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RETURN OF THE JEDI
“The Force is strong in my family. My father has it. I have it. My sister has it.”
Richard Marquand’s RETURN OF THE JEDI celebrates the 40th anniversary of its release today (May 25, 1983) #OnThisDay
40 years ago today...
.…Luke Skywalker called his father back to the Light, and Anakin Skywalker saved his son and returned to his True Self.
Forty years ago today, LOVE and FAMILY saved the galaxy far, far away!
Happy 40th Anniversary to Return of the Jedi, the real ending of the Skywalker saga!
May 25, 1983: Star Wars fans lining up for the premiere of Return of the Jedi in Philadelphia, PA.
Happy 40th Anniversary, Return of the Jedi!
Return of the Jedi advert from The Fort Hood Sentinel, Texas, May 26, 1983.
Return of the Jedi - Production paintings by Ralph McQuarrie (1983)
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They had a grand total of maybe two scenes together in all three movies but damn it, we got the great hug we needed.
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983) dir. Richard Marquand
Return of the Jedi Deleted scene | Luke builds his lightsaber
[T]he idea running throughout the whole trilogy is: First he’s given his father’s sword, because his father lost it in the fight with Ben Kenobi: Ben cut his hand off and Vader fell into the volcano, so Ben then pried the lazer sword out of the hand and kept it for the son. So then what the father did was cut his son’s hand and lazer sword off—and that was a way of severing the relationship between father and son. Not only did Luke lose his weapon and was castrated, but at the same time his father split that relationship. Luke was carrying his sword for his father. Now he is not doing that anymore. In this one, he’s built his own. He has built his own lazer sword; he is his own man, he is not a son anymore. He is an equal. (George Lucas to Howard Kazanjian, Richard Marquand, and Lawrence Kasdan during the Return of the Jedi story conference of July 1981, quoted in The Making of Return of the Jedi, J. W. Rinzler)
Luke? Luke’s crazy! He can’t even take care of himself, much less rescue anybody.
Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill in a promo photo for Return of the Jedi
Return of the Jedi on video cassette, 1986 ad