Not only this, but having such power and knowledge of the dark side, Plagueis could use this ability to save people he cared about from death, a statement which gets Anakin's attention which was Palpatine's desire and Palpatine describes the dark side of the Force as a pathway to many abilities considered by some to be unnatural.
When Anakin asks what happened to Darth Plagueis, Palpatine concludes that Plagueis became so powerful that all he feared was losing his power, which he eventually did. Unfortunately for Plagueis, he taught his apprentice , who happened to be Darth Sidious, all he knew: after he had, his apprentice killed him in his sleep.
The Sith apprentice in the story, as implied by the film and explicitly stated in various Star Wars Legends sources, is Palpatine himself. Palpatine notes the irony of how Plagueis could keep others from dying, but not himself. When Anakin asks if it is possible to learn the power to stop death, Palpatine simply replies, "Not from a Jedi," further alienating Anakin from the Jedi Order. Later, in a meeting with the Jedi Council, Anakin relays the information about Grievous, explaining that a partial message was intercepted in a diplomatic packet from the Chairman of Utapau.
Yoda says they should act quickly and decisively on this information. When Anakin expresses his interest in going at Palpatine's request, Mace Windu harshly tells him that the Council will decide who goes and not the Chancellor. Yoda believes that a Master with more experience is needed to confront, and defeat, Grievous. Ki-Adi-Mundi agrees and nominates Obi-Wan to go. With the nomination agreed on, the Council adjourns and Obi-Wan prepares to go to Utapau.
Grievous preparing to do battle with Obi-Wan Kenobi. Anakin walks Obi-Wan to his Star Destroyer before he leaves. Anakin still believes he'd be needed on Utapau, and while Obi-Wan agrees, he also notes it might just be a wild Bantha chase.
Anakin stops Obi-Wan and tells him that he knows he's disappointed Obi-Wan and that he's not been acting very grateful for the training he received. Anakin tells him he's just been so frustrated with the Council lately, but that he does apologize.
Obi-Wan calls Anakin strong and wise and tells Anakin he's very proud of him and while Obi-Wan trained him since Anakin was a boy, he calls Anakin a far greater Jedi than Obi-Wan could hope to be. The two bid each other farewell and Obi-Wan leaves for Utapau.
Little do they know that this is the last time they will see or speak to each other as fellow Jedi and friends. He finds Grievous on the Tenth Level. After Obi-Wan dispatches the droids around Grievous, the two engage in single combat. Grievous's arms split in half, allowing him to use four lightsabers at once. Obi-Wan quickly cuts off the lower halves of the General's hands, helping to even out the odds a little. Obi-Wan manages to catch Grievous off guard and uses the Force to push the fiendish droid general into the ceiling.
Grievous drops his remaining two lightsabers and attempts to flee on his wheel bike , while Obi-Wan pursues on Boga. During the chase, Obi-Wan drops his lightsaber, which Commander Cody happens to find during the massive battle against the droids. Anakin insists he should be on Utapau as well. Their conversation shifts to Palpatine's knowledge of the Force, and Palpatine reveals that he is Darth Sidious.
Anakin ignites his lightsaber and threatens to kill Palpatine, but then decides to expose him to the Jedi Council. He is still concerned with saving his wife, and believes only Palpatine's knowledge, learned from the late Darth Plagueis, will ensure this. Obi-Wan continues to chase General Grievous on Utapau. He catches up with the General and jumps onto his wheel bike. Using Grievous's electrostaff, he manages to destabilize the speeder, and it goes into a spin.
Both Obi-Wan and Grievous are thrown off as the speeder topples over the edge of Grievous's secret landing platform. Grievous then draws his blaster , though it is knocked from his hand by Obi-Wan, now wielding the electrostaff.
He knocks Grievous down, and a brawl ensues, during which Kenobi tears open the General's chest plates, revealing his living organs. Enraged, Grievous repeatedly hits Obi-Wan and then picks up the helpless Jedi and throws him over the edge. Obi-Wan barely manages to hang on and momentarily dangles for his life. As Grievous moves in for the kill, Obi-Wan uses the Force to retrieve the General's blaster and fires at Grievous's exposed organs. He hits, and they burst into flames.
