Grogu is not baby Yoda, they just call him that. He is a toddler member of the same species as Yoda.
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
I never realised lmaoooo
@shrodingerschat22585 ай бұрын
Right, we're never told what species Yoda and Grogu are. When we saw Grogu for the first time, since we didn't know what to call him we just said "its a baby yoda," and it kinda stuck.
@BillHughes-hz8ei5 ай бұрын
@@shrodingerschat2258 I said it was a baby Yaddle. 😆😆
@immanuel_cunt76885 ай бұрын
Grogu is a Disney Dollar Yoda!
@Rainbow.Pegacorn.Cosplay5 ай бұрын
Grogu by his undisclosed species' standard IS a baby, but is canonically 50 years old.
@Michael755795 ай бұрын
A clear indication of how not-ready Luke is to face Vader: Vader's fighting one-handed most of the time and still winning.
@zedwpd5 ай бұрын
Solo didn't give Leia an ultimatum, "tell me how you feel about me and I'll stay." He never said that, so he wasn't being petty. He was going to see Jabba no matter what. He just wanted her to admit her feelings before he left.
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
Oooo makes sense!
@brucechmiel79645 ай бұрын
@@icedquokka something you have to understand and a lot of reactors. Don’t realize this for some reason. Three years have passed between the events of the first movie and the second. In those three years, Han Solo has given up his entire life for rebellion because of her. They have been through many adventures together in this interim time. I have an intermittent more than one occasion. Han knows his limits, Han knows where he stands with her and how much he can get away with. They both love each other, the problem is, she’s so wrapped up in a mission that she can’t afford the law herself to reciprocate those kinds of feelings though, he can see right through her. While he’s been saying it for three years without so much as a word but through his actions. They are both far too prideful for their own good. The entire point of the love story of this chapter is that Han has been trying to get Leia to admit to her self that she’s in love with him. While the line “I Know” was ad-libbed, it’s completely in keeping with his character. As he is really telling her, “I won.” I guess it’s a comforting thought. When you know you’re not gonna see her again.
@ghostbeetle29505 ай бұрын
@@brucechmiel7964 To be fair, Han didn't stay JUST because of Leia. At the beginning of Empire you can see that that thing is still VERY tentative and only starting to blossom. It's not made explicit, but he clearly also has grown to care about Luke (so has Chewie), like a little brother. We don't learn a lot about Han's backstory in the movies, but it is generally accepted knowledge that he only became a "loner space pirate" because he fell afoul of the Empire when he freed a group of Wookie slaves as a young flight officer, fresh from the academy. Falling in with the Rebels allowed him to reawaken his dreams of serving a greater purpose. Han has a lot to offer, the rebels accept and appreciate him for it and gave him a place to belong.
@ulfgard47345 ай бұрын
@@brucechmiel7964 To be fair, the film doesn't really make the passage of time very clear at all- either between films or during them. I don't know if it's in the novelizations or other supplemental materials, but even though time is clearly passing it's difficult to gauge just how much from the film alone. I actually have sort of the same issue with Luke's training sequences with Yoda, I might add.
@Green-ader4 ай бұрын
@@icedquokkathe reason why obi-wan vaporized into thin air is because he turned into a force ghost meaning he became one with the force, and he turned into a force ghost before Darth Vader hit him with his lightsaber
@drigerdranzer75145 ай бұрын
When Tarkin said that the Jedis were extinct in the first movie nobody did know that Ben and Yoda still existed. Both were living in exile keeping the belief that they were gone alive. That's also why Vader say things like "Obi-Wan have taught you well". He don't know that Yoda still is alive.
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
Oooooo i didn’t catch that!! Hopefully luke keeps yodas secret
@Jackalos15 ай бұрын
I'm not sure that's strictly true. Nobody had reason to believe Yoda was dead either. Vader saw Luke was with Ben on the Death Star, so he naturally assumed it was Ben's training.
@slchance88395 ай бұрын
100% Just the context alone helps. In the first movie, Luke says "if theres a bright center to the universe, you're in the place it's farthest from," and "Ben," hasnt used his real name "General Obiwan Kenobi," since "oh...before you were born"(Luke is about 19 or 20). So clearly, ben has changed his name and had been in hiding for 2 decades. Same thing with Yoda, he's on this swamp planet that is so remote and so low tech that he has to steal Luke's flashlight (lamp) because he probably has to use candles to see at night. If you're a legendary Jedi Master, you should be in some high profile high prestige location, not living under a tree in a swamp. Like Ben, Yoda is clearly in hiding from the rest of the universe in a hard-to-reach and hard-to-see location.
@Jackalos15 ай бұрын
@@williamshelton4318 a bit different if it's a fugitive capable of retreating to another planet though
@StarkRG5 ай бұрын
@@williamshelton4318Not to mention that he was hiding near at least one area with a strong Dark Side imprint which would have shielded him from anyone looking for him through the Force, and the abundance and density of life on the planet would have masked him from sensors. In the extended universe lore, these are also the reasons the rebel base was located in an ancient temple on one of the moons of Yavin. The temple was created and inhabited by Dark Side adherents for several thousand years, creating an imprint, while the life of the junglr would hide them from casual scans. Dunno how all that fits into the Disneyverse now, though.
@mikeburke87725 ай бұрын
Luke encountered the vision of Vader in the cave because the cave was a place where the dark side thrived. Yoda said the only thing in the cave was “that which you take with you.” He took his lightsaber so in his vision he needed to use it. His face was under the helmet because he was scared that he’d turn into the monster. His own potential for darkness was amongst what he brought into the cave with him.
@domingocurbelomorales86355 ай бұрын
The kiss to Luke it´s clearly to put Han jealous.
@tehawfulestface13375 ай бұрын
No CGI yet. The TaunTaun was animated, the technique was called go-motion. It is the same as stop-motion, the main difference is when the camera takes a picture, the model of the figure actually moves just a little so that the figure in the picture is blurred a bit. Just like what a moving life form looks like when you film it. The result is a little more convincing than stop-motion. For the Imperial Walkers traditional stop-motion was used. The jerkiness is just perfect for a mechanical monster. Models of Walkers ranged in size from a cat to that of a pony. Larger models were used to make collapsing Walkers more realistic. Yoda is a muppet created by the same artists from Sesame Street. Yoda is 800 years old. Grogu is 50 in The Mandalorian. Grogu I think is about 25 (?) years old at the time of The Empire Strikes Back. For now, I can tell you that when Obiwan was killed, he instantly became part of the Force. Remember what he said, “if you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.” This is the first time you see Carbon Freezing. You remember it on the first episode of The Mandalorian. Han did not say I love you back to Leia, to upset her, make her angry enough to keep on fighting without him. In the novel Luke chose death rather than joining Darth Vader. He jumped to his death, but the city’s vacuum tubes sucked him out the bottom. He did not plan that. You did great understanding the Force, the light side and the temptation of the Dark Side.
@daveofyorkshire3015 ай бұрын
The first film with CGI was 1973, so CGI did exist.
@zarabada61255 ай бұрын
This is a post-special edition version. There is a mixture of late 1970s physical effects, 1990s special edition CGI and then updated CGI added at several points since then (Lucas kept going back to tweak things). A first time viewer would find it difficult to distinguish original material from the updates.
