#Han solo encased in carbonite movie#

When Indy finally nears the safety of the flying machine, the sound of Jock’s plane starting up is exactly the same as the Millennium Falcon’s hyperdrive.

Even Christy would have to admit that Han never bothered to learn that C-3PO’s name isn’t actually CPO. Indy/Solo seems to be right on the border between subliminal and liminal awareness here.

As he dives for safety (in Minute 12) toward his flying means of escape, he sees OB-CPO written on the tail of Jock’s plane.

If only he spoke Native Tatooiner, that nemesis shouts. They attempt to communicate with him in the Native Tatooiner (Tusken Raider) language, quite possibly warning him that if he continues on this path he will wind up with a son (Mutt? Ben?) that will one day be his undoing.

As Indy flees the temple, chased by a mysterious nemesis, he runs past a pair of mules in Minute 12.

In Minute 10 Indy is chased out of this temporary refuge, a collapsing cave/not cave (“The cave is collapsing!” “This is no cave!”), by a large, gray object.

The slow rate at which the temple begins to crumble is an obvious reference to Snaggletooth’s slow pace of drinking on Life Day Eve in the legendary Holiday Special. The first rock to fall on Indy after he mis-weighs the sand is literally a snaggletooth.

As it slowly dawns on him that his problem might not be so easily solved, Indy glances up to see his old friend Snaggletooth from the Mos Eisley Cantina looking down at him from the wall of the Chachapoyan Temple.

Han’s trademark grin shines through here. Very quickly into the dream he thinks he’s solved his money problems once and for all as he lays his hands on the golden Chachapoyan fertility idol.

In his dream Han has become Indiana Jones, famed seeker of lost treasure, part-time scoundrel and full-time hero.

Somewhere in the back of his mind he is troubled, for he vaguely remembers that he owes somebody a lot of money and he has to do something about it. Our story begins like many dreams (especially fevered ones brought on by sudden encasement in Carbonite): Han falls into a deep sleep and suddenly finds himself in a far away magical land called South America, a long time from now in 1936. Let us know what you think…Has Pete the true believer been drinking too much carbonited Kool-Aid? Is resident skeptic Christy right that we’re just dreaming it all up?

My fridge could use an update, but I might just opt for a new stainless steel one instead.Are the Indiana Jones movies simply the fever dream Han Solo has while he’s encased in Carbonite? While we didn’t invent this theory we’ve been exploring it extensively on the podcast and we lay out what we think is the overwhelming evidence below. Gray paint lends the metallic finish, and Ippolito even goes the extra mile to add lighting effects on side panels attached to the fridge, as well as a pulsing red glow across the figure to mimic the special effects used in the Return of the Jedi when Han is finally freed from his living tomb.

The key ingredients in the build are full-scale replicas of Solo in carbonite, complete with his agonized grimace, so that you can use that to build a silicone model. Normals can probably manage as well, depending on their level of patience and comfort level with tools.

#Han solo encased in carbonite movie#

The concept of the video is simple enough: Can you turn a standard, boring fridge into a faithful homage to Han locked within the bizarre transportation material from the Star Wars universe? Turns out you can – or you can if you’re Frank Ippolito, movie prop maker. Growing up, I can remember spending a lot of time thinking about what it would be like to be frozen in carbonite, the way Han Solo was after being betrayed by Lando on Bespin in T he Empire Strikes Back. I never imagined it might feel like you were a fridge, but a new video on Adam Savage’s Tested YouTube channel has me thinking differently.