in 1980, there were no spoilers, no internet, no way to find out the big twist. When that line came from Vader, it was like all the oxygen was sucked from the theatre at once. Nobody could believe it. After it was over, a bunch of people gathered out in the parking lot outside the theatre and had a furious discussion about whether it was true, or whether Vader was lying to convince Luke to switch. It would be literally years before we'd get the answer. Going to movies was better then.
that's how it is. I was 8 years old, and I remember coming home from the movie with my father and brother, talking about whether it was true that Vader was their father. It took years to resolve it.
Fun fact, because of many people thought Vader could be lying, in "Return of the Jedi" Lucas added the small exchange in which Yoda confirms that, indeed, it was true. Since Yoda was a character that everyone trusted, it was the best way to erase any lingering doubts.
- Leia's last name is Organa. Her adopted father was Bail Organa. - A wound that is closed by burning is called "cauterized." - Cool thing about Luke: he never narc'd on Yoda teaching him; he kept his existence a secret. - Han & Leia's chemistry is good for a reason. Ford & Fisher had an affair in '77 during Episode IV. - Lando couldn't warn Han without tipping off Vader; so he tried to keep Han from landing. - Lucas said that Luke's fall is what took the wind out of Vader's sails. Realizing his son would rather die than join him only highlighted to him what he was: a broken man who has gone all-in on the wrong decisions and lost everything because of it. After that, he wasn't the same Sith Lord he'd been up until that point, and you can actually see a loss of confidence in him from here on out.
You also see a change in Vader's moral state of mind. As after the Falcon jumps to light speed and escapes the officer who replaced the general that Vader killed for failing thought he was about to be killed too But Vader just turns and walks out of the room.
@@raymondsmith7993 Actually, that was kind of in keeping with who he was. It's canon that Boba Fett killed Owen and Beru, but Vader didn't kill him because he blamed himself for not telling Fett "no disintegrations" earlier. The Falcon taking off is something similar: Piet did as he was told and they actually almost caught them. In fact, just before they jump, Vader directly asks Piet if his men shut off the hyperdrive and he said they did, and he started getting a boarding party ready--Vader even said "Good" when he was told. So Piet didn't really fail because he carried out orders without resistance. I still think you're right because Vader is clearly distracted at the end, but also Piet had repeatedly shown that he was obedient and for the most part, competent. This pays off in JEDI twice.
Regarding Luke not mentioning yoda, I believe in the novelization of ROTJ, Palpatine asks Luke who trained him after Obi Wan died, and Luke refused to say anything, but Sidious peered into his mind with the force and saw that it was yoda and that he recently died, which the emperor uses to taunt Luke.
wow! I never heard that before about Lando keeping Han from landing but it does make sense as to why they fired at him and Lando coming out to greet him. That is great!
"No one ever showed me the originals." You need to sit down with all the adults in your life, or rather the adults who were around when you were nine and have a long talk with them about their parenting styles...ROFL.
I'm a star wars movies plus games fan been playing the old republic since 2011 saw the original star wars movies on vhs way back when sorry for getting off topic.
Yep, his lungs were severely damaged by fire and smoke on Mustafar, along with virtually everything else. As a result, Vader's probably 75% artificial, at the very least. When George created General Grevious for "Revenge of the Sith", it was meant as a deliberate foreshadowing of what Anakin would become.
I fortunately only had to wait until next morning. I am so grateful to my friend's parents to let us 10-year olds binge watch them all over the weekend I was staying over.
Not sure if anyone has said, but Luke's X-Wing has a translation readout of what R2-D2 is saying. You see a brief shot of words printing on a screen on the instrument panel that Luke is looking at while R2 is beeping away. That's how an astromech droid communicates with the pilot of the craft and how Luke could understand R2 while in his X-Wing. Vader and the Emperor really do see Anakin as gone and Darth Vader being who has taken his place. Leia is Princes Leia Organa of Alderaan, adopted daughter of Breha Organa, queen of Alderaan, and her husband Bail Prestor-Organa, Republic senator, Imperial senator and Rebel spy. "No. I am your father." is one of the most frequently misquoted lines in cinema. Along with the likes of "We're gonna need a bigger boat." instead of "You're gonna need a bigger boat." in Jaws. Since you said you filmed these three reactions before releasing any of them. I will point out the key difference between Anakin and Luke. When Anakin feels the rage, he leans into it. When Luke does, he backs off from it and chooses peace. In fact Luke either 'wins' or at least 'doesn't lose' in each of the three original trilogy movies by letting go and trusting in something or someone other than himself. Sometimes because he's convinced it is the right path, others convinced it is his only choice.
@17:30, That WAS indeed described as Vader's meditation chamber. It's supposed be where he not only meditates, but where, when it closed and pressurized, he can remove his helmet and mask. He can breathe and talk at the same time because his mechanical respirator does the breathing for him. @18:03. Yes, that was stop-motion animation for the Imperial Walkers. @19:15, You can see that Luke has a screen that translates what Artoo is saying for him. Even if Luke COULD understand Artoo's language, there's literally no way he could hear it as Artoo is riding in open space and Luke is in the cockpit. @25:02. When Jedi disappear upon death, it's they're literally becoming a part of the Force itself. In "Revenge of the Sith", Yoda implies that he's made contact with Qui-Gon who has learned it and can pass the knowledge on. In the novelization, Yoda is meditating about the fall of the Jedi and asks into the Force what is next. The text reads that the Force answers in the voice of Qui-Gon Jinn. This is an act of willful giving oneself to the Force, and is something only that happens in the Light Side. Thus, the Sith have no knowledge of it. (That's why Vader and Palpatine both are unaware that Obi-Wan is still in touch with Luke.) @25:21, Vader knows full well that Luke is his son. That's why he's been trying to hard to find him. However, he's playing dumb for Palpatine. (I mean, the name Skywalker would give it away. Plus, the fact that Luke comes from Tatooine and was raised by his step-brother.) Vader's plan at this moment is to turn Luke to the Dark Side so together they can overthrow Palpatine. However, Vader is definitely still ignorant that Leia is his daughter. (I believe that nobody knew that Leia had been adopted by Bail Organa. Anyone outside of his inner circle, I believe, thought Leia was Bail's biological child.) @30:00, Luke seeing his own face was the warning of how he could suffer the same fate as his father. @36:51, Leia's last name is Organa. (I know it wasn't mentioned in any of the Original Trilogy films, but it was in the novelizations and action figure packages). She was adopted by Bail Organa of Alderaan. @39:20, What just happened was Lando contacted his aide, Lobot (the guy with the headpiece) to arrange an ambush of the Imperial troops by members of Bespin's security force. Lando clearly had realized that he'd made a mistake in trusting Vader to keep his word (that he'd leave Bespin alone if Lando helped him) and has decided that their only chance is to make a break for it. @40:36, You'll have to watch "Return of the Jedi" to see what happens with Vader. And, the lightsaber fight was far better. In this film a different actor stood in for Vader in the lightsaber battle. Bob Anderson, a trained fencer, stood in for David Prowse. In ANH, Prowse (who was a champion weightlifter and bodybuilder) didn't have the fluid style Vader was supposed to have (as he wasn't a trained swordsman or fencer). For the next two films, Anderson wore the costume during the lightsaber fight scenes. @43:38, "Luke, I am your father." is a common misquote by fans who saw it. Interesting fact, the shooting script had a false page in. In the script, Vader's line was that Obi-Wan killed Luke's father. The only people who knew the truth were George Lucas and Irwin Kershner, the director. (This was done to keep the big secret of the film under wraps.) Right before they rolled the cameras, they told Mark Hamill what the line was REALLY supposed to be, so he'd react properly. After that, the only other person who knew was James Earl Jones, when he recorded Vader's voice for the scene. On set, David Prowse, who played Vader, did the fake line (Prowse did all of Vader's lines to cue the other actors, for pacing and so they'd know where to insert Jones' dubs.) and he himself only learned the truth when he saw the film at the premier. (Supposedly he said that he'd wished he'd known so he'd have used different body language.) @44:26, Luke makes the decision to die rather than join his father in the Dark Side. @45:15, Luke wasn't using the Force. He was just drawn into an exhaust tube. (Now, the Force might have been doing that, but Luke wasn't in the driver's seat at that point.) @45:35, That's exactly right. The lightsaber instantly cauterizes the wound. @48:39, Yes, ESB (Ep V) is generally considered superior to ANH (Ep IV). I'm really looking forward to your take on watching ROTJ. I hope you've found my comments helpful. :-D
When you look back at Westworld, that wasn't really computer GENERATED imagery - it was a mosaic of 2D images manually put together to simulate robot vision. The first movie to use actual *generated* imagery for narrative content was TRON. Star Trek II had an sequence depicting a world forming that was computer generated. Young Sherlock Holmes had the first polygonal character (a stained-glass knight) for which it won an Oscar. The real technical achievement with the first Star Wars films was using computers to control the camera motion - allowing complex shots of models. John Dykstra was behind that, primarily.
43:40 That’s like the fact that Kirk never once said “Scotty, beam me up!” nor “Beam me up, Scotty!” For Star Wars references, the addition of ‘Luke’ was an early way for people to reference that scene and make it clear that it’s a Star Wars phrase. You could easily say the correct line nowadays of “No. I am your father.” and people would immediately get it.
Hey there, just for reference, Kirk does say "Scotty, beam me up" in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, as you can see in this short clip ... th-cam.com/video/west2PFD0D4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=nLwQKvgrgSwS61-N
@@fluffihunni6221 Yeah, but the Mandela Effect had already taken hold long before that came out. The dialogue was clearly a nod to the pop culture, like the fan service in Attack Of The Clones where Jango bangs his head on Slave I’s hatch.
You’re correct on George’s style of not explaining too much. It goes all the way to the very first movie. I had seen sci-fi at that point in ‘77, and admittedly I was just a kid of around 9 years old so my frame of reference is limited, but within about 5-10 minutes we had a stormtrooper declare “Look, sir! Droids!” whilst holding up a man-made object. At that point I’d heard of robots, I’d heard of androids, I may have even heard of cyborgs. But I’d never heard anyone call androids ‘droids’. It needed no explanation. We just suddenly had a new piece of jargon in our head and we didn’t think twice. The term gets used constantly in the Star Wars universe, and if you think about it, you’ve probably never heard it in any other story or franchise. You wouldn’t use the term in talking about the robots in the movie I, Robot nor Bi-Centennial Msn, nor A.I, nor Ex-Machina. George just got us familiar with robots, had the term casually thrown into the dialogue, and a cultural icon is born. That was one of the real core ways Star Wars worked - it really seemed like a ‘lived-in’ universe. It was scratched and dented and scuffed. There was an absolute sense that these characters lived in these towns and cities. That they used the technology, and they’d formed language and habits based upon it. The original trilogy really excelled at that. Not all of the following works managed to really achieve the same level of ‘lived-in’, but they were lucky enough to ride the cost-tails of the OT.
It's not just Lucas, I feel like creators back then understood that film is a visual medium. Look at Alien, look at Blade Runner -- well the good cut -- they always just show you something spectacular instead of just giving you a bunch of word vomit. It really builds mystery and intrigue. I think audiences are too dumb for that these days or creators are too afraid of misinterpretation that its understood there will always be an exposition dump. I am reminded of how often I can just put on a show or movie these days and just do something else because there is no point in watching. Content these days might as well be audio only.
Sadly George then decided to try and explain huge amounts of stuff in the prequels and sequels to the original trilogy. I don't think any of the films are terrible, but I still hate the explanation for the force being a measurable micro organism!
@@tim-dnd Yeah, this is why I take any reference to George as being the ultimate guide to Star Wars (eg when people say that George has declared chronological order to be the best way to experience the movies). He gets things wrong, and he tries to shoehorn ideas into situations that don’t quite fit. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I really appreciate what George did in creating Star Wars, but you could even see in the ‘making ofs’ in the prequels when he gave private preliminary screenings to Spielberg and other buddy filmmakers that none of them wanted to hurt his feelings but they were worried about the results. He’s sort of above anyone telling him that an idea is bad.
@@tim-dndI get what you mean, but I'm going to make a minor correction because most people misunderstand. The Midichlorians are not the the Force. They're organisms that can communicate WITH the force, and allow you to communicate with the force more easily the more of them you have. It's not to "explain the force" per sey. The force is just as mystical as before. It's just to explain how some people strong with the force and others not, (which was a point in the OT). Did that need an explanation? Not necessarily, but I feel like it doesn't hurt anything.
I think its a problem with modern hollywood in general. It's flooded with mediocre talent who aren't creative enough to craft a story. They will explain it to you be cause they think their audience is stupid. In reality, the problem falls on the writers who are creatively bankrupt.
Great reaction! Leia has the last name Organa having assumed the last name of Senator Bail Organa after he and his wife adopted her at the end of Episode III. Fun fact: in about 1995-1996 Kenner toys started releasing series of Star Wars figures as a run-up to the 20th anniversary of Star Wars which would see the release into theaters the Special Editions of the original trilogy as the prelude to a VHS release of the Special Editions; eventually giving way to the DVD release. The funny part, to me, is that until Episode III I knew her last name, but not where it came from: but her action figure came with the name "Princess Leia Organa" so that's how I first learned of it before being given a proper explaination ~10 years later. -lol
12:34 That brief analysis won you my sub. Well-done 🙂 That being said, I feel compelled to express my displeasure of you basically skipping two of the all-time greatest & exciting special effects sequences ever captured by film: The Battle of Hoth and The Asteroid Field. I'm still super glad you loved the film as much as you do. For my money, it's the greatest movie ever made, when you take in the story, characters, subtle humor, subtle romance, set-pieces, plot points, and SCORE. I don't think it's ever been matched.