With his eyes flaming, Grievous falls to the floor, dead. Anakin returns to the Jedi Temple and approaches Windu who tells Anakin that they have just been informed that Obi-Wan has destroyed General Grievous and so they are going to go to the Senate to ensure that Chancellor Palpatine gives back his emergency powers. However, Anakin reveals that Palpatine is a Sith Lord and is not likely to give up his powers, a statement which shocks Windu and stops him dead in his tracks.
Anakin confirms what he just said and says he believes Palpatine is the one they have been looking for. When Windu asks how Anakin knows this, he tells Windu that Palpatine knows the ways of the Force and has been trained to use the dark side and that he is absolutely sure.
Windu says their worst fears have now been realized and that if the Jedi Order is to survive, they must move quickly.
Anakin warns Windu that Palpatine is very powerful and they'll need his help to arrest Palpatine, but Windu urges him to stay out of it as he senses much fear in Anakin and it could cloud his judgment.
Windu also adds that if what Anakin says is true then Anakin will have gained his trust but for now, he wants Anakin to wait in the Council Chambers until he returns. Finally, he leaves and rushes after the four Jedi. Windu and the three other Jedi Masters arrive at Chancellor Palpatine's office. Windu declares Palpatine is under arrest and the Masters ignite their lightsabers.
Sidious pulls a lightsaber from his sleeve and hurls himself at the Jedi with a screeching war cry. Kolar is the first to die, run through the chest and as Kolar's life is ending due to the wound, Sidious turns and slices Tiin's torso. A few seconds later, with more effort from Sidious, Fisto is slain, killed by a slash across the gut. Only Windu remains, alone against the Dark Lord. Sidious's face being distorted by his backfired Force lightning. Sidious and Windu continue the fight, dueling fiercely.
At first, Sidious appears to have the upper hand, but Windu gradually gains ground, slowly driving the Sith Lord out of the Chancellor's antechamber and into the office proper. Anakin arrives at the scene just as Windu disarms Sidious, both combatants balancing on the edge of the large window shattered during the duel.
However, Windu deflects it with his blade, casting much of the energy back into Sidious's body. Sidious becomes hideously deformed; his face becomes deathly pale and sagged, his teeth become yellow and rotten, his fingernails become long and dirty, and his eyes turn burning yellow with blood-red rims.
He then ends his assault, claiming he is too weak to fight on. As Windu is deciding to kill Sidious, Anakin approaches and claims Palpatine must stand trial: Windu disregards this, stating Sidious is too dangerous to be left alive. As Windu is about to deliver the killing blow, Anakin makes his choice, intervenes and cuts off Windu's sword arm.
Sidious, cackling with glee, tortures and blasts the shocked Windu out of the window, sending him plunging to his death hundreds of stories below. Anakin is horrified by his actions, yet he knows now there is no turning back. He pledges allegiance to Sidious, in return for the Dark Lord's power to stop death, in the hope of saving his beloved wife. Sidious declares that once more the Sith will rule the galaxy.
He then gives Vader his first assignment: to launch a Siege of the Jedi Temple , ensuring the so-called Jedi Rebellion is crushed. Vader leads the st Legion to the Temple. He and the clones rampage through the Temple, cutting down every Jedi that crosses his path, including swordsmaster Cin Drallig and even the younglings hiding out in the Council Chamber. Darth Vader just prior to murdering younglings in the Council chamber.
Meanwhile, from his office, Sidious broadcasts a command to Clone Trooper Commander Cody and many other clone troopers spread throughout the galaxy : to execute Order 66 , a protocol to kill all Jedi, which the Clones comply to explained in seasons 6 and 7 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Across the galaxy, clone troopers turn against their Jedi Generals. As this happens, Yoda feels everyone who is dying. On Kashyyyk, Yoda is overlooking the ongoing battle as Commander Gree receives the order.
