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My fav scene in the trilogy. Luke will not give in, never will and is willing to sacrifice himself in order to redeem his father and save the galaxy. A truly heroic act that shows his true heart.
@@spikeeus those films never happened in my head canon. Luke went on to form a new Jedi order and the galaxy saw a period of peace and liberty for thousands of years. That’s my end of Star Wars
@@spikeeus the sequels are nothing but mythology stories about when may have happened after Luke and Anakin destroyed the Sith and brought balanced to the force. Return of the Jedi is the last film of the saga. The sequels and everything after Revenge of the Sith were not written by George Lucas thus in my opinion do not count lol
@@JoelJoel321 Definitely mocking. The way he says "your highness" isn't how one says it respectfully. That little rise in tone and the look on his face are throwing the title back at Palpatine.
The best part of this scene is the tone that Sidious takes after Luke makes his speech. "So be it, Jedi" In that moment, he realizes that this man is his greatest threat and not another dumb kid he can tempt to his side.
@@SpFlash1523 he was probably thinking, knowing what pissed off Palpatine is like: "Oh shit. Luke for Force sake PLEASE TURN!!!! YOU DON'T KNOW HIM LIKE I DO!!!!! NOT ONLY IS HE A MASS AND INDIVIDUAL MURDERER, SADIST, AND TORTURER MANY TIMES OVER HE'S.....AN KNOWN CHEEK-BUSTER.....BOOTY BANDIT!!!! BEFORE YOU ASK...YES!!! HE TOOK MINE MANY TIMES OVER AND I WAS BY NO MEANS THE FIRST OR THE LAST!!!!!!
It's a heady feeling, seeing your children surpass you. A terrifying feeling, that parents dread and long for in equal measure. Especially when it puts them in mortal danger.
The quote that in my mind truly cemented Luke as a Jedi isn't the Luke quote in this scene, but Palpatine's "So be it, Jedi." After all of this, after being SURE he could turn Luke like he did his father, Palpatine finally acknowledges that the man standing before him is truly a Jedi knight, and now, as a Sith, he must destroy his enemy.
Yoda never tells Luke to kill Vader. Yoda very explicitly tells Luke he must *confront* Vader to become a Jedi. This confrontation with Vader and everything he represents to Luke is a call-forward to the Trials that Jedi-in-training undertook during the Galactic Republic Era. Facing Vader is Luke’s test, just as Jedi faced fears and temptations of their own as their worthiness to be knights was tested.
I like that prior to this, Palpatine either refers to Luke's status as a Jedi either mockingly, or calls him his "young apprentice." This is the first time he refers to Luke as a Jedi and means it.
Hits harder when you realize this could have been Anakin. What prohibited it was Palpatine grooming, manipulating, and seducing Anakin since the age of nine. Luke is pretty much what Anakin could have been if it wasn't for circumstances that drew him closer to the Dark Side.
I am not sure the usage of child is necessarily correct. Of course, we don't know when Luke attempted to murder Ben Solo, but we do know that Ben was 23 during the Jedi massacre. Yes, Luke is capable of those things. It happened in the EU with his EU nephew Jacen Solo.
@@Redrgon25 Either way it doesn't make sense that the same person who could see goodness in his genocidal father would think about killing his own nephew just because he was having bad dreams.
@Ratchet2431 I never said it made sense. I was just pointing out the double stansard. That it had already happened in the EU & the fandom didn't seem to mind. They actually understood Luke's motivation.
This right here is one my favorite scenes in the entire series. It really sucks that you can't see Vader's reaction to Luke's comment here. "I am a jedi, like my father before me." I often wonder what Vader felt as Luke said this... Was it shame, since he didn't make the same choice? Respect for his son, for doing what he could not? Perhaps pride, as a father does when he realizes that his son has grown into a good person? Or maybe love, realizing that Luke is everything that he is not? Or all of these at once? Did Vader see Padme in him? That thought alone would have brought so many emotions in him. Perhaps that was the moment Vader died, and Anakin returned. Beautiful moment.
