My dad checked me outta school early the day Return of The Jedi came out to go see it. I was 10 yrs old. I teared up when Vader died. One of the coolest things my dad ever did. A very special memory. May you rest in peace dad. ❤
Fun fact: the reason palpatine didn’t see Vader’s betrayal coming is because it wasn’t an act of selfishness, it was an act of love of his son, and he wanted to save him.
All this dude’s videos are fake. The “I Am Your Father” reaction? Audio is completely fake and ripped straight from an infinity war reaction video. He’s a fraud it makes me mad that people actually fall for this shit. And in this video the crying you hear is from that one video of the two girls reacting to a death or something
This just popped 4 me, & I'm just sticking my head n here 2 ask y'all about something...I saw them all n theaters starting at 6 yro n '77, & has been a while since saw the originals. I thought I recently saw original footage from Empire Strikes Back that showed there was a different Emperor. Watching reactors watch them I had been thinking how cool it was that the Emperor here & n the prequels was the same w/ just heavier make-up 2 b able play him 13 yrs later. Then saw a clip like this the other day that showed a different "original" Emperor, so thought they just went back & replaced him when added cgi & extras & I just forgot? Only 2 c this w/ Emperor from prequels. Can somebody enlighten me so I don't have 2 research what's going on? Was I watching unreleased footage of replaced original Emperor???
For any kids who grew up with a father with an addiction, this scene gets more poingnant over time. We all wished our true dads made the same choice as Vader and threw their Emporer into a chasm. Deep down, we knew it wasn't really our dad shooting the pain at us. Anybody who saw or sees this scene this way, has become a better person for it. Thanks, George. A part of me owes to you the happiness of my family.
beautiful comment. the way fiction can give us this kind of validation and understanding is wonderful especially for kids who didn't have any other way to escape their problems. George brought a massive amount of good to the world and me by creating star wars and im forever grateful that humanity has the chance to experience his creative vision.
I remember being in the theater during that scene. Will never forget it. The guy behind me was yelling, “DO IT, VADER!!” And when he did it, there was applause.
I remember seeing this back in August of 1983. The moment Vader grabbed the Emperor, the audience started going nuts. And when he chucked him down the reactor shaft, the cheers were so loud & wild, you almost couldn't hear the music anymore. To this day, 40 years later, I still get emotional during this scene.
I only wish that Vader had overpowered Sidious with the force to defeat him, so we could finally see that Vader was actually more powerful than the Emperor.
@@DerHammerSpricht Vader was genuinely contemplating how Luke never gave up on him after all the awful things he did. Forgiveness wasn’t something he ever considered possible. Luke was a very good boi
my dad saw this when it came out in theaters. he said people were running around, screaming with tears their eyes, going absolutely bananas!!! it was chaotic! they were cheering when the emperor got thrown down the shaft and all clapped and awe striking with tears of joy, making the little "thank god" pray , while some of them were holding their fists to their heart. he said it's a moment he'll never ever forget
I could only imagine what it would have been like to be a kid during these movies. The hero you've grown to admire is completely defenseless and suffering and he's alone. You try imagining ways he'll get out because the hero always wins, but there's only him and two really evil bad guys in the room and his friends aren't even on the same ship. And then suddenly the imposing villain of three movies that scared you whenever he came on screen saves your hero. And now you have to work out what happened and maybe you start to believe there can still be good in bad people like Luke did.
"The hero always wins" Forgets Empire Strikes Back entirely XD I was 14 when this came out. I was 8 when the first movie released. Luke was my hero. After everything that he went through, to have his father come back from the dark side to save him was almost as cathartic as Vader revealing his parentage.
I saw Return of the Jedi in theaters when I was 5. One of the best movie experiences I've ever had. The whole movie blew my little mind. I was obsessed with Wickett for a few years, even named my dog after him 😂
@@jonnyfevertv3170 Yeah im a Young Adult now and I can't really find anybody that stands out, but I think that's okay, Star Wars is amazing, and I enjoy it every year with my Dad who grew up with it, but in current day media I think things start to lean towards creating your own person within fictional universes instead of embodying a specific character. Take the Spiderverse movies, they are amazing movies that should be considered art and you see people creating their own spiderman with a unique twist that represents them. Despite this though (in terms of star wars), I think a lot of people from my generation look up to Hayden Cristensen and Ewen McGregor as they were like our 'Luke and Vader' growing up, (and Hayden literally plays Anakin/Vader really well). Also screw the sequels, they do not compare at all to the OG or even the prequels in terms of storytelling (prequels got weird with CGI but they got better in the 2nd and 3rd installments haha)
@@princessofthecape2078 ya that is totally untrue LOL. In the 80s nobody cared about yelling at the screen or spoilers or anything like that peopel nitpick about now.
I don't think any scene ever distressed me more as a kid than seeing lighting tickling Luke's teeth and hearing the hero scream in unimaginable pain. It's so unique to have the climax be a fight that the "main character" can't win. But I guess that's why it's Anakin's story.
I mean Star Wars takes multiple really cool approaches to endings. Revenge of the Sith was another awesome idea where not only do the good guys “lose,” but they also get massacred as we see our favorite characters either die or have everything taken from them. And it’s not even like Infinity War where everyone comes back to life later; in ROTS, everyone stayed dead and were only avenged about 30 years later.
@@SJ-di5zu Yeah RotS did Infinity War's finale way earlier, but stronger too. Infinity War having a few years of bad and then everyone's alive again vs RotS where everyone dies and the galaxy is plunged into darkness for 20+ years.
@@mishynaofficial I'm pretty sure George Lucas is the one that stated it was the story of the fall and redemption of Anakin Skywalker. Luke was a catalyst, but Anakin fulfilled the prophecy.
Seeing electricity burst through his fingertips for the first time must’ve been a real “holy shit” moment. There was no doubt in anyones mind after that just how powerful he was and that was truly scary.
It was. As a little kid when these movies were new, I personally never considered that the Emperor was like Vader etc. I don't think most other people did, either.
I remember the lightning being a "holy shit" moment along with the scene when Luke flipped off of the plank and ignited his green lightsaber the first time. I remembered it being blue in the trailer I saw, and everyone gasped then cheered when he started swinging away.
@@AbstractM0use they changed the color in last minute editing because the blue saber was harder to discern from the blue skies on Tattooine as the backdrop in the opening act.
I think something else that was shocking was that we didn’t see Palpatine’s true powers until he shot those first bolts on Luke. That surprised me when I first watched
Exactly, this is why people should watch the original trilogy first. I know an acquaintance that while watching this said it was stupid that Luke threw his lightsaber away because it's the only thing that could stop the force lightning. He didn't know about no force lightning.
One of the greatest endings ever, I cannot imagine anyone predicting Vader would be the hero in the end when this first came out. Luke’s compassion truly saved the galaxy 😢
@@dank980 the audio between 1:30 and 1:35 is from scary movie. The rest of the sounds are all edited in, too. There are many comments exposing this. The uploader tries to remove them all, but he can’t hid the fact he is a fraud.
Yup, I remember seeing Return of the Jedi in the theaters when it first came out. We'd heard ALL ABOUT the Emperor in the previous movies, but THIS was the first time we ever witnessed just how much power he had. It was terrifying to see.
Oh wow yes. I wasn't sure if the Emperor was magical. He kinda waved his finger and Luke's handcuffs fell off, but he looked so old... I thought he was just going to let Luke go... but when he used lightning... whoa. We had never seen that!
@@lukebuchanan9857 Exactly. He looked so decrepit and fragile, but in reality he had horrifying powers. Especially when you considered the influence he held over Vader.
@@solarchos4352 absolutely. Also we didn't know whether he was capable of using the force. It wasn't explicitly said. We knew he had political power but when he fired lightning from his hands... we knew he was in a way more powerful than we first imagined.
By far my favorite film of the trilogy. New Hope made me cheer. Empire made made me afraid. But Jedi made me sob and then dream about my own adventures in a galaxy far, far away... and to this day, approaching old age, I still imagine I was there through it all. Thank you George Lucas ❤
Because of how wide spread it's now become, it's amazing to think of these as new movies people went to see and didn't know any of the twists! Of course it seems predictable now watching it, but it's incredible hearing people gasp as Luke is electrocuted, the audience believing his life could be taken!
This is exactly why I think Episode 1 was a great movie. In retrospect it's not the best. But at the time, when this was the last thing Star Wars anyone saw, it was actually a great film.
Back in _TESB,_ the moment Yoda mentioned that "There is another," a lot of people probably got filled with dread upon realizing that Luke just lost his plot armor. This is where that feeling in the back of their heads comes forward.
Am i missing something? Yall know this is fake reactions right?.. you can clearly hear the scene from scary movie where the girl is told to shut the hell up before getting stab. Like I said im not trying to be rude.. just wondering if im being ricked rolled into believing that everyone here thinks this is authentic lol
We had no idea how it would end. It was not outside the realm of possibility that Luke would be killed, or Vader by Luke. I know I never imagined it would end like this, the best way possible.
