Could Luke and Leia Survive their Daring Leap? | MythBusters | Discovery

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Adam and Jamie tackle the iconic scene from Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope where Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia swing across a chasm. Using ropes and a makeshift grappling hook, they attempt to recreate the daring leap to see if it’s physically possible. With their signature blend of science and ingenuity, Adam, Jamie, and celebrity guest Sophia Bush put the myth to the test, revealing whether this cinematic feat could actually be accomplished in real life.
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@Daniel-Strain Месяц назад

It is even more plausible considering... 1. Luke is younger, lighter, and probably a lot more fit than Jamie. 2. He may have had a lot of experience with grapplers around Beggar's Canyon. 3. Luke received a good luck kiss. 4. Both Luke and Leia are Force Sensitive. 5. It was a life threatening situation (or so the Stormtroopers were ordered to make them believe).

@v3rlon Месяц назад

And the actual swing took place 30' above the stage floor.

@clam3822 Месяц назад

Stormtroopers' shooting is no threat.

@stevenpike7857 Месяц назад

Yea, Luke wasn't worried about breaking a hip like this out of shape old man is.

@Sara_S135 Месяц назад

Yeah your first point is probably the most important. Both Mark Hammill & Carrie Fisher were really small when filming the movie. Jamie might genuinely be close to their combined weight at the time. this test really needs to be done with a 17-18 year old athlete like a high school wrestler from a lower weight class and a small cheerleader who can hold on without assistance. Then the Luke stand in could probably support quite a bit of their weight through their arms reducing the strain on the waist harness.

@TheJathys Месяц назад

Also, Luke and Leia weren't on Earth. They may have been dealing with less gravity.

@theMedicatedCitizen Месяц назад

Luke lived alone in the desert with his aunt and uncle until he was like, 17-18... he had an iron grip

@rickjames5998 Месяц назад

just no.

@bj.bruner Месяц назад

On a farm no less

@ssgtmole8610 24 дня назад

@@bj.bruner Vapor farm - no animals, just bots. 😁He probably collected some of his own tears.

@erickborling1302 11 дней назад

How does that follow

@bj.bruner 11 дней назад

@@ssgtmole8610 Farming is as much mechanics as it is animals; in Luke's case all mechanics, but I digress lol

@AdiAfendi Месяц назад

Wait. Where's the kiss for luck part? That's crucial!!

@henryairconcepts2999 19 дней назад

Jamie needs to shave first but he cant afford it

@erickborling1302 11 дней назад

Some ladies like facial (etc) hair, some don't. All they is to it.

@Zedja Месяц назад

There's one thing they didn't account for (and can't really replicate) and that's the twins connection to "The Force" which could help matters without them really realizing.

@Qermaq Месяц назад

And the kiss - for luck - I mean, there's two twins with a Jedi father, both loaded with mitochlorians, and they kiss, well clearly it's like "super powers, activate". I think Luke had the same chances here as hitting that vent port. That is, none, except he's a golden boy.

@Lanwarder Месяц назад

Strong with the plot young skywalker is

@isaacnikolic5895 Месяц назад

Passive connection to the force can give them better reflexes or an easier time making the grapple hook shot. It doesn't do anything for the broken ribs which would require Luke intentionally using the force to make his body more durable (Episode 4 Luke had no training). However, Lukes is much younger than Jamie and weighs less than him which makes it more plausible for him to do the swing without serious injury.

@Lanwarder Месяц назад

@@isaacnikolic5895 And yet the force didn't give him the insight that he was kissing his sister...the force is pretty redneck

@Vexcenot Месяц назад

Anakin's got some strong sperms

@Gitano_Music Месяц назад

The thing that has always bothered me about this simulation is that in the movie, Leia has her right arm and the front of her torso wrapped around the front of Luke's waist with her left arm draped over his left shoulder from the rear and her knees pressed against his back. They didn't swing side-by-side.

