212. Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (# 86)

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So this week, Richard Marquands Return of the Jedi.

It’s a time to settle old scores. Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker returns to his home planet Tatooine and begins the final leg of his journey towards reconciliation with his father Darth Vader. Meanwhile, the Empire has begun building another planetary superweapon as the Emperor plots a conspiracy to crush the Rebel Alliance once and for all.

At the time of recording, it was number 86 on the list of All-Time Best Movies Internet film database.

Show notes:

• Recorded on November 3, 2020.
• Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect that in the future many of our consequences will take place until the crisis is resolved.
• Return of the Jedi on the Internet film database.

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• Scott Mendelson at Forbes on the republication of the war of stars Trilogy in the late 1990s, February 2017.

• Sage Negron at Comic resources documents the changes George Lucas made to the newly released version of Return of the JediDecember 2019.

• Alex Kane at StarWars.com Repetitions Rogue Squadron on the N64, January 2019.

• Games radar looks back on the legacy of Rogue Squadron as formative and influential war of stars Video game, November 2015.
• The American cameraman deals with the production and development of Return of the JediJune 1983.

• Brian Cronin at Comic resources on George Lucas ‘dispute with the Directors’ Guild of America over recognition of The Empire Strikes Back, September 2018.

• Kara Hedash at ScreenRant about Steven Spielberg’s flirtation with the war of stars Franchise, February 2020.

• Will Perkins join Yahoo! tells how David Cronenberg almost directed it Return of the Jedi, November 2012.

• Beatles Guy animates David Lynch’s report on the rejection of directing Return of the Jedi, April 2016.

• Richard Marquand discussed Return of the Jedi in a previously unpublished interview Den of Geek, June 2013.

• Pauline Kael reviews Return of the Jedi to the The New YorkerMay 1983.

• Roger Ebert Reviews Return of the Jedi to the The Chicago Sun TimesMay 1983.

• George Lucas speaks with rich about The Empire Strikes Back, May 2014.

• George Lucas also reflects on the production of the original trilogy The Los Angeles TimesFebruary 1997.

• Ian Nathan looks back on making restless The Empire Strikes Back to the rich, May 2020.

• Richard Rivalli at The historian looks back on the aftermath of George and Marcia Lucas’ divorce in winter 2016.

• Eric Diaz at Nerdist argues that editor Marcia Lucas gave war of stars his heart, May 2019.

• Marc Bernardin at SyFy how Marcia influenced and shaped Lucas war of stars as a film and as a franchise, December 2012.

• Mark Hamill speaks with Home theater magazine describe about George Lucas war of stars as “A film for children”, September 2007.

• Darren Mooney at The dropout on war of stars as a saga about the inevitability of generation failure, September 2019.

• Stephen Marche at esquire explored war of stars as a saga about “Father problems”, December 2015.

• Darren Mooney at The dropout inquires of the faulty redemption in the heart of Return of the Jedi, October 2019.

• Jim Hoagl at The Washington Post looks at the politics of war of starsDecember 1977.

• Kyle Smith at The New York Post looks at the war of stars Saga as a commentary by George Lucas on the Vietnam War, September 2014.

• Darren Mooney at The dropout advocates the subversive power of the Ewoks as a metaphor for the Viet Cong in March 2020.

• Ian McDiarmid speaks with The guard on how the emperor was influenced by Richard Nixon, November 2005.

• Jenny Drapkin Floss of Lyndon B. Johnson’s habit of dictating from his toilet, April 2008.

• Elizabeth Sandifer at Eruditorum Press discusses the delightful madness of Return of the Jedi, March 2017.

• Emmet Asher-Perrin Tor.com about the Ewoks and their hunger for meat, July 2013.

• Derek Faraci at Comic resources argues that the Ewoks (and the rebels) are implicit ate the stormtroopers in Return of the Jedi, March 2020.

• Nola Taylor Redd at Space.com argued for that “Endor Holocaust” after the destruction of the Death Star, March 2016.

• Warwick Davis speaks with Bristol Bad Film Club on the legacy of the Ewoks, Mary 2017.

• Owen Nicholls at NME on the addition of blinking Ewoks to Return of the Jedi, September 2011.

• Jason Guerrasio at Business Insider about adding the computer generated music number too Return of the Jedi, November 2015.

• Ryan Lambie at Den of Geek on the developing face of Sy Snootles and the Max Rebo Band, June 2017.

• James Greene Jr. at Crawdaddy! to turn on attempts “Lepti Nek” into a disco hit, May 2011.

• James Greene Jr. at Crawdaddy! on the removal of Anne Arbogast from subsequent editions of Return of the Jedi, May 2011.

• Femi Taylor speaks with Fantha Tracks about playing Oola in both the original and the remaster Return of the Jedi, September 2020.

• Darren Mooney at the m0vie blog to the strange and strange sexual energy of the war of stars Saga, December 2019.

• Wired looks at the cult that has grown around Leia’s chain mail bikini Return of the Jedi, July 2006.

• Emmet Asher-Perrin Tor.com deals with Carrie Fischer’s response to the legacy of the chain mail bikini in October 2013.

• Laura Bradley at slate reports on rumors that Disney will withdraw Princess Leia’s slave bikini from marketing and merchandising in November 2015.

• Carrie Fisher speaks with The Wall Street Journal of her own feelings about the possibility of retiring the chain mail bikini, December 2015.

• Carrie Fisher advises Daisy Ridley on Weekly entertainment not to “Be a slave” how Leia was, October 2015.

• Noah Berlatsky at The guard argues in defense of the chain mail bikini Return of the Jedi, November 2015.

• Kelly Faircloth at Jezebel reports on the auction of Leia’s original chain mail bikini in October 2015.

• Reuters reports on the auction of Han Solo’s Blaster Return of the Jedi, June 2018.

• Wolfgang Wild contributes Mashable looks back at the Rolling Stone Shooting of Carrie Fisher in a chain mail bikini, January 2016.

• Cyriaque Lamar at io9 shares Wicket the Ewok’s rousing monologue from the novella of Return of the Jedi, April 2012.

• George Lucas speaks with Rolling Stone to spend over a decade of his life war of stars and want a break, July 1983.

• J.W. Rinzler speaks with Soon about how difficult it could be to work on it with Lucas Return of the Jedi, October 2013.

• Hugh Armitage at Digital spy reports on plans for a much darker ending Return of the Jedi, May 2017.

• Gary Kurtz discusses another possible mixed ending of Return of the Jedi With The Los Angeles Times, August 2010.

• Gary Kurtz speaks with Movie threat about Lucas’ original plans for that war of stars Saga beyond The Empire Strikes Back and why they never happened, March 2000.

• Producer Howard Kazansian speaks with Star Wars interviews about cutting Return of the Jedi for maximum commercial attractiveness, January 2010.

• Harrison Ford speaks with abc news about how Lucas refused to kill Han Solo Return of the Jedi because he couldn’t sell “Dead Han Toy”, November 2010.

• Tom Breihan at The A.V. society looks back on the commercial success of war of stars as a blockbuster franchise Return of the Jedi, April 2020.

• Darren Mooney at The dropout argues that Return of the Jedi reduced war of stars to a repeatable and reproducible formula, November 2020.

• Darren Mooney at Escapist films argues for Return of the Jedi than the film that reduces war of stars to a formula, November 2020.

• Tim Bissell at premiere exploring the weird, strange cult of Boba Fett, December 2007.

• Darren Mooney at Escapist films on the difference in how fans think of Boba Fett and how the Boba Fett franchise represents, December 2020.

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