Yes! I have found the themes across all the films to be immensely encouraging to me. The “dark side” can mean so many different things for all of us. A lot of times it is the opposite of presence. Which is basically distraction, avoidance, and fear. This can look so many different ways in all of our lives whether it’s an addiction, a person, or a bad habit. We all have a pull to hide into the dark side in one way or another. The opposite is presence, love, and bravery. ❤️
Beca there was no CGI used in the original Star Wars trilogy when they were originally released. The CGI in 1973 looked like an atari video game. It was used to make titles in a movie. It wasn't anything like the CGI of today. What happened is in the 90s, George Lucas decided to clean the original films because they were extremely dirty and scratched, and the colors were fading. So what he did was create a digital copy of the originals because it was easier to fix each of the frames in digtal format than to try to actually clean film. Then he realized that since he had the movies in a digital format, he could add things to the film digitally with CGI. So he added scenes, creatures, and some backgrounds using CGI of the late 90's and early 2000's. Since then, they have changed a few things several times. But the original movies when they were released did not have CGI in them they were all three done with practical effects. The only CGI used in the originals is in Episode 4 in the scene when they were showing the pilots the attack plan on the Death Star. Those attack plans were CGI. That was the best CGI could do at the time. And it wasn't very good or real looking. It was about as good graphically as Pac Man. There's a channel on TH-cam called Luke Skywalker he has several videos showing you a side by side comparisons of the original scenes before the CGI was added and after the CGI added for every scene CGI was added. He has separate videos for each of the first (original) three films.
@tasselhoff I didn't say they didn't have CGI. They did. They used it in the Genesis scene. They used it in tron, and they used it at the intro to Labyrinth (the owl), they used it in the last Starfighter. The point is that the CGI back then was not realistic. No one would mistaken it for a real-life image like today. That sort of CGI did not exist until the late 80s with the Abyss and T2 and early 90s with Jurassic Park. No one would mistaken the graphics seen in the Genesis scene in The Wrath of Kaun as a photo realistic (real looking) image like we see today. Photo realistic CGI like we see today didn't exist until the late 80s early 90s.
@@tasselhoff it wasn't much better. I take it you weren't around back then? Or never played computer games from that era? I was born in 1978 and grew up in "Silicon Valley", where I still live (it's part of "The San Francisco Bay Area"). Our first computer at home when I was a kid was an IBM Personal Computer, Model 5150, released in 1981. It had an Intel 8088 at 4.77 Mhz (that's megahertz.....today's processors have clock speeds in gigahertz), with 640 KB (that's KILObyte, not gigabyte) of RAM and two 360 KB floppy disk drives. At school we had Apple //e machines. No Apple Silicon back then....and no Macintosh desktop. The Apple //e also used a command line interface and its graphics was no better than that of the IBM PC. It was an earlier machine, so it's graphics weren't quite as good as the CGA (Color graphics Adapter) card on the IBM PC. 🙂The IBM PC, btw, is why we call desktop computers "PCs". Even a Cray (not Kray) supercomputer could not do photo-realistic graphics in the late 70s. 🙂 bear in mind, 1977-1982 is five years, which is a major leap in the computer world. 🙂 The EGA adapter was released in 1984 at the same time as the PC/AT (which had an 80286, much faster than an 8088), and was worlds beyond CGA. 1984 was also when the Apple Macintosh came out, which had a Graphical User Interface. (the first Graphical User Interface was invented at a place called PARC, Palo Alto Research Center, and both Windows and Mac were expanding on what they created. PARC also created the mouse and Ethernet and many other things.)
Check out Tron if you want to see some early CGI. And there's much less CGI in it than you'd think. But there is a TON of labor-intensive rotoscoping to suggest a computerized world.
I think it was made in a similar way as the 1981 movie Escape from NY where the wire frame model was made with fluorescent tape on a real world scale model and UV light and they simply flow the camera throw the model. In the case of Escape from NY they simply displayed it on a CRT as a video recording, in Tron they did a bit more magic.
@@scottb3034 one scene doesn’t really count as much of a movie, and in ANH it’s not really even a scene. When I was last around HP there were a few former Cray folks around that remembered building the machine for Digital Productions (the company).
Definitely! Rogue one is up there with episodes 3.5.6 in my opinion! R1 For me it goes 6, 5, 3, R1 as my favorites and the ranking sometimes change but they are always top 4 (Mt Rushmore of SW lol)
@@daveesmond1634 Richard E Grant was in Rogue One and was over the moon that they were using real sets and not just painting them in afterwards with effects. He loved walking onto The Death Star's deck plates!
Agree. Rogue one is an immediate prequel to episode 4. It’s also by far the best SW film released by Disney so far, but is best watched after seeing the full 4-5-6 story ark.
@@Tadpole10538 I almost completely agree. The point I have problems with in your comment is that Rogue One s not, to me, "the best SW film released by Disney so far;" it is the only good one - in fact, the only one that I even consider a legitimate SW film. I disregard all the others as bad fanfiction (and even this feels like an undeserved compliment).
what some people tend to forget is Anakin didn't know they were having twins and he thought he killed Padmé on the platform on Mustafar because the Emperor told him "it seems, in your anger, you killed her." so i'm sure he assumed his "child" didn't survive either
@@williamshelton4318 tbf Vader immediately doubted that he killed her at that moment and even firmly stated “she was alive! I *felt* it!” so he technically wasn’t wrong, however the Emperor also wasn’t wrong either since Padme died as a result of his anger (dying from a broken heart is still a dumb explanation for her death but whatever, it’s what we got) so it’s easy to assume how Vader came to the conclusions he did. Plus Padme had a very public funeral so news of her death definitely reached Vader and iirc they showed that her body was “pregnant” in the casket so it was assumed by everyone that she died with the baby, Vader and the Emperor included.
In the Darth Vader comics (which are quite good, if you haven't read them) Vader is clearly furious when he learns the pilot who destroyed the Death Star is named "Skywalker."
@@williamshelton4318 probably the same reason why Luke couldn’t sense that Vader was his actual biological father until Vader told him to “search your [Luke’s] feelings, you [Luke] know it to be true”. Just cause you have the force doesn’t mean you’re clairvoyant enough to know everything, their were a lot of things on Anakin’s mind that occupied his focus enough to not know about having twins: the nightmares of watching Padme dying, the war effort, his frustrations with not being given the title of Jedi Master, Palpatine’s manipulations, the bits of his Dark Side seeping through, etc. Also it’s not like Anakin is the only one who didn’t know about the twins until the delivery, every single other Jedi didn’t know either because they were all focused on other things too. It’s not that hard to believe that no one knew about the twins before they were delivered.
17:22 That was quite intentional, actually, and a nice bit of subtlety. He isn't breathing - the suit processes the external atmosphere and respiration and maintains oxygen levels directly in his bloodstream. It also uses what we would call a vocoder to enable speech, as in the original lore, his lungs and vocal cords were annihilated during the events leading up to the suit. The original novelization (1977) actually mentions in passing how unnerving that speech/"breathing" disconnect is to other officers when he speaks.
By this point, Vader does realise that Luke is his son, after the battle of Yavin he employed his own spies to track down the rebel who destroyed the Death Star, and they soon discovered his name. He now knows that his son _didn't_ die along with his wife as he had long thought, though he still doesn't know that they had twins. When Palpatine tells him that Luke is his son, he acts surprised, but he has already started plotting against him. I would most strongly recommend reading the Darth Vader comic books, if you are a fan of Vader. Also if you haven't you should really watch the Clone Wars animated series, it really fleshes out the period between the start of the Clone Wars in Episode 2, and the end of the Clone Wars in Episode 3. You get to know Anakin and Obi-wan so much better.
David Prowse really did some amazing work in this one as the "Body" for Darth Vader, I've always loved that he managed to express disappointment with just body movements when Luke jumps in that sequence and was glad to see the reaction it engendered in this video. With all the much earned love that the amazing James Earl Jones has been receiving since his passing, I just hope people don't forget there was a 6'6 English bodybuilder who had just as much to do with bringing a (eventually) very layered villain to life. RIP to a team I doubt we will ever see the likes of again because of CGI.
David Prowse as Darth Vader was underrated as a physical actor, you could see so much emotion and interpretation in his body language and presence. Also, David gave Vader such a distinctive walk, dignity grace, swagger, a majestic, regal elegance to him, regardless of being evil or the antagonist. James Earls Jones's voice added perfectly to David Prowse physicality. Good casting George Lucas!
prowse was on the way out at this point. He had to be replaced constantly in this one and completely replaced in all but 1 scene in ROTJ. He also spoiled the father twist to a crowd in 1978 even though he was just BSing. It enlarged an already big rift between Prowse and Lucas.
Sebastian Shaw is also almost completely absent now as the face of Darth Vader. They edited his face a lot and replaced him with Hayden Christensen at the end of RotJ.
Peter Mayhew who played Chewbacca was a very gentle giant of a man. Even after he passed away his wife carried on his charitable organization as per his wish and the Peter Mayhew Foundation still helps children today.
I like that you identified the similarities between Luke and Anakin abruptly leaving to save their loved ones. The six George Lucas Star Wars films actually form a composition ring, with each trilogy forming one half of the ring. Because Empire and Attack of the Clones are on opposite sides of that ring, they were made to mirror each other. There are so many parallels between the two movies. The reluctant romance, the aforementioned rash decision to leave, the chase through the asteroid field, Jango and Boba Fett each acquiring their bounty, a Skywalker losing a limb, too many to name really. Each has a giant land battle where the rebel side has to evacuate. There's even the scenes where Anakin dives out of the speeder into the underbelly of Coruscant, and Luke jumps off of the platform into the bottom of Cloud City, representing their potential moral descent. The only difference between the two is that they move in opposite directions. So the last act of Empire mirrors the first act of AOTC and so on. It's really cool to look into.
Am so fortunate to be the original target audience for this saga. Was 6 years old in 1977, and it changed my life! All the boys wanted to be Han Solo, lol. Yes, Obi-wan is dead, he has verged with The Force, the ghostly appearance is his Force Ghost. No one should be mad with you, we were lucky to be born during the OT. How much cotton candy are you going to eat, lol? Vader cannot breathe on his own, a machine in his suit breathes for him. You know your stuff, the AT-AT walkers were filmed using stop motion miniatures. You'd LOVE the Making of A New Hope and Empire, shows the birth of ILM Effects Studio. Yoda was created and voiced by Frank Oz, who also created The Muppet Show; Kermit the frog, Miss Piggy, etc. Carrie and Harrison's chemistry carried over in to real life, lol. Vader has no idea that Padme gave birth before she died. The loss of Anakin to Vader and the destruction of the Jedi left some deep scars, obviously. Yoda lives on the planet Degobah. Leia's last name is Organa, she was adopted by Breha and Senator Bail Organa. You'll have to watch The Return of the Jedi (Episode VI) to see what happens to Vader. Light sabers definitely Cauterize wounds. Vader NOT choking out an officer shows that Luke has already changed him. When are you going to watch Return of the Jedi?
Notice that in the scene on Dagobah in which Luke "fights Vader" it is Luke who draws his Lightsaber first. He attacks and Vader defends himself. Also realizing that it is his head underneath Vader's helmet already was a bit of foreshadowing the connection Luke and Vader have.
16:33 The breathing sound for Darth Vader comes from his respirator pumping the air in and out - not his lungs. That's why he can talk and breathe at the same time. 19:05 When R2 was talking to Luke in the X-Wing, Luke was reading what he said on a screen. 34:17 You missed something here from Yoda... 36:47 Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan, "daughter" of Bail Organa (played by Jimmy Smits in Episode III).
Loved the editing in this one! Also appreciate you acknowledge the small quiet acting moments. I feel like thats what makes these movies real and personal. Harrison Ford is definitely the glue in these ones. His delivery has so much range and charisma. If theres one person who's absolutely vital to this movie's heart it has to be him.
13:17 you’ve made a very good point about the lack of “show, don’t tell” in contemporary film. It’s one of the reasons that I find very few big budget studio films watchable. It always seems like they’re communicating to a bunch of children even in movies that are supposedly meant to be viewed by adults. I have no patience for that lack of sophistication. I didn’t spend 40 years reading classic literature, reading classic plays, watching classic films, and writing short fiction of my own to be addressed by some cinematic director as if I am in my first year of grammar school. It’s bobbins and I won’t stand for it.
Love your commentary and reflection as you watch this film, there’s so much in this film to enjoy and it’s beautifully written and directed. One awesome, subtle visual piece of storytelling: three times in this film, Luke is upside down, in a vulnerable position, when he learns he uses the force in a new way to engage in the situation he faces: the Wampa ice cave (the force pull on his sabre), in training with Yoda (visions of the future), and hanging below Cloud City (reaching out to Leia for help). It’s unexpected and absolutely a moment of awe and hope for both us and Luke in how the Force can be used to connect with the universe. Hope you enjoy Ep VI, and the resolution of Vader’s story!
The CGI thing is just an age difference, and I've seen similar things with other younger reactors. As an oldhead, I was around when CGI blew everyone's socks off in Jurassic Park, into Independence Day, and onto ubiquitous use in every movie until it seemed to reach another pinnacle with the LOTR trilogy. It's hard to understate how amazed audiences were by the ability to generate almost photo realistic images out of nothing. It was a huge novelty and a huge draw. Revolutionary. So to us the idea that they had that technology in the late 70's seems like such a huge anachronism that has to be pointed out. It's actually totally fine and acceptable because I would do the same thing if asked to pinpoint within 10 years technological advances that I didn't live through. For example, I can't tell within 10 years when color TV came into mainstream use compared to black and white, but for someone who lived through it I'm sure it would seem really weird to not know because it was such a big deal to their generation.
Seeing this in the theater back when it came out, and hearing Darth Vader say 'I am your father', the entire theater gasped. It was surreal. None of us knew.
YES! I have forever thought that Harrison Ford, Steve Martin and Dennis Quaid all look like they could play each other's brothers. THANK you for saying that. I thought I was the only one.
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29:56 This is what makes the OG trilogy so memorable and so personal particularly to us older fans. We grew up alongside the characters, Luke especially. We were with him through his learning, training, his failures, and ultimately his triumphs in a way we weren’t with Anakin in the prequels. And all while Luke tries to live up to the man, the myth, the legend that was his father. The connection felt between characters and audience is closer and more intimate.
I was 9 when Empire came out in theaters and it is my favorite of all the films. I love this movie for introducing me to the Imperial March, what I always refer to as Darth Vader's theme. I love all the different variations of that theme throughout the movie. Darth Vader is such an iconic villain. Rest In Peace, James Earl Jones, for bringing that voice to life. That final scene with Han and Leia, where she says I love you and he says I know, was very emotional and heartbreaking.
