chapter 4

So I book to watch Empire. I again booked the seat in row C, number 8, towards the back. The staff replied to me like that seat, don't you? I replied yes, you get the best view and sound quality sat there for me. You could say that's my spot now. Someone else behind the desk said, "We have to reverse just for you", and they stared and laughed. When Empire Strikes Back came out in 1980, it made $209,398,025. It was second in the UK chart, and in the U.S.S.A, it won fourth. It cost 30.5 million dollars to make the movie. It made $401.5 million worldwide in 1980, Which is a big profit Considering the budget required to make the movie was small. With a significant increase in funds, Lucas sought to independently finance The Empire Strikes Back with $33 million sourced from loans and the profits of the preceding movie. It was initially budgeted at $18 million for production, and movieing commenced in March 1979. However, by July, the budget had expanded to $25 million. Lucas did not direct the movie. Irvin Kershner Lucas did the story, but Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan did the screenplay.

When making the movie at the start, I knew they had to make about ten bounty hunters for some scenes. One of the bounty hunters was Boba Fett. At first, Boba Fett was all white like Stormtrooper was. As they looked at Fett, they changed its colours. The colours of Fett were changed to green, red, and gold. Boba was only in the movie "The Empire Strikes Back," Boba Fett appears on screen for 6 minutes and 32 seconds, although 13 seconds is solely focused on his ship. He appeared eight times in total, not including the special edition. The first appearance occurs 1 hour, 5 minutes, and 16 seconds into the movie, lasting 41 seconds. It featurin' Totalenee, where Vader addresses a group of bounty hunters, with Boba Fett expressing compliance by saying, "As you wish." 2nd appearance (1:15:43 - 1:15:57) is 14 seconds, with 8 seconds being only his ship. This is the scene in which Boba Fett flies his boat after the Falcon. 3rd appearance (1:27:30 - 1:27:56) is 26 seconds. This is the scene in which Han fires his blaster at Vader, saying, "We would be honoured if you would join us." The fourth instance (1:29:41 – 1:30:28) lasts Forty-seven seconds, featuring Han being tortured. During this scene, Boba Fett tells Vader, "He's not useful to me if he's dead." In the fifth appearance, which occurs from 1:33:34 to 1:36:58, Han is frozen, and Boba Fett nearly fires at Chewbacca before being stopped by Vader. Boba Fett expresses concern to Vader about Han's survival, stating that Han is valuable to him. The sixth appearance, from 1:37:37 to 1:38:10, depicts Boba Fett shooting at Luke four times. In the seventh appearance, from 1:41:45 to 1:41:57, Han is placed in Boba Fett's ship as Boba Fett instructs his Cloud City assistant to store him in the cargo hold. The eighth appearance, from 1:42:26 to 1:42:31, only shows Boba Fett's ship flying away. In the hole of the movie, Fett only had twenty-seven words in the film.

Boba Fett needed many other characters for the parade, so they also looked in the prop department. One reason was that before Empire was out, there was a parade where they did not have enough characters for it, and they were working on Boba Fett's costume. So they Put him in the parade, and everyone talked About Fett. Were they saying, how is it? What does he do in Star Wars? They even made a figure for the movie before it came out. It was an incredible advertising stroke of genius. For two reasons: it got everyone Talking about the film, and everyone wanted to buy Star Wars figures. One big problem was that they could not quickly mAke all the Star Wars figures to meet the demand. They did solve that problem by giving a voucher for whatever Star Wars figures the kids wanted for Christmas.

So I sat down, ready to watch the movie as it was starting. The credits came on Episode V, The Empire Strikes Back. It is a dark time for The Rebellion. Although the Death Star has been destroyed, Imperial troops have driven The Rebel forces from their hidden base and pursued them across The galaxy. I was Evading the dreaded Imperial Starfleet, a group of freedom fighters led by Luke Skywalker who has established a new secret base on the remote ice world of Hoth. The evil lord Darth Vader, obsessed With finding young Skywalker, has dispatched thousands of remote probes into The far reaches of space….". It took me back when I first watched it as a kid on 19th October 1984 on VHS videotape. We rented it from A shop that was not far from our house. So, I would love to start enjoying the movie as soon as possible on a Saturday evening. I enjoyed the film so much, and I thought it was returning to the past when it was originally filmed. At first, nothing happened. I thought it was a fluke. It happened the first two times, or had I done something different than last time?

Then I got a shock Off the seat again. Just before the scene, Darth Vader told the bounty hunters what they had to do. I am about one. We are into the movie, so you can understand why I thought I would not time travel to the movie this time. The bounty hunters are Boba Fett, Bossk, Dengar, 4-LOM, Zuckuss, and IG-88. It put me behind the scenes where the props were. They needed people in bounty hunters' outfits as soon as possible. They asked me to put on Bossk Outfit because they remembered me from New Hope when I helped them in that movie. "It was an ideal fit, almost as if it had been custom-made for me." It was a rush to get everyone in their place because of time. Getting everyone in their place was rushed because time was limited, and a short screen time lasted 41 seconds. I put on the costume and they immediately thanked me. I then offered to help with anything else and was directed to the props department to see if they needed assistance.