X-NEWS: spcvxb.spc.edu alt.video.laserdisc: 2446 Xref: spcuna alt.video.laserdisc:2446 Path: spcuna!uunet!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!lynx.unm.edu!hydra.unm.edu!news-user From: mhenders@unm.edu (Myk Henderson) Newsgroups: alt.video.laserdisc Subject: Star Wars Trilogy Gaffs (long) Date: 27 Oct 1993 12:42:24 -0600 Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 1059 Sender: mhenders@hydra.unm.edu Message-ID: <2amfeg$f12@hydra.unm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra.unm.edu Well, since so many of you on this group are Star Wars fanatics, I thought I'd post up the list of Star Wars goofs from rec.arts.sf.starwars. If this has already been posted, my apologies... but Oh well. Enjoy, there is some good stuff in this doc!! ------------------- Star Wars-GOOFS.TXT follows -------------------- _.-------------------[ The B A D G U I D E to ]-------------------._ / .----------------------------------------------------------------. \ | | ______ ____________ ___ ________ | | | | / _____|____ ____| / \ | ____ \ | | | | ( (___ | | / \ | |____) ) | | | | \____ \ | | / ^ \ | __ / | | | |________________) ) | | / /~~~\ \ | | \ \ ___________| | | __________________/ |__|__/__/ __\__\|__| \______________ | | ___________ \ / / \ | ____ \ / _____________ | | | \ \ __ / / \ | |____) ) ( (___ | | | | \ \ / \ / / ^ \ | __ / \____ \ | | | | \ ` /\ ' / /~~~\ \ | | \ \ _______) ) | | | | \__/ \__/__/ \__\|__| \____________/ | | | | \ `----------------------------------------------------------------' / `-----------------------[ Revision 4, 6-11-93 ]----------------------' compiled by Brandon Gillespie brandon@cc.usu.edu from posts on rec.arts.sf.starwars A fan's comprehensive guide to bloopers, mis-cuts, special effects, and Trivia in and about the Star Wars series. Copyright 1993, by Brandon Gillespie, all rights reserved, this may be distributed, and reproduced, as long as no profit is made, nor is anybody charged for a copy. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - REV 4: For this revision I have added in revision foo stuff, as well as an index/TOC/whatever. In the TOC i have little comments like {rev 4} which mean revision 4. Anything without a {rev} comment means that it was before revision 4. (6-11-93) REV 3: Due to the expanding size of this guide I have divided it into two Parts and one Appendix. Part 1 contains the original format of the Bad Guide to Starwars. Part 2 is simply a quicker listing of many bloopers/trivia etc which does not require the indepth listing found in Part 1 (or I have yet to incorporate it into part 1 :). Appendix 3 is the Star Wars Drinking Game. (5-10-93) - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - | | | | | | |[ INDEX ToC ]| | | | | | | - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - BLOOPERS Luke (Wait, isn't she called Leia?) {rev4} C-3P0 (loose footing) C-3P0...robot 'self pleasure...' Storm Trooper (low clearance) MIS-CUTS {rev 4} Luke (and his magic cup trick) Luke (true usage of a "stage hand") R2-D2 (bad guidance sensors) Chewie (Boots for Feet) Emporer (defies low clearance) The Emporers "slugs" Darth Vader (Value Brand Light Saber) Magical Space Ships Trampolines aboard Cloud City? Inconsistent directing TRIVIA {rev4} Han the perve Clothing Inconsistencies... Vader's Mask Cliff from Cheers makes a Cameo appearance DEWBAK A white protocol droid? Millenium Falcon (stowaway's?) Millenium Falcon, Fuzzy Dice Over zelous security measures Shells for Laser ammunition? Elephants, Nein Numb, and Feet Camera's The Biggs Scenes Explosive Asteriods {rev 4} Don't try the spelling bee, George... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The following in a quick explanation of the format used through most of the Guide: CRITERIA: what type of incident it is. These are the three sub-sections to Part 1. Criteria can be any of the following: Blooper: Bloopers are where something was messed up, either by the actor or crew, but was still put into the film. Mis-Cut: A Mis-Cut is usually an error, in relation to special effects and editing. Trivia: What it says. Trivia are little known facts that deal with a certain aspect of the film. FILM: What film it appears in. This can be: Star Wars IV, "A New Hope", Star Wars V, "the Empire Strikes Back", or Star Wars VI, "Return of the Jedi". SUBJECT: A quick scentence