You know George Lucas’ classic, The Empire Strikes Back. Now roll it back a good 60 years and imagine the silent version. It works unexpectedly well. H/T to @wesalwan. And don’t miss many landmark silent films in our collection of Free Movies Online. Chaplin, early Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, the first sci-fi and western films – they’re all there. Find them at the bottom of the page…
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Star Wars was released in 1977, not 1979 and the footage in this video is actually from The Empire Strikes Back, which was released in 1980.
/geek
I second that /geekmotion.
This is great! Lucas has always said that the SW movies should work as silent films. Good job – love the music!
it seemed like this was the end of starwars episode 6 but then i realized it was starwars 5
Enjoyed it a lot, the ONLY thing I would’ve changed stylistically would’ve been using the Imperial logo for Vader’s dialogue and the Alliance Rogue Squadron phoenix logo for Luke’s. Would love to see more!
BRILLIANT! SW in any form,in any avatar, is a masterpiece,hell id applaud it even if it had only the soundtrack and no video!!
@college guy: I totally agree. John Williams’ music for these movies is amazing. I love Star Wars.
There’s an unfortunate typo at 2:23. It should read “… you can destroy…” not “… youR can destroy…” Otherwise, very well done.
That was so cool…different
Very clever. Why tack on the silly joke at the end?
it’s not George Lucas’ Classic… Irvin Kershner directed “The Empire Strikes Back” (you can see it by the know fact, that the movie was directed well ;-) )
Despite that – funny video!
admit it, even though it’s silent, every one of you read Vader’s lines in his voice…