He and his lieutenant attempt to sneak up to Yoda, but the aged Master senses their intent and beheads both clones with a slash of his lightsaber. Tarfful and Chewbacca help Yoda escape the planet. Senator Bail Organa arrives at the flaming Temple to witness the slaughter of a young Padawan named Zett Jukassa by a squad of troopers led by Commander Appo.
Organa, horrified, flees the scene and departs Coruscant in the Tantive III , in an attempt to make contact with any surviving Jedi. Ki-Adi-Mundi leads his troops on Mygeeto just before the enactment of Order The Jedi decide to return to Coruscant to recalibrate the Jedi beacon calling for all Jedi to return to Coruscant, knowing that it's really a trap set by Darth Sidious.
Kenobi hopes to instead warn any surviving Jedi to stay away from the Temple. He tells her the Jedi have tried to take over the Republic, and there are traitors in the Senate. He asks for her loyalty to the Chancellor, then tells her that he will go to the Mustafar system , where the remaining Separatists have gathered, to end the war. He leaves Gunray until last, slicing the Neimoidian across the chest even as he pleads for his life. It is at this point that the first physical manifestation of the dark side in Vader begins to show itself, as his irises turn a pallid yellow, the rest of his eye taking on a bright crimson hue.
The Senate holds a special session where Palpatine tells them of the "plot of the Jedi to overthrow the Senate," but that it was foiled. Amidst thunderous applause, he informs the Senate that the surviving Jedi will be hunted down and defeated.
He then states that "in order to ensure the security and continued stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire ," which Palpatine describes as creating a safe and secure society. The burning of the Jedi Temple. In the meantime, Obi-Wan and Yoda go to the Jedi Temple, slaying clone troopers and walking in disbelief through the carnage. Yoda notices that several of their fellow Jedi were cut down by a foe wielding a lightsaber.
They recalibrate the Temple's signal to warn all surviving Jedi to keep away from the Temple, but then Obi-Wan, wanting to know the truth, checks the security hologram recordings.
To his horror, one recording shows Vader slaughtering a class of Jedi younglings and then kneeling before Sidious. Yoda says they must destroy the Sith, but Obi-Wan is reluctant to kill Vader and wants to go after the Emperor instead.
Yoda, however, states that Obi-Wan is not strong enough to face Sidious and that Anakin is gone, "consumed" by Vader. Yoda sets out to confront Sidious, telling Obi-Wan to "use his feelings" to find Vader. On Mustafar, Vader surveys the violent landscape around him and weeps over his recent acts of violence; knowing he cannot turn back from the influence of Darth Sidious. Unknown to her, Obi-Wan secretly stows away aboard the ship just before it takes off. Darth Sidious and Yoda , masters of the Force , battle each other.
Vader, mad with power, claims that they no longer have to run away and he can overthrow Palpatine so that the two of them can rule the galaxy together. As she pleads, Obi-Wan steps out onto the star skiff's boarding ramp. Without even allowing her a chance to explain herself, he begins Force-choking her. Turning his anger on Obi-Wan, Vader accuses him of turning his wife against him, but Obi-Wan retorts that Vader has done that himself and let himself be twisted by Sidious into the Sith he was meant to destroy.
Vader refuses to listen and rants that he has brought order to his "new empire. Vader fumes that those who are against him are his enemies and engages Obi-Wan in a ferocious duel of Student vs. Best friends fight the epic duel on Mustafar. He tells him that he has a new apprentice he has. Sidious uses Force Lightning to push the Jedi master backwards into a pillar.
Obi-Wan and Vader battle over the bridge and enter the Klegger Corp Mining Facility , making their way through the hallways. Returning to Coruscant , Sidious tells Yoda that the Jedi will be no more.
The Jedi master stands up and pushes him backwards past the desk. They engage in an intense battle using their lightsabers and Force abilities. Vader attempts to force choke the Jedi master with the enabled lightsaber.
Obi-Wan loses it after getting kicked in the stomach, but he retrieves it. Yoda resumes fighting Sidious until they are taken the Galactic Senate Chamber , the heart of the Senate. Vader is still battling Obi-Wan, who is on the defensive. They fight command center with the dead Separatist leaders on the floor.
