Darth Vader is played by 4 people in the original trilogy: 1. the body is former champion bodybuilder, David Prowse 2. the sword, Olympic fencer and stunt choreographer, Bob Anderson 3. the face, force ghost Anakin and helmet removal scene is Sebastian Shaw, Hayden Christensen was added after the prequels 4. the voice.. Vader would be far less intimidating without the amazing voice work of James Earl Jones
Prowse basically screwed himself out of being the face. It was originally shot with him and I remember him leaking the info to the press that he was finally going to be seen. Lucas then reshot the scene with Shaw.
That they exchanged Sebastian Shaw's ghost with that of Hayden Christensen is yet another act of sacrilege by Lucas. Anakin's ghost changes its age to when he was young, whereas Obi-Wan and Yoda's ghosts maintain their ages at death. He just doesn't know what's good for him, and what the fans love and what they hate. "The fans LOVED the original three movies. The fans said they loved everything the way it was. I know: let's change everything! And especially, let's change the ending! Let's change everything they knew and loved. Let's change the wonderful music and let's make the scene feel less genuine and intimate and add a lot of characters we've never seen in the movies who couldn't know that the galaxy had now been saved but are still celebrating it, instead of just showing the celebrating of the Ewoks and Luke and Leia and Han." And he thought, "they'll LOVE Jar-Jar Binks." and "They'll love Woke Star Wars and me killing off Han Solo and making Luke - the star if the whole thing - just a secondary bit-player to the strong, shallow female lead they've never seen or heard of before. That'll be the perfect end to what began with Luke." He has such great instincts.
Carrie Fisher liked to make sure she mentioned what Leia did to Jabba when asked. "Yeah, a slug put me in a metal bikini from hell, but then I killed him for it."
@MarkusCrassus She hated that outfit because parts of her kept falling out of it. She said in an interview that when she leaned back in it, anyone behind her got a clear view all the way down.
@@ronaldnelson6692 She didn't hate it at all. She loved it, even praised it on several occasions. She featured it on her own website and in her bio! What she was saying there was just a joke.
It's funny. I was 11 when ROTJ came out. I was old enough to be fully immersed in Star Wars, and cognizant of a lot of details, but young enough to never see Leia as a sex symbol. I always loved Leia as a character. I suppose if I had been 5 or 10 years younger, I would not have been "along for the ride" with the original generation of Star Wars fans. If, however I had been 5 years older, I would likely have been much more impacted by seeing Leia in her "carbonite bikini".
The reason Leia says she's somehow always known Luke is her brother is because she felt a connection to him like she's felt with no other person. When presented with the fact that they're related, it just made sense because of that feeling she's had.
Right R2 knows the entire back story and can't tell the humans directly, because he speaks in clicks and whistles. R2 Knows EVERYTHING. He even knows that Darth Vader is Anakin Skywalker. Watch the prequels Coby and you will see how.
@@Shiznaft1 Only C3P0 as the protocol droid... "have the protocol droid's mind wiped." No need for R2D2 because only another astromech or protocol droid would understand him. Sentient beings would not. So R2D2 has the full story that he keeps from the prissy C3P0 because he would ruin it by talking to no purpose. You see throughout the six movies that R2D2 only lets C3P0 know what he needs to know. C3P0 thinks he is in charge... however it really is R2D2. R2D2 has been saving everyone since the first movie... Phantom Menace.
@@Shiznaft1 Only C3P0 had his memory wiped as a protocol droid. "Wipe the protocol droid's memory." R2D2 as an astromech droid could only be understood fully by another astromech or protocol droid. R2D2 was the real leader of the two. He did not trust C3P0 to shut up and be quiet for his own good. He never shared the information with C3P0 because he could not shut up.
Luke's lightsaber is green because the blue one wouldn't show up against the blue sky. They explained that Luke had to build his own lightsaber as part of his Jedi training.
That and it was also to help establish it is a new Lightsaber for the general audience. There are other reasons but these came after the fact (Jedi Guardians, Consulars, Sentinals, etc.)
It's called sowing (EDIT: correct word is: *_sewing_* ). We have outfits for dogs and cats. Bears too. Even Rosie O'Donnell. People used to overwhelmingly make their own clothes.
I'm going to guess Jabba's former slave girls wore the same size. The man knows what he likes lol.......as for the ewoks having her size clothes, maybe they were from the last person they cooked? Lol
Yeah ... The Ewok outfit is kinda inexplicable, but Jabba has slave girls and twilek women and human women have the same parts ... less the ears of course.
Every time I see the special edition of this film I just groan with Vader saying “no”. Originally he didn’t say anything before turning on the emperor. To me it works so much better that way, a man silently in a struggle within himself and in that silence seeing his son being murdered sacrifices himself to save his son. Way better than the very operatic “nooooo!”
100%! I hate all the "Special Editions". Not only do they make the story weaker but ironically the CGI has not stood up as well as the practical effects. The wampa scene in the ice cave was better before when you couldn't really see it, Han and Greedo scene was better (much better arc for Han), the Jabba scene outside the Falcon was stupid and superfluous, etc., and as you say the "no" takes away from that scene. That is what happens when there is nobody around that will say no to George... we get the "Special Editions" and the PT.
I also hated what they did with the Sarlacc Pit, looks so phoney. I miss the Ewoks singing YuB Dub at the end. The thing that didn't make any sense is replacing Anakin's spirit with a younger version instead of the original theatrical version when they didn't change Ben and Yoda.
It's also no Green Cross Code man either. (The actor used to teach children how to cross the road safely in UK public information films in the 70's and 80's) Why is hole other story.
Vader's funeral pyre is so sad because Luke is alone in his mourning for his father, one of the most hated and feared men in the galaxy. They only had one true moment as father and son and not as enemies, and just like that he's gone.
Coby. There is a little things you missed. 52:48. Lukes face is in half light half dark. When Vader says your sister and Luke comes out gunning. Vader takes a huge breathe. He knows (i shouldnt have but i did) Luke does turn to the dark side. Anakin did for Padme and Luke for his sister. The correlation? Look at Lukes eyes after he chopped his dads arm off. He did turn. But brought it back in check 53:38
I have NEVER accepted the prequels portrayal of anakin. It’s just so disappointing after I had 20 + years to think about what a pre Vader Skywalker would be like. Sigh.
@@wkanost Lucas had set up a excellent foundation for his pre-Vader character through Obi-Wan's descriptions of him in the OT. Unfortunately, while the prequels had a good overall plot arc to set this up, Lucas just didn't stick the landing on most of the details. I think he got so excited by the possibilities offered by CGI advances that he didn't focus on the little things that he should have. The prequels are a lot like a Land Rover--when they work, they're great, but they have so many issues you don't really know if it's worth the aggravation to have it.
It was decades of watching these movies before I heard someone point out how hard it must have been for Leia to hear vader was her father, because in the first movie he tortured her. That completely changed how I see that scene where Luke tells her, all the things she must have been feeling at that point...
Only Han was tortured in Empire Strikes Back The only thing we know for certain in New Hope is Leia was injected with a truth serum and interrogated. Back then hurting women was not allowed.
@@badbone7704 Not allowed does not include being left ambiguous. There is a Clint Eastwood western where he drags a woman into a stable or barn or something and it cuts away, leaving little doubt to what he did. There are hundreds of cases where this happens, an allusion to harm without there being harm, that way they can deny it. It was also decades before many women pointed out to me that Leia was likely SAed by Jabba. I never saw it, but once they told me, I could see SO MANY aspects of the scene which pointed to it. A horror left ambiguous can work on the imagination better than a blatant one.
All Leia's kisses for Luke were motivated by emotions: luck, jealousy, empathy, comfort. But not one of those kisses was motivated by feelings of romance.
It always makes me uncomfortable when people think that there was something incestuous between Luke and Leia. My question to them remains: Are we watching the same Star Wars, or are you looking at a specific kind of parody?
@@raybernal6829 That may be true, but nothing done indicates that the kiss represented lust in any way. Feelings of love for someone can be prompted by many things, often misunderstood things, as they are in this case. Perhaps folks should check themselves for hidden motivations. 🤔🤔
Like, it's theoretically possible to be "twins" with different fathers, so I wasn't upset at that reasoning. But yeah, the implication of twins is same parents entirely.
@@InternetBlog-ww3go Exactly it was one of the physical ways that the Emperor controlled Vader. He also never let him develop a better more robust suit.
@dhavaram8064 Truth to what you write. 👍🏾 It was both a "boon" to increase his Darkside power through pain and a trap to make him very vulnerable to Force Lightning. With only two known beings being able to use Force Lightning. The Emperor and the "Lost" Yoda. The only two beings known to be able to stop or ultimately kill Darth Vader. This is one of the reasons why he would spent so much time in a bacta tank, physically "healing" as much as he could while mostly brooding over Padme, his choices, hatred of Obi Wan caused by his choices, and later on discovery of his son Luke. Darth Vader/Anakin grew to hate the Emperor and waited for his time to overthrow Palpatine. Vader/Anakin saw his chance when Luke was known by him to be his son. Vader feigned ignorance of knowing that Luke was his son when he met with Palpatine through the subspace transmission. Vader was developing an elaborate trap to overthrow the Emperor together, with Luke's help along with his unabridged and, as of yet untapped, power. There are so many layers to good non sequel trilogy Star Wars.
The reason it was so "easy" to kill the Emperor was because he was so focused on killing Luke he couldn't "feel" Vaders intentions. As for why Vader died, the Emperor made Vaders suit very susceptible to lighting, to have power over him, and it short circuited Vaders breathing apparatus.
Yeah. Under ordinary circumstances the Emperor could have killed any potential assailant with a thought. He was so fixated on Luke and so confident in Vader's subservience that he never contemplated his betrayal. He simply didn't understand his love for his son.
@@joshjames582 Not only that. Vader could be saved, he also can call the force as save himself. But he chose to die so his self sacrifice atone for all the crimes he done and turn back to the light. Thus fulfilling the prophecy of the One and his role to destroy the Sith.
Yeah the Emperor was absolutely furious with Luke for not turning. You can tell by his facial expressions, he was putting all his anger and disgust into punishing and killing Luke.
When i was young, i saw these films multiple times in the theater. It was a nice escape from the troubles of the bad neighborhood i lived in. Truly Magical. Thank you George Lucas.
Imagine being six years old and watching this new film called Star Wars in the theater. When you said watching these - the original three - in theaters were a life changing thing, I said "Yes. Yes it was." And that's why I'm such a big fan of Star Wars.
Glad you finally got to meet the Ewoks. The primary Ewok Leia meets was supposed to be played by Kenny Baker, the actor who plays R2-D2 when he dances, but he was ill the day they shot the scene. The part was instead played by an 11 year old actor with dwarfism named Warwick Davis. Return of the Jedi was his first movie. In his honor, the Ewok is named Wicket W. Warwick. A lot of his mannerisms (the head tilts mostly) are based on his grandmother’s dog and the way it reacted to strange noses.
the anglo saxon attitude to kissing in the family circle, lol. there was this one kiss that was just made to piss of the too arrogant han solo. and they didn't know they were siblings at the time. the rest were just pecks on the cheek like any friends, family and acquaintenses do every day where i live.