@daveofyorkshire3015 ай бұрын
@@zarabada6125 True, there are several additional scenes not in the original release... George Lucas created "Industrial Light and Magic" (1975) a special effects studio to make Star Wars, he pioneered a lot of the methods to create physical and "special" effects - specifically for these films.
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
Omg so it’s like picture stop motion? That’s so incredible 😍 it looks fantastic!
@DanielTate-wt9jt5 ай бұрын
@daveofyorkshire301 CGI existed. But it was not widely used in movies until the late 80's early 90's. It literally was used in like 5 or 6 movies before then. In the Star Wars movies the only CGI that Was used was the plans for the Death Star in Star Wars and ROTJ. It was used in Star Trek the Wrath of Khan, they used it for the computer animation that showed what Genesis was and did. It was first used extensively in "Tron". It was used to create the Owl in the opening and ending sequence in "Labyrinth" with David Bowie, it was used in the "The Last Starfighter" quite a bit. Tron and The Last Starfighter were kind of a movies used as experiments to see how audiences would respond to the CGI of the times. In fact Tron, The Last Starfighter and Labyrinth are great movies to watch to get an idea of how good CGI was in the early to mid 80's. It wasn't very realistic looking at all, it looked like a Nintendo 64 video game. It wasn't until "The Abyss" and "Terminator 2" that CGI became good enough to be considered seriously as a usable medium for film. And it wasn't used regularly in films until "Jurassic Park". Almost everything in all films before 1989 was done with practical effects (except the few instances mentioned above). Any CGI that was used was used very sparingly because it just didn't look good (realistic) until the early 90's. So many people today watch films from the 70' and 80's and make comments like "the CGI was really good then" or "I'm impressed by the CGI" etc. But the films they're talking about had 0 CGI in them. They're all practical effects. One of the big reasons for this problem is that George Lucas went back into the original theatrical releases of episode 4, 5, ad 6 in the early 2000's and added in CGI scenes and creatures. There's several videos on KZbin that show side by side comparisons of the original theatrical release and the added CGI scenes. Since then they've even refined and added in more CGI into the Star Wars films.
@blowba5 ай бұрын
Imagine your Dad who died before you can remember anything who you kind of idealized when you were a kid and later found out was a space wizard/ war hero and ace pilot. You find out he was betrayef and murdered. Later you find out the space wizards/ mentors who trained you and kind of saved you lied to you and your Dad who thought was dead is actually alive and kind of space Hitler. That would tend to piss you off.
@StarkRG5 ай бұрын
Calling him space Hitler is exaggerating, he's more like space Himmler.
@RockinDave15 ай бұрын
@@StarkRGLiterally stole every word from my fingertips!
@bencook1305 ай бұрын
I think the plan all along was to tell him, when he was ready. He wasn't ready to face Vader, but he still managed to do the right thing
@williamozier9183 ай бұрын
Then you realize, he the space wizards weren't just lying to you, they were literally trying to gaslight you into uwittingly killing your own father.
@blowba3 ай бұрын
Close enough.
@visionaryventures125 ай бұрын
“I love you” … Han has been trying to convince Leia to recognize she really does love him. Then, when he’s near death, and she finally admits it, people wonder why he says, “I know.” He’s the steadfast character in this story. She changes her perspective under his influence.
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
He’s so cool 😎
@robertstallings78205 ай бұрын
And Han, through his actions, has been demonstrating his devotion to Leia throughout the film. By the time they reach the asteroid field, it should be obvious to Leia that Han cares for her. What surprises Leia is that she cares for him, too. And it takes a while for Leia to admit it, even to herself.
@robogreek31573 ай бұрын
Because he did know
@camannwordsmith23 күн бұрын
The original line in the script WAS "I love you too." Harrison Ford improvised "I know" instead and they kept it, as it fit both the character and the story they were telling much better.
@lukebarber95114 ай бұрын
Kenobi didn't say the Jedi were extinct, he said there were "all but extinct"; also, while there were individual survivors, all of the Jedi institutions were shut down so as an organization they ceased to exist.
@patmurray97305 ай бұрын
Just remember, we had to wait three years between each movie. With no Internet, we had to noodle through all the questions ourselves.
@robogreek31573 ай бұрын
As it should be. Makes the answers more epic
@Parallaxus5 ай бұрын
My initial assumption that both Admiral Ozzel and Darth Vader are on board the same ship, the super star destroyer, Executor, seems to be correct. After digging around some Star Wars lore, Vader's life support pod is on board the Executor somewhere, and Ozzel was commanding the ship. According to the Executor's blueprints, it is about 19KM or 12 miles long, so, at most, Vader is around 11 or 11.5 miles from the bridge, if the two parts are at opposite ends from each other. It is more likely they were fairly close though, and Vader would know exactly where the bridge was from his own location which means he almost assuredly wasn't using the force THROUGH the view screen, but knowing Ozzel was either on the bridge or in his quarters or a council room, he contacted the bridge, saw that Ozzel was standing right there, and reached out to that location to force choke him. That seems like the most likely explanation that I can think of, anyway.
@homiedclown5 ай бұрын
It's bad enough when your boss fires you over Zoom, let alone choking you to death...
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
Ooooo ok! That would make more sense because they way did it made me immediately think they were on a completely different ship hahaha makes more it wasn’t through video but through feel
@billolsen43605 ай бұрын
19Km long? That's the size of Manhattan!
@billolsen43605 ай бұрын
@@homiedclown I've tried to convince my boss to tell me on an MS Teams call, "You've failed me for the last time and then I'll choke & fall down in front of the customer" So far, we haven't had the right opportunity.
@berranari15 ай бұрын
Did anyone ever think about the possibility of Admiral Ozzel being a traitor to the empire and thus a good person who was pretending to be dumb? I think he was aiding the Rebels escape on purpose and I salute him for his sacrifice. 🫡
@mrcapra5 ай бұрын
Did anyone else ask you: what is the internal temperature of a Taun Taun? Lukewarm. 😊
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
LMAO
@3dbadboy14 ай бұрын
!!!!!!!!
@richlisola13 ай бұрын
🤣
@SJHFoto2 ай бұрын
Haha!
@SJHFoto2 ай бұрын
Haha
@karlsmith25705 ай бұрын
55:43 "What?, He's Not Gonna Say It Back?" Originally, it was scripted for Han to say, "I Love You, Too," but Harrison Ford felt that that was completely out of character for Han to say, "I Love You, Too", and it was changed to where Han responded with "I Know", since it was more representative of Han's established personality
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
He’s awesome 🫶
@billolsen43605 ай бұрын
Han got cut off mid-sentence...he going to add, "...all the chicks do."
@domingocurbelomorales86355 ай бұрын
In the first part of the movie, to heal Luke, it´s called a "bacta tank".
@williamrosmer83815 ай бұрын
remember when yoda said luke was too old to begin the training? him failing to lift the xwing out of the swamp is a symptom of that. they take children who are young enough to not have been told how things are all the time. who don't have a life time of everything works like this to unlearn.
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
Oooo that makes sense!
@ronweber14025 ай бұрын
@@icedquokkaThe Jedi also had a doctrine of having no emotional attachments as they can be used to corrupt or blackmail a Jedi so that's another reason they would be separated from their parents very young to cut off those attachments but IMO it was bad policy as you raised a bunch of emotionally immature people who have never learned to handle complex emotions. The Jedi should have been trained to deal with these emotions rather than avoid or suppress them IMO.
