What Do LOST And The Empire Strikes Back Have In Common?
Posted By Dustin on October 26, 2006
Jeff Jensen, writer for Entertainment Weekly has posted a new article comparing last weeks episode of LOST to The Empire Strikes Back. Read the snippet below for more.
"But really, the movie that truly illuminates last week's Locke episode is The Empire Strikes Back. I loved the moment when Locke entered the cave and torched the polar bear ? it reminded me of Luke when he used his lightsaber to kill the wampa monster in the ice cave on Hoth. It also reminded me of the part when Luke descended into that mystical root cellar on Dagobah and chopped off the helmeted head of a hallucinatory Darth Vader, only to see that under the mask was his own face.
Could these vague allusions to Empire (often cited by Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof as one of his fave movies) have been intentional? Consider this: Like the vision of Vader in the cave, the polar bear represents the hero's unresolved anger, much of which is rooted in his complicated non-relationship with his awful father.
Locke now seems determined to save his kidnapped friends, just as Luke did in Empire after his Dagobah digression. We all know how that turned out, don't we? The neophyte knight walked right into a trap...
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