Ah, the Sequel.
This film had a much different feel and tone to it than "Star Wars." The audience knows the players of the story. We know which side people are on who's good, who's evil. We know that there are very few Jedi left and that they are a dying breed. We meet some new characters such as Yoda and Lando.
This film pulls at your heartstrings because everything bad that can happen does. Han Solo gets frozen. Luke loses an arm, C-3PO ends up in pieces. We also find out the real relationship between Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker. We as the audience almost have the same reaction as Luke. I know when I first saw "Empire Strikes Back" that I wasn't expecting the revelation of Darth Vader.
I feel for Leia at her loss of Han Solo. At the end of the film we don't know what is going to happen to our heroes. We feel uncertain and scared that the characters we know and love are hurting.
We can only hope that George Lucas has a vision and that it will help us understand what is happening and where our heroes will end up.
Overall "Empire Strikes Back" is a good film, not as good as "Star Wars" but when does the sequel match the original
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I had a totally different experience, since this was in fact the first Star Wars movie I saw, hence this was my introduction to the theme, setting and characters.
I saw it in a movie theatre when the film was first shown in Norway in 1982, and I only knew that there had been a film #1 and that this was something entirely different. AND that the first winter part of Empire Strikes Back was filmed in Norway.
We didn't have video, so I even saw Return of the Jedi in cinema before having seen the first film.
Therefore the magic was really with this film and it's features - and when I finally, several years later, saw Star Wars as a rerun on TV together with my brother, we were looking at each other all the time with "Oooh", "aaah" and "now I see..." expressions on our faces
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