@@KingKan nope, it was always episode 5 George Lucas changed the original to episode 4 a new hope in 1981 to match it with episode 5 because he knew he wanted to do prequels at some point during making episode 5
Hehe yeah. I do often wonder what fans must have been thinking at the time The Empire Strikes back first went out in 1980 and saw 'Episode V' in the opening crawl.
Vader was even more ruthless in this film,since Tarken and the rest of the imperial officers died in the death star he was left in total command under the emperor and made sure everyone knew it.
For me and probably most people.. the best of the 3 films... Not only that, the opening scene where the probes start flying from the star destroyer is amazing for 1980
I've been wondering about this shot too - *if* it was in the original I'd guess the effect would have been achieved by dressing someone in a Tauntaun suit (not to scale) with their head poking out as the head of Luke seeming like he's sitting on top (like those pirate holding mermaid costumes you see on UK piers - notice how limp the tauntaun's head is) running through the snow on location - notice that the shadow looks like a person running - filmed from a chopper - scale is impossible to gauge.
I love The Empire Strikes Back so much because it’s always my favorite Star Wars film from the original trilogy. also, my favorite characters in this movie is Lando Calrissian, Boba Fett, Bossk, Lobot, IG-88 and Jedi Master Yoda.
Mine was all about Lando Calrissian which was how the world was introduced to. The ultimate space hustler in all the galaxy. Always catch SW5 on TNT every other weekend switching off all my devices to not to be disturbed and bask into watching how the brother puts his hustle to work although he double-crossed at first but he already had his plan lined up to both release his friends on Bespin as well as partaking in releasing his comrade Solo from Jabba The Hut on Tatooine,(SW6 Return Of The Jedi). Hoping one day he has his own series based on novel stories centered on him sometime in the not-too-distant future and look forward to it when it happens.
"To create the opening crawls throughout the original Star Wars trilogy, physical models had to be developed. Spanning two feet wide and six feet long, the models were laid out on the floor so that a low camera could longitudinally move along the text to create the crawling effect."
The cinerama in San Diego was a lovely theatre with a gigantic screen. I saw it on its premiere night. We arrived 2.5!hours before doors opened so we were late. Once in while it seemed everyone was getting their sugar and popcorn fix in place we scouted places to sit. In the smoky haze we searched every aisle but there were jackets on every chair and the response was “ sorry this seat taken.” We found our seats close to the front. Worth every second of hassle. Amazing experience. Way too much tun. More than exceeded expectations. Came back the next day. Good times.
my father grew up with the original theatrical version of The Empire Strikes Back. he was a kid at 10 years old when he first saw it in the theater with my grandpa back in 1980.
Right, again, the crawl gives us the context for this story: Empire is pursuing the Rebels everywhere, Vader obsessed with finding Luke... I don't believe the Disney trilogy opening crawls do any of this, which is part of the reason why no one really understands the Disney Star Wars stories.
The Force Awakens did that perfectly though... It set up that Luke vanished in the time that passed since the Battle of Endor, that in his absence a new military threat rose from what was left of the Galactic Empire and their legacy, that Leia led an opposing group that combated their efforts to seize control of the galaxy, and that she was making it her mission to find Luke to convince him to aid in their fight, to the point where she dispatched one of their own to a remote planet to seek someone who already has a clue to where he is, leading directly into the Jakku Village raid scene I don't remember the Last Jedi crawl since it's been a while since I've seen it but it is far better than Rise of Skywalker, which reads like it was written by me when I was 10 doing short stories for English class in elementary
I’m sure it did. I dreamt about this movie. I had a dream that I was in the scene where I met Lando Calrissian on Bespin and I was also in the scene where Darth Vader reveals that he’s my father.
