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Compiled by Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cc.usu.edu>
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A fan's comprehensive guide to bloopers, mis-cuts, special effects,
and Trivia in and about the Star Wars series.
The Bad Guide to Star Wars is Copyright 1993, 1994 by Brandon
Gillespie, all rights reserved. The Bad Guide to Star Wars may be
publicly distributed and reproduced, as long as no profit is made, nor
is any charge required for a copy.
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The Bad Guide to Star Wars, Revision 5.3 is actually in a half
state. It has taken quite a bit of work and several different
aborted revision attempts to find a format I like. In the end I
simply have done it as a single large list, rather than to try to
categorize each entry. This is because most of the entries are quite
hard to categorize, and can fit into several of the categories I
managed to come up with.
I will be sifting through the uncountable comments I have been sent
by people, Revision 5.4+ will reflect all of these updates. When I
am finished adding in the changes I will create a continuity guide,
which will be an attempt at indexing when each event happens in the
film (should make it easier to find each one while watching them).
The final result will be Revision 6.
Until then, Enjoy!
-Brandon Gillespie
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Key:
Throughout the Bad Guide to Star Wars several different textual icons
are used to represent various different things:
[?] represents information which is (as of yet) unverified.
[vi] Represents Starwars IV, A New Hope
[vi] Represents Starwars V, The Empire Strikes Back
[vi] Represents Starwars VI, Return of the Jedi
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AIKIDO AND THE FORCE
Lucas talked to many masters of Aikido, because he had heard of
the energy that is involved with Aikido. He ended up using a
lot of these ideas in designing the Force (Aikido is a form of
martial arts).
[VI] BACKWARDS FILM
In one of Jabba's Palace sequences, when Jabba is speaking, the
film is actually running backwards. Upon close inspection you
can see the smoke from his pipe moving downards along with the
bubbles in his bong.
Note: This may be intentional to create an eerie effect.
[IV] THE BIGGS SCENES
In the Script for Star Wars there are several Scenes which
include Biggs, who is a friend of Luke. These scenes were
filmed, but when the final cut came around for Star Wars, they
were left on the cutting room floor.
Many people believe they saw these scenes in the theater.
However, the only place where footage containing Biggs can be
found is in the Star Wars Storybooks.
[IV] C-3PO: LOOSE FOOTING
When Luke is cleaning R2 on Tatooine
Near the line, "Well, my little friend, you've got something
jammed in here real good." Just as the hologram appears, C-3P0
falls off the step he is on. Recovering quickly, it is all but
unnoticable.
Note: This could simply be surprise on C-3PO's behalf.
[IV] C-3PO: FALLING APART
[?]
Just as C-3PO enters the area and lifts his arm to tap Han's
shoulder.
Neil <nwa101@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
The "hydrolic mechanism" attached to his elbow and upper arm becomes
detached. I'm not sure but I remember catching a glimpse of
something falling to the floor. Then you can clearly see this
"mechanism" protruding out of C-3PO's upper arm, it is not attached
to his elbow any more.
[VI] C-3P0, KING OF THE EWOKS
This is only noticeable in the letterboxed version. There are
two mistakes in the scene where C-3PO is "king" of the Ewoks.
While our heroes are tied up, Peter Mahey, dressed as Chewie,
sticks his head out from the left side of the screen behind one
of the Ewok huts.
There is also a shot of R2-D2 untied when he has not been cut
loose yet.
C-3PO WHEELIN' AND DEALIN'
[?]
C-3PO was originally scripted as a "used car salesman" type
CAMERAS
ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) has become renouned for their
high quality, sharp, special effects. The following is
reproduced without permission from the book, Industrial Light &
Magic, the Art of Special Effect (by Thomas G. Smith). A [...]
represents where I have edited out a portion of the text, in
lee of space:
Special effects rely on rephotography in order to manipulate images.
If the intermediate film format is larger than than a standard 35mm film
frame, the final special effects shot will have greater clarity. Many
effects have been done using 70mm film, but it has the disadvantage of a
limited variety of film stock. So what was needed was a significantly
larger image size that still used the standard 35mm film format. We [ILM]
started looking for a solution to this problem in the history of film
technology.
Since its beginning, the motion picture industry agreed that 35mm film
with a certain type of perforation should be the international standard
[...] [in this format] there is a space for the picture and next to it a
strip reserved for the sound track. ([...] 4 sprocket holes per frame).
