The Empire Strikes Back is one of the Au touchstone filmmaker shoot for to when making a sequel . And though both Chris Pratt and Kevin Feige swear it was never refer during the making of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol . 2 , the films share a luck of similarities . A lot of similarities .
If you have n’t seen Guardians of the Galaxy Vol . 2 ( or The Empire Strikes Back for that matter ) , please mark :
1) The heroes spend most of the movie apart
In Empire , as before long as the Battle of Hoth start , Luke heads off to campaign the AT - ATs and then head to Dagobah while Han and Leia seek to escape from the Empire and have their Cloud City adventure . The Guardians also split up very early , as Star - Lord , Drax , and Gamora go off on one adventure while Rocket and Groot go off on their own . The majority of the movie keeps both groups apart until the climax .
2) The father thing
“ No , I am your male parent . ” “ I ’m your father , Peter . ” Both films have pretty massive revelations as to the identity operator of the main character ’s forefather . Sure , it ’s at the beginning of Guardians and the final stage of Empire , plus Empire was bring back a character from the first movie , but both turn out to be villain and have ulterior need .
3) Impossible odds in an asteroid field
Han Solo has to navigate impossible odds to evade the Empire through an asteroid field of study . Star - Lord and Rocket have to be the best pilots in the galax to get through their own asteroid field to elude the Sovereign . Aside from how the conniption end , they are almost identical .
4) A beautiful place with a dark secret
When Han and Leia get to Cloud City , it ’s a magical place , but Leia feels something is wrong with it . Of course , she ’s right-hand , Darth Vader is already there and the whole affair is a trap . When the Guardians get to Ego ’s Planet , it ’s also a beautiful position , but Gamora has a similar opinion something that is wrong . She is also right-hand — Ego plans on killing the rest of the Guardians and maintain Peter there to assist him demolish the galaxy .
5) An unspoken love
Throughout all of The Empire Strikes Back , the flirting and intimate tension between Han Solo and Princess Leia is tangible . In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol . 2 , Star - Lord and Gamora have a very similar moral force : flirtations , awkward exchange , near kisses . Han and Leia do finally accommodate their feeling for each other , in good order at the oddment , when Han ’s about to be frozen in carbonite . While they do n’t exactly declare their touch sensation at the close , Gamora ’s acknowledgment of what Star - Lord calls the “ unspoken thing between them ” is as near to “ I know ” as it get .
6) A Master teaches his apprentice
Luke Skywalker has a cluster of Modern power he ’s not sure how to use and learns about them from the experienced Yoda . Star - Lord also turns out to have unexplained king and the old , experienced Ego helps him to uprise them . Ego even has his son close his centre and concentrate , just like Luke and Yoda . Luke ends up being much more successful than Star - Lord .
7) Ruling the galaxy as father and son
When Darth Vader let on to Luke he ’s his father , he tells Luke he wants to rule the galaxy with him . It ’s the same offer Ego makes to Star - Lord once he discover his true identity .
8) Bounty hunters
The Empire Strikes Back features some of the best amplitude hunters of all time , hunting down both the Millenium Falcon and Han Solo . Guardians of the Galaxy Vol . 2 is n’t quite on that degree but has more premium hunting overall . The film starts with the Guardians winning Nebula to bring her in for a bounty , then the Ravagers are hired to capture the Guardians .
9) A very similar overall structure
Empire and Guardians Vol . 2 have very similar structure . Each starts with a battle , the characters have to escape , they split up , some are captured and others curry for grander thing , the office these thing happen in are n’t friendly , and at the end the teams reunite to save each other . confessedly , Empire has a much more equivocal ending with the capture of Han Solo but Guardians surely matches it emotionally with the death of Yondu and five last - quotation scenes teasing what ’s next .
10) Going into the mouth of a gross alien
I ’ll admit this one is a stretch , but we ’re near the bottom of the lean at this point and I think I ’ve made my point . Anyway , in Empire the Millennium Falcon flies into the oral cavity of a space slug . In Guardians , Drax jumps into the mouth of an interdimensional alien . They ’re unlike but both pure , and why go through the mouth ?
Again , both Chris Pratt and Kevin Feige narrate io9 , The Empire Strikes Back was not part of the conversation when making Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 .
“ Never once [ was it fetch up ] , ” said Pratt . “ When I consider of Empire Strikes Back I think about a picture show that ’s really setting up the next movie . [ But ] there was never talking of Guardians 3 while make this moving-picture show . It sense very much like a ended film . ”
“ No , it was n’t [ brought up ] , ” agreed Feige . “ And believe me , Empire Strikes Back is always on the top of my picture - going brain , but , no … . Maybe somewhere in my subconscious , I was think about it . James is a Star Wars fan , but he does n’t dine at the office of Star Wars as much as I do . So , that never derive up . ”
We consider you , guys , but there sure are a portion of similarities . That ’s not exactly a bad matter , though .
Chris PrattEmpire Strikes BackJames GunnMoviesStar Wars
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