Return of the Jedi: Theatrical Trailer 1982
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- This Return of the Jedi teaser trailer from 1982 features early looks at many of the film's most famous scenes, and is the first trailer to feature the movie's new title - famously, it was originally called Revenge of the Jedi until George Lucas opted to change the name, noting that revenge is not the Jedi way. The trailer focuses heavily on the idea of "return," with the narrator opening the preview by saying, "Return to a galaxy far, far away," and later, "Return to heroic adventure," and "Return to the ultimate confrontation."
The trailer showcases many scenes out of sequence, focusing on action and the heroes and villains of the film. The opening shot is of Han, Chewie, Luke, C-3PO, Leia, and R2-D2 aboard the stolen Imperial shuttle Tydirium, en route to Endor ("You ready everybody?" Han says. "Chewie, let's see what this piece of junk can do."), then cuts to the Millennium Falcon during the Rebels' assault on the Death Star, shows Jabba and much of the battle on his sail barge, Ewoks battling Stormtroopers on Endor, and the final duel between Luke and Darth Vader in the presence of the Emperor. The trailer actually does not feature the complete Return of the Jedi logo.
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Narrator: “The loyalty of comrades.”
*Cuts to Lando Calrissian*
*Soviet anthem intensifies*
"The strength of a leader!"
*Cuts to Leia in slave bikini*
The Cunning of the Enemy...
Cuts to C3PO falling off ship
Kekoa Joaquin he was loyal in this movie, though
@@AyanKhan-og3sd what does that mean?
I can't believe Ackbar's most famous line made the trailer. If only we'd known then lol.
I like how Luke has a blue and a green lightsaber in the movie.
ITS A TRAP!
moist_captain The only reason they made his lightsaber green was because (as you can see from this trailer) his lightsaber didnt contrast well with the blue sky
1:39
And Ackbar died in The Last Jedi😒😒
"The cunning of the villains"
Cuts to Boba Fett
'sigh'...
Lol -- at least they didn't cut to the Sarlaac belching afterwards.
But Boba Fett is cunning, unlike anything in the sequels.😪
You’re profile pic is........familiar
"the loyalty of comrades"
Cuts to Lando
@@bsalini1949 the only thing he does is stand around and unimpressively fight one or two times. He's supposed to be a dangerous assassin, but the actual movies don't really make him seem like one.
1:39 Unbelievable- the most famous line in the movie was with us before it even came out!
+Luke Schwiebert And they say spoiling movies in the trailer is a new thing.
+Luke Schwiebert is it bad that I heard you say "Unbelievable" in the same voice who is the narrator for DBZ?
+Thomas Everett Is the line "It's a trap" really that much of a spoiler when you think about it? What's the trap? What context are we in?
Drake Johnson we are in the context where some people are joking, and other people have not understood the joke.
+Luke Schwiebert i liked your status before i checket what part you meaned, cause i thought the same as i wahtched the trailer :D
They actually don't make them like this anymore, a true classic that never gets old.
“The saga lives on”
“The stories will live forever”.
:)
M Paulson literally the newest comment lol
Forever... and ever and ever lol
Then Disney happened 😔
@@asto5872 and Disney is keeping those stories going
@@PatricktheHedgehog01 Imagine my shock when someone with Hedgehog in their username shills for Disney's bad fan fiction.
Some say is the weaker of the originals. For me is a masterpiece. Every part of it. Pure movie magic
In term of themes, this one is the strongest in the saga. Turning the story into a Greek tragedy instead of a fight between bouncy superhumans like we expected is imo what makes star wars star wars. And the last 45 minutes are rythm masterpiece
I think the entire OT is a masterpiece
Ewoks
Tbh I don’t get ROTJ hate I see the trilogy as one perfect story.
It's the worst of the originals three but it's still fantastic
Directors: Harrison ford would you like to re sign for Star Wars 6
Harrison ford: nope I'm done with the movies won't do it no more
Directors: come on Harrison we need your character can't just die like that
Harrison ford: well you should of killed me in the 5th one instead of freezing me so sorry my final answer is no
Directors: come one , we'll double up your pay
Harrison ford: JESUS CHRIST DONT YOU UNDERSTAND WHATS NO?
Directors: Princess Leia will be in a bikini
Harrison ford: when do we start?
+danny marquez basically
Then they kill him xD
that comment just made my day
brilliant haha
Technically it wasn't the 6th at the time , the prequels weren't out yet
This was the first movie I can remember seeing at a movie theater when I was a kid. All the kids in my neighborhood went together, I can still remember the excitement we all felt.
