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“The real opposition between the two key aesthetics of Star Wars—warm, rough creativity and cold, formal surface—is represented by Solo and Vader: they confront each other only once, at the precise middle point of the trilogy. The moment presents another clash between different styles, between two of Lucas’ borrowed genres—the dark-casqued samurai facing the cowboy—and offers a far more shocking contrast than the confrontation between Vader and Leia as political foes in the previous film, or, in the next film, between Vader and Luke as duelling Jedi.” —Will Brooker, BFI Film Classics: Star Wars.

“The real opposition between the two key aesthetics of Star Wars—warm, rough creativity and cold, formal surface—is represented by Solo and Vader: they confront each other only once, at the precise middle point of the trilogy. The moment presents another clash between different styles, between two of Lucas’ borrowed genres—the dark-casqued samurai facing the cowboy—and offers a far more shocking contrast than the confrontation between Vader and Leia as political foes in the previous film, or, in the next film, between Vader and Luke as duelling Jedi.”

—Will Brooker, BFI Film Classics: Star Wars.

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