I don’t remember where I saw it but Vader did react at that quote. When he heard Luke say that to the emperor, he felt very proud and crushed about of his son. Proud because Luke acknowledge anakin as his father and through Luke’s perspective, he saw anakin instead of Vader during return of the Jedi, but felt crushed because Vader (anakin) knew he wasn’t going to live long enough to see his son be the man/Jedi anakin was destined to be. And the fact that he didn’t share with his son most of his life made him felt miserable and ashamed to become the emperors right hand. Knowing well that Vader made Luke’s early life painful throughout the empire reign.
This scene makes you Anakin. It is not shown, because your reaction to this heroism is the point of the movie. Movies made you consider what happened, in an era before everything was exposition and dialog. This isn't the CW
Vader and anakin were 2 completly different people who just happened to share the same body.....think of it as mutipersonailty disorder...and at this stage "vader" was already DEAD and it was ANAKIN who saved Luke hos only son.
@@damien5748nah bro. I mean I agree in concept, but it’s a kind of cope. Remember Anakin grew up a slave, lost all who he cared about, then was mistreated by the people who were supposed to be guiding him, got all kinds of ptsd from war and killing, and then had his one mentor and father figure gradually corrupt his love for his wife and children and presented him a false dichotomy to get him to commit horrible acts. It’s not an excuse for killing younglings exactly, but you have to understand that the man’s life was defined by confusion and hopelessness. And after doing all the bad stuff, he becomes a slave once again, with no real will of his own. Hearing Luke say all this stuff must have thrown his guts into the spin cycle. _ME?_ You believe in _ME?_ After all I’ve done? Like when a junkie comes off drugs thanks to the love of a sponsor. That and pride that his son had surpassed him, and was a good person. In spite of all the odds-in that moment’s vader must have been slowly coming back to life, after decades of being a slave again, growing slowly more numb thanks to drugs from the suit and his own increasingly terrible deeds-becoming just a giant pile of scar tissue
the coolest little detail that I like about this whole scene, is that as he says "like my father before me" he kinda does this little slight nod over his right shoulder in Anakin's direction. Idk why I love that so much. I just think it's badass af
Just gotta love how Palpatine just stands there and says nothing after Luke throws away his lightsaber. Like this is the ONE thing he really didn't see coming and that could in fact really be a danger to him and mean his downfall in the end.
Yes. Especially now with the prequel trilogy and Clone Wars, we saw Palpatine as the ultimate puppet master, moving all the pieces accordingly. Even when something didn't go according as planned, he could always maneuver around it, restrategize, and proceed. This was pretty much the first time Palpatine is just completely caught off guard (the next being a few mere minutes later when Vader kills him) and didn't know what to do except respond in complete rage. Palpatine is usually cool and calm or maybe laughing maniacally because he always had a backup plan. But we've never seen him really fly off the handle before in rage. Luke was right. Like the Jedi just before Order 66, Palpatine had now become too overconfident.
One thing I've always appreciated is the pause between Luke's declaration and Palapatine's response. The Emperor's furious glare, and Luke taking a deep breath, really add to the scene. Nowadays Palaptine would say the line immediately and you wouldn't really get the full impact.
Sidious had wiped out the entire jedi order, he had corrupted and turned the chosen one into his slave, he had conquered the galaxy without breaking a sweat, and now he had it in his iron grip. And despite all of this, there was still defiance against him, embodied by luke. Despite this, sidious acknowledges that luke is indeed a true jedi because not even the chosen one could reject him. Truly a powerful scene in cinema.
I love how palpatine respects Luke’s stance. He doesn’t even try to break him mentally anymore, he even calls Luke a Jedi master before attempting to kill him, if that is not mutual respect I truly don’t know what is. From palpatine no less, one of the most evil people in all of fiction. And I absolutely LOVE Luke’s respect/back handed disrespect when he calls palpatine “your highness” you can feel the literal light side energy radiating off of Luke in this moment as he stands as the symbol of good against pure unadulterated evil.
"I am a Jedi, like my father before me" is something even the Luke Skywalker of A New Hope would say. Even after everything he's been through and even after seeing the worst of his father, Luke still considers him a Jedi. That's beautiful.