You know, you have to imagine what's going through the audience's mind at this very moment in time. Up until then, we hadn't really seen the Emperor or even knew how powerful he was. Hell, we didn't even know force lightning was a thing until VI. The audible gasps give an indication of the shock many must have felt in the moment, and the crying and the screams of terror of what's unfolding before them - _Will Luke die?? Is Vadar gonna let this happen??_ It's impactful moments like these that really make a film memorable and/or good. And then the clapping at the end when Vadar, at the cost of his life, picks up Palpatine and throws him off the balcony - they're rooting for the now-redeemed villain. Truly, Star Wars was something else.
Yea, it's amazing to see what their utter shock was like. This was probably the biggest what the fuck moment in cinema history other than the "no, I am your father" line.
Force was not so forceful in that period 😁Biggest trick was tossing things around, rest was the lightsaber combat and Emperor did not have any. We all expected he would do something, but no one expected he would totally overpower Luke. Luke was built up by Episode VI, and he was shown to be powerful Jedi, seconds before beating Vader. Thus him being on the floor, helpless, pleading his father to help him (father whom he just humiliated ), made enormous contrast and impact on audience.
@@aleksazunjic9672 The Emperor was very skilled in lightsaber combat, it's just in the original trilogy according to the later canon, he thought lightsaber combat to either be barbarous or that he just wanted to conceal himself as a Sith Lord to the galaxy population. The only Jedi that put up a fight against Sidious were Mace Windu, and Yoda. Had Vader not burned on Mustafar and put into a life support suit, Vader could've put up a fight against Sidious as well. The broader population never really saw Palpatine after the Empire was founded. They were aware of his rule, but never really saw him. Like did the Empire really put up propaganda posters on buildings with Darth Vader or himself on them? Not any that I saw. He became recluse and studied the dark side in secret which only Darth Vader really knew.
@@GothRailfan Dude, nobody knew that when RotJ was screened. It was retconned later. All that audience knew he was Vader's boss, and supposedly very powerful in the Force. Force Lightning was never hinted, Jedi were shown to move things around with the Force and that was it. In combat they used lightsabers. Yoda also did not have one, but he was shown as hermit, sort of old monk- sensei known from eastern marshal arts movies. Audience expect showdown between Luke and Emperor, with Vader perhaps joining on either side. No one expect Emperor to be typical glass cannon.
As someone who saw each of the films of OT theatrically, multiple times, in May 1983 I was openly expressing my doubts as to how they could possibly conclude the trilogy without disappointing a significant portion of the audience, one way or the other. I never imagined this. It never even crossed my mind that this is how they would do it at all, much less in a way that worked for everyone. The ending was so worth it for me that, in spite of the ewoks, I saw "Return of the Jedi" ten times theatrically between May and September 1983.
I must have seen this movie a hundred times but it wasn't really anywhere near as good as the previous two. I think we were just starved of great special effects. I know i was.
The most satisfying moment in film history. And one of the reasons it is so is because we see all we need to know about Vader’s emotions, with no facial expressions or dialogue whatsoever. Absolutely masterful filmmaking.
I read recently that George Lucas had plans to turn Luke in to the emperor but Hollywood wanted a happy ending. I often think about this and think how crazy that plot twist would have been. That’s also why he wore black throughout the film.
@@krs075 honestly I can’t imagine why he’d ever seriously consider that ending. He himself said Star Wars was meant to be a fairy tale for children, meaning there was no way the good guys would lose.
This the only way online to see the lack of "No.....NOOOOO!" additions by Lucas and it is so good. Silent body-acting by David Prowse, you can just feel the agony of indecision coming in waves off of Vader.
There's a bunch of fan edits you can find online. The most popular are the Despecialised Versions of the original movies and 4K77,4K80 & 4K83 Edits from original film scans.
For me, this is the most powerful scene in the entire movie history. Even today. Maybe because I was a kid in the 80s when I saw this for the first time, it affected me so strongly.
I was born in 2000, and this scene brings me to tears, Luke and Vaders duel in Return of the Jedi and Vader saving Luke are the most emotional moments in the whole story for me, even a little more then Obi-Wan vs Anakin in Revenge of the Sith
This scene had you on the edge of your seat it was so damn emotionally powerful. Luke was being murdered in front of his father's sight. Vader realized truly at this point how wicked his so called master was and seeing him killing his only son was his breaking point!!
It was literally the only thing he had left. Ultimately he realized that it was the only one thing he could do to make things right after fucking up so badly in his youth. It didn't undo anything he did, but it was a corner stone that allowed the galaxy a chance to heal and to start to put things right. Too bad they fucked it up with the sequel trilogy making this sacrafice pointless
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Alot of you dont realize not only is this fake but the crowd noises are actually snippets from the original scary movie, you can hear brenda say “i dont know why yall is acting like this”
When I first saw it in 1983, this was the exact reaction in the movie theater. The audience was so loud (cheering) that you couldn't even hear the movie anymore. Oh the memories!
I remember watching thinking, Luke is going to destroy this man with no light saber. People don’t realize how much of a shock that electricity was. Completely out of nowhere. The true final boss
@@cass7448 theres a difference when building up on a barely explored concept, vs. adding up new things on a daily basis on a system, we have seen at full scale already. Now the force just simply does what the plot needs it to. Its really bad writing, equivalent to "a wizard did it"
Up until this moment, no one knew that the Force was capable of something this raw and sorcerous -- it had always been an invisible, subtle thing: it moved objects, allowed for precognition, telepathy. Here, it was pure, blunt, brute, Dark Magic.
I was five years old when I saw this in 1983 and I was on the edge of my seat the entire time during this scene. Even at that young of an age I clearly understand how conflicted Vader was without him having to yell "NOOOOOO!!!"
So totally agree!!! I was same age five and I feel that Vader in this original cut was more effective without yelling NOOOOO it was more impactful to see his emotions raging with body language and slowly looking at Palpatine then look then suddenly quickly looking at Palpatine and then picking him up and throwing him overboard.
I got the special edition rotj (released before Lucas made the prequels) transferred to dvd and that's what I watch to this day; it's got no silly Vader's "No!" or Hayden Christensen's Anakin ghost at the end, nor the awful cgi of pulling down the Emperor's statue.
@@mrquaackers this video is fake but dude was simply making a joke about how George Lucas added darth Vader say NOOOOOO right before he lifts up Palpatine a couple years ago on the blu-ray special edition crap. It was so unnecessary.
This makes me cry every time - excellent scene! In the end, Vader loves his son so much that he cannot withstand his suffering and agony... being a parent is a much more powerful emotion than serving the Dark Side and living as a puppet of a twisted Emperor. One of the best scenes invented in Sci-Fi cinema.
I wish I could have been there in theaters to watch it with everyone for the first time. I would have teared up on the spot when he lifted Palpatine with everyone cheering on like that. I'm even tearing up right now watching the crowd reaction even after having watched the film a million times. The energy of an audience makes a huge difference.
Truly a momentous, historical moment. My favorite part was when Darth Vader said “Ambotukam ohhhh”. Whenever I think about this moment, I can’t help myself from falling to the ground in tears. George Lucas‘s literary genius is amazing.
I saw ROTJ when it came out. My uncle took me as an early birthday present. The audience reaction was much the same. People cried when Luke removed Vader/Anakin's mask and even more when he died. Grown men, women and children. I'll never forget it.
He's crying out for his secret bodyguard, "Ambutakm Omaygot", who was the only person he trusted implicitly. This is definitely the scene of all time 😭😭😭
@@darthnater9731 how could you call original trilogy woke? (God , I can hardly imagine calling that way anything related to SW , apart from Disney bs of course)
@@darthnater9731 let me rephrase my comment , How could Anyone call Original trilogy (...) Didn't meant to argue, just want a conversation to get know why you think so Cheers
It makes such a small difference. It ain’t a big thing. Y’all get so amped up over something so small. Of ALL the special edition changes that’s the one y’all cry over?
You have it backwards. This version doesn't work nearly as well, makes no sense, and is awkward as all hell. The added "NOOOOO" helped the scene so much.
@@raspurity Any proof it's fake? I mean it could be, but it sounds genuine. And it isn't a stretch by any means that someone recorded this in 1983. The technology was there for it, and the movie was one of the biggest releases of all time lol.
I would give anything to go back to 1983 and watch this on opening night. I just want to experience this moment when the theater went absolute apeshit when Vader threw the Emperor down the shaft. One of the greatest moments in cinematic history!
My brother and I headed over to the Edens theatre in Northbrook, Illinois after he got done with work. We got in line for the midnight showing at about 8:30....at that point the line stretched about 2/3 of the way around the building. Hard-core fans all! The emotion of the patrons in the theater as this scene built was palpable! When Vader lunged forward, grabbed the Emperor and flung him over the railing, there was a roar the likes of which we thought would bring the roof down!! A movie moment that I, personally, will never forget.
