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Season 9 Episode 7 - The Empire Strikes Back

Season 9 Episode 7 - The Empire Strikes Back

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The Empire is coming...This week on The Insanely Dangerous Retropodshow, Dangerous Dave travels back to 1980 and a galaxy far, far away for one of the most celebrated sequels in cinema history...STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACKAfter the extraordinary success of the original Star Wars, George Lucas faced an almost impossible challenge: how do you follow a movie that completely changed popular culture?The answer?Go darker.Go bigger.Separate the heroes.Introduce Yoda.Make Darth Vader even more terrifying.Freeze Han Solo in carbonite.And deliver one of the greatest revelations in movie history.Officially released in 1980 and directed by Irvin Kershner, The Empire Strikes Back took Luke, Han and Leia into a much darker second chapter as the Empire relentlessly hunted the Rebel Alliance.⏰ WHAT HAPPENED WAY BACK WHEN? – 1980Before heading to Hoth, Dave fires up the retro time machine and revisits 1980.There's music from Pink Floyd, Blondie, The Police, Barbra Streisand and Motörhead, while the movie section remembers The Shining, Airplane!, Friday the 13th and The Blues Brothers.On television, we're remembering Magnum, P.I., Hi-de-Hi!, Hammer House of Horror, The Adventure Game and a young Tom Hanks in Bosom Buddies.Then Retro Headlines revisits some of the major events making news in Britain and America as the new decade got underway.⭐ DANGEROUS DEEP DIVE – MAKING EMPIREThen it's time for the main event.Dave explores the enormous challenge of following Star Wars and how George Lucas took a huge financial gamble to maintain creative control over the sequel. Lucasfilm itself describes Lucas as effectively gambling the company's future by investing his own money in the production.We look at Irvin Kershner taking over the director's chair, the development of the screenplay and why Empire feels so different from its predecessor.Then we head into the movie itself...❄️ THE BATTLE OF HOTHThe Rebels have been discovered.The Empire attacks.And suddenly enormous AT-AT walkers are marching towards Echo Base.Dave revisits the Wampa attack, Han rescuing Luke from the freezing wilderness, Snowspeeders wrapping tow cables around AT-AT legs and one of the greatest opening battles in science-fiction history.But there's something important about Hoth...The Rebels don't win.They escape.And that sets the tone for everything that follows.🟢 LUKE MEETS YODALuke heads to Dagobah looking for a legendary Jedi Master...And instead finds a strange little green creature rummaging through his belongings.Dave celebrates the creation of Yoda, Frank Oz's performance and the extraordinary puppetry that made audiences forget they were watching an effect.From Luke entering the mysterious cave to Yoda raising the X-wing from the swamp, we revisit some of the most important moments in Luke's journey towards becoming a Jedi.❤️ HAN & LEIAMeanwhile, Han Solo and Princess Leia are busy doing what Han and Leia do best...Arguing.The chemistry between Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher takes centre stage as the Millennium Falcon desperately tries to escape the Empire.There's the asteroid field...The space slug...A broken hyperdrive...And eventually a journey to Cloud City.🟠 LANDO & BOBA FETTWe celebrate two major new additions to the Star Wars universe.Lando Calrissian – charming, stylish and caught in an impossible situation when Darth Vader takes control of Cloud City.And Boba Fett – a character who barely needs to say anything to become one of the coolest people in the entire film.Dave also looks at the collection of bounty hunters who proved that Star Wars could put a strange-looking character on screen for a few seconds and leave generations of fans desperate to know their entire backstory.🧊 HAN SOLO – FROZEN IN CARBONITEThen things get dark.Han is prepared for the carbon-freezing chamber.Leia finally admits how she feels.And Han responds in the most Han Solo way imaginable.He's frozen...Boba Fett gets his prize...And audiences in 1980 are left wondering whether one of the movie's most popular characters will ever return.⚔️ LUKE VS DARTH VADERLuke ignores Yoda and Obi-Wan's warnings and travels to Cloud City.He's convinced he's ready.Vader knows he isn't.What follows is one of cinema's greatest lightsaber battles.Vader toys with Luke...Luke desperately fights back...Until Vader finally stops playing.Luke loses his hand.And then...Everything we thought we knew about Star Wars changes.Dave explores the secrecy surrounding the enormous Vader revelation and why it transformed Star Wars from a simple battle between good and evil into something far more personal.Lucasfilm itself describes Empire as the darker second act that introduced Yoda and left audiences stunned by its cliffhanger.🎼 JOHN WILLIAMSWe also celebrate another extraordinary John Williams score.Yoda's Theme.Han and Leia's music.The Battle of Hoth.And, of course...THE IMPERIAL MARCHFew pieces of movie music are so instantly connected to a ...
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