Surprisingly enough the picture area is about the size of an average
postage stamp.
[...][During the 50's there was two alternate types of film
projection, based off the 35mm standard] 20th Century Fox introduced wide-
screen Cinemascope, and Paramount Pictures introduced VistaVision.
[Cinemascope was the most popular. Cinemascope optically squeezes a wider
picture on the film, and when it is projected it `unsqueezes' it (refer to
nifty ascii drawing). Cinemascope only required a new projector lens, when
VistaVision required a whole new projector. Cinemascope is still in use
today]
VistaVision put the 35mm film on its side, and rather than the normal
four perforations between pictures, VistaVision boubled the size of each
picture, and measured eight perforations per frame. [this means more film
area per frame, better clarity] [...]
What does this all have to do with ILM and special efefcts? While
most of the VistaVision projectors were junked and many of the cameras with
the famous eight-perf hearth were torn apart and discarded [after
VistaVision fell from popularity] there were still some perfectionists who
felt that this larger negative had its merits. A quarter of a century
later the VistaVision format was resurrected, and put to use filming
special effects for Star Wars.
Regular Film Projection: Cinemascope:
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Basically, what ended up hapenning is ILM grabbed all of the old
vintage VistaVision camera's, made Star Wars, and resurrected the format.
Soon after Star Wars was released Camera's which ILM had bought for pennies
and dimes before were being valued as royal crown jewels by camera shops.
CLOTHING INCONSISTENCIES...
There are several Scenes when we can see people's clothing
change from scene to scene.
Han is Frozen
[?]
The scenes where Han is frozen in carbonite, and those
when he is later unfrozen in Jabba's Palace contain many
inconsistencies:
Before Han is lowered into the carbonite, he has shackles
around the upper part of his arms, which holds them to
his body. However, when he is unfrozen, he no longer has
them on his arms.
Althought it would seem Han looses the shackles about his
hands (as he is bound before, but when Boushh thaws him
out they are up about shoulder level, a few feet apart)
they were actually removed before he was frozen.
Han is not wearing his vest through several scenes. You
see his torso as completely white (his shirt is white).
Those are the medium close up shots of Han. When the
camera cuts to long shots, Han is wearing his vest.
There is a strap across Han's shoulder which is not
around afterwards.
It was also noted that Han's shirt is un-tucked when he
gets frozen, but tucked-in when he is thawed out.
Furthermore, upon closer inspection we find that Han is
wearing a double-breasted shirt upon getting thawed, but
when he is frozen it is a tunic-style shirt.
Han's Gunbelt
[?]
Paul Joseph Mitchell <mav+@CMU.EDU> writes:
When Han and Lando are talking in the rebel hanger right
before the strike team departs in the stolen Imperial
shuttle. Watch Lando, the gun belt strap across his chest
changes sides between different cuts during the same
scene.
Piett
[?]
In the scene where Darth Vader asks, "Did your men
disable the Millenium Falcon's hyperdrive?", (just
before R2D2 fixes the hyperdrive) Piett's rank insignia
switches from the left side to the right side.
After Piette is promoted from Captain to Admiral in The
Empire Strikes back, his rank insignia is upgraded (from
3 or 4 red and blue bars to six bars), and remains
consistent throughout the rest of the film. However,
throughout Return of the Jedi, his insignia is three red
and blue bars, even though he is still an Admiral.
Boba Fett
[?]
When Boba Fett nods to Boussh (Leia) in Jabba's Palace.
Fett's costume appears reversed. His cape, which normally
hangs off his left shoulder, is hanging off his right
shoulder. More noticeable is the fact that his helmet
sensor antenna, which is supposed to be on the right side
of his helmet, is moved to the left side of his helmet.
Darth Vader's cape
[?]
Brian Sebby <data@imsa.edu> writes:
In Return of the Jedi, before Darth Vader and Luke have
their lightsaber battle in the Emperor's throne room.
If you look carefully at Vader's costume right before the
battle, you will see that his cape is draped behind his
right shoulder...yet, a few minutes into the battle, the
cape has been draped over the shoulder...do you think
Vader would take the time in the middle of a battle to
adjust his cape?
[IV] CHEWBACCA: BOOTS FOR FEET
[?]
Some time on Cloud City when Chewie is running away from the
camera (specific scene unknown) the angle is such that you see
the bottoms of Chewie's feet, and the heel of the boots that
make up the feet of Peter Mayhew's costume.
