A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
The year was 1998, and my family and I were doing a normal family outing to the movie theater. We could have picked a family film that we all could have enjoyed.... or we could have watched the re-release of the original trilogy of Star Wars in preparation for the much anticipated release of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace....
We chose to watch the family film.
But that didn’t stop me from badgering my parents to go back to the theater to watch Star Wars the following weekend, in which my parents were generous enough to take me to watch it. It was one of my first experiences watching a movie as big as it was, me being at the tender age of 6. I sat down in my seat and began to watch The Empire Strikes Back.
Though the movie was so long ago it will forever remain an experience to me because of the whole essence of the movie and what an impact it had on me. What I remember from the whole experience is the excitement of the movie and how it showed the vastness of a fantasy universe where people can go from planet to planet. I also remember the light-sabre battle between Luke and Darth Vader in the carbonite freezing chamber, and the biggest twist in movie history was uttered and to this day will remain my favorite movie watching experience, the reveal that Vader was in fact Luke’s father.
Moments like these created an essence in me where I became obsessed with not only Star Wars, but film itself, and in my opinion that’s an experience that can never be topped. Just the opportunity to watch an influential film like Empire Strikes Back is a treat because through any other circumstance I wouldn’t be able to watch it on the big screen, and to this day I still recall that movie watching experience to be by far my favorite movie experience.
FIN.
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