"EVERY SAGA HAS A BEGINNING..."

Thursday 14 June 2018

CLASSIC ART: IN HARM'S WAY!


His co-pilot dead, his snowspeeder now crash-landed, Rogue Flight Commander Luke Skywalker is in trouble- caught in the cold climes of Hoth and now facing the awesome technological might of a hulking Imperial AT-AT Walker heading his way. A superb piece of merchandising art created by Ralph McQuarrie linked to the classic sequence from The Empire Strikes Back, celebrating an awesome sequence starting that film created with live action filming at Norway alongside the talents of the special effects geniuses of ILM.

Pencil art by McQuarrie.

This brilliant fusing of smoke and mirrors, the unfolding battle of Rebels vs Imperials, would be heightened further by John Williams dizzyingly thunderous and violent score for the sequence, which would feature incredible use of percussion within the London Symphony Orchestra. The Battle in the Snow is easily one of the all-time great tracks from EPISODE V, and now available in remastered form, as the film's original 1980 soundtrack gets an all-new release on CD from Walt Disney Records, alongside the rest of the Classic and Prequel Trilogies.



Get it here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Wars-Empire-Strikes-Back/dp/B075VNX66B/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1528551987&sr=8-1&keywords=the+empire+strikes+back+cd

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