@StarkRG5 ай бұрын
@@ronweber1402Oh, there's a _whole_ conversation to be had about the mistakes of the Jedi, of which the dogma of emotional detachment is a large part, but that's a prequel discussion so we'll have to put it off until then.
@karlsmith25705 ай бұрын
10:17 "He's In A Tube" That tube of liquid that Luke was in is called a Bacta Tank, which contains this liquid, the Bacta, which is supposed to promote healing of injuries
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
That’s so awesome! Cool technology
@billolsen43605 ай бұрын
How embarrassing to floating around in that thing, almost nude, in front of everybody.
@Agadorn705 ай бұрын
@billolsen4360 think of it as a kind of ointment. It needs to be in skin contact to be effective, and the glass tube is for manually checking in on the patient.
@baron77555 ай бұрын
“I know” one of the best lines in movie history. And of course he loves her.
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
It was pretty shocking 🤣
@dmaul19735 ай бұрын
The original line for Han was 'I Love you too' but Harrison didnt like it and had it changed.
@shrodingerschat22585 ай бұрын
@@icedquokkaIt's actually right in line with his character. Solo was cocky and self-confident but also afraid to show weakness and emotion. At this point in his character arc, we know that he loves Leia, but "I know" is a perfectly consistent response.
@petercofrancesco98125 ай бұрын
@@dmaul1973 me too 😏
@Shawn_M5 ай бұрын
They were verbally jousting the entire movie. 'you didn't have to do this to impress me' is a Great savage line from Leia. Han got the last laugh tho... Kinda 😅
@Elfanater5 ай бұрын
It’s always fun to watch someone who gets to experience 39 years of my life of Star Wars movies and shows…
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
It’s a great experience so far 😊🫶
@mattp60895 ай бұрын
WIth your comments about the technical quality being higher in this movie, very true. But consider: To make Star Wars, George had to beg, steal and borrow every scrap of money he could. He shopped it to so many studios that told him no, and finally got a green light with Fox but only a low budget. To make Empire Strikes Back, the studio was all but begging to give him more money. Better cameras, better film stock I assume, better everything! Furthermore, George's team had to invent so many of the effects tools they were using as they were going, and he had three years to apply what he had already learned to this movie. With Han leaving at the start, he HAD TO pay Jabba the Hutt. He would have been back after that. A lot of the effects are a variety of stop motion as you guessed. And any CGI was added later because CGI didn't exist (practically) when Star Wars was made. It isn't stated, but there is about a 3 year time skip between Star Wars and Empire. There is further going to be a 6 month skip between Empire and Return of the Jedi. The Jedi are warriors. They won't start a fight, but they will sure as hell seek to end one, with extreme prejudice. If you're a Sith (dark side Force user) and you encounter a Jedi that you can't goad into becoming afraid or furious but who instead maintains their calm, it is time to worry because they are fully attuned with the Light side and ready to fight.
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
Wow good on George Lucas!
@vincentpuccio36895 ай бұрын
YODAs A HAND PUPPET! Actually a Muppet operated by legendary puppeteer Frank Oz known for bringing to life Miss Piggy Fozzy Bear and many others
@shrodingerschat22585 ай бұрын
Cookie Monster and Grover, also.
@patmurray97305 ай бұрын
SO, much better looking than with the CGI in the prequels. Jabba looks better also, especially from the 90s rerelease.
@Rainbow.Pegacorn.Cosplay5 ай бұрын
I love how Chewie laughs when Leia says "I don't know where you get your delusions, laserbrain" lol The revelation of Darth Vader being Luke's father is one of the biggest, if not THE biggest "Say whaaaaaaaaa?!" moment in movie history.
@mtmoink5 ай бұрын
The scenes on Hoth were shot in Norway during THE harshest winter in Scandinavia in living memory. I'm from Denmark and our farm was buried in several meters of snow that year. We had to dig our way out of the house...it was crazy😅
@ericaschoenberg7782Ай бұрын
I've also read that those scenes were shot like, 20 feet away from their hotel! I guess with that much snow you can't get far haha
@robertseverin17734 ай бұрын
The darkside cave thing while confusing as hell for newer viewer is the force testing luke with his fear and in answering with anger and aggression it showed him what he would basically become
@JedHead775 ай бұрын
40:37: That’s NOT the Mandalorian from the series, but it IS Mandalorian armor. This character is named *Boba Fett* FYI, *The Mandalorian* takes place five years after Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi. Watch that *before* you watch Season 2.
@havok62805 ай бұрын
She should also watch the prequels before continuing the Mandalorian...
@tFighterPilot5 ай бұрын
@@havok6280 plus the entire Clone Wars
@paulcollinsyoga4 ай бұрын
Han didn't need to say he loved Leia. She knew that already. She was the one who had to admit her love, as she was the one who had been fighting it for so long. His "I know" was perfect. It showed that at the moment of his possible death, he was at peace with her feelings for him.
@johnohrstrom51123 ай бұрын
It was also totally improvised. One of the best lines in history!
@zachchow4203 ай бұрын
Between the release of A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, Mark Hamill was in a serious car accident and had a gruesome scar on his face. The scene at the very beginning with the wampa attack was added to explain why Luke's face was so scarred.
@richlisola15 ай бұрын
Luke knew it was a trap from when Yoda warned him not to go-He just let his emotions go, leading him by the nose into trouble.
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
Yeah that’s I’m thinking to!
@robogreek31573 ай бұрын
It wasn't a trap. It's like training in martial arts... you've trained barley and then you have to fight fucking batman. Luke stood no chance it was insane he lasted as long as he did. If vador wanted him dead... Luke would of been dead instantly
@richlisola13 ай бұрын
@@robogreek3157 But Luke was warned several times not to go. By Yoda, by Obi-Wan, even Leia-So he knowingly walked into danger, after being warned off it by the people he trusted most.
@robogreek31573 ай бұрын
@@richlisola1 but that's what makes him a hero... he walked In a fight he stood no chance in just to save his friends
@richlisola13 ай бұрын
@@robogreek3157 Hero or fool? It’s a knife’s edge.
@Parallaxus5 ай бұрын
The time of Grogu with Mando is after this. Star Wars uses the acronyms BBY and ABY for Before the Battle of Yavin, which was last movie with the destruction of the death star, and After the Battle of Yavin. Google says the first and second season of The Mandalorian takes place in 9 ABY, which is after the next movie.
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
I totally didn’t realise omg hahaha
@visionaryventures125 ай бұрын
My take on The Force… it’s an all powerful phenomenon. You either channel anger and aggression with it or curiosity. Channeling one’s anger is easier. You let it get to your head. You think you are a god. “Absolute power corrupts absolutely”. That makes using the Force more seductive. Channeling one’s curiosity enables you to be clear headed. You listen to the universe, in a sense. This enables you to gain insight into the future and past. You will lose these insights if your mind is filled with rage.
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
I like this take 😊
@TazorNissen5 ай бұрын
Yoda and Grogu are two different people, but they are the same race. Grogu was just called baby Yoda because the name of the race is unknown and we didn't know Grogu's name.
