no wonder star wars never got any better than this

Got any Star Wars movie trivia to share? I’d love to hear it.

“I felt I needed humor, but I couldn’t have gags…” I cannot express how important that is, not just in Star Wars but in movies at all.

The juxtaposition of how dedicated fans are to the movies, and the director not remembering Chewbaccas name is fascinating

"I felt I needed humor, but I couldn't have gags" Someone needs to tell this to every single director currently employed by Disney, in both Star Wars and the MCU

Harrison Ford passed his Diplomacy Check like a true professional at the end there.

The "I love you." "I know." story is one of my all-time favorite movie stories. One of the most classic interactions in cinema history and it was improv. That's a talented actor and a talented director that trusts him. So good.

I love that Kirshner doesn't know C3PO's name even after directing the movie. He didn't believe in this bullshit. There's a famous quote from him: "Yoda has a basic philosophy that's very charming. It's not deep, but it's charming. Young people think it's deep. I wish they would read more."

25 years ago my parents told me I would come to appreciate The Empire Strikes Back more and more as I got older and by god they were right

The Solo/Leia line of "I love you" - "I know" was like something from earlier movies, like Bogart in Casablanca or Gable in Gone With The Wind. Perfect timing, great acting and masterful directing. So subtle, yet says more to the audience than they know. Showing, not telling.

the directors knew what the story was about the actors knew what the characters were about the crew knew what the movie was about a masterpeice of true artists

What's not often being talked about is that Lucas literally put everything he had into this movie. After he got so fed up with how Hollywood works and how producers kept meddling in his work, he wanted to have full creative control over Empire. Funding this meant, amongst other things, mortgaging his house, his family's house! He put all the money he made from the first movie into Empire. If it hadn't been a success, he and his family would've been bankrupt and homeless. It was an insane gamble. But it speaks volumes of how confident Lucas was in his movie. And the rest is history.

The "I know" story is my favorite because the depth of their relationship is simply implied, and that's all it needs to be.

His line about humor is exactly what Disney didn’t understand when it came to the sequels

"Kershner's much taller." is such a Han Solo response! I love Harrison! 😂

6:28 - 7:55 - This sequence perfectly encapsulates why I fell in love with Star Wars in the first place. It wasn't the vastness of the canon or the SFX, but the fact of it being a fairy tale fantasy story. Something that's familiar but not nostalgic. We don't see this often in modern Star Wars and that sense of fairytale storytelling is more abundant in the OT more than anywhere else in the franchise making it the most beloved of all Star Wars content.

The chemistry between Han and Leia in this film is something that is sorely lacking from most love story subplots in films. That "I love you." "I know." exchange was built up by all the tension in previous scenes where it was clear she was warming up to him. She even kissed her not-yet-known brother to make him jealous. I bet Luke and Leia never brought that subject up again in later years lol.

Irvin Kershner: "I felt I needed humor in the picture, and yet I couldn't have gags. I felt I needed a love story, and I yet I couldn't have a lot of smooching and kissing ... it all had to be more implied" ... - YES!!!

The problem with movies like Star Wars becoming such big successes and practically cultural icons, is that they become so much part of us that we forget what made them truly great. We forget that these films were innovative in one way or another; or just take for granted the sense of true fantasy they give.

That story of the prop guy making C3PO work is the perfect engineering story. Assess problem, see what you have available, test solution, fix problem. It takes a lot of talent, and skill to use tools in ways they were never intended and have it do a better job than a very expensive tool purpose built to the task.

Having been totally blown away as a 10 year old watching SW I can't begin to describe the tension I had going into the theatre to watch ESB when it finally released...I was worried they would ruin it. As it turns out the movie did that rare thing and actually improved on the first. And that twist!!! You just knew it in your bones that Vader was telling the truth about his paternity. Which meant old Ben told a lie...but no, that's not true...that's impossibleI I was so invested in the fantasy.