@@rodclarke8957 What? Ian is the only person who has played the Emperor in live action except for the one person who played him in ESB. Ian has always played Palpatine in ROTJ even in the theater release…
I love this. Nowadays, people mostly cheer in theaters for more surface level stuff, like a great action piece or a superhero doing a cool entrance. But this? This is an entirely character driven moment. If you’re cheering for this, it means you must’ve well understood the extremely heartwarming core of the scene, and THAT’s what you’re cheering for. These people are not going crazy for a character doing the cool thing, they are going crazy for a character doing the RIGHT thing.
It's fake dude. Get off your high horse. 1. It's a silly sci-fi movie about magic and lasers. Stop with the moral high ground. (And btw this is coming from someone that works at Galaxy's Edge, who's typing this on a Millennium Falcon themed computer in a Star Wars themed office.) 2. People didn't like Return Of The Jedi when it came out. 3. No one really cheered in movie theaters back then. That's really a modern thing. Back then, it was exceptionally rude. If you even whispered, you were kicked out and people would be mad at you. Even today, some hate that it's even a thing now. 4. I think cheering in a movie for any reason just makes it all the more fun. My theater for Rise Of Skywalker cheered, (bad example, but they did.) And Endgame and No Way Home were my two favorite movie going experiences of all time just because of all the nerd energy being thrown around and the fact that people were shouting and standing and cheering. 5. It's 6. Fake.
Saw this on it’s 40th anniversary in theaters last week… No matter what, this is my favorite Star Wars episode… hearing people “woo” Darth Vaders redemption makes me smile so big :)
I was 8 and watched this in the theatre. I clearly remember the audience reaction during this scene. I personally had goosebumps during Vader’s redemption.
Such a good quality for a videotape from the 80s, I would have liked to be there, I already assumed the audience would applaud when Vader grabbed the Emperor from behind. You can tell that this audience feels the same as I do when they watched this scene, I feel pain listening to Luke's screams, and I always liked how Ian McDiarmid delivers each line of his, an incredible performance, he's the only Emperor Palpatine. Also when Palpatine is killed and we see all those ghostly shadows, amazing vfx from 1983, after ESB, ROTJ has the best visual effects from the OT.
Bro it’s a fake video. Play at 1:10 and you can here meme sounds, the “what do you mean” and the screaming is from those two girls reacting to some video online
Let me break this down: 1. The quality is extremely high for something filmed in the 1980s. In that alone, this is already a suspicious video. The person who uploaded the video tries to account for this lapse in logic by putting in the description that a 'local news segment' filmed the audience reaction, but I'm calling bullshit on two accounts. a) It's a felony to record movies in the theatre, period. No exceptions. b) As another commentor mentioned, there's people making meme noises. 2. The uploader claims that this clip was a 'newly discovered clip,' and yet it's nowhere else on the internet. Are we actually supposed to believe that the guy who's already posted audience reactions to Star Wars movies in the past and constantly indulges in Star Wars stuff on his TH-cam channel is the finder and sole possessor of this film footage? Isn't it interesting that the uploader provides no details for the film footage as it exists today? Just conveniently, all of the details provided cannot be factually verified or checked?
Anakin finally breaking out of the prison Palpatine trapped him in never fails to move me. The one thing Anakin was denied almost fully by the Jedi and the world was the one thing Like used to save him… Love.
Family is what caused him to fall to the Dark Side, with his mom and wife, family is what caused him to be redeemed with Luke. Like George Lucas says, it's all about family and relationships.
@@TheMahayanist True also Star Wars is a leftist franchise and woke. Star Wars is anti FACIST and pro democracy. Oh and George Lucas based the rebel alliance on the Vietcong communist party.....so in a way Star Wars is also pro communist since communist are not bad people. Stalin and Lennon were bad people. Karl Marx and Jesus (yes Jesus was basically a communist) were good people.
Anakin still sticks with his own philosophy seen in the prequels here, his fear of losing a loved one is so big that he would do anything to stop the people he loves from dying, after Padme died he tought he had no one left in the universe, thus making him fully convert into Vader, remember he thinks Obi-Wan is a traitor and he fears Palpatine, but never truly likes him, but when he met Luke, the whole sentiment he had for his loved ones back in the prequels kicked right in, and he finally realised that Palpatine was the true menace that was trying to kill his family, and he finally realized he was wrong this whole time, and died as Anakin regretting every single choice he made as Vader
He had too much attachment as a Jedi and too much love and remorse in his heart to be a Sith. 24 years under an evil empire gives you alot of time to think about the why you got ther in the first place.Anakin/Vader was conflicted but he was never truly evil his one and true happiness came from his loved ones. Truly making him selfless.
I saw ROTJ in a sold out theater on opening day with my dad in 1983 at 9 years old and this scene is burned into my brain. To this day that Vader turn was the biggest pop I've ever witnessed by an audience in my life. The crowd erupted.
1:52 Yes shit, thank you so much. Thank you. That might just be what I need to buss. That might just be what I need to buss. Cuz AMBASING! AMBASING! AMBASING!
Sidious is a brilliant villain! He couldn't feel Vader's betrayal because it was an act of love. One of the few feelings the Emperor didn't know and wasn't able to feel😮
If you ever wonder why Vader turned back to the light side it’s because it was his family‘s love and his friends support that did that to him. Even those who passed away and were killed like Padme and Qui-Gon Jinn for instance still believed in him.
My god, I saw this at home when I was a kid and it was epic. Some years later, I cried in the cinema with the ending of "Revenge of the Sith". Never felt those emotions with Disney's trilogy. :(
Definitely one of the greatest moments in cinema history and my all time favourite Star Wars moment. Lightning in a bottle was captured here. The cries from Luke, the evil glare of the emperor and the body language of Darth Vader makes this scene amazing. You can see the conflict in Vaders without seeing his face and that is truly magical!
Thank you for uploading this clip. I wasn't born yet in 1983 but I'll never forget the emotions while watching this scene for the first time. In the action movies there's usually the fight between the good guy(s) and the bad guy(s) at the end. This was the first time when I saw the good guy refusing to fight. It was something completely new for me. I was shocked and legit afraid Luke would die, that was something I had never felt before about any other protagonist. Vader's sacrifice was another thing I didn't see coming. It was a huge surprise, but what an amazing one! I was so used to seeing happy endings in other movies, that I was in complete awe of this beautiful bittersweet ending. Return of the Jedi is my favorite Star Wars movie, no other movie made me so emotional.
This plus the reactions made me tear up. It's one of the most powerful moments in cinematic history. And the prequels add more depth to it. We can see Anakin facing all of the bad choices he made in his life... and deciding it's not too late to get one thing right.
That is storytelling at a level of mastery I fear we'll never see again. What do we need to do to have filmmakers today make new, original material of this caliber and showcase it this masterfully, instead of just re-hashing something from decades ago, make it more extreme, and use sexy bodies to sell it (Ok, yeah, there's the Leia scenes, but still!)
My god, people were actually crying at that point. People begging Luke to get up. Being consoled by friends and those near them in their rows. I never see such emotion in the movie theater anymore.
I was 15 at the Showcase Cinemas in Dedham, MA. This part of the movie was so intense. Seeing a son fight his father with the foreboding organ music was so sad and emotional, there moans and groans but the emotional energy in the theater was THICK. But then it came to this scene. When Vader grabbed the Emperor, the whole packed theater ERUPTED, EVERYONE STANDING, SCREAMING IN JOY at the top of their lungs - I screamed so hard i began seeing stars - it was one of the most mind blowing emotional movie scenes I had ever seen in my life, to this day. I promised myself Id write Lucas a mail telling him how great he was. I never did. Even seeing this now I teared up.
I used to go to the Dedham showcase theatre all the time! (Me and my friends would sneak into the horror movies lol) lived very close to it. I actually saw ROTJ at a movie theatre in Brookline when I was 6. I don’t think that theatre is even there anymore.
Through his rise to power, Palpatine used the love of others as a tool to manipulate, the way a puppeteer uses a string. But if Palpatine had ever grasped any deeper understanding of what love is, he would have known not to place Vader in that position-- especially since love had been his primary motivator. But no one who knew love could ever have become what Palpatine was, so that blind spot was fundamental to his nature. He never had a clue of the danger he was in.
I saw ROTJ in George Street Hoyts, with a friend and it was the first time I was out at night late. I sat in awe.......the toys, the comics the excitement. You just wouldn't talk about an ending.
i was 9 years old saw it opening night on long island with my friend and his mother i remember people cheering and clapping when vader threw the emperor down the shaft. what a week that was for me my dad took me to game 4 of 1983 stanley cup finals on may 17 th when islanders won their 4 th cup in a row then we went to the stanley cup parade that saturday on the 21st and then saw return of the jedi on wednesday may 25th. simpler times would go back in a second lol
@@ethio6308 my kids watch stranger things and say to me was the 80s that great i say to them take what you see on stranger things and magnify by a thousand. lol one more thing i was also at game 6 of the 1986 world series the bill buckner game lol the 80s ruled
@@bb-gc2tx Your kids will surely have a good time as well growing up, with someone who had such a good time as a kid. Idk about the sports events bc I'm from Europe and 25 y.o. but I can imagine that must've been mind blowing to experience
I watch this when I was 10 years old and when Darth Vader picked up the Emperor and threw him down the Shaft the whole theater jump up and cheered like it was game winning touchdown. To this day I haven't seen a reaction like that.