[IV] CHEWBACCA: TIMEWARP CHEWIE
[?]
When the trash compactor walls are closing in on our heroes
aboard the Deathstar, watch Chewie. His position changes in
three cuts. First he is holding the wall, next he is putting up
his crossbow, then he is again holding the wall.
[V] CLIFF!
In the base on Hoth, at the scene where a rebel soldier (Major
Derlin) tells Leia the doors must close for the evening,
despite Luke not having returned yet. He says, "Your Highness,
there is nothing more we can do tonight. The shield doors must
be closed."
The actor is none other than Cliff Claven from TV's Cheers
(real name of: John Ratzenberger).
[IV] CONFUSION IN BATTLE
When Gold Five is going down on during the fight on the
Deathstar. He calls out, "Gold Five to Red Leader." Red
Leader's response is "I copy, Gold Leader."
Note: Not only was he referring to the wrong person, but I
believe Gold Leader was dead at this point. As a side note, Red
Leader's microphone attached to the helmet also switches from
side to side.
[IV] DARTH VADER'S MASK
There are a few scenes througout the first film where David
Prowse's face can be seen through the Vader mask.
Note: Lucas wanted to make it completely dark, but could not do
it in the first show. This problem was fixed in the later
shows.
[IV] DARTH VADER PLAYS CHARADES
[?]
Robert Alan Danforth <rd2b+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
There is a scene where Darth and Tarkin are talking about Obi-wan.
During part of the dialog, Darth stops talking, but keeps
gesticulating as though he is saying something. Tarkin doesn't
respond to his comment until after he stops gesticulating.
Obviously, they had some difficulty timing the voice over with Darth
Vader's movements in this scene.
DARTH VADER'S LIGHT SABER
[?]
There are several scenes where Vader's Light saber is
performing at less than `peak' quality...
Just after Darth Vader Kills Obi-Wan Kenobi, onboard the
Death Star. His light sabre is white, instead of red.
This is because the coloring was added after the film was
made, and the optical effects crews forgot to add color
to this one scene. The white is the actual color of the
saber.
This is the same as above, except for in a different
scene. Before Vader ignites his saber for the first time
in Cloud City, you can clearly see the actual uncolored
rod. However, it isn't white like in the first film but
dark gray which blends in against Vader's costume. The
best way to see it is to wait until he ignites his saber,
then rewind the film with your eye on where the
lightsaber was and you can see it.
You can see a shadow of the light saber, just after Luke
knocks Vader down the stairs and Vader gets up. Vader's
lightsabre is casting a shadow on the ground.
Note: These mis-cuts also demonstrate the effect of the
actor tilting the lightsaber away from himself to
simulate extension.
[IV] THE DEATH STAR WAS COMITTE BUILT
[?]
Jeffrey Gold <jgold@mail.physics.utah.edu> writes:
In Star Wars ANH, watch the stage panels (in the background,
behind Grand Moff Tarkin, and Darth Vader). They are constanly
swinging to and fro. Remember, the Death Star was designed by
committe, and funded by a government...
[IV] DEWBACK
The Dewbak appears in two places on Tatooine. First: The scene
where the Stormtroopers discover the escape pod used by C-3P0
and R2-D2. At the beginning of this scene, you can see it with
stormtroopers, in the distance.
The second time you see it, is the scene when Luke and Ben have
reached the city, and are parking the Landspeeder. It is rather
hard to find, as it is in the background. But, if you look
closely, you can see it next to [need more info]
Note: The Dewbak is a Giant Green lizard used for
transportation.
DON'T TRY THE SPELLING BEE, GEORGE...
David Kember (Gallandro) <dkemper@oolong.hacks.arizona.edu>
writes:
If you read his (George Lucas's) biography Skywalking, it talks
about how his secretaries would type his notes, and he would
have the same name spelled different ways at different places
in the manuscript. The secretaries just used their own
consistent spellings which they then checked with George.
However, it is an acknowledged error that Wookiee is spelled
with one E in the original novel. TIE is generally capitalized
because it is an acronym; my assumption is that Foster (who
ghost-wrote the novel) didn't know this and spelled in a way
that appeared to him to be more logical.
Also of possible interest is the fact that at least one
spelling changed over the course of the troligy. In any
reference printed before 1983, Jabba the Hutt is spelled with
one T. With the premeire of Jedi, for some reason, the
"official" spelling changed to include 2 T's, perhaps to more
clearly indicate that it was Jabba's race (avoiding confusion
with the English word "hut")--but that is pure speculation on
my part.
