Survey: Which Single Scene From the Saga is the Most Important To You?

[Cassus Fett]

Which Single Scene From The Saga Is The Most Important To You? Simply tell us which scene from the entire saga stands out the most to you and why this scene does. There can be no right or wrong answer and please do not rip apart what other people think is there most important scene within the saga.

[Darill Cyllem]

What really got me into Star Wars at age 7 was Princess Leia being all mouthy to Darth Vader. He was clearly a scary, scary bad guy, and she was just like: "bring it!"
I was sold.

And that pretty much sums up my attitude towards the world.

[Blizzard]

For me, without question, it is when Luke meets Darth Vader on Endor and calls him father, and Vader calls Luke son.

[Tovor]

Tough question, but for me it comes to a tie between two seperate but connecting scenes:

Luke in ANH: "I want to learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi like my father."

Luke in ROTJ: "I am a Jedi, like my father before me."

[Blizzard]

^It's the "father/son" part that I like, too.

[Kommandant Felix]

As my esteemed colleague Tovor suggests, I think it's the climax of the Emperor versus Luke thing...

"I am a Jedi, like my father before me."

That phrase alone pwns Palpatine...and makes him look pathetic. It is the most climatic scene in the films, and I think it really was important to me, because it shows the triumph of good over evil.

[Darth Nameless]

mine is when luke finds out vader is his father...that changes the whole dynamics of the whole series...and makes people want to know whats up with the prequels

[Orandhite]

Princess Leia.

Gold Bikini.

I Win.

:nahnah:









I actually think the lightsaber fight in ROTJ is one of the most intense scenes. There is so much emotion.

[Solo]

Princess Leia.

Gold Bikini.

I Win.

:nahnah:

I actually think the lightsaber fight in ROTJ is one of the most intense scenes. There is so much emotion.

I think the same. :laughing:

[Jedi Master Harrison]

At the minute I really couldn't pick just one scene. Meditate on this, I will. :yoda:

[RollaFett]

For me, without question, it is when Luke meets Darth Vader on Endor and calls him father, and Vader calls Luke son.

Birds of a feather, Blizz, birds of a feather.
This has always been my favorite scene from ROTJ, and really, in terms of importance, it's arguably the most important of the OT. Vader's line, "It's too late for me, my son." says a lot, IMO, because I've always understood it to mean that he thought that Luke wasn't destined to join the dark side as he did.

[Javen]

Probably when Luke's home is destroyed. It gets his whiney, brat self to start doing something in his life. Even though it had to be something bad that happened.

[Talcy]

Both the asteroid chase and the carbon freeze scenes from Empire.

[Cassus Fett]

For me its that few seconds where Luke had just cut of Vader's hand and you can see that emotionally he is ready to cut him down but at the same instance realises that he is becoming his father. There is so much emotion during those few seconds.

Also the moment when Chewbacca roars as Han, the person he swore a life-debt to is put in carbonite. You can tell he's really wants to help him there and then but is unable to do so which i think rips him apart emotionally.

[Tovor]

^It's the "father/son" part that I like, too.
Birds of a feather...

[Kapit]

Opening shot of the Star Destroyer flying overhead in ANH.

Visually stunning beyond belief. When thinking of something to draw or animate, I somehow always come back to that image and do my best to not replicate it.

[lovelucas]

the death of Padmé - the birth of Vader - almost on split screens

and now we know.

[Lord Tesla]

It's hard to select just one. If I had to go with just one, it would be Obi-Wan and Yoda's exchange (which isn't really a complete scene, I suppose), after Luke's hasty departure from Dagobah.

Yoda: Told you, I did. Reckless is he. Now matters are worse.

Obi-Wan: That boy is our last hope.

Yoda: No. There is another.

The possibilities that opened up... (The disappointment that closed in when the Other was revealed to be Leia.)

But a close second is Han Solo's flight through the Asteroid Field, the Empire in hot pursuit, from ESB. That is the most fun I've ever had watching a starship.

[Darth Massacrus]

a tie (no pun intended): first, where we get to see The Emperor for the first time in ROTJ.

The second most important scene is everything in Episode I prior to Jar Jar's appearance. Up until that point I had thought that this would be the most awesome movie ever, and I just instantly loved it, and refused not to.Then, Jar Jar shows up, and the movie goes to hell on me. But, because TPM was so good prior to Qui-Gon saving JarJar in the swamp, I cannot dislike the film, despite everything.

[Trilogist]

This moment:

Luke Skywalker: Never. I'll never turn to the Dark Side. You've failed, your highness. I am a Jedi, like my father before me.
Emperor Palpatine: So be it... Jedi.Because of the father/son thing, but also because it's the resumption of the Palpatine/Yoda battle (at least the beginning of the end of it) and the whole prophecy thing as well. I think this was the first time anyone acknowledged Luke as a Jedi. But that's just me. I read a lot into these things.

[Tovor]

This moment:

Because of the father/son thing, but also because it's the resumption of the Palpatine/Yoda battle (at least the beginning of the end of it) and the whole prophecy thing as well. I think this was the first time anyone acknowledged Luke as a Jedi. But that's just me. I read a lot into these things.
Hadn't Chewie referred to Luke as a Jedi already?
Han: "Luke, a Jedi? I'm out of it for a little while and everybody's getting delusions of granduer."