I will NEVER forget this. I was 6 years old and so overcome with emotion that I was frozen in my seat, staring at the screen with the most incredible combination of total shock and complete joy that after all Vader had done, his love for his son brought him back to the light. What an amazing memory, and to be honest, the whole story of the battle of good and evil within us all told brilliantly through the journey of Luke and Vader was MASSIVELY influential in shaping me as a man. Thank you, Mr. Lucas.
@@Arloeg Too young for what? To have those realizations? I guess I wasn't. I distinctly remember talking about it with my mom on the drive home and expressing my shock that after everything Vader did, there was still good in him, and it was seeing his son in pain that brought it out. I still remember my mom saying, "Never underestimate the power of a parent's love for their child." Maybe all of that would have been lost on most 6 year olds, but not me. The power of that moment is burned into my memory for life.
I can't lie... something about hearing the unbridled joy in the original audience reaction that gave me goosebumps. Almost shed a single tear. They waited years for it. This is so pure.
no way in hell this is 1983 dude - first all they didn't have vhs camera's that could film in the dark, 2 you would have been kicked out and 3 the audience reaction the night this came out was near riot level - nice try but you're full of shit
My dad checked me outta school early the day Return of The Jedi came out to go see it. I was 10 yrs old. I teared up when Vader died. One of the coolest things my dad ever did. A very special memory. May you rest in peace dad. ❤
Thank you for sharing your memory. Jesus loves you.
This is The Way.
Your Dad was awesome, R.I.P.
Your father join to force. Now is force ghost
♥
Fun fact: the reason palpatine didn’t see Vader’s betrayal coming is because it wasn’t an act of selfishness, it was an act of love of his son, and he wanted to save him.
How do you know
@@maddalonefarms because George Lucas said so
@@Howzer296
Ian Malcolm: Well, there it is..
I'm not sure this technically counts as a fun fact, but I love it.
To add on if anyone's confused: Palpatine did not understand or comprehend the feeling of love
Thats crazy to think that these “illegal” recordings are now historical footage
All this dude’s videos are fake. The “I Am Your Father” reaction? Audio is completely fake and ripped straight from an infinity war reaction video. He’s a fraud it makes me mad that people actually fall for this shit. And in this video the crying you hear is from that one video of the two girls reacting to a death or something
It’s fake
@@Duncan_947 prove that it’s fake
I remember seeing him use force lightning for the first time as a kid, sat there shting myself
This just popped 4 me, & I'm just sticking my head n here 2 ask y'all about something...I saw them all n theaters starting at 6 yro n '77, & has been a while since saw the originals. I thought I recently saw original footage from Empire Strikes Back that showed there was a different Emperor. Watching reactors watch them I had been thinking how cool it was that the Emperor here & n the prequels was the same w/ just heavier make-up 2 b able play him 13 yrs later. Then saw a clip like this the other day that showed a different "original" Emperor, so thought they just went back & replaced him when added cgi & extras & I just forgot? Only 2 c this w/ Emperor from prequels. Can somebody enlighten me so I don't have 2 research what's going on? Was I watching unreleased footage of replaced original Emperor???
For any kids who grew up with a father with an addiction, this scene gets more poingnant over time. We all wished our true dads made the same choice as Vader and threw their Emporer into a chasm. Deep down, we knew it wasn't really our dad shooting the pain at us. Anybody who saw or sees this scene this way, has become a better person for it. Thanks, George. A part of me owes to you the happiness of my family.
Anyone can achieve anything if they really wanted it, they just need the right motivation for it
beautiful comment. the way fiction can give us this kind of validation and understanding is wonderful especially for kids who didn't have any other way to escape their problems. George brought a massive amount of good to the world and me by creating star wars and im forever grateful that humanity has the chance to experience his creative vision.
@@ricecake3544 and we all wished we mattered enough or could do enough to make us matter enough. But it never happened.
That’s really beautifully said
@@ricecake3544 ask Mathew Perry about that.
No matter what people says, Return of the Jedi is the real ending of Star Wars
yes, please
well there alsoare lots of nice legends books after that and before disney's takeover
There are flashbacks in the sequel trilogy I recommend watching.
mandalorian and legends
Agreed
I remember being in the theater during that scene. Will never forget it. The guy behind me was yelling, “DO IT, VADER!!” And when he did it, there was applause.
I've heard about reactions where people were yelling for Vader to do something. This is why I love watching movies on opening night
DEW IT!
Palpatine: DO IT.
Same guy in the theater during Revenge of the Sith: This is a mistake. A terrible mistake.
@@poppapalpatine7659 Dew it - Light Side version.
30+ years later, "Somehow, Palpatine returned."
I remember seeing this back in August of 1983. The moment Vader grabbed the Emperor, the audience started going nuts. And when he chucked him down the reactor shaft, the cheers were so loud & wild, you almost couldn't hear the music anymore. To this day, 40 years later, I still get emotional during this scene.
That's awesome 👍
Same here. I remember yelling, "Do something!!!" It was epic!!
I only wish that Vader had overpowered Sidious with the force to defeat him, so we could finally see that Vader was actually more powerful than the Emperor.
@@brucebanner645 yeah but unfortunately he couldn't because after being dismembered and burned his midichlorian count dropped drastically
well the fact you still get 'emotional' about it shows you haven't grown up at all in the last 40 years. smh.
I guess no one stayed for the post credit message in 1983 which read “Somehow Palpatine Will Return”
This vid is fake
@@oliverwidlak9500 that’s irrelevant. My comment is a joke.
@@oliverwidlak9500that’s irrelevant. His comment was a joke.
@oliverwidlak9500 that's irrelevant. Your life is a joke
@@oliverwidlak9500 That’s irrelevant. His comment is a joke.
I love how “shocked” and worried people were when Luke was getting electrocuted
They weren't the only ones who were shocked.
@@blockish71 pun
@@creeperYT9824 I thought it was punny.
That's how you know a character is good and well-written - everyone knows they're not real and cares about them anyway
it’s fake lmfao
Little did they know Palpatine would somehow still be alive EIGHT MOVIES LATER
😂
Somehow Palpatine returned
That didn't happen.
8 movies? Pretty sure there’s only 6 Star Wars films
@@lacuschu*7 u forgot Rogue One exists 👍
This legit gets me emotional every single time. A father’s protective love for his son defeats decades of complete immersion in the dark side.
Bruh
@@BrianRenardDavis Yuh?
And a child's honest love for his father provides a door to redemption from a place there is no redemption from.
@@DerHammerSpricht Vader was genuinely contemplating how Luke never gave up on him after all the awful things he did. Forgiveness wasn’t something he ever considered possible. Luke was a very good boi
@@nolsee1176 Luke is the best boi.
my dad saw this when it came out in theaters. he said people were running around, screaming with tears their eyes, going absolutely bananas!!! it was chaotic! they were cheering when the emperor got thrown down the shaft and all clapped and awe striking with tears of joy, making the little "thank god" pray , while some of them were holding their fists to their heart. he said it's a moment he'll never ever forget
cinema was just different before the 2000s
Wow. Hearing those audience members cry and gasp is insane. Hearing them cheer at vaders redemption brought a tear to my eye
It was like just straight up respect
nigga it’s from a movie lol, search up scary movie movie theater scene
this video is confirmed to be fake btw...
@@primeoctober
Yea no shit. How can some people believe this is real lmao
E
I could only imagine what it would have been like to be a kid during these movies. The hero you've grown to admire is completely defenseless and suffering and he's alone. You try imagining ways he'll get out because the hero always wins, but there's only him and two really evil bad guys in the room and his friends aren't even on the same ship. And then suddenly the imposing villain of three movies that scared you whenever he came on screen saves your hero. And now you have to work out what happened and maybe you start to believe there can still be good in bad people like Luke did.
Me and other kids my age (roughly 8) wanted to be Luke… there is no modern day equivalent I think. Cheers
They’re way better than the prequels that’s for sure yall younger gens missed the fxxk out 😂
"The hero always wins" Forgets Empire Strikes Back entirely XD
I was 14 when this came out. I was 8 when the first movie released. Luke was my hero. After everything that he went through, to have his father come back from the dark side to save him was almost as cathartic as Vader revealing his parentage.
