 17_Star Wars: Episode V— The Empire Strikes Back
(1980, dir. Irvin Kershner)
Best Seen: Twentieth Century Fox DVD
Time Code: Chapter 46, 110:00
Four movies later, Luke Skywalker’s paternity is old news. But when Darth Vader announced in that end-of-days baritone, “I am your father,” he upended the entire Star Wars canon. How could Luke’s innocence and heroism have come from the evil that is Vader? Crouching in fear and pain, Luke doesn’t believe it. We can only wonder what’s going through his mind (“Dude, how about a blood test,” maybe?), but apparently he accepts the fact and begins to howl “Noooooo!” And just like that, Lucas’s seemingly simple morality tale transforms into something much more complex and gloomy.
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