@@takuid You're forgetting the one she planted square on his mouth in defiance of Han in ESB. Like she was telling him that she'd rather be with Luke than with him. "Laugh it up, furball" Han says to Chewie as he laughs in his Wookie way.
@@Galiant2010 yeah that is "the one kiss" I was talking about. the rest seemed like regular old pecking the cheek kind of stuff (that was not romantic or sexual in any way) to me when I was watching the OT. And that one kiss was clearly to invoke emotions of jealousy from Han rather than anything genuine from Leia toward Luke (not that he cared lol)
Vader's death scene: English actor Sebastian Shaw was the man behind the mask. Shaw was also Anakin's ghost, who appeared with Yoda and Obi-Wan at the end. As others have said, David Prowse played Vader in the suit, while James Earl Jones provided the voice behind the mask.
@@nathancruz9172 ….. Having a different Anakin ghost at the end didn’t bother me much. The abomination known as “Jedi rock” is tops on my list of Worst Film Changes. Lucas had no shame back then.
The reason Vader says "nothing can stop that now" when Luke says he will die if he takes his mask of is because Vader knows the only thing that kept him alive was his hatred. When he killed the emperor he also let go of his hate and could therefor no longer sustain his own life. Thats one of the reasons why the dark side is powerful, your hatred can literally let you survive what normally would be certain death.
if life was that weak in reslity we would not have so many tweekers around on the streets of SF. or maybe they have some serous satanic power keeping them on.
His whole final act in killing palpatine was a big metaphor. Yes, the emperor's lightning is what killed him, but in letting go of his hate and pain, which helped his raw force ability power his suit, the redeemed Anakin got "the final blow" that killed Vader
@@fortunatus1 That really doesn't matter as much as him letting go of his hate. Had he not let go of his hatred he would have been able to sustain his own life for a very long time even without the breathing apparatus. Thats how he survived on Mustafar as well.
COBY! Really fun watching you figure it all out. I'd like to respond to a few points you made and questions you had... You commented on how bold it was that they named the first film Episode IV. But when they first released it, that was not in the titles that rolled up. They only added it for the rerelease a year later. In "Return of the Jedi" Darth Vader was played by 3 men. The man in the suit was an English bodybuilder by the name of David Prowse. I loved that you said Chewie was like a big Ewok. If you think about it, Wookiee and Ewok are pretty much rearranged words to make each other. ... Trivia: The word "Ewok" was never mentioned in "Return of the Jedi." (Then how did we ever find out what they were called? That's a mystery!)
Also in the real world brothers & sisters have been known to kiss that way when greeting each other. Never understood why people react to that kiss as if it's disgusting
It’s not like they were frenching & he was getting down her pants or anything, lol. I really don’t understand why people make such a big deal over it. Nobody batted an eye back then.
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 100% I guess the newer generations are extra sensitive or something. It was a mistake and a misundeerstanding that lasted less than 2 seconds total.
she missed a L0T trying to show us how good she is at figuring out the plot. I dont think she saw rage in Luke AT ALL in his final 3 bludgeoning lightsaber strikes and she didnt seem to react to the hand chop at all. .
@@0okamino funnily enough This is actually referenced in a later novel from the Expanded Universe (I forget which one). Lando and Han are in the Falcon's cockpit and during a maneuver that was rather precarious, Han quips, "Wow we almost lost the dish there." Then he glances over knowingly at Lando who proceeds to say: "I said I was sorry about that!!!"
8:00 if you think about it, we understand our phones by the different sounds it makes: text messages, ring tones for different people, voicemail and other alerts, alarms, emails, etc. I think that’s how R2 is understood. R2 was ahead of his time! Seeing this in the theater as a kid, when Vader picks up the Emperor and throws him the entire audience erupted in cheers! Still remember it!
So to answer your question about there being dresses for her. It’s a dark answer. Jabba had one most likely from another female who was executed. The Ewoks had a spare dress since they liked to keep trinkets… and they ate the woman who wore it before. Also on the Death Star you’ll hear blasters firing… there are no rebels onboard. They’re.. offing themselves.
When this film premiered, there was a cinema in London that was showing parts IV and V up to midnight and after midnight they showed VI (announced by Anthony Daniels - not in costume). The whole cinema was comprised of Star Wars fans and many were in costume. It was a fantastic atmosphere and a great evening.
Yes, I saw the triple bill too in Dublin even though I'd already seen the first two, it was a unique experience to see them all back-to-back on the big screen.
Yes, this is the first time we as an audience got to see Jabba back in 1983. The Jabba scene in A New Hope was originally shot with a human actor playing Jabba, who Lucas intended to replace via bluescreen with a stop-motion animated creature. He ran out of time and couldn't make it the way he wanted, so he cut the scene. In 1997 the scene was added back in for the Special Edition of the movie(along with other changes), using a CGI Jabba that looked like crap. In 2004 for the DVD release a new, better-looking CGI Jabba which is what you see now. In the original scene Han walked behind the human actor, with the CGI Jabba the footage was manipulated to make it look like Han is stepping on Jabba's tail.
This movie is the culmination of two huge classic story tropes. Aniken Skywalker finally gets redemption through his son. And Luke Skywalker finishes his hero's journey to redeem his father.
Coby, now that you finished the Star Wars Trilogy, you need to watch 1938’s The Adventures Of Robin Hood. This movie was George’s template on how he wanted Star Wars to look and feel. For example when Lucas hired Williams to compose the score he was told that Lucas wanted a Korngoldian score. Korngold was the legendary composer of Adventures and many other films of that era. There are TH-cam videos comparing Star Wars score to Korngold’s score for Kings Row(1942). Even the light saber sound effect is inspired by Robin Hood. It’s a trip watching The Adventures Of Robin Hood thru the prism of Star Wars.
_A long time ago, in a movie theater about five miles away ..._ *EPISODE VI* *JABBA THE HUTT, THE GOVERNOR, AND THE BANGIN' NEW SOUND SYSTEM* I saw _Return of the Jedi_ in the Stuart (now Roccoco) Theater in Lincoln, Nebraska. She took up the first six floors of the 10-story Stuart Building. Like many theaters of her era, the Stuart had once been a live theater later converted to cinema. She originally hosted the local symphony orchestra, theatrical companies, operas, touring companies, vaudeville, etc. When she was converted to cinema, they sold her backstage area. Today, it's a theater-themed night club: _The Barrymore_ . The Stuart was one of those Grand Dame theaters: six stories high, three balconies, box seats, hand woodworking, and gold and silver inlays everywhere. There was a gigantic chandelier over the main floor. She seated 1,850. She was truly a beautiful sight to behold. At the time I saw _Jedi_ , she had a bangin' new sound system -- which is a good time for a flashback ... _Slightly longer ago, at a High School about three miles away ..._ It was my Senior year in High School, and I was several days from graduating. The school held an assembly to acknowledge honor students, which I wasn't. Along with hundreds of other students, I'd be bored out of my mind for the next three hours. Then it hit me, like a flash of lightning: _The Stuart Theater is offering free admission to an obscure movie, so that they can show off her bangin' new sound system_ . After weighing my options, I decided to go do the Stuart Theater. I mean, what were they going to do, give me detention? I was graduating in a few days! As everyone else went to the school auditorium, I went in the opposite direction, to the school's main exit. However, as I was walking down the hall, who should be approaching but the Principal, two Vice-Principals, and the Governor of the State of Nebraska. The Governor was scheduled to give some kind of speech about how wonderful life is and we have so much ahead of us, blah blah blah. I assumed my goose was cooked. The Principal and his Vices knew precisely where I was supposed to be, and it wasn't headed out the door. What I hadn't counted on was that admonishing me in front of the Governor would be embarrassing for the Principal. I'm sure they told the Governor how squeaky-clean the school was, how the students are all fantastic, how there were never any problems, etc. To admonish me would be to destroy the propaganda. So we simply passed each other. I politely said hello to the Governor and nodded to the Principal and his Vices. They gave me angry hellos between clenched teeth. And then I walked out the door, hopped in my Chevy Chevette, and went to the Stuart. _Meanwhile, back at Return of the Jedi ..._ The Stuart's bangin' new sound system was not only bangin', it was astonishing. Imagine hearing Maestro John Williams' brilliant score as it shook the entire theater. It was no less impressive than a live performance by the London Symphony Orchestra. But that wasn't even the half of it. When Jabba had his first line, " *Bo shudda* ," the bass shook the rafters and thundered throughout the whole building. I recall being in the middle seat, of the first row, of the first balcony with some friends. The floor and guardrail shook like a minor earthquake. It doesn't matter how good your home sound system is, the music isn't reverberating the steel support beams of a 10-story building. I sat there for two hours just waiting for good bass, and was never disappointed. I mean, at the very least there was the London Symphony Orchestra performing the score, as composed and conducted by Maestro John Williams! So while this wasn't as immersive as the Indian Hills Theater for _A New Hope_ , it was sill impressive! *Bo shudda!*
I sometimes have a hard time keeping versions straight. Being born in '92 and not owning the movies until the mid 00s I grew up watching a mix of my aunt's VHS tapes, renting VHS tapes from the library, and borrowing my uncle's tapes. IIRC my aunt had the special editions, my uncle had the theatrical, and the library had both so it was whichever version was on the shelf lol. But the one thing I do remember catching me off guard was the difference in Palpatine in ESB and hearing him say the name Anakin Skywalker. I was always under the impression that the first time I heard it was Luke talking to Vader on Endor.
Wait what? I thought in ESB he said he was the son of Anakin Skywalker. So when Vader announces he is his father you can put 2 and 2 together to know Vader's name is Anakin? Was that part of the emperor's speech not in the original him saying he was the son of Anakin Skywalker?
@@knightmarefishing I think he, at least originally, only said "The son of Skywalker". Anakin wasn't said until RotJ when Luke first sees Vader on Endor. Which adds greater weight to Luke calling him Anakin and Vader saying "That name no longer holds any meaning for me." First time hearing it on screen and Vader immediately rejects it.
@@knightmarefishing that’s only in the “redone” version where Ian McDiarmind is in full makeup that has since become de facto wirh George’s last bunch of retouches. In the original ESB the emperor only says, “We have a new enemy… Luke Skywalker!”
I saw this movie on opening day in 1983 when I was but a young lad. That ending had the theater cheering. Now, I can’t experience that again for the first time, but I can experience you experiencing it for the first time, and you absolutely did not disappoint! Excellent reaction!
That was an amazing time, wasn't it? It was great fun to see my younger friends experience the original films during the special edition re-releases in 1997, and now years later here. Fun seeing how Coby's having such a great time watching them!
I can remember opening day. The cheer was so loud when Vader picked up the Emperor, you could feel the impact of the sound on your body, pressing on your skull, chest and arms.
Sebastian Shaw was only in the Vader suit for the moment when Luke unmasks Anakin, and for the bit when you see Anakin as Force Ghost (originally, ever since the DVD version he was replaced with the young Anakin played by Hayden Christensen during the shoot of Episode III, to show that Anakin Skywalker died as a person when he turned into Darth Vader).
Except, he regained his Anakin self just before he died after saving his son. Therefore, he died as Anakin with the face of Sebastian Shaw. Replacing the force ghost Shaw with Hayden Christensen makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. It was an utterly disgraceful way to treat Shaw.