I love how Luke shows Vader how much he loves him and values him as a father, he looks up to him and considers him his role model and addresses Vader as a “Jedi” because all he saw his father as was what he was before not now, he decided to become a Jedi, like his father, Giving Vader the credit he never thought he’d get from his son, with that line, Anakin was awakened.
Luke went against what both the sith and Jedi wanted, his fathers death. Luke doesn't know what kind of Jedi his father was or what a Jedi actually was. But he doesn't care he knows that a Jedi should stand for hope and that's what kid anakin thought a Jedi was, a hero that protects others around him. Kid anakin and this Luke believed the same about what a Jedi should be. That's why anakin comes back he sees Luke being a hero he wanted to be as a kid so he becomes a hero for his son and stops the evil from doing anymore harm to others.
Damn, this is an underrated comment! Anakin had such an idealized image of the Jedi when Qui Gon first visited him, but when he actually went to Coruscant and became a Jedi, he became disillusioned when he saw that the Jedi weren't the pure heroes he thought they were, and he eventually fell to the dark side. Then, here comes his son, standing before the Emperor, completely personifying that idealized image of the Jedi that Anakin once held. Absolutely beautiful.
This is why Luke is my favorite character! He stared the embodiment of the dark side straight in the eyes and rejected the temptation to join the Sith! Such a badass scene!
@@naughtyskywalker9292well he didn’t know about palpatines lightning power and even if he did he probably didn’t know a lightsaber could deflect it. And I thought it was canon that deflecting Sith lightning was a special ability that needed to be learned
The way Luke nods towards Vader when he says "like my father before me" always tears me up. He's not talking about someone long dead, ("Anakin's gone" ) but the man in the room with him. After everything, Luke still sees Anakin behind the mask, a father he never knew, but chose to love anyway.
It is seen from his reaction that Palpatine became complacent, that he did not expect to fail, much less that Vader would free himself from the dark side. He didn't even care about losing a huge number of troops and ships or even losing the battle as long as he got a new apprentice and perpetuated the Rule of Two, the only thing really important to him. Let's remember the Emperor has had a bad record with apprentices, one of them was defeated, the other was a simple placeholder and the last, although powerful, is crippled, so the Sith had high hopes of finally getting an apprentice who could finally replace him in the case immortality was unattainable for him. Let us remember that since he was a child, Sheev wanted to go down in history as someone extraordinary and in no way would he want to see his Empire end up in the garbage dump of history like that of Vitiate. He is overconfident, but not to be fooled, he knows that there have been a lot of Siths before him and that they have failed so it is better to be prepared. Furthermore, he is not only furious that his plans have failed for the first time, he is livid because even before becoming a Sith, he always has despised the weak and even more than that, he hates the force users who reject the absolute power over them even more. (the jedi) How could someone as powerful as Luke refuse to rule at his side and become the willing servant of a band of losers who wanted to resurrect a Republic ruled by mediocre idiots and weaklings? This is what was going through Palpatine's mind. Luke's refusal triggered Palpatine's arrogance in all the wrong ways. This is the only way to explain why Palpatine lost his cool like this and got lost in his sadistic rage even though he knew they were going to blow up his space station.
How will I know the good side from the bad? ....you will know!! When you be calm, placid....at peace. A Jedi uses his power for knowledge and events......never to attack
I love Luke Skywalker and he will always be best Star Wars character! I didn’t like how Luke was in The Last Jedi as broken man and shut himself from the force but I’m happy he got his force powers back and I was happy that we got real Luke Skywalker again in The Rise Of Skywalker. He will always be best Jedi ever!
This and Luke in The Mandalorian is the real Luke. A true Jedi. Protector of the galaxy, keeper of the peace. Not a lame old man wallowing on a back water planet.
Luke skywalker refusing to join palpatine on the dark side is similar to tobey maguire forgiving sandman at the end of spider man 3… given the fact that both Andrew Garfield abd Tom holland tried killing green goblin (Harry in TASM 2 and Norman in NWH) while luke didn’t want to kill vader.
