Daily Dialogue — October 1, 2012

VADER: There is no escape. Don’t make me destroy you. You do not yet realize your importance. You have only begun to discover you power. Join me and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy.
LUKE: I’ll never join you!
VADER: If you only knew the power of the dark side. Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.
LUKE: He told me enough! He told me you killed him.
VADER: No. I am your father.

Shocked, Luke looks at Vader in utter disbelief.

LUKE: No. No. That’s not true! That’s impossible!
VADER: Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
LUKE: No! No! No!
VADER: Luke. You can destroy the Emperor. He has foreseen this. It is your destiny. Join me, and we can rule the galaxy as father and son. Come with me. It’s the only way.

Vader puts away his sword and holds his hand out to Luke. A calm comes over Luke, and he makes a decision. In the next instant he steps off the gantry platform into space. The Dark Lord looks over the platform and sees Luke falling far below. The wind begins to blow at Vader’s cape and the torrent finally forces him back, away from the edge. The wind soon fades and the wounded Jedi begins to drop fast, unable to grab onto anything to break his fall.

— Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Darth Vader (David Prowse), Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back (1980), screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, story George Lucas

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is All Is Lost, suggested by Teddy Pasternak who also recommended The Empire Strikes Back.

Trivia: Leigh Brackett succumbed to cancer shortly after completing her first draft of the script of the film.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Bad enough having your hand sliced off, then to find out that your Nemesis is your father, then fall off a platform heading toward oblivion? Yeah, that’s pretty much an All Is Lost moment.

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