@jameslinham2733 He got paid and didn't live to see the change. I doubt he would've cared plus I always felt that Shaw was a terrible casting choice for Vader under the mask, the man was older than Alec Guinness. He looked and sounded more like Luke's grandfather than his father. They should've just put make up on Prowse and kept him as the man in the suit.
@@ricardoquintero7160 I thought it worked as Vader was so damaged because of his burns he got on Mustafar and he spend most of the time inside the suit, only being out of it in a bacta tank occassionally or having his helmet off in his meditional chamber which had the right amount of air pressure so he could breathe without the help of his iron lugn, which he couldn't do normally (or at least only temporarily when he had to, such as Obi-Wan damaged his regulator panel and slashed his helmet in Obi-Wan Kenobi series, he couldn't for long periods of time as his lugns were so damaged from being fried at Mustafar, Bacta could only heal so much hence why he needed the suit and the iron lugn, that's why he died in Jedi when Sidious' Force Lightning damaged the life support beyond repair and there was no time to replace it before it was too late or at least Luke didn't have the means at the time, besides the Death Star II was about to blowup anyway). Because of this, sunlight would be bad for his damaged skin and the air quality outside the mask was unsufficient for his damaged lungs, he got so pale for not seeing the sun for twenty plus years, it was appropiately that he looked like a really old man. It was a good thing that for the DVD edition that they digitally removed the eyebrows as they wouldn't have survived being burned off if his head hair couldn't (it is not logic).
@@ricardoquintero7160 Prowse? That would be a truly terrible idea. As someone who has heard him speak, there is no way he could possibly portray the dying Anakin.
@mevb Damn dude, you went off on a real tangent. No one is claiming that Anakin wasn't severely damaged, his look is fine, but Shaw was 80+ at the time. His voice, tone, his manner of speaking, it was indicative of an older man, not a man handicapped by his health or pain.
"I wonder what his story is." You'll find that out in the prequels as it's about how The Emperor became an emperor and how the democratic Repbublic turns into the tyrannical Empire, and also how Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader and how he got into that suit. It also shows how the Jedi fell and almost became extinct.
Leia was not originally going to be Luke's sister. Luke's sister was instead going to be someone we never meet in the original trilogy. She was going to be the subject of sequels. She was going to be someone already turned to the dark side, and the trilogy was going to be Luke travelling to an as yet unseen part of the galaxy to try to turn her back like he did with his father. However, Lucas said he had so many struggles and issues with just trying to get the original three films made that by the time he got to Return of the Jedi he just wanted to be done with Star Wars altogether, and so during preproduction he changed the story to make Leia the sister. It works as long as you don't think too much about it. A sequel trilogy about Luke's sister would have been much better though
I don't buy Lucas' version of that completely because shortly after we here there is another in Ep. 5, Luke reaches out to Leia with the force and she senses him, leading the audience to believe she is the other Skywalker. All well before Ep. 6.
Heck, at one point, there was a script floating around that had: 1. Luke turning to the dark side… 2. Yoda surviving to the end of ROTJ and prodding Luke to turn back, and… 3. Also had Yoda encouraging “the other” to come out of the closet… and it was going to be Lando!
Interesting fact: The scenes where Lando is talking to the alien copilot on the Millennium Falcon. Lando asks a question in English and the copilot responds in an "alien" language, right? When it was shown in Africa audiences were cracking up! The alien language is Swahili. They were phrases from a translation book. Lando says something important and the alien asks "Where is the bathroom?" etc.. 😂
Coby, I love you You were about to cry weren't you when you saw Anakin's mother die You are totally into the Saga as all of us ... That takes a lot of courage to show your emotions on camera Wow what can I say!
James Earl Jones only provided the voice of Vader. The actor in the suit was David Prowse, until that "unmasking scene", that actor is Sebastian Shaw. Trivia : Sebastian Shaw was originally portrayed as the 3rd "Jedi Spirit" along with Obi-Wan and Yoda at the end, but the prequels prompted the change to use the "young Anakin" visage, just before his transformation to the Dark Side.
I stand by that this is one of the greatest redemption stories of all time when it comes to Vader, counterintuitively. This guy was practically the boogeyman of Star Wars. He was ruthless, cruel, and vicious in his conquests, both to his enemies and his allies. There is not one instance in the three movies where it's even hinted at that there is still good in him, he doesn't do a single good thing. The most we get is that he used to be a good man. But Luke is the first and only one to say he still is. And every reactor says the same thing when Luke says it "What the hell are you thinking?" Then Luke and Vader talk on the bridge and we get the first sign of humanity from Vader. "It is...too late for me, son." The way James Early Jones delivers that line is so subtle but implies the emotions going through his head. Then the scene ends with Vader looking off in the distance, and the body language is such that there is some sadness to him, or else a longing on what could have been. But we still see no evidence of good in him. But inevitably by the time the Emperor is electrocuting Luke, every reactor does the same thing. "COME ON!!! SAVE HIM!!!" He does. And it is the sole proof that we as an audience need that Luke was right. People go from thinking it's crazy to think Vader would do this for his son to begging Vader themselves and feeling so in awe and relief that he actually does. And many are in tears by the time of Vader's funeral. I repeat, the absolutely terrifying, imposing, villain who was part of an evil fascist dictatorship makes people cry at his funeral. I'm actually shocked at how effective of a change this is to get through to so many people with so little. And I fully credit this to visual filmmaking and a certain style of storytelling that is fading into obscurity where you didn't need a full backstory to understand a character
Well actually the first sign of « good » is when he didn’t punish or killed the commander after they made a mistake. It was really well played as the commander was even surprised to not be punished …..this is the moment where you see anakin resurfaced
And thats why there was no prequel needed to "explain" Vaders past. The prequels are bad, really bad. Plinkett said everything there is to say about them.
@@MultiJp51 If you are speaking of the end of Empire Strikes Back, then I believe the reason he did not kill the commander was because he was deep in thought over his son.
Just last night I saw your other two reactions to the other two films in the classic trilogy. I'm glad I don't have to wait at all to see the conclusion. Thanks for making the videos, I loved them. After watching them, I have had the idea of recording myself and my little son when he sees these movies for the first time. It will be a nice memory.
Same. I was watching g the other two and genuinely enjoyed her reaction. I was excited when I saw it was coming out today and immediately clicked the notification for the premiere 🤗...
a number of things were added after the prequel trilogy was complete: in the original, Vader was completely silent when he killed the Emperor, his Force Ghost was Sebastian Shaw (the guy inside the Vader suit) , they only showed Tatooine & Endor (rather than Naboo, Coruscant, Tattooine, Bespin, Endor and Tatooine,) celebrating the victory and they used an entirely different (and much better, imo) victory song in said celebration.
--Luke was blond because he lived on a desert planet with two suns. Once he'd been off-planet a couple years his darker hair grew out. I had a similar change when I moved away from California to the muggy midwest as a kid and was no longer hanging out at the beach all the time. My hair went from kind of a chestnut color to a dark coffee color. --As far as Yoda cutting it close, there is real documented phenomena of this sort of thing in hospice care--people who are dying but have a son or daughter that is getting married or about to graduate, for example, often survive until the event and then pass right after, to a statistically significant degree.
Coby, I'm glad that you picked up on the fact that Artoo-Detoo is the best Ride or Die anyone could ever ask for. Also.... When Coby saw the Ewok die, she finally realized that War is Hell.
Interesting that you called the mini-walkers the "Dodo Bird Robot" as my Dad used to call them "Chicken Walkers." When this came out, Darth Vader came to my local store to sign autographs in the gardening section. (I associate the smell of peat moss with Vader to this day!) He had a blue Bic biro pen in his leather-gloved hand and I was so impressed that the Empire used Bic biros just like the rest of us. He finished signing and swept through all the plants and flower pots in his long, black cloak. Impressive, most impressive.
I watched this in 1983, and back then there was no CGI beak for the Sarlacc, it was just a pit lined with teeth and tentacles, the dance routine was merely Oola dancing for him, and then spurning his advances hence why she was fed to the Rancor in the pit underneath Jabba's throne room, Vader was silent when he finally changed sides and saved Luke grabbing the Emperor and throwing him over the edge. The CGI beak and the song and dance routine and Vader shouting no before he acts, were added for the Special Edition releases in 1997. He also added the celebrations across the galaxy to the Special Edition, and further tweaked this by adding Christian Hayden in a 2004 update. The original celebrations just the the Rebel and the Ewoks celebrating back on the Forest Moon with the Ewoks "Jub Jub" song. Edit, changed 1984 to 1983 as I was still at school when this came out. My memory is obviously not what it used to be. 👍
they had a body builder named David Prowse playing Vader for everything except the Un-masking. One of the things that goes under the radar is the physical acting of Vader. You can feel his emotions through out all 3 original movies yet never see his face. Top tier physical acting by Prowse
Seeing them in the theater (especially the very first one) was truly awe inspiring - the effects were on a scale no one had seen before. That flourish of trumpets with the introductory crawl, then segueing into the opening battle with the huge Star Destroyer…. Practically mind blowing as a twelve year old. The thing that really sucked back in the day was having to wait three years between each one! As a teenager, that was an eternity. (These days it feels like an eye blink!)
At the very beginning of this video… listening to her talk like Leia might possibly pick Luke to be lover, I was dying laughing knowing that she’s about to find out that they’re brother and sister 😂
On the Leia and Luke being siblings thing. I'll give them credit that it was not the original plan. If it was, I think they would have worked it differently, obviously. That being said, I do think the twist is important. I used to be able to explain this thought well, and I'm not able to anymore, so bear with me. Luke's story goes from "Can Luke defeat this great evil" to "Will Luke become this great evil" and then to "Can Luke save Vader?" That last question cannot be addressed until the second one is, and we know Luke well enough that the only thing that would cause him to turn is his love for his friends and family. Vader therefore needs a reason to go after someone in Luke's life, but someone who is terribly important. Leia being Luke's sister is the most dangerous role she could have. It's not just that she's going to be killed, they're going to try to turn her (for anyone who knows what goes into that training, not fun). So not only does this add a level of protection on Luke's side for her, it paints a target on her back much worse than before, and Luke knows it. If she was just someone he cared about who happened to be force sensitive, Vader and the Emperor wouldn't have pursued her half as much as they would knowing she's Vader's child. This was their trump card and it's the only thing that could have pushed Luke to the dark side as it so nearly does. I And when he is pushed to the dark side, and he sees that he is following Vader down his path, that's the moment of truth. The moment Luke wins by denying his destiny and throwing his lightsaber away, and without which Vader could not have been turned. On a side note, someone came up with an in universe explanation on Luke and Leia "knowing" they were siblings. They theorized that they felt a connection to each other through the Force but didn't know what it was, so they assumed it was attraction. But when Leia kissed Luke, they felt something was wrong and so they didn't pursue it any further. Quite frankly, it's the only explanation I've heard that makes it less weird
James Earl Jones was only the voice. For the first 2 movies and this one until the death scene it was David Prowse in the suit-1 6'7 bodybuilding and strength athlete. The actor in the suit for the death scene was Sebastian Shaw.
Originally, there was going to be Wookies that helped out the Rebels and they were going to be quite primitive and not technologically advanced but since George Lucas made Chewbacca a Wookie and made him to be good with technology, that plan fell apart, so he created the Ewoks (Ewok is Wookie backwards minus the I and only one O) and made them diminutive to contrast with Chewie (turned out to be a smart decision as it was easier to find a bunch of little people than getting guys that are around 6 foot 6).
