These are the 50 finest StarWars moments, tracing from A New Hope all the way to TheRiseOfSkywalker
Photo-Illustration: Maya Robinson/Vulture This list was originally published in 2015. We have since updated it to include events from Rogue One, The Last Jedi, Solo, and The Rise of Skywalker. There are many spoilers.
50. The 20th Century Fox fanfare Ever since the Mouse absorbed that galaxy far, far away, the traditional drum-and-brass theme music that opened every 20th Century Fox feature film is no longer associated with the Star Wars saga. But for almost three decades, the adventures of the Skywalker clan were accompanied by this legendary music cue by composer Alfred Newman; entire generations associated it with the battle between the dark side and the light.
46. Coruscant Our first trip to the capital of the Republic is one of George Lucas’s greatest triumphs. This planet-sized city had been long cited in ancillary comics and novels before it finally showed up onscreen, and the then-state-of-the-art CGI available to the filmmaker gave the enormous urban sprawl a stately beauty that looked like the yin to the yang of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner dystopia.
42. The Cave Apologies to Han Solo and the space slug: This is a cave. During his training with aging Jedi Muppet — ahem, Jedi Master — Yoda, Luke Skywalker stumbles across a cave that’s rotten with dark-side energy. When he enters, he undergoes a hallucinatory test in which he beheads Darth Vader, only to discover his own face beneath the tyrant’s mask.
38. Leia chokes Jabba Okay, here’s the thing about “Slave Leia”: What twisted dirtbag decided to call her that? I imprinted on how gorgeous Carrie Fisher looked in her Jabba-mandated getup as much as the next young nerd in the ‘80s, but her compulsory servitude in wearing it wasn’t on my radar then and is upsetting, not appealing, to me now.
34. The Jedi mind trick “You don’t need to see his identification. These aren’t the droids you’re looking for. He can go about his business. Move along.” What in the hell just happened? It’s simple, my young apprentice: Obi-Wan Kenobi just used the old Jedi mind trick on a gaggle of simpleminded stormtroopers, using the Force to brainwash them into following his orders.
30. “Lord Vader … Rise” The Dark Lord’s soul-crushing cry of “NOOOOOOOOOO” became the stuff of meme legend, but it was the Emperor’s preceding declaration that truly gave the transformation of Anakin Skywalker into Darth Vader its mythic power. Halfway between Dr.
26. Tattooine Sunset There are times in any movie buff’s life when all you can do is marvel at the primal power that filmmakers are able to marshal. Luke Skywalker’s observance of the two-sun nightfall above the desert sands of Tattooine is a perfect example.
22. Anakin and Padme enter the arena The courtship of Anakin and Padme has had its lows and its highs . And I get that actors Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen had a weird sort of anti-chemistry. But the shot of the two of them being led hand in hand to an arena of insectoid aliens cheering for the impending death transcends the limits of both writing and acting and enters the realm of pure cinema.
18. The Rancor A stop-motion homage to creature-feature masters like Willis O’Brien and Ray Harryhausen, the battle between a captured Luke Skywalker and Jabba the Hutt’s saurian “pet,” the Rancor, remains the franchise’s monster fight to beat.
14. The first Imperial March One of the most striking things about A New Hope — known as just-plain Star Wars for years after it kicked off the series — was, in retrospect, something that never happened. You never hear that trademark “DUN DUN DUNNN DUN DA-DUNN DUN DA-DUNNNN” that’s forever associated with Darth Vader in the public imagination.
10. The opening crawl A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a new movie began with a title sequence that became the most famous and most imitated in cinema history.
6. Owned by the Emperor It’s one thing to be the maniac who plunged the entire galaxy into tyranny and genocide. But do you have to be such a jerk about it, dude? Seated in his throne room aboard the incomplete second Death Star, the emperor taunts his prisoner, Luke Skywalker, with his friends’ impending defeat like a bully from an ’80s teen comedy.
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