local.
George had a bad tendency to forget thinga and change other things on a whim..
Yes, they were remastered, however, the originals were still really good. There's lots of detail shots that were added w/ CGI (noticeably), and the other major difference the boxes around the ships are gone/very very hard to see (I can't remember if they got rid of them entirely). In the originals they used compositing for the ship battles, which you could see more and more clearly as resolutions on modern TV's got higher and higher
I love how Luke is grounded through his friendships (attachments) and the old Jedi (Yoda/Obi Wan) fail to acknowledge their own failures in their teachings which helped lead to the fall of the Jedi Order. Luke really does a wonderful job managing his emotions and centering himself.
31:27 George Lucas said in an interview that - besides, obviously, Joseph Campbell's work - he based the concept of The Force in Carlos Castaneda's books. Here is a clear reference. Highly recommended books, by the way.
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 :(
I saw The Empire Strikes Back a day before it was released to the public. Some friends and I cut high school and were the first to arrive at the theater where TESB was opening. We arrived at 4pm the day before and slept in the parking lot. But before that happened, the theater had a midnight showing for the Press, and the theater manager let us sit in with them.
Afterwards, when we came back out, which was after 2am, there were 3 to 4 more cars full of Star Wars fans who flipped out after we told them we had just saw TESB! By noon the next day, (technically same day) there were a few hundred people in line now and word spread that we had seen TESB. We felt like rock stars! Everyone wanted to talk to us, including the tv news reporters! It was the most amazing movie going experience of my life!
FYI, there is the original cut of the film, which is hard to find now, then it was remastered for the special edition, which released in theaters in the late 90s. That made some edits, added all the extra CGI stuff, and just improved the contrast and stuff, which is really noticeable in cloud city. The special edition promotional material shows side by sides of this contrast/re-colorization. Anyway, after the prequel trilogy came out we got the current version of the films, remastered again and some minor changes were made, but not as many.
A little tid bit....George Lucas didn't want anyone to know the the big reveal. On set, the Actor playing Vader states, "Obi-Wan Killed your father" and then the rest of Vader's dialogue was designed to get specific responses from Luke. Vader's lines are then changed in James Earl Jones' voice over. So the actors found out about the secret with everyone else.
"He doesn't know he is going to be a little frog!" ,😂 Loving your reactions to these films. Can't believe you hadn't ever watched them before.
Let's go to space! Thrusters a full power.
Great reaction you are so fun to watch you. Probably the only person I know that can’t wait to see you walks back in the day. People said that they took away from the film will be serious and they made it cute but it’s for kids anyway that part and some merchandise, Movies said and he did it gets better from here. Your reactions are priceless. I love it your hat until next time thanks for the fun.
The Empire Strikes Back will always be my favorite!
May understanding of Yoda’s inverted phrasing is that the writers were modeling on the syntax of Japanese, but in English of course.. I don’t recall where I heard that, and have only seen it mentioned once, never followed up on it. But it does phrase in a similar manner.
The idea of Han slashed up the taun-taun carcass's belly up to put Luke in it, it comes from real life which eunits do to stay warm during cold blizzardy nights on Greenland.
Bad Lip Reading (the same outfit that recorded the Seagulls song) also made a song for the battle of Hoth called "Hostiles on the Hill." The lyrics are just as gonzo as the other tune but the beat is bopping.
A couple of fun facts... The original SW was only titled Star Wars they didnt think it was going to be as successful as it was enough so that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg did attend the premiere but went to Hawaii to discuss another pic "Raiders of The Lost Arc". They added to episode numbers prior to the release of ESB when the original was re-released before the premiere of ESB and it became EP4 - A New Hope. As far as getting Han Solo Harrison Ford fid not sign on for any of the OG trilogy sequels like Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher. The character of Lando was created in case HF decided not to do Return of The Jedi. HF eventually did sign on for EP6. 😊
Another common misconception. Not true about why Lando was added. You are right that Ford didn't sign up for three films like Fisher and Hamill did, but not long after A New Hope came out, there was no question that he would be in Empire. Well before even the first draft of Empire was written. This would mean there would not have been any Han-related reasons to add him to Empire and even less reason for Jedi. The way Empire ended, they had to know that Ford would be back for Jedi.
It seems like the only proof anyone ever seems to have about "Lando replacing Han" is a picture of Lando wearing Han's vest, which is totally taken out of context (mostly as to why Han is wearing it in the first place).
@@aceldamia9114 I've read differently and heard George Lucas say as much... That is why Han was not revived at the end. If HF decided to not be a part of EP6 then his character could be written off. I don't understand why you think the end proves that HF/HS would be back. He was frozen and not seen.