@F0XD1E Месяц назад

Jesus Christ dude

@rayl6901 Месяц назад

As someone who saw the original cut of Star Wars in the theatres before wide release and re-editing, I always thought that they should have left in Luke's first attempt (which missed). I know it tightens the sequence up timing wise to just make it in one attempt, but it's more realistic that he missed the first time. EDIT: since it wasn't clear, I saw Star Wars in May 1977 in Orlando, Florida when my family was on vacation. It didn't get wide release until late June back home. The May 1977 version I saw had the extra scenes of Luke watching the battle, missing with his first attempt to connect the grapple hook, and the Death Star was NOT about to fire on the Rebel base (that was done in re-editing for the wide release), among other differences!

@parkpunk2 Месяц назад

Is there a clip of this to watch?

@Mariojinn2 Месяц назад

This guy is suffering from misremembering. Carrie Fisher herself said the jump was done in one take, because herself and Mark Hamill were so nervous the first time, and after that they were excited to do it again, but George had got the shot, so no more jumps, a bummer Carrie said.

@rayl6901 Месяц назад

@@parkpunk2 unfortunately nothing seems to be on RU-vid.

@rayl6901 Месяц назад

@@Mariojinn2 since you don't know me you can't possibly know whether I'm misremembering or not, no offense. I didn't say anything about the swing across the chasm, only that the grapple didn't successfully connect the first time, and Luke needed to try again. I apologize if my original comment made it unclear (upon re-reading I can easily see where someone would get the wrong impression of what I was trying to say); I was talking specifically about the grapple hook.

@v3rlon Месяц назад

@@Mariojinn2 In the BOOK, he misses the first swing, but not in the movie

@wyattsingleton2833 Месяц назад

I figured they would make it since they did do the scene practically in the movie

@5Demona5 Месяц назад

They actually swung, and only once

@GenerationX-WingPodcast Месяц назад

This episode introduced me to the 501st Legion...and I never looked back! Thank you!

@76tennboy Месяц назад

I think it’s really interesting. The Jamie outfit looks like a mix of Luke Skywalker and current day Mark Hamill.

@wizardsuth Месяц назад

Why do they assume the stormtrooper armour doesn't have a full harness built into it? Why give your soldiers a grappling hook without the proper equipment to go with it?

@georgecoffey9387 Месяц назад

I thought that too, but at this point in the movie they had changed back into their regular clothes and only kept the stormtrooper belts on. For some reason they didn't include any footage from the movie as reference

@-caesarian-6078 17 дней назад

Idk why the empire would have a grappling hook but not a harness on their utility belts, but at this point in the movie, Luke was wearing just this belt and swung using it alone.

@youknowho4439 Месяц назад

I mean, they could have asked how George did this scene in 1976. Great stuff!

@5Demona5 Месяц назад

It's in the Making-of It was physically done. Luke's harness made an awful noise, they did the swing once, and they then realized the harness had broken 😂 Good thing he made it

@charlescox290 Месяц назад

With the way the swing can go wild, it's really cute they thought that narrow line of pads was sufficient to prevent/reduce injury in a catastrophic failure.

@Luke42652 Месяц назад

Yeah I was thinking that too! I was wondering why they didn’t cover a wider area. And from that height I would expect something thicker, possibly with air.

@trynda1701 Месяц назад

Yeah, I was waiting for the giant airbag you see when a stunt person falls from a building to be inflated and brought in, so Jamie would have just been swinging JUST above it even when doing the final swing from the raised set pieces!

@Marveryn Месяц назад

@@trynda1701 or a circus net.

@my3dviews Месяц назад

Exactly what I was thinking. They should at least have had some padding beside incase they fall off after hitting the thick pad. Glad that it worked out okay, though.

@sinkingdutchman7227 11 дней назад

I am totally sure they a) exchanged the hook for something actually safe and b) had Leia safely connected to Jamie. Those people know what they're doing.

@epa316 Месяц назад

All this was missing was a Wilhelm scream 😱

@christophermitchellsr9492 Месяц назад

may the 4th be with you wish they would bring back this show an or at least post the full episodes on here

@toddnolastname4485 Месяц назад

First, Luke has the Force. He's not proficient in using it yet, but he's been doing things with it since he was born, without knowing it was the Force. Second, what is gravity like in that chasm? The Death Star isn't the size of a full planet. And it's designed really dumb. It's not like an onion; levels are mostly flat across it. Each floor has to be generating artificial gravity, but only upward. Since there's no walkway, there's less than normal gravity. There may be more natural gravity coming from above than below, for all we know, since we don't know what level they're at.