Obi-wan: The other Yoda spoke of is your twin sister. Coby: What? Luke: Leia. Leia is my sister. Coby: WHAT?!?! Then the realization of what happened between the two sinks in.... That reaction is priceless!
It's surprisingly fun to watch your reactions to films I have been a fan of for decades. My friends and I have watched these films so often that we know the dialogue by heart. To see someone experience it for the first time reinforces our love for these films. Thank you for doing this
As Luke told the Emperor, his greatest weakness was his overconfidence. Vader had attempted to rebel against Palpatine multiple times before this movie, but was defeated each time. After seeing Vader supposedly not affected by Luke's attempts to bring him back from the Dark Side, Palpatine was confident Vader would remain his servant and didn't view him as a threat while torturing Luke. The last Jedi and student of Yoda and Obi-Wan would be slowly tortured to death. But when Anakin rebelled, Palpatine was beyond pissed and upped the lightning to lethal levels to ensure Anakin would die for his defiance. But being willing to sacrifice your life to save someone is a Light Side trait, as a Dark Sider could never feel that way.
How do more reacters not notice Vader's labored breathing immediately after getting electrocuted by the Emperor? He has a respirator that keeps him alive, which is made obvious literally all throughout his presence on-screen, and the lightning from the Emperor destroyed it. It was obvious when he collapsed back into Luke's arms that he was gravely wounded.
@@wsbchk_ I am a OG SW fan, I saw them in theater the opening week. I was not a huge fan of the prequels, but they grew on me as I watched my kids fall in love with Obi Wan and Anakin, and realized that Luke belongs to my generation and Anakin belongs to theirs. But one undeniable fact about the prequels. Anakin's character arc from a kid to his redemption is so much better because of the prequels, and the Clone Wars, of course.
It is right....The first movie was written without a plan going forward. They didn't expect it to blow up like it did. So the whole brother/sister thing was not a thought when A New Hope was done. Also back in those times (70's/early 80's) kissing on the lips of family members, and sometimes even friends was a more common thing.
@@wyrmshadow4374 Don't know where you grew up, but apparently you didn't visit much beyond your own home town. I moved around a lot, my father was in the military, and even in the United States, I saw that there's a significant minority of people who kiss family on the lips and it's no big deal. Again, if they aren't hurting you why does it bother you?
Luke losing his adoptive aunt and uncle, his mentor, his hand, finding out Darth Vader is his father and then losing him too so shortly after he saves him. Yet, all of it combined could not match the devastation Coby feels when a rando Ewok dies. Lmao! As expected, she fell for these creatures instantly. It was a real pleasure seeing Coby's reaction to the original trilogy. It is a very rare treat considering most people have seen these films dozens, if not hundreds of times. I'm really glad you enjoyed them, Coby.
FYI, those were not spider droids. They are much more creepy than just that. If my memory serves, they are monks who's brains are carried in a jar by the spider droids. Jaba took over their temple and turned it into his palace and just left them alone.
I really would like it if Coby watched the Unspecialized versions of the original trilogy. Not for another set of reactions, but just to sort out the CGI nonsense and prequel references that were shoved in there.
@@MarkMcLT ... Weird Al was magic and could see the future! In his song Yoda there's a line that says "We'll be making these movies till the end of time" and that's exactly what they're doing!
With the Luke and Leia kisses I always now have Andy Samberg in Brooklyn 99 yelling "Hey Luke didn't know NOBODY KNEW" playing in my mind whenever it comes up
Coby seems to have a selective memory. She forgets that Leia chose Han in ‘Empire’. ‘I love you.” “I know.” And as far as kisses with Luke go, the one in “Hope” was for luck and on the cheek and the one in “Empire” was just to make Han jealous and to shut him up.
I suspect the reason Luke did not just use the Force to free themselves from becoming Ewok dinner, is cos a direct escape would have been considered an abject threat and the Ewoks would have attacked. This way, tricking them into believing they "pissed off their diety" makes freeing the rebels their choice, thus becoming allies.
Colby is adorable, and one of the best reactors I have seen. Completely unexpected. With her unbelievable beauty, I expected her to be stuck up and rigid. But she is not like that at all. She is adorable. I still can’t get over how she doesn’t have a single trace of the Australian accent though. She sounds more American than most Americans. I was hooked on popcorn in bed reactions for a while, but she is giving them a run for their money and hers are a little bit more grounded and she’s more intelligent and a lot less naïve. Being an actress herself, she knows.
Darth Vader needed the suit to live (you will understand it more with the prequels), and without the suit only his rage and anger could keep him alive. When he came back to the light, with the suit circuits broken by dark force lightnings, there wasn´t chance to survive.
@@Ryzza5 Exactly. Lucas avoided the messy scenes of billions of survivors with family members who were murdered by Vader and the Empire calling for his execution.
When A New Hope was originally shot, that scene was captured, with a bipedal human, as that was the original concept for Jabba’s character (“You’re a wonderful human being.”). After this was left on the cutting room floor, they were free to re-imagine Jabba’s physical form for ROTJ.
6:15 The original Jabba scene was filmed for Episode IV but wasn't included because they didn't have the special effects or the character design for Jabba sorted out. Lucas always wanted to go back and add it back in.
Darth Vader is played by 4 people in the original trilogy:
1. the body is former champion bodybuilder, David Prowse
2. the sword, Olympic fencer and stunt choreographer,
Bob Anderson
3. the face, force ghost Anakin and helmet removal scene is Sebastian Shaw, Hayden Christensen was added after the prequels
4. the voice.. Vader would be far less intimidating without the amazing voice work of James Earl Jones
Prowse basically screwed himself out of being the face. It was originally shot with him and I remember him leaking the info to the press that he was finally going to be seen. Lucas then reshot the scene with Shaw.
@jbfox100 Yeah Prowse must have had something wrong with him mentally
That they exchanged Sebastian Shaw's ghost with that of Hayden Christensen is yet another act of sacrilege by Lucas. Anakin's ghost changes its age to when he was young, whereas Obi-Wan and Yoda's ghosts maintain their ages at death.
He just doesn't know what's good for him, and what the fans love and what they hate.
"The fans LOVED the original three movies. The fans said they loved everything the way it was. I know: let's change everything! And especially, let's change the ending! Let's change everything they knew and loved. Let's change the wonderful music and let's make the scene feel less genuine and intimate and add a lot of characters we've never seen in the movies who couldn't know that the galaxy had now been saved but are still celebrating it, instead of just showing the celebrating of the Ewoks and Luke and Leia and Han."
And he thought, "they'll LOVE Jar-Jar Binks." and "They'll love Woke Star Wars and me killing off Han Solo and making Luke - the star if the whole thing - just a secondary bit-player to the strong, shallow female lead they've never seen or heard of before. That'll be the perfect end to what began with Luke."
He has such great instincts.
@@isaklytting5795 I missed the ending "Nub Nub song." He should of been flogged for taking that out.
didn't know the Bob Anderson fact
Carrie Fisher liked to make sure she mentioned what Leia did to Jabba when asked. "Yeah, a slug put me in a metal bikini from hell, but then I killed him for it."
@MarkusCrassus She hated that outfit because parts of her kept falling out of it. She said in an interview that when she leaned back in it, anyone behind her got a clear view all the way down.
Wait! What! Oh I love her more and more e'er quote I found! That's a true definition of #awomanscorned !💛
Even though she didn't know it at the time...she used the Force to wrap that chain around that fat pig jabba
@@ronaldnelson6692 She didn't hate it at all. She loved it, even praised it on several occasions. She featured it on her own website and in her bio! What she was saying there was just a joke.
@@Christobanistan she said in a lot of earlier interview that she hated it because it pinched her in certain places.
"I bet all the boys were loving this at the time!" Yes. Yes we were.
Yeah. I was 12 when this came out, and let's just say, as much of a crush as I had on Carrie Fisher before, well after the gold bikini...
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Yes... at the time...
I liked this comment before I noticed it was on 69 so I had to unlike it. Sorry.
It's funny.
I was 11 when ROTJ came out.
I was old enough to be fully immersed in Star Wars, and cognizant of a lot of details, but young enough to never see Leia as a sex symbol.
I always loved Leia as a character.
I suppose if I had been 5 or 10 years younger, I would not have been "along for the ride" with the original generation of Star Wars fans. If, however I had been 5 years older, I would likely have been much more impacted by seeing Leia in her "carbonite bikini".
Calling Salacious Crumb a 'Muppet on meth' was hilarious.
yes, indeed.
Literally a muppet and most likely also literally on a meth equivalent. HA HA HA
Absolutely inspired.
When Coby said that Leia looked hot in the black outfit, the fifteen year old me who saw this movie at the cinema said "You ain't seen nothing yet"
“he’s not a Jedi yet, he is a brunette though.”
Quite possibly the greatest Star Wars quote I’ve ever heard.
Yeah, ¨What happened there?¨. Had me LOL bad! 🤣🤣
Agreed, that was a gold-standard quote! Great job Coby, enjoyed your commentary 👏
The reason Leia says she's somehow always known Luke is her brother is because she felt a connection to him like she's felt with no other person. When presented with the fact that they're related, it just made sense because of that feeling she's had.
Another theory is that she was referring to being Force sensitive. I've never heard GL explain it so it's whatever we think...
Also, she is force sensitive, which gives her special insight and adds to the connection felt with Luke.
Force feeling that is
There was also the specific connection in Empire when Luke called her for help while dangling at the bottom of the station.
That’s not true, I felt that same connection to my girlfriend, like me, she was raised an orphan and …… oh shit….
Coby, I think the suggestion is that Luke had a lot of Jedi training off screen between the two films, and this was his final visit of many to Yoda.
If you haven't noticed, R2-D2 is the true hero of every episode.
Right R2 knows the entire back story and can't tell the humans directly, because he speaks in clicks and whistles. R2 Knows EVERYTHING. He even knows that Darth Vader is Anakin Skywalker. Watch the prequels Coby and you will see how.
@@Smenkhaare Yeah, but didn't the senator have their memories wiped as soon as he got them?
@@Shiznaft1 Only C3P0 as the protocol droid... "have the protocol droid's mind wiped." No need for R2D2 because only another astromech or protocol droid would understand him. Sentient beings would not. So R2D2 has the full story that he keeps from the prissy C3P0 because he would ruin it by talking to no purpose. You see throughout the six movies that R2D2 only lets C3P0 know what he needs to know. C3P0 thinks he is in charge... however it really is R2D2. R2D2 has been saving everyone since the first movie... Phantom Menace.
@@Shiznaft1 Only C3P0 had his memory wiped as a protocol droid. "Wipe the protocol droid's memory." R2D2 as an astromech droid could only be understood fully by another astromech or protocol droid. R2D2 was the real leader of the two. He did not trust C3P0 to shut up and be quiet for his own good. He never shared the information with C3P0 because he could not shut up.
@@Shiznaft1 only C3PO mind was wiped so yea R2 remebers EVERYTHING
Little bro must have some PTSDarth from everything he went through 😭
"Luke gets family kisses..." truer words were never spoken
That one made me LOL in anticipation! 😆
I had to scroll the comments to find this as soon as she said it😭 "well still a bit mouthy for family"
Luke's lightsaber is green because the blue one wouldn't show up against the blue sky.
