The Carrie Fisher tribute video

This wonderful tribute to Carrie Fisher was shown at the Star Wars Celebration event in Florida on Thursday. The clips and words do a great job highlighting the warmth, humour and humility of Fisher, and bringing home what a remarkable talent she was.

Watching this video reinforced many of the thoughts I shared in the blog post Star Wars: farewell to Carrie and Kenny. I was also struck by the sense of time passing - seeing the 19-year-old Fisher auditioning for the role and starring as Princess Leia in the original film, then reprising the character 40 years later.

The young Carrie Fisher in the mid-1970s with a row of arcade space games

The video tribute includes a clip of the casually dressed Fisher standing in front of a bank of clunky-looking arcade space games. She could be any teenager or young woman of the mid-70s enjoying a moment at an arcade, even though by then she was the iconic heroine of the original Star Wars. I well-remember the era of such arcades, having visited many. For me this is a poignant clip. There is a slightly surreal edge to seeing the young Fisher away from the imagery of Star Wars, relaxing in an arcade like so many young people of the time.

She will be greatly missed. We will see her again in the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, when it is released in December. She completed the filming of that movie before she died.

The magic Fisher brought to so many people's lives shines on.