Let’s compare them!
Empire:
1.Luke loses a hand (But doesn’t die)
2.Han gets captured and frozen (But doesn’t die)
3.Rebels lose a battle but most of them escape
4.C3P0 gets blow up
New Hope:
1.Obi Wan DIES
2.Beru Lars DIES
3.Owen Lars DIES
4.Biggs DIES
5.Jawas DIE
6.Millions on Alderaan DIE
7.Thousands on the Death Star DIE
8.R2D2 gets blown up
9.And Leia snubs a Wookie at the awards ceremony!
I guess a single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic complies to Star Wars too!
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Contestado por redking678
el 19 de febrero de 2017 a las 18:41
It just ends on a less optimistic note. ANH ends with the Death Star destroyed and everybody happy mostly. Empire ends with Han Solo dead or captured (doesn't make that clear), and Luke beaten physically and emotionally by Vader.
Your lasting impression of a movie tends to be its ending, so I guess thats why its considered darker.
Contestado por NotoriousRio
el 19 de febrero de 2017 a las 18:48
Yeah its not really a serious post, I remember watching Empire as a kid and having to wait 3 years to find out Han's fate. Although I wonder if the impact of Obi Wan's death would of been greater if a younger actor had been cast as Obi Wan.
Contestado por redking678
el 19 de febrero de 2017 a las 18:50
I imagine if we'd had the prequel beforehand and if he hadn't come back in ghost form it would have been far more impactful.
Contestado por manfromatlantis
el 19 de febrero de 2017 a las 18:58
Han solo ends up missing that why.
Contestado por Pandora78🇺🇸
el 19 de febrero de 2017 a las 20:16
Luke also finds out that Vader is his father. Pretty traumatic stuff!
Contestado por DRDMovieMusings
el 5 de marzo de 2017 a las 23:23
A New Hope ends with a photo op, all the good guys smiling and cheering, medals being handed out, because the good guys won, and the enemy was vanquished. The entire story arc resolved itself, and everyone who left the theatres in 1977 figured the nice story with a happy ending was over (even though Vader himself was not killed, far as we could tell).
The Empire Strikes Back has our heroes in disarray, Han Solo's fate uncertain, and Lord Vader ruling the roost from stem to stern, ever one step ahead of them all...dramatically announcing his connection to Skywalker...those who left the theatres in 1980 knew there had to be a sequel, in order to find out if the good guys could regroup - there were no feelings of elation.
Contestado por Kylopod
el 30 de mayo de 2017 a las 00:44
You know, you make some good points! I never thought of it this way.
Here are the two primary reasons why I think it's generally considered darker:
1) The good guys lose--and badly.
2) Even though there are fewer deaths, the stuff we see is more explicitly violent and/or creepy--Luke's arm getting chopped off, the scene in the cave on Dagobah, the Wampa sequence, etc. In contrast, we never see any of the inhabitants of Alderaan in the first film, Obi-Wan's "death" consists of him simply disappearing, and all we see of what happens to Beru and Owen is a very brief shot of their charred corpses (which actually is pretty graphic, and I remember reading somewhere that it was put in specifically to avoid a G rating; still, overall there's little doubt the second film is more violent than the first).
You do have a point, however, and I think it reflects the fact that when people talk about how "dark" a story is, it usually has mostly do with what happens to the main characters. Minor characters, especially ones we don't even see, tend to get ignored no matter how terrible their fate is.
Contestado por El_Sancho
el 23 de septiembre de 2020 a las 19:45
It's all about the movie's presentation. Star Wars has jubilant music, bright cinematography, and the performances make the action look "fun." Empire has more serious music, cold dark uncomfortable settings, higher-contrast cinematography, and the characters are constantly worried, desperate, angry and scared.
Like, Kramer & Kramer is a darker movie than Star Wars and I don't think anyone even dies in that movie.
Contestado por manfromatlantis
el 23 de septiembre de 2020 a las 21:47
I like to seen a darker return but it wasn't to be.
Contestado por tmdb53400018
el 23 de septiembre de 2020 a las 22:47
Huh?
Contestado por tmdb53400018
el 23 de septiembre de 2020 a las 22:51
THIS. Empire Strikes Back ended on such a sour note, and then, you knew that you'd be biding your time to find out if good would prevail or not. A lot of time. That's trying for a kid!
Contestado por movie_nazi
el 28 de septiembre de 2020 a las 13:03
Empire had softcore incest porn. END OF!
Contestado por tmdb53400018
el 28 de septiembre de 2020 a las 14:02
nazi, I was gonna say, that's not porn, but you did say softcore. So I guess you have a point.
Contestado por movie_nazi
el 28 de septiembre de 2020 a las 14:13
Yeah, I was trying to be hyperbolic.
Contestado por tmdb53400018
el 28 de septiembre de 2020 a las 14:31
LOL