Do you remember the first time you heard that line? I do. There had been an enormous line around the theater in San Diego. A friend and I walked to the front of the line and asked if there were any tickets left for the current show. "Only in the front row," we were told. So the first time I saw Star Wars was in the front row of an enormous theater.
I had always enjoyed science fiction movies, but I had never seen anything like this. And here was a scene that was pivotal to the plot. The trash can-like robot, R2-D2 (Supposedly named after a request at an editing session during the making of Lucas' earlier film, American Grafitti. Lucas heard editor Walter Murch ask for "R2D2," short