As Han said to Luke and Obi-Wan, using a lightsaber with a blast-shielded helmet against a practice droid is one thing. Against an actual opponent is something else. The pilot may not know, but I reckon he's more experienced than Dodonna. Dodonna strikes me as an armchair general, and I'm yet to see an armchair general who knows more than the objectives of the troops he commands.
@@flameohotman4320 "why are you responding to a year old comment " Because comments in RU-vid are evergreen, they don't expire. It's not like it was some text about picking up some milk on your way home, and it doesn't make sense to respond to it a year later...
Agreed. The complaining Rebel pilot was basically whining about how hard the mission was going to be and was going to just give up and let the Empire rule the galaxy unopposed.
The character Luke talks too is actually suppose to be Wedge. But the Actor was replaced by Dennis Lawson at last moment because the actor couldn't remember his lines correctly. And Dennis couldn't redo the scene that Colin Higgins had done for Wedge. So in A New Hope there were two actors playing wedge in the same movie.
As I recall, if you read that scene in the original novelization (which was actually the first installation of the Star Wars franchise ever-published about 6 months before the first movie came out), the Rebel pilot actually gives Luke a sassy comeback that pokes fun at him for being a farm boy...
@@Poochpatrol What are you both talking about? Luke said it in slightly hushed tones, but it was definitely louder than a whisper. And the presenter (General Jan Dodonna, I believe) didn't respond to it in the film; you hear him saying a few more words in his presentation in the background audio while Luke and the pilot have their exchange. So he wasn't responding to them when he said "Then man your ships, and may the Force be with you"; he was just wrapping up the briefing.
@@WestIndianAK I always thought it was weird that he said “may the force be with you” when every other character in the movie talks about the Jedi and the force as if they’re some nearly forgotten esoteric topic.
I do vaguely remember having a reaction similar to this one of the first times I ever saw this scene. Like, "That musta really gotten on that Rebel pilot's nerves for Luke to cut his nuts off like that" 😂😂😂
Gotta love when the random Tatooine farmboy that just joined and probably never used an x wing in his life gives lessons about shooting a miniscule hole in a gigantic space station the likes nobody has ever seen by comparing it to shooting rats in the desert.
@@basilmcdonnell9807 Red 3 (Biggs) was shot down by Vader, Red 2 (Wedge) was the one to survive, along with Red 5 (Luke), the Falcon and a Y-Wing. The pilot that spoke-up was Col Takbright (aka, fake Wedge) who wasn’t assigned to a fighter, as they did not have enough, therefore he survived to see Luke’s victory.
If I remember correctly, that pilot was nowhere to be seen during the actual Battle. Its not hard to imagine that he actually stayed out of the Assault in order not to have to deal with Luke. :D
“Is that so? Tell me, when you were going after your particular varmint, were there a thousand other, what did you call it, ‘womp rats’ armed with power rifles firing up at you?”
I just paused my dvd of ep 4 at this scene due to memories of this sketch. Now I will return, a little bit sad that I remembered they had Mark doing the voice of Luke when he didnt...I know he did when Luke was a eye doctor though so...yay!
The rebel pilot been fighting the empire for light years, then here comes Skywalker w/ his overcompensating sword suddenly gets a plane without having go through years of training.
So Luke is the bad guy for trying to give hope when this loser was being too negative? The guy shouldn't have claimed it was impossible if he didn't want to be proven wrong.
lol I swear to the lord above this happened to me in real life. I was with a group of people and we started talking about guns. Some soyboy said a .45 wouldn't do much to a rabbit.... you know I had to go luke skywalker on him.
The commentary on the DVD of Top Gun of the military advisor discusses being The Best: in his opinion you need to believe You Can, if not then your can't/won't/shouldn't try and so some amount of 'Sure-It's easy...'/'Can-do!' verging on arrogance is/(was?) necessary in pilots. He had the situation with 'Cougar' under his command [who 'lost It'/thought he couldn't]; "...shipped him off the Carrier the same afternoon."
