Why Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back Was Great

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Posted by Eric Pierce | Posted in Movies | Posted on 09-05-2010

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Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back is, perhaps, one of the greatest science fiction movies ever made. The movie has something for everyone. Love, revenge, drama, and mystique. For people that need somewhere safe to retreat to when the world gets too hard to deal with, don’t forget about episode five.

The reason that it is one of the best science fiction movies made is because it takes the viewer on such a great journey. It starts out on the ice planet of Hoth, were the rebels, after blowing up the first Death Star, have had to run to hide for a while. The planet is barely inhabitable. Yet the rebels have taken refuge there thinking that the evil Empire will not be able to track them out there.

This movie wouldn’t have much of an appeal if the whole of the action took place on Hoth, so it makes sense that we are treated, early on, to one of the greatest battles in the Star Wars universe. The ground battle for Hoth proves just how determined the rebels were to keep doing what they were doing. They weren’t even trying to win, they simply wanted to stall the Empire long enough to get out of the system before getting blown to hell.

They do escape, barely. Luke splits ways to go visit Yoda, who is supposed to train him in the ways of the force. This training with Yoda shows just how far away Luke is from being the hero that it seems he will eventually become. He is just a kid, trying to do something that is a lot bigger than him. And maybe, just maybe, he isn’t really up to the challenge.

At the same time, Han, Leia, Chewie and C-3PO are still on the run. They weren’t able to completely lose their pursuers as they left Hoth. While people watch them on the run, they can get a real sense of what is going on with this rebellion. It isn’t just some grand ideal, it is a handful of people that are being relentlessly pursued by an organization that has nearly unlimited resources.

Eventually everyone makes it to Bespin. In this Cloud City Luke learns, in one of the most epic moments in movie history, that Darth Vader is his father. And even after that, even after all the fighting everyone has had to do in the movie, the only victory that the rebels really get is that most of them get away. Han doesn’t make it out with them, after having been frozen and taken away by Boba Fett, but the rest of the characters do manage to make a break for it by the end.

This whole movie is really just about a small group of people that are on a run from an organization that they have no ability to fight head on. This is part of why the movie has had such a lasting impression. So many times in life there is really nothing that the common person can do but try to get away from the people who don’t want them around. The only option left, sometimes, is to run away.

There are some allegories to the real world in this story. So often small groups fighting for what they believe in are chased by an overwhelmingly large force. It doesn’t always end up the way it ends up in Star Wars, and we see in the end of this movie that it might not end well for this group either.

No one knows what is going to come after Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back the first time they see it. They might think that everything will work out alright, but there is no proof that it will. The ending of this movie leaves everyone hoping things will be good for these characters in the future, but there is no indication that will be the case save for that they have finally caught back up with the rest of the rebel fleet.

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