[IV] DROIDS ARE REALLY HUMANS!
[?]
In the scene when Artoo first gets put into the Jawa's
sandcrawler. As he looks around at the creatures, you seen
R5-D4, followed by more creatures, and then a second shot at
R5-D4.
After the second shot, when the camera turns back to R2-D2, R2
turns his head, revealing the face for the pupetteer driving R2
through the bubble on R2-D2's head.
[V] EMPEROR DEFIES LOW CLEARANCE
[?]
While the Emperor is walking down the ramp of the Imperial
Shuttle Craft, onboard the Death Star, his head somehow manages
to go through the front of the Shuttle Craft.
It has also been noted that Darth Vader does the same thing,
when his shuttle lands on Endor (while he is waiting for Luke).
Does this actually occur twice, or is one of the above
incorrect?
[V] THE EMPEROR'S "SLUGS"
[?]
These can be seen is a few scenes, however the most prominent
is when Luke is watching the Rebel fleet being led into a trap.
During this time small black spots are seen on the emporers
head, primarily on the left side. These are known as the
"Emperor's slugs", due to their sluglike appearance. Daniel
Goldman <dgoldman@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> makes an educated guess
as to the reason of their existence:
You will notice that the Emperor's eyes are lit by a soft
sickly-green spotlight in that scene. The problem with
normal spots, is that when you try to get them that tight,
there is always a little spillover, which gets even worse if
the subject is moving. Probably, the green light was lighting
things that should not have been lit, like the back of the
hood, or a part of his fact that had not been made up (ears or
hair, perhaps). The optics crew then manually blacked out the
`overflowing' area's.
[V] EXPLOSIVE ASTERIODS
[?]
Robert Alan Danforth <rd2b+@andrew.cmu.edu< writes:
In the asteriod battle scene, there is a part where the camera
angle cuts to a wide shot of all the asteriods. Something
clearly explodes on one of the asteroids (it even makes a
sound), but nothing actually hits the asteroid. (There are two
tie's chasing the falcon at this point, but both are visible
during this part, and neither of them is the cause of the
explosion.)
My guess is that there was originally more to this scene, and
the real cause of the explosion ended up sharing the same fate
as Biggs (being left on the cutting room floor). Perhaps we are
supposed to believe these small asteriods are volcanic? Or that
some asteroid, too small to be percieved by the viewer collides
very forcibly with the larger asteriod just at that point in
the movie?
Note: this could be a place where a TIE Fighter was supposed to
crash, but which either was lost during editing, or in the
conversion to video.
[VI] GREEDO AT JABA'S (A CLONE?)
[?]
Aaron Romanowsky <romanow@vorpal.ucsb.edu> writes:
when the droids first enter Jabba's throne room, you hear a lot
of alien voices murmuring... if you listen closely, one of them
is Greedo's voice speaking the exact same dialogue he said to
Han in Star Wars.
[VI] HAN THE PERVE
[?]
Watch when Leia is shot on Endor, Han grabs her and pulls her
back to safety. Keep an eye on his hand...
[VI] INCONSISTENT SEQUENCING?
[?]
When Luke, Han, and the others were to be thrown into the sand
creature on Tatooine. Han and Lando are standing on the
levitating platform and one of Jabba's men fires a shot,
hitting the vehicle, causing it to tilt at a precarious angle.
As everybody scrambles to balance themselves, you see Han grab
the edge of the ship with his hands, and is hanging over the
edge. But, a few seconds later, they show him hanging by his
feet.
Mark Swartz <swartz@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu> follows up:
It says that Han falls of the skiff and grabs on by his hands, but
later he is hanging by his feet. If you watch carefully, when he
goes out of view, you can see his shadow, and he pulls himself up,
and flips around to hang by his feet!
[IV] LUKE: CARRIE! ER, LEIA!
Just after the Death Star is destroyed, as Luke is getting out
of his X-Wing, Leia comes running up to him as he descends the
ladder from his X-Wing. He calls out "Carrie!", rather than
"Leia". Carrie Fisher is the actor who played Princess Leia.
Note: This has been verified by Lucas.
[IV] LUKE: THE MAGIC CUP TRICK
[?]
At the beginning part of the sequence where Luke is eathing
with Owen and Beru, his cup is in his left hand. Later on, it
magically appears in his right hand.