@berranari15 ай бұрын
But Yoda is his father, yeah? Unless there is a home planet for their species and their force abilities are random rather than genetically inherited. There was a female of Yoda's species on the Jedi council, Yaddle. She's probably the mother of Grogu, because the time of episode 1 is about 50 years before that Mandalorian series, I think. 🤔 You don't see Yaddle in episode 2, because of the baby. Not baby Yoda, Yoda's baby. LOL When 900 years old you are, some dames you may have knocked up. 😂
@TazorNissen5 ай бұрын
@@berranari1 There is no knowledge about any relationship between Yoda and Grogu. For all we know everyone from their species could be Force sensitive.
@Etticos.4 ай бұрын
I have had a head canon about Yoda’s species for over a decade or two now. You know how the Sith was a species of dark side users and then dark side users of all races adopted the ways of the Sith took the name “Sith” to title their practices? I think the same happened with Yoda’s race and originally they were called the Jedi, and were the first force users who taught everyone else.
@enigmamz5 ай бұрын
Leia: "It's a trap" Luke: Well, springing the trap seems logically sound to me!
@pauljester40783 ай бұрын
Just like Anakin before him
@enigmamz3 ай бұрын
@@pauljester4078 That's the joke
@domingocurbelomorales86355 ай бұрын
The chemistry between Leia and Han it´s simply amazing. "- I love you. - I know."
@Rishi1234567895 ай бұрын
I completely agree with you.
@tru3sk1ll5 ай бұрын
Probably helped they were banging each other IRL
@avatar9975 ай бұрын
That line always gets me in the feels. I suspect that line didn't make Leia mad--she understood the subtext--Han didn't have to say the rest.
@roberthansen43235 ай бұрын
I believe the original line Han said was I love you, but they didn't think it fit the character and one take Harrison Ford improvised that "I know" line. It also leads to an interesting take in the next movie.
@chrisrulton11315 ай бұрын
If you have access to Disney+ then I think you’d benefit from watching Light & Magic - it answers all your questions on how they did the effects.
@drigerdranzer75145 ай бұрын
AT-AT, All Terrain Armored Transport. They also had two legged chicken inspired versions, AT-ST, All Terrain Scout Transport, called Chicken Walkers.
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
Omg hahahaha chicken walkers 🤣
@billolsen43605 ай бұрын
@@icedquokka That's a fowl joke!
@user-jg5ie8rc1s5 ай бұрын
This movie exemplifies exactly why I don't use video chat.
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
LMAO
@mattp60895 ай бұрын
So you meet with your evil overlords in person instead? 😆
@user-jg5ie8rc1s5 ай бұрын
@@mattp6089 Luckily, I manage to keep away from evil overlords. Probably why I've never been force-choked.
@johncollins99895 ай бұрын
@@user-jg5ie8rc1sayyyye you ain't had good sex until you've force choked someone lmaooooooo 😂😂😂
@Pfhreak5 ай бұрын
Email notification: You have a Zoom invitation from Darth Vader Imperial officer: *starts sweating profusely and thinking of ways to steal a ship to desert*
@shrodingerschat22585 ай бұрын
I never quite understood the test of the cave when I first saw it, but the more I watched and understood the movies in context, it seems that Yoda wanted Luke to understand how much he had the potential to become just like Vader. Luke was impatient and harbored anger, and those are the very things that will lead one to the dark side. "What's in there?" "Only what you take with you." Luke took his anger and aggression with him, reinforced by the fact that he took his weapons with him after Yoda told him he didn't need them. As a result, he failed the test. He had to learn that his anger and aggression would ultimately lead to his own destruction.
@Jordan-Ramses5 ай бұрын
Star Wars budget 6 million. Empire Strikes Back 30.5 million.
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
Oh wow that’s a big budget jump 😮
@LazyCommanderLetsPlay5 ай бұрын
Also, only the first Star Wars (Episode IV - A New Hope) was made through a studio/help from a studio (Fox). Empire Strikes Back, is actually an independent film, as George Lucas himself invested and financed in the production. From there he created Lucas Arts Studio and all the other branches, such as Lucas Games Studio etc.
@xaviperez265 ай бұрын
Getting 6 million for that crazy idea was a great success.
@Pinkielover5 ай бұрын
Clone wars animated series. 1 milllon. Each episode
@HTHAMMACK15 ай бұрын
Actually, A New Hope had a budget of about 11 million dollars, which was still fairly small back in the late 70s.
@jerbearschannel22085 ай бұрын
He didn’t choke him though the screen he did it from the other side of the same ship
@williamrosmer83815 ай бұрын
first! i love that the entire time on dagobah luke failed every test he was given
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
Omg he did to hahaha
@billolsen43605 ай бұрын
Never like Yoda too much. He was a downer, sold Luke short, criticized him all the time. When Luke experienced failures during his training, Yoda should have taken the chance to remind him that he used the force to destroy the Death Star not too long ago. You've got to tear students down and build them up to remind them that they have performed when the chips were down.
@williamrosmer83815 ай бұрын
@@billolsen4360 luke also left early so we don't know how much longer luke had left and what yoda's plan was for later.
@rikk3195 ай бұрын
@@billolsen4360 Yoda may have been something of a tough teacher, but that's exactly how Lucas wanted his personality to be.
@berranari15 ай бұрын
@@billolsen4360I agree with you. He's good for a laugh. And he was fun to use in the Star Wars Battlefront 2 game. 🎮 But after seeing the 6 movies many times I think he sux. Like in ep 1 he sent 2 knights to handle the unknown problem and you know what happened. 🤔 I'm talking about the end bit, not the start bit. And in 3 he admitted that he was a failed leader. Not his exact words. But that's my opinion. I don't hate him, but I think he kinda sucks. But seeing him on Luke's back makes me chuckle. 😂
@KabukiKid5 ай бұрын
Yes, this movie used a "new" (sorta) technique when doing stop-motion where they incorporate some motion blur between frames, which gives it a smoother animation appearance. This "new" method was called Go Motion. I believe it is technically a very old method of smoothing stop-motion that just hadn't been used for decades, but this is the first movie to use it as effectively as this.
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
It honestly looks so good!
@DanielAnderson-mb6jn5 ай бұрын
Han saying "I know" was his way of saying I love you.
@tofersiefken5 ай бұрын
The vision in the cave tends to confuse a lot of people. I see it as a warning to Luke that he could turn to the dark side just as easily as Vader had. Another way to view the scene is as a foreshadowing of the big reveal at the end of the movie. Perhaps it is a combination of the two. What have others thought it means? Yoda calls the experience at the cave a failure. Yoda had told Luke not to take his weapons into the cave, but Luke disobeyed. Then he used his lightsaber's might rather than the Force's intuition and wisdom to deal with the situation. Now, again, Luke is disobeying Yoda and Obi-Wan by leaving his training to help his friends, another failure in Yoda's eyes because Luke lacks the self-control to make wiser, more calculated decisions. Basically, Yoda and the Jedi code would not fear the loss, rather stay focused on the training at hand, even if it could potentially lead to a loss of life or other danger for his friends.
@RichWill8185 ай бұрын
His face in the helmet is because he fought out of fear and agression. Which are paths to the dark side.
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
Oh I understand!
@Shawn_M5 ай бұрын
I always felt the cave was like a mirror. Whatever he saw in the cave would react the same way he did. The first thing he did was draw his lightsaber and attack and so that's what the mirror did. If he would have reached out to shake his hand, I always believed the mirror would have done the same thing. When Yoda sent him into the cave, Luke asked what's in there and Yoda said only what you take with you. Luke took his fear
@ellygoffin42005 ай бұрын
@@Shawn_Myou see that he did not learn. He drew his saber first when he faced the actual Vader. Obi Wan drew his after Vader.