describing the incident SCENE: The scene, where you can find the incident. EVENT: What the incident is. NOTES: Comments on the incident. - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - | | | | | | |[ PART 1 ]| | | | | | | - - -- - - - -- - - - - - - - | | | | | | |[ BLOOPERS ]| | | | | | | | | ||[ SUBJECT: Luke (Wait, isn't she called Leia?) FILM: Star Wars IV "A New Hope" SCENE: This scene is right after the Death Star is destroyed, as Luke is getting out of his X-Wing. EVENT: Leia comes running up to him just as he descends the ladder from his X-Wing. He calls the character, Leia, by the actor's name, as he yells out "Carrie!" NOTES: This has been verified by Lucas. | | ||[ SUBJECT: C-3P0 (loose footing) FILM: Starwars IV "A New Hope" SCENE: On Tatooine, when Luke is cleaning R2. Near the line, " Well, my little friend, you've got something jammed in here real good." EVENT: Right as the hologram appears, C-3P0 falls off the step he is on. Recovering quickly, it is all but unnoticieable. NOTES: This could simply be surprise on C-3PO's behalf. | | ||[ SUBJECT: C-3P0...robot 'self pleasure...' FILM: Starwars IV "A New Hope" SCENE/EVENT: When Luke is trying to clean up Artoo in his home on Tatooine, you can see Threepio behind him; watch what he's doing with that rag... | | ||[ SUBJECT: Storm Trooper (low clearance) FILM: Star Wars IV "A New Hope" SCENES: When Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewie are inside the trash compacter, in the Deathstar. EVENT: 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. NOTES: There was a bit of debate about whether this was supposed to happen, or was an accident, however, Ed Hirsh [duke@apple.com] wrote: 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 sittin 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!! | | | | | | |[ MIS-CUTS ]| | | | | | | | | ||[ SUBJECT: Luke (and his magic cup trick) FILM: Star Wars IV "A New Hope" SCENE: When Luke is eating with Owen and Beru. EVENT: At the beginning part of this sequence, his cup is in his left hand. Later on, it magically appears in his right hand... NOTES: This happens twice, and is probably a result of the film being reversed, which happened several times throughout the film. | | ||[ SUBJECT: Luke (true usage of a "stage hand") FILM: Star Wars V "The Empire Strikes Back" SCENE: 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). EVENT: After one of the pieces breaks the window into the huge shaft, and Luke is sucked through. The next scene shows 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? | | ||[ SUBJECT: R2-D2 (bad guidance sensors) FILM: Star Wars IV "A New Hope" SCENE: At the beginning of the movie onboard the rebel corvette, which is currently attempting to escape an Imperial Star Destroyer. This happens as Leia is giving a message to R2-D2. EVENT: After Leia gives R2-D2 the message for Obi-Wan, R2 starts to roll away. If the scene would have continued on, he would have rolled into the wall. | | ||[ SUBJECT: Chewie (Boots for Feet) FILM: Star Wars IV "A New Hope" SCENE: On Cloud City in Empire where Chewie is running away from the camera (specific scene unknown) EVENT: The angle is such that you see the bottoms of Chewie's feet, and you see heel and sole of the boots that make up the feet of Peter Mayhew's costume. | | ||[ SUBJECT: Emporer (defies low clearance) FILM: Star Wars VI "Return of the Jedi" SCENE: When the Emporer is leaving the Imperial Shuttle Craft, onboard the Death Star. EVENT: While walking down the ramp, his head somehow manages to go through the front of the Shuttle Craft, unscathed. | | ||[ SUBJECT: The Emporers "slugs" FILM: Star Wars VI "Return Of the Jedi" SCENE: 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. EVENT: Small black spots on the emporers head, one notable one is on the left side. NOTES: 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. | | ||[ SUBJECT: Darth Vader (Value Brand Light Saber) NOTES: There are several scenes where Vader's Light saber is performing at less than `peak' quality... | |[ FILM: Star Wars IV "A New Hope" SCENE/EVENT: 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. | |[ FILM: Star Wars V "The Empire Strikes Back" SCENE/EVENT: 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'll see it clear as day. This also helps demonstrate the effect of the actor tilting the lightsaber away