Star Wars 5: The Behind-the-scenes Production of The Empire Strikes Back

The Empire Strikes Back contains not only the wonderful space war, but also the opening scene and urban elements on the cold planet. When creating a battle scene on Hoth, Industrial Light Magic intended to use the blue screen to synthesize the imperial all-terrain heavy armored vehicle into a static picture of the original set, and later decided to use the stop-motion animation technology to shoot the chariot picture in the hand-painted background. Phil tippett, who is responsible for making stop-motion animation, said that the Imperial chariot was originally designed as a wheeled heavy armored vehicle. Many people think that the design of the final version should be inspired by the container crane in Auckland Port, but Lucas denied this.

When designing Jedi Master Yoda, makeup artist Stuart Freeborn took his face as a blueprint and added Einstein's wrinkles. Dagobah's set is five feet higher than the floor of the studio, so technicians can walk under it and manipulate Yoda's doll. Because Frank Oz, who voiced Yoda, had to speak dialogue off the set, he couldn't hear the voices of the crew and mark hamill, and hamill, who played Luke, also suffered. Because he is the only actor in the whole set, surrounded by machines and moving props, director kershner praised hamill's performance. This film was shot on1March 5, 979, at jkulen Glacier in Dangel, near Finsey, Norway. The filming of "Star Wars" suffered a once-in-50-year rainstorm in Tunisia and a once-in-50-year snowstorm in Norway. At that time, the temperature was as low as -28.9 degrees and the snow was as thick as 5.5 meters, so the cast members could not leave the hotel for a time. On March 13, the crew moved to Elstree Studio in London to continue filming. The studio released 60 sets of this film, twice as much as the last Star Wars. As the No.3 studio was swallowed up by fire during the filming of The Shining in June+10, 5438, the shooting cost of this film increased from the initial18.5 million dollars to 22 million dollars, and by July of the same year, the shooting investment had exceeded 30 million dollars.

During the filming, several masters kept silent about the truth that Darth Vader was Luke's father. Even david prowse, who voiced Vader, didn't know the real identity of the character. Before the movie premiere, only Lucas, kershner, hamill and james earl jones knew the key dialogue. In order to keep the integrity of the opening story, Lucas hopes to put the cast at the end of the film. Before the release of Star Wars, the American Writers' Union and Directors' Union approved Lucas' application, but when it came to the film, they asked Lucas to pay a fine of $250,000 and tried to stop the film from being released. In order to protect kershner, who was hunted by the directors' union, Lucas paid the fine in full and angrily quit the writers' union, directors' union and the American Film Association.