"Let me look on you with my own eyes..."

[stillakid]

What exactly is holding Vader up? He is sitting at the base of the Shuttle ramp, but he is upright as Luke removes the helmet. After he dies, he slumps back and lays dead on the ramp. So as he is talking with Luke, what is holding the wounded weak old man up? Please don't say "The Force."

[Droid]

We might not say, "The Force", but can we type it?

In answer to your question, I have no idea. Is he being propped up by George Lucas' money making machine?

[Mando3lite]

maybe one of lukes legs is under his upper back, and vader is holding his head up.

[Mr. JabbaJohnL]

Could the answer possibly be "his elbows"?

[2-1B]

He was being propped up with the assurance that his impending spirit would appear as his younger self and not the old man he never would become.

[El Chuxter]

And he doesn't know that those are really bionic eyes.

[Kidhuman]

It was the excrement that was being stored in his suit. Luke unleashed it when he removed the helmet.

[2-1B]

Luke unleashed it when he removed the helmet.

It was better than the Unleashed where he's got that green lightsaber arc around him.

[princethomas]

What exactly is holding Vader up? He is sitting at the base of the Shuttle ramp, but he is upright as Luke removes the helmet. After he dies, he slumps back and lays dead on the ramp. So as he is talking with Luke, what is holding the wounded weak old man up? Please don't say "The Force."

The same thing that is holding up that rope (or whatever it is) that Luke and Leia Swing from the sailbarge to the skiff. Never could figure out what that was.

-T

[bigbarada]

And he doesn't know that those are really bionic eyes.

Actually, in the original version of the script, the line was:

"Let me look on you with my own eyes. They're in a pouch in my back pocket, if you could pull those out for me it would be fantastic."