@two-bearshigh-fiving92935 ай бұрын
@@ellygoffin4200 except in mustafar obi wan ignited his saber first
@RichardEyring5 ай бұрын
Remember on the Death Star, Obi Wan told Vader, if you strike me down, I'll become more powerful than you could ever imagine. So when Vader struck him, Obi Wan didnt die in the physical sense; he transcended into the next realm of the Force and became a "Force Ghost" who could then guide Luke in spirit
@ghostbeetle29505 ай бұрын
Luke did not have any notions of "the force saving him" when he jumped. His line "I will NEVER join you" was said with final certainty. And the force didn't "woo-woo" him out of the shaft. He was sucked into one of the air exchanger valves we can see lining the shaft, and then landed in a smartly designed debris extractor system. None of this was planned by Luke, but you could say the Force was with him.
@goldenageofdinosaurs71925 ай бұрын
@@williamshelton4318Yeah, I always assumed that Luke used the Force when he was close to one of the openings. The suction did the most part, but a little Force use would make certain he wasn’t smashed into the edge of one of the suction pumps.
@user-ol4qz1cx3j5 ай бұрын
Awesome that you were more concerned about Luke’s light saber than his hand. Great reaction. 👍🏾
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
It’s important to him!! The only thing he had left from obi wan 😭
@kentamikuriya18733 ай бұрын
Luke did not know he would survive the fall. He just chose death over joining Vader and let go. True Jedi
@dampersand5 ай бұрын
Star Wars fans have had 40 years to immerse themselves in the lore so I'm sure they'll be eager to point out all the little details you get wrong, but for my money your understanding and analysis of this movie is absolutely fantastic for a first time viewer. I'm really impressed every time you pause to talk about something.
@vanlawprime66945 ай бұрын
"I know." Is the greatest line in the movie. Harrison Ford changed it from "I love you". He thought Solo would be cooler than that. I'm paraphrasing.
@joshuablevins43405 ай бұрын
Darth Vader is so powerful he could watch this video tomorrow, get pissed off at you, and force choke you out while you were making it 5 days ago. 😂😂
@jerbearschannel22085 ай бұрын
Also Luke is not a Jedi until he completes the training
@HandofBlake3 ай бұрын
Watching the Mandalorian before watching the movies was like starting a show on season 9.
@icedquokka3 ай бұрын
Hahaha yeah pretty much, I just watched it because I love Pedro Pascal, I don’t even remember anything from it 💀
@HandofBlake3 ай бұрын
Well now you have to do episode 1I, II, III, Solo, then Rogue One
@michaelbriefs97642 ай бұрын
Lea kissing Luke after he lost his hand and had to be rescued = friend kiss. Lea loves Han. Han didn't say "I love you" but he does. He's just not that emotionally eloquent.
@brucechmiel79645 ай бұрын
Richard Edlund (Special visual effects) Harrison Ellenshaw (Matte painting supervisor) Michael Ford (Visual effects art director) Stuart Freeborn (Makeup and special creature design) among their team legendary is the legendary Phil Tippett. Who has a laundry list of incredible effects. At the movies has worked on. Still hold up today.
@tofersiefken5 ай бұрын
The character that you mistook for the Mandalorian is actually a bounty hunter named Boba Fett. It is easy to mistake the two characters because of the Mandalorian armor they wear. The two armored suits are very similar, but not identical. (The Boba Fett character has his own Disney+ spin-off.) The Mandalorian (series) begins approximately 5 years after the events of the next movie in the saga, so technically, the character is alive in the galaxy at the time of the O.T.
@slchance88395 ай бұрын
the "Range" of Darth Vader's Force choke: Vader is on the command ship, Executor. The command ship also contains the fleet commander, Admiral Ozzel (the man next to him is CAPTAIN) of the command ship, one rank below admiral. Vader wasnt choking someone on a different ship, he was choking someone]on the SAME ship but a different floor, likely upstairs, since the bridge is the near the highest point of the ship...that giant room with windows. I bet Vader COULD Force choke at a great distance, but I dont that's what's happening here. If you notice, the Star Wars movies dont just spoon feed you information, they dole out tiny morsels of world-building and let you discover it yourself, by having these kinds of questions. According to the technical readout books from the Star Wars role-playing game (1983-ish), Vader's meditation chamber is in the "neck and shoulders" part of the Star Destroyer....a few levels below the bridge....probably so his commute to work isnt more than an elevator ride.
@Parallaxus5 ай бұрын
I used to have the Imperial walker toy as a little kid. Their official name is the All Terrain Armored Transport, or AT-AT. It has 2 or three people steering in the head and carries a bunch of troopers in the body to repel down.
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
That’s so awesome 😍
@billolsen43605 ай бұрын
Those troopers don't make it into battle if one little fighter jet wraps his cable around them and brings them down 30 feet to earth.
@johto5 ай бұрын
Yep, here too, had almost everyting as a kid.. X-wing, TIE-fighter, Falcon, Ewoks village, Empire's shuttle, AT-AT and lot of figures.... those when these movies were fresh, form the 80's. Too bad i did not kept them, and was either destroyed while playing or lost, would be sold in big dollar for collectors, i also had the original Boba Fett that was bidded crazy on ebays some years ago. My Baba Fett had a nice ending, we strapped him to a new year's fireworks, he sure got that rocket going LOL !
@Parallaxus5 ай бұрын
@@johto You may have even had more than I did then. I didn't have the Falcon or the shuttle. My parents bought me the darth vader head carrying case to carry my figures in. All my kids toys came up missing one year out of the attic, not sure what happened to them.
@johto5 ай бұрын
@@Parallaxus Haha, good times ! 🤓
@tofersiefken5 ай бұрын
Grogu is alive at this point in Star Wars history and is roughly in his 40s at this point. Yoda is around 900 years old in this movie. There are not a lot of Yoda's species in the galaxy (at least canonical characters). The species name, home planet and cultural information has remained mysteriously undefined through much of Star Wars' timeline.
@blakewalker841205 ай бұрын
42:30 "Do or do not. There is no try" is from Yoda. But people have been saying that for thousands of years in one way or another. To try something, you cannot know the outcome. I can't try to touch my nose, I just do it. But I can try a new pair of shoes to see if they fit, or try a new recipe to see if I like it. When we know we can do a thing, like touch our nose, but we say "I'll try", we are already making excuses to fail. I use this with my students all the time. I say "Please do your homework." They say "I'll try". I know they are, even unconsciously, planning ahead to have an excuse when they don't get it done. Then I teach them by telling them to try to pick up a pencil from the table. When they pick it up, I say "I didn't say pick it up, I said try to pick it up. Now put it down and this time try to pick it up." They get the idea very quickly that they can't try to pick up a pencil - they do or do not, there is no try. Then I ask them to do their homework and they don't say "I'll try" anymore. Sadly, it doesn't always mean they do the homework, but at least they learned something.
@MAB_Canada5 ай бұрын
Back when I first saw Empire, video chat was only a science fiction fantasy so I just accepted that Vader could do his thing long distance. When Yoda first spoke, the kid behind me yelled out “Bert” (from the Muppet characters Bert & Ernie) because he recognized Frank Oz’s voice. The whole theatre gasped in shock at “I am your father”.
