So, Why IS She a Princess, Exactly...?

51   EXT DAGOBAH SWAMP - X-WING 

Luke wanders back to where his ship is sitting. Artoo beeps a greeting, 
but is ignored by his depressed master. Luke kneels down, begins to 
help Artoo with the ship, then stops and shakes his head dejectedly.

LUKE
I can't do it, Artoo. I can't go on alone.

BEN  (OS)
Yoda will always be with you.

Luke looks up to see the shimmering image of BEN KENOBI.

LUKE
Obi-Wan! Why didn't you tell me?

The ghost of Ben Kenobi approaches him through the swamp.

LUKE
You told me Vader betrayed and murdered my father.

BEN
You father was seduced by the dark side of the Force. He ceased to be 
Anakin Skywalker and became Darth Vader. When that happened, the good man who was your 
father was destroyed. So what I have told you was true... from a 
certain point of view.

LUKE  (turning away, derisive)
A certain point of view!

BEN
Luke, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend 
greatly on our own point of view.

Luke is unresponsive. Ben studies him in silence for a moment.

BEN
I don't blame you for being angry. If I was wrong in what I did, it 
certainly wouldn't have been for the first time. You see, what happened 
to your father was my fault.

Ben pauses sadly.

BEN
Anakin was a good friend.

Luke turns with interest at this. As Ben speaks, Luke settles on a 
stump, mesmerized. Artoo comes over to offer his comforting presence.

BEN
When I first knew him, your father was already a great pilot. But I was 
amazed how strongly the Force was with him. I took it upon myself to 
train him as a Jedi. I thought that I could instruct him just as well 
as Yoda. I was wrong. My pride has had terrible consequences for the 
galaxy.

Luke is entranced.

LUKE
There's still good in him.

BEN
I also thought he could be turned back to the good side. It couldn't be 
done. He is more machine now than man. Twisted and evil.

LUKE
I can't do it, Ben.

BEN
You cannot escape your destiny.

LUKE
I tried to stop him once. I couldn't do it.

BEN
Vader humbled you when first you met him, Luke... but that experience 
was part of your training. It taught you, among other things, the value 
of patience. Had you not been so impatient to defeat Vader then, you 
could have finished your training here with Yoda. You would have been 
prepared.

LUKE
But I had to help my friends.

BEN  (grinning at Luke's indignation)
And did you help them? It was they who had to save you. You achieved 
little by rushing back prematurely, I fear.

LUKE  (with sadness)
I found out Darth Vader was my father.

BEN
To be a Jedi, Luke, you must confront and then go beyond the dark side 
- the side your father couldn't get past. Impatience is the easiest 
door - for you, like your father. Only, your father was seduced by what 
he found on the other side of the door, and you have held firm. You're 
no longer so reckless now, Luke. You are strong and patient. And now, 
you must face Darth Vader again!

LUKE
I can't kill my own father.

BEN
Then the Emperor has already won. You were our only hope.

LUKE
Yoda spoke of another.

BEN
The other he spoke of is your twin sister.

LUKE
But I have no sister.

BEN
Hmm. 



 

To protect you both from the Emperor, you were hidden from your 
father when you were born. The Emperor knew, as I did, if Anakin were 
to have any offspring, they would be a threat to him. That is the 
reason why your sister remains safely anonymous.

LUKE
Leia! Leia's my sister.

BEN
Your insight serves you well. Bury your feelings deep down, Luke. They 
do you credit.

But they could be made to serve the Emperor.

Luke looks into the distance, trying to comprehend all this.

BEN  (continuing his narrative)
When your father left, he didn't know your mother was pregnant [with twins]. Your 
mother and I knew he would find out eventually, but we wanted to keep 
you both as safe as possible, for as long as possible.  So I took you 
to live with [Anakin's estranged Step-]brother Owen on Tatooine... and your mother took Leia 
to live as the daughter of Senator Organa, on Alderaan.

Luke turns, and settles near Ben to hear the tale.

BEN  (attempting to give solace with his words)
The Organa household was high-born and politically quite powerful in 
that system. Leia became a princess by virtue of lineage... no one knew 
she'd been adopted, of course. But it was a title without real power, 
since Alderaan had long been a democracy. 

Even so, the family continued to be politically powerful, and Leia, following in her foster 
father's path, became a senator as well.  That's not all she became, of 
course... she became the leader of her cell in the Alliance against the 
corrupt Empire. And because she had diplomatic immunity, she was a 
vital link for getting information to the Rebel cause.  That's what she 
was doing when her path crossed yours... for her foster parents had 
always told her to contact me on Tatooine, if her troubles became 
desperate.



