The Empire Strikes Back
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Biography
The Empire Strikes Back is a 1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner from a screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas. The sequel to Star Wars (1977), it is the second film in the Star Wars film series and the fifth chronological chapter of the "Skywalker Saga".
"[after cutting open a tauntaun to form a makeshift sleeping bag for Luke] And I thought they smelled bad... on the outside!"
"[calling to C-3PO as they're about to escape the Echo Hoth base] Hurry up, goldenrod, or you're gonna be a permanent resident!"
"[to Princess Leia] You like me because I'm a scoundrel. There aren't enough scoundrels in your life."
"Mark Hamill — Luke Skywalker"
"Harrison Ford — Han Solo"
"Carrie Fisher — Princess Leia Organa"
"Billy Dee Williams — Lando Calrissian"
"Alec Guinness — Obi-Wan Kenobi"
"Ian McDiarmid — Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious (DVD and Blu-ray versions only)"
"David Prowse — Darth Vader (voiced by James Earl Jones)"
"Bruce Boa – General Rieekan"
"John Ratzenberger – Major Derlin"
"Jack McKenzie – Cal Alder"
"John Morton – Dak Ralter"
"Denis Lawson – Wedge Antilles"
"Christopher Malcolm – Zev Senesca"
"Richard Oldfield – Hobbie Klivian"
"Kenneth Colley – Admiral Piett"
"Michael Sheard – Admiral Ozzel"
"Julian Glover – General Veers"
"Michael Culver – Captain Needa"
"Jeremy Bulloch — Boba Fett (voiced by Jason Wingreen (original) Temuera Morrison (later releases))"
"Clive Revill — Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious"
"The geek world, the scholars of Stars Wars, can tell you what scripts exist. I do not know. I’ve heard that. But what I know is when I came in to Empire and when I actually started to work, George said, “You know, Darth is Luke’s father.” And I said, “No shit?” So it was a total surprise to me and I thought wonderful. That to me was when the whole thing got really interesting and I thought, This thing’s going to be so much more complicated than I thought. It’s going to speak to things that I relate to very strongly and everybody who’s had to deal with their issues with their father, and this is really a mythic presentation of those things. And we’ve seen since then endless world catastrophes based on father problems. That’s why I think the saga is always going to be so interesting."
"I think the critics felt that they were going to see an extension of Star Wars. In other words, they wanted another Star Wars. I decided that the potential was much greater than a rerun of Star Wars. When I finally accepted the assignment, I knew that it was going to be a dark film, with more depth to the characters than in the first film. It took a few years for the critics to catch up with the film and to see it as a fairy tale rather than a comic book."