from himself to simulate extension. | |[ FILM: Star Wars IV "A New Hope" SCENE/EVENT: For the same reasons as above, 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. | | ||[ SUBJECT(S): Magical Space Ships NOTES: 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. | |[ FILM: Star Wars IV "A New Hope" The matte used on the ship, is very noticeable... | |[ FILM: Star Wars VI "Return of the Jedi" SCENE: Right after the rebels arrive at the Death Star, and they figure out that the shields are still up, right after Admiral Akbar says ``Its's a Trap!'' followed by Lando saying, ``Enemy fighters coming in''. EVENT: 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, that never made it into the film. | | ||[ SUBJECT: Trampolines aboard Cloud City? FILM: Star Wars V "The Empire Strikes Back" SCENE: When Luke is fighting Vader. After he knocks Vader off the edge, he jumps down behind him. EVENT: If you look and listen closely, you hear him hit a trampoline-like device. Then, his head magically reappears at the bottom of the screen, for a small moment. | | ||[ SUBJECT: Inconsistent directing FILM: Star Wars VI "Return Of the Jedi" SCENE: When Luke, Han, and co. 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. EVENT: 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! | | | | | | |[ TRIVIA ]| | | | | | | | | ||[ SUBJECT: Han the perve {rev 4} SCENE/EVENT: in ROJ, when Leia gets shot, Han grabs her and pulls her back to safety...watch his hand... | | ||[ SUBJECT: Clothing Inconsistencies... NOTES: There are several Scenes when we can see peoples clothing change from scene to scene. | |[ FILMS: Star Wars V & VI SCENE/EVENT: During the Scenes when Han is about to be frozen in Carbonite. EVENT: Before he is lowered into it, he has shackles around the upper part of his arms, which holds them to his body. However, in Return of the Jedi, when he is unfrozen, he no longer has them on his arms. Second, in one scene Han is not wearing his vest, 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... | |[ FILM: Star Wars VI, "Return of the Jedi" SCENE/EVENT: 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. | |[ FILM: Star Wars V, "The Empire Strikes Back" SCENE/EVENT: In the end, if you look at Piett's (I think that's him) rank insignia, it changes 1) sides, and 2) color! NOTES: Could anybody give me more detail? | | ||[ SUBJECT: Vader's Mask FILM: Star Wars IV "A New Hope" SCENE/EVENT: seeing David Prowse's face through the Vader mask Lucas wanted to make it completely dark, but could not do it in the first show, it was fixed in the later shows. | | ||[ SUBJECT: Cliff from Cheers makes a Cameo appearance FILM: Star Wars IV, "A New Hope" SCENE/EVENT: In the base on Hoth, there's a scene where a rebel soldier (character name of Major Derlin) talks to Leia about having to close the doors on the base despite Luke not being back, saying, "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). | | ||[ SUBJECT: DEWBAK FILM: Star Wars IV "A New Hope" SCENES: 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 (more info) NOTES: The Dewbak is a Giant Green lizard used for transportation. | | ||[ SUBJECT: A white protocol droid? FILM: Star Wars V "The Empire Strikes Back" SCENE(S) & EVENT: There is actually three scenes that this is seen in. 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 easily 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 you see the driod standing to the right, in the background, between two people. It is definitely NOT C3PO, as he is standing in the foreground at the same time. Last of all, the droid is seen sitting in one of the chairs to the left of the command post, obviously non-functional at this time. NOTES: There are a few scenes where we see silver protocol driods, like C-3PO. But how often have you seen a white protocol droid? | | ||[ SUBJECT: Millenium Falcon (stowaway's?) FILM: Star Wars IV "A New Hope" SCENE: In the first scene of the Millenium Falcon's cockpit. EVENT: Behind Han and Chewie, there is a person standing. A few seconds later they move out of the shot. NOTES: This might just be in the Letterbox version. | | ||[ SUBJECT: Millenium Falcon, Fuzzy Dice FILM: Star Wars IV, "A New Hope" SCENE/EVENT: 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. | | ||[ SUBJECT: Over zelous security measures FILM: Star Wars V "The Empire Strikes