A missed slash from Vader's lightsaber damages a computer console, deactivating the facility's shields. As the door opens, Obi-Wan and Vader exit the mining facility and head outside. Sidious then blasts Yoda with Force Lightning, causing the Jedi master to lose his lightsaber.
With the last of his strength, Yoda repels it enough to send both himself and Sidious over the pod's edge. Alternate versions The Special Edition slightly re-edits the closing on Endor. For the special edition, the medium shot is split in two, so that the first medium shot is shorter, and ends with Obi-Wan looking down at Yoda, then cuts to Luke rejoining the rebels, then cuts back to the rest of the medium shot, before cutting to Luke, and then finally back to the long shot of the ghosts.
User reviews Review. Top review. Up until the sixth and last episode of the Star Wars saga, which finally ended in , I had always looked at this entry as my favorite film of the long-running series. The varied action scenes and really different characters Jabba The Hut, furry woodland creatures, etc. None of the action ever focused too long in one spot, either. The last half hour exemplifies this the most as the scene switches every few minutes from the woods to the battle among space ships to the individual laser-duel between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader.
Another nice characteristic this film had that the two previous did not was the absence of in-fighting between two of the stars.
Gone was the incessant bickering between Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford. Finally, everyone was on the same page! It was nice to see. In the end, this was simply a wonderful adventure tale, more than anything else. FAQ Why are Star Wars movies always or almost always released in the month of May?
How old is Emperor Palpatine in this movie? How old is Vader in the film? Details Edit. Release date May 25, United States. United States United Kingdom. Lucasfilm Ltd. United States Official site. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 2 hours 11 minutes. C-3PO and R2-D2 are instructed to remain behind, and the trio sets off on their rescue attempt.
Luke's plan works flawlessly in that they are quick to subdue the officers and guards in the princess's cell block. Unfortunately, no one thought to plan for their escape, and Leia takes charge, blasting a hole in a nearby grate and jumping through while Han and Luke hold off a squad of stormtroopers.
Chewbacca, Luke and Han all dive after the princess into the unknown. Unfortunately, the grate covers a chute that leads to a garbage compactor that is also home to a resident dianoga.
Soon after landing, the creature pulls Luke under the surface, but releases him and is scared away when the Imperials realize where the heroes escaped to and activate the compactor. As the walls close in on the foursome, Luke desperately calls to C-3PO over his comlink asking for the compactor to be shut down. Leia struggles to get to the top and Chewbacca tries to unlock the door. R2-D2 manages to shut down the compactor just in time, although, amidst the muffled cries of joy over the comlink, C-3PO is briefly convinced that his master and friends have been crushed.
After escaping from the trash compactor, the group hurries back to the Millennium Falcon, hoping that Obi-Wan has successfully shut down the tractor beam.
They encounter stormtroopers on their way to the ship, evading and blasting their way past them. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine. Obi-Wan, on the other hand, was destined to meet with Darth Vader. After a short duel with his former Padawan , Obi-Wan sacrifices himself, thus becoming one with the Force and allowing Luke and the others to escape. Horrified and angered having witnessed Obi-Wan's demise at the hands of Vader, Luke takes his final blasts at the stormtroopers and dashes onto the Millennium Falcon.
General Dodonna plans the attack on the Death Star, an attack so audacious as to receive an unenthusiastic reaction from the pilots. To add to Luke's dismay, Han leaves after receiving his reward. The Rebel strike force begins its attack on the Death Star, as the space station approaches the Rebel base on Yavin 4. A group of starfighters assaults a trench on the Death Star's surface to hit the station's vulnerable spot before it can destroy the Alliance's base.
During this, most of the Rebel craft, including Luke's friend Biggs Darklighter , are picked off by Imperial fighters led by Darth Vader. Luke, aided by the voice of Kenobi and guided by the Force, accurately fires two proton torpedoes into a small exhaust port leading to the Death Star's reactor, and the battle station explodes.