They explained that Luke had to build his own lightsaber as part of his Jedi training.
That and it was also to help establish it is a new Lightsaber for the general audience. There are other reasons but these came after the fact (Jedi Guardians, Consulars, Sentinals, etc.)
There was a delete scene that showed Luke built a new lightsaber..
They were out of stock of blue light sabers at the store so he had to buy a green one. It's in the director's cut.
It wasn't because of the blue sky, but because of the sand.
@@jamesf791 Nope.
I just read up on the reason. It was that the blue wouldn't show up against a blue sky.
"How come she keeps getting abducted by people who have outfits ready for her."
I never realized that before. 😄
This is why we need Cobe's unique analysis!
It's called sowing (EDIT: correct word is: *_sewing_* ). We have outfits for dogs and cats. Bears too. Even Rosie O'Donnell.
People used to overwhelmingly make their own clothes.
I'm going to guess Jabba's former slave girls wore the same size. The man knows what he likes lol.......as for the ewoks having her size clothes, maybe they were from the last person they cooked? Lol
The Jabba thing at least can somewhat be explained by the existence of his band and twi'lek dancers.
Yeah ... The Ewok outfit is kinda inexplicable, but Jabba has slave girls and twilek women and human women have the same parts ... less the ears of course.
Everyone's fav Popcorn Roulette - Coby-Wan Kenobi
😂😂😂👍👍👍
Just say what everyone is thinking…we’d all love to see Coby in that bikini… 🔥
*I think you mean Christy Romano.*
👍😂😂🤣
*When my unoffensive comments get deleted, I remove the channel from my algorithm.* An dems da breaks.
Watching Coby watch Star Wars is how we all wanted our girlfriends to react to the movies.
I have absolutely loved Coby’s excitement, joy and authenticity while watching this series. Takes me back to my childhood. Thank you 🙏
Every time I see the special edition of this film I just groan with Vader saying “no”. Originally he didn’t say anything before turning on the emperor. To me it works so much better that way, a man silently in a struggle within himself and in that silence seeing his son being murdered sacrifices himself to save his son.
Way better than the very operatic “nooooo!”
most of Lucas's later additions were poor, IMO. Don't even get me started on Han vs Greedo
Definitely the original was so much more impactful, without the silly noooooo
100%! I hate all the "Special Editions". Not only do they make the story weaker but ironically the CGI has not stood up as well as the practical effects. The wampa scene in the ice cave was better before when you couldn't really see it, Han and Greedo scene was better (much better arc for Han), the Jabba scene outside the Falcon was stupid and superfluous, etc., and as you say the "no" takes away from that scene.
That is what happens when there is nobody around that will say no to George... we get the "Special Editions" and the PT.
In the German Version Darth Vader is quiet. Because the Sound is remasterd in this Version.
I also hated what they did with the Sarlacc Pit, looks so phoney. I miss the Ewoks singing YuB Dub at the end. The thing that didn't make any sense is replacing Anakin's spirit with a younger version instead of the original theatrical version when they didn't change Ben and Yoda.
“Well. That’s not James Earl Jones.” That was hilarious. 😂😂
"And beneath his beautiful black visage is a feeble old white man!" 😉
It's also no Green Cross Code man either. (The actor used to teach children how to cross the road safely in UK public information films in the 70's and 80's) Why is hole other story.
For some reason, I feel like James Earl Jones would probably not work too well as Luke's father.
David Prowse
@@stuartanderws5705 I thought that was Sebastian Shaw in make up.
I think the Ewoks ate whoever wore her dress last 😂😂😂
Me too
You know, that's both entirely likely and really unsettling. 😮
"Yub-yub" means " Eat the weak, "
@@bwiedor could have been from the towani's ship too
Hahaha, I just assumed they had some skilled seamstresses in the village, but that is so much better.
Vader's funeral pyre is so sad because Luke is alone in his mourning for his father, one of the most hated and feared men in the galaxy. They only had one true moment as father and son and not as enemies, and just like that he's gone.
It really is a moving story.
Coby. There is a little things you missed. 52:48. Lukes face is in half light half dark. When Vader says your sister and Luke comes out gunning. Vader takes a huge breathe. He knows (i shouldnt have but i did) Luke does turn to the dark side. Anakin did for Padme and Luke for his sister. The correlation? Look at Lukes eyes after he chopped his dads arm off. He did turn. But brought it back in check 53:38
Vader's character arc is legendary in theses movies.
The entire story is about the fall & rise of anakin skywalker
NOOOOOOOOO
I have NEVER accepted the prequels portrayal of anakin. It’s just so disappointing after I had 20 + years to think about what a pre Vader Skywalker would be like. Sigh.
@@wkanost Lucas had set up a excellent foundation for his pre-Vader character through Obi-Wan's descriptions of him in the OT. Unfortunately, while the prequels had a good overall plot arc to set this up, Lucas just didn't stick the landing on most of the details. I think he got so excited by the possibilities offered by CGI advances that he didn't focus on the little things that he should have.
The prequels are a lot like a Land Rover--when they work, they're great, but they have so many issues you don't really know if it's worth the aggravation to have it.
@@cmc5394oparva
Exactly
It was decades of watching these movies before I heard someone point out how hard it must have been for Leia to hear vader was her father, because in the first movie he tortured her. That completely changed how I see that scene where Luke tells her, all the things she must have been feeling at that point...
Only Han was tortured in Empire Strikes Back The only thing we know for certain in New Hope is Leia was injected with a truth serum and interrogated. Back then hurting women was not allowed.
@@badbone7704 Not allowed does not include being left ambiguous. There is a Clint Eastwood western where he drags a woman into a stable or barn or something and it cuts away, leaving little doubt to what he did. There are hundreds of cases where this happens, an allusion to harm without there being harm, that way they can deny it.
It was also decades before many women pointed out to me that Leia was likely SAed by Jabba. I never saw it, but once they told me, I could see SO MANY aspects of the scene which pointed to it. A horror left ambiguous can work on the imagination better than a blatant one.
All Leia's kisses for Luke were motivated by emotions: luck, jealousy, empathy, comfort. But not one of those kisses was motivated by feelings of romance.
Great way of putting it - this needs to be rolled out to so many people that don't get that.
George Lucas didn't decide that Luke and Leia were siblings and twins until late into the filming of ESB. So those kisses were what they were. 😊
I don’t know, I’m pretty sure he nailed her.
It always makes me uncomfortable when people think that there was something incestuous between Luke and Leia. My question to them remains: Are we watching the same Star Wars, or are you looking at a specific kind of parody?
@@raybernal6829 That may be true, but nothing done indicates that the kiss represented lust in any way. Feelings of love for someone can be prompted by many things, often misunderstood things, as they are in this case. Perhaps folks should check themselves for hidden motivations. 🤔🤔
Something I just noticed. That storm trooper that slapped Han after he snapped that twig was strong as hell! Han went FLYING back!
"They dont have the same mother"
Literally "TWIN SISTER"
Like, it's theoretically possible to be "twins" with different fathers, so I wasn't upset at that reasoning. But yeah, the implication of twins is same parents entirely.
@@Galiant2010 go back to sleep
@@Galiant2010 What....😂😂😂
@@MikeyA5693 Two guys, two seeds, one ovulation, one pregnancy. Twins with different dads.
@@MikeyA5693 It's called "Superfecundation"
The principal in Ferris Bueller's Day off: "So *_that's_* how it is in their family..."
The actor is a child sex offender, so...
Leia is from Alderaan. It's kinda the Arkansas of the galaxy.
@@benjauron5873... Could have sworn it was the "Mississippi of the Galaxy"
Grand Moff Rooney.
@@jerodast ... that's French for "Your @$$ is mine" ...
"A Muppet on meth" 😂😂😂
Jabba was smoking 🚬 a hookah.
That and snow wookie were hilarious 🤣
I thought that perfectly described Salacious Crumb!
My new rock band is now called "Muppets on Meth"
That was a great line. lol
The Emperor's lightning destroyed the suit that kept Vader Alive
And also electrocuted his body (or what was left of it). But the damage to his life-support system inside his armor was evidently the main factor.
@@InternetBlog-ww3go Exactly it was one of the physical ways that the Emperor controlled Vader. He also never let him develop a better more robust suit.
Canonically, the suit is supposed to cause Vader extreme pain so it fuels his dark side power.
@dhavaram8064 Truth to what you write. 👍🏾 It was both a "boon" to increase his Darkside power through pain and a trap to make him very vulnerable to Force Lightning. With only two known beings being able to use Force Lightning. The Emperor and the "Lost" Yoda. The only two beings known to be able to stop or ultimately kill Darth Vader. This is one of the reasons why he would spent so much time in a bacta tank, physically "healing" as much as he could while mostly brooding over Padme, his choices, hatred of Obi Wan caused by his choices, and later on discovery of his son Luke. Darth Vader/Anakin grew to hate the Emperor and waited for his time to overthrow Palpatine. Vader/Anakin saw his chance when Luke was known by him to be his son. Vader feigned ignorance of knowing that Luke was his son when he met with Palpatine through the subspace transmission. Vader was developing an elaborate trap to overthrow the Emperor together, with Luke's help along with his unabridged and, as of yet untapped, power. There are so many layers to good non sequel trilogy Star Wars.
30:28 Coby to Leia : "Where is your bikini ?... " 😅 Haha, I love that 👍💯
The reason it was so "easy" to kill the Emperor was because he was so focused on killing Luke he couldn't "feel" Vaders intentions. As for why Vader died, the Emperor made Vaders suit very susceptible to lighting, to have power over him, and it short circuited Vaders breathing apparatus.
Yeah. Under ordinary circumstances the Emperor could have killed any potential assailant with a thought. He was so fixated on Luke and so confident in Vader's subservience that he never contemplated his betrayal. He simply didn't understand his love for his son.
@@joshjames582 Not only that. Vader could be saved, he also can call the force as save himself. But he chose to die so his self sacrifice atone for all the crimes he done and turn back to the light. Thus fulfilling the prophecy of the One and his role to destroy the Sith.
Yeah the Emperor was absolutely furious with Luke for not turning. You can tell by his facial expressions, he was putting all his anger and disgust into punishing and killing Luke.
He didn't _make_ it susceptible to lightning. He had to use cybernetics to reconstruct him. Cybernetics = metal. Metal = conductive. That easy.
I always like how hard people try to explain away his death but then nitpick a bunch of tinier issues in the sequels.
14:19 mark -- Coby's reaction to seeing Carrie Fisher in slave-princess garb. Hilarious/priceless.
Generally, most women would be offended if the lead female character walked around in a bikini for the entire movie. But not Coby!
... file under #onlywomanonplanetwishingformorebikinileia
"Well... That's not James Earl Jones..." - This must be one of the funniest things I've ever heard!! LOL!!! 🤣
When i was young, i saw these films multiple times in the theater. It was a nice escape from the troubles of the bad neighborhood i lived in. Truly Magical. Thank you George Lucas.
Imagine being six years old and watching this new film called Star Wars in the theater. When you said watching these - the original three - in theaters were a life changing thing, I said "Yes. Yes it was." And that's why I'm such a big fan of Star Wars.
