Jul 14 2010Improv Group's Star Wars Scene On Subway
This is a video of Improv Everywhere's rendition of the the opening scene from A New Hope on the #6 train in New York. It's pretty cute, despite the glaring lack of golden bikini.
For our latest mission, we staged a reenactment of the first Princess Leia / Darth Vader scene from Star Wars on a New York City subway car. The white walls and sliding doors on the train reminded us of the rebel ship from the movie, and we thought it would be fun to see how people would react to a surprise appearance by the iconic characters. We spread out the actors along the train line, staging it so they would enter the right car at the right time
Oh man, did I tell you about the improv troupe I saw the last time I was in New York? They faked this whole elaborate stabbing on the subway. I would have sworn it was real. Okay, so it might have been real. But if it was so real, why was I clapping? Because I was high as a kite and had a mouthful of Sour Patch Watermelons? God, you're good.
Hit it for the 2:30 video.
Star Wars Subway Car [improveverywhere]
Thanks to JJ, Brandy, Uncle_FUJ, junkyard dog, Mike, butterfacefly and Christina, who don't need to see a show on the subway, just nobody masturbating.
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Reader Comments
1. Steven - July 14, 2010 5:45 PM
haha epic i love star wars
2. Revan - July 14, 2010 5:50 PM
Where Am I? :(
3. TheLepper - July 14, 2010 5:50 PM
galactic rebelion for dummies. Nice one got to read that one.
4. Mark4Nier - July 14, 2010 5:53 PM
Galactic Rebellion for Dummies... Genius
5. dopest ghost - July 14, 2010 5:59 PM
oh man, that one was a BLAST!
6. blueZorro - July 14, 2010 6:02 PM
All the ppl are like, lol and wtf. This is the greatest!
7. Tenchi555 - July 14, 2010 6:16 PM
This is exactly why we need more public transportation in the US!
8. Stan Winstone - July 14, 2010 6:16 PM
Ha- fun but the music is really, really awful. They should contact LucasFilm- I bet they would let them use the music for free if they saw this.
9. monster - July 14, 2010 6:21 PM
Wow that was... really anti-climatic
10. brad b - July 14, 2010 6:34 PM
I wonder what happened next?
11. Dishy - July 14, 2010 6:35 PM
@9, that's what she said.
12. OggieBenDoggie - July 14, 2010 6:35 PM
Those clever college kids...what will they think of next?
13. Max Boivin - July 14, 2010 6:41 PM
I saw the same but instead of star wars it was "black Emanuel in Africa"
14. wgte - July 14, 2010 6:45 PM
Wait, what? Glaring lack of golden bikini? In the opening of A NEW HOPE?
God, you must be high.
'Woot' goes the Ewok.
15. monster - July 14, 2010 6:50 PM
Oh also, improv.... with full costumes. Ya, that makes sense.
16. dsf23 - July 14, 2010 7:39 PM
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17. Homer - July 14, 2010 7:42 PM
Awesome. Freakin' awesome.
18. ORLY ٩(-̮̮̃-̃)۶ - July 14, 2010 7:43 PM
@16
Sorry, you got da AIDS!
But yeah, the movie was actually enjoyable to watch. *GASP*
19. Marcus - July 14, 2010 8:09 PM
These people are a bunch of self important dicks.
20. KEn - July 14, 2010 9:22 PM
This is ridiculously lame. You have perfectly defined the term unfunny.
The worst part is the "real" people on the subway.. .some seriously corny acting there. I wish i had never watched this.
21. Bob - July 14, 2010 9:28 PM
Absolute trash.
blueZorro - July 14, 2010 6:02 PM
All the ppl are like, lol and wtf. This is the greatest!
Are you fkn kidding me??? You are the kind of people that are going to reduce our species back to the bronze age.
No imagination is evident here, just another re-hashing of a viral advertising technique of staging a public appearance where the "public" appear so surprised.
This is so terrible.
22. Marcus - July 14, 2010 10:25 PM
@20 & 21
completely agree, So staged, you have to be an idiot to fall for this crap.