The bad part is that here in the Philippines, when I was a kid, Hollywood movies typically took 1 to 3 months (sometimes longer) to be shown here after U.S. theatrical release. Strangely, a pocketbook-sized Empire Strikes Back comics adaptation showed up in my school's library months before the movie's Philippine release and students were all over it. I never got my hands on it because it was always borrowed out. So everyone already read it and my classmates spoiled everything to me. I overheard them ethusiastically talking about Vader's revelation and shit even if they haven't seen the movie yet. So when I finally got to watch it, the Vader revelation had less impact. But I still loved the movie and I still think today it's the best SW movie ever.
Yes. The only one that did not have an episode number originally in the opening crawl originally was Episode IV A New Hope - but, that was added in when the movie was re-released in theaters in 1981 and has carried it in every print since then. Those claiming the episode numbers were not there until the prequels have no idea what they are talking about - part of their spin to claim Eps. 1-3 were never intended to be made because Eps. 4-6 weren't labeled as such until those other movies were green lit. It is complete, total fiction.
Star Wars wasn't made that way, The Empire Strikes Back was called EPISODE V from the start because the original Star Wars film A New Hope was written as the 4th film in the storyline when George Lucas wrote it, but it was released as the original film because the other Star Wars movies weren't made yet. Fox only wanted George to do 4 and that was going to be it, but when Star Wars became a success they let Lucas do what he wanted to do in the first place and that's why the original film became 4 instead of the original one in the timeline which is now called The Phantom Menace.
Funny, I only now noticed this... it's commonly known that the whole wampa scene was put together just to provide an in-universe explanation as to why Luke's face was scarred throughout the movie (as Mark Hamill had been involved in a serious car crash in between the first two episodes) and the wounds indeed do make their debut during the attack... except that he has them on his face whereas the wampa had hit him on the back of his head and since we can see him hit the ground, we know they may not have come from the surface impact. Oh well.
So at what point did Lucas decide that these batch of movies were 4, 5 and 6? Because the original 1977 text from ANH was just STAR WARS. No title or Episode #
George Lucas didn’t put episode IV- A New Hope on the title because he was certain that the movie would fail. When it was rereleased before Empire came out, Episode IV- A New Hope was added. Then all other movies after it had numbers
The reason why Star Wars didn't have a number in it is because that was going to be the only one made, there was no guarantee of it becoming the pop culture phenomenon that it wound up being. It was only after the success of the original Star Wars film that George Lucas started adding the numbers to the Star Wars sequels the way he wanted them to be in the first place. The original Star Wars movie was always meant to be called Episode 4 because that's how he wrote it but Fox wouldn't let him to prevent the audience members watching the film to be confused as to why it says 4 when the other Star Wars movies weren't made yet.
So even when it first came out it was titled episode 5? I knew Lucas always had plans for the full nine movies but I didn't know they'd list the episode numbers before the prequels were even heard of
JCX Productions interesting. I heard he did have a storyline for the seuqels to the original trilogy focusing on luke's children but I don't remember where or the details so I could be wrong.
Most of this movie was great. I think they could have made the ice creature a little more realistically scary. I watched that as a kid and thought that Yukon Cornelius had already dealt with that thing.
So they always planned for these to be after some prequels? They even changed Star Wars to Star Wars IV a New hope in a re-release for theaters in 1981. Wonder if people questioned it?
What are you talking about, Earth doesn't exist in Star Wars? Every single Star Wars movie since 1977 prefaces that it does. "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" implies that the reader/viewer understands the time and setting of the story which is about to unfold. Thus, it making Earth a reference point to that time and setting.
Anyone aged 9years old listening to this music. I doubt you could have existed when this movie came out. Back then there was no smartphones, laptops, tablets etc.
It most certainly was. There is no version of this film that exists without Episode V in the opening title. And this very video is of the original print of the film.
![Luke vs Darth Vader | The Empire Strikes Back (1980) [Puggo Strikes Back, Renegade]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/K6vF8H2LaMs/mqdefault.jpg)
I wonder how people back in 1980 in the threatres reacted to seeing 'Episode V' in the opening
That's weird
I'm French, and in the French version it wasn't named "Episode V" until the Special Edition
They weren’t because it didn’t change to episode V, until retroactively after the new episodes I, II and III came out.
