Word: r2
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
Meantime, Luke and R2-D2 take off from Hoth in search of Yoda, an 800-year-old, three-foot-high Jedi master and wise-cracking philosopher who teaches Luke the intricacies of The Force. Yoda--a muppet-like creation operated by Frank Oz (Miss Piggy's human half)--proves a special effects miracle in a film where every frame contains an intricate cinematographic maneuver. The puppet's retinue of facial expressions is endless; his ears alone are more expressive than any of his human co-stars, whose abilities to convey emotions seem to have suffered permanent frostbite on the frozen...