I saw Return of the Jedi in theaters when I was 5. One of the best movie experiences I've ever had. The whole movie blew my little mind. I was obsessed with Wickett for a few years, even named my dog after him 😂
@@jonnyfevertv3170 Yeah im a Young Adult now and I can't really find anybody that stands out, but I think that's okay, Star Wars is amazing, and I enjoy it every year with my Dad who grew up with it, but in current day media I think things start to lean towards creating your own person within fictional universes instead of embodying a specific character. Take the Spiderverse movies, they are amazing movies that should be considered art and you see people creating their own spiderman with a unique twist that represents them.
Despite this though (in terms of star wars), I think a lot of people from my generation look up to Hayden Cristensen and Ewen McGregor as they were like our 'Luke and Vader' growing up, (and Hayden literally plays Anakin/Vader really well).
Also screw the sequels, they do not compare at all to the OG or even the prequels in terms of storytelling (prequels got weird with CGI but they got better in the 2nd and 3rd installments haha)
A nice final ending for the emperor.
Somehow he returned
@@gapfmmadeira Dark magic, cloning, secrets only the sith knew
@@majestikmse8862 or talentless hack writers or couldn't think of anything else to do with the franchise. Either/or really.
@@gapfmmadeira nah that's not canon in my eyes. This was the end of Star Wars. Rest is just Disney Star Wars (utter garbage).
Bur wait there's more!!
Ah yes, a sound clip from Scary Movie mixed in to give it that authentic 1983 feel.
he even sneaked ambatukam in it
bro lmao finally I see someone bring it up@@Krzaczor-ym9gd
Yeah, it was obvious that this wasn't legit. For one thing, Audiences in the early 80s behaved a lot better than they do today.
@@princessofthecape2078oof to bad you are wrong >< about the audience anyway
@@princessofthecape2078 ya that is totally untrue LOL. In the 80s nobody cared about yelling at the screen or spoilers or anything like that peopel nitpick about now.
I don't think any scene ever distressed me more as a kid than seeing lighting tickling Luke's teeth and hearing the hero scream in unimaginable pain. It's so unique to have the climax be a fight that the "main character" can't win. But I guess that's why it's Anakin's story.
I mean Star Wars takes multiple really cool approaches to endings. Revenge of the Sith was another awesome idea where not only do the good guys “lose,” but they also get massacred as we see our favorite characters either die or have everything taken from them. And it’s not even like Infinity War where everyone comes back to life later; in ROTS, everyone stayed dead and were only avenged about 30 years later.
@@SJ-di5zu Yeah RotS did Infinity War's finale way earlier, but stronger too. Infinity War having a few years of bad and then everyone's alive again vs RotS where everyone dies and the galaxy is plunged into darkness for 20+ years.
The OT is still Luke’s story. Luke managed to return his father to light and that was his goal in ROTJ.
@@mishynaofficial I'm pretty sure George Lucas is the one that stated it was the story of the fall and redemption of Anakin Skywalker. Luke was a catalyst, but Anakin fulfilled the prophecy.
@@corellioncrusaderproductio4679 Lucas's retcon.
Seeing electricity burst through his fingertips for the first time must’ve been a real “holy shit” moment. There was no doubt in anyones mind after that just how powerful he was and that was truly scary.
It was. As a little kid when these movies were new, I personally never considered that the Emperor was like Vader etc. I don't think most other people did, either.
Yes, it was shockingly scary. Vader had a boss who was stronger than him. The lightning was astonishing. I was 9.
I remember the lightning being a "holy shit" moment along with the scene when Luke flipped off of the plank and ignited his green lightsaber the first time. I remembered it being blue in the trailer I saw, and everyone gasped then cheered when he started swinging away.
@@AbstractM0use they changed the color in last minute editing because the blue saber was harder to discern from the blue skies on Tattooine as the backdrop in the opening act.
Palpatine was always my favorite character. As a kid I found it really cool he was able to shoot lightning.
I think something else that was shocking was that we didn’t see Palpatine’s true powers until he shot those first bolts on Luke. That surprised me when I first watched
Yes… shocking hah
Right? Same for me when I watched in the 90s. "He's just a shriveled old man. Why's he so important?"
"...Oh. Damn."
Exactly, this is why people should watch the original trilogy first. I know an acquaintance that while watching this said it was stupid that Luke threw his lightsaber away because it's the only thing that could stop the force lightning. He didn't know about no force lightning.
@@Vikashar Old people are always "important" in war so I would never underestimate an old fart
It was back when filmmakers knew what "restraint" and "building up suspense" meant
One of the greatest endings ever, I cannot imagine anyone predicting Vader would be the hero in the end when this first came out. Luke’s compassion truly saved the galaxy 😢
Just like if you watch 1 2 3 without knowing about them, you'd never expect Anakin to be the villain of the story. Lucas planned it out very well
@@espumosoYTnah Palpatine was the villain of the prequels and O.T and Anakin is the hero of the entire series along with Luke and Obi Wan
That pain and relief went from the screen to reality. And I'm not talking about Luke, I'm talking about Anakin.
The video is fake. He is recording this from a VR headset screen (where you get a virtual big screen). Then he adding effects and audio afterwards.
@@7oy but where would the sounds be from?
@@dank980 the audio between 1:30 and 1:35 is from scary movie. The rest of the sounds are all edited in, too. There are many comments exposing this. The uploader tries to remove them all, but he can’t hid the fact he is a fraud.
@@7oy damn. and nobody can tell because dislikes are gone. sad.
@@7oy you're right that IS from Scary Movie. You can hear Brenda when she's in the theatre talking through Shakespeare In Love
That still gives me chills. Especially after the prequels and clone wars show.
Same OT fans for life baby!
@@godzillaslayer5817 prequel fans 4 life
@@aldo1871 yep y’all too
Yes and especially after the OWK dumpster fire
@@rq4740 chill
Yup, I remember seeing Return of the Jedi in the theaters when it first came out. We'd heard ALL ABOUT the Emperor in the previous movies, but THIS was the first time we ever witnessed just how much power he had. It was terrifying to see.
Same with Jabba
Oh wow yes. I wasn't sure if the Emperor was magical. He kinda waved his finger and Luke's handcuffs fell off, but he looked so old... I thought he was just going to let Luke go... but when he used lightning... whoa. We had never seen that!
@@lukebuchanan9857 Exactly. He looked so decrepit and fragile, but in reality he had horrifying powers. Especially when you considered the influence he held over Vader.
@@solarchos4352 absolutely. Also we didn't know whether he was capable of using the force. It wasn't explicitly said. We knew he had political power but when he fired lightning from his hands... we knew he was in a way more powerful than we first imagined.
@@lukebuchanan9857 he was talking about foreseeing and sensing things the whole movie though
By far my favorite film of the trilogy. New Hope made me cheer. Empire made made me afraid. But Jedi made me sob and then dream about my own adventures in a galaxy far, far away... and to this day, approaching old age, I still imagine I was there through it all. Thank you George Lucas ❤
Because of how wide spread it's now become, it's amazing to think of these as new movies people went to see and didn't know any of the twists! Of course it seems predictable now watching it, but it's incredible hearing people gasp as Luke is electrocuted, the audience believing his life could be taken!
They had also never seen force lightning!!
This is exactly why I think Episode 1 was a great movie. In retrospect it's not the best. But at the time, when this was the last thing Star Wars anyone saw, it was actually a great film.
Back in _TESB,_ the moment Yoda mentioned that "There is another," a lot of people probably got filled with dread upon realizing that Luke just lost his plot armor. This is where that feeling in the back of their heads comes forward.
Am i missing something? Yall know this is fake reactions right?.. you can clearly hear the scene from scary movie where the girl is told to shut the hell up before getting stab. Like I said im not trying to be rude.. just wondering if im being ricked rolled into believing that everyone here thinks this is authentic lol
We had no idea how it would end. It was not outside the realm of possibility that Luke would be killed, or Vader by Luke. I know I never imagined it would end like this, the best way possible.
There's something I love about hearing the audience cheer for Vader when he makes his decision
Its fake
@@LegoNightWing no u
@@Nappanaia huh?
Except it wasn't Vader who killed the Emperor, it was Anakin Skywalker reborn, albeit briefly.
@@DV_Dark_Jedi actually it was Rey in cannon and Luke in legends. Anakin/Vader didn’t kill him in ether timeline
You know, you have to imagine what's going through the audience's mind at this very moment in time. Up until then, we hadn't really seen the Emperor or even knew how powerful he was. Hell, we didn't even know force lightning was a thing until VI. The audible gasps give an indication of the shock many must have felt in the moment, and the crying and the screams of terror of what's unfolding before them - _Will Luke die?? Is Vadar gonna let this happen??_ It's impactful moments like these that really make a film memorable and/or good. And then the clapping at the end when Vadar, at the cost of his life, picks up Palpatine and throws him off the balcony - they're rooting for the now-redeemed villain.
Truly, Star Wars was something else.
Yea, it's amazing to see what their utter shock was like. This was probably the biggest what the fuck moment in cinema history other than the "no, I am your father" line.
