Early in Return of the Jedi, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and his band of rebels are back on Tatooine, where Jabba the Hutt, a gluttonous slug who presides over the criminal underground like a late Roman emperor, is keeping Han Solo (Harrison Ford) frozen in carbonite. By trade and trickery, they attempt to pry Han loose from Jabba’s clutches, but all they succeed in doing is getting captured, one by one, and making the beast angrier. But rather than kill them outright, Jabba enslaves Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher, looking less comfortable than any human in history) and condemns the other to the Dunes, where they will be fed to a giant worm-like beast called the sarlacc.
“In his belly,” announces Jabba, “you will find a new definition of pain and suffering, as you will be digested over 1,000 years.”
