Celebrating 40 Years of Empire: Behind the Scenes

[@rmn070]

40 years have passed and this film is still truly a masterpiece.

[@wallybloc1415]

I think we can all agree Empire Strikes back is the best Star Wars film to date. Characters, Plot, Threat. Wonderful, beautifully wonderful.

[@Uchiha-fi4ij]

Nah, it's overrated. Han Solo is a jerk to C-3PO all throughout and the asteroid scene isn't that great. There will always be people who disagree with you, you have to accept that.

[@wallybloc1415]

@@Uchiha-fi4ij Weirdest response I have ever heard. First off, I mentioned characters, it’s called depth. Secondly I can accept people disagreeing with me, and that is fine, but you don’t need to act all hog and might as if I wouldn’t have been able to accept something so trivial.

[@erizzle67]

Nothing really happens on Empire, it's just a series of events, no real plot, just some adventures with a hanging ending - it just ends arbitrarily. It's the meat in the trilogy sandwich. Tough to do a proper 2nd movie in Trilogy....

[@deanwalker870]

That was absolute gold

[@RiyoChuchi]

Beautiful.

[@CastlesForEyes]

40 years old and still holds up against the best of them.

[@Danny_Roman.]

Absolutely brilliant in every way ! Well done.

[@johnd1466]

The Greatest Film ever made!

[@mhoroky]

It's great, but the greatest film EVER made? That's a stretch. Clearly you haven't seen Shawshank, or some of the other Best Picture nominees over the decades.

[@RetroActionUK]

Still one of the greatest Star Wars films. Return of the Jedi is my favourite.

[@moisestorres9618]

Mark Hamil: "The audience, they were so surprised that it wasn't just a carbon copy of Star Wars." Fast forward to 2015, they made exactly that...

[@ericgollinger367]

I want a great big box of Carry Fisher-licenced brand hot cocoa mix!

[@Walker-78910]

Years after Anakin became Darth Vader

[@apphappy3796]

MAY THE 4th BE WITH YOU.

[@williamfairchild7439]

Subtitles in the video

[@spoilernetwork1899]

You are hiding in the past while I have already saved the future. Seriously, I fixed the Sequel Trilogy for you - no retcons, recuts, time travel, multiverses, ... And I did it in 24 minutes, 13 seconds and 7 frames. Marketing isn't my thing, but even though not many have seen it, my like/dislike ratio speaks for itself.

[@eastlondonblues]

"okay, hotshot..." wow. Carrie Fisher was such a babe.

[@liamfowell8661]

"Get rid of Kennedy" - Me

[@vstar7196]

The best of the first six films. Why? Because it’s the one movie where Lucas had the least amount of input into. Kirshner direct “his type of movie”; Kasden wrote it and Kurtz produced it. Lucas’ only contribution was his assine brainstorm idea that Vader was Luke’s father. An idea that he came up with in the eleventh hour of filming. And that changed everyone’s perspective on not only the Luke character but of Obi Wan. I still say it was a stupid idea and Lucas was an idiot for insisting on it.

[@ludwik7326]

This is actually wrong, Lucas was very much involved in the story and the screenplay, he just didn't though he needed to credit himself, and he also stopped Kershner (who did a great job and contributed immensely don't get me wrong) on a certain number of things of which the movie benefited, and he was on set almost everyday, and Kurtz (not to disminish his involvement) ended up being fired for going over schedule