As someone that was a little kid who saw this in the theater when it came out, it's such a joy to see someone young see it for the first time. My grandson saw all of them for the first time last month and he watched em with his paw paw. We got him a little lightsaber and he loves swinging it around at the dogs.
One of my favorite aspects of the prequels is Anakin sensing the pain of his loved ones from across the galaxy and from the future. That shows where he gets the idea to trap Luke by just torturing his friends.
When you talked about the right mentality in an audition, I remember something I heard about the auditions for New Hope: Mark Hamil's audition was a scene with Luke and Han in the Falcon's cockpit. Mark thought he was auditioning for a supporting role (assuming Harrison Ford was going to play the lead character) and Harrison thought he was there to help with the audition, since he hadn't been offered the part yet. I don't know how much of this story is accurate and how much is hearsay, but I wanted to but it out there anyway.
One thing people seem to forget is that Star Wars is a fantasy world. You throw physics out the window while watching it (even though we all want a lightsaber). How does Vader talk and breathe at the same time? Star Wars biology : )
The tank Luke was healing in was called a Bacta Tank. In the Star Wars universe you will see it being utilized for accelerated healing. Also, the sound you hear is not Vader breathing, but the sound of his respirator pumping oxygen in and sucking out carbon dioxide. According to the books, his lungs were damaged when they were burned so he was not actually breathing. The suit serves as a mechanical iron lung breathing for him. This is why he can talk while the sound is happening. Vader does not inhale or exhale from his nose or mouth. I didn’t come up with it. That’s just how it’s explained in the books. I’m sure they could have written it after so many people mentioned it in their own observations of the original trilogy.
Vader’s suit had automatic breathing system because after he got burnt he couldn’t breathe on his own. His breath was from the machine that provides him the oxygen. “He was more a machine than man”
This was a fun watch! I'm glad you liked the movie as it is also my favorite of all the Star Wars movies. I highly recommend the next movie even if you don't make a reaction video. Thanks Beca!
Lucas's attention to the smallest details is what makes these movies so great. Like the scene where Lando is on the lift to the upper hatch of the Falcon as they rescue Luke at Cloud City, and he actually has a safety harness he attaches/detaches as he goes up and out the hatch. The fact that Lucas included this makes the scene so much more realistic. And the fact Lando knows exactly where and when to attach them makes perfect sense, since the Falcon was his before Han won it. Just incredible insight and directing there in those 2 seconds!
It should be pointed out that Irvin Kershner directed this one, not George Lucas. Lucas was the executive producer and left the directorial vision to Kershner, while Lucas focused on the visual effects with ILM. So, the on-set attention to detail should be credited to Kershner.
My daughter is 25 now and grew up with me showing her the SW movies. One time, we sat down with Empire and took screenshots of every great shot in the movie. The color palettes, cinematography, compositions, set design, and costuming - all gorgeous, like conceptual paintings brought to life. It outshines all the other films in this way.
I just found your channel, and love it. As someone who saw Star Wars (not yet called A New Hope) 7 times in the cinema in 1977 as a 7 year old, the flak you got was assuming some practical shots were CGI. You watched the version that does have some shots added later that were CGI (notably the Jabba insert) but the ones you often noted were miniatures and practical effects. That said, keep doing what you're doing. I would just suggest checking the year of realease, etc., to avoid wondering when Indiana Jones was made or who the "original" actor was (it was Alec Guiness). But I'm subscribed.
"You can't breathe in and talk like that!" Sure, you can... if you've got a mechanically augmented respiratory system. The breathing you hear is part of Vader's life support system, mechanical lungs that carry out the molecular processes that his organic lungs can no longer do, being too scarred from inhaling searing gasses on Mustafar. However, they are at least capable of simply pushing air around, which is enough for speech.
This comment made me do so research out of curiosity. Seems like people are very split. Some compare it to being like an iron lung or chest ventilator. However, some still argue that due to air going through the trachea in both of those devices that you still wouldn’t be able to breathe in like that and talk at the same time. Some claim George Lucas intended the sound design to be this way on purpose, while others are saying it’s just a post production error. I can’t seem to find an actual solid answer. Likely due to it being a fictional life support system. So in that case, it is allowed to do whatever it wants 😊
I figured the respirator would have an intake separate from the trachea, perhaps vents going straight from the grate on the mask to the artificial 'lungs'. That would allow breathing and speaking to take place completely independently of each other. That there was a difference in how it was handled between the movies can be explained away with upgrades to the suit in the interim.
@@znk0r Since you need it explained more clearly... Darth Vader has, essentially, has two sets of lungs that function independently of each other. Artificial lungs with their own vents bypassing the trachea to intake oxygen and export CO2; and what is left of his organic lungs which are too damaged to do anything other than move air past his vocal cords.
Great reaction! And very very accurate commentary regarding the "show don't tell" scene of Luke in the healing tube. Though, unfortunately poignant. I agree film condescends to its audience far more than in the past. Not just in the way of too much exposition, but even in regards to moral/political themes. Writing or the characters very overtly telling the audience that a character is bad, or that a behavior/attitude is bad, or how the audience should feel. There were some recent movies where I am fairly certain the film's primary objective was to educate the audience on a political agenda of the writers, (poorly) disguised and delivered in the form of a not-explicitly-political film. Sucks. I wonder if it's simply a film making culture change, or, the industry's response to people today being more daft, shorter attention spans, etc. Likely the latter, but I want to believe it not.
Take a look at 40:13 -ish. In one of my favorite shots, they have their sabers locked at the far left. Vader's red saber over the blue background. Luke's blue saber coming from him on the warmer setting to the right. Follow Luke's saber down to where the jet of steam leads back up to the hose. I mean, just LOOK at that composition and framing. It's masterful. Now watch your eyes as you take it in. You totally trace that line of composition and back, soaking it all in. It's only on screen for two seconds, but it's so impactful. There's another shot soon after where 80% of the screen is steam, and they're in a little window in the upper left.
Mark Hamill (Luke) looks different here, because he had a car crash before filming this. He needed some plastic surgery on his face and you can see some scars. Then they used the yeti plot to make sense of it.
The severity of the crash has been wildly exaggerated over the years, though - Mark even clarified it fairly recently. The truth is that his biggest injury was most of his nose being destroyed, so they took some of the cartilage from his elbow and made him a new one. But since the nose is a very central component of a person's face, any change can alter people's perception. For a similar example, just look at Jennifer Grey; she had two nose jobs in the 1990s and no one recognized her afterward. As a result, her career went downhill.
You should watch "Empire of Dreams" after you've finished this trilogy. It's a documentary about how these movies were made, and since you seem to be into the technical side of things, I think you'd really enjoy it. Also, these are the "updated" versions of these movies. If you'd like to check out the original theatrical versions, look for "Harmy's De-Specialized" editions. If you happen to have a VHS player in your home, you may be able to find the "THX" versions of them, pre "Special Edition" on that format at a charity shop. There IS a "limited edition" DVD set that has the original theatrical releases of all three movies (as "bonus content"), but you'll have a deuce of a time finding them. Something else to put on your "to watch" list should be the movie "Fanboys". It is a companion movie to the Original Trilogy that takes place in our universe in 1999, right before Episode I comes out. While I know you've seen them, I will tell you that there are no spoilers for Episode I in Fanboys. It's just a really good movie, and the film makes actually got Lucas' permission due to the Star Wars and THX-1138 references, as well as the cameos involved. But George Lucas always allowed "us" to "play in his sandbox" of Star Wars.
Also.... I think it's awesome you saw the prequels first.... you are literally the first reaction channel I have ever seen that is watching the OT after watching the prequels and that is something.
@@IDieHardForever Really? "That Nerd Tara" went in chronological order for her first watch. She went in with minimal knowledge of the franchise, and what little she did know, she didn't know the context of.
Keep in mind that Vader knew he might have 'a' child. He didn't know Padmé was expecting twins - I'm not even sure if she knew. Luke is easy to identify, once Vader knows where he's from. He grew up as a Skywalker and with Anakin's stepbrother while Leia was adopted fully, including changing her last name. So Vader thinks he has found his child when he identifies Luke as a Skywalker and his son. He doesn't know he should be looking for more people.
Note that at Padme's funeral they made her corpse appear pregnant: officially she never gave birth and Anakin/Vader had no children. He had no idea of Luke's existence until the Emperor told him. Of course, that opens another can of worms, as in "How did the Emperor know"? I suppose one could postulate that after Yavin Imperial intelligence picked up the name Luke Skywalker.
@@Phatooine Yet, they always referred to one child in "Revenge of the Sith", so it is possible that at least Anakin didn't know. Anakin didn't sense the pregnancy before Padmé told him - it would make sense that not all Jedi can do the same with the Force. A healer would have sensed the children, but Anakin isn't trained as a healer, he's a fighter. Luke has the same colouring as his father and the same last name, not to mention he grew up with Anakin's stepbrother on the planet where Anakin spent most of his life before the order. Leia's colouring is similar to Padmé's, but she was fully adopted and known to people as the daughter of Bail and Breha Organa who looked similar enough to her to be her parents. She's presumably never been to Tatooine in her life and had no connection to her step-aunt and -uncle. It is possible that Vader wouldn't have known. Production-wise, a lot of this is simply-speaking due to the development of the lore during the production of the movies. Luke didn't get a sister until "Return of the Jedi" and it was originally meant to be another character entirely. When they filmed "A New Hope", Vader and Anakin were still two different people and Vader really killed Anakin - no 'from a certain point of view' necessary.
@@solicitr666 Given that Luke apparently applied for the Imperial Academy several times, but had to withdraw each time, that wouldn't have been hard to figure out.
The term 'Sith' for dark Jedi had not been invented in this original trilogy. 36:55 Carrie Fisher has some great haristyles in these movies. People mostly seem to remember the 'space buns' she had for most of 'A New Hope' but they never appear again, she has a variety of other styles. I do like these braids. It is one of the best known Mandela effect misquotes. There is no-one else there, he doesn't have to say 'Luke' and you're right about the different emphasis, it makes more sense in context than the way it is usually said. 47:43 A large number of, but not all, prosthetics are made to look like real flesh as much as is possible by the material science. Stat Wars tech is obviously far more advanced with prosthetic hands that look real and can feel and grip like real hands.
George did have the term Sith in one of his first SW drafts, he just didn't think he needed to put that term into the original trilogy so brought it in for the prequels, along with Mace Windu (who laughingly was called Windy in that draft).
The term Sith was in a lot of stuff like the novelization, and the toys. As a kid we all knew that Darth Vader was a "Dark Lord of the Sith", we just had no idea what that meant.
@@kevinkuenn5733 Also we did have access to more information than was in the 3 movies (and what was trickled out with toys) from the trading cards. A lot of those had tidbits of information, lore, character & vehicle blurbs, etc. I think (at least by the time the RotJ cards came around, if not before) we knew about the fight on the volcanic planet of Musafar where Vader was maimed. In the most vague of terms, mind you, probably not much more than what I typed. But (like the Clone Wars) it was so vague that the versions we created in our heads from the nibbles of info turned out to be vastly cooler than what Lucas ended up giving us.
At the end of Ep.3, Yoda tells Obi-Wan that Qui-Gon had learned how to come back from the netherworld of the Force and that he will train him how to commune with Qui-Gon. So retaining identity after death was part of that training.
You have a lot of great takes - the show don't tell, the slower pace, quiet moments, the writing, the non-verbal acting. It all contributes to why this is the best film of the franchise. Imagine if Kershner and Kasdan actually decided to work on the prequels.
The Lightsaber cauterizes the wounds which is why no one bleeds when they get slashed, stabbed or cut with a lightsaber. Also the technology had improved by the time Luke lost his hand they gave him a robotic hand which mimics a real hand which is why Luke felt pain when the MD droid tested his response.
This movie is my favorite of all Star Wars ever :D I first saw it as a kid and it's so gratifying seeing someone have the same scare with the monster on the windshield HAHAHA also I love your insights giving your knowledge about acting and filmmaking. Keep em coming! :)
17:29 "You can't breath in and talk like that" Well, you can, if it's an external device oxygenating your blood, and not you breathing. Fun fact, the panel on Vader's chest is, among other things, a control panel for his respiratory system.
George had a treatment for one story. That story was then refined and broken up into parts. Star Wars 1977 was the part he went with for his movie. There was no plan for a sequel, that is why the Death Star was destroyed it needed finality. As a condition of making it, he (George) made sure that he had all the rights to make sequels. However he had no idea how big his movie was going to get. The original sequel to Star Wars was called Splinter of the Mind's Eye. the only returning characters would be the droids, Luke, Leia, and Vader. Since there was no promise Harrison Ford would return. Either he wouldn't do it or he cost too much. When star Wars became the huge hit, it was re branded EP 4 A New Hope. And the serialization that George loved as a kid could be remade in a big way. During this process, George had a treatment for a 6 movie saga. None of which would be set in the prequal era. And even more ambitious was his dream. The Lucasfilm ranch would be a massive workshop for aspiring and currently working filmmakers to test and develop new technology and techniques and make creative movies free from the Hollywood system all with Star Wars as it's heart. Each film after the original would have a different director and the special effects teams would only get more talented. The whole of the project would be headed up by George himself and he would direct the last movie. The first trilogy, would be Luke saving the Rebellion and ultimately killing Darth Vader. The next three films would center around him searching for his long lost sister and together they would defeat the Emperor. ESB had an impressive budget. Much better than the film in 77'. However there where problems. A lot of problems. The on location shooting in Norway was a nightmare. The coldest winter on record caused a lot of costly delays and frostbite. Then the story itself had a lot of fat to trim. Luke would visit 3 worlds. Each one he would learn and be tested by a different Jedi Master. Yoda, Obi-Wan, and the ghost of his father. Planning for those sequences proved to be one hell of an expensive venture. So the three planets where turned to one, and Luke would train under the masters there. But another problem, run time. Luke still needed to fight Vader and his New Super Commandos. So George had the idea to combine the two characters, Anakin and Vader. This sparked a whole new set of ideas in the man. A new trilogy about how a Jedi Knight becomes Darth Vader. The Super Commando costume was pretty expensive to mass produce considering he had to find a new prop house for all the blasters and lightsabers and such. Even the Stormtroopers got new armor and materials, So the Super Commando suit was then painted and weathered into the bounty hunter Bobba Fett. Mandalorian Lore came out months after the release of Ep 5. The rest is history. Or it would have been if George wasn't destroyed by the unions. Empire Strikes back was a monumental success. However, he kept all the into to his films the same. This was to emulate the since of continuity from those serials of the 40's and 50's. But since he had not put Kushner's name at the beginning of Empire, he was sued, fined, and kicked from the Writer's and Director's guilds. all that work his dream of using the ranch for more than just his projects a place free of Hollywood bureaucracy, his 9 movie saga, all dashed by 12 pieces of paper. This meant that he couldn't hire Steven Spielberg to direct Jedi. Nor could he hire any guild director. George had to micro manage that production. He began to crack the whip and anyone would tell you he was more like a corporate stooge than a visionary director. This also meant that episode 6 would be the last of the series. So Luke's sister had to be revealed in that movie. Jedi had a lot going in it. Luke needed to find his sister, fight Vader and the Emperor, and get the girl without taking too much screen time from Carrie Fisher. George found his solution by going back to the production of Empire. Luke does not get the girl, Han does. Nihils Skywalker is combined with Leia. So that's the real reason for all the sexual tension be tween the two. They where made siblings out of necessity. After Jedi, George stayed out of the spotlight. assisting on other people's projects and further developing filmmaking technology ILM, SKywalker Sound, and THX. then after big hits like Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park, George thought maybe then technology was caught up with his idea of a galaxy far far away after he put to words "No! I am your father." But before he started working he needed to see for himself if Star Wars still had a market. He went back to his original three films and added changes and effects while digitally enhancing the picture and sound. The Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition which where brought to theaters in 97'. The VHS came out a few months later. Side Note: We bought those tapes and was watching them the night Princess Di was killed. Anyway, The success of the re-release, toy sales, and such put George and his team to work on his second trilogy which would feature CGI assets like the Imperial capital. There are a lot of details that go along with the making if the original trilogy and I'll probably add those when you get to RotJ.
