Star Wars: This line from Return of the Jedi that could change everything

Released in 1983, Return of the Jedi capped off what many at the time considered the greatest sci-fi trilogy of all time, which had begun six years earlier with the shock of discovering the first Star Wars film on the big screen.

Comparatively speaking, George Lucas has been a bit of an Abel Gans Syndrome victim over the years, having spent his life editing and re-editing his masterpiece Napoleon to create different versions.

Between cut or alternate scenes, whether finished or not, the Star Wars saga is logically full of scenes set aside and stored in Lucasfilm boxes, which regularly appear from their boxes and appear more or less generously on the physical issues of the saga’s multiple editions. Support.

In November 2013, 30 years after its release, the stage was discontinued. Return of the Jedi Thus he was resurrected as he said The Hollywood Reporter. A previously seen scene (re)discovered on a laserdisc that was found on Ebay a month ago and sold for an astronomical price of $699. The peculiarity of this laser disc – which made it rare – is that it was only used for promotional purposes.

In the sequence, we see Yoda on his deathbed on the planet Dagobah. Luke Skywalker has yet to accept the truth that Darth Vader, the Sith Lord, is indeed his father, as he revealed to him in the famous line in The Empire Strikes Back.

He sees his fears confirmed by Yoda, who tells him:Obi-Wan would have told you a long time ago if I had let him“(Obi-Wan would have told you a long time ago if I had let him). So he was the one who stopped his mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi from telling him the truth and revealing Dark’s true identity to Vader.

Here’s the scene…

While suspicion fell on Obi-Wan, who manipulated Luke into encouraging him to fight his own father, Yoda’s cut changes everything.