Luke is overwhelmed by the truth, and is suddenly protective of his 
sister.

LUKE
But you can't let her get involved now, Ben. Vader will destroy her.

BEN
She hasn't been trained in the ways of the Jedi the way you have, 
Luke... but the Force is strong with her, as it is with all of your 
family. There is no avoiding the battle. You must face and destroy 
Vader!

Master Luke, People Will Scrap You,

Violate Your Mind and Enslave You.

Every one of them’s Bad — You were right, R2.

The End-Game

Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready 
for 

The Big Moments. 

No one asks for their Life to change, not really. 

But it 
does. 

So what are we, helpless? 

Puppets? No. 

The big moments are 
gonna come. 

You can't help that. 

It's what you do afterwards that 
counts. 

That's when you find out 

Who You Are. 

 You'll see what I mean.

That Monologue saved My Life.

A Lot.

Tradition

“ YODA DIDN’T KNIGHT ME, SO I DIDN’T KNIGHT MY OWN STUDENTS. WILL WORK ON FORMALIZING THIS.

— LUKE ”

https://youtu.be/Td4AQZMTkTQ

By the right of the Council, by the will

of the Force, I dub thee Knight of the 

Republic.

The Royal House of Skywalker

[Darth Vader has just cut off Luke's right hand, which has his lightsaber]

LUKE SKYWALKER,
The Shamanic Hero:
OW!!!

I have now sacrificed a limb/eye (Needlessly/Willingly) -
 This means The Shaman is about to learn something
Some Real NextLevel Shit.

DARTH VADER, 
The Ultimate Father:

 There is No Escape! 

Don't Make Me Destroy You. 

Classic Narcissist - 
"You're Making Me Kill You."
"Why are You Hurting Yourself..?"

Luke, you do not yet realize your importance. 

True Statement.

You've only begun to discover your power! 

 True Statement.

Join me, and I will complete your training! 

"Clearly, only I can teach you anything useful or valuable in your Chosen Career, the Career I have Chosen for You."

With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict, and bring order to The Galaxy.

 Except that he is  The Disorder which still remains the minority voice in The World / Galaxy - he's one of The Leaders of It.

So, What's in it for him..?


 But this is important :

Vader Doesn't Know That He is Stronger Than The Emperor

( The Emperor Does, Because He Tells Yoda That He Will Be, to Taunt Him. )

And until he knew His Son (The Future) was, in-fact, alive -

It Has Never Even Occurred to Him to Overthrow The Emperor.

Not Since The Last Conversation He Had w. His Wife, almost 20 years ago...

LUKE SKYWALKER,
The Shamanic Hero:
[struggling] 
I'll never join you!

I will become a Monk.
 

DARTH VADER, 
The Ultimate Father:

If only you knew the power of the Dark Side. 

Obi-Wan never told you what happened to Your Father.

LUKE SKYWALKER,
The Shamanic Hero:
He told me enough! 

"...all I (thought I) needed to know."

He told me you killed him!

..from a certain point of view.
Which some certain hypocritical Secondary Father of Mine chose to invest my beliefs in 
(for his own self-serving ends)

DARTH VADER, 
The Ultimate Father:

No. I am Your Father.

Vader never lies to him.
Obi-Wan (The Secondary Father) Lies to him constantly.
As All Jedi Do.

LUKE SKYWALKER,
The Shamanic Hero:
[shocked] 
No. No! That's not true! 

Yes, it's True - This Man Has No Dick.

That's impossible!

No it isn't.
He Sired You Before He Lost It.

DARTH VADER, 
The Ultimate Father:

Search your feelings; you know it to be True!

LUKE SKYWALKER,
The Shamanic Hero:
NOOOOOOO! 
NOOOOOOOO!!!

DARTH VADER, 
The Ultimate Father: 

Luke, you can destroy The Emperor. 

No, He Can't.  

Not as such.

But he can inspire The One Who Can Destroy The Emperor 

He has foreseen this. 

It's a Cassandra Prophecy.

Just like everything Snoke sees -

100% Truth, completely misinterpreted. 

It is your destiny! 

Join me, and together, we can rule the galaxy as Father and Son! 

That isn't how it works - it never works that way.

That ambitious arrogance will destroy an Empire,

and many Great Kingdoms besides.

See King Henry II, Richard I and King John.