Amazing movie I don't care what anyone says it's an absolute master piece
The Empire gets beaten by primitive Care Bears with sticks and rocks. Its better than a lot of people give it credit for, but you calling it a master piece is just ridiculous.
i love all but the ewoks, and i don hate them entirely they just play too big a role in defeating the empire. maybe they could have played a role but somehow they should have had more help from somewhere else.
It's a trap...not a masterpiece! 😝😀
Agreed it is a masterpiece of 80s cinema.
@@Yobachi2007 shut up horror!
“The cunning of the enemy” cuts to c3po falling 😂
Darth 3po and Darth jar jar will make a return, I'm sure of it
Bruh that was R2 pushing him off and I'm pretty sure hes not a villain...
@@alexanderwelshwelsh9931 oh no u r a dumb C3p0 it's worse than Palpatine
@@js_skyw4lk3r i did not understand a lot of that apart from 'your dumb'. I mean, whats your point
In the Empire trailer he pulls down a warning sign as they say, fighting oppression, or some such.
Gotta love all these alternate scenes.
Despecialized edition
Ur welcom
Like Luke's blue lightsaber
Even trailers from that time lied to us!
You mean the better scenes
0:51 Luke was originally supposed to have a blue light saber in the film as we can see here but because the blue color didn’t show up that well in the sarlacc pit fight scene originally, George decided to change the color to green. So glad he did that cause that green light saber is awesome
If they wanted people to think he'd gone to the Dark Side of the Force, he should have built a red one.
Just think if George didn't make that change, we'd be stuck with only red and blue lightsabers. Pretty boring
Plus given the lore behind the green saber, it fits with Luke's character.
Im pretty sure the actual reason was that they were originally going to have scene where luke built a new lightsaber, but they cut it out. Because they didnt want people to be confused (cos of what happened in esb) they made it green to show it was a new saber.
It makes sense. But here 1:29 the lightsaber appears in green. If this was made using an early cut of the movie, shouldn't it also be blue? Because he uses the same lightsaber during the whole movie.
Note the near lack of Ewoks in the trailer.
I wish that this carried over to the film...
Nonamearisto you mean the man eating teddy bears?
Anche della corte di Jabbah! Meno si vedeva meglio era! XD
Except at 0:42
Palpatine, too.
"The Saga lives on!" gives me chills every time.
It’s weird to see Luke with a blue lightsaber on Jabba’s sail barge
And then later in the trailer, during the Vader fight, his lightsaber is green...
i came to watch this trailer b/c i was curious if they kept his green a secret until release but evidently not
They changed it because it didn't mesh well with blue sky. Just goes to show nothing in star wars really matters. They will just add something later for it to make sense
The colours are not very accurate on this trailer. I'll try to fix them seeing how the lightsaber colour turns out.
@@ipsonfromkijetstudios yeah I noticed that too
I’m beyond grateful I got to see this masterpiece in theaters.
Same, when I heard it was re-releasing in theatres for the 40th anniversary I knew nothing could stop me from seeing my favorite SW film in a theatre - like it was meant to be seen.
I’ve only seen rogue 1 solo and the ones w ray sadly I was born late😂
Ye I saw it just 2023 it's was good but the special edition, so it spoiled it a bit
Same with me I was 18 years old at the time.
Still have what I managed to hold onto on this.
I wasn’t born during this, however watching it now makes me feel like I was a kid in that era.
Return of the Jedi was my first Star Wars movie experience so it has a special place in my heart.
Back when trailers didn't give the whole plot of the movie..
except it totally gave away what happened to Han
Game Of Clones Hey JJ's doing a good job so far with the newest Teaser to The Force Awakens.
Takashii125 ahahahaha, good one!
Except this clearly showed the Death Star blowing up and Han being unfrozen
can you plz say what will happen in last jedi if trailer gives spoiler
When we saw this trailer in 1982, especially at the 1:28 mark (with Luke beside Darth Vader) we were freaking out! Wow! The anticipation waiting for it! And why was Luke standing next to Darth Vader so calmly? We were dying to see it!
So awesome you were around to see it when it came out! I bet the hype was big!!
When I watched it now that struck me as the most spoilery part of the trailer.
@@jedijones Spoils it how? It just shows them standing calmly beside each other. So we were all freaking out wondering what it meant. Did Luke turn bad and join Vader? To us back then, that short snippet didn't spoil or give away anything.
Well originally when Luke unmasked Anakin he was gonna put on Vaders mask and become the new leader of the empire, this was changed because George thought it was way too dark of an ending for Star Wars.
I wonder if some people thought that meant Luke would join Vader and turn to the Dark Side
So much cheesy... so much awesomeness... it's a trap...