Splinter of the Mind's Eye also stated that Vader lost his right hand as punishment for the destruction of the Death Star. Ford had a very bad reaction to what Star Wars did to his privacy and the fact that he and the other actors got nothing from merchandising and he was pissed about it. He's still bitter about both losing his privacy and the loss of the millions and millions of dollars in merchandising rights. He was asked about all the toys and whatnot and about how his cut must be substantial and his reply was, "I got bubkus."
@@Falcun21 at the time, toys based on films rarely made a large profit. With the exception of films, like planet of the apes. Toys was the last thing on any productions mind at the time. For George, it was how he was going to fund the proposed sequels that would probably never happen will be too cheap to make. On top of that Kenner got the lion’s share the deal. George himself didn’t get that much out of it. Those would be re-negotiated after the release of Empire. For negligible fee, all the actors signed the way their likenesses. At the time Harrison Ford’s career really didn’t kick off yet until after the first film and wall would be nice that he would get a piece of that merch money. I think he was a lot better off in the multitude of films he between 1980 and today. Unlike his costars whose film credits pretty much stop in the 90’s.
Many of us who were kids when the original movies came out also like Empire most of all. Everything came together to tell a story where the heroes take a good swift kick, come out with all new motivations, and yet still even at the end there is a feeling of hope. That's the magic of it and everything just came together in a way that's hard to match. Great to see your reaction to it.
One of the best cliffhangers of all-time. Yes, I've heard some people see flaws in the plot of "Empire" because the story doesn't have an "ending", etc etc., but you have to remember that in 1980 you'd have to wait 3 years to resolve the cliffhanger!!
Cool reaction. I’m so glad I saw these 3 movies before I saw the prequels. Until you saw it in the theatre, you had absolutely no idea that Bader was his father. Seeing the prequels first has to take away the magic of the “I’m your father” moment.
On the day of filming, the only people who knew that the line was "No, I am your father." were George Lucas, director Irvin Kershner, and Mark Hamil who was told earlier that day. The line in the script and spoken by David Prowse on set was "Obi-Wan killed your father."
Also I'm sure you noticed at the time, but the scene where Vader talks to the Emperor has been re-edited since 1980. When they were filming this, Lucas was still figuring out exactly how powerful Palpatine actually was; in addition, Ian McDiarmid was not yet cast in the role. So, in the original version of that scene, the Emperor had a much more uncanny appearance, with a man's voice dubbed over footage of an older woman, whose face also had a chimpanzee face partially superimposed over hers. His dialogue was slightly different, too. Lucas is known for having an almost-crippling sense of perfectionism with the original trilogy, always seeing places he wishes he could have done things better, and this was no exception. The funny thing is, it's _still_ inconsistent, because McDiarmid's make-up is very obviously from _Revenge of the Sith_
Vader is a very cold and calculating individual much more than he was as Anakin and more mature he doesn't kill for failure only what he deems as extreme incompetence on those who serve and serving a warning to the next one
'I read it on the Internet'. An all-time classic answer. This version is the special edition,, or what was the special edition, and does use CGI and practical effects Great channel BTW. Looking forward to seeing more of your Star Wars journey. The sound track to Empire is phenomenal.
In defence of Vader’s breathing sounds I like to think that it’s not actually supposed to be synced with his breathing like a diving regulator but is simply an automated system that draws air into his helmet and probably concentrates oxygen to a higher level because he requires it. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Your glee at Vaders reaction to Luke deciding he'd rather fall than even remotely humor the idea he'd join with Vader was great because you know Anakin. After the prequels and subsequent material painted a picture of Anakin, that reaction was kinda memed as Anakin popping out in to the Vader persona, basically going "I really don't know what I expected." I also like to think that it's Anakin popping up as well when he says "impressive. Most impressive." Like, he really does sound kinda proud.
Well, it was the original Star Wars reactions what lead to me finding your channel, so was glad to see it continue. Also, glad to hear that you saw Return of the Jedi as well, so I'll know that is coming up at some point. As for which I like better, story wise, I'll say Empire Strikes Back, but Return of the Jedi I'll say shaped me the most into the woman I am today. The gold bikini, when I was a little girl watching it on the old VHS Tape that mum and dad had, and seeing that was when I started to realize that I liked other women in a different kind of way. So Return of the Jedi also holds a significance to me as well. As for the misquoting, I blame Pop Culture for misquoting that line and saying "Luke, I am your father" rather than the correct line of "No, I am your father." Anyways, I enjoyed this, and looking forward to your reaction to Return of the Jedi dropping. Thank you so very much for this.
Thanks so much for the generous tip! ❤️ so so kind of you. I can get that. Honestly, I just love the major themes across all the films. So, I don’t hate the sequels. I can understand why people were upset with them though. ☺️
Any other villain saying, "Don't make me destroy you" would sound cheesy or cliche. When Vader says it, we're like, "Holy $#!&! We won't! We promise! We won't make you destroy us! Please!"
I personally think the believability of Han and Leia's on-screen romance is partly due to the fact that Harrison had an extramarital affair with Carrie during production of "A New Hope". If I recall correctly, it had ended by the time "Empire" was made, but as actors they probably drew on their own memories to sell the emotions of the characters.
As someone who grew up with the OT I'm happy you got to experience Star Wars the way you did. its unique and I like that. I always wondered what it would be like for someone to experience Star Wars in chronological order.
One thing that never gets mentioned, when Luke first lands on Dagobah and Yoda appears and gets in to the fight with R2, both R2 and Yoda knew who each other were and still had their play fight with R2 keeping up Yoda's ruse
The tank that Luke was in is called a bacta tank. Quote from Wookieepedia : "Bacta was an organic chemical substance that consisted of gelatinous, translucent red alazhi and kavam bacterial particles that were mixed within a colorless, viscous fluid known as ambori. When a patient was exposed to bacta, the bacterial particles within sought out wounds and promoted rapid tissue regeneration while preventing the emergence of scar tissue. Bacta was often thought of as a "miracle fluid" and seemed to be effective against almost every type of injury and ailment across an incredible cross-section of species throughout the galaxy. It was considered the best medicine available anywhere, replacing the previously used kolto. "
My thing: the films were written to be watched chronologically, I believe. The 'death sticks' in Phantom Menace, is essentially a recap of 'not the droids you are looking for.' But, people watch it how they watch it.
I'm a bit late to this party , but here we go.. this is my favorite reaction that I've seen yet, and here's why.. I don't know how many times I've seen these movies or I can't remember when I seen them for the first time, The OG Star Wars trilogy was a staple, watched and rewatched by those of whom I was raised by, and when I was a kid I didn't like the Empire Strikes Back because of the doom and gloom, but now it's my favorite, and now definitely close to my heart. Now seeing somebody watch it for the first time and hearing them speak of the sets, the views, the sounds, the story, the romance... and enjoying it so much is awesome. Enjoyment simply is what matters with these movies. btw, I'm related to that guy using Leia as a shield..
Thing about the next movie, Luke was to spend a portion of it going off to find his sister, who was NOT princess Leia, it was someone else, which is why in these first two movies they were teasing a possible romance between them. Part way through the production of the third movie it was changed to the storyline we all know today.
oh boy you are right kids today.. The 20 year old kids they keep calling special effects cgi which bugs me. But even dumber is the idea that cgi is fake and there for bad because you can tell its not real , here's the thing, nothing is real in any movie and you can always tell. Farther more sequels, remakes, adaptation, prequels, recasts, gender flip, race swap, nudity, product placement, nostalgia, references, all the things we hate its all not new. The things we hate in films like copping the first one, nostalgia baiting, cast changes, not crediting actors, using there likeness with out permission, crunch time, abuse, its all in some of the best movies ever made.
Regarding breathing in while speaking, that is actually how John Rhys-Davies did the voice of Treebeard in LotR using a wooden megaphone to amplify the sound
Star Wars has always filmed in interesting locations. The major location in this film was Norway, in Winter. The Prequels used Tunisia, Italy, Thailand -even with all the digital. A fun story told by Mark Hamill, when filming on the complex set for Deborah, in studio in London - he had an ear-pod, of the time, to hear directions and the voice of Yoda. Mark's ear=bud-thing was interrupted by BBC Radio at one point, and he heard The Rolling Stones, a song "Fool to Cry", and he exclaimed "Hey, I hear The Stones!" and he gets a call to get back into character.
@@Falcun21 And when Mark H' is in the snow, seeing the spirit of Obi-Wan, it was just outside the hotel. They had to film something, to keep the production up - strong Winter, so he went out the door of the hotel, basic film crew - back in the hotel.
It is the Mandela effect. “Luke, I am your father” is probably the most misremembered line in cinema since it is actually, “no, I am your father.” So much so that in the movie Tommy Boy with Chris Farley, he actually is joking around in the movie and talks into a desk fan and says the wrong line (you know how desk fans change your voice). What’s crazy is that the movie was extremely popular and it is believed to have helped propel the misquoted line even more since it did so well as a home video release at the time. Hopefully we won’t have to wait as long for the final one. Been waiting forever because I enjoyed the first reaction so much haha When you get done with the series, you have to watch the comedy Spaceballs since it heavily is inspired by the OG Star Wars movies and themes. I promise I won’t be the only one suggesting this. Directed by Mel Brooks. It’s a very beloved parody.
Although Luke's understanding of Artoo's beeps grew over the years, in this case he was reading the translation on the X-Wing's display screen. (When Luke and Artoo were escaping Hoth)
I dub thee ChewBeca
@BearIslandComics is almost as pretty as Chewie! Almost!
in 1980, there were no spoilers, no internet, no way to find out the big twist. When that line came from Vader, it was like all the oxygen was sucked from the theatre at once. Nobody could believe it. After it was over, a bunch of people gathered out in the parking lot outside the theatre and had a furious discussion about whether it was true, or whether Vader was lying to convince Luke to switch. It would be literally years before we'd get the answer. Going to movies was better then.
that's how it is. I was 8 years old, and I remember coming home from the movie with my father and brother, talking about whether it was true that Vader was their father. It took years to resolve it.
Fun fact, because of many people thought Vader could be lying, in "Return of the Jedi" Lucas added the small exchange in which Yoda confirms that, indeed, it was true. Since Yoda was a character that everyone trusted, it was the best way to erase any lingering doubts.
That sound is NOT his "breathing" through the mask, it's his ventilator cycling oxygen to his severely damaged lungs!
What is the internal temperature of a TaunTaun?
Answer:
Luke warm.
laugh it up, fuzzballs
i hope you saw yourself out after that one....
And I thought that joke stunk... _on the outside!_
Badum tish!
- Leia's last name is Organa. Her adopted father was Bail Organa.
- A wound that is closed by burning is called "cauterized."
- Cool thing about Luke: he never narc'd on Yoda teaching him; he kept his existence a secret.
- Han & Leia's chemistry is good for a reason. Ford & Fisher had an affair in '77 during Episode IV.
- Lando couldn't warn Han without tipping off Vader; so he tried to keep Han from landing.
- Lucas said that Luke's fall is what took the wind out of Vader's sails. Realizing his son would rather die than join him only highlighted to him what he was: a broken man who has gone all-in on the wrong decisions and lost everything because of it. After that, he wasn't the same Sith Lord he'd been up until that point, and you can actually see a loss of confidence in him from here on out.
You also see a change in Vader's moral state of mind. As after the Falcon jumps to light speed and escapes the officer who replaced the general that Vader killed for failing thought he was about to be killed too But Vader just turns and walks out of the room.
Poor Anakin couldn’t convince Padme to rule the galaxy as a family thing and tries it again with Luke.
@@raymondsmith7993 Actually, that was kind of in keeping with who he was. It's canon that Boba Fett killed Owen and Beru, but Vader didn't kill him because he blamed himself for not telling Fett "no disintegrations" earlier. The Falcon taking off is something similar: Piet did as he was told and they actually almost caught them. In fact, just before they jump, Vader directly asks Piet if his men shut off the hyperdrive and he said they did, and he started getting a boarding party ready--Vader even said "Good" when he was told. So Piet didn't really fail because he carried out orders without resistance.
I still think you're right because Vader is clearly distracted at the end, but also Piet had repeatedly shown that he was obedient and for the most part, competent. This pays off in JEDI twice.