@wolviespartan5 ай бұрын
I really liked your reaction :) Can't wait to watch the next one. Really loved your take on these movies so far, glad your enjoying them.
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
Thank you so much! 😊🫶🤍
@aramisone71983 ай бұрын
Anakin crossed over to the darkside and became Darth Vader. He was manipulated by a senator that was hiding his true identity Darth Sidious the Emperor .
@karlsmith25705 ай бұрын
1:15:38 Actually, this movie did get a bigger budget after the first movie became a runaway hit, and the following movie had gotten an even bigger budget for when production had started on it
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
Ooo I’m excited for the next one
@karlsmith25705 ай бұрын
@icedquokka The next movie is when Jabba had been officially introduced. The scenes in "A New Hope" that showed Jabba were added in for a re-release that added previously unreleased footage, in this case, due to the cost of the effects at the time being far too expensive
@MichaelButchin5 ай бұрын
Awww, the disclaimers aren't necessary. I remember we all had the same questions when we were seeing these movies when they came out in theaters way back when.
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
Thank you for understanding 🫶🤍
@karlsmith25705 ай бұрын
27:11 "What Is Made Out Of?, He Kinda Looks Like A Puppet, A Hand Puppet" You presume correctly. In the original trilogy, Yoda was a puppet created by Stuart Freeborn and voiced by Frank Oz, who also has voiced Miss Piggy from The Muppets. In the prequels, they'd used a different puppet of Yoda in episode one, and in episodes II and III, he was fully CGI
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
Omg that’s so cool!
@karlsmith25705 ай бұрын
@@icedquokka in fact, Stuart Freeborn actually had actually modeled Yoda after his own appearance
@berranari15 ай бұрын
@@icedquokkaIf you listen carefully you can hear that Yoda and Miss Piggy have the same laugh. 😂
@rikk3195 ай бұрын
@@berranari1 Oz also did other muppet voices, notably Grover, who sounds a LOT like Yoda, enough that when I first saw Empire at 11, I thought, "Why does this little alien dude sound like Grover?" I didn't realize Frank Oz was the puppeteer/voice actor until later.
@berranari15 ай бұрын
@@rikk319 yeah and it is kinda weird that Frank Oz is in The Blues Brothers and so is Carrie Fisher. And he is not funny and she is not nice. But it works in that.
@JedHead775 ай бұрын
FYI, there was no modern “CGI” in these films. They used physical models against blue screens and paintings on glass for the backgrounds.
@starlighter9306175 ай бұрын
59:47 Originally, they were running in a closed corridor. For the 1997 Special Edition the creators cut out the corridor wall and placed the CGI background there. George Lucas and the director, Irvin Kershner, never liked that Cloud City was so closed off. There were only a few closed corridors built for the set so they were forced to work with that. When the Special Edition was done, Lucas showed the edited footage of Cloud City to Kershner who was really impressed. It obviously doesn't look too good in today's high resolutions, but back then I was amazed by it.
@Sabrecho5 ай бұрын
The reason Luke's makeup is so realistic at 10:30 is because Mark Hamill got into a motorcycle accident and this (as I understand) is him just hours after the hospital. Update: I fell for some bad hype. There was an accident, he broke his nose, they tweaked the script a little, but the slashed up face _was_ a great makeup artist.
@billolsen43605 ай бұрын
I'd always heard he crossed 4 freeway lanes because he was about to miss his exit and crashed his BMW. Always assumed that it was a car, but they make motorcycles too!
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
Oh god that’s horrible! I hope he was ok 😭
@TheRandwickboy5 ай бұрын
that is why they had in the First Scene where the monster slaps Luke in the face
@tranders655 ай бұрын
Close but no cigar, lol - it was, as @billolsen4360 said, a car accident, and it wasn't anywhere near the shooting time of Empire but actually back in 1977 before Star Wars was actually released but after the filming.
@Sabrecho5 ай бұрын
@@tranders65 Ok, but the point is the 'Makeup' looks so good because it's actually not makeup, and Mark Hamill used it rather than let it hold him up.
@blakewalker841205 ай бұрын
1:13:45 "Luke went to save his friends." Luke failed in every way. He did not save his friends. Lando did. Luke barely even saw them for only a second. He did not defeat Vader. Vader played with him and could have easily killed him at any time but was trying to persuade him to come to the dark side. He got mutilated and barely escaped, finally being saved by the same friends that he was unable to save. Yoda and Ben were right. Luke should have listened to the only two people who know what they're talking about. It's OK. Luke isn't perfect. He's a great hero that starts out young and clueless and learns to be older, wiser, and more powerful along the way. It's great to watch him "level up" throughout his hero's journey.
@rikk3195 ай бұрын
Luke is the polar opposite of a Mary Sue character, someone who has potential, but has to earn it for the most part through hard knocks.
@blakewalker841205 ай бұрын
@@rikk319 Yeah, but the mary sue is coming...
@mckenzie.latham914 ай бұрын
“Size Matters not, look at me, judge me by my size do you? and well you should not, for my ally is the force and a powerful ally it is. life creates it, makes it grow, its energy surrounds us and binds us luminous beings are we, not this crude matter you must feel the force around you, between you, here, me, the tree, the rock, even between the land and the ship” I have memorized this passage and never forgot it.
@hanng12424 ай бұрын
“Size Matters not, look at me, judge me by my size do you? and well you should not, for my ally is the force and a powerful ally it is." I've tried this line. It doesn't work with real women.
@Daniel-Strain4 ай бұрын
I took a drink every time she said "WhaAaAaAat?!?!" and now I am in the hospital having my stomach pumped :/
@icedquokka4 ай бұрын
LMAO
@michaelbriefs97642 ай бұрын
Luke didn't look up to his "Dad" because he never had one in his life. He was brought up by Uncle Owen and Aunt Bereu (sp?). That said, when OB-Won mentioned knowing his father and hearing what a good fighter/powerful Jedi he was, he became intrigued. But that was only after he met OB-Won.
@brianalambert11923 ай бұрын
The brilliance of the Vader plot twist cannot be understated. With it being set up that Luke has created this image of his father that he idolizes, and everyone around him saying things like "Luke's got too much of his father in him." "That's what I'm afraid of" and "Much anger in him, like his father." They're all effectively saying that they see Luke going down the same path as his father, and only at that reveal do we as the audience realize which path that is. It changes the story from "Can Luke defeat this great evil?" to "Will Luke become this great evil?". Obviously it was hinted at, but traditional storytelling has taught us to ignore that possibility. The hero is good and will choose the good side; the hero is the opposite of the bad guy. But with that reveal, it tips the scales and makes Luke turning to the dark side a much more distinct possibility. This of course isn't the first story to toy with that expectation, but I do give it credit for being a lot of children's first introduction to that. It certainly was for me; this was the first movie that had me questioning my 6 year old preconceptions about good and evil
@jabecker215 ай бұрын
Luke didn’t think the Force would help him when he jumped. He was choosing suicide over joining the dark side. Also, the Force didn’t help him anyway, it was the exhaust port in Cloud City that sucked him in.