I can't believe nobody replied to you
johny sins?
*then GS decided to put 500+ sins on ROTJ*
(I hope you understand it's a joke)
I love this movie so much. I can still remember riding with my parents to the theater. Even today when I hear Pat Benatars "love is a battlefield" and Yes' "owner of a lonely heart" I get nostalgic cause I heard them in the car ride there. Lol
I think of the video games I played then during Owner of a Lonely Heart.
This is getting me hyped for a movie I've seen a million times
This makes it look better than it was.
Blue lightsaber 0:50
Joel Garrido wow man good catch there. I didn't even notice.
Yeah, they changed it to green so it'd be easier to see against the blue sky.
It's also blue on the original movie poster :)
It’s because they didn’t want to spoil the movies plan
Could just appear blue because of color differences of media and devices of the time; this was the early 80s.
Hammil's performance is so underrated in this movie. Should have been nominated for an oscar.
Spencer Dobkin how about last jedi
I hate to be that person but it's *Hamill*. But yeah, I agree with you. Hopefully he gets one for The Last Jedi!
@@kascnef Yep he should have been nominated for Last Jedi too.
Nah
Oh man my childhood.. the only justice that Mark has gotten is the Mandalorian finale
Fun Fact: The original title of this was Revenge of the Jedi
Yeah, but revenge is not the Jedi way.
@@akakuro6281 true,george lucas even said that
I had an original theater poster of revenge of the jedi.
@@emperorpawpateen.9992
That’s cool
Now that i think of it Anakin Got his Revenge by Throwing of Palpatine
If you were an 80's kid this music was heaven to your ears!
And if you were a 90s kid! You may hate the prequels but we loved it.. not to mention that we had the OT's re-releases first, so I still love the OT first.
I was born 1999, my second favourite sound track after doctor who
It still is and I was born in the 90s
And if i am a 2010's kid then i would have to say that The last jedi was trash.
@@odst1778 del 2010 y ya vas con la banderita, que pena
This looks awesome. I wished nowadays trailers were like this one. I can feel the emotions, and why not the force too.
This is a lot better than the first two movies' trailers. It used the music, they didn't have the narrator talking so much trying to give you a sales pitch instead of showing the movie, and it had the right tone and message with the stuff about destiny fulfilled and the circle closing. Looks like third time was the charm.
I just love the Star Warsmovies and they have always been a part of me from my childhood and Return of the Jedi is my favorite Star Warsmovie :)
Mine too! I should watch it today!
"The strength of a leader"
*shows slave Leah*
Leia*
@Don't Tread On Me
Leia was boss back in the days
And hot...
This trailer gives me chills 40 years later. Absolutely beautiful!
Love this film! Never forget the first time I saw it as a 6 year old completely took my breath away. And still does to this day.
Still one of the best THIRD chapters ever written and brought to theaters!!!
YES!!
I think it’s THE BEST 3rd film of any trilogy out there. Wrapped up everything perfectly and had such a satisfying ending - so rare for 3rd sequels
Who else got recommend this and immediately click!
Like everyone
@@jarringberet1445 I ignored it 3 times, then clicked
That's... that's how TH-cam works...
Me
Me
I was seven when this trailer aired and I remember completely losing my mind over it! What made it even more special was the film's release coming just after my eighth birthday. My parents took my sister and I to see it in the cinema at least twice, maybe three times.
Was first in line May 25,1983 to see this. Got there 6am theater didn’t open until 11. It was so worth the wait.
My Favourite Movie of ALL TIME
Everything is proceeding as I had foreseen.
I agree
Mine too
Hold up, why Luke got a blue lightsaber at 0:50?
What an awesome trailer. Looking forward to seeing it again for the 1000th time :)
"Is Darth Vader my father?"
*cut to Luke and Vader standing alongside each other*
That must have thrilled and shocked audiences when they first saw this trailer!
Happy 40th Anniversary to my personal favorite Star Wars movie of all time! The return of adventure! The return of the heroes! The return of the jedi!
Gotta love that the last shot of the trailer was that absolutely killer effects shot of dozens of TIE fighters swarming the Rebel fleet at breakneck speed.
Notice there was no Jabba or Ewoks in the trailer...
0:42
JSS TYger right
1:16
although some would rather there weren't ewoks in the move XD
JSS Tyger ewoks were
The Revenge of the Sith trailer was probably the best of all the Star Wars trailers.
+Jay Scribe lol you've got to be joking... do you not like the force awakens trailer?
Yeah but The Sith trailer was so dynamic
Sometimes summaries work..
I wouldn't say that anymore
it revealed too much but it was dramatic
Awesome a rogue one sequel, when does it come out? Next December? So Hyped
What? That doesn't even make sense..
