“I am your father.” Four words and a replica that has become mythical. This sentence comes from a scene from The counter-attack empire, The second film produces saga Star Warsreleased in 1980. Luke Skywalker faces Dark Vader to Laser Burm. They fight, cause themselves, before the Sith Lord advances towards the young Jedi and drops a bomb: Dark Vader is the father of Luke Skywalker!
The latter screams. And in theaters around the world, the public with him. Because this “twist” had seen him coming. Not even the team and the actors of the film. Just if George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, et Irvin Kershnerthe director of The counterattack empire had put in confidence Mark Hamillthe interpre of Luke Skywalker.
The American actor will later confide that keeping this secret for him for year and a half was a real “agony”. He will even often enjoy it publicly, as in 2017 on the BBC, when he tells the reaction of Harrison Ford During the screening, and the reason why he had not said anything to his partner Carrie Fisher : “If you really wanted to leak something quickly, you asked Carrie to keep it for her.”
“Obi-Wan the cook”
On the day of filming this scene, on the set, a false reply is recorded:
“Obi-Wan killed your father”. A lure. It is actually in post-production, much later, that the real sentence will be recorded. James Earl Jones, the mythical voice of Vader, is summoned on the sly. It was not until the moment that the sentence “No… I am your father” is placed on the images.
At this moment, the saga rocks. Star Wars is therefore no longer a simple story of science fiction full of lasers and space battles. She becomes a family tragedy, a Shakespearean story where the hero discovers that absolute evil flows in his veins. A stroke of genius.
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