Note: This happens twice, and is most likely a result of the
film being reversed, which happens several times throughout the
film.
[V] LUKE USES A "STAGE HAND"
In the scenes when Luke and Vader are fighting on Cloud City.
As Vader is mentally hurling boxes and objects at Luke, who is
deflecting them with his light saber (and his head).
After one of the pieces breaks the window into the huge shaft,
and Luke is sucked through. We see him hanging from a catwalk
with both hands. He should have lost his lightsaber, while
hanging on for dear life. However, in the next scene, he's
holding his saber in his hand again! Did Luke take the time to
put his saber back into his belt as he was being sucked into a
void? Or was their a friendly stage hand available to give him
a new one?
Note: This is actually a result of the conversion from film to
video, where the sides are chopped. In the letterboxed version
the saber is near the edge of the screen, lying on the catwalk.
[IV] LUKE: WHAT? I CANNOT HEAR YOU!
[?]
Neil <nwa101@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
After you here the roar of the Dia naga Luke turns his head and
moves his mouth, but nothing comes out. You do not have to be a
professional lip-reader to know he says, "What's that?". A
moment later you see him do it again but you can only catch the
end of what he said and therefore cannot decipher it. This is
definately in the VHS version, but I am not sure about any
other.
[V] LUKE'S HAND?
When Luke is tumbling in the air shaft near the end of the
film, there is a very short scene (before he gets dropped out
the bottom of Bespin) where you can see what appears to be his
right hand.
MAGICAL SPACE SHIPS AND BAD MATTES
There are quite a few scenes which includes poor mattes, and
bad editing for the ships (primarily the multitudes of TIE
fighters). I will try to cover of them.
Note: Often times the conversion to video looses a bit of
quality. Floating mattes show up quite well due to this.
Bad Matte's
[?]
Right after the rebels arrive at the Death Star, and they
figure out that the shields are still up, after Admiral
Akbar says It's a Trap!" followed by Lando saying, "Enemy
fighters coming in". As the Millenium Falcon fly's
directly at the audience, and leaves the screen (upper
right), pause the picture. You will see 2 little white
"H" shapes on the Falcon's underside, where space was
reserved for 2 TIE fighters.
As Doug Tooley points out, the tie fighters actually are
in the scene. They were intended to be hidden behind the
Falcon (which is why they are so small). You can see them
before they cross the Falcon. It is simply a perspective
problem which was messed up (understandable given the
compexity of the scene).
TIE Fighters
[?]
Jeffrey Gold <jgold@mail.physics.utah.edu< writes:
In the scene where the streams of TIE fighters are
girdling the Death Star, three enter from the right of
the screen to join the group girdling the Death Star,
except for they disappear before the scene is finished.
THE MILLENIUM FALCON'S COCKPIT WINDOWS
[?]
Lukas Kendall <ldkendal@unix.amherst.edu> writes:
There is an inconsistency in the number of "window frames" in
the Millenium Falcon's cockpit. The cockpit features a single
circular window facing front, with a rim of windows immediately
arround that, surrounded by more windows. It is the first rim
of windows that has the inconsistency in A New Hope--when we
see from inside the cockpit, there are only three windows, with
window frames as so:
_\/_
However, when we see an exterior shot of the Falcon, this rim is
divided into quarters, as so:
_\|/_
In the Empire Strikes Back, the interior of the Falcon is
corrected to match with the outside (with the rim divided into
four windows).
[IV] MILLENIUM FALCON: STOWAWAYS WILL BE SHOT ON SIGHT
[?]
In the first scene of the Millenium Falcon's cockpit. Behind
Han and Chewie, there is a person standing. A few seconds later
they move out of the shot.
Note: This may just be in the Letterbox version.
[IV] MILLENIUM FALCON: FUZZY RACING DICE
[?]
Rajiv Udani <rku45136@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> writes:
When Chewie runs to the cockpit to fly the Falcon out of Mos
Eisley, his head hits 2 small objects that look very much like
small dice.
[VI] NEIN NUMB SPEAKS
Lucas used several linguists to create languages for the
aliens. The one which Nein Numb speaks is based off a Kenyan
dialect. By accident or design, one of his lines ends up
sounding like an actual sentence in this language. The actual
sentence which can be heard is a matter of debate, with some
believing he says, "One thousand herds of elephants are
standing on my foot", and others believe it is, "Hey, you,
look over here."