The Ruling House of Hanover

Queen Charlotte of Meckleburg-Strelitz,
Queen Consort of Great Britain and Ireland,
Electress Consort of Hanover : 
 
"I was told that, in England, always The Prince hates The King."

 

George, Prince of Wales,

Prince of Great Britain and Ireland,

Electoral Prince of Brunswick-Luneberg

Duke of Rothsay,

Duke of Cornwall:  

Is that why he's mad? 

Queen Charlotte of Meckleburg-Strelitz,
Queen Consort of Great Britain and Ireland,
Electress Consort of Hanover : 

If he's mad, you've made him so by your idleness. 

George, Prince of Wales,

Prince of Great Britain and Ireland,

Electoral Prince of Brunswick-Luneberg

Duke of Rothsay,

Duke of Cornwall: 

If I'm idle, it's because the King gives me nothing to do. 

Queen Charlotte of Meckleburg-Strelitz,
Queen Consort of Great Britain and Ireland,
Electress Consort of Hanover : 

Do? Do what I do. I support him. 

I have of his children. 

George, Prince of Wales,

Prince of Great Britain and Ireland,

Electoral Prince of Brunswick-Luneberg

Duke of Rothsay,

Duke of Cornwall: 

Be grateful to me for giving you a breathing space... no, a breeding space. 

 I'm sorry. That really is awfully funny. 

Ha ha ha ha! 

Queen Charlotte of Meckleburg-Strelitz,
Queen Consort of Great Britain and Ireland,
Electress Consort of Hanover : 

George. No, George, please. 

George, Prince of Wales,

Prince of Great Britain and Ireland,

Electoral Prince of Brunswick-Luneberg

Duke of Rothsay,

Duke of Cornwall :
 

Ahem. 

Queen Charlotte of Meckleburg-Strelitz,
Queen Consort of Great Britain and Ireland,
Electress Consort of Hanover :

Please let me stay with him. 

Please. 

George, Prince of Wales,

Prince of Great Britain and Ireland,

Electoral Prince of Brunswick-Luneberg

Duke of Rothsay,

Duke of Cornwall:  

No, madam. 

Queen Charlotte of Meckleburg-Strelitz,
Queen Consort of Great Britain and Ireland,
Electress Consort of Hanover :

 On what authority? 

George, Prince of Wales,

Prince of Great Britain and Ireland,

Electoral Prince of Brunswick-Luneberg

Duke of Rothsay,

Duke of Cornwall :
 

Medical authority, ma'am.

On the authority of a Son, who cares for his sick Father. 

Queen Charlotte of Meckleburg-Strelitz,
Queen Consort of Great Britain and Ireland,
Electress Consort of Hanover :

But I'm his wife. 

Don't I care for him, too? 

George, Prince of Wales,

Prince of Great Britain and Ireland,

Electoral Prince of Brunswick-Luneberg

Duke of Rothsay,

Duke of Cornwall :
  

Possibly, madam. 

 But in his current frame of mind, I'm afraid,
 
His Majesty does not seem to care for you. 

Queen Charlotte of Meckleburg-Strelitz,
Queen Consort of Great Britain and Ireland,
Electress Consort of Hanover : 

No! 

DARTH VADER, 
The Ultimate Father:

Come with me. 
It is the only way. 

Clearly Not.

[Luke lets go of the projection and falls into the shaft]

"I renounce My Birthright and Shall Become a Monk."

DARTH VADER,

The Ultimate Father : 

One day, lad, all this will be yours!

LUKE SKYWALKER

The Shamanic Hero 

(He Sings) : 

What, the curtains?

DARTH VADER,

The Ultimate Father :

No. Not the curtains, lad. 

All that you can see, stretched out over the hills and valleys of this land! 

This'll be your Kingdom, lad.

HERBERT: 

But Mother--

DARTH VADER,

The Ultimate Father :

Father, lad. Father.

HERBERT: 

B-- b-- but Father, I don't want any of that.

FATHER: 

Listen, lad. I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp, but the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest castle in these islands.

HERBERT: 

But I don't want any of that. I'd rather--

FATHER: 

Rather what?!

HERBERT: 

I'd rather...

[music]

...just... sing!

FATHER: 

Stop that! Stop that! 

You're not going into a song while I'm here. 

Now listen, lad. 

In twenty minutes, you're getting married to a girl whose father owns the biggest tracts of open land in Britain.

HERBERT: 

B-- but I don't want land.

FATHER: 

Listen, Alice,--

HERBERT: 

Herbert.

FATHER: 

'Erbert. We live in a bloody swamp. We need all the land we can get.