Star Wars Disney is 💩
Force was not so forceful in that period 😁Biggest trick was tossing things around, rest was the lightsaber combat and Emperor did not have any. We all expected he would do something, but no one expected he would totally overpower Luke. Luke was built up by Episode VI, and he was shown to be powerful Jedi, seconds before beating Vader. Thus him being on the floor, helpless, pleading his father to help him (father whom he just humiliated ), made enormous contrast and impact on audience.
@@aleksazunjic9672 The Emperor was very skilled in lightsaber combat, it's just in the original trilogy according to the later canon, he thought lightsaber combat to either be barbarous or that he just wanted to conceal himself as a Sith Lord to the galaxy population. The only Jedi that put up a fight against Sidious were Mace Windu, and Yoda. Had Vader not burned on Mustafar and put into a life support suit, Vader could've put up a fight against Sidious as well.
The broader population never really saw Palpatine after the Empire was founded. They were aware of his rule, but never really saw him. Like did the Empire really put up propaganda posters on buildings with Darth Vader or himself on them? Not any that I saw. He became recluse and studied the dark side in secret which only Darth Vader really knew.
@@GothRailfan Dude, nobody knew that when RotJ was screened. It was retconned later. All that audience knew he was Vader's boss, and supposedly very powerful in the Force. Force Lightning was never hinted, Jedi were shown to move things around with the Force and that was it. In combat they used lightsabers. Yoda also did not have one, but he was shown as hermit, sort of old monk- sensei known from eastern marshal arts movies. Audience expect showdown between Luke and Emperor, with Vader perhaps joining on either side. No one expect Emperor to be typical glass cannon.
Who's here after the passing of James Jones?
May the force be with him
Me
And me. RIP James Earl Jones.
May the force be with You always.
As someone who saw each of the films of OT theatrically, multiple times, in May 1983 I was openly expressing my doubts as to how they could possibly conclude the trilogy without disappointing a significant portion of the audience, one way or the other.
I never imagined this.
It never even crossed my mind that this is how they would do it at all, much less in a way that worked for everyone.
The ending was so worth it for me that, in spite of the ewoks, I saw "Return of the Jedi" ten times theatrically between May and September 1983.
Fuck the stupid ewoks hate.
I must have seen this movie a hundred times but it wasn't really anywhere near as good as the previous two. I think we were just starved of great special effects. I know i was.
How many times did you sneak in.?
@@NickL951 No, I only saw it once at the cinema but 100 times on video.
The speeder bikes makes up for the ewoks.
The most satisfying moment in film history. And one of the reasons it is so is because we see all we need to know about Vader’s emotions, with no facial expressions or dialogue whatsoever. Absolutely masterful filmmaking.
I read recently that George Lucas had plans to turn Luke in to the emperor but Hollywood wanted a happy ending. I often think about this and think how crazy that plot twist would have been. That’s also why he wore black throughout the film.
Movies aren't made this way anymore sadly...
@@krs075 honestly I can’t imagine why he’d ever seriously consider that ending. He himself said Star Wars was meant to be a fairy tale for children, meaning there was no way the good guys would lose.
And then in the special edition they brilliantly add the “nOoOoOOoooOoOoOo”
@@generalkenobi1332 "They" add it? No, it was Lucas who added it.
This the only way online to see the lack of "No.....NOOOOO!" additions by Lucas and it is so good. Silent body-acting by David Prowse, you can just feel the agony of indecision coming in waves off of Vader.
the “no” makes this scene more powerful. Take off your nostalgia goggles boomer
@@iTotalityXyZ The first No did, the second louder one sounded a bit odd but I still don’t mind it
@@eli_james_al8245 i agree, the first low growling "no" was badass, but the second one sounded cheesy as hell.
There's a bunch of fan edits you can find online. The most popular are the Despecialised Versions of the original movies and 4K77,4K80 & 4K83 Edits from original film scans.
He did a little trolling
Nice to hear Dreamybull's cinema reaction!
he was a fan ever since New Hope
I was honestly fucking baffled when I heard that
1:50
For me, this is the most powerful scene in the entire movie history. Even today. Maybe because I was a kid in the 80s when I saw this for the first time, it affected me so strongly.
Vince McMahon also knew how to use redemption of a villain.
I was born in 2000, and this scene brings me to tears, Luke and Vaders duel in Return of the Jedi and Vader saving Luke are the most emotional moments in the whole story for me, even a little more then Obi-Wan vs Anakin in Revenge of the Sith
Yes and the No I am your father moment as well
And why I refuse to buy the latest special edition because they crapped on this perfect climactic scene with “NOOOOOOOO” shoehorned in
@@classicgunstoday1972 Yes! that "NOOO" is embarrassing and ruins the powerful atmosphere of the whole scene.
This scene had you on the edge of your seat it was so damn emotionally powerful. Luke was being murdered in front of his father's sight. Vader realized truly at this point how wicked his so called master was and seeing him killing his only son was his breaking point!!
Excellent use of choir in the music
@@samwallaceart288 I 💯 percent
It was literally the only thing he had left. Ultimately he realized that it was the only one thing he could do to make things right after fucking up so badly in his youth. It didn't undo anything he did, but it was a corner stone that allowed the galaxy a chance to heal and to start to put things right. Too bad they fucked it up with the sequel trilogy making this sacrafice pointless
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John 1:1,14 KJV
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and THE WORD WAS GOD. [14] And THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH, and dwelt among us,
1 John 3:8 KJV
He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Isaiah 9:6 KJV
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty GOD, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
John 1:10
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and THE WORLD KNEW HIM NOT.
John 3:18 KJV
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
@@willlauzon3744 The sequels dont exist!
This was the real death of the Emperor. Rise of Skywalker means nothing.
Means absolutely nothing, no when can ever say it does!
sequels are just trash with cheap stories. nothing less nothing more
Rise of Skywalker was dogshit
still canon
May the force be with you! always
Alot of you dont realize not only is this fake but the crowd noises are actually snippets from the original scary movie, you can hear brenda say “i dont know why yall is acting like this”
I was looking for this comment because I couldn't make out what the hell they were saying. Good catch.
Yeah I assumed it was fake lol but hoped it wasn’t
Not only that but you can also hear the “Ambatukam” meme at 1:51 look it up
When I first saw it in 1983, this was the exact reaction in the movie theater. The audience was so loud (cheering) that you couldn't even hear the movie anymore. Oh the memories!
did they stab someone to death too?
@@youhavenoprivacyandownnoth8289 Er... no
39 years later... this still gives me goosebumps
I remember watching thinking, Luke is going to destroy this man with no light saber. People don’t realize how much of a shock that electricity was. Completely out of nowhere. The true final boss
No, The Rock is....IF YA SMEEELLL...
Now people have a giant sook if a new Force power is used.
"Shock" lol
@@cass7448 theres a difference when building up on a barely explored concept, vs. adding up new things on a daily basis on a system, we have seen at full scale already. Now the force just simply does what the plot needs it to. Its really bad writing, equivalent to "a wizard did it"
@@gorgit That's exactly what the OT did though.
Up until this moment, no one knew that the Force was capable of something this raw and sorcerous -- it had always been an invisible, subtle thing: it moved objects, allowed for precognition, telepathy. Here, it was pure, blunt, brute, Dark Magic.
I was five years old when I saw this in 1983 and I was on the edge of my seat the entire time during this scene. Even at that young of an age I clearly understand how conflicted Vader was without him having to yell "NOOOOOO!!!"
THANK YOU !
So totally agree!!! I was same age five and I feel that Vader in this original cut was more effective without yelling NOOOOO it was more impactful to see his emotions raging with body language and slowly looking at Palpatine then look then suddenly quickly looking at Palpatine and then picking him up and throwing him overboard.
I got the special edition rotj (released before Lucas made the prequels) transferred to dvd and that's what I watch to this day; it's got no silly Vader's "No!" or Hayden Christensen's Anakin ghost at the end, nor the awful cgi of pulling down the Emperor's statue.
But how did they know what Vader was doing without him loudly yelling "NOOOOOO!"??
😂😂😂😂😂😂
because this video is fake, 1:49 and 1:11.
1:49 - the "what the f###" is from a popular vine meme
1:11 - from the girls watching kpop crying meme
@@mrquaackers this video is fake but dude was simply making a joke about how George Lucas added darth Vader say NOOOOOO right before he lifts up Palpatine a couple years ago on the blu-ray special edition crap. It was so unnecessary.
@@Havoc-g7v Wait they removed him saying "NOOOOOO?"
@@mrquaackers No. They ADDED him saying it in later editions. It isn’t present in the initial release of the movie.
This makes me cry every time - excellent scene! In the end, Vader loves his son so much that he cannot withstand his suffering and agony... being a parent is a much more powerful emotion than serving the Dark Side and living as a puppet of a twisted Emperor. One of the best scenes invented in Sci-Fi cinema.
