Release date: 21 May 1980 (USA)
STORY:
In this spin-off of the past Star Wars film, Episode IV: Another Expectation, the initial slither uncovers that after the obliteration of the Passing Star, the Dissidents had to clear their base on the Yavin moon and the feared Royal Armada of the Cosmic Realm has sought after the Revolutionary Partnership across the world, driving them to lay out a mystery base on the remote ice planet Hoth. Darth Vader, the Dark Lord of the Sith (David Prowse, voice: James Baron Jones) sends automated tests looking for the base and its leader and legend, Luke Skywalker (Imprint Hamill).
While Luke is watching close to Repeat Base, he sees what resembles a meteor stirring things up around town close to his area. He reports to Han Solo that he intends to research the fallen item yet before he can ride his mount to the site, he's thumped oblivious by a native, polar bear-like hunter, the wampa. To the displeasure of Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), smuggler-pilot Han Solo (Harrison Ford) announces his intention to leave the Rebels and pay off the debt he owes to the gangster Jabba the Hutt back at the base. After Han finds that Luke has not gotten back from watch and with the temperature decreasing quickly, he defers his flight and passes on the base to look for him on an ostrich-like animal called a tauntaun.
Luke, on the other hand, manages to escape the wampa's den by retrieving his nearby light saber with the help of the Force and wounding the creature, but he is overcome by the cold outside. He is instructed to receive training from Jedi Master Yoda by an apparition of his late mentor, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness). Blunt Oz) in the world Dagobah. Han finds Luke and gives him cover, utilizing his own tauntaun's body to keep Luke warm, until he can fabricate a sturdier haven. A Rebel patrol arrives the following morning to rescue the two. Luke is taken to the medical bay to recover from the Wampa's wounds. (Peter Mayhew) Leia, Han, and Chewbacca greet him in his recovery room. Luke is cheerfully reminded by Han that he has rescued him twice from imminent danger.
In a little while, when ground examines recognize an item outside the base edge at Zone 12, Han and Chewie, research, and find a Supreme test droid that communicates the area of the Revolutionary base to the Magnificent armada prior to terminating upon Chewie. The droid responds to Han's low-energy attack by activating its self-destruct feature and exploding. The droid's transmission is picked up by Captain Piett on the bridge of Darth Vader's massive flagship; however, his superior, fleet Admiral Ozzel, dismisses the message until Vader sees it and realizes that it is the Rebel base. He orders the Imperial Fleet to travel to the Hoth system, overruling Ozzel.
General Veers, Vader's infantry commander, informs Vader as the Fleet emerges from hyperspace that the Rebels have constructed powerful energy shields and infantry trenches to shield them from the Empire's orbital bombardment. Requesting Goes to send off a surface assault, Vader is irate that Ozzel has cumbersomely offered the component of shock by rescuing his boat once again from light speed excessively near the planet, and he conveys this dismay to Skipper Piett as he elevates him to naval commander while Ozzel is given Vader's own deadly kind of censure.
By all accounts, the Royal powers land their ground attack troops, a unit of more than twelve four-legged AT "walkers" (alongside two or three dozen two-legged AT-ST walkers) past the energy safeguard and Luke drives his group of flying speeders into fight. Understanding that their blasters can't harm the intensely protected walkers, Luke devises an assault plan that has his crew utilizing their towing links to tie the legs of the walkers to trip them, making them more powerless. A couple of walkers are obliterated yet the Supreme powers at last overwhelm the Radicals and obliterate the generator driving the energy safeguard, catching the Renegade base. Chewbacca, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and their droid C-3PO, played by Anthony Daniels, board the Millennium Falcon to get away. Luke returns to the base after expressly annihilating one of the walkers and hurries off in his X-Wing contender with astromech droid R2-D2 (Kenny Cook).
In space, Han finds that the Hawk's hyper-drive is harmed and it can't get away from the Majestic barricade in space. They are pursued by four Imperial TIE-Fighters as they enter the nearby Hoth asteroid field amid the confusion; The four fighters that were pursuing Han Solo's Millennium Falcon are destroyed by the flying rocks as he drives it further into the field. To hide and make repairs, Han lands the Falcon inside a crater on one of the larger asteroids.