?
Dark_ Void it is a joke
dfj bts still doesn't make sense. A new hope is the sequel to rogue one
Such a great experience seeing this opening weekend in theaters
1982: "I can't believe they're going to kill C-3PO!"
2019: "I can't believe they're going to kill C-3PO!"
They cannot kill my golden friend otherwise they will lose me.
Thankfully they didn't.
Narrator: "The cunning of enemies"
C-3P0: WAAAUUUGHH!!!
Aww man I'm so hyped for this movie to come out....
This movie will kill the star wars trilogy that's my prediction. Still going to go see it next year though.
Are you trolling? Because it came out a long time ago.
@@schocktrooper7557 In a galaxy far far away.
They ruined it with ESB. That's the last time Lucasfilm gets a dime out of me. I'm full-on boycotting this one.
Matthew Wheeler I see what you’re doing, but it doesn’t work. ESB didn’t tank the franchise....
Schock Trooper NAH BRO hes actually serious
Yo I can’t wait to go see this it looks so good.
Amazing movie !
Happy 40th Anniversary!
Happy 35th Birthday Star Wars Return Of The Jedi. 1983 - 2018. 35 Years Of Family Fun Action Adventure And Excitement. Thanks Mate. X May The Force Be With You. X
“The cunning of the enemy”
meanwhile in the background c3po ahhhhh😂
I was going to comment the same thing!
I seem to remember that line in a trailer showing Jabba and the Emperor laughing.
Funny how Luke has the blue AND the green lightsaber in this trailer.
I know they changed the original blue color to green because blue doesn't contrast well with Tatooine's blue sky and also because they feared people would not get that it was in fact a new lightsaber. So they changed it to green and had Vader say "I see you've constructed a new lightsaber. Your skills are complete".
But I never noticed that the trailer features BOTH.
I like that in one point of the trailer, Luke's lightsaber is blue, and at a later point it's green :)
don't under estimate the jedi
dude this looks epic, can't wait
The scene with Luke and Vader together in the elevator really stoked my fire. Oh no! Will Luke turn bad?? Great, exciting trailer.
Luke turning bad is what they wanted you to think. Didn't work for me though. Maybe if his new lightsaber was red?
I first saw this at home, one Sunday night before bedtime.
The 10 o'clock news did a story on the upcoming movie in the uk.
I was sat there on the carpet, almost in a hypnotic trance.
The good old days!
I've heard people talk about how people couldn't tell how fake certain special effects looked back when they were kids or about how they were impressive then but don't hold up now, but I think I've found out why.
Check out the blue screen on the speeder bikes, it looks seamless in this low resolution.
This trailer has more story in it that the entire of the sequel trilogy.
Ahh, the music is so good. Thank you John Williams!!
0:34 - Interesting that they call this "The next chapter in the continuing Star Wars saga," and not the conclusion to the trilogy.
Also, notice that Luke's Lightsabre changes colour in the trailer. :P
It says that bacause of the prequels and new sequels
jandb0608 Nah
Yeah, at this point it was already called episode 6, and Lucas had plans for 1-3, and 6-9
you can tell it's filled with raw footage that hasn't seen any kind of processing, and it's even before the editor's cutting floor. They were in a hurry to get this one out! Still, i'm more excited to see it than ever! XD
This trailer completely gives away Han Solo fate question from The Empire Strikes Back.
+TheEclectic But at the same time they didn't spoil the whole 2nd Death Star, which is kinda cool.
I can’t wait for it to release, this is going to be the greatest trilogy of all time, I just know it
This is by far the best Star Wars movie in my opinion. The Empire Strikes Back does come close but, this one is still my fav. The Return of the Jedi > The Empire Strikes Back > Star Wars (1977) > The Force Awakens > The Revenge of the Sith > The Attack of the Clones > The Phantom Menace
The Empire gets beaten by primitive Care Bears with sticks and rocks. Its better than a lot of people give it credit for, but you have no basis to claim its the best.
Yobachi2007 didn’t the rebels fight along side the ewoks?
How is the force awakens better than revenge of the sith..... I see through the lies of this list!
Yobachi2007 when you copy and paste the same reply but change the last word
Ok, so this has been bugging me ever since I was a kid. In 1982, I saw Star Wars for the first time during its re-release (so I ended up seeing it after Empire). As I recall, there was a trailer for Return of the Jedi at that showing. And in the preview there was an overhead shot (like looking down from a cliff) of a cluster of AT-AT walkers way in the distance of a desert planet, like Tatooine. So I remember that when I went to see Return of the Jedi, I was expecting a scene with AT-ATs in the desert, and was disappointed that there wasn't any (although I loved the movie anyways, of course). Now I could very easily have misunderstood the trailer, or even invented the whole thing in my mind, but curious if anyone else has a memory like that. Thanks!!!