I've seen a couple of their other so called improvs, corny ideas, terrible acting and as fake as possible.
I couldn't be less impressed.
23. latexxx - July 15, 2010 1:02 AM
thank god i wasn't the only one who thought this was horrible...
24. ASDFGHJKL - July 15, 2010 1:07 AM
ASDFGHJKL
25. Imaperson - July 15, 2010 1:09 AM
Why didn't anyone try to save her...?
26. blueZorro - July 15, 2010 1:42 AM
@ 21 what kind of a screen name is Bob? Now BYOB, that's a better. Oh, and the bronze age could totally kick the iron age's ass.
27. Dummies - July 15, 2010 1:49 AM
19-22
Hello same person posting 4 times under different names. Your trolling is getting you nowhere fast.
28. Derek - July 15, 2010 2:36 AM
Even subways get boarded sometimes :P
29. Moo - July 15, 2010 4:32 AM
Where's Daisy?
30. Paldromanium - July 15, 2010 4:35 AM
hat was funny and kewl hehe
31. Photocopier - July 15, 2010 5:29 AM
Darth vader was awful acting...
32. DeeplyTroubled - July 15, 2010 5:30 AM
@28 - true fan - nicely done!
33. Mr Tea - July 15, 2010 9:52 AM
God, give em back their lives and what's with the freakin book ??
34. jumpin_j - July 15, 2010 10:05 AM
Why are all their bits done on the 6 train? Lazy bastards.
35. RonNasty64 - July 15, 2010 10:13 AM
0:30 Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?
36. D Rock - July 15, 2010 10:19 AM
Wow, what a waste of time! That was pointless
37. mike - July 15, 2010 10:51 AM
homie next to leia looks like emperor palpatine.
he can foresee everything...
38. Lord of the horse beaters - July 15, 2010 11:36 AM
At least use the damn imperial march in the video, not some lame rejected Dr. Who theme wannabe, and get the 501st guys for stormies (they are proffesionals lol), not the crappy "Official" Stormtrooper costumes.
Oh, btw... NNNNEEEERRRRDGAAASSSMMM!!!
39. Fealiks - July 15, 2010 5:56 PM
Haha, I love how so many people in these comments think this is some kind of conspiracy...
Anyway, I love this
40. James - July 15, 2010 9:32 PM
uhh just sayin. at the end it says "music by gustav holst"
too bad holst died in 1934. try John Williams
41. Streeter - July 15, 2010 11:33 PM
is it just me or is the stormtrooper in the main picture look like he is getting fellated by the man next to princess leia?
42. Balrag - July 16, 2010 1:28 AM
is he sucking the storm troopers dick?
43. Nash - July 16, 2010 10:40 AM
How exactly is that improv?
44. The Joker - July 16, 2010 10:56 AM
Scripted and full costume? Yep that's "improv" alright...sigh
45. ilch01 - July 16, 2010 2:21 PM
This is not improv, and they don't claim it to be, that's just the name of the group that organized these things. Actually most of them are part of the UCB troupe (or were part of it at some point), but they openly admit (on there website) that it's not 'actual' improv.
And the people on the train are not staged. I have participated, and been a photographer for a bunch of there other things myself and can tell you first hand that the people that organize this don't stage the reactions. All they do it show up and video tape them.
46. Me - July 17, 2010 1:45 AM
Assholes.
47. Mr.Q - July 18, 2010 12:18 AM
Lame, Lacks any sense of Creativity.
48. Charlie Caligula - July 19, 2010 10:53 AM
@ 19-22
Right on, brothermen
49. oddone - July 19, 2010 7:21 PM
following after leaving the galactic-underground on his way to the busscruisser, lord Vader encountered Luke along with solos Millennium Falcon-car
50. Daisy - July 20, 2010 2:57 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete Photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back down where Max had to bring a pirate back from the the (mostly) dead, and tried to get out of it by talking about mutton lettuce and tomato sandwiches, and arguing with Baja about it.