Binary Moonrise
In Solo: A Star Wars Story, Han Solo and his allies travel to the snowy planet Vandor-1 to partner with the gambler Lando Calrissian for a daring heist. As they prepare to depart, Han is awestruck upon seeing Lando’s starship, the Millennium Falcon, for the first time.
Before seeing the Falcon, Han is skeptical, telling Tobias Beckett, “This guy’s a hustler. I don’t even think he’s got a ship. And if he does, it’s gonna be a piece of junk...” This dialogue overtly pays homage to Luke Skywalker’s initial assessment of the Falcon in A New Hope: “What a piece of junk!”
However, this is not the most significant cue linking Han to Luke in this moment. When Han looks up at the Millennium Falcon, it is framed against two moons in the night sky of Vandor-1, visually evoking the iconic moment in A New Hope when Luke gazes longingly at the two suns of Tatooine. In these moments, both Han and Luke are fired by a youthful yearning for freedom and adventure, and the twin suns and the Falcon both become symbols of the exciting, unknown possibilities just beyond the horizon. Under Vandor-1’s binary moonrise, the Falcon means to Han what Tatooine’s binary sunset means to Luke.
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Characters: Han Solo / Luke Skywalker
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Concepts: freedom / junk / suns, moons, and stars
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