A Thousand Stars: Episode IV, Part 10

[matril]

On paper, it's not much. Luke goes outside. The suns are setting. He looks at them. Then he turns around and leaves.

But those images. His lone figure against the stark landscape, the expression on his face, the combination of the familiar and the alien with a binary sunset, the simple motion of Luke bowing his head before looking up again....they all combine to make one of the most memorable, evocative scenes in the saga. Of course we must also acknowledge the power of John Williams's sweeping score, overlaying the images with wistfulness, yearning and dreams deferred.

Next time, deceiving appearances...

Comments

[krpalmer]

Mentioning the score reminds me I'd been thinking of the soundtrack album assembled around the time of the Special Edition (I'm pretty sure it's been re-released since then) that included an "alternative cue" for "Binary Sunset." I have to admit that alternative cue sounded downright ominous to me, although I've never tried synching it up to the footage (or just searching to see if anyone else did that and managed to keep the video up on YouTube...)