The Empire Strikes Back
Movie • 1980 • Sci-Fi
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Is there domestic violence?
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Does a horse die?
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Two alien horses die but they have little resemblance to real ones.
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Are there snakes?
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There are several snakes featured quite prominently in the background of some scenes.
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A Tauntaun is eaten by a Yeti. Another freezes to death and is turned into an impromptou sleeping bag.
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Are animals abused?
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A character is warned that if he attempts a rescue mission, his "space horse" will die, but he goes anyway. When the creature dies from exhaustion, he cuts it open for warmth.
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Is there a source for that?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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There is some kind of large reptilian predator lurking in a swamp. It's never seen clearly, and what we see of it doesn't resemble an alligator or crocodile.
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One character kisses another after the first repeatedly asks the other to back off. However, the second character kises the first back and the scene is portrayed as romantic.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Han does this when he gets annoyed at C-3P0 for talking too much.
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Bodily Harm
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Is someone tortured?
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Han is tortured to lure Luke to Cloud City.
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Is there decapitation?
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C-3P0, but he's a droid, so it's not fatal. There's also a part played for laughs where his head gets reattached backward.
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Vader is beheaded in a vision
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Luke's hand is cut off at the end. Also at the beginning Han slices open the belly of a taun-taun for warmth. And Luke cuts off the arm of a snow monster on Hoth.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Han is frozen alive and incased.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Several characters are killed by being choked to death in the opening scenes of the movie.
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Is someone choked?
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Darth Vader kills multiple people by strangulation. Another character is strangled for a quite lengthy period, and struggles to breathe and talk his way out of the situation.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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A character ALMOST does near the end and it is very unsure if he will make it
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Luke's hand is chopped off in a swordfight.
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Does a head get squashed?
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A head doesn’t get squashed but there is a scene where someone’s head gets cut off but it’s not gory.
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Are any hands damaged?
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One hand is completely removed by a laser sword.
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Is there amputation?
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Luke's hand is cut off at the climax of the movie and at the beginning, Luke cuts off a Yeti's arm. It's not too graphic but might make a few feel a little queasy
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
Does a major character die?
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No, although a major character is left in a hazardous situation that's only resolved in the following movie.
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Does someone die?
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There are battle scenes with casualties, including characters with names and dialog.
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Disability
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Is someone disabled played by able-bodied?
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A character who loses a hand and subsequently uses a realistic-looking prosthetic is played by an able-bodied actor who has both his hands. There are hints that Darth Vader has disabilities (the full extent of which are not revealed until a subsequent movie) and that his suit is an assistive technology; Darth Vader is played by an able-bodied actor.
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Family
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Several people are held hostage.
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Does a parent die?
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Technically Luke cuts off Vader's head but it doesn't really happen, more of a vision
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
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Vader pops out around a corner when Luke is looking around a quiet hallway
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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The ceiling of Yoda’s hut has a few trypophobia clusters. It’s never super emphasized but the pattern is triggering IMO.
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Are there ghosts?
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Obi-wan begins to haunt Luke, although there's nothing malicious or frightening about it.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Several scenes in a swamp. A character falls into the water, and another wades through it.
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Gross
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Is someone eaten?
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Not as such. There is a sequence where a group of characters enter what they think is a cave, and only realize as they leave that they were inside a giant creature's mouth.
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Is there audio gore?
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An animal's head is broken off and eaten, with crunching sounds
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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Is there incarceration?
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Han, Leia, Chewbacca, and C3-PO are not allowed to leave Cloud City, or even their room within the city.
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Loss
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Medical
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Luke's bionic hand is stung with a needle to test if he can feel with it.
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Is electro-therapy used?
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A character is zapped with electricity, but it isn't electro-therapy.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Luke is fitted for a prosthetic hand in the final scene.
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Mental Health
Does someone attempt suicide?
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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C3PO stresses out numerous times about the Imperials and asteroids. so it could be droid anxiety... from a certain point of view
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Han is frozen and encased in metal. People are somewhat trapped in their spaceships and in their hideouts because if they leave the Empire will get them. A character is unthawed by waking up underwater in a small aquarium-like thing. People use air-masks at one point
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Noxious
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Is there screaming?
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The scene mentioned in the torture section ends with loud screaming that is overheard by other characters.
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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Is a minority misrepresented?
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Not in any clear way, but the creators admitted to basing Yoda on the Dalai Lama and the lead of Seven Samurai, which makes his OSV word order a bit questionable.
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Race
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Sex
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Characters who don't know they're siblings kiss several times.
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Social
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Is someone homeless?
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Two prominent scenes where hundreds of characters are forced to flee their homes.
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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It is resolved happily in the next movie.
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Vehicular
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Does a plane crash?
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Luke crash lands a snow speeder and a spaceship but survives unharmed.
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Violence
Is there gun violence?
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Laser guns are used a lot.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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There are explosions. No mushroom clouds specifically or radiation effects but bombs and spaceships being blown up
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Does someone drown?
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A character is woken up from freezing by being in a human-sized circular aquarium (doesn’t actually drown)
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Is there blood/gore?
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Loss of limbs. Gutting of an animal.
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