@@KingKan nope, it was always episode 5 George Lucas changed the original to episode 4 a new hope in 1981 to match it with episode 5 because he knew he wanted to do prequels at some point during making episode 5
Roman Numerals have existed for centuries no?
They prob knew it was based on the book
Hey guys I can’t wait for Episode 2 of Star Wa-
Wait- Episode 5? What have I missed?
LOL!
Hehe yeah. I do often wonder what fans must have been thinking at the time The Empire Strikes back first went out in 1980 and saw 'Episode V' in the opening crawl.
Andrew Chapman Surely somebody, by virtue of what was thought to be Episode 2 actually being Episode 5, saw the prequel trilogy coming.
@@deleetiusproductions3497 Quite frankly, the Episode (Number) for the old Star Wars movies were pretty much just taglines.
Lol
Still one of the best movies ever made.
That's right!!
True
The Best movie, in my top 10
2:04
First instance of Imperial March, in Piccolo.
Thank you for pointing that out! I just noticed!
How did you notice that?
Where? I don’t hear it.
@@spi2derman lol cool jokes
Never noticed that before! Thank you 🙏
They protecc
They attacc
But most importantly
The empire strike bacc
tatooine: this planet's too hot
hoth: this planet's too cold
Endor: this planet's just right
I actually never thought of it that way!😂😂
Tatooine: This planet's too hot
Hoth: This planet's too cold
Endor: This planet's filled with little bears
Eclipse, The funny thing is that Endor was a moon.
@@daboys1215 oh yeah, I totally forgot about that
daboys1215 Exept it was the forest moon OF Endor
Vader was even more ruthless in this film,since Tarken and the rest of the imperial officers died in the death star he was left in total command under the emperor and made sure everyone knew it.
Takes me back to Christmas 1982... when i first started getting star wars figures and ships
For me and probably most people.. the best of the 3 films... Not only that, the opening scene where the probes start flying from the star destroyer is amazing for 1980
I couldnt believe the probes leaving the imperial cruiser was from the original edition they look so cgi!
Facts! I was 6yrs old when I saw it in theaters and I remember the audience gasping in awe.
Absolutely agree. It's my favourite of the whole franchise.
the overhead shot at 2:52 was in the original version? i thought it was added later in the re-release. amazing visual effects then.
@crush_davis I believe George Lucas did direct the first one (Episode IV: A New Hope)
@@fmb636 wow, the lack of knowledge here is making my head hurt. Do some damn research.
@@alexisrivera202 th-cam.com/video/FSuDjjlIPak/w-d-xo.html#t=270s
I've been wondering about this shot too - *if* it was in the original I'd guess the effect would have been achieved by dressing someone in a Tauntaun suit (not to scale) with their head poking out as the head of Luke seeming like he's sitting on top (like those pirate holding mermaid costumes you see on UK piers - notice how limp the tauntaun's head is) running through the snow on location - notice that the shadow looks like a person running - filmed from a chopper - scale is impossible to gauge.
crush_davis ) 🤦♀️ you're embarasing yourself.
I love The Empire Strikes Back so much because it’s always my favorite Star Wars film from the original trilogy. also, my favorite characters in this movie is Lando Calrissian, Boba Fett, Bossk, Lobot, IG-88 and Jedi Master Yoda.
I love how they introduce all my new favorite Star Wars characters.
Mine was all about Lando Calrissian which was how the world was introduced to. The ultimate space hustler in all the galaxy. Always catch SW5 on TNT every other weekend switching off all my devices to not to be disturbed and bask into watching how the brother puts his hustle to work although he double-crossed at first but he already had his plan lined up to both release his friends on Bespin as well as partaking in releasing his comrade Solo from Jabba The Hut on Tatooine,(SW6 Return Of The Jedi). Hoping one day he has his own series based on novel stories centered on him sometime in the not-too-distant future and look forward to it when it happens.
