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and ruined one of the whether I made a decision as to whether to mock you about that or not and I thought looking at talking to if you haven't seen the film okay nothing wrong other than Luke I am your father possibly one of the most famous lines in cinematic history but given that we couldn't dude did you say dude I am your father Luke I am your father I'm like
Okay, so I'm going to allow myself this brief digression and then I'm going to come back to Taxi Driver.
Apparently when they shot The Empire Strikes Back, they did not use that dialogue on set.
They said something different and they had the actor voice it in afterwards because it was such an incredible plot twist that they didn't want anyone on set to know about it.
And, in fact, that line of dialogue was
was kept secret until the very final cut.
Anyway, the reason I know this is because there was a very recent What Went Wrong episode, you know, the podcast with which I'm still just terminally obsessed about behind-the-scenes stuff about famous films.
Another very good dimension.
It is incredible and it also, I mean...
made in the 70s as well, right, as American cinema was kind of going from this sort of auteur kind of taxi driver model to big bouncy kind of spectacles and things that then had sequels and so on.
And apparently George Lucas, after he made Star Wars, which hardly anyone thought was going to be a success, and there's this amazing story in the What Went Wrong podcast about it where he, like...
He's got a bunch of other friends and directors over for dinner and he says, guys, guys, I want to show you a film that I'm working on.
And he rolls a few scenes from Star Wars and his colleagues, I can't remember exactly who it was, but like big important friends he's trying to impress, they were all, they thought it was so bad that
that they didn't say anything.