Mind-bending
The Scene: These are not the droids youre looking for. Stopped by Imperial forces who are searching for R2-D2 (in Episode IV), Obi-Wan shows how easy it is for a𒁏 Jedi to manipulate the weak-minded.
The Awesome: Its one of the earliest👍 dಌemonstrations of what the Force is capable of, and a nice little moment for Alec Guinness.
Flip, flip hooray!
The Scene: It divided audiences, but we loved it. Yes, its the bit in Attack Of The Clones when Yoda throws down his walking stick, uses the Force to unclip his lightsaber, and then flips about like a frog on acid as he fights t🔜he ꦺevil Count Dooku.
The Awesome: Its Yoda. Fighting! It doesnt get🃏 much more awesome than this.
Think of the younglings
The Scene: The most disturbing scene from Episode III, as Anakin Skywalker enജters the Jedi Temple and finds the Younglings hiding. When they come out to g𝔍reet him, assuming hes there to rescue them, Anakin coolly extends his lightsaber
The Awesome: It's a brave and genuinely surprising move from the normally kid-friendly L📖uca🎉s.
The very first shot
The Scene: The first shot of A New Hope and Star Wars as a whole. Hi𝔉gh above Tatooine, Darth Vaders Star Destroyer, Devastator, emerges at the top of the screen and just keeps going anꦚd going, showing off its massive size.
The Awesome: Wondering what sort of scale Lucas film would be working on? Heres your answer: epic. The fact that its all contained in one opening shot is impressive in itself. Sci-fi cinema would never b🥂e the same again...
Making a grand entrance
The Scene: In A New Hope, Darth Vader makes his iconic entrance, sweeping into a white corridor and filling the room with his mechanical breathing and imposing stature. ꦫAn icon is born.
The Awesome: Few movie villains can attest to being even an eighth ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚas cool as Darth Vader, and his entrance is a꧃ defining moment.
The podrace
The Scene: A zippy set-piece that enlivens The Phantom Menace, the podrace sequence thrills with its breakneck pacing and verti𒆙go-inducing camera angles. Nine minutes of movie heaven that looked fantastic on the big screen.
The Awesome: Its the most thrilling thing in The Phantom Menace, a cer🔴tain red-faced Sith💫 lord aside. If only the whole film had been this good...
Tatooine's binary sunset
The Scene: Luke watches the suns set in A New Hope as John Williams operatic score soars. Theres loads going on🦩 here, not least inside Luke, and the scene works as a visual and aural demonstration of Lukes inner longing.
The Awesome: Its a moment in which all things are in harmony the gorgeous vis🦩ual, Williams emotive music, Mark Hamills wistful look. Beautiful.
Time for a Maulin'
The Scene: The best scene in The Phantom Menace, and possibly in any of the prequels, as Darth Maul faces off against Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon Jinn. Its one of the franchises coolest lightsaber duels, and makes us wish Maul had ha🐻d more of a part to play 𝔉in the prequels.
The Awesome: Darth Maul has a double lightsaber. N💝ow that ๊is awesome.
Bikini thrill
The Scene: Fanboy jaws dropped when Princess Leia appeared in Return Of The Jedi wearing nothing but a very skimpy gold bikini.
The Awesome: Do we have to spell it out for you?
The man in the mask
The Scene: On Dagboah, ✃Luke ventures into a cave to face down his own darkside, and comes face-to-mask with🌸 a conjuration of Vader. Its dark stuff, not least when Luke chops Vaders head off, only for his own dead face to stare up out of the broken visor.
The Awesome: Lucas does psycholog♊y and🍸 foreboding at the same time.
Will Salmon is the Streaming Editor for GamesRadar+. He has been writing about film, TV, comics, and music for more than 15 years, which is quite a long 🧸time if you stop and think about it. At Future he launched th🃏e scary movie magazine Horrorville, relaunched Comic Heroes, and has written for every issue of SFX magazine for well over a decade. His music writing has appeared in The Quietus, MOJO, Electronic Sound, Clash, and loads of other places too.