Saw this in theaters as a kid, gave me chills then, gives me chills now. The Real Star Wars.
“ambatukaaam ohhhh" -emperor palpatine’s last words
I wish I could have been there in theaters to watch it with everyone for the first time. I would have teared up on the spot when he lifted Palpatine with everyone cheering on like that. I'm even tearing up right now watching the crowd reaction even after having watched the film a million times. The energy of an audience makes a huge difference.
No doubt!
That was one of my most memorable moments. I was 10.
It really does. I wish we could still do this.
Same tbh, though the only problem was I wasn't alive then
Truly a momentous, historical moment. My favorite part was when Darth Vader said “Ambotukam ohhhh”. Whenever I think about this moment, I can’t help myself from falling to the ground in tears. George Lucas‘s literary genius is amazing.
I HEARD IT TOO LMAO AT THE END
I was about to comment and then I saw this😭
I didn't hear it, do you have a timestamp?
@@skyraider871:52, makes me tear up every time.
What does it mean?
Well we’ve just lost the actor of Darth Vader,
May god bless and May the force be with him
R.I.P
*voice actor
I grew up with the prequels, but this scene gets me very emotional every time. This is Star Wars.
I saw ROTJ when it came out. My uncle took me as an early birthday present. The audience reaction was much the same. People cried when Luke removed Vader/Anakin's mask and even more when he died. Grown men, women and children. I'll never forget it.
1:52 Palpatine's last words before he died "Ambatukam ohh" really hit hard :(
It's actually "anakin noo"
@@darklordvader66 no it's actually
I'm about to c*m
It's from a p*orn
He's crying out for his secret bodyguard, "Ambutakm Omaygot", who was the only person he trusted implicitly. This is definitely the scene of all time 😭😭😭
🤣😂
"Am bout to Kam Ohhhh"
Some people probably don’t know Vader doesn’t say “Nooooo” originally and that’s just sad. So much more powerful he does it all in silence
Sometimes you don't need dialogue to express a character's emotions, the silence says it all.
I'm so glad that it happens so many years ago , imagine if this would come out now. Every twist would be revealed in trailers
If the original trilogy was released today people would rip it to shreds and call it woke. As much as i loved these films they survived on nostalgia
@@darthnater9731 how could you call original trilogy woke? (God , I can hardly imagine calling that way anything related to SW , apart from Disney bs of course)
@@kb2476 did you not read anything I said??? I said if it was released today it would be called that. Learn to read
@@darthnater9731 let me rephrase my comment ,
How could Anyone call Original trilogy (...)
Didn't meant to argue, just want a conversation to get know why you think so
Cheers
Lol true. If ROTJ came out today, Vader's literal last lines would probably be in the trailers to "build hype".
Jesus christ. I can’t express enough how the original version without the “NO” hits so much harder
Ugh. You're worse than Lucas.
It makes such a small difference. It ain’t a big thing. Y’all get so amped up over something so small. Of ALL the special edition changes that’s the one y’all cry over?
@@harrambou9468 Agreed. It is a bit pretentious.
You have it backwards. This version doesn't work nearly as well, makes no sense, and is awkward as all hell. The added "NOOOOO" helped the scene so much.
The no makes the scene much more emotional
Wow that's cool that u have this recording still 39 years later
Edit: tbh idk how I thought it was real 😭
its fake i think
@@raspurity Not everything is fake dude...people had cameras in the eighties
@@aeyes1314 no it’s literally the movie theatre scene from scary movie
@@raspurity Any proof it's fake? I mean it could be, but it sounds genuine. And it isn't a stretch by any means that someone recorded this in 1983. The technology was there for it, and the movie was one of the biggest releases of all time lol.
Wow that’s embarrassing that you actually think this is really from the 80’s
I would give anything to go back to 1983 and watch this on opening night. I just want to experience this moment when the theater went absolute apeshit when Vader threw the Emperor down the shaft. One of the greatest moments in cinematic history!
It’s fake, you can hear Dreamybull
My brother and I headed over to the Edens theatre in Northbrook, Illinois after he got done with work. We got in line for the midnight showing at about 8:30....at that point the line stretched about 2/3 of the way around the building.
Hard-core fans all!
The emotion of the patrons in the theater as this scene built was palpable!
When Vader lunged forward, grabbed the Emperor and flung him over the railing, there was a roar the likes of which we thought would bring the roof down!!
A movie moment that I, personally, will never forget.
This might be one of the coolest reaction videos I’ve ever seen
It's fake jit
@@rodclarke8957 What? Ian is the only person who has played the Emperor in live action except for the one person who played him in ESB. Ian has always played Palpatine in ROTJ even in the theater release…
@@rodclarke8957 np
@@GoogleUser-sk5tn bro it’s fake
@@GoogleUser-sk5tnIt's fake
I love this. Nowadays, people mostly cheer in theaters for more surface level stuff, like a great action piece or a superhero doing a cool entrance. But this? This is an entirely character driven moment. If you’re cheering for this, it means you must’ve well understood the extremely heartwarming core of the scene, and THAT’s what you’re cheering for. These people are not going crazy for a character doing the cool thing, they are going crazy for a character doing the RIGHT thing.
It's fake dude. Get off your high horse.
1. It's a silly sci-fi movie about magic and lasers. Stop with the moral high ground.
(And btw this is coming from someone that works at Galaxy's Edge, who's typing this on a Millennium Falcon themed computer in a Star Wars themed office.)
2. People didn't like Return Of The Jedi when it came out.
3. No one really cheered in movie theaters back then. That's really a modern thing. Back then, it was exceptionally rude. If you even whispered, you were kicked out and people would be mad at you. Even today, some hate that it's even a thing now.
4. I think cheering in a movie for any reason just makes it all the more fun. My theater for Rise Of Skywalker cheered, (bad example, but they did.) And Endgame and No Way Home were my two favorite movie going experiences of all time just because of all the nerd energy being thrown around and the fact that people were shouting and standing and cheering.
5. It's
6. Fake.
Hey random question, are you in the US?
Yup, especially the guy yelling "Ambatakum!" If only today's audience's could understand films just like he did.
The people aren’t going crazy for someone the right thing, they’re going crazy for views and content…
From this masterpiece to "Somehow Palpatine returned"
Saw this on it’s 40th anniversary in theaters last week… No matter what, this is my favorite Star Wars episode… hearing people “woo” Darth Vaders redemption makes me smile so big :)
I was 8 and watched this in the theatre. I clearly remember the audience reaction during this scene. I personally had goosebumps during Vader’s redemption.
Such a good quality for a videotape from the 80s, I would have liked to be there, I already assumed the audience would applaud when Vader grabbed the Emperor from behind. You can tell that this audience feels the same as I do when they watched this scene, I feel pain listening to Luke's screams, and I always liked how Ian McDiarmid delivers each line of his, an incredible performance, he's the only Emperor Palpatine. Also when Palpatine is killed and we see all those ghostly shadows, amazing vfx from 1983, after ESB, ROTJ has the best visual effects from the OT.
It’s because it’s not real
I doubt the validity of this. Nobody was thinking of TH-cam content back in that day. And the retro quality can be faked.
Well...Ian McDiarmid is the only person who had ever played the Emperor (apart from the cut person who played him in the original ESB)
Bro it’s a fake video. Play at 1:10 and you can here meme sounds, the “what do you mean” and the screaming is from those two girls reacting to some video online
Let me break this down:
1. The quality is extremely high for something filmed in the 1980s. In that alone, this is already a suspicious video. The person who uploaded the video tries to account for this lapse in logic by putting in the description that a 'local news segment' filmed the audience reaction, but I'm calling bullshit on two accounts.
a) It's a felony to record movies in the theatre, period. No exceptions.
b) As another commentor mentioned, there's people making meme noises.
2. The uploader claims that this clip was a 'newly discovered clip,' and yet it's nowhere else on the internet. Are we actually supposed to believe that the guy who's already posted audience reactions to Star Wars movies in the past and constantly indulges in Star Wars stuff on his TH-cam channel is the finder and sole possessor of this film footage? Isn't it interesting that the uploader provides no details for the film footage as it exists today? Just conveniently, all of the details provided cannot be factually verified or checked?
R.I.P. James Earl Jones. September 9, 2024. Age 93. A great legend.
You will be missed.
Anakin finally breaking out of the prison Palpatine trapped him in never fails to move me.
The one thing Anakin was denied almost fully by the Jedi and the world was the one thing Like used to save him…
Love.
Beautifully said, Sophie.
Family is what caused him to fall to the Dark Side, with his mom and wife, family is what caused him to be redeemed with Luke.
Like George Lucas says, it's all about family and relationships.
@@TheMahayanist True also Star Wars is a leftist franchise and woke. Star Wars is anti FACIST and pro democracy. Oh and George Lucas based the rebel alliance on the Vietcong communist party.....so in a way Star Wars is also pro communist since communist are not bad people. Stalin and Lennon were bad people. Karl Marx and Jesus (yes Jesus was basically a communist) were good people.
