In a recent interview with The Ringer, director Toby Haynes confessed that the ending of this particular scene (in which the door to Bix Caleen’s cell slams shut, and we hear her screaming in pain) was actually a direct homage to a scene from “Star Wars: A New Hope” in which Princess Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) is tortured by Darth Vader (James Earl Jones).
“I sat next to Kathleen Kennedy on that day, and I said, “Look, I’ve absolutely got a moment here I’m going to have to do for myself. I don’t know if it’ll ever make the edit, but this is really calling back one of my favorite shots from ‘A New Hope,'” Haynes explained “And I remember the first AD was looking at it going, ‘What is he going for now? …This isn’t written in the script.'”
A side-by-side comparison posted on Twitter by @clonehumor shows just how clever this homage really was, as Andor’s torture scene actually follows the same exact camera movements and pacing as the original scene from “A New Hope.” In any case, it’s extremely interesting to know that this scene was constructed simply due to the director’s love for the original “Star Wars” trilogy — especially when you consider how much darker and more mature Bix’s torture scene is compared to Leia’s brief scream.
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