Dengar, Bossk, Zuckuss, 4-Lom and IG-88 were all hired in the search for Skywalker’s friends, and all became staples of future books and comics.ĭengar even turned up in The Clone Wars TV series, played by original trilogy fan Simon Pegg. Without doubt the break away villain of the film was Boba Fett, the masked Mandalorian who tracked the Millennium Falcon all the way to Cloud City.īut he wasn’t alone. A design classic, it took people’s breath away. We’d seen the Imperial Star Destroyer in A New Hope, chasing down Princess Leia in her blockade runner in the opening scene of the movie, but Empire introduced Lord Vader’s flagship The Executor, a 10 mile long behemoth that dwarfed almost everything else in space. The film hinged on his believability, and they pulled it off magnificently. It would have been so easy for Yoda to be a very impressive but unconvincing muppet, but the mastery of Frank Oz and his team (of which there were more than people realise) along with the inspired design of the late, great Stuart Freeborn made the Jedi master a living, breathing character. Amazing special effects, thrilling music and heroic deaths.Īnd what other major motion picture put its biggest action scene in the first act of the movie? With that warning the Battle of Hoth’s ground assault begins as five huge Imperial Walkers stomp through the snow to take the Rebel base.
Star Wars’ most enduring romance that showed Star Wars was growing up. The arguing, the sniping, the week stuck inside the Falcon, inside a giant slug, inside a huge asteroid, the long slow melt towards ‘I love you’, ‘I know.’
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