This sounds corny but my friend and I were joking around about what it would be like if Star Wars was re-cast with the main characters as dogs instead of humans.
That already happened … kinda.
True, but I mean REAL dogs! Not Spaceballs! Hehe
As much as I love dogs, I don’t know many breeds. I suppose the obvious choice for Vader would be something big, dark, and intimidating like a Rottweiler, Mastiff or Pitbull. Newfoundland is another possibility, just for their immense size.
I could see Leia as a French bulldog, for obvious reasons;
Oh yeah…and a Jack Russell Terrier would make a great Emperor Palpatine! That breed is smart and can manipulate humans well. If Vader “a pit bull” could be easily influenced by a Jack Russell Terrier, anyone can
As much as I love dogs, I don’t know many breeds. I suppose the obvious choice for Vader would be something big, dark, and intimidating like a Rottweiler, Mastiff or Pitbull. Newfoundland is another possibility, just for their immense size.
I could see Leia as a French bulldog, for obvious reasons;
Cool choices! If Leia’s a Frenchie, Luke would have to be one too. I think Yoda would be a great Chihuahua because of those massive ears, and I see Chewie as a sheep dog because of all the fur!
This sounds corny but my friend and I were joking around about what it would be like if Star Wars was re-cast with the main characters as dogs instead of humans. Yes…we’re geeks! But the only ones we could think of were Han Solo and maybe Obi-Wan Kenobi. We were thinking since they are sassy and naughty and look like they’re wearing black and white and have wild tenacious personalities, we were thinking, the perfect breed of dog to play Han Solo would be the Boston Terrier. We were thinking of a wise old grayish looking Golden Retriever to play Obi Wan. But I want others’ opinions. What dog breeds could play Luke or Leia? They’re brother and sister, so they’d have to be the same breed. What about Vader? Or Chewey? Or Lando? Sorry I’m a geek but I love dogs and I love Star Wars. Any opinions? Hopefully this is an amusing post. Be creative! I’d love to hear some pretty funny ideas.
They never became cool. The problem with the prequels are: they came out at a time of a whole new generation of fans. The newer generation won’t appreciate the original trilogy like we do and we see the prequels as a desperate attempt for George Lucas to make a little money.
I think the Luke/Leia thing very obviously was foreshadowing, or at least a hint. Maybe they hadn’t decided definitively that was the road they were going down yet, but this more than conveniently left a strong opening for it. No one will convince me it wasn’t at least thought of at the time. The fact that she alone senses Luke in a very similar way to Vader in the same scene is too much to be a coincidence.
As for the Lando and Han line, pretty sure it’s only to emphasize how similar the characters are in terms of personality and background.
I think you’re right. Your answer makes the most sense. I think it’s because Han and Lando are so much alike. I thought maybe that scene was trying to tell us something initially but it’s hard to know what.
I will say that since it was sort of Lando’s fault that Han was frozen in carbonite…obviously it was still Darth Vader who did it…but since it was sort of Lando’s fault, Leia and Luke were awfully forgiving toward him. But I guess Lando did help them escape after all.
I realize this is kind of morbid, but in The Empire Strikes Back when Luke’s hand is cut off by Vader, does it seem weird to anyone else that he doesn’t bleed more? I know George Lucas wants to keep the movies PG but if he could get a way with showing a bloody arm in A New Hope in the Mos Eisley Cantina scene and that made movie was PG, then why wasn’t there blood gushing from Luke’s wrist? I mean…come on! Really? You can’t show him smear blood on his outfit or anything while Vader tells him he’s his father? I don’t know. It’s a little morbid but it seems that scene should be bloodier.
This is definitely the weirdest topic I am posting and there is probably nothing behind a simple 3-word phrase uttered by Han and Lando, but of all the movies in the original trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back is chalked full of symbolism and foreshadowing as well as the “Luke, I am your Father” surprise ending, which is why ESB is my favorite one of the three.
As far as symbolism, what is most notable is:
When Luke is on Dagobah training with Yoda, he takes his weapons into the “dark side of the force” cave after Yoda tells him not to. In this scene, he fights a simulated Vader and decapitates him. When his mask hits the ground, it explodes and Luke’s face is inside. This is GREAT symbolism and foreshadowing combined! The symbolism is: if Luke turns to the dark side, this could be him, and the foreshadowing is the fact that an actual Skywalker is indeed behind the mask as revealed at the end of the film.
Another piece of symbolism which leads to the revelation of Princess Leia as Luke’s twin sister separated from him at birth is the scene where they are leaving Cloud City and Leia can sense Luke through the force even though she doesn’t have any Jedi powers. She therefore orders Lando to turn the Falcon back and go rescue him as he hangs half dead from the bar now handless.