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
I think he knew what he was doing, it was probably half exhaust pipe and half light force! That’s my opinion at least 😊
@jabecker215 ай бұрын
@@icedquokka I don’t think there was much thought about it. He was in shock. He just had his hand cut off and learned Vader was his father. I think the choice he saw was either succumb to Vader and join the dark side or die, and he chose death. It was pure luck that he didn’t die when he fell.
@rikk3195 ай бұрын
@@jabecker21 Even in his defeated state, he showed a ton of courage and strength, choosing death over becoming evil.
@jabecker215 ай бұрын
@@rikk319absolutely!
@ElectricKnight.4 ай бұрын
@@icedquokka Yeah, I've never thought of it as "choosing suicide". It is more akin to "a leap of faith". No matter what was in store for him, from leaping, it was the right choice - better than staying up there with Vader. And it all worked out. Perhaps the force had a hand in it (he needed an extra hand at that point....!!).
@JedHead775 ай бұрын
Luke actually *didn’t* hear Leia’s warning because of the gunfire.
@williamrosmer83815 ай бұрын
the force is like duct tape it has a light side a dark side and it binds the galaxy together
@GG-ul7zj5 ай бұрын
Except the dark side is the sticky side! 😂
@johnwebb54025 ай бұрын
Mark Hamill (Luke) was involved in a motorcycle accident, and his injuries needed to be explained. So, the scriptwriters wrote a scene where a Wampa (a monster on the ice planet Hoth at the beginning of the movie) attacks Luke and his Tauntaun (the "dinosaur" creature Luke was riding).
@rikk3195 ай бұрын
Car, not motorcycle. He was injured before they filmed Empire, when Star Wars was just being released. His nose had some work, but the rest of his face didn't really change. They used the wampa damage in-universe to explain his slight facial changes, though.
@ChestersReviews4 ай бұрын
Yoda is a hand puppet here, performed by Frank Oz who was also behind (or underneath rather) several of The Muppets characters including Fozzie, Miss Piggy and Animal
@DaveNarn5 ай бұрын
That guy who plays Luke was in a car wreck and messed up his face, so he looks a little different in this movie. The injury from the fight with the big-foot in the ice cave helped explain Luke's new scars.
@ImpossibleCaseEdits5 ай бұрын
I did not expect your reaction to The Empire Strikes Back to be up so quickly. This made my day! Whenever someone is watching Star Wars for the first time, it feels like you're introducing the films to a new friend. I legitimately had chills during scenes I knew would amaze you. The Empire Strikes Back remains my favorite Star Wars movie. I remember seeing it back in 1980 as an 8-year-old and being caught up in the euphoria of returning to a galaxy far, far away. When Darth Vader and the Snow troopers infiltrate the rebel base, it scared the holy sugar out of me! It gets to me even to this day. Confession: Harrison Ford was my first celebrity crush. It's easy to see why!
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
I filmed them on the same day so spent all week editing it! I’m so glad you enjoyed it 😊 I’m really loving this series and Empire strikes back in my favourite so far as well 😍
@ImpossibleCaseEdits5 ай бұрын
@@icedquokka You did an amazing editing job! I'll be looking forward to your reaction to Return of the Jedi.
@dorkandproudofit5 ай бұрын
One thing about the Force that a lot of people don't realize is that it is, by far, one of THE most OP magic systems in fiction. It's not just mind reading and telekinesis; the Force is literally THE ENERGY THAT MAKES UP THE FABRIC OF REALITY ITSELF. You're bending reality to your every whim, and the only limits are (a.) your ability to immerse yourself in the power, and (b.) your imagination. A short list of some feats Force users have been known to canonically do outside of the movies: (1.) React at speeds that can be measured in nanoseconds; (2.) Fling an entire fleet of ships out of a solar system; (3.) Move black holes with a thought; (4.) Kill literally every single life form on an entire planet down to the single-cell level, from orbit; (5.) Project illusions of oneself across interstellar distances in real-time Also, if the movies actually showed how fast Force users are canonically capable of moving/reacting in combat, WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SEE ANYTHING. So yeah, the Force is pretty darn powerful.
@Progger115 ай бұрын
Lol I too always thought the miniature hologram of Darth Vader was more funny/cute than intimidating 😂. I always imagined his voice sounded like chipmunk through the signal 😝
@blowba5 ай бұрын
Imagine the terror that a seven story tall heavilly armed and heavily armored tank would inspire in people marching slowly, but relentlessly down the main street of your city. It crushed everything in it's path and everything you threw at it just bounced off. Not only could you not stop it, you couldn't even slow it down. Also you knew it was full of lots of ruthless, brutal heavily armed troops.
@bidwell133 ай бұрын
Grogu was around 40yrs old during this movie since they said he was 50 in “The Mandalorian”. George Lucas didn’t want to share creative rights with another company so he financed the whole movie using profits from Episode 4 and a bank loan. He was so determined to not lose his “baby” that he didn’t trust many in the producing world. George Lucas never gave Yoda’s species a name and Lucasfilm/Disney is keeping that up by not giving his species a name with the creation of Grogu. What’s interesting is Yoda became a Jedi Master around 100yrs old and Grogu is still like a baby at 50. Their species must do some major maturing between the ages of 50 and 100. 8:24 the rebel officer that told Leia they need to close the doors is John Ratzenberger who was a major voice in a lot of Pixar cartoons. 10:19 Mark Hamill was in a car accident prior to this filming and damaged his face pretty good that changed his appearance so Lucas having Luke attacked by the Wampa gave a good excuse on screen why he looks different. The tube he was in was a Bacta tank that helps heal wounds. 32:39 nice conclusion with thinking Anakin is Vader. 33:45 what Yoda is doing is seeing if Luke has the patience to become a Jedi. 40:07 no Luke killed Vader by cutting his head off and Vader killed Obi Wan by striking him around the abdomen. Luke seeing his face was telling him if he wasn’t careful then he would end up like Vader. His first instinct going into the cave was to take his lightsaber as if he was ready for a fight even when Yoda told him he wouldn’t need it. That also was Mark Hamill’s face in the mask. They prop they had looked horrible so Mark had to stick his head through a hole and keep his eyes open while they blew smoke through the mask. 49:41 Mark Hamill was told the snake was harmless but got bitten by it during a couple takes. 50:32 that scene never made sense cause Obi Wan knew who Yoda was talking about. 52:24 when Billy Dee Williams would pick his daughter up from school her friends and classmates would accuse him of betraying Han. 55:42 that was Harrison Ford’s idea cause it was more along what Han would say being the smuggler scoundrel he is. 56:36 Lucas did this to Han cause Harrison Ford didn’t want to play Han anymore and wanted him killed off. Lucas did the carbonite as a way he could bring him back or “kill” him off by leaving him in the carbonite. 1:04:39 before James Earl Jones got the final Vader script only Mark, George & Irving knew that Vader was Luke’s father. They told Luke only three people knew this info and if it leaked they knew who to go after. Onset Vader suit actor said “Obi-Wan Killed your father then James Earl Jones recorded the lines later and no one else knew until the premiere. 1:05:24 he never knew his father was a Jedi growing up. He just knew his dad was a great pilot. 1:08:37 yeah that was more of a caring kiss than a romantic kiss. If you get a chance check out “Robot Chicken Star Wars”. They got a great scene with the Emperor on an escalator having to acknowledge Stormtroopers.