His lightsaber is blue! That's crazy!
Oh God- gives me chills down my spine just looking at this trailer.
I love the cheeky cut in music [the track is spliced together in a way so the chords get higher than usual] at around 0:44 to 0:45. It's charming in a way. It doesn't have to be perfect since the trailer is all about giving us a taste of the whole production. Whereas today everything has to be processed over and over so it's perfect and usually the music doesn't appear in the actual film. The Last Jedi had it's own awesome soundtrack just for the trailer but the music was never heard again in the actual film. That trailer was purely to hype up fans like myself, not for advertising a work of art. The trailer for The Last Jedi was the only good thing about that film. I've gone off topic.....
Wow.... that brung back a thousand childhood memories instantly, starwars forlife.
0:38 3PO WITH RED EYES
Just came from the theater to see my favorite Star Wars movie for the first time on the big screen! Happy 40th Anniversary!
The Saga lives on...even after the Rise of Skywalker.
After this movie, they go on to form and defend the New Republic, and track down rogue Imperials. Those later books and movies are just dreams.
Interesting... at 1:34 the voice that says "villains" sounds remarkably different than the overall commentary. Anyone else notice this? Do you think that was in the original trailer or just added by the youtube channel? No hate, just curious what other people think.
Notice you don't ever really see Jabba or the Emperor in this trailer! Saving its main villain reveals for the theater
I love how Luke's blue lightssber is still featured in one scene, but it had been already been changed to green for the battle with Vader.
the movie title is about anakin,the jedi who returns from the dark side.
Oh shiet you’re right
flabblepie Also, George realized it would actually save a lot of money on marketing with ink due to Return being less words than Revenge.
And the return of the Jedi Order under Luke’s supervision. EU baby
No matter what anyone says about Return of the Jedi, in my opinion, aside from Empire Strikes Back, Jedi is my favorite Star Wars movie ever. In my opinion, Jedi’s action sequences are more stronger and Williams’s musical score in this movie is the sharpest out of the Trilogy. And the emotional side of this movie is beyond cinema. This movie is great and no matter what critics or people say about Jedi, you gotta admit. Jedi actually competes with Empire Strikes Back as the best film of Star Wars. But honestly, the action sequences, John Williams’s score, and emotional weight in this movie is absolutely unreal!
Doesn't make sense how Luke's lightsaber is both blue and green
it was blue when he inherited his father's lightsaber, But he lost it, So he made a new one which is Green
ΛCΣ ™ I know but he constructed his green one on Tatooine but I'm talking about in this trailer
Greg Wise oh ok
+Greg Wise The Lightsaber was supposed to be Blue but due to Sky also being the same colour during Tantooine Scenes, it was changed to Green so that it is more clear.
Commander Shepard plus I think George Lucas wanted to have a different color
Great trailer! I would be excited if I saw this trailer in theaters at the time it was first shown.
I feel like the Original Trilogy looks so much better in it's original format (pre-1997 HD-ifying).
The only thing I would have changed would be Yub Nub to the Victory Celebration. That's one of my absolute favorite movie songs.
I remember the first time I saw this very trailer in 1982 at a kids PTO movie in the summer..... .. We went absolutely insane with excitement...
Honestly I love this movie and it’s a perfect ending
My favorite Star Wars movie ever & 40 years later & still the best from beginning to peaceful end of the galaxy.
Near 2020... TH-cam: Aight imma give you that now
Can’t wait until the movie comes out
I just love how janky these old trailers were. Adds so much to the classic 80s feel.
These are my all time favorite movies...forever...
I love return of the Jedi.
I can’t lie this is where the Star Wars movies end for me.
The Mandalorian has a RotJ feel.
@@sandal_thong8631 I guess tbh I like it as it’s own thing it’s a pretty decent show
And all people from Episode 9 go back to this.... love you
This was the very first movie my father took me to see in a theater.
Lucky you! I am sure it was one unforgettable experience.
That's pretty rad. Must have been great. Funnily enough the earliest memory I have of seeing a movie in theaters was seeing The Phantom Menace with my dad.
This was my favourite of the six and possibly one of my favourite movies of all time
Originally called “Revenge of the Jedi”
@Yo Momma I wanna see an alternate future whete that happened.
Not really. It was originally return of the Jedi then it was changed to revenge and before release was switched back to the original return title.
What an incredible trailer. Loved that movie so much.