Glad you finally got to meet the Ewoks. The primary Ewok Leia meets was supposed to be played by Kenny Baker, the actor who plays R2-D2 when he dances, but he was ill the day they shot the scene. The part was instead played by an 11 year old actor with dwarfism named Warwick Davis. Return of the Jedi was his first movie. In his honor, the Ewok is named Wicket W. Warwick. A lot of his mannerisms (the head tilts mostly) are based on his grandmother’s dog and the way it reacted to strange noses.
Coby’s reaction to the Leia revelation is like everyone’s. First he’s got a sister? Then eww the kisses… lol
I thought that the kiss in A New Hope was on the cheek, no? there is literally one "kiss" in that case lol. too much?
the anglo saxon attitude to kissing in the family circle, lol. there was this one kiss that was just made to piss of the too arrogant han solo. and they didn't know they were siblings at the time. the rest were just pecks on the cheek like any friends, family and acquaintenses do every day where i live.
@@takuid You're forgetting the one she planted square on his mouth in defiance of Han in ESB. Like she was telling him that she'd rather be with Luke than with him. "Laugh it up, furball" Han says to Chewie as he laughs in his Wookie way.
@@Galiant2010 yeah that is "the one kiss" I was talking about. the rest seemed like regular old pecking the cheek kind of stuff (that was not romantic or sexual in any way) to me when I was watching the OT. And that one kiss was clearly to invoke emotions of jealousy from Han rather than anything genuine from Leia toward Luke (not that he cared lol)
Vader's death scene: English actor Sebastian Shaw was the man behind the mask. Shaw was also Anakin's ghost, who appeared with Yoda and Obi-Wan at the end. As others have said, David Prowse played Vader in the suit, while James Earl Jones provided the voice behind the mask.
I always thought Sebastian Shaw looked like Ray Milland playing a harmonica at the end.
@@stewartstafford ... 😆😆😆
@@stewartstafford That's Brilliant!! i cannot un see that image now !! 😆
Only the original version without Jedi rock.
@@nathancruz9172 ….. Having a different Anakin ghost at the end didn’t bother me much. The abomination known as “Jedi rock” is tops on my list of Worst Film Changes. Lucas had no shame back then.
Everybody accuses the Ewoks are cute, but just remember that they were trying to eat Luke and Han.
And they definitely ate the stormtroopers they defeated.
The reason Vader says "nothing can stop that now" when Luke says he will die if he takes his mask of is because Vader knows the only thing that kept him alive was his hatred. When he killed the emperor he also let go of his hate and could therefor no longer sustain his own life. Thats one of the reasons why the dark side is powerful, your hatred can literally let you survive what normally would be certain death.
if life was that weak in reslity we would not have so many tweekers around on the streets of SF. or maybe they have some serous satanic power keeping them on.
His whole final act in killing palpatine was a big metaphor. Yes, the emperor's lightning is what killed him, but in letting go of his hate and pain, which helped his raw force ability power his suit, the redeemed Anakin got "the final blow" that killed Vader
Also, the emperor's electricity likely destroyed his breathing apparatus.
@@fortunatus1 That really doesn't matter as much as him letting go of his hate. Had he not let go of his hatred he would have been able to sustain his own life for a very long time even without the breathing apparatus. Thats how he survived on Mustafar as well.
COBY!
Really fun watching you figure it all out. I'd like to respond to a few points you made and questions you had...
You commented on how bold it was that they named the first film Episode IV. But when they first released it, that was not in the titles that rolled up. They only added it for the rerelease a year later.
In "Return of the Jedi" Darth Vader was played by 3 men. The man in the suit was an English bodybuilder by the name of David Prowse.
I loved that you said Chewie was like a big Ewok. If you think about it, Wookiee and Ewok are pretty much rearranged words to make each other. ... Trivia: The word "Ewok" was never mentioned in "Return of the Jedi." (Then how did we ever find out what they were called? That's a mystery!)
Salacious Crumb = "A muppet on meth" 🤣🤣🤣
That was the most accurate description of Salacious Crumb that I’ve ever heard.
I had the same thought/reply. So funny.
Stavros Halkias as a bat creature
The kiss from Leia to Luke was nothing but anger and frustration and to get under Hans skin. Nothing more
Also in the real world brothers & sisters have been known to kiss that way when greeting each other. Never understood why people react to that kiss as if it's disgusting
Nah, she was a pervert, she wanted to know how it would be like. Hence why she told Luke “ some how I always knew”
@@thereisnopandemic that does not equate to perv at all. Try again
It’s not like they were frenching & he was getting down her pants or anything, lol. I really don’t understand why people make such a big deal over it. Nobody batted an eye back then.
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 100% I guess the newer generations are extra sensitive or something. It was a mistake and a misundeerstanding that lasted less than 2 seconds total.
I love how the editor included her saying “not a scratch” then when the Falcon got a scratch she wasn’t looking at the screen. 😂
Bro, I yelled at the screen when that happened!!! LOL
I always yell at Lando when he loses that radio dish haha. LIAR!
“I said I wouldn’t get a scratch on her. I didn’t say anything about not losing the radar dish.”
she missed a L0T trying to show us how good she is at figuring out the plot. I dont think she saw rage in Luke AT ALL in his final 3 bludgeoning lightsaber strikes and she didnt seem to react to the hand chop at all. .
@@0okamino funnily enough This is actually referenced in a later novel from the Expanded Universe (I forget which one). Lando and Han are in the Falcon's cockpit and during a maneuver that was rather precarious, Han quips, "Wow we almost lost the dish there." Then he glances over knowingly at Lando who proceeds to say: "I said I was sorry about that!!!"
8:00 if you think about it, we understand our phones by the different sounds it makes: text messages, ring tones for different people, voicemail and other alerts, alarms, emails, etc. I think that’s how R2 is understood. R2 was ahead of his time!
Seeing this in the theater as a kid, when Vader picks up the Emperor and throws him the entire audience erupted in cheers! Still remember it!
So to answer your question about there being dresses for her. It’s a dark answer. Jabba had one most likely from another female who was executed. The Ewoks had a spare dress since they liked to keep trinkets… and they ate the woman who wore it before.
Also on the Death Star you’ll hear blasters firing… there are no rebels onboard. They’re.. offing themselves.
When this film premiered, there was a cinema in London that was showing parts IV and V up to midnight and after midnight they showed VI (announced by Anthony Daniels - not in costume). The whole cinema was comprised of Star Wars fans and many were in costume. It was a fantastic atmosphere and a great evening.
Yes, I saw the triple bill too in Dublin even though I'd already seen the first two, it was a unique experience to see them all back-to-back on the big screen.
Yes, this is the first time we as an audience got to see Jabba back in 1983. The Jabba scene in A New Hope was originally shot with a human actor playing Jabba, who Lucas intended to replace via bluescreen with a stop-motion animated creature. He ran out of time and couldn't make it the way he wanted, so he cut the scene. In 1997 the scene was added back in for the Special Edition of the movie(along with other changes), using a CGI Jabba that looked like crap. In 2004 for the DVD release a new, better-looking CGI Jabba which is what you see now. In the original scene Han walked behind the human actor, with the CGI Jabba the footage was manipulated to make it look like Han is stepping on Jabba's tail.
This movie is the culmination of two huge classic story tropes. Aniken Skywalker finally gets redemption through his son. And Luke Skywalker finishes his hero's journey to redeem his father.
Coby's enthusiasm and animation made this really fun
Coby, now that you finished the Star Wars Trilogy, you need to watch 1938’s The Adventures Of Robin Hood. This movie was George’s template on how he wanted Star Wars to look and feel. For example when Lucas hired Williams to compose the score he was told that Lucas wanted a Korngoldian score. Korngold was the legendary composer of Adventures and many other films of that era. There are TH-cam videos comparing Star Wars score to Korngold’s score for Kings Row(1942). Even the light saber sound effect is inspired by Robin Hood. It’s a trip watching The Adventures Of Robin Hood thru the prism of Star Wars.
_A long time ago, in a movie theater about five miles away ..._
*EPISODE VI*
*JABBA THE HUTT, THE GOVERNOR, AND THE BANGIN' NEW SOUND SYSTEM*
I saw _Return of the Jedi_ in the Stuart (now Roccoco) Theater in Lincoln, Nebraska. She took up the first six floors of the 10-story Stuart Building.
Like many theaters of her era, the Stuart had once been a live theater later converted to cinema. She originally hosted the local symphony orchestra, theatrical companies, operas, touring companies, vaudeville, etc.
When she was converted to cinema, they sold her backstage area. Today, it's a theater-themed night club: _The Barrymore_ .
The Stuart was one of those Grand Dame theaters: six stories high, three balconies, box seats, hand woodworking, and gold and silver inlays everywhere. There was a gigantic chandelier over the main floor. She seated 1,850.
She was truly a beautiful sight to behold.
At the time I saw _Jedi_ , she had a bangin' new sound system -- which is a good time for a flashback ...
_Slightly longer ago, at a High School about three miles away ..._
It was my Senior year in High School, and I was several days from graduating.
The school held an assembly to acknowledge honor students, which I wasn't. Along with hundreds of other students, I'd be bored out of my mind for the next three hours.
Then it hit me, like a flash of lightning:
_The Stuart Theater is offering free admission to an obscure movie, so that they can show off her bangin' new sound system_ .
After weighing my options, I decided to go do the Stuart Theater. I mean, what were they going to do, give me detention? I was graduating in a few days!
As everyone else went to the school auditorium, I went in the opposite direction, to the school's main exit.
However, as I was walking down the hall, who should be approaching but the Principal, two Vice-Principals, and the Governor of the State of Nebraska. The Governor was scheduled to give some kind of speech about how wonderful life is and we have so much ahead of us, blah blah blah.
I assumed my goose was cooked. The Principal and his Vices knew precisely where I was supposed to be, and it wasn't headed out the door.
What I hadn't counted on was that admonishing me in front of the Governor would be embarrassing for the Principal. I'm sure they told the Governor how squeaky-clean the school was, how the students are all fantastic, how there were never any problems, etc. To admonish me would be to destroy the propaganda.
So we simply passed each other. I politely said hello to the Governor and nodded to the Principal and his Vices. They gave me angry hellos between clenched teeth.
And then I walked out the door, hopped in my Chevy Chevette, and went to the Stuart.
_Meanwhile, back at Return of the Jedi ..._
The Stuart's bangin' new sound system was not only bangin', it was astonishing. Imagine hearing Maestro John Williams' brilliant score as it shook the entire theater. It was no less impressive than a live performance by the London Symphony Orchestra.
But that wasn't even the half of it. When Jabba had his first line, " *Bo shudda* ," the bass shook the rafters and thundered throughout the whole building.
I recall being in the middle seat, of the first row, of the first balcony with some friends. The floor and guardrail shook like a minor earthquake.
It doesn't matter how good your home sound system is, the music isn't reverberating the steel support beams of a 10-story building.
I sat there for two hours just waiting for good bass, and was never disappointed. I mean, at the very least there was the London Symphony Orchestra performing the score, as composed and conducted by Maestro John Williams!
So while this wasn't as immersive as the Indian Hills Theater for _A New Hope_ , it was sill impressive!
*Bo shudda!*
5:54 And in the original release Return of the Jedi is the first time we as an audience learn Darth Vader’s real name is Anakin Skywalker!
