Soms zijn de meest indrukwekkende film momenten gebaseerd op toeval en slechte beslissingen van de regisseur. Uiteraard zal dit de gemiddelde bioscoop bezoeker dit aan hun reet roesten, maar voor de echte film fans is dit trivia die je opzuigt als water in een spons. Daarom heeft de website Cracked.com nu deze lijst gemaakt, waar naast S7ven, Apocalypse Now ook mijn favoriete Star Wars film: The Empire Strikes Back op staat.

#6. The Empire Strikes Back -- Han Solo Was Frozen Because They Didn't Know if Harrison Ford Would Play Him Again

The carbonite scene in The Empire Strikes Back is arguably the most iconic moment in the entire movie that doesn't include the words "I am your father." In it, Han Solo has been captured by Darth Vader and is frozen alive into a slab of carbon to be turned over to Jabba the Hutt, while the love of his life watches helplessly.

The carbonite scene in The Empire Strikes Back is arguably the most iconic moment in the entire movie that doesn't include the words "I am your father." In it, Han Solo has been captured by Darth Vader and is frozen alive into a slab of carbon to be turned over to Jabba the Hutt, while the love of his life watches helplessly.

The scene also includes the dialogue that defines Han Solo: When Leia says "I love you" to Han for the first time ever, he just looks at her and says "I know." The man is being dragged by Stormtroopers into a machine that freezes people, for all he knows these are his last living moments before Jabba uses him to refresh several hundred pina coladas, and somehow he still finds the time to be cooler than everyone else in the room.

But They Only Included It Because ...

Basically, that scene only exists because Harrison Ford hated Han Solo and wasn't sure if he even wanted to come back for another Star Wars film. None of what we just described was in the original script: The movie was supposed to end with Han and Chewie flying off in the Millennium Falcon, safe and sound.

This changed for practical, not artistic, reasons. See, unlike Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford didn't sign up for two more movies after the success of the first Star Wars. Ford thought that Han should just be killed off because he wasn't interesting to him. Since Ford was being such an indecisive Nancy (that's a saying, right? It sounds like it is), George Lucas needed to figure out a way to "freeze" the character for a while in case they later had to explain why he never appeared again. And so Lucas, as one of the greatest creative minds of our time, decided to literally freeze the character.

By the way, hardcore Star Wars fans know that the iconic "I know" line also almost didn't happen: According to the final script, Han was supposed to reply with a far less original "I love you, too." Ford himself came up with the classic line on the set, not Lucas.

It's fascinating to think that if Ford didn't return, Han Solo would have just stayed frozen or died off screen in Return of the Jedi with Lando Calrissian likely stepping into the sassy space pilot role. This is just another example of how Star Wars wasn't planned from the beginning like Lucas keeps saying.