Word: luke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...director of the original 1977 Star Wars and executive producer of this summer's The Empire Strikes Back--plans to depict the Rebellion's struggle against the diabolical Empire in nine films, divided into three trilogies. The first two segments, which relate the story of would-be Jedi knight Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), are actually episodes IV and V of the envisioned series...
...there's no reason to know how everything fits into Lucas's cosmic scheme when you see The Empire Strikes Back. What's important to remember is that when we last saw Luke, Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew), C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) and R2-D2 (Kenny Baker), they were celebrating their destruction of the Empire's ominous Death Star, oblivious to the escape of arch-nogoodnik Darth Vader (David Prowse...
...takes over as warden. Since I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang almost half a century ago, moviegoers have periodically been made painfully aware of how rotten life can be on a Southern prison farm. Director Rosenberg had a good go at the subject in Cool Hand Luke (1967). But never has the food looked so disgusting, or the living conditions so vile, as they are shown here. Nor have the reprisals and punishments been more brutally demonstrated. Also, the fact that the Brubaker character is modeled after Thomas Murton, an academic penologist who took over an Arkansas prison...
...calls Brubaker the best film about a plantation prison, comparing it to Cool Hand Luke, about a chain gang, and Papillon, which showed life in a penal colony. Redford, he says, seems deliberate and intelligent, perfect for the role of the good guy, the renegade hero...
Following that, however, Luke, like any other such hero, enters what Dante called the dark wood midway in the journey of our life. He must go into it alone and alone face the evils that there reside, the dark forces that are within himself. Yoda knows that, and he tells Luke to leave behind his lightsword when he steps into the tree cave in the Dagobah swamp. Luke refuses and in a dream-like sequence soon finds himself using it against what seems to be the figure of Darth Vader, whom he decapitates. Vader's mask breaks away...