Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back: The Abridged Script

"Soak it in Hamill, I'll be replaced by pixels pretty soon."
FADE IN:
EXT. HOTH
A CLAYMATION MARK HAMILL and CLAYMATION CAMEL-KANGAROO walk around Hoth to find life, which is an important reason to go into the freezing cold alone. MARK is attacked by THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN.
INT. HOTH REBEL BASE
HARRISON FORD and CARRIE FISHER interact in an awkward love-hate manner. We hope they get together, for.. some reason or another.
C3PO
Mark is gone. I will now act foppish and comical towards R2D2.
HARRISON FORD
I must find Mark. I am honorable, despite usually acting like a big asshole.
EXT. HOTH
MARK escapes from FROSTY and runs out into the vast freezing cold. This is much wiser than killing FROSTY and staying in the cave. Luckily, HARRISON finds him and stuffs him into a CAMEL-KANGAROO. They survive.
ALEC GUINESS
Mark. Go to Yoda. He will be quirky and entertaining. He will also teach you how to use your high number of Midichlorians.. oops, Lucas didn’t shit that idea out yet. I meant he will show you the ways of camera tricks and wire stunts.
INT. HOTH REBEL BASE
MARK HAMILL
Yay, I am healing. Now I shall watch the terribly comical interaction between Harrison and Carrie.. then I will get a kiss from Carrie.
(she kisses him)
Whoa, I popped major wood.
GEORGE LUCAS
That’s your sister, dude.
MARK HAMILL
What?! Fucking gross!
GEORGE LUCAS
I’m just teasing. I don’t actually come up with that bullshit until Return of the Jedi. You can have sexual fantasies for now. Speaking of fantasies, I think I’ll dress her in a gold bikini in the next movie.
Imperial fighters come in. There is a battle between the rebels and the empire. MARK wears goggles that look as though they’d make it very hard to see clearly.
MARK HAMILL
The Imperial Walker armor is too strong for blasters! Tie their shoelaces together!
The Imperial Walkers fall. Once they do, the rebels shoot them with the exact same blasters they used before that were ineffective. The Walkers explode this time, though. The battle ends, MARK and R2D2 go to see Yoda and the other PRIMARY CHARACTERS go elsewhere.
They try to go into hyperdrive. They FAIL.
EXT. DEGOBAH
YODA
Teach you I can. Make you do stunts and look like idiot I will. Face Vader you must not.
MARK HAMILL
I have to face Vader?
YODA
No! Face Vader you must not!
MARK HAMILL
What? Speak clearly! So I should face Vader?
YODA
Er..
MARK HAMILL
Alright, away I go!
Meanwhile, HARRISON and everyone try to go into hyperdrive and FAIL again.
EXT. CLOUD CITY
CARRIE, HARRISON, CHEWIE, and C3PO all greet THE ONLY BLACK MAN IN THE GALAXY.
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS
I hate you. Just kidding. But seriously, I’m screwing you royally here.
DARTH VADER
Muahaha! Here I am! Aren’t I just generally intimidating as hell?
C3PO
If you all don’t mind, I’ll go get myself blown up repeatedly and make a major pain in the ass out of myself.
MARK HAMILL
I’m here! Now I can just barely not get everyone killed!
GUY WITH WEIRD ROBOTIC EARPHONES
So is this thing like a helmet or is it wired into my head? And what’s it do, anyway?
HARRISON FORD
I’m now going to be turned into a carbonite block that doesn’t really look a helluva lot like me.
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS
Ok everyone, trust me now.
CARRIE FISHER
No.
(pause)
Okay.
HARRISON FORD
(frozen in carbonite)
God this thing makes my lips look huge.
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS
Alright, let’s barely escape!
INT. RANDOM ISOLATED AREA PERFECT FOR FIGHTING
DARTH VADER
Hello Mark. I will now smack you with heavy objects.
MARK HAMILL
Ow! Ow! Waaaah! I want my mommy!
DARTH VADER
Funny you should mention that. I’m your father.
MARK HAMILL
Dude, I don’t even look like you.
DARTH VADER
No, you fool! Under the mask! I’m a pasty white guy like you.
MARK HAMILL
You bastard!
MARK gives VADER the finger. VADER cuts off his hand.
MARK HAMILL
That’s alright, I’m a lefty. Now I will throw myself down and luckily fall into this tube and stop moving directly over this hatch which puts me in a place where Billy Dee Williams can get to me.
BILLY DEE and CREW rescue MARK.
MARK HAMILL
Well. Threepio is destroyed, I lost a hand, Han is being molested by Jabba as we speak, I haven’t completed my training, and everyone in Cloud City just had to leave their homes. I guess I really fucked this one up, eh guys? But hey at least we’ve got each other, right? Well, most of each other. Alec, why didn’t you tell me?
ALEC GUINESS
Lemme get back to you on that. I’ll have a real good excuse by the next movie.
They try to go into hyperdrive. They FAIL.
GEORGE LUCAS
Ok folks.. I guess I’ll resolve these numerous loose ends when the next movie comes out.. in a few years. Until then, play with action figures. Oh, and when computers come out I’m going to make a game called Shadows of the Empire that looks really cool because the first level is a badass simulation of the Hoth battle in this movie. I think I’ll make the rest of the game a piece of shit, though.
END




“CARRIE, HARRISON, CHEWIE, and C3PO all greet THE ONLY BLACK MAN IN THE GALAXY.”
Fantastic. Of course what’s funny is how at the Oscars a couple of years back, Clooney and co. were going on and on about how movie stars were the first to fight racism (can you count more than five black leading men in Hollywood right now?)
September 11th, 2007 at 10:15 amKudos to the above post.
November 10th, 2007 at 8:31 am“RANDOM ISOLATED AREA PERFECT FOR FIGHTING”
Genius.
February 15th, 2008 at 12:28 amCARRIE, HARRISON, CHEWIE, and C3PO all greet THE ONLY BLACK MAN IN THE GALAXY.
I laughed and laughed and laughed and then laughed some more
June 9th, 2008 at 3:26 pmRouge Squadron: Rouge Leader II, is a great Star Wars game.
Five is definitely the best of the Star Wars movies.
But man, George Lucas really is an asshole, huh. (Just read Ep. 1 and 3 too)
And yeah, they need a backup hyperdrive or something. But that repeating hyperdrive failure is the epitome of of the “awesome gadgets that fail and need to be fixed in time-critical situations” idea that happens so often in movies.
Anyways… I’m very happy that one of my favorite movies can easily stand up to your scrutiny Rod. Most of what you do is point out the obvious, though there’s a few good points in there. :)
June 19th, 2008 at 11:57 pmHee: He will also teach you how to use your high number of Midichlorians.. oops, Lucas didn’t shit that idea out yet. I meant he will show you the ways of camera tricks and wire stunts.
Hee:The Imperial Walkers fall. Once they do, the rebels shoot them with the exact same blasters they used before that were ineffective. The Walkers explode this time, though.
They try to go into hyperdrive. They FAIL.
Oh, don’t forget that when Han tries to start up the Falcon, it sounds like a Chevy with the carborator flooded with gasoline.
Hee: MARK gives VADER the finger. VADER cuts off his hand.
MARK HAMILL
That’s alright, I’m a lefty.
July 25th, 2008 at 6:10 pmthats absolute nonsense. shadows of the empire was a great game.
October 21st, 2008 at 1:53 pm