- Let me make a note for Duane that there may be a new shot
inserted in between these two.
- Echo Station 5-7, we're on our way.
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- Oh.
- Take 1.
- Cut.
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- Are those your real [INAUDIBLE] boots?
- No.
- You know, it's three years later.
Everybody comes back to work.
And everybody is sort of more enthusiastic
than they were the first time.
The first time, everybody was very
confused by the whole thing and didn't
know what they were up against.
Now they had a better picture of what it was we were making.
You know, it was fun to get started again.
- There's a new dance.
Doing the tauntaun.
Three steps like this, and then fall over.
- How can they laugh in this weather?
- There are challenges about any movie.
The snowstorm was the worst storm in history.
- Snow is coming.
- They couldn't get the train in there
so Harrison couldn't get on the set, you know,
until a week later.
So they could barely shoot.
We shot like 20 feet outside the hotel.
Four weeks into shooting, there were already [INAUDIBLE]
schedule.
And the bank was also saying, we're not going
to give you any more money.
And we were stuck.
It was a tough situation.
- Like the horror movie Hannibal, good, now look back
and you see it.
There.
- Coming back for the second film, I think the audience--
they were so surprised that it wasn't just
a carbon copy of Star Wars.
I think that's what really made it distinctive.
No.
We're not going to regroup with the others.
- Why?
- We're going to the Dagobah system.
- I was particularly disconcerted that R2 had
gone off with Luke Skywalker.
- Cut to camera B.
- But, they'd given Threepio Han Solo to deal with.
- Well, of course I'll have to replace it.
Chewy!
- And brought out a quality in Threepio of disdain.
- Chewy, take the professor in the back
and plug him into the hyperdrive.
- He couldn't quite understand human behavior, especially
coming from Han Solo.
- Really terrible.
Really terrible.
- Mark it.
289J Take 8.
- I like the Han and Leia love scene in the Millennium Falcon.
We didn't know how that was going to work.
And I think that come off very well.
- Hey!
Your worship, I'm only trying to help.
- And that's really due to, really, Carrie and Harrison who
took that scene and actually, subtly, took it into a place
that most people didn't expect us to go.
- I happen to like nice men.
- I'm a nice man.
- You are not nice.
You are--
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- OK.
Hot shot.
- I like it here.
I like the snowcats.
No, I'm only up here to irritate the crew.
- Carrie was very funny and kept everybody entertained.
- Yeah, great.
Great.
- She was able to boss those guys
around without looking silly.
- You're talking to them, you're talking to them.
You're talking to the others as you walk into it.
- OK.
A large transport [INAUDIBLE]
- That came through.
And that was the important part of her character,
was the fact she was the boss.
And she was also shorter than everyone else,
but she handled that great.
- Don't touch anything!
- Problems?
- Thanks for your concern.
- Aren't you afraid the Empire is going to find
out about this little imp?
- I always saw him as a heroic figure.
Even though people fell in love with the characters
prior to Lando entering the picture,
they could not deny Lando.
Lando was too charming, and too lovely, and too wonderful.
I wanted to make him bigger than life,
swashbuckling, even though he was
a bit of a rogue and dubious.
- Ha ha ha ha ha!
How are you doing, you--
- It's a credit to Billy Dee Williams and to Harrison
that when they meet, you believe that they
have an old relationship.
You believe that they don't quite trust each other.
And yet, you also believe, even though Lando
betrays Han, that he didn't want to,
that he feels real misgivings.
- I had no choice.
They arrived just before you did.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, too.
- And Han is not ready to hear that just
before he's put into carbonite.
- Imagine when I read the script,
body parts are hurled against a wall.
And they were Threepio's those body parts.
I kind of riffled through the next few pages
to find out what happened because I thought, you know,
am I out of a job?
And there of course, you have Chewbacca
putting Threepio back.
- Do you want me to look at R2 in this?
- You're looking there occasionally,
but mostly around here.
- Putting the head on backwards, that was totally weird.
- Action!
- R2 stop making him--
[LEG THUDS LOUDLY]
- Cut.
Cut.
[OBJECTS THUMPING]
- Hi Mom!
- This was the most physically taxing
of all the film because of the lightsaber duels.
Every time I wasn't shooting, I was rehearsing.
- I can't talk now.
I'm out of breath.
- Something that took weeks and weeks to shoot,
even though it only lasts a few minutes on film.
So it taxed me to the limit.
- 1, 2, 3, 4.
- So Mark, he started out as just a farm kid, you know,
who was very naive and didn't quite know what was going on.
- 39193 Take 3!
[INAUDIBLE]
- In this one, he's becoming the hero.
- Action!
- He gets thrown a lot of stuff, not the most important of all,
is the fact he was fighting his father.
- [INAUDIBLE] JM Take 1!
- Action!
- When I read the script it was so unexpected.
Usually when you do a sequel, they
want to just repeat experience.
And, you know, that would mean that the second film would end
with exhilaration and triumph.
It was so daring.
I don't think we were ever able to be that surprising again.
Because it was deeper, it was more cerebral,
it was more spiritual, the fact that we face defeat at the end.
- Hi.
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- Hello.
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