Monday 6 December 2021

AN 'EMPIRE' AT 40: ARTOO TO THE RESCUE (AGAIN!)


Threepio may be irritated that his friend hasn't fully put him back together again, but Artoo's skillsets are vitally needed elsewhere, primarily helping Chewbacca get the Falcon's hyperdrive re-activated in this critical and humorous scene. The droid is ultimately successfully, in the nick of time (again!), as Chewbacca, working in the maintenance pit soon receives an unexpected and heavy visitor landing on him from the ship's fast hyper-launch response!

In an old behind the scenes trick, Anthony Daniels' left leg is hidden inside the box the droid is sitting on, with only the golden stump shown on screen.

Earlier scene as Chewbacca open the floor grill of the main hold.


Thankfully, Artoo's trusting the Cloud City computer's hyperdrive information saves the day! 


One of the Artoo shell's is pulled along on barely noticeable piano wire to fall into the hold pit. The moment would be further speeded up in post production editing.


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