Regarding Luke not mentioning yoda, I believe in the novelization of ROTJ, Palpatine asks Luke who trained him after Obi Wan died, and Luke refused to say anything, but Sidious peered into his mind with the force and saw that it was yoda and that he recently died, which the emperor uses to taunt Luke.
wow! I never heard that before about Lando keeping Han from landing but it does make sense as to why they fired at him and Lando coming out to greet him. That is great!
"No one ever showed me the originals." You need to sit down with all the adults in your life, or rather the adults who were around when you were nine and have a long talk with them about their parenting styles...ROFL.
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Haha yeah….my dad showed me Star Wars at a very early age
Something tells me otherwise. Like most reaction channels... characters all.
Amen!
I'm a star wars movies plus games fan been playing the old republic since 2011 saw the original star wars movies on vhs way back when sorry for getting off topic.
16:40 his breathing is supported by his suit. It’s like a ventilator that breathes for him
Yep, his lungs were severely damaged by fire and smoke on Mustafar, along with virtually everything else. As a result, Vader's probably 75% artificial, at the very least. When George created General Grevious for "Revenge of the Sith", it was meant as a deliberate foreshadowing of what Anakin would become.
Approved, I'm glad someone pointed that out.
@@Moviefan2k4 nah, man! 2/3rd's of his body! 66%! (missed opportunity!)
Who cares.
@@pseudohacker I do.
Just imagine....we old farts who grew up with the originals had to wait 3 years to see what happened to Han!
I fortunately only had to wait until next morning.
I am so grateful to my friend's parents to let us 10-year olds binge watch them all over the weekend I was staying over.
Haha
Not sure if anyone has said, but Luke's X-Wing has a translation readout of what R2-D2 is saying. You see a brief shot of words printing on a screen on the instrument panel that Luke is looking at while R2 is beeping away. That's how an astromech droid communicates with the pilot of the craft and how Luke could understand R2 while in his X-Wing.
Vader and the Emperor really do see Anakin as gone and Darth Vader being who has taken his place.
Leia is Princes Leia Organa of Alderaan, adopted daughter of Breha Organa, queen of Alderaan, and her husband Bail Prestor-Organa, Republic senator, Imperial senator and Rebel spy.
"No. I am your father." is one of the most frequently misquoted lines in cinema. Along with the likes of "We're gonna need a bigger boat." instead of "You're gonna need a bigger boat." in Jaws.
Since you said you filmed these three reactions before releasing any of them. I will point out the key difference between Anakin and Luke. When Anakin feels the rage, he leans into it. When Luke does, he backs off from it and chooses peace. In fact Luke either 'wins' or at least 'doesn't lose' in each of the three original trilogy movies by letting go and trusting in something or someone other than himself. Sometimes because he's convinced it is the right path, others convinced it is his only choice.
ROTJ
If you say “Luke, I am your father”, you’re actually quoting Tommy Boy.
@@RandomNonsense1985 Chris Farley and David Spade. In a van down by the river!!! I just hope ROTJ is done great.
@17:30, That WAS indeed described as Vader's meditation chamber. It's supposed be where he not only meditates, but where, when it closed and pressurized, he can remove his helmet and mask. He can breathe and talk at the same time because his mechanical respirator does the breathing for him.
@18:03. Yes, that was stop-motion animation for the Imperial Walkers.
@19:15, You can see that Luke has a screen that translates what Artoo is saying for him. Even if Luke COULD understand Artoo's language, there's literally no way he could hear it as Artoo is riding in open space and Luke is in the cockpit.
@25:02. When Jedi disappear upon death, it's they're literally becoming a part of the Force itself. In "Revenge of the Sith", Yoda implies that he's made contact with Qui-Gon who has learned it and can pass the knowledge on. In the novelization, Yoda is meditating about the fall of the Jedi and asks into the Force what is next. The text reads that the Force answers in the voice of Qui-Gon Jinn. This is an act of willful giving oneself to the Force, and is something only that happens in the Light Side. Thus, the Sith have no knowledge of it. (That's why Vader and Palpatine both are unaware that Obi-Wan is still in touch with Luke.)
@25:21, Vader knows full well that Luke is his son. That's why he's been trying to hard to find him. However, he's playing dumb for Palpatine. (I mean, the name Skywalker would give it away. Plus, the fact that Luke comes from Tatooine and was raised by his step-brother.) Vader's plan at this moment is to turn Luke to the Dark Side so together they can overthrow Palpatine. However, Vader is definitely still ignorant that Leia is his daughter. (I believe that nobody knew that Leia had been adopted by Bail Organa. Anyone outside of his inner circle, I believe, thought Leia was Bail's biological child.)
@30:00, Luke seeing his own face was the warning of how he could suffer the same fate as his father.
@36:51, Leia's last name is Organa. (I know it wasn't mentioned in any of the Original Trilogy films, but it was in the novelizations and action figure packages). She was adopted by Bail Organa of Alderaan.
@39:20, What just happened was Lando contacted his aide, Lobot (the guy with the headpiece) to arrange an ambush of the Imperial troops by members of Bespin's security force. Lando clearly had realized that he'd made a mistake in trusting Vader to keep his word (that he'd leave Bespin alone if Lando helped him) and has decided that their only chance is to make a break for it.
@40:36, You'll have to watch "Return of the Jedi" to see what happens with Vader. And, the lightsaber fight was far better. In this film a different actor stood in for Vader in the lightsaber battle. Bob Anderson, a trained fencer, stood in for David Prowse. In ANH, Prowse (who was a champion weightlifter and bodybuilder) didn't have the fluid style Vader was supposed to have (as he wasn't a trained swordsman or fencer). For the next two films, Anderson wore the costume during the lightsaber fight scenes.
@43:38, "Luke, I am your father." is a common misquote by fans who saw it. Interesting fact, the shooting script had a false page in. In the script, Vader's line was that Obi-Wan killed Luke's father. The only people who knew the truth were George Lucas and Irwin Kershner, the director. (This was done to keep the big secret of the film under wraps.) Right before they rolled the cameras, they told Mark Hamill what the line was REALLY supposed to be, so he'd react properly. After that, the only other person who knew was James Earl Jones, when he recorded Vader's voice for the scene. On set, David Prowse, who played Vader, did the fake line (Prowse did all of Vader's lines to cue the other actors, for pacing and so they'd know where to insert Jones' dubs.) and he himself only learned the truth when he saw the film at the premier. (Supposedly he said that he'd wished he'd known so he'd have used different body language.)
@44:26, Luke makes the decision to die rather than join his father in the Dark Side.
@45:15, Luke wasn't using the Force. He was just drawn into an exhaust tube. (Now, the Force might have been doing that, but Luke wasn't in the driver's seat at that point.)
@45:35, That's exactly right. The lightsaber instantly cauterizes the wound.
@48:39, Yes, ESB (Ep V) is generally considered superior to ANH (Ep IV). I'm really looking forward to your take on watching ROTJ.
I hope you've found my comments helpful. :-D
When you look back at Westworld, that wasn't really computer GENERATED imagery - it was a mosaic of 2D images manually put together to simulate robot vision. The first movie to use actual *generated* imagery for narrative content was TRON. Star Trek II had an sequence depicting a world forming that was computer generated. Young Sherlock Holmes had the first polygonal character (a stained-glass knight) for which it won an Oscar.
The real technical achievement with the first Star Wars films was using computers to control the camera motion - allowing complex shots of models. John Dykstra was behind that, primarily.
43:40
That’s like the fact that Kirk never once said “Scotty, beam me up!” nor “Beam me up, Scotty!”
For Star Wars references, the addition of ‘Luke’ was an early way for people to reference that scene and make it clear that it’s a Star Wars phrase. You could easily say the correct line nowadays of “No. I am your father.” and people would immediately get it.
Hey there, just for reference, Kirk does say "Scotty, beam me up" in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, as you can see in this short clip ... th-cam.com/video/west2PFD0D4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=nLwQKvgrgSwS61-N
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Yeah, but the Mandela Effect had already taken hold long before that came out. The dialogue was clearly a nod to the pop culture, like the fan service in Attack Of The Clones where Jango bangs his head on Slave I’s hatch.
You’re correct on George’s style of not explaining too much.
It goes all the way to the very first movie. I had seen sci-fi at that point in ‘77, and admittedly I was just a kid of around 9 years old so my frame of reference is limited, but within about 5-10 minutes we had a stormtrooper declare “Look, sir! Droids!” whilst holding up a man-made object.
At that point I’d heard of robots, I’d heard of androids, I may have even heard of cyborgs. But I’d never heard anyone call androids ‘droids’.
It needed no explanation. We just suddenly had a new piece of jargon in our head and we didn’t think twice. The term gets used constantly in the Star Wars universe, and if you think about it, you’ve probably never heard it in any other story or franchise. You wouldn’t use the term in talking about the robots in the movie I, Robot nor Bi-Centennial Msn, nor A.I, nor Ex-Machina.
George just got us familiar with robots, had the term casually thrown into the dialogue, and a cultural icon is born.
That was one of the real core ways Star Wars worked - it really seemed like a ‘lived-in’ universe. It was scratched and dented and scuffed. There was an absolute sense that these characters lived in these towns and cities. That they used the technology, and they’d formed language and habits based upon it.
The original trilogy really excelled at that. Not all of the following works managed to really achieve the same level of ‘lived-in’, but they were lucky enough to ride the cost-tails of the OT.
It's not just Lucas, I feel like creators back then understood that film is a visual medium. Look at Alien, look at Blade Runner -- well the good cut -- they always just show you something spectacular instead of just giving you a bunch of word vomit. It really builds mystery and intrigue. I think audiences are too dumb for that these days or creators are too afraid of misinterpretation that its understood there will always be an exposition dump. I am reminded of how often I can just put on a show or movie these days and just do something else because there is no point in watching. Content these days might as well be audio only.
Sadly George then decided to try and explain huge amounts of stuff in the prequels and sequels to the original trilogy. I don't think any of the films are terrible, but I still hate the explanation for the force being a measurable micro organism!
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Yeah, this is why I take any reference to George as being the ultimate guide to Star Wars (eg when people say that George has declared chronological order to be the best way to experience the movies). He gets things wrong, and he tries to shoehorn ideas into situations that don’t quite fit.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, I really appreciate what George did in creating Star Wars, but you could even see in the ‘making ofs’ in the prequels when he gave private preliminary screenings to Spielberg and other buddy filmmakers that none of them wanted to hurt his feelings but they were worried about the results. He’s sort of above anyone telling him that an idea is bad.
@@tim-dndI get what you mean, but I'm going to make a minor correction because most people misunderstand. The Midichlorians are not the the Force. They're organisms that can communicate WITH the force, and allow you to communicate with the force more easily the more of them you have. It's not to "explain the force" per sey. The force is just as mystical as before. It's just to explain how some people strong with the force and others not, (which was a point in the OT). Did that need an explanation? Not necessarily, but I feel like it doesn't hurt anything.
I think its a problem with modern hollywood in general. It's flooded with mediocre talent who aren't creative enough to craft a story. They will explain it to you be cause they think their audience is stupid. In reality, the problem falls on the writers who are creatively bankrupt.
Great reaction! Leia has the last name Organa having assumed the last name of Senator Bail Organa after he and his wife adopted her at the end of Episode III.
Fun fact: in about 1995-1996 Kenner toys started releasing series of Star Wars figures as a run-up to the 20th anniversary of Star Wars which would see the release into theaters the Special Editions of the original trilogy as the prelude to a VHS release of the Special Editions; eventually giving way to the DVD release.
The funny part, to me, is that until Episode III I knew her last name, but not where it came from: but her action figure came with the name "Princess Leia Organa" so that's how I first learned of it before being given a proper explaination ~10 years later. -lol
12:34 That brief analysis won you my sub. Well-done 🙂
That being said, I feel compelled to express my displeasure of you basically skipping two of the all-time greatest & exciting special effects sequences ever captured by film: The Battle of Hoth and The Asteroid Field.
I'm still super glad you loved the film as much as you do. For my money, it's the greatest movie ever made, when you take in the story, characters, subtle humor, subtle romance, set-pieces, plot points, and SCORE. I don't think it's ever been matched.
You can absolutely talk while breathing in. That's a prominent aspect of the performance of Treebeard the Ent in the Lord of the Rings movies.
I sound like ET or the computer from WarGames if I talk on an Inhale.
If you watch Elliott when ET is dying, you can see the actor talk on an inhale, I think to show ET is his mirror. Just a theory.
Also, loved your yoda insight with human being - this where the life lessons of Star Wars really start deeply resonating for me
Yes! I have found the themes across all the films to be immensely encouraging to me. The “dark side” can mean so many different things for all of us. A lot of times it is the opposite of presence. Which is basically distraction, avoidance, and fear. This can look so many different ways in all of our lives whether it’s an addiction, a person, or a bad habit. We all have a pull to hide into the dark side in one way or another. The opposite is presence, love, and bravery. ❤️
name checks out.
I feel that Luke's sacrifice was to kill himself, it was Vader who secretly force-pushed him to a tube to keep him from dying.
That would also explain why he didn't force-choke anyone on the bridge afterward.
Beca there was no CGI used in the original Star Wars trilogy when they were originally released.
The CGI in 1973 looked like an atari video game. It was used to make titles in a movie. It wasn't anything like the CGI of today.
What happened is in the 90s, George Lucas decided to clean the original films because they were extremely dirty and scratched, and the colors were fading. So what he did was create a digital copy of the originals because it was easier to fix each of the frames in digtal format than to try to actually clean film. Then he realized that since he had the movies in a digital format, he could add things to the film digitally with CGI. So he added scenes, creatures, and some backgrounds using CGI of the late 90's and early 2000's. Since then, they have changed a few things several times. But the original movies when they were released did not have CGI in them they were all three done with practical effects.
The only CGI used in the originals is in Episode 4 in the scene when they were showing the pilots the attack plan on the Death Star. Those attack plans were CGI. That was the best CGI could do at the time. And it wasn't very good or real looking. It was about as good graphically as Pac Man.
There's a channel on TH-cam called Luke Skywalker he has several videos showing you a side by side comparisons of the original scenes before the CGI was added and after the CGI added for every scene CGI was added. He has separate videos for each of the first (original) three films.
