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LUKE SKYWALKER

10 After Luke’s snowspeeder crashes cannons could not: penetrates

during the Battle of Hoth in The
the AT-AT’s armor and turns the
Empire Strikes Back, he doesn’t call
clanking war machine into smoking
trash from the inside out. While
it a day and rush to one of the
evacuating transports. Instead,
he takes the fight to a four-legged

teamwork from the snowspeeder
AT-AT walker and hauls himself toppling the other walkers requires
pilots, the very fact that Luke
up to its armored body via a tow brings one down single-handedly—
Bringing down cable. Slashing open the walker’s with such effi ciency—demonstrates
the beast underside with his lightsaber, Luke that he’s a hero who thinks on his
throws in a detonation charge that
feet and has no fear of monsters,
does what his snowspeeder’s blaster mechanical or otherwise.

09 Luke first holds a lightsaber in the

home of Ben Kenobi. But it is not
just any lightsaber, it previously
belonged to Luke’s father—Anakin
Skywalker—who had wanted his
son to have it when Luke was old
enough, at least according to Ben.
When Luke ignites the lightsaber, it
Drawing of marks the first time the original Star

the Sword Wars audiences had witnessed a blue
energy blade hiss into existence.
Sound designer Ben Burtt mixed the
whirr of an old movie projector with and justice through the galaxy.
the hum from a television screen The blade looks and sounds so
to give the laser sword a sense of tangible, so real, and Luke seems
weight as Luke swings through so transfixed by it, that one never

the air. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan adds questions its authenticity or its
a layer of history, explaining that legend. In this brief scene, both
the lightsaber is the weapon of the Luke and the audience realize the
Jedi Knights, an order of mystical galaxy is a much bigger place than
warriors who once defended peace they had ever thought.

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