Note: I have not heard any official information either way.
[VI] OOPS, WATCH THE COSTUME
[?]
Oola, the green dancing girl in Jabba's palace accidentally
"falls out of her costume" when Jabba is trying to drag her
towards him. Her breast can be seen for 1 or 2 frames.
[IV] PAPER AUDIENCE
When the heroes recieve their medallions at the end of Star
Wars IV, "A New Hope", most of the crowd is composed of
cardboard cut-outs.
[IV] R2-D2: BAD GUIDANCE SENSORS
[?]
At the beginning of the movie onboard the rebel corvette, which
is currently attempting to escape an Imperial Star Destroyer.
As Leia is giving a message to R2-D2, R2 starts to roll away.
If the scene would have continued on, he would have rolled into
the wall.
[IV] R2-D2: BAD R2, BAD R2, YOU STAY...GOOD BOY.
[?]
Bryan Carolan Dunne <carolan@owlnet.rice.edu< writes:
When R5-D4's head pops open during the scene where Uncle Owen
in buying him, they cut to a shot of R2 with R5 next to him.
Then they cut to the Jawas dragging R5 away from Luke, who is
nowhere near R2.
[VI] REVENGE OF THE JEDI
Star Wars VI, Return of the Jedi was originally scripted as
Revenge of the Jedi.
REVERSED FILM
There are a several locations where film is reversed. This
details some of the scenes which include C-3PO.
[IV] Aaron Romanowsky <romanow@vorpal.ucsb.edu> writes:
[?]
C-3PO gets a dent on the right side of his head when he falls
and breaks off his arm; he still has this dent throughout the
movie, but in one shot at the end, when he's next to Leia in
the Rebel Control Room, the film has been reversed -- the dent
is on his left side, and Leia is now on the right of him.
[IV] Dan Uslan <duslan@sdcc13.ucsd.edu> writes:
[?]
When C-3PO and R2-D2 crash-land on Tattooine, C-3PO has a large
grease stain down the left side of his chest. A few minutes later
this stain is on the right side.
[IV] SHELLS FOR LASER AMMUNITION?
These are noticable in virtually any battle, the most
noticeable is the battle with stormtroopers immediately after
Leia has been pulled out of her cell (before she blows a hole
in the wall)
The laser rifles are actually modified Sterling 9mm submachine
guns, and when filming the shoot-outs they used blank bullets
(so they would know when they were fired, and they would
simulate "kick-back") which eject spent cases as if they were
real bullets.
[IV] STORM TROOPER: LOW CLEARANCE
Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewie are inside the trash compacter on
the Deathstar. After the compactor has started up and Luke is
yelling into the comlink. The camera cuts to C-3PO's comlink
sitting on the table, then to the security door.
The door opens and Storm Troopers walk in. The trooper behind
and on the right of the lead trooper hits his head.
Note: There has been a hot debate about whether this was
supposed to happen, or was an accident, Ed Hirsh
<duke@apple.com> writes:
The scene where the stormtrooper hits his head as he
enters the communications room is not in the script.
Here is the scene as it is written by George Lucas
(Reprinted w/o permission):
---------[ begin Star Wars Script:
INTERIOR: DEATH STAR -- MAIN GANTRY -- COMMAND OFFICE.
A soft buzzer and the muted voice of Luke calling out
for See-Threepio can be heard on Threepio's hand comlink,
which is sitting on the deserted computer console.
Artoo and Threepio are nowhere in sight. Suddenly there
is a great explosion and the door of the control tower
flies across the floor. Four armed stormtroopers enter
the chamber.
FIRST TROOPER: Take over! (pointing to the dead officer)
See to him! Look there!
----------[ end Star Wars Script
So the First Trooper was supposed to say "See to him!"
But it was directed toward the previously killed officer!!
[V] TIE PILOT GOES UP IN A BALL OF FLAME
Ryan Smith <mithry@uwstout.edu> writes:
A friend of mine told me about reading a story on the special
effects in the Star Wars movies just after Return of the Jedi
came out. In the story, the special effects guy talked about
them creating a scene in the Empire Strikes Back where a TIE
Fighter pilot is visible in a ball of flame after his ship is
blown up. After watching all the movies on his wide-screen
laser disk version, we found it.
