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unusual facts about Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back



Give It All You Got

The song was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1981 in the category Best Instrumental Composition, losing out to composer John Williams and his score to the film The Empire Strikes Back.

Hardangerjøkulen

The 1980 movie Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back used Hardangerjøkulen as a filming location, for scenes of the ice planet Hoth, including a memorable battle in the snow.

Judith Martin

  Martin is known among Star Wars fans for her less-than-adulatory review of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, which she referred to as a “good junk movie” with “no plot structure, no character ... development, no ... original vision of the future”.

Lionel Newman

He was the musical supervisor for Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Monsignor, and The Fury.

Paraceratherium

According to special effects creator Phil Tippett, Paraceratherium was the inspiration for the AT-AT walkers featured in the 1980 science-fiction film Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.

Randy Thom

His second sound job would prove to be a strong turn in his career, as he assisted Ben Burtt in the Sound Effects Recording for Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.

Star Wars: Rebel Assault

The game largely takes place during the events of Episode IV: A New Hope; however, the sequences on Hoth from The Empire Strikes Back are included.

Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

The winner was Jeff Crosno, for whom the developers placed his appearance on a Rebel soldier in a, Ice Fields of Hoth cut-scene, replacing the already existing facial graphics.

The Empire Writes Back

In addition to being a pun on the film Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, the phrase refers to the ways post-colonial voices respond to the literary canon.


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