@PrimarchX Месяц назад

I don't know how this is a myth. I saw it with my own two eyes! It definitely happened.

@snowboarder4700 Месяц назад

Just had the chance to meet adam at my local convention center during the event this past weekend! Such a nice guy!

@dronesnaps636 Месяц назад

Jammie as Luke in next movie Plausable

@my3dviews Месяц назад

I had never seen that episode. Well done. Luke wasn't as heavy, so that may have helped also. The actress made a very good Princess Leia.

@nathancruz9172 Месяц назад

I remember watching this episode on 📺.

@johnkelly90 Месяц назад

Honestly, Jamie looks like Zach Galifianakis trying to look like Luke Skywalker

@Qermaq Месяц назад

I bet you Jamie hated pretty much all of this. Poor guy, taking one for the team.

@anthonygordon9483 Месяц назад

I knew the swing was possible because they did it in real life on the movie set. The set was pretty much how they set it up here. What they didnt test is if the grappling hook works swinging across.

@captianmorgan7627 22 дня назад

I love Jamie's sense of humor.

@poja82 Месяц назад

I'm sure those are legion 501. So much fun.

@0wl999 Месяц назад

Luke's METAL belt was probably twist and flex resistant, just from looking at it. Also stronger and lighter. So it would not have rode up the ribs like that safety belt. Also, when you have a belt taking the load there is not nearly as much stress on the arm holding the rope, so it is not only ' plausible ' but ' highly likely '.😮

@Nueztoy Месяц назад

WHERE'S THE GOOD LUCK KISS???

@jessicaregina1956 5 дней назад

Im surprised no one ever mythbusted batman. His grappling hook would have to shoot faster than his fall rate and catch on something able to support his weight 😂

@KmaEoN Месяц назад

dang i wish i could meet or talk to adam!! big fan here!

@alexgames7879 Месяц назад

I highly recommend looking up open sauce its a place where a bunch of creatives get together and meet the fans

@bmhedgehog2 Месяц назад

What has always been bothering me and it’s most likely due to the camera angle in the movie is that the one side is one level/floor higher than the other.

@michaelbaker7499 4 дня назад

Something makes me think Jamie is a tad heavier than Mark Hamill/Luke was, which would have changed the comfort nature.

@georgecoffey9387 Месяц назад

It's always astounding to me that even with discovery's size and Adam's connections to Lucasfilm they couldn't even show a STILL from the movie as reference, let alone a clip. Maybe I'm was in the original, but that even makes it more crazy and Discovery bowed to Google and took it out

@rickjames5998 Месяц назад

i think its more due to mythbuster never showing clips or stills from the source movie, etc

@amightysailingman 17 дней назад

Sophia: "Jamie, can I be your Princess Leia?" Jamie: "Sure. Where'd you put the metal bikini?" Of course it's plausible for Luke to hit it on the first throw. He wouldn't have that grappling hook on his belt for no reason. It's not just for decoration and it wouldn't be his first rodeo. He probably played and practiced with it since he was knee-high to a womp rat. And where did they get that 5'6" height for stormtroopers? Mark Hamill was "a little short" and he's 5'9". As for the weight, they're in a galaxy far, far away. Nobody said everything weighs the same there as it does in the Milky Way. Or is the same size. For all we know, the humanoids there could actually be about the same size (and weight) as a 12" GI Joe action figure. Next up: have Han Savage flee an entire squad of stormtroopers armed with paintball "blasters" and see if all of them will miss with a hundred shots. Plausible? Let's find out!

@55pepetube 27 дней назад

He should have shouted the Tarzan call.😂

@jckdnls9292 Месяц назад

They are back!

@KomaValorina Месяц назад

This is like 10 years old

@rickjames5998 Месяц назад

bro I wish

@darthprime4916 Месяц назад

Awesome

@ssgtmole8610 24 дня назад

The scene was a Hollyweird cheat - as were many similar scenes of the old serials that inspired the movie. Both Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher were in full harnesses while clipped to each other and the cable. Granted, there were plenty of performers that did not always think safety in the movies. Harold Lloyd blew the thumb and index finger off of his right hand with what he thought was a prop bomb that he played with between scenes.