Which leads me to one more piece of symbolism I question. Even though Han and Lando have no connection to the force or Jedi ways, is there any symbolism in the “It’s Not My Fault” line? If you don’t know what I am talking about: after Han, Leia, Chewey, and Threepio blast off from Hoth, they are forced to enter an asteroid field because the Falcon’s hyperdrive isn’t working. He annoyingly announces to Leia, “It’s Not My Fault!” Later, when Lando, Leia, Chewey, Threepio, and Artoo blast off from Bespin, Lando utters the same line. I may be thinking too much into it but is there meaning behind that as well? Are those 2 lines a coincidence? Or is there some symbolic connection between Han and Lando that I missed? I know that’s a weird question but I am curious. Any opinions or thoughts?
kellyliston2017 said:
don’t you think George Lucas could have noticed a mess-up such as this?
Hahahaha!
There’s no way around this one; it’s a plot hole created by the prequels. I think what happened is that Lucas started running out of time at the end of RotS and had to cram everything in so that it was all in place for the next film, Star Wars. If he had written the prequels with a little more attention to detail and better planning he could have avoided this dilemma altogether.
You’re right.
I just recently watched “Revenge of the Sith” with my son and if Padme died giving birth to Luke and Leia
There’s the problem right there.
It’s a perfectly fine story until George went and screwed it up with the prequels.
Good point! I have seen movie mistakes before but don’t you think George Lucas could have noticed a mess-up such as this? I know if I was going to make a sequel or prequel, I would re-watch my old movies to make certain I am not messing things up. Haha! Maybe that’s why I like the original trilogy better
I’m asking this question because I just recently watched “Revenge of the Sith” with my son and if Padme died giving birth to Luke and Leia, then how can Leia, as an adult woman in ROTJ, remember her mother if she was a baby when she died?
Adults can have good memories stemming back as close to infancy as possible but I studied this in college, and most people have no concept of memory prior to hitting the “age of reason,” which to the average adult, is about 3 years old.
If you CAN remember before you are 3, you have special brain abilities no one else has, or your memories are very vague. Despite the fact that Leia’s memories ARE vague when she describes them to Luke on Endor, she knew more about Padme than she could have known if she only held her for a moment as a baby. So how is this possible?
I’m pretty sure Leia just hands Wicket a rice cake.
Hah yeah I always think that.
All the stuff looks like terrible dry health foods. The ESB lunchbox is like a bunch of Ryvitas.
Freeze dried food makes sense for emergency rations stored in the belly of an X-Wing for long periods of time.
Good point. Luke’s ESB lunchbox could all be freeze-dried rations. Either way, it looks like nothing I would ever eat. Hehe!
Thanks for the insight guys. I’ve heard anything from tic tacs to dog food to chex mix. Haha! I think the same thing. They eat crazy food in those movies. I wouldn’t mind eating a few of the things in Luke’s kit but I don’t care if it is delicious, I’m staying 500 yards from Rey’s green bread at all times!
Hahaha. You guys are funny! I wonder if they eat meat on any of those planets.
The stuff Leia gives Wicket is lembas bread.
Cool. I didn’t know that. Not much for nutrition in Space were they?
Quite the delicacy Luke has there. What about Rey’s weird green space bread?
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Bread
Yuck! Makes me sick! Usually when I see green on bread, I think mold. What do you suppose the deal is with that bread she eats?
I realize this is a crazy question, but in the ESB, when Luke is on the Dagobah System and he meets Yoda for the first time…and doesn’t know he’s Yoda of course…Yoda starts thumbing through Luke’s food box and says “How do you get so big eating food of this kind?” I mean, it looked like a tackle box that fisherman use. Have you ever wondered what kind of food that was in that box? I know that’s a weird question, but I have always wondered.
Also in ROTJ, on Endor, when Leia is bonding with an EWOK for the first time to try to calm him down, she offers him some crazy cracker-type thing. What is that?
Lastly, in The Force Awakens, Rey squirted some liquid on some small green thing she bought and it puffs up into some weird green looking bread. What is that supposed to be?
Is there any place in any of the Star Wars films that explains what that weird food is they eat? Of course, I just mean the humans. I don’t need an explanation behind why the Sarlaac Pit eats people or why Jabba the Hutt eats giant bull frogs. Heh heh.
Any answers? Just curious.
I know this site talks about the original trilogy but my question centers around 2 things that happened in the original trilogy that didn’t make much sense regarding 1 event that happened in the newer trilogy. I just recently watched episode 1 with my husband and I noticed that Liam Neesan’s character Qui Gon Gin was murdered by Darth Maul however, his body was burned.
Typically this would make sense except in “A New Hope” and “Return of the Jedi” when Obiwon was killed by Vader, his body vanished into the force. When Yoda died in his tree house on the Dagobah System in front of Luke, he vanished as well.
That being the case, based on the original trilogy, Jedis vanish when they die. In episode 1, why didn’t Qui Gon Gon vanish? I’ve always wondered that.