Then explain how in 82 the Genesis scene was done in Star Trek wrath of Khan. They used Kray computers to do it all.
@tasselhoff I didn't say they didn't have CGI. They did. They used it in the Genesis scene. They used it in tron, and they used it at the intro to Labyrinth (the owl), they used it in the last Starfighter. The point is that the CGI back then was not realistic. No one would mistaken it for a real-life image like today. That sort of CGI did not exist until the late 80s with the Abyss and T2 and early 90s with Jurassic Park. No one would mistaken the graphics seen in the Genesis scene in The Wrath of Kaun as a photo realistic (real looking) image like we see today. Photo realistic CGI like we see today didn't exist until the late 80s early 90s.
@@DanielTate-wt9jt You did say the tech was no better than Pac-Man so....
@@tasselhoff it wasn't much better. I take it you weren't around back then? Or never played computer games from that era?
I was born in 1978 and grew up in "Silicon Valley", where I still live (it's part of "The San Francisco Bay Area"). Our first computer at home when I was a kid was an IBM Personal Computer, Model 5150, released in 1981. It had an Intel 8088 at 4.77 Mhz (that's megahertz.....today's processors have clock speeds in gigahertz), with 640 KB (that's KILObyte, not gigabyte) of RAM and two 360 KB floppy disk drives. At school we had Apple //e machines. No Apple Silicon back then....and no Macintosh desktop. The Apple //e also used a command line interface and its graphics was no better than that of the IBM PC. It was an earlier machine, so it's graphics weren't quite as good as the CGA (Color graphics Adapter) card on the IBM PC. 🙂The IBM PC, btw, is why we call desktop computers "PCs".
Even a Cray (not Kray) supercomputer could not do photo-realistic graphics in the late 70s. 🙂
bear in mind, 1977-1982 is five years, which is a major leap in the computer world. 🙂 The EGA adapter was released in 1984 at the same time as the PC/AT (which had an 80286, much faster than an 8088), and was worlds beyond CGA. 1984 was also when the Apple Macintosh came out, which had a Graphical User Interface. (the first Graphical User Interface was invented at a place called PARC, Palo Alto Research Center, and both Windows and Mac were expanding on what they created. PARC also created the mouse and Ethernet and many other things.)
There was cgi in A New Hope original release. The death star plan and the Falcon and X wing targeting systems were cgi
Check out Tron if you want to see some early CGI. And there's much less CGI in it than you'd think. But there is a TON of labor-intensive rotoscoping to suggest a computerized world.
There’s virtually no CGI in Tron, Last Starfighter is the first real example, done on a Cray MP, I have a CPU board from it.
I think it was made in a similar way as the 1981 movie Escape from NY where the wire frame model was made with fluorescent tape on a real world scale model and UV light and they simply flow the camera throw the model.
In the case of Escape from NY they simply displayed it on a CRT as a video recording, in Tron they did a bit more magic.
@@c1ph3rpunk Wrath of Khan had the first real CGI if you aren't counting ANH with the Death Star plans or any of their similar ilk.
@@scottb3034 one scene doesn’t really count as much of a movie, and in ANH it’s not really even a scene. When I was last around HP there were a few former Cray folks around that remembered building the machine for Digital Productions (the company).
Check out Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. After episode 6.
Definitely! Rogue one is up there with episodes 3.5.6 in my opinion! R1 For me it goes 6, 5, 3, R1 as my favorites and the ranking sometimes change but they are always top 4 (Mt Rushmore of SW lol)
@@daveesmond1634 Richard E Grant was in Rogue One and was over the moon that they were using real sets and not just painting them in afterwards with effects. He loved walking onto The Death Star's deck plates!
Agree. Rogue one is an immediate prequel to episode 4. It’s also by far the best SW film released by Disney so far, but is best watched after seeing the full 4-5-6 story ark.
@@Tadpole10538 I almost completely agree. The point I have problems with in your comment is that Rogue One s not, to me, "the best SW film released by Disney so far;" it is the only good one - in fact, the only one that I even consider a legitimate SW film. I disregard all the others as bad fanfiction (and even this feels like an undeserved compliment).
@@Tadpole10538 Conversely I think its the worst of the Disney SW films. Its fine, but no masterpiece that most seem to give it credit for being.
what some people tend to forget is Anakin didn't know they were having twins and he thought he killed Padmé on the platform on Mustafar because the Emperor told him "it seems, in your anger, you killed her." so i'm sure he assumed his "child" didn't survive either
It's kinda weird a Jedi couldn't sense there was more than one lifeform inside his wife. But whatever.
@@williamshelton4318 like the Jedi always say... the dark side clouds everything
@@williamshelton4318 tbf Vader immediately doubted that he killed her at that moment and even firmly stated “she was alive! I *felt* it!” so he technically wasn’t wrong, however the Emperor also wasn’t wrong either since Padme died as a result of his anger (dying from a broken heart is still a dumb explanation for her death but whatever, it’s what we got) so it’s easy to assume how Vader came to the conclusions he did. Plus Padme had a very public funeral so news of her death definitely reached Vader and iirc they showed that her body was “pregnant” in the casket so it was assumed by everyone that she died with the baby, Vader and the Emperor included.
In the Darth Vader comics (which are quite good, if you haven't read them) Vader is clearly furious when he learns the pilot who destroyed the Death Star is named "Skywalker."
@@williamshelton4318 probably the same reason why Luke couldn’t sense that Vader was his actual biological father until Vader told him to “search your [Luke’s] feelings, you [Luke] know it to be true”. Just cause you have the force doesn’t mean you’re clairvoyant enough to know everything, their were a lot of things on Anakin’s mind that occupied his focus enough to not know about having twins: the nightmares of watching Padme dying, the war effort, his frustrations with not being given the title of Jedi Master, Palpatine’s manipulations, the bits of his Dark Side seeping through, etc.
Also it’s not like Anakin is the only one who didn’t know about the twins until the delivery, every single other Jedi didn’t know either because they were all focused on other things too. It’s not that hard to believe that no one knew about the twins before they were delivered.
17:22 That was quite intentional, actually, and a nice bit of subtlety. He isn't breathing - the suit processes the external atmosphere and respiration and maintains oxygen levels directly in his bloodstream. It also uses what we would call a vocoder to enable speech, as in the original lore, his lungs and vocal cords were annihilated during the events leading up to the suit. The original novelization (1977) actually mentions in passing how unnerving that speech/"breathing" disconnect is to other officers when he speaks.
By this point, Vader does realise that Luke is his son, after the battle of Yavin he employed his own spies to track down the rebel who destroyed the Death Star, and they soon discovered his name. He now knows that his son _didn't_ die along with his wife as he had long thought, though he still doesn't know that they had twins. When Palpatine tells him that Luke is his son, he acts surprised, but he has already started plotting against him. I would most strongly recommend reading the Darth Vader comic books, if you are a fan of Vader. Also if you haven't you should really watch the Clone Wars animated series, it really fleshes out the period between the start of the Clone Wars in Episode 2, and the end of the Clone Wars in Episode 3. You get to know Anakin and Obi-wan so much better.
David Prowse really did some amazing work in this one as the "Body" for Darth Vader, I've always loved that he managed to express disappointment with just body movements when Luke jumps in that sequence and was glad to see the reaction it engendered in this video. With all the much earned love that the amazing James Earl Jones has been receiving since his passing, I just hope people don't forget there was a 6'6 English bodybuilder who had just as much to do with bringing a (eventually) very layered villain to life. RIP to a team I doubt we will ever see the likes of again because of CGI.
David Prowse as Darth Vader was underrated as a physical actor, you could see so much emotion and interpretation in his body language and presence. Also, David gave Vader such a distinctive walk, dignity grace, swagger, a majestic, regal elegance to him, regardless of being evil or the antagonist. James Earls Jones's voice added perfectly to David Prowse physicality. Good casting George Lucas!
He was also great in A Clockwork Orange as the subversive writers' bodyguard.
prowse was on the way out at this point. He had to be replaced constantly in this one and completely replaced in all but 1 scene in ROTJ.
He also spoiled the father twist to a crowd in 1978 even though he was just BSing. It enlarged an already big rift between Prowse and Lucas.
@@ericechols6056 as echoed in my post to OP, prowse was on the way out as the physical actor for Vader by this point.
Sebastian Shaw is also almost completely absent now as the face of Darth Vader. They edited his face a lot and replaced him with Hayden Christensen at the end of RotJ.
Peter Mayhew who played Chewbacca was a very gentle giant of a man. Even after he passed away his wife carried on his charitable organization as per his wish and the Peter Mayhew Foundation still helps children today.
I like that you identified the similarities between Luke and Anakin abruptly leaving to save their loved ones. The six George Lucas Star Wars films actually form a composition ring, with each trilogy forming one half of the ring. Because Empire and Attack of the Clones are on opposite sides of that ring, they were made to mirror each other. There are so many parallels between the two movies. The reluctant romance, the aforementioned rash decision to leave, the chase through the asteroid field, Jango and Boba Fett each acquiring their bounty, a Skywalker losing a limb, too many to name really. Each has a giant land battle where the rebel side has to evacuate. There's even the scenes where Anakin dives out of the speeder into the underbelly of Coruscant, and Luke jumps off of the platform into the bottom of Cloud City, representing their potential moral descent. The only difference between the two is that they move in opposite directions. So the last act of Empire mirrors the first act of AOTC and so on. It's really cool to look into.
Mr. Plinkett will knock your teeth out.
@@Tuning3434I don't know what a Mr Plinkett is
Search TH-cam for plinket star wars specifically the video where he argues that the "ring composition" thing is a load of bunk.
Am so fortunate to be the original target audience for this saga.
Was 6 years old in 1977, and it changed my life!
All the boys wanted to be Han Solo, lol.
Yes, Obi-wan is dead, he has verged with The Force, the ghostly appearance is his Force Ghost.
No one should be mad with you, we were lucky to be born during the OT.
How much cotton candy are you going to eat, lol?
Vader cannot breathe on his own, a machine in his suit breathes for him.
You know your stuff, the AT-AT walkers were filmed using stop motion miniatures.
You'd LOVE the Making of A New Hope and Empire, shows the birth of ILM Effects Studio.
Yoda was created and voiced by Frank Oz, who also created The Muppet Show; Kermit the frog, Miss Piggy, etc.
Carrie and Harrison's chemistry carried over in to real life, lol.
Vader has no idea that Padme gave birth before she died.
The loss of Anakin to Vader and the destruction of the Jedi left some deep scars, obviously.
Yoda lives on the planet Degobah.
Leia's last name is Organa, she was adopted by Breha and Senator Bail Organa.
You'll have to watch The Return of the Jedi (Episode VI) to see what happens to Vader.
Light sabers definitely Cauterize wounds.
Vader NOT choking out an officer shows that Luke has already changed him.
When are you going to watch Return of the Jedi?
17:21 the sound does not come from breathing. The device loads oxygen from outside and that’s what makes the sound.
Notice that in the scene on Dagobah in which Luke "fights Vader" it is Luke who draws his Lightsaber first. He attacks and Vader defends himself. Also realizing that it is his head underneath Vader's helmet already was a bit of foreshadowing the connection Luke and Vader have.
16:33 The breathing sound for Darth Vader comes from his respirator pumping the air in and out - not his lungs. That's why he can talk and breathe at the same time.
19:05 When R2 was talking to Luke in the X-Wing, Luke was reading what he said on a screen.
34:17 You missed something here from Yoda...
36:47 Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan, "daughter" of Bail Organa (played by Jimmy Smits in Episode III).
Loved the editing in this one! Also appreciate you acknowledge the small quiet acting moments. I feel like thats what makes these movies real and personal. Harrison Ford is definitely the glue in these ones. His delivery has so much range and charisma. If theres one person who's absolutely vital to this movie's heart it has to be him.
13:17 you’ve made a very good point about the lack of “show, don’t tell” in contemporary film. It’s one of the reasons that I find very few big budget studio films watchable. It always seems like they’re communicating to a bunch of children even in movies that are supposedly meant to be viewed by adults. I have no patience for that lack of sophistication. I didn’t spend 40 years reading classic literature, reading classic plays, watching classic films, and writing short fiction of my own to be addressed by some cinematic director as if I am in my first year of grammar school.
It’s bobbins and I won’t stand for it.
Love your commentary and reflection as you watch this film, there’s so much in this film to enjoy and it’s beautifully written and directed. One awesome, subtle visual piece of storytelling: three times in this film, Luke is upside down, in a vulnerable position, when he learns he uses the force in a new way to engage in the situation he faces: the Wampa ice cave (the force pull on his sabre), in training with Yoda (visions of the future), and hanging below Cloud City (reaching out to Leia for help). It’s unexpected and absolutely a moment of awe and hope for both us and Luke in how the Force can be used to connect with the universe. Hope you enjoy Ep VI, and the resolution of Vader’s story!
The CGI thing is just an age difference, and I've seen similar things with other younger reactors. As an oldhead, I was around when CGI blew everyone's socks off in Jurassic Park, into Independence Day, and onto ubiquitous use in every movie until it seemed to reach another pinnacle with the LOTR trilogy. It's hard to understate how amazed audiences were by the ability to generate almost photo realistic images out of nothing. It was a huge novelty and a huge draw. Revolutionary. So to us the idea that they had that technology in the late 70's seems like such a huge anachronism that has to be pointed out. It's actually totally fine and acceptable because I would do the same thing if asked to pinpoint within 10 years technological advances that I didn't live through. For example, I can't tell within 10 years when color TV came into mainstream use compared to black and white, but for someone who lived through it I'm sure it would seem really weird to not know because it was such a big deal to their generation.
Seeing this in the theater back when it came out, and hearing Darth Vader say 'I am your father', the entire theater gasped. It was surreal. None of us knew.
YES! I have forever thought that Harrison Ford, Steve Martin and Dennis Quaid all look like they could play each other's brothers. THANK you for saying that. I thought I was the only one.
I seriously love "Trouble with your droid?" "No, no trouble." 🤣
I just found this channel recently and immediately subscribed to the channel. When do you typically upload videos I enjoy your content on the channel so far keep it up.