I sometimes have a hard time keeping versions straight. Being born in '92 and not owning the movies until the mid 00s I grew up watching a mix of my aunt's VHS tapes, renting VHS tapes from the library, and borrowing my uncle's tapes. IIRC my aunt had the special editions, my uncle had the theatrical, and the library had both so it was whichever version was on the shelf lol. But the one thing I do remember catching me off guard was the difference in Palpatine in ESB and hearing him say the name Anakin Skywalker. I was always under the impression that the first time I heard it was Luke talking to Vader on Endor.
Wait what? I thought in ESB he said he was the son of Anakin Skywalker. So when Vader announces he is his father you can put 2 and 2 together to know Vader's name is Anakin? Was that part of the emperor's speech not in the original him saying he was the son of Anakin Skywalker?
@@knightmarefishing I think he, at least originally, only said "The son of Skywalker". Anakin wasn't said until RotJ when Luke first sees Vader on Endor. Which adds greater weight to Luke calling him Anakin and Vader saying "That name no longer holds any meaning for me." First time hearing it on screen and Vader immediately rejects it.
@@knightmarefishing that’s only in the “redone” version where Ian McDiarmind is in full makeup that has since become de facto wirh George’s last bunch of retouches. In the original ESB the emperor only says, “We have a new enemy… Luke Skywalker!”
@@Galiant2010 actually the first time we hear it onscreen is when Obi talks to Luke on Dagobah.
I saw this movie on opening day in 1983 when I was but a young lad. That ending had the theater cheering. Now, I can’t experience that again for the first time, but I can experience you experiencing it for the first time, and you absolutely did not disappoint! Excellent reaction!
That was an amazing time, wasn't it? It was great fun to see my younger friends experience the original films during the special edition re-releases in 1997, and now years later here. Fun seeing how Coby's having such a great time watching them!
I can remember opening day. The cheer was so loud when Vader picked up the Emperor, you could feel the impact of the sound on your body, pressing on your skull, chest and arms.
Sebastian Shaw was only in the Vader suit for the moment when Luke unmasks Anakin, and for the bit when you see Anakin as Force Ghost (originally, ever since the DVD version he was replaced with the young Anakin played by Hayden Christensen during the shoot of Episode III, to show that Anakin Skywalker died as a person when he turned into Darth Vader).
Except, he regained his Anakin self just before he died after saving his son. Therefore, he died as Anakin with the face of Sebastian Shaw. Replacing the force ghost Shaw with Hayden Christensen makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. It was an utterly disgraceful way to treat Shaw.
@jameslinham2733 He got paid and didn't live to see the change. I doubt he would've cared plus I always felt that Shaw was a terrible casting choice for Vader under the mask, the man was older than Alec Guinness. He looked and sounded more like Luke's grandfather than his father. They should've just put make up on Prowse and kept him as the man in the suit.
@@ricardoquintero7160 I thought it worked as Vader was so damaged because of his burns he got on Mustafar and he spend most of the time inside the suit, only being out of it in a bacta tank occassionally or having his helmet off in his meditional chamber which had the right amount of air pressure so he could breathe without the help of his iron lugn, which he couldn't do normally (or at least only temporarily when he had to, such as Obi-Wan damaged his regulator panel and slashed his helmet in Obi-Wan Kenobi series, he couldn't for long periods of time as his lugns were so damaged from being fried at Mustafar, Bacta could only heal so much hence why he needed the suit and the iron lugn, that's why he died in Jedi when Sidious' Force Lightning damaged the life support beyond repair and there was no time to replace it before it was too late or at least Luke didn't have the means at the time, besides the Death Star II was about to blowup anyway). Because of this, sunlight would be bad for his damaged skin and the air quality outside the mask was unsufficient for his damaged lungs, he got so pale for not seeing the sun for twenty plus years, it was appropiately that he looked like a really old man. It was a good thing that for the DVD edition that they digitally removed the eyebrows as they wouldn't have survived being burned off if his head hair couldn't (it is not logic).
@@ricardoquintero7160 Prowse? That would be a truly terrible idea. As someone who has heard him speak, there is no way he could possibly portray the dying Anakin.
@mevb Damn dude, you went off on a real tangent. No one is claiming that Anakin wasn't severely damaged, his look is fine, but Shaw was 80+ at the time. His voice, tone, his manner of speaking, it was indicative of an older man, not a man handicapped by his health or pain.
"I wonder what his story is." You'll find that out in the prequels as it's about how The Emperor became an emperor and how the democratic Repbublic turns into the tyrannical Empire, and also how Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader and how he got into that suit. It also shows how the Jedi fell and almost became extinct.
Leia was not originally going to be Luke's sister. Luke's sister was instead going to be someone we never meet in the original trilogy. She was going to be the subject of sequels. She was going to be someone already turned to the dark side, and the trilogy was going to be Luke travelling to an as yet unseen part of the galaxy to try to turn her back like he did with his father.
However, Lucas said he had so many struggles and issues with just trying to get the original three films made that by the time he got to Return of the Jedi he just wanted to be done with Star Wars altogether, and so during preproduction he changed the story to make Leia the sister. It works as long as you don't think too much about it. A sequel trilogy about Luke's sister would have been much better though
I don't buy Lucas' version of that completely because shortly after we here there is another in Ep. 5, Luke reaches out to Leia with the force and she senses him, leading the audience to believe she is the other Skywalker. All well before Ep. 6.
Yeah, it's similar to how Lucas changed his mind from Vader killing Luke's father to being his father between the first two films.
And in the end the extended universe turned that concept into Luke's eventual wife, Mara Jade.
Heck, at one point, there was a script floating around that had:
1. Luke turning to the dark side…
2. Yoda surviving to the end of ROTJ and prodding Luke to turn back, and…
3. Also had Yoda encouraging “the other” to come out of the closet… and it was going to be Lando!
Interesting fact:
The scenes where Lando is talking to the alien copilot on the Millennium Falcon. Lando asks a question in English and the copilot responds in an "alien" language, right?
When it was shown in Africa audiences were cracking up!
The alien language is Swahili.
They were phrases from a translation book.
Lando says something important and the alien asks "Where is the bathroom?" etc.. 😂
My hovercraft is full of eels
@@nac5901would you like to come back to my place? Bouncy! Bouncy! I am no longer infected
I was 9 when this came out, Jedi will always be my favorite, and I'll always love the Ewoks.
Coby, I love you You were about to cry weren't you when you saw Anakin's mother die You are totally into the Saga as all of us ... That takes a lot of courage to show your emotions on camera Wow what can I say!
James Earl Jones only provided the voice of Vader. The actor in the suit was David Prowse, until that "unmasking scene", that actor is Sebastian Shaw.
Trivia : Sebastian Shaw was originally portrayed as the 3rd "Jedi Spirit" along with Obi-Wan and Yoda at the end, but the prequels prompted the change to use the "young Anakin" visage, just before his transformation to the Dark Side.
I stand by that this is one of the greatest redemption stories of all time when it comes to Vader, counterintuitively.
This guy was practically the boogeyman of Star Wars. He was ruthless, cruel, and vicious in his conquests, both to his enemies and his allies. There is not one instance in the three movies where it's even hinted at that there is still good in him, he doesn't do a single good thing. The most we get is that he used to be a good man. But Luke is the first and only one to say he still is.
And every reactor says the same thing when Luke says it "What the hell are you thinking?"
Then Luke and Vader talk on the bridge and we get the first sign of humanity from Vader. "It is...too late for me, son." The way James Early Jones delivers that line is so subtle but implies the emotions going through his head. Then the scene ends with Vader looking off in the distance, and the body language is such that there is some sadness to him, or else a longing on what could have been.
But we still see no evidence of good in him. But inevitably by the time the Emperor is electrocuting Luke, every reactor does the same thing. "COME ON!!! SAVE HIM!!!" He does. And it is the sole proof that we as an audience need that Luke was right.
People go from thinking it's crazy to think Vader would do this for his son to begging Vader themselves and feeling so in awe and relief that he actually does. And many are in tears by the time of Vader's funeral. I repeat, the absolutely terrifying, imposing, villain who was part of an evil fascist dictatorship makes people cry at his funeral.
I'm actually shocked at how effective of a change this is to get through to so many people with so little. And I fully credit this to visual filmmaking and a certain style of storytelling that is fading into obscurity where you didn't need a full backstory to understand a character
Well actually the first sign of « good » is when he didn’t punish or killed the commander after they made a mistake. It was really well played as the commander was even surprised to not be punished …..this is the moment where you see anakin resurfaced
And thats why there was no prequel needed to "explain" Vaders past. The prequels are bad, really bad. Plinkett said everything there is to say about them.
I don't think io him as a good man even in the good old days. He was a good fighter is the best it got.
@@MultiJp51 If you are speaking of the end of Empire Strikes Back, then I believe the reason he did not kill the commander was because he was deep in thought over his son.
@@jamesellis1972yes and that’s the start of the « conflict » he feels growing for the first time after 20+ years
Just last night I saw your other two reactions to the other two films in the classic trilogy. I'm glad I don't have to wait at all to see the conclusion. Thanks for making the videos, I loved them. After watching them, I have had the idea of recording myself and my little son when he sees these movies for the first time. It will be a nice memory.
Same. I was watching g the other two and genuinely enjoyed her reaction. I was excited when I saw it was coming out today and immediately clicked the notification for the premiere 🤗...
a number of things were added after the prequel trilogy was complete: in the original, Vader was completely silent when he killed the Emperor, his Force Ghost was Sebastian Shaw (the guy inside the Vader suit) , they only showed Tatooine & Endor (rather than Naboo, Coruscant, Tattooine, Bespin, Endor and Tatooine,) celebrating the victory and they used an entirely different (and much better, imo) victory song in said celebration.
They did not show Tatooine celebrating in the theatrical version. Only Endor.
I miss "Yub Nub"
--Luke was blond because he lived on a desert planet with two suns. Once he'd been off-planet a couple years his darker hair grew out. I had a similar change when I moved away from California to the muggy midwest as a kid and was no longer hanging out at the beach all the time. My hair went from kind of a chestnut color to a dark coffee color.
--As far as Yoda cutting it close, there is real documented phenomena of this sort of thing in hospice care--people who are dying but have a son or daughter that is getting married or about to graduate, for example, often survive until the event and then pass right after, to a statistically significant degree.
Coby, I'm glad that you picked up on the fact that Artoo-Detoo is the best Ride or Die anyone could ever ask for. Also.... When Coby saw the Ewok die, she finally realized that War is Hell.
Interesting that you called the mini-walkers the "Dodo Bird Robot" as my Dad used to call them "Chicken Walkers." When this came out, Darth Vader came to my local store to sign autographs in the gardening section. (I associate the smell of peat moss with Vader to this day!) He had a blue Bic biro pen in his leather-gloved hand and I was so impressed that the Empire used Bic biros just like the rest of us. He finished signing and swept through all the plants and flower pots in his long, black cloak. Impressive, most impressive.
