"You’ll find I’m full of surprises."
- Luke Skywalker, The Empire Strikes Back
Did You Know?
When George Lucas sold Star Wars to Disney in 2012, Lucas donated nearly the entirety of the $4 billion to charity’s based on education and wellbeing. (source: Forbes)
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You know how some deleted scenes totally change the way you look at a movie? Well, Return of the Jedi has one of those. There’s a scene where Luke actually surrenders his lightsaber to Vader mid-duel. Yes, you read that right—Luke gives his weapon to the guy trying to drag him to the dark side.
It’s such a crazy moment because it feels like Luke is testing Vader, almost begging the good in him to surface. And here’s the crazy part: if you rewatch the final movie closely, there’s a shot where Vader is still holding Luke’s saber—a tiny remnant of this deleted scene.
Let me walk you through what could’ve been.👇
In Return Of The Jedi, A Deleted Scene Had Luke Surrendering His Lightsaber To Vader During Their Duel
Looking at Rey’s AT-AT Interior, and Notice There Is No Bathroom or Shower Area. So Where Has She Been Going?
Seriously, where does she handle the basics? 🤔
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Photo of The Day
Photo of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg together in 1977.
The year that both Lucas' original Star Wars, and Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind released theatrically - Star Wars in May '77, CE3K later in Nov. '77.
Here, Steven Spielberg offers what his initial reaction was to seeing Star Wars on the big screen for the first time in '77, while his film was still in post-production: "I had never experienced special effects that were so real. I was dazzled", Spielberg once said. "It was amazing - it was amazing and depressing at the same time. I was in post-production on Close Encounters and I had just come back from Hawaii where I was with George, because I'd wanted to get away from that."
"But when I got back to the States I saw Star Wars, and I thought my movie just paled in comparison. I was depressed for two weeks. I didn't even want to release my movie in the same YEAR as Star Wars. But Columbia was falling apart, and I had to cooperate, and we did great."
Spielberg continued: "But Star Wars was THE star of 1977. George tapped into something very spiritual for young and old. Star Wars is a deeply spiritual story, yet somehow he made a war movie too, and created a mythology of characters - he touched something that needed touching in everybody."
It's interesting to note here, that while Star Wars absolutely dominated the year as the #1 movie of '77 and Spielberg was initially worried how his film might do in the wake of Star Wars Mania, Close Encounters was not that far behind, finishing as the #3 movie of the year at the box office, just behind Burt Reynold's classic Smokey And The Bandit at #2. Close Encounters is truly a great film too, and interestingly Steven Spielberg and George Lucas competed against each other at the Academy Awards in the Best Director category - both ultimately losing to Woody Allen for Annie Hall.
Source: Craig Hansen
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Despite the fact that his character had close to zero dialogues and stuff to do? 🤯
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Vance
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