In the interim, Luke and R2-D2 make an accident arrival on the marsh planet of Dagobah. Disappointed at his X-Wing having arrived in a lowland, Luke makes camp and starts to eat his proportions. When Luke is startled by a strange voice behind him, he thinks about how the area around him seems familiar. The voice is from a wise, green creature who acts obnoxious, demands that Luke keep his small power lamp, and criticizes the food that Luke eats. Let Luke know that he knows where to find Yoda, Luke goes to his little house to eat. Luke wants to meet Yoda right away and quickly becomes impatient while he is there. The small creature begins to converse with Obi-Wan's spirit, claiming that Luke is too old to begin Jedi training and lacks the patience required of a Jedi. Luke recognizes the animal as Yoda himself. Yoda insists that Luke, like his father Anakin, is very angry. Yoda receives assurances from Obi-Wan that Luke will acquire patience and complete his training. Luke lets Yoda know that he isn't apprehensive, to which Yoda seriously answers, "You will be."
The Star Destroyer 'Justice fighter' travels through the enormous space rock field, looking for the Thousand years Hawk. In an effort to scare the Falcon out, a group of TIE Bombers moves across the massive asteroid where the Falcon is hiding and launches high-yield concussion bombs on the surface. The commotion stirs Leia, who has nodded off in the cockpit.
Inside the space rock cave, Han Solo and Princess Leia contend while fixing the boat, in the long run prompting a delicate kiss. Simultaneously, Vader orders the Star Destroyer 'Vindicator' to keep scanning the space rock field for the Hawk, notwithstanding it's chief's suppositions that the boat was obliterated. Vader later deliberates with the strong Cosmic Sovereign Palpatine, about another danger to the Realm - Luke Skywalker. That's what darth Vader recommends on the off chance that Luke could be turned, he would turn into an incredible partner to the Magnificent reason. The Head asks, 'Should it be possible?'; Vader basically answers, 'He will go along with us, or bite the dust, my Lord'.
While resting in the Hawk's cockpit, Leia is frightened by a monstrous animal on the boat's windows. Han, Leia and Chewbacca all endeavor outside the boat in breathing veils to research. Han shoots one of the beasts Leia saw from the ship as Leia observes the ground's strange consistency. As he thought, they are mynocks, parasitic animals benefiting from the Hawk's power links. At the point when Chewie attempts to shoot one and misses, the entire cavern rocks with an uproarious thunder. Han shoots the ground out of suspicion, and the cave becomes more unstable. As they board the boat and race out they see that the opening of the cavern is really the jaws of a titanic space slug. Despite the creature's subsequent frenzied attack on the ship, Han manages to escape.
On the extension of the Vindicator, Darth Vader assembles a little gathering of intergalactic abundance trackers, the most dreaded of whom is Boba Fett (Jeremy Bulloch). Vader guarantees them a huge result on the off chance that they can find the Thousand years Bird of prey.
Han cleverly and stealthily avoids the Star Destroyer's pursuit of the Falcon once more in space: He climbs into an attack position and then flies directly over the star destroyer's bridge to hide the Falcon on the massive ship's surface and attach its landing claws to it. While Han devises a strategy for escape, they remain undetected. He speculates that the fleet will dump their trash before entering hyperspace, allowing them to disappear undetected. Han really looks at his navigational log and understands he's been nearby previously and that a planet called Bespin is close by and that they'll find one of his old sneaking pals there who will offer them shelter. Sadly, their escape was not an accident; Slave I, a smaller ship just behind him, is piloted by Fett, who is figuring out where the Millennium Falcon is probably going. Han succeeds in his plan of escape, and he sets out for Cloud City, a gas mining colony on the nearby gas planet of Bespin run by Han's friend Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams).
Luke goes through Yoda's rigorous lessons about the metaphysical nature of the Force on Dagobah. These lessons involve levitating objects, doing acrobatic feats, and meditation to help Luke relax and see possible future visions. Yoda carries Luke to an old, twisted tree that sits on a cavern. Luke must investigate the cave, Yoda informs his apprentice, because it contains the dark side of the Force. Luke takes his light saber with him because he doesn't like his master very much. Inside the cavern, Luke experiences a dream of Darth Vader, whom he battles. Luke removes Vader's head with his light saber, however at that point the veil blasts open, uncovering Luke's own face behind it. Luke must control his impulses and anger or risk becoming Vader himself, as the cave is yet another test.
Luke sees Han and Leia in danger and suffering. Because Luke is still susceptible to the powerful temptation of the Dark Side, Yoda and the ghost of Obi-Wan warn him of the dangers of rushing away despite his desire to save them. Despite this, Luke leaves Dagobah and tells Yoda that he will return to finish his training.
