Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Trivia: Boba Fett has only 5 lines in the entire film.

Trivia: This is the first film where we hear the Imperial Star Destroyers get referred to by their name. Although we see a Star Destroyer in the first Star Wars movie, it's not actually named.

Trivia: Acting is a collaboration, which made the Dagobah scenes difficult for Mark Hamill. For the most part he was alone, R2-D2 was remote-controlled, and Frank Oz was beneath the sets. Furthermore, he could not hear most of Yoda's lines.

Trivia: Sir Alec Guinness agreed to appear in this movie late in filming, and performed his scenes in a single day.

Trivia: Mark Hamill broke his thumb during filming of the scene where Luke makes it out of his snowspeeder just before it is crushed by an Imperial walker in the Battle of Hoth.

Trivia: "The Imperial March" - also known as "Darth Vader's Theme" - sounds strikingly similar to the 1932 song "My Woman" by Lew Stone and his Monseigneur Band.

Phaneron

Trivia: Peter Mayhew was ill during one day of the filming and director Irvin Kershner shot scenes with a replacement. But without Mayhew in Chewbacca's costume, the Wookiee's body language looked wrong and the footage was subsequently scrapped.

Audio problem: When Luke says, "Now all we gotta do is find this Yoda, if he even exists," if you look closely, his mouth never moves.

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Yoda: Told you, I did. Reckless is he. Now, matters are worse.
Obi-Wan: That boy is our last hope.
Yoda: No. There is another.

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Chosen answer: He "searched his feelings" as Vader instructed; he reached out with the Force and felt the truth of the statement.

Phixius

Answer: The vision Luke sees in the cave on Dagobah is a clue to this. Luke is realizing he has a lot more in common with Darth Vader than the idealized father he'd always imagined. When Vader tells him he's his father, Luke doesn't want to believe it, but he simply can't deny that it feels much more true that his father would be someone passionate and reckless like himself rather than someone who exemplifies a noble Jedi, which feels like an obvious myth in hindsight.

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