@Andrew300082 Месяц назад

Episode 4 Leia with Episode 8 Luke 😂

@my3dviews Месяц назад

I would say that his Leia looked pretty good. 😄

@TheMediaCrank-nb3gh Месяц назад

Just like in the real star wars, the blaster shots never hit.

@doughesson Месяц назад

Of COURSE Jamie has a Luke Skywalker costume.

@leonidfro8302 Месяц назад

Luke was younger, and in much better shape. It means he was lighter and stronger. Safety harnesses in real life are not always going between the legs. Simple one are just like this belt, just wider.

@andreaszetterstrom7418 18 дней назад

I wonder, if the belt had been fastened to the pants, preferably jeans, if that wouldn't have been almost as good as a proper security harness?

@stevenpike7857 Месяц назад

He's a middle aged "large" old man. Luke was a spry young "farm boy". He wasn't worried about breaking a hip like this old man is.

@my3dviews Месяц назад

I agree. Being lighter and possible stronger would help as far as not getting injured.

@dansmith6572 Месяц назад

The gravity on the death star is unlikely to be the same as earth.

@cjraymond8827 Месяц назад

They never showed that the grappling hook they actually threw would hold two people. Probably not based on what I see.

@tathen1 Месяц назад

Death Star gravity is unknown and may be inconsistent with the battle station.

@monkeyman123321 28 дней назад

I always thought it was a one hand swing with the belt not really doing much for support.

@ryanhegseth8720 28 дней назад

Obviously there were more supports under Luke’s clothes.

@c1ph3rpunk Месяц назад

Hey, Discovery, here’s an idea, put the old stuff on YT rather than on your streaming service, I’ll bet $5 you’d make more here than in subscriptions there. Not to mention Adam is big on YT so there’s opportunities to cross market. I’ll apply for the CEO spot.

@DanielThureskog 27 дней назад

Banijay Science has uploaded the full episodes of Mythbusters on YT.

@SPEEDPAINTER1 Месяц назад

Could Luke have been channeling the Force to pull this off????

@erickborling1302 11 дней назад

Funniest MB segment ever

@matthewhorton2835 Месяц назад

Hey wheres the good luck kiss, totally left Jaime hanging

@scottmcclary594 Месяц назад

Oh course it's plausible... they actually did it in the movie!

@marceidemiller9750 Месяц назад

This is a science fiction movie meant for entertainment purposes only. Not to be taken seriously.

@SaerTurner-wn2qh Месяц назад

what they forgot Luke had the Force and neither of them have the force thats the game changer

@AdrianoCrespoPerazzetta Месяц назад

It's clear that she was hooked as well. Why? And why didn't you show this?

@schonbruna Месяц назад

Should've gotten a cowboy

@Lanwarder Месяц назад

yeah but Luke had the force lol

@buckanderson3520 Месяц назад

Here's a myth, a friend of a friend of mine said that he saw a storm trooper aim at something......and hit it! I know crazy right!

@rickjames5998 Месяц назад

hold up. What is Adam Savage's actual height? Sometime's he's listed as 6'1" and here he's 5'11" ? A small difference, but odd

@WickedScott 17 дней назад

I'm assuming they just ended up recreating what the stunt people did in 1976 anyway.

@heatherporterfield7343 Месяц назад

Where is the part where Leia kisses him (Luke) and says: "Good luck. ".🙄

@jimnasium452 Месяц назад

Can't believe it didn't appear the actress was in a harness. With all the things "insurance" supposedly wouldn't let the Adam and Jamie do over the course of the show, it's hard to believe they let someone swing across that distance with no safety harness.

@ruledtrendy5066 Месяц назад

You can see he's not holding her weight so she must be in a harness as well Unless he's using the force

@man-yp1gb Месяц назад

Could they survive they're kiss?

@hawkmaster381 Месяц назад

You forgot to kiss your sister for luck!

@JM-nd9zf Месяц назад

Mark and Carrie did the swing practically in one attempt. You can watch the BTS it in the Empire of Dreams documentary. This entire video was a waste of time.