Leia and Vader exchange a look. Cheese??

I never really saw the look as anything special until I read a thread a couple of weeks back where the poster believed that Leia sensed something about Vader at that moment, possibly his relationship to her. I love the scene now, but I think Leai is giving Vader a look of fear more than hatred.

 

Leia - "I know. Somehow, I've always known."

Maybe she wasn't just talking about Luke?

 

Woah, that's a very nice point made by Dark_Lady_Mara. Thanks for making light of that. I haven't seen the movie for a while, but I'll be thinking of that next time.

I like how the underlying theme of that scene could be that Vader drags down Leia & Han into his element, his world of cruelty and malevolence. And in that element, you can see that Vader and Leia are not that different.

I liked the movie Pitch Black a lot because of how the characters in it sway between being portrayed as "good guy" and "bad guy". When you see characters with that kind of depth, you see a lot more meaning in their actions and don't just hold them to their characters.

Nice to think that Lucas was somewhat pioneering in adding a trace of that theme back when he made ESB, even if it was only incidental, and not on purpose.

 

just for the record thanks for the positive remarks on my thoughts above! first time it has ever happened

 

I like where this post is at.

Since I am such a sucker for angst and stuff, I really like to think that that look Leia gives to Vader shows anger, but comes from a feeling inside of her that she can't deny.

I read a really great fan fiction once that was AU where Vader doesn't die at the end of ROTJ, and Leia has to face the fact that he is her father. I always wanted that look to be a starting point for her deeper thoughts.

In ESB, everyone starts thinking about deeper feelings:
Luke about his father and mother
Vader about his son, and his choice to become a Sith.
Han about Leia and his own feelings for her
Leia, about Han, and hopefully Vader.

 

Leia has a lot of her father in her too...

 

I think Leia's emotions were really fraught yet she is a princess she isn't supposed to feel them, the way she always expresses them is through anger.
I don't think Leia is evil or uses vicious means to get what she wants but unlike Luke she knows what the universe is like. She and Vader have met before and I think she was giving him a challenge, I think she's telling she won't take this for long, for now she has to bide her time.
And yeah I agree that she might have sensed something about him, and it all comes out in rotj

 

If looks could kill,they'd probably will,in games without frontiers,(Star)wars without tears.

 

Interesting you mention it, while watching ESB last night that part hit me. I like that part alot for some reason. It's the "why are you so cruel?" look.