"Disney owns you now" "No, no. That's not true. That's impossible." "It is true. Darth Mickey Mouse has already killed your friends in the future films, along with the CANNON." "I never join you. I am a Jedi like my father." "Hehee, he, he. I have seen the future. I will not be killed by a Jedi. I will be killed by someone who has no training, answers to their character, and in a way that will make everyone laugh."
Ever since my dad died this scene gets me choked up. I wouldn’t say he was an uber Star Wars fan and he had his flaws like every man, but I always looked up to him and try to follow his example.
Palpatine, if only for a moment being in shock at what has played out before his very eyes, thinks: "The monster I created, that I used to instil fear and terror thoughout the galaxy. The monster who I used to finally destroy the jedi order and take control of the republic.... the monster that has become old, weak and feeble. That needed replacing. Finally gone. Fallen to his son's strength. Now. Now for sure. After everything. After all the manipulation of his feelings and channeling his anger. Anger of the imminent death of his friends on Endor fighting my most elite, hand picked battalion and his allys fighting a hopeless battle against my invincible armada. Now has no choice but to join me as my ultimate killing machine who's power and might are unhindered by handicap. Now is the time." Good... you're hate has made you powerful! Now fulfill your destiny and take your fathers place at MY SIDE. Luke responds: "Never. I'll never turn to the dark side. You've failed your highness. I am a Jedi. Like my father before me." Palpatine, unable to believe what he has just heard and furiously realizing all his work to corrupt Luke, after sacrificing his ultimate pawn in order to replace him with his son.. has failed. Blinded by his disgust, hate and anger, The Supreme Dark Lord of the Sith responds to his new found foe with the only words he can manage to utter... "So be it... Jedi...."
I love that no matter how much terror and demise Vader caused as a sith his son only sees him for the good that he has done, and not only grows beyond his expectations but grows beyond himself to become a true master of the light side of the force
I know there is a very very strong case for Empire to be the best SW movie, and the arguments are valid. But this...this right here... My God, Luke resisting the pull of the Dark Side, refusing the Emperor and truly beginning his father's redemption (the Return of the Jedi, if you will)...this is my favorite SW movie. Hands down.
I was thinking the other night. Anakin turned to the dark side and saved Palpatine from death to save someone he loved, then Darth Vader returned to the light side and sent Palpatine to his death to save someone he loved. The chosen ones fall and redemption are initiated by his desire to protect someone he cares about.
Luke: Never. I'll never turn to the dark side. You've failed, your highness. I am a Jedi, like my father before me. Luke sees a little bit of darkness in his nephew: Always. I will turn to the dark side. You've succeeded, your highness. I am a Sith, like my father before me.
The thing is that I don't think Palpatine was actually going to kill Luke. He was going to break him. Just like he did Maul, Vader, everyone before him.
This is the man that the new canon writers decided would kill his own nephew in his sleep. Still calling total BS on that! This scene showed Luke's heart was true and strong!
What’s great here is that in the end it isn’t Jedi teachings that allow Luke to break through to Vader, It is simple sentient being attributes-things the Jedi had forgotten-that allow Luke to finally get through to Vader and accomplish what Kenobi and Yoda thought impossible.
I like Palpatine's speechlessness. All the time we've known him as the person with the perfect one-liner for every occasion but now he's caught completely dumbfounded.
Luke in Star Wars: I am a Jedi like my father before me Boba Fett in Mandalorian: I'm a simple man make his way across the galaxy, like my father before me Me: makes sense
That's the moment Luke defeated both the dark side and the failed teachings of the old jedi order...... aaaaand then came the sequels to ruin the whole idea of luke. :D
Mark Hamill before becoming the Joker: "I'll NEVER turn to the dark side!" Mark Hamill after becoming the Joker: "I'll ALWAYS be on the dark side!!" *laughs maniacally*
Rejection of the cycle of violence the Dark Side perpetuates. Throwing his weapon aside and defying the Emperor was in essence the most Light Sided and quintessentially Jedi act he could take because he was actively rejecting and renouncing every possible aspect of Sidious and the Sith philosophy (obsession with might and violence) and embracing the Jedi philosophy (peace). Like the other commenter said, this is the equivalent to spitting a nasty wad of mucus right into Sidious' face.