"A New Hope" wasn't always Episode 4. When originally released, it was called simply "Star Wars". Its success gave Lucas the wherewithal to do an entire series, and it was later when "Star Wars" was retitled as "Episode 4: A New Hope". This was AFTER George Lucas had fleshed out the concept of the entire saga and figured out the timeline. About the X-Wing fighter's appearance. If you recall in Ep. 4, as they approached the Death Star, the Squadron leader called "Lock S-Foils in attack position" and the X-wings spread their wings, becoming more "X-ey". They do that when going into battle because it opens up the wingtip blaster pattern and spreads the engines for greater maneuverability. Luke didn't need that when he was just flying around approaching Dagoba or Cloud City. About Luke's fall when he escaped from Vader, I don't think that it was just luck that he hit that pipe. I think that he intuitively used the force and sensed the pipe and directed his fall into it. Finally, be patient, the Ewoks are coming. Love ya!
45:15 yeah, part of the reason for the Special Editions was to clean up the film and made digital copies that won't degrade like film.
12:25 Vader goes RP with "larst time". Anakin did say 'last' like that.
I saw a meme for the villains: Darth Vader, Sauron, and Voldemort. Darth Vader rules the entire galaxy for 30 years, Sauron almost conquers the entire world twice, and Voldemort fails to take over a high school twice.
Whoa whoa wait. After Luke jumps out of the freezing chamber, Darth Vader says "most impressive" in a flat tone, but I vividly remember him saying it more like "imPRESSiiiiiivveee". Is this like a version difference?
Literally EVERY movie or TV show EVER made cuts back and forth between scenes. What the?
You mentioned thinking the originals looked bad, but the films looked superb from the start, they were superb in the movie theater, the issue that made you think they looked bad was the transfer to VHS, those looked pretty dreadful.
Also, love watching your discovery of these films. Really epic!
Also, that look of shock that we were ending the movie there, imagine you now have to wait THREE YEARS… three years to see the story continue. That’s what we had to do in 1980, wait until 1983. It was a huge long wait ;)
It was only called episode IV A New Hope AFTER they made Phantom Menace (episode 1) At the time of release they were just Star Wars, TESB and ROTJ.
When Star Wars was released in 1977, it was expected to be a stand-alone story. Its run in the premier theaters was a surprise to be some six months long. After that, George Lucas came up with the plan of a trilogy of trilogies, with the original movie being episode 4, or the first of the middle trilogy. The "Episode IV: A New Hope" was added to later editions.
I remember televised interviews with members of the cast and crew of the original movie. It was not being sold as a "good" movie, but rather a "fun" movie. The actors talked about how much fun they had filming it. How much fun? Harrison Ford held his arms out wide and said "this much fun." There was also an interview with someone who was some kind of production assistant intern who was kind of down one day, sitting by himself. Someone sat next to him and asked what was bothering him. The kid said something like "I don't know who's doing this, but I don't think they know how to make movies. Who would watch a story about two robots?" The sitting next to him said "You might be right." That was George Lucas. That speaks to the level of confidence they had in the original Star Wars movie.
The original movies were remastered in the mid-1990's as "The Special Edition" to employ then state-of-the-art CGI to replace the models and matte paintings of the original movies. Deleted scenes were also added, along with some new voice-overs. George Lucas was really happy to do this because after 20 years, the technology for the space scenes had finally caught up enough that he could make the movies he had envisioned. The original film masters were digitized and restored, which is why the new editions look so good today. Proceeds from the Special Edition funded the production of the first part of the second trilogy.
The original editions have also recently been digitized and restored, and are viewable now. If you're interested, you can make case studies of the differences between the various versions.
The Special Edition movies have also been reworked periodically, so that aspects of the newer movies could be incorporated into the older ones. For example, Ian McDiarmid's Emperor didn't appear until a later movie; he was grafted in to Empire Strikes Back at a later time, replacing another actor who played the role initially. This happens with other actors, too.
As of the mid-1980's, Empire Strikes Back was considered by many to be the weakest of the original trilogy. That has changed over time, and it's now arguably the favorite of an awful lot of fans.
In the original Star Wars, the audience viewing the scenes where the rebel fighters made their attack runs and flew into the Death Star trench could sense the movement. They felt a similar sensation in Empire Strikes Back in the beginning during the search for Luke and Han, where the speeder flew up and down over the snow fields. There was a lot of "ooh" and "ahh" in the cinema and even for TV broadcasts shown on big 72-inch projection TVs.
Hoth is in the game Star Wars battlefront 2
14:50 "hey guys have you ever seen that really old movie The Empire Strikes Back?" Spiderman
Princess Leia keeps her Royal Title and the "your highness" form of address despite the kingdom from which she claimed these honours being nothing more than a pile of rocks orbiting a star.
Watch a movie with Laurel and Hardy then you'll understand what inspired the dynamic between 3PO and R2. Some foreign languages use different phrasing than we do. I worked for a Doctor from India he asked "What black Friday is?" instead of what is black Friday.
