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Ten thousand, all in advance.
— Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope · 1977
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Han sets his price high because he is a smuggler sizing up a pair of customers, and the line paints him in one sentence. It is the film's first sign of the mercenary he plays until he returns at the Death Star. Fans still use it for an inflated quote, and 'all in advance' is the shorthand for a deal with no trust in it.
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In context
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In Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker have found Han Solo and Chewbacca at a table in the Mos Eisley cantina on Tatooine and want passage to Alderaan, no questions asked. After Han boasts about the Millennium Falcon and the Kessel Run, he names his price: ten thousand, all in advance. Luke protests that they could nearly buy their own ship for that. Obi-Wan counters with two thousand now and fifteen thousand when they reach Alderaan, and Han agrees to seventeen. He tells them to be at Docking Bay 94, and that is where the heroes' journey to the Death Star begins.
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- Springfield! Springfield!: Star Wars Episode IV transcriptCantina negotiation sceneReference checked
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