Fun Fact: The opening scene was actually a screen (sort of like a tablet) and was filmed with a camera that pointed to it.
That’s really cool!
Nowadays, with digital technology, we know they do the opening crawls now in computer.
"To create the opening crawls throughout the original Star Wars trilogy, physical models had to be developed. Spanning two feet wide and six feet long, the models were laid out on the floor so that a low camera could longitudinally move along the text to create the crawling effect."
The best of them all. Real darkness, warmth and thrills. Never been topped in feel and look
EXCELLENT FILM !!!! ONE OF THE BEST FILMS EVER
The cinerama in San Diego was a lovely theatre with a gigantic screen. I saw it on its premiere night. We arrived 2.5!hours before doors opened so we were late. Once in while it seemed everyone was getting their sugar and popcorn fix in place we scouted places to sit. In the smoky haze we searched every aisle but there were jackets on every chair and the response was “ sorry this seat taken.” We found our seats close to the front. Worth every second of hassle. Amazing experience. Way too much tun. More than exceeded expectations. Came back the next day. Good times.
my father grew up with the original theatrical version of The Empire Strikes Back. he was a kid at 10 years old when he first saw it in the theater with my grandpa back in 1980.
Right, again, the crawl gives us the context for this story: Empire is pursuing the Rebels everywhere, Vader obsessed with finding Luke...
I don't believe the Disney trilogy opening crawls do any of this, which is part of the reason why no one really understands the Disney Star Wars stories.
The Force Awakens did that perfectly though...
It set up that Luke vanished in the time that passed since the Battle of Endor, that in his absence a new military threat rose from what was left of the Galactic Empire and their legacy, that Leia led an opposing group that combated their efforts to seize control of the galaxy, and that she was making it her mission to find Luke to convince him to aid in their fight, to the point where she dispatched one of their own to a remote planet to seek someone who already has a clue to where he is, leading directly into the Jakku Village raid scene
I don't remember the Last Jedi crawl since it's been a while since I've seen it but it is far better than Rise of Skywalker, which reads like it was written by me when I was 10 doing short stories for English class in elementary
@@icedcapplord710 yeah. When your opening sentence is "The dead speak", it honestly feels a little much like a cash grab
The Last Jedi was not even a second in between the Force Awakens, so its almost like they didn't even need to do a crawl at all.
Nindroidgamer110 At least it makes more sense than “there are heroes on both sides” from Episode 3
@@EmeraldZion no no there are heroes on both sides is such a clever line! Cause it foreshadows Anakin turning to the dark side
The mother of all twists still.
The Empire Strikes Back and The Last Jedi arecthr couple of my best 🌟 Wars movies
Awesome video. This movie gave the dream to me when I had watched.
I’m sure it did. I dreamt about this movie. I had a dream that I was in the scene where I met Lando Calrissian on Bespin and I was also in the scene where Darth Vader reveals that he’s my father.
0:28 just my reminder.
3:41 what’s the faint song in the background while Luke’s talking?
Was anyone else terrified when they saw that drone as a kid?
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Star Wars Was My Childhood 😊
not only my childhood
Can you upload the original 1977 release of the end credits of Star Wars: A New Hope please?
Star Destroyer Stalker launching the probe droids, what an iconic scene :)
Evil Lord Darth Vader obsessed with finding Like” Shows how much Anakin was trying to find his son lol
The effects were fucking amazing
yes they were. I love the special effects part of the movie and it looks pretty cool.
Absolutely mind boggling for the 80s
I know how they filmed the Star ships but what about the outside shots of hoth like 2:24.
"It won't take long."
#FamousLastWords #TheEmpireStrikesBack #StarWars
Just seen this movie in the cinema today it was celebrating its 40th anniversary
I remember that. I saw it with my Dad at my house during its birthday.
