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Van Lathan

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4881 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The Rewatchables
‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (Part Two) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan

It's between the two scenes. It's including them getting off the plane. It's the end of Top Gun. It's between these two scenes to me. I could make. Maybe, maybe an argument for the entire sequence where they're actually dressed like stormtroopers and they're rescuing Princess Leia.

The Rewatchables
‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (Part Two) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan

He's a prisoner. We're transferring him. If we're talking about Again, Chewbacca sucks. The scene that has been the most recreated, my blood's boiling, is to me the trick run. It was, to me, the most signature scene from Star Wars.

The Rewatchables
‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (Part Two) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan

He's a prisoner. We're transferring him. If we're talking about Again, Chewbacca sucks. The scene that has been the most recreated, my blood's boiling, is to me the trick run. It was, to me, the most signature scene from Star Wars.

The Rewatchables
‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (Part Two) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan

He's a prisoner. We're transferring him. If we're talking about Again, Chewbacca sucks. The scene that has been the most recreated, my blood's boiling, is to me the trick run. It was, to me, the most signature scene from Star Wars.

The Rewatchables
‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (Part Two) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan

That's my most rewatchable, for sure.

The Rewatchables
‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (Part Two) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan

That's my most rewatchable, for sure.

The Rewatchables
‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (Part Two) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan

That's my most rewatchable, for sure.

The Rewatchables
‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (Part Two) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan

Yeah. What do you have for most 1977? The creatures. The fact that the creatures are not CGI, they're real, they're, you know, guys in suits, you know, all of that stuff.

The Rewatchables
‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (Part Two) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan

Yeah. What do you have for most 1977? The creatures. The fact that the creatures are not CGI, they're real, they're, you know, guys in suits, you know, all of that stuff.

The Rewatchables
‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (Part Two) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan

Yeah. What do you have for most 1977? The creatures. The fact that the creatures are not CGI, they're real, they're, you know, guys in suits, you know, all of that stuff.

The Rewatchables
‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (Part Two) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan

The number one thing that's aged the best to me in the entire movie is Darth fucking Vader. Like, Darth Vader goes from being a cool, mysterious villain to a cultural icon that really, now, the entire franchise is oriented around. So, more than anything, I got ILM on here, Death Stars, period. They put a Death Star in something every two years. The lightsaber...

The Rewatchables
‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (Part Two) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan

The number one thing that's aged the best to me in the entire movie is Darth fucking Vader. Like, Darth Vader goes from being a cool, mysterious villain to a cultural icon that really, now, the entire franchise is oriented around. So, more than anything, I got ILM on here, Death Stars, period. They put a Death Star in something every two years. The lightsaber...

The Rewatchables
‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (Part Two) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan

The number one thing that's aged the best to me in the entire movie is Darth fucking Vader. Like, Darth Vader goes from being a cool, mysterious villain to a cultural icon that really, now, the entire franchise is oriented around. So, more than anything, I got ILM on here, Death Stars, period. They put a Death Star in something every two years. The lightsaber...

The Rewatchables
‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (Part Two) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan

has become an iconic toy that everyone fucking has. It revolutionized the sword. It was like a new sword, a new take on it. But Darth Vader, to me, has become so important, not just as a villain, but as a flawed hero. Because we get so much more of his story after this that really... As much as this is about Luke, it becomes about him too.

The Rewatchables
‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (Part Two) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan

has become an iconic toy that everyone fucking has. It revolutionized the sword. It was like a new sword, a new take on it. But Darth Vader, to me, has become so important, not just as a villain, but as a flawed hero. Because we get so much more of his story after this that really... As much as this is about Luke, it becomes about him too.

The Rewatchables
‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (Part Two) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan

has become an iconic toy that everyone fucking has. It revolutionized the sword. It was like a new sword, a new take on it. But Darth Vader, to me, has become so important, not just as a villain, but as a flawed hero. Because we get so much more of his story after this that really... As much as this is about Luke, it becomes about him too.

The Rewatchables
‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (Part Two) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan

And now that might be the most recognizable Star Wars thing that exists. Even the voice of James Earl Jones, completely recognizable.

The Rewatchables
‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (Part Two) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan

And now that might be the most recognizable Star Wars thing that exists. Even the voice of James Earl Jones, completely recognizable.

The Rewatchables
‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (Part Two) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan

And now that might be the most recognizable Star Wars thing that exists. Even the voice of James Earl Jones, completely recognizable.

The Rewatchables
‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (Part Two) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan

Is there more of the Darth Vader meat bone? What I will say it does, though, is to me, it does have a big hand or plays a big part, should I say, in investigating the motivations of our villains. Because midway through the next movie, or not midway through the next movie, at some point in Jedi, Luke is going to start thinking, not that I have to defeat this guy, but that I have to save him.