Can't believe ambatukam witnessed this 🥲
Anakin still sticks with his own philosophy seen in the prequels here, his fear of losing a loved one is so big that he would do anything to stop the people he loves from dying, after Padme died he tought he had no one left in the universe, thus making him fully convert into Vader, remember he thinks Obi-Wan is a traitor and he fears Palpatine, but never truly likes him, but when he met Luke, the whole sentiment he had for his loved ones back in the prequels kicked right in, and he finally realised that Palpatine was the true menace that was trying to kill his family, and he finally realized he was wrong this whole time, and died as Anakin regretting every single choice he made as Vader
He had too much attachment as a Jedi and too much love and remorse in his heart to be a Sith. 24 years under an evil empire gives you alot of time to think about the why you got ther in the first place.Anakin/Vader was conflicted but he was never truly evil his one and true happiness came from his loved ones. Truly making him selfless.
Attachment was accepted after this in the EU. You can't be involved without a reason to care.
@@dskyyksdand palpatine returned In a clone body in EU
I saw ROTJ in a sold out theater on opening day with my dad in 1983 at 9 years old and this scene is burned into my brain. To this day that Vader turn was the biggest pop I've ever witnessed by an audience in my life. The crowd erupted.
1:50 the "f*ck" absolutely killed me😂
1:52 Yes shit, thank you so much. Thank you. That might just be what I need to buss. That might just be what I need to buss. Cuz AMBASING! AMBASING! AMBASING!
My dad took me to see ROTJ. My first movie in theaters. 40 years later and still my favorite movie of all time.
Sidious is a brilliant villain! He couldn't feel Vader's betrayal because it was an act of love. One of the few feelings the Emperor didn't know and wasn't able to feel😮
The fucking dreamybull sound wft
If you ever wonder why Vader turned back to the light side it’s because it was his family‘s love and his friends support that did that to him.
Even those who passed away and were killed like Padme and Qui-Gon Jinn for instance still believed in him.
My god, I saw this at home when I was a kid and it was epic. Some years later, I cried in the cinema with the ending of "Revenge of the Sith". Never felt those emotions with Disney's trilogy. :(
WE are two now 👍
Because they tried to ruin it all.
What trilogy ?
@@blackwolf9072That’s the spirit!
I was 9 on opening night and everyone in the theater jumped to their feet like a touchdown when that happened. Still gives me chills.
Definitely one of the greatest moments in cinema history and my all time favourite Star Wars moment. Lightning in a bottle was captured here. The cries from Luke, the evil glare of the emperor and the body language of Darth Vader makes this scene amazing. You can see the conflict in Vaders without seeing his face and that is truly magical!
Everyone at 1:40 : DO IT
Vader: *does it
Everyone: YES YES YES YES YES
Palps: Dew it
Anakin: *does it
Everyone: NO NO NO NO NO
Imagine watching this scene without special effects
Thank you for uploading this clip. I wasn't born yet in 1983 but I'll never forget the emotions while watching this scene for the first time. In the action movies there's usually the fight between the good guy(s) and the bad guy(s) at the end. This was the first time when I saw the good guy refusing to fight. It was something completely new for me. I was shocked and legit afraid Luke would die, that was something I had never felt before about any other protagonist. Vader's sacrifice was another thing I didn't see coming. It was a huge surprise, but what an amazing one! I was so used to seeing happy endings in other movies, that I was in complete awe of this beautiful bittersweet ending. Return of the Jedi is my favorite Star Wars movie, no other movie made me so emotional.
1:30 “FOR CHRIST SAKE, WILL YOU JUST SHUT YOUR TRAP?!” XD
This plus the reactions made me tear up. It's one of the most powerful moments in cinematic history. And the prequels add more depth to it. We can see Anakin facing all of the bad choices he made in his life... and deciding it's not too late to get one thing right.
Especially where someone says "I'm bout a cumm" so touching
It's fake, you can literally hear the dreamybull ambatukam meme at 1:52
That is storytelling at a level of mastery I fear we'll never see again. What do we need to do to have filmmakers today make new, original material of this caliber and showcase it this masterfully, instead of just re-hashing something from decades ago, make it more extreme, and use sexy bodies to sell it (Ok, yeah, there's the Leia scenes, but still!)
My god, people were actually crying at that point. People begging Luke to get up. Being consoled by friends and those near them in their rows. I never see such emotion in the movie theater anymore.
I was 15 at the Showcase Cinemas in Dedham, MA. This part of the movie was so intense. Seeing a son fight his father with the foreboding organ music was so sad and emotional, there moans and groans but the emotional energy in the theater was THICK. But then it came to this scene. When Vader grabbed the Emperor, the whole packed theater ERUPTED, EVERYONE STANDING, SCREAMING IN JOY at the top of their lungs - I screamed so hard i began seeing stars - it was one of the most mind blowing emotional movie scenes I had ever seen in my life, to this day. I promised myself Id write Lucas a mail telling him how great he was. I never did. Even seeing this now I teared up.
I used to go to the Dedham showcase theatre all the time! (Me and my friends would sneak into the horror movies lol) lived very close to it. I actually saw ROTJ at a movie theatre in Brookline when I was 6. I don’t think that theatre is even there anymore.
The guys who made "ohhww" sounds, are now probably on pension.. Time flies, time flies..
BRO DREAMYBULL IN THE BACKGROUND
I remember watching this back in 83 i was 16 year's old i saw it every weekend 💯 such an awesome movie 🎥🎥🎥
You know you created a great villain when people are cheering at his demise! 💪🏻
Through his rise to power, Palpatine used the love of others as a tool to manipulate, the way a puppeteer uses a string. But if Palpatine had ever grasped any deeper understanding of what love is, he would have known not to place Vader in that position-- especially since love had been his primary motivator. But no one who knew love could ever have become what Palpatine was, so that blind spot was fundamental to his nature.
He never had a clue of the danger he was in.
the real Vader, without the dramatic scream "no" from the special edition. just action!
That’s the blue ray. There was no “nooo” in the dvds
I saw ROTJ in George Street Hoyts, with a friend and it was the first time I was out at night late. I sat in awe.......the toys, the comics the excitement. You just wouldn't talk about an ending.
i was 9 years old saw it opening night on long island with my friend and his mother i remember people cheering and clapping when vader threw the emperor down the shaft. what a week that was for me my dad took me to game 4 of 1983 stanley cup finals on may 17 th when islanders won their 4 th cup in a row then we went to the stanley cup parade that saturday on the 21st and then saw return of the jedi on wednesday may 25th. simpler times would go back in a second lol
What a blessed time to be growing up. Im very happy for you. Thanks for sharing!
@@ethio6308 my kids watch stranger things and say to me was the 80s that great i say to them take what you see on stranger things and magnify by a thousand. lol one more thing i was also at game 6 of the 1986 world series the bill buckner game lol the 80s ruled
@@bb-gc2tx Your kids will surely have a good time as well growing up, with someone who had such a good time as a kid. Idk about the sports events bc I'm from Europe and 25 y.o. but I can imagine that must've been mind blowing to experience
No one’s gonna talk about the fact that you can hear Dreamybull at 1:52 saying “Amboutakum”
I watch this when I was 10 years old and when Darth Vader picked up the Emperor and threw him down the Shaft the whole theater jump up and cheered like it was game winning touchdown. To this day I haven't seen a reaction like that.
I will NEVER forget this. I was 6 years old and so overcome with emotion that I was frozen in my seat, staring at the screen with the most incredible combination of total shock and complete joy that after all Vader had done, his love for his son brought him back to the light. What an amazing memory, and to be honest, the whole story of the battle of good and evil within us all told brilliantly through the journey of Luke and Vader was MASSIVELY influential in shaping me as a man. Thank you, Mr. Lucas.
Weren't you a little bit too young at that time ?
@@Arloeg Too young for what? To have those realizations? I guess I wasn't. I distinctly remember talking about it with my mom on the drive home and expressing my shock that after everything Vader did, there was still good in him, and it was seeing his son in pain that brought it out. I still remember my mom saying, "Never underestimate the power of a parent's love for their child." Maybe all of that would have been lost on most 6 year olds, but not me. The power of that moment is burned into my memory for life.
I can't lie... something about hearing the unbridled joy in the original audience reaction that gave me goosebumps. Almost shed a single tear.
They waited years for it. This is so pure.
no way in hell this is 1983 dude - first all they didn't have vhs camera's that could film in the dark, 2 you would have been kicked out and 3 the audience reaction the night this came out was near riot level - nice try but you're full of shit
then boy is it gonna break your heart when you hear someone say "Im bout to come"
I almost cried when Vader said ”Ambatukam” so Sad
The one guy yelling "What the fuck!". 😂😂
1:49 you can just hear someone go "what the fuck!" XD
Also at 1:30
You can hear someone go im boutta cummmm shortly after
It’s fake
because its fake bro
That was from an old Vine meme.