29:56 This is what makes the OG trilogy so memorable and so personal particularly to us older fans. We grew up alongside the characters, Luke especially. We were with him through his learning, training, his failures, and ultimately his triumphs in a way we weren’t with Anakin in the prequels. And all while Luke tries to live up to the man, the myth, the legend that was his father. The connection felt between characters and audience is closer and more intimate.
I was 9 when Empire came out in theaters and it is my favorite of all the films. I love this movie for introducing me to the Imperial March, what I always refer to as Darth Vader's theme. I love all the different variations of that theme throughout the movie. Darth Vader is such an iconic villain. Rest In Peace, James Earl Jones, for bringing that voice to life. That final scene with Han and Leia, where she says I love you and he says I know, was very emotional and heartbreaking.
I like to think Yoda whispered to R2, "My secret, please keep. Along, please play in front of young Skywalker." 🤣
As someone that was a little kid who saw this in the theater when it came out, it's such a joy to see someone young see it for the first time. My grandson saw all of them for the first time last month and he watched em with his paw paw. We got him a little lightsaber and he loves swinging it around at the dogs.
One of my favorite aspects of the prequels is Anakin sensing the pain of his loved ones from across the galaxy and from the future. That shows where he gets the idea to trap Luke by just torturing his friends.
When you talked about the right mentality in an audition, I remember something I heard about the auditions for New Hope:
Mark Hamil's audition was a scene with Luke and Han in the Falcon's cockpit. Mark thought he was auditioning for a supporting role (assuming Harrison Ford was going to play the lead character) and Harrison thought he was there to help with the audition, since he hadn't been offered the part yet.
I don't know how much of this story is accurate and how much is hearsay, but I wanted to but it out there anyway.
One thing people seem to forget is that Star Wars is a fantasy world. You throw physics out the window while watching it (even though we all want a lightsaber). How does Vader talk and breathe at the same time? Star Wars biology : )
The tank Luke was healing in was called a Bacta Tank. In the Star Wars universe you will see it being utilized for accelerated healing. Also, the sound you hear is not Vader breathing, but the sound of his respirator pumping oxygen in and sucking out carbon dioxide. According to the books, his lungs were damaged when they were burned so he was not actually breathing. The suit serves as a mechanical iron lung breathing for him. This is why he can talk while the sound is happening. Vader does not inhale or exhale from his nose or mouth. I didn’t come up with it. That’s just how it’s explained in the books. I’m sure they could have written it after so many people mentioned it in their own observations of the original trilogy.
Thank you you saved me another essay.
Yes! The Empire Strikes Back is THE BEST.
..edit.. I haven't watched this yet, but I will... will report back soon.
Vader’s suit had automatic breathing system because after he got burnt he couldn’t breathe on his own. His breath was from the machine that provides him the oxygen. “He was more a machine than man”
This was a fun watch! I'm glad you liked the movie as it is also my favorite of all the Star Wars movies. I highly recommend the next movie even if you don't make a reaction video. Thanks Beca!
Lucas's attention to the smallest details is what makes these movies so great. Like the scene where Lando is on the lift to the upper hatch of the Falcon as they rescue Luke at Cloud City, and he actually has a safety harness he attaches/detaches as he goes up and out the hatch. The fact that Lucas included this makes the scene so much more realistic. And the fact Lando knows exactly where and when to attach them makes perfect sense, since the Falcon was his before Han won it. Just incredible insight and directing there in those 2 seconds!
It should be pointed out that Irvin Kershner directed this one, not George Lucas. Lucas was the executive producer and left the directorial vision to Kershner, while Lucas focused on the visual effects with ILM. So, the on-set attention to detail should be credited to Kershner.
@@kivimik Thanks for the correction! All credit to Kershner then in this case!
My daughter is 25 now and grew up with me showing her the SW movies. One time, we sat down with Empire and took screenshots of every great shot in the movie. The color palettes, cinematography, compositions, set design, and costuming - all gorgeous, like conceptual paintings brought to life. It outshines all the other films in this way.
I just found your channel, and love it. As someone who saw Star Wars (not yet called A New Hope) 7 times in the cinema in 1977 as a 7 year old, the flak you got was assuming some practical shots were CGI. You watched the version that does have some shots added later that were CGI (notably the Jabba insert) but the ones you often noted were miniatures and practical effects.
That said, keep doing what you're doing. I would just suggest checking the year of realease, etc., to avoid wondering when Indiana Jones was made or who the "original" actor was (it was Alec Guiness). But I'm subscribed.
"You can't breathe in and talk like that!" Sure, you can... if you've got a mechanically augmented respiratory system. The breathing you hear is part of Vader's life support system, mechanical lungs that carry out the molecular processes that his organic lungs can no longer do, being too scarred from inhaling searing gasses on Mustafar. However, they are at least capable of simply pushing air around, which is enough for speech.
This comment made me do so research out of curiosity. Seems like people are very split. Some compare it to being like an iron lung or chest ventilator. However, some still argue that due to air going through the trachea in both of those devices that you still wouldn’t be able to breathe in like that and talk at the same time. Some claim George Lucas intended the sound design to be this way on purpose, while others are saying it’s just a post production error. I can’t seem to find an actual solid answer. Likely due to it being a fictional life support system. So in that case, it is allowed to do whatever it wants 😊
I figured the respirator would have an intake separate from the trachea, perhaps vents going straight from the grate on the mask to the artificial 'lungs'. That would allow breathing and speaking to take place completely independently of each other. That there was a difference in how it was handled between the movies can be explained away with upgrades to the suit in the interim.
@ksharbaugh2 you need to exhale when you talk.
@@znk0r Since you need it explained more clearly... Darth Vader has, essentially, has two sets of lungs that function independently of each other. Artificial lungs with their own vents bypassing the trachea to intake oxygen and export CO2; and what is left of his organic lungs which are too damaged to do anything other than move air past his vocal cords.
@@BecauseBecaBeBecaI'm pretty sure George mentioned it in one of the audio commentaries if I remember correctly.
Great reaction!
And very very accurate commentary regarding the "show don't tell" scene of Luke in the healing tube. Though, unfortunately poignant.
I agree film condescends to its audience far more than in the past. Not just in the way of too much exposition, but even in regards to moral/political themes. Writing or the characters very overtly telling the audience that a character is bad, or that a behavior/attitude is bad, or how the audience should feel.
There were some recent movies where I am fairly certain the film's primary objective was to educate the audience on a political agenda of the writers, (poorly) disguised and delivered in the form of a not-explicitly-political film. Sucks.
I wonder if it's simply a film making culture change, or, the industry's response to people today being more daft, shorter attention spans, etc.
Likely the latter, but I want to believe it not.
Take a look at 40:13 -ish. In one of my favorite shots, they have their sabers locked at the far left. Vader's red saber over the blue background. Luke's blue saber coming from him on the warmer setting to the right. Follow Luke's saber down to where the jet of steam leads back up to the hose. I mean, just LOOK at that composition and framing. It's masterful.
Now watch your eyes as you take it in. You totally trace that line of composition and back, soaking it all in. It's only on screen for two seconds, but it's so impactful.
There's another shot soon after where 80% of the screen is steam, and they're in a little window in the upper left.
Mark Hamill (Luke) looks different here, because he had a car crash before filming this. He needed some plastic surgery on his face and you can see some scars. Then they used the yeti plot to make sense of it.
The severity of the crash has been wildly exaggerated over the years, though - Mark even clarified it fairly recently. The truth is that his biggest injury was most of his nose being destroyed, so they took some of the cartilage from his elbow and made him a new one. But since the nose is a very central component of a person's face, any change can alter people's perception. For a similar example, just look at Jennifer Grey; she had two nose jobs in the 1990s and no one recognized her afterward. As a result, her career went downhill.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
1:10 Movie begins
7:54 Answering your comments
11:22 Back to the movie
You should watch "Empire of Dreams" after you've finished this trilogy. It's a documentary about how these movies were made, and since you seem to be into the technical side of things, I think you'd really enjoy it. Also, these are the "updated" versions of these movies. If you'd like to check out the original theatrical versions, look for "Harmy's De-Specialized" editions. If you happen to have a VHS player in your home, you may be able to find the "THX" versions of them, pre "Special Edition" on that format at a charity shop. There IS a "limited edition" DVD set that has the original theatrical releases of all three movies (as "bonus content"), but you'll have a deuce of a time finding them.
Something else to put on your "to watch" list should be the movie "Fanboys". It is a companion movie to the Original Trilogy that takes place in our universe in 1999, right before Episode I comes out. While I know you've seen them, I will tell you that there are no spoilers for Episode I in Fanboys. It's just a really good movie, and the film makes actually got Lucas' permission due to the Star Wars and THX-1138 references, as well as the cameos involved. But George Lucas always allowed "us" to "play in his sandbox" of Star Wars.
Also.... I think it's awesome you saw the prequels first.... you are literally the first reaction channel I have ever seen that is watching the OT after watching the prequels and that is something.
@@IDieHardForever Really? "That Nerd Tara" went in chronological order for her first watch. She went in with minimal knowledge of the franchise, and what little she did know, she didn't know the context of.
@@IggyStardust1967 oh
Were you holding that cotton candy the whole time? I just noticed it.
Keep in mind that Vader knew he might have 'a' child. He didn't know Padmé was expecting twins - I'm not even sure if she knew. Luke is easy to identify, once Vader knows where he's from. He grew up as a Skywalker and with Anakin's stepbrother while Leia was adopted fully, including changing her last name. So Vader thinks he has found his child when he identifies Luke as a Skywalker and his son. He doesn't know he should be looking for more people.
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Note that at Padme's funeral they made her corpse appear pregnant: officially she never gave birth and Anakin/Vader had no children. He had no idea of Luke's existence until the Emperor told him.
Of course, that opens another can of worms, as in "How did the Emperor know"? I suppose one could postulate that after Yavin Imperial intelligence picked up the name Luke Skywalker.
@@Phatooine Yet, they always referred to one child in "Revenge of the Sith", so it is possible that at least Anakin didn't know. Anakin didn't sense the pregnancy before Padmé told him - it would make sense that not all Jedi can do the same with the Force. A healer would have sensed the children, but Anakin isn't trained as a healer, he's a fighter.
Luke has the same colouring as his father and the same last name, not to mention he grew up with Anakin's stepbrother on the planet where Anakin spent most of his life before the order. Leia's colouring is similar to Padmé's, but she was fully adopted and known to people as the daughter of Bail and Breha Organa who looked similar enough to her to be her parents. She's presumably never been to Tatooine in her life and had no connection to her step-aunt and -uncle. It is possible that Vader wouldn't have known.
Production-wise, a lot of this is simply-speaking due to the development of the lore during the production of the movies. Luke didn't get a sister until "Return of the Jedi" and it was originally meant to be another character entirely. When they filmed "A New Hope", Vader and Anakin were still two different people and Vader really killed Anakin - no 'from a certain point of view' necessary.
@@solicitr666 Given that Luke apparently applied for the Imperial Academy several times, but had to withdraw each time, that wouldn't have been hard to figure out.
@@cayreet5992 Luke was posing as his own cousin, in effect; as far as the Imperial Census was concerned he was the son of Owen and Beru.
The term 'Sith' for dark Jedi had not been invented in this original trilogy.
36:55 Carrie Fisher has some great haristyles in these movies. People mostly seem to remember the 'space buns' she had for most of 'A New Hope' but they never appear again, she has a variety of other styles. I do like these braids.
It is one of the best known Mandela effect misquotes. There is no-one else there, he doesn't have to say 'Luke' and you're right about the different emphasis, it makes more sense in context than the way it is usually said.
47:43 A large number of, but not all, prosthetics are made to look like real flesh as much as is possible by the material science. Stat Wars tech is obviously far more advanced with prosthetic hands that look real and can feel and grip like real hands.
George did have the term Sith in one of his first SW drafts, he just didn't think he needed to put that term into the original trilogy so brought it in for the prequels, along with Mace Windu (who laughingly was called Windy in that draft).
The term Sith was in a lot of stuff like the novelization, and the toys. As a kid we all knew that Darth Vader was a "Dark Lord of the Sith", we just had no idea what that meant.
@@kevinkuenn5733 Also we did have access to more information than was in the 3 movies (and what was trickled out with toys) from the trading cards. A lot of those had tidbits of information, lore, character & vehicle blurbs, etc.
I think (at least by the time the RotJ cards came around, if not before) we knew about the fight on the volcanic planet of Musafar where Vader was maimed. In the most vague of terms, mind you, probably not much more than what I typed. But (like the Clone Wars) it was so vague that the versions we created in our heads from the nibbles of info turned out to be vastly cooler than what Lucas ended up giving us.
At the end of Ep.3, Yoda tells Obi-Wan that Qui-Gon had learned how to come back from the netherworld of the Force and that he will train him how to commune with Qui-Gon. So retaining identity after death was part of that training.
Very well done, once again! Very bright and enjoyable. Have you done Return of the Jedi yet?
You have a lot of great takes - the show don't tell, the slower pace, quiet moments, the writing, the non-verbal acting. It all contributes to why this is the best film of the franchise. Imagine if Kershner and Kasdan actually decided to work on the prequels.
I just found this channel (thx YT algorithm) and I really enjoy your insight into film making and acting! Also your makeup is 🔥!
The Lightsaber cauterizes the wounds which is why no one bleeds when they get slashed, stabbed or cut with a lightsaber. Also the technology had improved by the time Luke lost his hand they gave him a robotic hand which mimics a real hand which is why Luke felt pain when the MD droid tested his response.
This movie is my favorite of all Star Wars ever :D I first saw it as a kid and it's so gratifying seeing someone have the same scare with the monster on the windshield HAHAHA also I love your insights giving your knowledge about acting and filmmaking. Keep em coming! :)
17:29 "You can't breath in and talk like that"
Well, you can, if it's an external device oxygenating your blood, and not you breathing. Fun fact, the panel on Vader's chest is, among other things, a control panel for his respiratory system.
14:23 when I was a kid, 10yo then, I thought Jeff Bridges was playing Chewbacca 😂
I have heard it suggested that Vader has so distanced himself from his former Jedi self, that he often doesn't even see himself as Anikan anymore.