In the Empire Strikes Back, side 2, frames 23967-23983. It is
the scene where the Falcon first enters the asteroid field. The
first TIE Fighter to get hit by an asteroid explodes. In the
center of the explosion you can see the pilot (on fire)
spinning from the center of the screen to the lower left. I
checked it out on my letterboxed VHS version (from the
beginning of the tape (not the beginning of the movie) it is 39
min. and 40 sec. (to 39 min. and 41 sec.)) it is visible but I
only have a 3 head VCR and the freeze frame sucks. But it's
there... honest.
[V] TRAMPOLINES ABOARD CLOUD CITY?
[?]
When Luke is fighting Vader, after he knocks Vader off the edge
and jumps down behind him.
If you look and listen closely, you will hear Luke bounce on a
trampoline-like device. Then, his head magically reappears at
the bottom of the screen, for a short moment.
[VI] WATCH THE HAIR
[?]
Geoff <iigs@wam.umd.edu> writes:
In the Emperor's Throne Room during the duel between Luke and
Vader, there is a scene where luke does a sumersault jump to a
floor above where he originally was. If you look at the hair of
Luke jumping, you will notice that the stunt double's hair is
much more blonde than Mark Hamill's
[V] WHITE PROTOCOL DROID
[?]
There are three scenes where a white protocol droid can be seen
(rather than the more common silver or gold colors). The first
is in the command post on Hoth. The white driod is standing to
the left behind one of the glass monitors. It is in the
shadows, so it could easilly be mistaken for C-3PO.
The second time is in the scene that starts with the line, "We
can't protect two transports at the same time". At the end of
the scene the driod is standing to the right, in the background
between two people. It is definitely not C-3PO, as he is
standing in the foreground at the same time.
Later, the droid is seen sitting in one of the chairs to the
left of the command post, obviously non-functional at this
time.
[V] ZELOUS SECURITY MEASURES
Lucas was concerned about preventing leaks with the Empire
Strikes Back. Because of this, he had an elaborate security
system set up which included logs of reports about leaks from
actors. Lucas had special concern over the catwalk scene where
Vader tells Luke he is his father. The lines Prowse actually
spoke were "Obi Wan Kenobi is your father" not, "I am your
father". The lines in the released film were added later, with
the rest of Darth Vader's dialogue.
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CONTRIBUTORS
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I would like to give thanks to everybody who helped me compile the Bad
Guide to Starwars (whether they know it or not). I tried to give them
credit when I used direct information from them, or I could find who
they were, otherwise they are all listed here (alphabetic by first
name, sorry):
Name E-mail Address
Aaron Romanowsky romanow@vorpal.ucsb.edu
Andy Hofle hofle@cs.utexas.edu
Bryan Carolan Dunne carolan@owlnet.rice.edu
Cleavy McKnight cleavy@pangea.Stanford.EDU
Dan Uslan duslan@sdcc13.ucsd.edu
Daniel Goldman dgoldman@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
Daniel S. Highlands dh4x+@andrew.cmu.edu
Darryll Hobson hobson@mprgate.mpr.ca
David Kember (Gallandro) dkemper@oolong.hacks.arizona.edu
Dax Shifrel dax@netlink.cts.com
Doug Brod dbrod@eng.clemson.edu
Doug Tooley djtooley@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca
Ed Hirsh duke@apple.com
Geoff (The Doctor) iigs@wam.umd.edu
Jason Walsh jwalsh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca
Jeff baker jkb@hurricane.ksu.ksu.edu
Jefferey Gold jgold@mail.physics.utah.edu
John Hagerman hagerman@ece.cmu.edu
Kevin Lauderdale kxl@camis.stanford.edu
Kevin Mitchell kam@genesis.MCS.COM
Klaus Gassner kgassner@vax1.umkc.edu
Mark Swartz swartz@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu
Michael Clark ae604@Freenet.carleton.ca
Michael Palencar redfive@ucscb.UCSC.EDU
Mike (Starman) meg5184@hertz.njit.edu
Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au
Nathan Hill nnhill@david.wheaton.edu
Neil NWA101@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
Norm Yamane nyamane@nyx.UUCP
Paul Joseph Mitchell mav+@CMU.EDU
Rajiv Udani rku45136@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Rob Johnson 2559johnsonr@vms.csd.mu.edu
Robert Alan Danforth rd2b+@andrew.cmu.edu
Ryan Smith mithry@uwstout.edu
Scott B. Casteel sbc@po.CWRU.Edu
Todd Chambers todd@goat.geo.arizona.edu