Rewatching Star Wars rn. The "snapping carrots" sound that plays when Vader is crushing that one rebel soldier's neck still gives me chills after all these years.

edit: it's crazy how good the sound in this movie is. R2 D2 has barely any articulation at all but they gave him a whole personality with fuckin 1977 synth beeps.

edit: they get flanderized later but the stormtroopers are pretty competent in this film. they're pretty hot on the trail of R2 and 3PO for the whole opening, if Luke didn't get tricked into taking off R2's restraining bolt they would have caught up with them at the farm and recovered the death star plans.

edit: lmao Luke's electro binoculars are so fucking terrible, my new headcanon is that that's intentional because the late stage capitalism of the Empire has replaced perfectly good binoculars with lenses with low quality electronic ones.

edit: come to think of it, both Obi Wan "Ben" Kenobi and Luke Skywalker keep using their real last names despite allegedly being in hiding. Seems like it wasn't fully thought out by the writers.

edit: literally nothing Alec Guiness says matches up with the prequels, at all. It is clear that the backstory was originally that he met Anakin Skywalker as an adult, and convinced him to leave home and go fight in the Clone Wars for an unspoken ideological reason (I like to imagine that Obi Wan wanted to free clone slaves), and trained him in the Jedi arts while they did that.

edit: lmao the red devil guy who's just sitting in the cantina with a big grin on his face while laughs play in the background. mood.

edit: there has been endless debate over the "Kessel run in twelve parsecs" line, but the real mystery line Han says when hyping up the Millennium Falcon is "She'll make point five past light speed". Point five what? Is he saying that the Falcon can go 1.5c? That's still extremely slow for traveling between stars.

the Star Wars role-playing games have interpreted this line as meaning that the Falcon's hyperdrive is twice as fast as the galactic standard.

edit: wait a minute, where the hell does Luke get that grappling hook from? He pulls out a bunch of rope for it, too. He's wearing a stormtrooper belt, are we meant to believe that every stormtrooper carries around 50 ft of rope and a grappling hook?

edit: the tie fighter escape sequence is so fucking cool it's unreal. They try to do something similar in the Force Awakens and it just doesn't work, I think it's because of the way it was filmed you really feel how much more manueverable the small tie fighters are compared to the much bigger Falcon, which makes them seem a lot more dangerous.

edit: in hindsight the "we're secretly tracking their ship" twist is kind of weak, especially with Leia immediately realizing what's going on and how it retroactively weakens all of the action on the death star. It would be better if it was revealed that the "mind probe" from earlier had found the rebel base instead, though this isn't a huge issue.

edit: I can't listen to the guy talking about the Death Star attack without thinking about the old ytmnd "princess LAY-uh" lmao