@40:39 watch the final installment and give us your reaction. We will be waiting....😮
George had a treatment for one story. That story was then refined and broken up into parts. Star Wars 1977 was the part he went with for his movie. There was no plan for a sequel, that is why the Death Star was destroyed it needed finality. As a condition of making it, he (George) made sure that he had all the rights to make sequels. However he had no idea how big his movie was going to get. The original sequel to Star Wars was called Splinter of the Mind's Eye. the only returning characters would be the droids, Luke, Leia, and Vader. Since there was no promise Harrison Ford would return. Either he wouldn't do it or he cost too much. When star Wars became the huge hit, it was re branded EP 4 A New Hope. And the serialization that George loved as a kid could be remade in a big way. During this process, George had a treatment for a 6 movie saga. None of which would be set in the prequal era. And even more ambitious was his dream.
The Lucasfilm ranch would be a massive workshop for aspiring and currently working filmmakers to test and develop new technology and techniques and make creative movies free from the Hollywood system all with Star Wars as it's heart. Each film after the original would have a different director and the special effects teams would only get more talented. The whole of the project would be headed up by George himself and he would direct the last movie. The first trilogy, would be Luke saving the Rebellion and ultimately killing Darth Vader. The next three films would center around him searching for his long lost sister and together they would defeat the Emperor.
ESB had an impressive budget. Much better than the film in 77'. However there where problems. A lot of problems. The on location shooting in Norway was a nightmare. The coldest winter on record caused a lot of costly delays and frostbite. Then the story itself had a lot of fat to trim. Luke would visit 3 worlds. Each one he would learn and be tested by a different Jedi Master. Yoda, Obi-Wan, and the ghost of his father. Planning for those sequences proved to be one hell of an expensive venture. So the three planets where turned to one, and Luke would train under the masters there. But another problem, run time. Luke still needed to fight Vader and his New Super Commandos. So George had the idea to combine the two characters, Anakin and Vader. This sparked a whole new set of ideas in the man. A new trilogy about how a Jedi Knight becomes Darth Vader. The Super Commando costume was pretty expensive to mass produce considering he had to find a new prop house for all the blasters and lightsabers and such. Even the Stormtroopers got new armor and materials, So the Super Commando suit was then painted and weathered into the bounty hunter Bobba Fett. Mandalorian Lore came out months after the release of Ep 5. The rest is history. Or it would have been if George wasn't destroyed by the unions.
Empire Strikes back was a monumental success. However, he kept all the into to his films the same. This was to emulate the since of continuity from those serials of the 40's and 50's. But since he had not put Kushner's name at the beginning of Empire, he was sued, fined, and kicked from the Writer's and Director's guilds. all that work his dream of using the ranch for more than just his projects a place free of Hollywood bureaucracy, his 9 movie saga, all dashed by 12 pieces of paper. This meant that he couldn't hire Steven Spielberg to direct Jedi. Nor could he hire any guild director. George had to micro manage that production. He began to crack the whip and anyone would tell you he was more like a corporate stooge than a visionary director. This also meant that episode 6 would be the last of the series. So Luke's sister had to be revealed in that movie. Jedi had a lot going in it. Luke needed to find his sister, fight Vader and the Emperor, and get the girl without taking too much screen time from Carrie Fisher. George found his solution by going back to the production of Empire. Luke does not get the girl, Han does. Nihils Skywalker is combined with Leia. So that's the real reason for all the sexual tension be tween the two. They where made siblings out of necessity.
After Jedi, George stayed out of the spotlight. assisting on other people's projects and further developing filmmaking technology ILM, SKywalker Sound, and THX. then after big hits like Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park, George thought maybe then technology was caught up with his idea of a galaxy far far away after he put to words "No! I am your father." But before he started working he needed to see for himself if Star Wars still had a market. He went back to his original three films and added changes and effects while digitally enhancing the picture and sound. The Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition which where brought to theaters in 97'. The VHS came out a few months later. Side Note: We bought those tapes and was watching them the night Princess Di was killed. Anyway, The success of the re-release, toy sales, and such put George and his team to work on his second trilogy which would feature CGI assets like the Imperial capital. There are a lot of details that go along with the making if the original trilogy and I'll probably add those when you get to RotJ.
Splinter of the Mind's Eye also stated that Vader lost his right hand as punishment for the destruction of the Death Star. Ford had a very bad reaction to what Star Wars did to his privacy and the fact that he and the other actors got nothing from merchandising and he was pissed about it. He's still bitter about both losing his privacy and the loss of the millions and millions of dollars in merchandising rights. He was asked about all the toys and whatnot and about how his cut must be substantial and his reply was, "I got bubkus."
@@Falcun21 at the time, toys based on films rarely made a large profit. With the exception of films, like planet of the apes. Toys was the last thing on any productions mind at the time. For George, it was how he was going to fund the proposed sequels that would probably never happen will be too cheap to make. On top of that Kenner got the lion’s share the deal. George himself didn’t get that much out of it. Those would be re-negotiated after the release of Empire. For negligible fee, all the actors signed the way their likenesses. At the time Harrison Ford’s career really didn’t kick off yet until after the first film and wall would be nice that he would get a piece of that merch money. I think he was a lot better off in the multitude of films he between 1980 and today. Unlike his costars whose film credits pretty much stop in the 90’s.
I've noticed in the Star Wars universe, when someone says "It is your destiny", what they mean is, "I really, really want you to do this."
Many of us who were kids when the original movies came out also like Empire most of all. Everything came together to tell a story where the heroes take a good swift kick, come out with all new motivations, and yet still even at the end there is a feeling of hope. That's the magic of it and everything just came together in a way that's hard to match. Great to see your reaction to it.
One of the best cliffhangers of all-time. Yes, I've heard some people see flaws in the plot of "Empire" because the story doesn't have an "ending", etc etc., but you have to remember that in 1980 you'd have to wait 3 years to resolve the cliffhanger!!
Cool reaction. I’m so glad I saw these 3 movies before I saw the prequels. Until you saw it in the theatre, you had absolutely no idea that Bader was his father. Seeing the prequels first has to take away the magic of the “I’m your father” moment.
On the day of filming, the only people who knew that the line was "No, I am your father." were George Lucas, director Irvin Kershner, and Mark Hamil who was told earlier that day. The line in the script and spoken by David Prowse on set was "Obi-Wan killed your father."
Also I'm sure you noticed at the time, but the scene where Vader talks to the Emperor has been re-edited since 1980. When they were filming this, Lucas was still figuring out exactly how powerful Palpatine actually was; in addition, Ian McDiarmid was not yet cast in the role.
So, in the original version of that scene, the Emperor had a much more uncanny appearance, with a man's voice dubbed over footage of an older woman, whose face also had a chimpanzee face partially superimposed over hers. His dialogue was slightly different, too.
Lucas is known for having an almost-crippling sense of perfectionism with the original trilogy, always seeing places he wishes he could have done things better, and this was no exception. The funny thing is, it's _still_ inconsistent, because McDiarmid's make-up is very obviously from _Revenge of the Sith_
Vader is a very cold and calculating individual much more than he was as Anakin and more mature he doesn't kill for failure only what he deems as extreme incompetence on those who serve and serving a warning to the next one
'I read it on the Internet'.
An all-time classic answer.
This version is the special edition,, or what was the special edition, and does use CGI and practical effects
Great channel BTW.
Looking forward to seeing more of your Star Wars journey.
The sound track to Empire is phenomenal.
In defence of Vader’s breathing sounds I like to think that it’s not actually supposed to be synced with his breathing like a diving regulator but is simply an automated system that draws air into his helmet and probably concentrates oxygen to a higher level because he requires it. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
25:20 in ep 4 Ben said "strike me down and I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."
Your glee at Vaders reaction to Luke deciding he'd rather fall than even remotely humor the idea he'd join with Vader was great because you know Anakin. After the prequels and subsequent material painted a picture of Anakin, that reaction was kinda memed as Anakin popping out in to the Vader persona, basically going "I really don't know what I expected." I also like to think that it's Anakin popping up as well when he says "impressive. Most impressive." Like, he really does sound kinda proud.
Well, it was the original Star Wars reactions what lead to me finding your channel, so was glad to see it continue. Also, glad to hear that you saw Return of the Jedi as well, so I'll know that is coming up at some point. As for which I like better, story wise, I'll say Empire Strikes Back, but Return of the Jedi I'll say shaped me the most into the woman I am today. The gold bikini, when I was a little girl watching it on the old VHS Tape that mum and dad had, and seeing that was when I started to realize that I liked other women in a different kind of way. So Return of the Jedi also holds a significance to me as well. As for the misquoting, I blame Pop Culture for misquoting that line and saying "Luke, I am your father" rather than the correct line of "No, I am your father." Anyways, I enjoyed this, and looking forward to your reaction to Return of the Jedi dropping. Thank you so very much for this.
Only episodes 1 to 6 are canon for (most) SW fans. Episodes 7, 8, & 9 destroyed the Skywalker (& Solo) legacy. 💯
Thanks so much for the generous tip! ❤️ so so kind of you. I can get that. Honestly, I just love the major themes across all the films. So, I don’t hate the sequels. I can understand why people were upset with them though. ☺️
Any other villain saying, "Don't make me destroy you" would sound cheesy or cliche. When Vader says it, we're like, "Holy $#!&! We won't! We promise! We won't make you destroy us! Please!"
I personally think the believability of Han and Leia's on-screen romance is partly due to the fact that Harrison had an extramarital affair with Carrie during production of "A New Hope". If I recall correctly, it had ended by the time "Empire" was made, but as actors they probably drew on their own memories to sell the emotions of the characters.
As someone who grew up with the OT I'm happy you got to experience Star Wars the way you did. its unique and I like that. I always wondered what it would be like for someone to experience Star Wars in chronological order.
One thing that never gets mentioned, when Luke first lands on Dagobah and Yoda appears and gets in to the fight with R2, both R2 and Yoda knew who each other were and still had their play fight with R2 keeping up Yoda's ruse
The tank that Luke was in is called a bacta tank. Quote from Wookieepedia : "Bacta was an organic chemical substance that consisted of gelatinous, translucent red alazhi and kavam bacterial particles that were mixed within a colorless, viscous fluid known as ambori. When a patient was exposed to bacta, the bacterial particles within sought out wounds and promoted rapid tissue regeneration while preventing the emergence of scar tissue. Bacta was often thought of as a "miracle fluid" and seemed to be effective against almost every type of injury and ailment across an incredible cross-section of species throughout the galaxy. It was considered the best medicine available anywhere, replacing the previously used kolto. "
My thing: the films were written to be watched chronologically, I believe. The 'death sticks' in Phantom Menace, is essentially a recap of 'not the droids you are looking for.' But, people watch it how they watch it.
I'm a bit late to this party , but here we go.. this is my favorite reaction that I've seen yet, and here's why.. I don't know how many times I've seen these movies or I can't remember when I seen them for the first time, The OG Star Wars trilogy was a staple, watched and rewatched by those of whom I was raised by, and when I was a kid I didn't like the Empire Strikes Back because of the doom and gloom, but now it's my favorite, and now definitely close to my heart.
Now seeing somebody watch it for the first time and hearing them speak of the sets, the views, the sounds, the story, the romance... and enjoying it so much is awesome.
Enjoyment simply is what matters with these movies.
btw, I'm related to that guy using Leia as a shield..
@19:13 there's a sceen in the cockpit of Luke's X-wing where you see R2's "speech" appear (it's visible in some shots)
Thing about the next movie, Luke was to spend a portion of it going off to find his sister, who was NOT princess Leia, it was someone else, which is why in these first two movies they were teasing a possible romance between them. Part way through the production of the third movie it was changed to the storyline we all know today.
oh boy you are right kids today.. The 20 year old kids they keep calling special effects cgi which bugs me. But even dumber is the idea that cgi is fake and there for bad because you can tell its not real , here's the thing, nothing is real in any movie and you can always tell.
Farther more sequels, remakes, adaptation, prequels, recasts, gender flip, race swap, nudity, product placement, nostalgia, references, all the things we hate its all not new. The things we hate in films like copping the first one, nostalgia baiting, cast changes, not crediting actors, using there likeness with out permission, crunch time, abuse, its all in some of the best movies ever made.
Regarding breathing in while speaking, that is actually how John Rhys-Davies did the voice of Treebeard in LotR using a wooden megaphone to amplify the sound
Star Wars has always filmed in interesting locations. The major location in this film was Norway, in Winter.
The Prequels used Tunisia, Italy, Thailand -even with all the digital.
A fun story told by Mark Hamill, when filming on the complex set for Deborah, in studio in London - he had an ear-pod, of the time, to hear directions and the voice of Yoda. Mark's ear=bud-thing was interrupted by BBC Radio at one point, and he heard The Rolling Stones, a song "Fool to Cry", and he exclaimed "Hey, I hear The Stones!" and he gets a call to get back into character.
Another interesting fact, Harrison Ford had to ride in the engine compartment of a snow cat to get to the filming location at one point.
@@Falcun21 And when Mark H' is in the snow, seeing the spirit of Obi-Wan, it was just outside the hotel. They had to film something, to keep the production up - strong Winter, so he went out the door of the hotel, basic film crew - back in the hotel.
19:16 R2 is connected to X-wing transponder which translates what he’s saying to Luke and appears on the tiny monitor in front so he can understand R2
Leia's last name is Organa. Her "father" (adopted) was Bail Organa, the Senator from Alderaan, played in the prequels by Jimmy Smits. Remember him?
It is the Mandela effect. “Luke, I am your father” is probably the most misremembered line in cinema since it is actually, “no, I am your father.” So much so that in the movie Tommy Boy with Chris Farley, he actually is joking around in the movie and talks into a desk fan and says the wrong line (you know how desk fans change your voice). What’s crazy is that the movie was extremely popular and it is believed to have helped propel the misquoted line even more since it did so well as a home video release at the time. Hopefully we won’t have to wait as long for the final one. Been waiting forever because I enjoyed the first reaction so much haha When you get done with the series, you have to watch the comedy Spaceballs since it heavily is inspired by the OG Star Wars movies and themes. I promise I won’t be the only one suggesting this. Directed by Mel Brooks. It’s a very beloved parody.
Although Luke's understanding of Artoo's beeps grew over the years, in this case he was reading the translation on the X-Wing's display screen. (When Luke and Artoo were escaping Hoth)