I watched this in 1983, and back then there was no CGI beak for the Sarlacc, it was just a pit lined with teeth and tentacles, the dance routine was merely Oola dancing for him, and then spurning his advances hence why she was fed to the Rancor in the pit underneath Jabba's throne room, Vader was silent when he finally changed sides and saved Luke grabbing the Emperor and throwing him over the edge. The CGI beak and the song and dance routine and Vader shouting no before he acts, were added for the Special Edition releases in 1997. He also added the celebrations across the galaxy to the Special Edition, and further tweaked this by adding Christian Hayden in a 2004 update.
The original celebrations just the the Rebel and the Ewoks celebrating back on the Forest Moon with the Ewoks "Jub Jub" song.
Edit, changed 1984 to 1983 as I was still at school when this came out. My memory is obviously not what it used to be. 👍
I miss the "jub jub" song.
i rememember. and Ewoks singing at the end, instead of the drum and flute new age thing.
i guess the internet developed in the universe allowing the Empire,'s end to go suddenly viral.
@@dneill8493lol, it was cute.
they had a body builder named David Prowse playing Vader for everything except the Un-masking. One of the things that goes under the radar is the physical acting of Vader. You can feel his emotions through out all 3 original movies yet never see his face. Top tier physical acting by Prowse
Bob Anderson was Vader during duels.
Yeah, Prowse was taken away in the duels because he couldn’t fight.
Seeing them in the theater (especially the very first one) was truly awe inspiring - the effects were on a scale no one had seen before. That flourish of trumpets with the introductory crawl, then segueing into the opening battle with the huge Star Destroyer…. Practically mind blowing as a twelve year old. The thing that really sucked back in the day was having to wait three years between each one! As a teenager, that was an eternity. (These days it feels like an eye blink!)
Luke has compassion and generosity like his mom padme
Leia is rowdy and fearless like her dad Anakin
Thats how i always seen it
Coby: "Well, still a bit mouthy for family". - I would say so. 😄
Coby: "Ewww!" - Exactly 😄
At the very beginning of this video… listening to her talk like Leia might possibly pick Luke to be lover, I was dying laughing knowing that she’s about to find out that they’re brother and sister 😂
On the Leia and Luke being siblings thing. I'll give them credit that it was not the original plan. If it was, I think they would have worked it differently, obviously.
That being said, I do think the twist is important. I used to be able to explain this thought well, and I'm not able to anymore, so bear with me.
Luke's story goes from "Can Luke defeat this great evil" to "Will Luke become this great evil" and then to "Can Luke save Vader?" That last question cannot be addressed until the second one is, and we know Luke well enough that the only thing that would cause him to turn is his love for his friends and family. Vader therefore needs a reason to go after someone in Luke's life, but someone who is terribly important. Leia being Luke's sister is the most dangerous role she could have. It's not just that she's going to be killed, they're going to try to turn her (for anyone who knows what goes into that training, not fun). So not only does this add a level of protection on Luke's side for her, it paints a target on her back much worse than before, and Luke knows it. If she was just someone he cared about who happened to be force sensitive, Vader and the Emperor wouldn't have pursued her half as much as they would knowing she's Vader's child. This was their trump card and it's the only thing that could have pushed Luke to the dark side as it so nearly does. I
And when he is pushed to the dark side, and he sees that he is following Vader down his path, that's the moment of truth. The moment Luke wins by denying his destiny and throwing his lightsaber away, and without which Vader could not have been turned.
On a side note, someone came up with an in universe explanation on Luke and Leia "knowing" they were siblings. They theorized that they felt a connection to each other through the Force but didn't know what it was, so they assumed it was attraction. But when Leia kissed Luke, they felt something was wrong and so they didn't pursue it any further. Quite frankly, it's the only explanation I've heard that makes it less weird
James Earl Jones was only the voice. For the first 2 movies and this one until the death scene it was David Prowse in the suit-1 6'7 bodybuilding and strength athlete. The actor in the suit for the death scene was Sebastian Shaw.
Originally, there was going to be Wookies that helped out the Rebels and they were going to be quite primitive and not technologically advanced but since George Lucas made Chewbacca a Wookie and made him to be good with technology, that plan fell apart, so he created the Ewoks (Ewok is Wookie backwards minus the I and only one O) and made them diminutive to contrast with Chewie (turned out to be a smart decision as it was easier to find a bunch of little people than getting guys that are around 6 foot 6).
Obi-wan: The other Yoda spoke of is your twin sister.
Coby: What?
Luke: Leia. Leia is my sister.
Coby: WHAT?!?!
Then the realization of what happened between the two sinks in....
That reaction is priceless!
The rebellion rescued by a platoon of primitive teddy bears. Props to those deemed humble and insignificant!!
It's surprisingly fun to watch your reactions to films I have been a fan of for decades. My friends and I have watched these films so often that we know the dialogue by heart. To see someone experience it for the first time reinforces our love for these films. Thank you for doing this
"He's the last big baddie dodo-bird." Now, there's a phrase I haven't heard in a long time. (Nor have I ever seen this kind of enthusiasm for Ewoks.)
Yeah, really. The general verdict among us who saw the OT in theaters was that they sucked. But she makes me want to give them another chance...
As Luke told the Emperor, his greatest weakness was his overconfidence. Vader had attempted to rebel against Palpatine multiple times before this movie, but was defeated each time. After seeing Vader supposedly not affected by Luke's attempts to bring him back from the Dark Side, Palpatine was confident Vader would remain his servant and didn't view him as a threat while torturing Luke. The last Jedi and student of Yoda and Obi-Wan would be slowly tortured to death.
But when Anakin rebelled, Palpatine was beyond pissed and upped the lightning to lethal levels to ensure Anakin would die for his defiance. But being willing to sacrifice your life to save someone is a Light Side trait, as a Dark Sider could never feel that way.
How do more reacters not notice Vader's labored breathing immediately after getting electrocuted by the Emperor? He has a respirator that keeps him alive, which is made obvious literally all throughout his presence on-screen, and the lightning from the Emperor destroyed it. It was obvious when he collapsed back into Luke's arms that he was gravely wounded.
Coby, let's get serious... Of course we want to see you react to the other Star Wars films!
Or not. There are much better movies out there to spend time with
@@wsbchk_ I am a OG SW fan, I saw them in theater the opening week. I was not a huge fan of the prequels, but they grew on me as I watched my kids fall in love with Obi Wan and Anakin, and realized that Luke belongs to my generation and Anakin belongs to theirs. But one undeniable fact about the prequels. Anakin's character arc from a kid to his redemption is so much better because of the prequels, and the Clone Wars, of course.
It is right....The first movie was written without a plan going forward. They didn't expect it to blow up like it did. So the whole brother/sister thing was not a thought when A New Hope was done. Also back in those times (70's/early 80's) kissing on the lips of family members, and sometimes even friends was a more common thing.
Where? Appalachia?
@@wyrmshadow4374 Everywhere on the world, except prude USA
@@wyrmshadow4374 Don't know where you grew up, but apparently you didn't visit much beyond your own home town. I moved around a lot, my father was in the military, and even in the United States, I saw that there's a significant minority of people who kiss family on the lips and it's no big deal. Again, if they aren't hurting you why does it bother you?
The remake of this ending is inexcusable
Luke losing his adoptive aunt and uncle, his mentor, his hand, finding out Darth Vader is his father and then losing him too so shortly after he saves him. Yet, all of it combined could not match the devastation Coby feels when a rando Ewok dies. Lmao! As expected, she fell for these creatures instantly.
It was a real pleasure seeing Coby's reaction to the original trilogy. It is a very rare treat considering most people have seen these films dozens, if not hundreds of times. I'm really glad you enjoyed them, Coby.
FYI, those were not spider droids. They are much more creepy than just that. If my memory serves, they are monks who's brains are carried in a jar by the spider droids. Jaba took over their temple and turned it into his palace and just left them alone.
Watching Star War reactions is what got me started with watching reactions, and this was a great time. I hope Coby will watch episodes 1,2,3.
I really would like it if Coby watched the Unspecialized versions of the original trilogy. Not for another set of reactions, but just to sort out the CGI nonsense and prequel references that were shoved in there.
The Hayden ghost makes no sense if you watch them in release order now
@@JRSiebz Exactly, and why keep Ben Kenobi ghost "old."
@@steve44t58 Obi-Wan was killed when he was old, Anakin shed the burnt aged body of Vader when he died.
Now Princess Coby, you are now ready for Mel Brooks Space Balls! It’s a Star Wars parody.
Another poster thought up a much better nickname for her: Coby-Wan Kenobi! 😃👍
But not yet ready for Weird Al :)
@@MarkMcLT ... Weird Al was magic and could see the future! In his song Yoda there's a line that says "We'll be making these movies till the end of time" and that's exactly what they're doing!
Space balls is not funny.
@@davecrawley4634 Oh come on! The scene where they talk about “Major A$$hole”? You honestly didn’t laugh at any of it?
With the Luke and Leia kisses I always now have Andy Samberg in Brooklyn 99 yelling "Hey Luke didn't know NOBODY KNEW" playing in my mind whenever it comes up
Coby seems to have a selective memory. She forgets that Leia chose Han in ‘Empire’. ‘I love you.” “I know.” And as far as kisses with Luke go, the one in “Hope” was for luck and on the cheek and the one in “Empire” was just to make Han jealous and to shut him up.
Luke said exactly like his mom said that there's still good in him(Anakin)
“Muppet on meth” is accurate for most of the denizens of Jabba’s Palace.
Just from time to time, your smile makes you look like Carrie Fisher.
I suspect the reason Luke did not just use the Force to free themselves from becoming Ewok dinner, is cos a direct escape would have been considered an abject threat and the Ewoks would have attacked. This way, tricking them into believing they "pissed off their diety" makes freeing the rebels their choice, thus becoming allies.
Colby is adorable, and one of the best reactors I have seen. Completely unexpected. With her unbelievable beauty, I expected her to be stuck up and rigid. But she is not like that at all. She is adorable. I still can’t get over how she doesn’t have a single trace of the Australian accent though. She sounds more American than most Americans. I was hooked on popcorn in bed reactions for a while, but she is giving them a run for their money and hers are a little bit more grounded and she’s more intelligent and a lot less naïve. Being an actress herself, she knows.
Timeline of Han Solo being frozen in Carbonite is about a year. It had never been written for certain. 😊
I think the earlier continuity placed in at more like six months, but I could be remembering wrong. Or newer stories changed it.
Wrong, the correct answer is : no one gives a shit!
Darth Vader needed the suit to live (you will understand it more with the prequels), and without the suit only his rage and anger could keep him alive. When he came back to the light, with the suit circuits broken by dark force lightnings, there wasn´t chance to survive.
Also if he stayed alive the new republic would still want him prosecuted.
@@Ryzza5 Exactly. Lucas avoided the messy scenes of billions of survivors with family members who were murdered by Vader and the Empire calling for his execution.
'You are right we didn' t see Jabba until Jedi. The scene of Jabba in A New Hope was inserted for the special editions.
When A New Hope was originally shot, that scene was captured, with a bipedal human, as that was the original concept for Jabba’s character (“You’re a wonderful human being.”). After this was left on the cutting room floor, they were free to re-imagine Jabba’s physical form for ROTJ.
6:15 The original Jabba scene was filmed for Episode IV but wasn't included because they didn't have the special effects or the character design for Jabba sorted out. Lucas always wanted to go back and add it back in.
Coby: Luke gets the friendly family kisses.
Everyone:😂😂😂😂😂😂💀