That ending...and then, think about how you live in 1980 and it won't be until 1983 until you get to watch 'the next one'
Actually, Lucas wasn't brave enough to start with a chapter labelled Episode IV. He picked the chapter he felt would stand on its own the best if he did and released it as "Star Wars", period. "Episode IV: A New Hope" one the movie was a hit and sequels were greenlit. The first audiences to see "The Empire Strikes Back" when the movie started with "Star Wars Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back" at the top of the crawl. They added "Episode IV" to the top of the crawl for rereleases, but most fans still called it Star Wars. It's relatively recent that the fandom have started using "A New Hope".
All reactors seem to think James Earl Jones was the actor in the suit on set, rather than only the voice of Darth Vader.
It wasn't Episode 4 until Empire came out.
I can never watch that new hand scene without thinking of the family guy version. "Practice on a hotdog first..." 😂
When you get excited for the imperial music you're officially in the club ;)
RUN,RUN,RUN JUMP/I CAN BE A BACKPACK WHILE YOU RUN/SWING,ON A HAIRY VINE/I CAN BE A BACKPACK WHILE YOU CLIMB 🎶
Thats leadership. First in. Last out. In command the whole time.
The ending of The Empire Strikes Back was brutal because we knew we had to wait for a long time to find out what happened two Han Solo
The actor playing C3PO was English, so throughout the trilogy his accent and pronunciations would come through.
The reason Yoda speaks the way he does is he is 900 years old. If he were on earth, he would have started to learn to speak in the year 1100. Think of all the linguistic changes he would have gone through.
You’ve pointed out that the whole world knows Vader is Lukes’s father, but I’ve seen a lot of people react to this movie and you’d be surprised how many of them don’t know.
Darth Vader is only voiced by James Earl Jones. There's actually a white guy who was a world class fencer in the suit though.
My house has no tv, not even a game console, only go watching neighbour house watch tv😂
Those massive machines are called Imperial Walkers.
33:21 Lol I can hear the bass from somebody else's music in the background with my monitoring setup.
Darth Vader voice is dubbed by James Earl Jones by was a different actor playing the role. They wanted a deeper, richer voice.
I absolutely love your reactions to this franchise! Cannot wait for Return of the Jedi!❤✌️
Empire is the best Star Wars movie by far.
Back when it came out it was just called Star Wars. The sequels came out later to form the trilogy.
Calling Han the best pilot in the galaxy might be premature, since we have some stiff competition in this department. A few of the other contenders: Luke, Vader, Leia, Lando, Wedge Antilles (the pilot Luke said to abort the trench run back in the first movie)...
It's a shame Yoda became so famous. The reveal that that "comedic" loony character was in fact the All Wise Yoda was a gut punch back in the day.
Personally, I 100% support Luke's decision of going to try to rescue his friends. They'd be tortured to death if he waited as long as Obi-Wan and Yoda wanted him to. You see, those two (like just about any Jedi before Luke) don't give the slightest thought to people, they are all about the Great Causes. People like Han and Leia are minor details, not worth their lofty attention.
Which, by the way, is why the Republic fell, in my opinion.
When you watch the Prequel trilogy (you will do it, you know), take note that all the Jedi will only save people that are politically important or if they don't have anything better to do. Doing normal people a good turn is something they'll do only if it costs them nothing.
The planet Hoth is a place in Norway called finse.
Luke in medbay injury was not makeup. Mark was in a bad crash swell up like a Ballon
Simple question, which was made first Star Wars or Top Gun?
YES! I was *literally* going to post that you have to watch Seagulls ... AFTER ... Return of the Jedi lol. But you're already way ahead! :D
I'm coming to the comments to see all the fellow Star Wars geeks dropping some OG knowledge.
This was the best of the og trilogy
35:51 there is more than 2 Skywalker’s in this movie 🤐😉
Who Framed Roger Rabbit??? (1988)
BLUES BROTHERS (1980)
Four Brothers (2005)
EASY A (2010)
Glad you mentioned the Top Gun: Maverick final scen basically being a rip off of the Star Wars trench run. When I saw Maverick, I just sat there through the whole final act going "this is just Star Wars! What the H*ll?!?" and yet no one else I was with seemed to notice. For me it absolutely ruined Maverick for me. It was not an homage to Star Wars, it was just a straight up rip off and lazy writing.
It's clear you will watch episode 6. And I imagine you will watch some if not all of the others but really only Rogue One is as good as the 2 episodes you already watched. If you begin to lose interest in the Star Wars movies and decide to drop out, still watch Rogue One. It's in the top 3 episodes in my opinion.
20:40 This is kinda swampy, Yoda's kinda froggy ...
At the end of this movie Luke is Hand Solo
😂😂😂😂😂
I ❤ watching these!
Unlike in the movie, the average distance between asteroids is about 600,000 miles.
Okay I have the original Star Wars from LaserDisc. Or at least as close to the original as you can get. There is no "episode IV a new hope" in the original scroll.
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.
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.
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.
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.
" 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
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.
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")
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😉
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.
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.
Han "SHUT HIM UP OR SHUT HIM DOWN!"
Leia "SHUT UP!"
Coby "Shoosh! Let him fix it"
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.
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.