And Leia as well, from a certain point of view. "You have a power I don't understand, and could never have."

But most importantly, Yoda had. Even though he had said that it remained for another confrontation with Vader before Luke would be a Jedi, he did say, "When gone I am, last of the Jedi will you be."

Or am I reading too much into this, too?

[Cassus Fett]

I think we all do, hence this thread.

[Trilogist]

Hadn't Chewie referred to Luke as a Jedi already?
Han: "Luke, a Jedi? I'm out of it for a little while and everybody's getting delusions of granduer."

And Leia as well, from a certain point of view. "You have a power I don't understand, and could never have."

But most importantly, Yoda had. Even though he had said that it remained for another confrontation with Vader before Luke would be a Jedi, he did say, "When gone I am, last of the Jedi will you be."

Or am I reading too much into this, too?

Great points. I think my problem is that I haven't watched the OT in quite a while. Note to self: watch the OT this weekend. I think everyone alluded to it (like Leia) and the suggestion was that Luke would be a Jedi, was training to be a Jedi, and even Luke himself used the title Jedi Knight when introducing himself to Jabba. But there was just something about the way the Emperor said it, "so be it, Jedi." It had more weight. Like it was official. Now that he was a Jedi, now that he had taken sides, he needed to die.

Of course, we all know the rest. For a moment there were two Jedi in the universe again. And then there was one.

[Lord Tesla]

a tie (no pun intended): first, where we get to see The Emperor for the first time in ROTJ.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but...didn't the Emperor appear in ESB, even before the SEs?

Of course he did. Not Ian McDiarmid, true, at least not the first time around, but, still, the Emperor.

[Cassus Fett]

Yes but he appeared as a Holocron so you didnt really see 'him'. ROTJ is the first time you see him in 'person'

[sharyntyre]

Liea in the gold bikini!

No really I think for me it was when Anikan kills the Tuskies after he found his mom. That was his first big step into the darkside.

It's hard to pick just one, the opening scene of ANH when Vader steps aboard the blockade runner was very powerful to me too.

Any shots of Amidala from behind must get honorable mention as well :wink:

[Leiaswg1]

'Tis so hard to pick one scene...

I would say the carbonate freezing. Because it has a lot of good consequences (Lando's turning back, Leia's "warming" in her attitude, Luke deciding to help his friend instead of learning on Dagobah and then to fight Vador, etc).

In second, the end of ROTJ, people celebrating...

[Darth Revenge]

In the Empire Strikes Back where Luke duels Vadar.
Luke: I will never Join you, you killed my father.
Vadar: No Luke I am your Father.
Luke:Thats not true, thats impossible, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Darth Wiseguy]

Visually: The scene in Episode VI with the shuttle approach of Darth Vader to the Death Star II and him exiting the shuttle to the point where he walks through the hangar where you can see the stormtrooper battalion, the shuttle and Vader. Beautiful!

Emotionally: The scene in Episode II when Anakin/Vader holds his mother and she dies. The emotion in his eyes underscored by the music gives me goosebumps. At that point he goes and annihilates the entire goddamn sandpeople camp, I completely understand his anger and lust for justice after his mother died in such a horrible way.

[Solo]

^I bought a Shuttle Tydirium model. It has a Vader figure and I am planning build a diaroma of that scene in ROTJ.

[Raganork8]

I have to vote strangely for the scene with no speaking between Padme and Anakin in ROTS

I think even with no words we all get it and it really is the base of WHY everything became what it was.

[RollaFett]

^ Not a bad choice. It's funny, but when I saw ROST with my dad (my 3rd viewing at the time, his first), I kinda ruined the moment when that scene played out by whispering to him, "The :censored: about to hit the fan". To which, he simply replied, "No kidding".

[Raganork8]

It's one of those moments I get very Proud of GL; that's directing; that's editing

[RollaFett]

That's acting too.

[Raganork8]

Very true.

I think it's underrated; I think sometimes the PT gets beat up too much.

that Scene to me is better than most scenes in the series and it's very familiar to TESB when Luke is calling Leia while hanging from those weather vanes.

Not to exclude John Willams and the perfect peice of music he put at that part. Buying the soundtrack I wondered "what the hell is going on" then I saw it and had a :censored:eating grin. :superhappy:

[RC-1290]

I Think my Favorite scene is in AOTC, when the Clone troops are being loaded into the ships on Coruscant, and Yoda says: "Begun the Clone Wars has".

That sums the whole thing up for me.

[Emalin]

I have to vote strangely for the scene with no speaking between Padme and Anakin in ROTS

Oh! That's also one of my favorite scenes! :rockon: Perfect moment, perfect music. You can just feel Anakin's turmoil, and you know that he's going to be lost.

Another is when Anakin slaughters the Tuskens, and Yoda hears Qui-Gon cry out. That one made me want to bite my nails off.

And, of course, the entire father/son duel in ROTJ. Sheer brilliance. :cool:

[Sarah-Leia]

I think Han being frozen in Carbonite and the end of episode V that connects with that. Not the Luke/Vader bit, just the Han/Leia bit.