The bad part is that here in the Philippines, when I was a kid, Hollywood movies typically took 1 to 3 months (sometimes longer) to be shown here after U.S. theatrical release. Strangely, a pocketbook-sized Empire Strikes Back comics adaptation showed up in my school's library months before the movie's Philippine release and students were all over it. I never got my hands on it because it was always borrowed out. So everyone already read it and my classmates spoiled everything to me. I overheard them ethusiastically talking about Vader's revelation and shit even if they haven't seen the movie yet.
So when I finally got to watch it, the Vader revelation had less impact. But I still loved the movie and I still think today it's the best SW movie ever.
Estoy viejo...ví los estrenos en los 80...pero soy jedi...eso no me lo quita nadie...
Siempre que escucho esto me dan ganas de llorar por tanta emoción 😭😭😭♥️♥️ te amo star wars❤️
I watch this….get wonderfully excited. Then I remember what Disney has done and then I get angry
Don't let it get you angry. None of Dizney's stuff is valid.
20th century fox sounds 0:03 it's chill
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Best sequel ever made
Is the first ever version of empire strikes back called "episode V" on the opening crawl?
Yes. The only one that did not have an episode number originally in the opening crawl originally was Episode IV A New Hope - but, that was added in when the movie was re-released in theaters in 1981 and has carried it in every print since then. Those claiming the episode numbers were not there until the prequels have no idea what they are talking about - part of their spin to claim Eps. 1-3 were never intended to be made because Eps. 4-6 weren't labeled as such until those other movies were green lit. It is complete, total fiction.
My mom saw this at a drive-in movie theater when she was 7. She always jokes about how the droid at 2:48 scared her for a while. Lol!
The Laserdisc transfer is upscaled for the DVD.
I know what that means.
Hey, why in 1980 they wrote "EPISODE V" but in that year it was the second episode?
In charge of planning, Yoda was
Because it's the 5th chapter of the Skywalker Saga. There are 9 Skywalker Saga movies in all.
That is when George Lucas decided that the prequels were going to be a thing.
It’s from 20th Century-Fox and Lucasfilm Ltd.
Star Wars wasn't made that way, The Empire Strikes Back was called EPISODE V from the start because the original Star Wars film A New Hope was written as the 4th film in the storyline when George Lucas wrote it, but it was released as the original film because the other Star Wars movies weren't made yet. Fox only wanted George to do 4 and that was going to be it, but when Star Wars became a success they let Lucas do what he wanted to do in the first place and that's why the original film became 4 instead of the original one in the timeline which is now called The Phantom Menace.
Funny, I only now noticed this... it's commonly known that the whole wampa scene was put together just to provide an in-universe explanation as to why Luke's face was scarred throughout the movie (as Mark Hamill had been involved in a serious car crash in between the first two episodes) and the wounds indeed do make their debut during the attack... except that he has them on his face whereas the wampa had hit him on the back of his head and since we can see him hit the ground, we know they may not have come from the surface impact. Oh well.
The opening theme sounds like it was recorded in someone's house
Well this was 1977 for ya
No it was 1979
PassefickNationallFlaiughatFaan it was actually 1980, we both screwed up the original date
1980 was when it was released, they recorded the soundtrack in 1979/1980
There isn't much reverb in the original Empire
Ryan Johnson, making Last Jedi, took literally his entire plot from the first paragraph of this scroll.
I think they use the original ESB opening crawl on the 2004 DVD releases.
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Can you reupload ORIGINAL Opening Scene | Return of the Jedi (1983) [2006 Bonus DVD]
Man, people lied. These rips of the films look good
Why do they say episode V or five? Wasn't this the second movie of the original trilogy? Wouldn't it be two? Pardon my ignorance.
Because George Lucas planned the prequels all the way back in the 80s.
@@billygray6776 that makes sense
So at what point did Lucas decide that these batch of movies were 4, 5 and 6?
Because the original 1977 text from ANH was just STAR WARS. No title or Episode #
Rix Dyas exactly what went through my mind
The Christmas 1977 re-release of Star Wars had ep IV slapped onto the opening crawl.