@eddieboncek24473 ай бұрын
Fun fact, originally, while in their base on Hoth, the ice planet, at one point Wampas, the abominable snow monster-type creature that attacked Luke at the beginning, were supposed to break through the ice/snow walls and kill a bunch of Rebels before having to be killed off. I don't remember exactly WHEN it was supposed to happen, whether it would have been before or coincidentally during the Imperial attack.
@mikeburke87725 ай бұрын
The first officer that Vader strangles to death (Admiral Ozzel) was essentially assigned as Vader’s flag officer because he was incompetent and it was the easiest way to be rid of him. It was a death sentence without him being slapped with official charges, put through a show trial, and sentenced to death. “You’ve failed me for the last time, Admiral” implies there have been numerous other failures. Also one small point of clarification: when he killed Ozzel, he was aboard the same ship, just in different sections. The ship was absolutely massive (they show it casting a shadow over a standard Star Destroyer which was itself pretty big) so he was probably a good distance away
@glennallen2395 ай бұрын
I was 13 Years old in 1977 when I saw Star Wars in the Movie Theatre and I was 16 Years old in 1980 When I saw The Empire Strikes Back in the Movie Theatre, George Lucas got a bigger Budget to film the Empire Strikes Back, George Lucas and the Movie Studio did not realize how big Star Wars would become. It was an improvised scene where Han Solo told Princess Leia I know after She told him I love you. Harrison Ford kept saying I love You Back, but it was not working Take after Take, Finally on One Take Harrison Ford goes I know. He explained to George Lucas that Han Solo would say I know. George Lucas agreed it was more fitting Han Solo's Character, Everyone in the Movie Theatre was shocked and gasped when Darth Vader told Luke who he was.
@ldkinbote3 ай бұрын
Yeah, I did not believe it. I totally thought he was trying to trick Luke and I didn't believe all the way until "Return of the Jedi" came out and they confirmed it. I was like, "Holy shit, he wasn't lying." I was ten in 1977 when I saw Star Wars in the theater. I feel like you and I were kinda around the perfect age.
@haagasus5 ай бұрын
He was able to force choke Admiral Ozzel because he was on the same ship as him. He could have choked him out without the video chat, Darth just likes to be dramatic 😂
@berranari15 ай бұрын
Oh, I thought that it was through the communication signal somehow.
@berranari15 ай бұрын
I'll tell you one thing that I am sure of. Admiral Ozzel was not incompetent. He is depicted as a spoiled rich boy who became an admiral through connections rather than competence and Vader didn't like him. But that was what Ozzel wanted Vader to think, actually Ozzel was on the side of the Rebellion against the Empire. Every time I watch the empire strikes back, I think more and more that Ozzel was a good guy. Because of the history of the empire. It's not as old as we first imagined and older people like Ozzel were adults in the time before the empire. Being a person who remembers the old republic it would be strange if he wasn't on the side of the Rebellion. So the strange one is actually Tarkin. Was Tarkin he's gone now. 😂 And so is poor Admiral Ozzel. 😢 All I am saying is that the next time you watch the movie, give him a salute for dying a hero. 🫡 I'm tearing up here. 😭 I know that it's not real, but I get so into it. He's a rebel hero, tell your friends. 😀✌️
@rikk3195 ай бұрын
@@berranari1 A lot of fan theories speculate Ozzel was secretly a rebel sympathizer. Tarkin, though--the Clone Wars series kinda shows that guy was more like a sociopath.
@jasonskeans33275 ай бұрын
using the Darkside is like a drug that you don't want to stop. notice at the end Lando is wearing Hans cloths
@joek4685 ай бұрын
Frank Oz voiced and operated the Yoda puppet...He is a famous puppeteer whos characters have included Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, and Sam Eagle on The Muppet Show, and Grover, Cookie Monster and Bert on Sesame Street
@3dbadboy14 ай бұрын
Vader isn't actually using the Force 'through' the video chat, he just happened to be using it while reaching out with the force to the Admiral and choking him directly, and yes, he IS that powerful.
@futuramayeah5 ай бұрын
quoka, the bigfoot/yeti that tried to eat luke at the beginning is called the Hoth Wampa, they made a big action figure of him when this came out, the regular figures were 3.75 inches tall, the yoda figure was smaller than that and the Hoth Wampa figure was like 5 or 6 inches tall
@TheHessian1234 ай бұрын
Quality jump was due to a bigger budget and a few technological breakthoughs
@slowswimmer91695 ай бұрын
Darth Vader sparing Admiral Piett is, show not tell at its finest.
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
Makes sense!
@mattp60895 ай бұрын
Indeed, Admiral Piett is competent, and has previously showed competence and Vader knows it. His team did deactivate the hyperdrive and the crew of the Falcon got lucky.
@slowswimmer91695 ай бұрын
Also is a great way to show us the impact Luke has on his father just by totally ignoring Piett
@rikk3195 ай бұрын
@@slowswimmer9169 Exactly, Vader sparing Piett is our first sign of Luke possibly rubbing off on Vader, when most of us have been worried through the film that only Vader is influencing Luke. Much like Harry Potter and Voldemort's connection.
@blowba5 ай бұрын
Even though Han didn't say I love you too back, you can see that he did in his eyes. Watch the scene again. They'll be a resolution to this, just wait.
@garrettwhite59435 ай бұрын
Literally every atom of space within the galaxy has the Force in it, so to speak. Distance doesn't matter at all, if you focus properly, though only the best of the Jedi or Sith are capable of the crazy-strong feats like Vader is. Vader is... Vader is a lot...
@icedquokka5 ай бұрын
He’s super strong then 💪
@garrettwhite59435 ай бұрын
@@icedquokka probably one of the strongest ever, if you ask me. But he's also just a man. That's what makes the Force so cool-;you can be this all-powerful wizard and something as simple as a sword can kill you, but you don't even really "die". It's just another phase of existence.
@KingBlaziel5 ай бұрын
Trying to keep things spoiler free, but some lore books and future movies/series do hint at force abilities that have no definable limits. Take Obi-Wan's force ghost for example, which can appear anywhere. So while some abilities do have physical limitations, others abilities, like Vader choking the admiral to death, only require being to be able to see the victim. Dude could've been on the other side of the galaxy and Vader could still choke him out as long as visual contact is established. Would also depend on the relative power/training/connection to the force that the individual has as well. Luke can barely maintain lifting rocks in this movie, while Yoda can pull a 10 ton x-wing out of a swamp like it's nothing
@blakewalker841205 ай бұрын
27:30 "I'm guessing Baby Yoda is a thousand years ago". You said you've seen the Mandalorian, right? All seasons? No spoilers, but nobody in that show calls Grogu "Baby Yoda". Only the audience, the viewers, said that before we knew his name. He is not Yoda, not even Baby Yoda. He's Grogu and that is a totally different little green person. And in the timeline, the first two seasons of The Mandalorian happen about 5-6 years after The Empire Strikes Back. The third season is a couple years later.
@CDRhammond5 ай бұрын
In the scenes were Luke escapes the Wampa's lair and were Obi-Wan first appears as a force ghost telling Luke to find Yoda the weather was so cold that both scenes were shot 15 feet from the doors of the hotel the crew was using. In 2020 members of the 501st legions blizzard corps revisited and left bronze plaques at both the bottom of that hill and on the field where the AT-AT attack was filmed to honor the 40th anniversary.