I just heard there's going to be an extra scene included in the DVD release
of EMPIRE STRIKES BACK coming up next year!
Basically, it expands on
the scene where Vader reveals his fatherhood to Luke, and ties up some loose
ends created with the release of Episode 1.
The Empire Strikes Back:
Extra-Special
Edition
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INT: BESPIN
GANTRY - MOMENTS LATER:
A furious lightsaber duel is underway. DARTH
VADER is backing LUKE SKYWALKER towards the end of the gantry.
A quick
move by Vader, chops off Luke's hand! It goes spinning off into the
ventilation shaft.
Luke backs away. He looks around, but realizes
there's nowhere to go but straight down.
Darth Vader: Obi Wan never
told you what happened to your father.
Luke: He told me enough! He
told me you killed him!
Darth Vader: No, I am your
father!
Luke: No, it's not true! It's impossible.
Darth Vader:
Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
Luke: NO!
Darth
Vader: Yes, it is true. And you know what else? You know that brass droid of
yours?
Luke: Threepio?
Darth Vader: Yes, Threepio. I built
him... when I was 7 years old.
Luke: No!
Darth Vader: Seven
years old! And what have you done? Look at yourself, no hand, no job, and
couldn't even levitate your own ship out of the swamp.
Luke: I
destroyed your precious Death Star!
Darth Vader: When you were 20!
When I was 10, I single-handedly destroyed a Trade Federation Droid Control
ship!
Luke: Well, it's not my fault!
Darth Vader: Oh, here we
go... "Poor me. My father never gave me what I wanted for my birthday. Boo
hoo, my daddy's the Dark Lord of the Sith. Waahhh wahhh!"
Luke: Shut
up!
Darth Vader: You're a slacker! By the time I was your age, I had
exterminated the Jedi knights!
Luke: I used to race my T-16 through
Beggar's Canyon.
Darth Vader: Oh, for the love of the Emperor! 10
years old, winner of the Boonta Eve Open. Only human to ever fly a Pod Racer!
Right here baby!
Luke looks down the shaft. Takes a step towards
it.
Darth Vader: I was wrong. You're not my kid. You're not good
enough to be my kid.
Luke takes a step off the platform, hesitates,
then plunges down the shaft.
Darth Vader looks after him.
Darth
Vader: Get a haircut!
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