10 More Star Wars Scenes Even More Impressive When You Know The Truth
1. “I Am Your Father” Was A Huge Secret - The Empire Strikes Back
Is it the most famous twist in movie history?
If it's not, then it's up there, right? Like top two or three?
Vader dropping the F-bomb - the F stands for "Father" - on Luke in The Empire Strikes Back is the moment that launched Star Wars into the stratosphere and is still the most famous line in the whole series.
To protect this classic moment from leaking ahead of time, the crew went to some pretty extreme lengths.
In the script, the line from Vader was changed to "Obi-Wan killed your father." David Prowse, the actor inside the Vader suit, was given the line "Obi-Wan is your father", as he was a known leaker of private information.
Even Luke himself didn't know about the revelation until one day before the scene was shot. Mark Hamill got told the real line by director Irvin Kershner and then had to keep it a secret for over a year!
All this hard work paid off in the end and the twist is still as shocking today as it ever was.
The fact that they couldn't tell the guy playing Darth Vader his own biggest secret will never not be funny.