thought about this again. kind of amazing how we’re all just chasing ways to duplicate how this scene makes us feel, either in life or in art.
thinking about when mark told the story of how when they were shooting, he said to george, “darth vader has a musical theme, han, leia all have themes, do i have a theme song?” and george going “mark, the main theme is your theme song”
The thing that always comes as a surprise to me, somehow, every time I rewatch this movie, is how much of it is setup. There’s *so much* that happens after Luke joins up with Han Solo, including nearly everything iconic about the movie, that it’s really easy to forget that it opens with a lot of slow-paced establishing scenes, setting up the world and Luke’s life and just letting you wander around in this interesting and visually delightful universe and experience and explore it without feeling like you’re always being hustled off to the next action scene. There are a lot of reasons why the movie took off like it did, but I really feel like part of its magic and part of why it’s still fun to watch after all these years (even after we know the story and all the character beats) is because of that “tourist in a foreign land” experience that you get from the first half of it.