HERBERT: 

But-- but I don't like her.

FATHER: 

Don't like her?! What's wrong with her?! She's beautiful. She's rich. She's got huge... tracts o' land!

HERBERT: 

I know, but I want the-- the girl that I marry to have...

[music]

...a certain,... special... something!

FATHER: 

Cut that out! Cut that out! Look, you're marrying Princess Lucky, so you'd better get used to the idea!

[smack]

Guards! Make sure the Prince doesn't leave this room until I come and get him.

The Jedi Heresies of Master Qui Gon Jinn : MillennialProphecy,Eschatology and Quantum Destiny-Bending

Be Mindful of The LIVING Force, my young padawan.

"The Babel fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe.

 It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. 

It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. 

It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. 

The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.

Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.

The argument goes something like this: 

'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 

'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'

"'But,' says Man, 'the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? 

It could not have evolved by chance. 

It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'

"'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' 

and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

"'Oh, that was easy,' says Man, 

and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that didn't stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his bestselling book, Well, That about Wraps It Up for God.

Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."

QUI-GON: 

I need an analysis of this blood sample I'm sending you. 

OBI-WAN: 

Wait a minute... 

QUI-GON: 

I need a midichlorian count. 

OBI-WAN: 

The reading's off the chart... over twenty thousand. 

Even Master Yoda doesn't have a midi-chlorian count that high! 

QUI-GON: 

No Jedi has. 

OBI-WAN: 

What does that mean? 

QUI-GON: 

I'm not sure.

QUI-GON: 

... He was trained in the Jedi arts. 

My only conclusion can be that it was a Sith Lord. 

KI-ADI: 

Impossible! 

The Sith have been extinct for a millenium. 

MACE WINDU: 

I do not believe the Sith could have returned without us knowing. 

YODA: 

Ah, hard to see, the DarkSside is. 

MACE WINDU: 

We will use all our resources here to unravel this mystery and discover the identity of your attacker... 

May the Force be with you. 

OBI-WAN turns and leaves, but QUI-GON continues to face the Council. 

YODA: (Cont'd) 

Master Qui-Gon - more to say have you? 

QUI-GON: 

With your permission, my Master. 

I have encountered a vergence in the Force. 

YODA: 

A vergence, you say? 

MACE WINDU: 

Located around a person? 

QUI-GON: 

A boy... 

his cells have the highest concentration of midichlorians I have ever seen in a life form. 

It is possible he was conceived by the midichlorians. 

MACE WINDU: 

You're referring to the prophesy of 

The One Who Will Bring Balance to The Force... 

you believe it's this... boy?? 

[ NOT YET. ]

QUI-GON: 

I don't presume... 

YODA: 

But you do! 

Revealed your opinion is. 

QUI-GON: 

I request the boy be tested, Master. 

The JEDI all look to one another. They nod and turn back to OBI-WAN and QUI-GON. 

YODA: 

Trained as a Jedi, you request for him? 

QUI-GON: 

Finding him was the will of The Force... 

I have no doubt of that. 

Ani... I'm not allowed to train you, 

so I want you to watch me and be mindful... 

... always remember, 

your focus determines your reality. 

[ LAW OF ATTRACTION ]

Stay close to me and you will be safe. 

ANAKIN: 

Master, sir... 

I heard Yoda talking about midichlorians. 

I've been wondering, 

What are midichlorians? 

QUI-GON: 

Midichlorians are a microcopic lifeform that reside within all living cells. 

ANAKIN: 

They live inside of me? 

QUI-GON: 

In your cells, yes... and we are symbionts with them. 

ANAKIN: 

Symbionts? 

QUI-GON: 

Life forms living together for mutual advantage. 

Without the midichlorians, life could not exist, 

and we would have no knowledge of the Force. 

They continually 'speak' to us, telling us the will of the Force. 

When you learn to quiet your mind, you will hear them 'speaking' to you. 

ANAKIN: 

I don't understand. 

QUI-GON:

With time and training, Ani... you will... you will.

" You don’t get it - SPECTACULARLY.

On at least 3 or 4, possibly up to half a dozen different levels, you’re just wrong in every way, in every respect, on every level - starting with :

1) There is no contradiction between the “two explanations”, as you call it - it’s exactly the same explanation : it’s a MYSTICAL energy field, as in, it’s unseeable, undetectable, unobservable, a non-local spooky-action-at-a-distance transmission-medium.