During post-production on his previous film, American Graffiti , Lucas repeatedly discussed the concept of a " space opera " with producer Gary Kurtz. Studios shut down his studio of American Zoetrope and thus forced him to hand over development to his compatriot, Francis Ford Coppola.
His note for the basic plotline for the film, which was intended to be a response to the Vietnam War era, was that it involved " a technological empire going after a small band of freedom fighters. Lucas later proposed that terms like "space fantasy" or "science fantasy" better fit the story. Although Ladd did not grasp the technical side of the project, he believed that Lucas was talented.
Lucas later stated that Ladd "invested in me, [but] he did not invest in the movie. Lucas finished a draft of the screenplay in May As the draft developed, the characters evolved significantly.
Early in development, Luke Skywalker's character changed from a year-old general to a member of a family of dwarfs ; [5] [11] the Corellian smuggler, Han Solo , was envisioned as a large, green-skinned monster with gills. Instead, he expanded the first third of it into one movie and left the rest for two future films, effectively creating the original Star Wars trilogy. Lucas hired conceptual artist Ralph McQuarrie to create paintings of certain scenes during screenwriting.
When Lucas delivered his screenplay to the studio, he included several of McQuarrie's paintings. For Lucas, this deal protected Star Wars ' unwritten segments and most of the merchandising profits. Most of the visual effects used motion control photography , which creates the illusion of size by employing small models and slowly moving cameras.
Model spaceships were constructed on the basis of drawings by Joe Johnston , input from Lucas, and paintings by McQuarrie. Lucas opted to abandon the traditional sleekness of science fiction by creating a "used universe" in which all devices, ships, and buildings looked aged and dirty.
When filming began on March 22 , in the Tunisian desert for the scenes on the planet Tatooine , the project faced several problems. After completing filming in Tunisia, production moved into the more controlled environment of Elstree Studios , near London. Harrison Ford found the film "weird," in that there was a princess with buns for hair and what he called a "giant in a monkey suit" named Chewbacca.
Lucas clashed with Director of Photography Gilbert Taylor , whom producer Gary Kurtz called "old-school" and "crotchety. His camera suggestions were rejected by an offended Taylor, who felt that Lucas was over-stepping his boundaries by giving specific instructions. Lucas eventually became frustrated that the costumes, sets and other elements were not living up to his original vision of Star Wars. He rarely spoke to the actors, who felt that he expected too much of them while providing little direction.
His directions to the actors usually consisted of the words "faster" and "more intense. Ladd offered Lucas some of the only support from the studio; he dealt with scrutiny from board members over the rising budget and complex screenplay drafts. After production fell two weeks behind schedule, Ladd told Lucas that he had to finish production within a week or he would be forced to shut down production.
The crew split into three units, led by Lucas, Kurtz, and production supervisor Robert Watts , respectively. Under the new system, the project met the studio's deadline. Star Wars was originally slated for release in Christmas ; however, delays pushed the film's release to summer Already anxious about meeting his deadline, Lucas was shocked when his editor's first cut of the film was a "complete disaster. Richard Chew found the film had an non-energetic pace; it had been cut in a by-the-book manner: scenes were played out in master shots that flowed into close-up coverage.
He found that the pace was dictated by the actors instead of the cuts. Hirsch and Chew worked on two reels simultaneously; whoever finished first moved on to the next. During production, the cast attempted to make Lucas laugh or smile as he often appeared depressed.
At one point, the project became so demanding that Lucas was diagnosed with hypertension and exhaustion and was warned to reduce his stress level. Moreover, Mark Hamill 's face was injured in a car accident, which made reshoots impossible.
Meanwhile, ILM was struggling to achieve unprecedented special effects. The company had spent half of its budget on four shots that Lucas deemed unacceptable. Lucas inspired ILM by editing together aerial dogfights from old war films, which enhanced the pacing of the scenes.
During the chaos of production and post-production, the team made decisions about character voicing and sound effects. Sound designer Ben Burtt had created a library of sounds that Lucas referred to as an "organic soundtrack. Burtt created the robotic voice of R2-D2 by filtering his voice through an electronic synthesizer. Darth Vader's breathing was achieved by Burtt breathing through the mask of a scuba tank implanted with a microphone.