Upon their landing in Cloud City, Han's party is invited via Lando Calrissian. Lando invites him and the others to a meal after Han accepts his offer to assist him in repairing his ship. C3PO is diverted from the gathering when he hears the recognizable blaring of a R2 unit. He enters a small room and is suddenly confronted by an unknown individual who asks him why he is there. A laser impact chops C3PO down as he prattles to his aggressors. Only Chewbacca is suspicious, but he arrives too late to determine what actually took place.
Darth Vader and Boba Fett, who had followed Han's party to Cloud City, capture them when they enter the dining room. Lando insists that he and the Empire were forced to work together to stop them from occupying the city or, more likely, destroying it.
Han is tortured in captivity to entice Luke to the city. In his holding cell, Chewbacca is also subjected to torture by an amplified screeching sound. Vader tells Lando that the rebels must never leave the city as he gets ready to wait for Luke to be drawn to him by their pain. Lando, nauseated by Vader's treatment of Han and his companions, fights that the arrangement they struck never incorporated that as a condition any more than giving Han over to Boba Fett. Lando, on the other hand, is forced to realize how helpless he is when Vader says that if he keeps complaining, he will leave a garrison in the city.
Luke will be frozen in a carbon-freezing chamber prepared by Vader to transport him to the Emperor in suspended animation. The cycle is tried on Han Solo. As Han is brought down into the machine, Leia proclaims her adoration for him. He is frozen in carbonite and alive in hibernation and gave over to Fett, who plans to return his quarry to Jabba the Hutt for an enormous prize.
Luke, on the other hand, lands at Cloud City and is seduced into entering the carbon-freezing chamber. Luke and Vader engage in a bloody lightsaber fight when they meet. Vader's Imperial troopers are escorting their prisoners when Lando's private security force intercepts them and frees Lando and the others. Lando, regardless of almost being killed by an irate Chewbacca, demands that there is as yet an opportunity to save Han, and en route they track down R2-D2. The group travels through Cloud City in search of Boba Fett and Han's frozen form, but they arrive just as the bounty hunter's ship is about to depart. Leia, Chewbacca, Lando, and the two droids make their escape on the Millennium Falcon after a desperate chase by Imperial troops.
Luke is stuck on the bottom level of the carbon-freezing room as the Falcon leaves Cloud City. Vader ambushes him as he walks down a dark hallway by stepping out of a doorway and swinging his light saber down on him. After a fierce light saber duel between Luke and Vader, they reach a small platform above the city's central air shaft. Luke is held hostage by the Dark Lord on a runway and threatened by him; You are beaten! It is pointless to stand up to!' Luke returns to the battle; Unexpectedly, Vader tears apart an instrument panel. Vader cuts Luke's right hand off at the wrist as Luke unintentionally looks at it, rendering him disabled and sending Luke's light saber plunging into the enormous shaft. Vader informs Luke that he does not yet know the truth about his father while he is cornered and defenseless. Luke asserts that Vader executed him. Vader responds:
"No, I'm your dad."
Luke shouts trying to claim ignorance. Luke is persuaded by Vader to join him, adopt the Dark Side of the Force, and help him overthrow the Emperor. Luke says he won't, lets go, and falls off the platform into the abyss, indicating that he'd rather die than be with him. Luke enters an air vent during free fall, shoots out of the floating city, and lands on an antenna hanging below. Luke attempts to pull himself back into the exhaust pipe, yet with only one hand and no strength left, he can't pull himself up and the trapdoors close over his head, catching him on the climate vane. He begs Ben for assistance, but the seasoned Jedi Knight refuses to appear. Luke then uses the Force to try to reach Leia.
On the Thousand years Hawk Leia faculties Luke's pain through the Power and orders Lando to steer them back to Cloud City - - Lando fights right away however Chewbacca's thunder persuades him to do as such. As they approach the underside of the city, Lando spots Luke holding tight to the climate vane and opens the Bird of prey's external trapdoor. Lando pulls Luke in after he falls off the weather vane just as the three TIE fighters from the "Executor" appear and begin a quick pursuit. As they leave Cloud City, they are sought after by Darth Vader's leader. While searching the city's central computer, R2-D2 discovered that the hyper-drive was just deactivated. After reactivating it, the Falcon escapes into hyperspace. Admiral Piett is worried that Vader will kill him because of this, but the Sith Lord just walks away silently.
In the final scene, the escaped and defeated rebel fleet is deciding on their next move at a location far beyond the galaxy. Luke receives a prosthetic hand on a Rebel medical frigate as Lando and Chewbacca search for Han Solo in the Falcon. Luke plans to join them when Han Solo is released from treatment. The ship accelerates toward the galaxy as Luke and Leia observe it.
