What a surprise! Han Solo and the Princess are arguing again! This time, her 'highness-ness' is angry with the smuggler in finally making his decision to leave her and the Rebellion at its most critical time. To make things worse, Han can't help forcing the issue over their relationship, charging the Princess's mood even more, in this fun comedic sequence which was originally a much longer confrontational scene and was trimmed in half during editing- in the original version, Leia had the last comedic line instead of Han, making him even angrier when back repairing the Falcon. Also lost, part of an entire sub plot in itself, was a sequence showing a Wampa snow creature trying to scratch through the ice wall of the nearby base corridor whilst the pair are arguing.
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| As our duo argues, an unexpected visitors attempts a break-in |
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| A Wampa paw tries to break the ice. |
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| The bickering scene continues in another corridor. |
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| "Enjoy your trip, Hotshot!' |
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| Leia walks away in the final moments, as a droid goes past. |
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| The full scene with Wampa moment, as captured in the official Marvel comics adaptation based on one of the revised shooting scripts. |
Making an early visit to the film in late March/early April 1979 was George Lucas, along with Lawrence Kasdan, as the Rebel base scenes were being shot. They posed for numerous photographs on the corridor and Medical Bay set, with Kasdan getting a surprise when he saw that some of his Solo/Leia dialogue had been rewritten or changed by Ford without his knowledge.
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| Lucas confers with cinematographer Peter Suschitzky on the scene. Note the Leia/Han stand-ins in the corridor background. |
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| Best of friends, or best of 'frenemies'? Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford between takes.. |
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