This is real, “Real World” science - nobody has ANY IDEA how Quantum Entanglement transmits identical symltaneous information to two mutually entangled particles thousands, millions, even hundreds of trillions of miles, or even light years sepearated from one another - but the precise reason lies somewhere in the higher dimensionality of Maxwell’s Field Equations, and the established phenomena of an induced flow of current (I.e. charged particles) in a given direction through a suitable medium (copper wire) by either linear motion, or rotation of the charged particle medium of transmission (the wire), between two oppositely charged magnet poles, in a direction perpendicular to (at 90* right-angle turn away from the direction and lines of force (flux) between the two opposing poles generating a magnetic field orientated perpendicular (again, at 90* from) the plane of the copper wires’ motion/rotation, which induces the flow of energy and linear movement of the electrons through, and along the wire - 

The Force Runs Strong in my Family

Luke: 
If I don't make it back, you're the only hope for the Alliance.

Princess Leia: 
Luke, don't talk that way. 
You have a power I don't understand and could never have.

Luke: 
You're wrong, Leia. 
You have that power too. 
In time you'll learn to use it as I have. 
The Force runs strong in my family. 

My father has it. I have it. And... my sister has it. Yes. It's you, Leia.

Princess Leia: 
I know. Somehow, I've always known.







Luke Skywalker: 
I can't do it, Ben.

Obi-Wan: 
You cannot escape your destiny. 
You must face Darth Vader again.

Hang on - why, actually...?
I mean sure, for closure's sake, for the boy's mental health and hygine
- which actually is a good enough reason by itself, although it shouldn't be -

With this many lives on The Line, with the fate of the entire Galaxy, Freedom, Liberty, Egalite and The Brotherhood at stake :

Why can't somebody with a low pressence in The Force, who isn't related to him lure Vader onto The Death Star 
(since they already know that The Emperor is going to be there)

And just blow it up - as happens anyway.

 Ah - it only happens that way
Because it Was Meant to.

Destiny.
You cannot...
...destroy...
my...

DES-TINEEEEE!!!


Orson Welles' Last Words,
Transformers : The Movie (1986)

[ Orson plays the part of The Death Star in that movie - it's really  very moving. ]


Luke Skywalker: 
I can't kill my own father.

That's what I said...!

What's Truly appalling here is that apparently Ben fully expects him to do so -

Okay, Ben - Lie to Me :

Obi-Wan: 
Then the Emperor has already won. 
You were our only hope.

Tell The Truth
Tell The Truth
...or at least, Don't Lie.

Luke Skywalker: 
Yoda spoke of another.

Obi-Wan: 
The other he spoke of is your twin sister.

The Hearth.

Luke Skywalker: 
But I have no sister.

Obi-Wan: 
Hmm. To protect you both from the Emperor, you were hidden from your father when you were born. 
The Emperor knew, as I did, if Anakin were to have any offspring, they would be a threat to him. 

That is the reason why your sister remains safely anonymous.

Luke Skywalker: 
Leia! Leia is my sister.


Obi-Wan: 
Your insight serves you well. 
Bury your feelings deep down, Luke. 
They do you credit, but they could be made to serve the Emperor.





Darth Vader: 
You cannot hide forever, Luke.

Luke Skywalker: 
I will not fight you.
[ ...for Me. ]

Here we are again :
So, Guess What...?

IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU

Your Father Already Knows This -
But You Don't. Yet.

You're About to Know it.

And Your Father is Going to Teach You This
Starting From -
NOW...

Darth Vader: 
Give yourself to the Dark Side. 

Anakin is a Very Generous and completely Self-less Individual.

That's Precisely Why He Killed Himself (Basically) 
to try to Keep His Wife Alive and Allow His Son to be Born.

As the Jewish Fight Promoter says in Rocky VI:
"Hey, It's Good to Give."

Giving and Charity are not exactly synonymous - 
and Especially Within Judaic Rabbinical Tradition

So Jews will sometimes often speak of 
"Giving"

Which is Always and Specifically Monetary -

In the Jewish Tradition, Monetary Giving is 

(Alms, basically - but with certain conditions and strings attatched (actually literally, originally))

The Phrase 
"(No) Strings Attached"

was, in fact, originally a reference to the Talit

There

It is the only way you can save your friends. Yes, your thoughts betray you. Your feelings for them are strong. Especially for... sister. So, you have a twin sister. Your feelings have now betrayed her, too. Obi-Wan was wise to hide her from me. Now his failure is complete. If you will not turn to the Dark Side... then perhaps she will!


Luke Skywalker: 
[igniting light saber, screams] 
NEVER!