![]() He can't do it himself after his gunner gets killed, but Wedge Antilles manages to pull it off perfectly. Upon finding out that the Snowspeeders' laser guns can't do anything against the armor of the AT-ATs, Luke devises a tactic to bring them down using the aircrafts' towing cables to entangle their legs.The battle is made even more awesome by the use of real life Norwegian army reservists that played the soldiers in the battle. It also doubles as a crowning moment of filmmaking due to the expert use of miniatures on both the AT-AT's and the Snowspeeders that hold up phenomenally well. And the valiant pilots of the Rogue Squadron (including Luke Skywalker) do their darndest to provide aerial cover with their Snowspeeders. ALL! OF! IT! The Rebel soldiers are about to be badly outgunned and face the Empire's crushing might, the scary quadrupedal All Terrain Armored Transports (Imperial Walkers) above all, but they still bravely hold the line to buy time for the evacuation of Echo Base, and even inflict quite a bit of casualties to the Imperials. It takes Nerves of Steel to not react in the slightest when Darth Vader turns around and raises his voice at you when you're half a foot away from him. Keep in mind, this is the first time in three years that audiences have seen the Dark Lord on film, and you'll understand why crowds in theaters worldwide burst into friggin' CHEERS. The above is immediately followed by a shot of the back of Darth Vader's helmet, as he surveys HIS fleet of massive ships.Remember how A New Hope opens with a spaceship being chased down by an even bigger spaceship? The first true appearance of the Empire in this film is that big spaceship being eclipsed by an even bigger spaceship! Imagine seeing that when the film originally came out in 1980 and having your mind blown.Super Star Destroyers are 12 times longer than normal Star Destroyers, at 19 kilometers long. To truly put this into perspective, normal Imperial-class Star Destroyers are approximately 1,600 meters long, or about 1 mile.The same sequence debuts a new piece of music for Empire, one that would count among the most iconic of the franchise, the Imperial March. We see it eclipsing the light on multiple Star Destroyers! LIKE THAT BEHEMOTH FROM THE INTRO OF THE PREVIOUS FILM! Even its engine exhausts dwarf the escorting Destroyers. He can't reach his lightsaber, so with great concentration, he manages to pull it to him, free himself, and de-arm the wampa. Then we see Luke trapped in an ice cave with a wampa, hanging upside-down by his feet. Even the Force-choking of Motti by Vader could have been along these lines rather than telekinesis. ![]() In the first film, all we really saw of the Force was mental influencing minds, creating illusions, seeing without one's eyes, that sort of thing. ![]()
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