He originally wanted Orson Welles to speak for Darth Vader. However, he felt that Welles' voice would be too recognizable, so he cast the lesser-known James Earl Jones. Thirty well-established voice actors, such as Stan Freberg , read for the voice of the droid. According to Daniels, one of the major voice actors recommended Daniels' voice for the role.
When Lucas screened an early cut of the film for his friends, among them directors Brian De Palma , John Milius and Steven Spielberg , their reactions were disappointing.
Spielberg, who claimed to have been the only person in the audience to have enjoyed the film, [5] believed that the lack of enthusiasm was due to the absence of finished special effects.
Lucas later said that the group was honest and seemed bemused by the film. In contrast, Alan Ladd, Jr. Lucas found the experience shocking and rewarding, having never gained any approval from studio executives before.
Lucas's intentions for Star Wars involved a grand musical sound, with leitmotifs for different characters and important objects, an approach used to great effect, for instance, in the operas of Richard Wagner.
Toward this end, Lucas put together a collection of classical pieces for the composer John Williams to review, as an idea of what effects Lucas desired for the films. The music Williams composed was often distinctly reminiscent of the original classical pieces. In particular:. A New Hope was originally presented in monaural sound in many theaters, though the first-run 70mm prints were some of the earliest wide-release examples of surround sound—something not seen in the commercial cinema since the Cinerama and Cinemascope experiments of the early s.
The film drew inspiration from a number of sources. This was conscious and has been acknowledged by George Lucas in interviews. It is characteristic of much myth-building. The resemblance between the two buffoon farmers in The Hidden Fortress and the two talkative droids in A New Hope is apparent. Indeed, when the droids find themselves alone on Tatooine, even the music and the style of "wipe" cuts are a clear homage to Hidden Fortress.
When Motti is criticizing Darth Vader , he is about to mention the Rebels' "hidden fortress" before Vader cuts him off in the middle of the last word.
The climactic scene in which the Death Star is assaulted was modeled after including some of the same dialogue the s film The Dam Busters , in which RAF Lancaster bombers fly along heavily defended reservoirs and aim " bouncing bombs " at German man-made dams in a bid to cripple the heavy industry of the Ruhr. A New Hope cinematographer Gilbert Taylor had previously worked on the special-effects sequences for that film. Lucas has made mention of the film " Squadron " directed by Walter Grauman when citing movies that inspired themes or elements in A New Hope.
The "trench run" in A New Hope wherein Luke flies his X-wing through a "trench" on the Death Star and destroys the ship was inspired, at least in small part, by the finale of Squadron , which involves several Royal Air Force planes flying at low level up a fjord against heavy, ground-based anti-aircraft fire, to attack a factory located at the base of a cliff at the canyon's end.
However, few theaters ordered the film to be shown. In response, 20th Century Fox demanded that theaters order Star Wars if they wanted an eagerly anticipated film based on a best-selling novel titled The Other Side of Midnight. Star Wars became an instant success upon release; within three weeks, 20th Century Fox's stock price doubled to a record high. Although the film's cultural neutrality helped it to gain international success, Ladd became anxious during the premiere in Japan. After the screening, the audience was silent, leading Ladd, Jr.
He was later told that, in Japan, silence was the greatest honor to a film. During the film's original theatrical run, there were a number of now-iconic television promotions:.
Charles Lippincott was hired by Lucas' production company, Lucasfilm Ltd. Because 20th Century Fox gave little support for marketing beyond licensing T-shirts and posters, Lippincott was forced to look elsewhere. Although Star Wars merchandise was available to enthusiastic children upon release, only Kenner Toys —who believed that the film would be unsuccessful—had accepted Lippincott's licensing offers.
Kenner responded to the sudden demand for toys by selling boxed vouchers in its "empty box" Christmas campaign; these vouchers could be redeemed for the toys in March The novelization of the film was published in December , six months before the film was released.
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