Star Wars Episode 9 Trailer Breakdown: 16 Things You Need To See

5. Medal Of Bravery

Star Wars 9 Trailer
Lucasfilm

Further hammering home that this is the end of the Saga that started back in 1977, we get a shot of a prop that hasn't been seen since that original movie: the medal of bravery that was awarded to both Han and Luke at the end of Episode IV.

It looks like it's Leia holding it, so the medal could feasibly be either Han's or Luke's - really, it's an important reminder of both, and just how much she has lost and yet is able to keep on fighting anyway. At the heart of the medal is a rising sun, designed to symbolic rising hope. Given where the Resistance were at the end of the last film, and how so much of that ending was about inspiring hope, it feels thematically at one with The Last Jedi to bring this back here.

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