![]() ![]() Irvin Kershner rewrote the scene on-set - The entire carbon freeze scene was rescripted at the very last minute, but not the way you think. Welcome to Star Wars Week! To celebrate the 15-year anniversary of Revenge of the Sith (May 19) and the 40-year anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back (May 21), we're talking about our favorite sci-fi franchise for nine days straight.ĥ. It's also the moment where Han and Leia admit their true feelings for each other - even if one of them famously says "I love you," and the other one says something else.īut what was Han going to say originally? And when was that line changed? Here's your answer, among five shocking details about the most important scene in The Empire Strikes Back that you definitely didn't know. Sure, Darth Vader's big reveal is big too, but the carbon freeze sets everything in motion for Return of the Jedi. It's also the most important scene in Empire Strikes Back. Out of eleven movies and countless TV episodes, cartoons, video games, and comic books, it remains the most gut-wrenching scene in any Star Wars story. How long does it take to gather the fleet and plan the attack? We do already know that there was some offscreen action going on with the Bothan spies and their subsequent slaughter, something which is referred to pretty often in the Expanded Universe novels.You don't have to be a die-hard Star Wars fan to remember the scene in The Empire Strikes Back where Han Solo is frozen in carbonite. How long do the events of Return of the Jedi actually take, anyways? Unclear chronology seems to be a problem that runs rampant through the Star Wars saga, but in this case I'm just curious about the mindset of the newly freed (and newly debt-free!) Han after he returns to the Rebel Alliance. Not until about halfway through ROTJ anyway.Īnd one other bonus question, if anyone out there can oblige. Furthermore, the audience isn't, or wouldn't be while it was first released, aware of the brother/sister connection between Luke and Leia either. ![]() Besides, this "other guy" just so happens to have gone and grown up into a Jedi Knight with his own lightsaber and a robot hand, so in all fairness it's a really good idea to not piss off the guy with "delusions of grandeur". If he came back to life more than a year after giving a response that glib it would be pretty fair for a career criminal like him to remain aloof until the other guy is definitely out of the picture. Even though the last moments of his life before being frozen were Leia saying, "I love you", his response ("I know") is actually pretty ambiguous when you consider the speculations that the original audience must have gone through between the release of Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. With the undercurrents of sexual tension running through ESB and the fact that Leia and Luke actually end the movie side by side with a shared goal (rescuing Han) his reluctance to connect emotionally during ROTJ makes perfect sense if you consider that he has no idea what the other love interest in that triangle has been up to for the last two years or so. The bit at the end of ROTJ where Han is willing to let Leia go be with Luke makes a lot more sense if you consider it from the mindset of someone who's been out of the picture for like 18 months to 2 years. I was just thinking about how the length of time between ESB and ROTJ is never explicitly referred to in the movies and how that casts Han's behaviour towards Leia in a different light. ||| Join our Discord! ||| Question? Check our FAQ ||| /r/StarWarsKenobi ||| /r/BookOfBobaFett ||| Upcoming SW Media ||| Please note that even if formatted correctly, spoilers are only allowed in threads marked If you want to make a spoiler all you gotta do is put ">!" in front of and "!!Many Bothans died.!< List includes movies, tv-shows and games. Mods have the final say.įrequently Asked Questions Come chat with us Join our Discord!Ĭlick here to contact the Discord moderators directly Upcoming SW Media Posts / comments can be removed under mods discretion.Message the mods for permission before posting established Star Wars related subreddits.Link to original news sources, and don't editorialize.No sexualization of people or characters. ![]()
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