Wow...I thought the movies were JUST called ANH, ESB and ROTJ intil TPM came around
George Lucas didn’t put episode IV- A New Hope on the title because he was certain that the movie would fail. When it was rereleased before Empire came out, Episode IV- A New Hope was added. Then all other movies after it had numbers
The reason why Star Wars didn't have a number in it is because that was going to be the only one made, there was no guarantee of it becoming the pop culture phenomenon that it wound up being. It was only after the success of the original Star Wars film that George Lucas started adding the numbers to the Star Wars sequels the way he wanted them to be in the first place. The original Star Wars movie was always meant to be called Episode 4 because that's how he wrote it but Fox wouldn't let him to prevent the audience members watching the film to be confused as to why it says 4 when the other Star Wars movies weren't made yet.
Episode 4 started out with Leia in trouble and episode 5 starts out with Luke in trouble. I love how they mirrored that.
And then episode 6 has Han in trouble at the start
So even when it first came out it was titled episode 5? I knew Lucas always had plans for the full nine movies but I didn't know they'd list the episode numbers before the prequels were even heard of
Christian Flannery yeah, it confused a shit ton of people when it came out
JCX Productions interesting. I heard he did have a storyline for the seuqels to the original trilogy focusing on luke's children but I don't remember where or the details so I could be wrong.
@@JakeCisMe Lucas always planned 9 movies. He just let Disney do whatever they want.
@@Stretchdiazz makes sense
Yeah that’s pretty interesting
Empire strikes back
Best star wars movie in the original trilogy
Most of this movie was great. I think they could have made the ice creature a little more realistically scary. I watched that as a kid and thought that Yukon Cornelius had already dealt with that thing.
$58,000 Computer-Generated Cartoon Elephant!
Comment 118: The original crawl for The Empire Strikes Back is pretty cool.
"Oh Boy! I sure love watching Star Wars II-
What the hell...?"
2006 Bonus DVD of Star Wars isn't as bad as the special edition DVD.
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Totally underatted, i mean the theatrical versions are very rare.
This is my favorite it intorduces my favorite charade Yoda
Hmmm… yes. Yoda this is.
My opinion only...".Empire" is the best of all the StarWars films with " Rogue One" a close second.
Hmm, I think 2:24 might be one of the few instances where I like the special edition change.
I have a bad feeling about this.
Melhor filme de todos os tempos me emociona até hoje.
*The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari (1920) Official Trailer #1 - German Horror Movie*
1900
So they always planned for these to be after some prequels? They even changed Star Wars to Star Wars IV a New hope in a re-release for theaters in 1981. Wonder if people questioned it?
What are you talking about, Earth doesn't exist in Star Wars? Every single Star Wars movie since 1977 prefaces that it does. "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" implies that the reader/viewer understands the time and setting of the story which is about to unfold. Thus, it making Earth a reference point to that time and setting.
Probably before earth was born huh? That's what I always thought 👍
Anyone aged 9years old listening to this music. I doubt you could have existed when this movie came out.
Back then there was no smartphones, laptops, tablets etc.
Perhaps do speeder bike chase? Original vs special edition?
4:00 wampa!
Computerized Cartoon Elephant!
oh, the joygasm in the theater when the movie started!
0:28
Great 😉
It wasn't called Episode V when I saw it back then.
It most certainly was. There is no version of this film that exists without Episode V in the opening title. And this very video is of the original print of the film.
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"stady girl" So it was a female tauntaun. Just as sidefact.
I thought he said steady girl (although it would still be a female)
I feel bad for people 1980 because they confused
that’s right. they probably have a bad feeling about that.
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E5 jest potężny ..
The opening crawl reads like the plot of TLJ...
Beyond Birthday 😒
Hoth
Hoth looks like Russia. Similar economies.
Nothing can be compared to the motherland!
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And this was just on a bonus disk