Back" SCENE: The catwalk scene, when Luke learns that Darth Vader is his father. NOTES: Lucas was concerned about preventing leaks with his next Star Wars Film, The Empire Strikes Back. Infact, he had an elaborate security system set up which included logs of reports about leaks from actors. Lucas was especially concerned about the catwalk scene where Vader tells Luke he is his father. The lines Prowse actually spoke were actually 'Obi Wan Kenobi is your father' not, 'I am your father'. The lines we hear were added later, with the rest of Darth Vader's dialogue. | | ||[ SUBJECT: Shells for Laser ammunition? FILM: Star Wars IV "A New Hope" SCENE: Virtually in any battle, the best is in the battle with the stormtroopers immediately after Leia has been pulled out of her cell (right before she blows a hole in the wall) EVENT: 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 shot, and they would simulate "kick-back") which eject spent cases as if they were real bullets. | | ||[ SUBJECT: Elephants, Nein Numb, and Feet FILM: Star Wars VI "Return of the Jedi" EVENT: 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, "One thousand herds of elephants are standing on my foot" in this language. | | ||[ SUBJECT: Camera's EVENT: 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. 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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. | | ||[ SUBJECT: The Biggs Scenes FILM: Star Wars IV "A New Hope" NOTES: In the Script for Star Wars there are several Scenes which includes a friend of Luke's, Biggs. These Scenes were filmed, but when the final cut came around for the Star Wars films, these Scenes were left on the cutting room floor. Many people say they saw these scenes in the theater, but the only place that any of the film containing the Biggs scenes was reproduced, was in the story books. | | ||[ SUBJECT: Explosive Asteriods FILM: Star Wars V "The Empire Strikes Back" EVENT/SCENE: In the asteriod battle scene, there's a part where the camera angle cuts to a wide shot of all the asteriods, and on one of the asteroids there is something clearly exploding (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 editing room floor, that is.) maybe we're 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? | | ||[ SUBJECT: Don't try the spelling bee, George... {rev4} NOTES: (By: Gallandro) 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. - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - | | | | | | |[ PART 2 ]| | | | | | | - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - <*> 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. {rev 4} <*> In ANH, C3PO 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 -- his dent is on the left side, and Leia is now on the other side of him. {rev4} <*> In Jedi, in one of the Jabba's Palace sequences, when Jabba is speaking, the film is actually running backwards -- if you look closely, you can see the smoke from his pipe moving downwards, and the same with the bubbles in his bong. {rev 4} <*> In ESB, when the first rebel transport leaves Hoth, you can see a matteing error. {rev 4} <*> When Artoo first gets put into the Jawa's sandcrawler and he looks around at all the creatures in there. You seen R5D4, and then right after the SECOND time he looks at the red R2, when they cut back to Artoo he turns his head around and you can see the face of the guy inside through the bubble-like thing on Artoo's head. <*> 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. <*> C-3PO was originally scripted as a "used car salesman" type <*> 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." <*> You won't see this unless you have a letterboxed version of the film There are two MAJOR mistakes in the scene where Threepio is 'king' of the Ewoks. While Luke & co. are tied up, Peter Mahey dressed as Chewie sticks his head from the left side of the screen behind one of the Ewok huts. Also, there's a shot of Artoo untied when he hasn't been cut loose yet. <*> When the heroes recieve their medallions at the end of Star Wars IV, "A New Hope", nearly all of the crowd are cardboard cutouts. <*> It seems George Lucas had trouble getting funding for this movie because most studios thought people wouldn't go to see it. Recently, after looking at a top ten list of movies *ever* (inflation calculated in), Star Wars IV, "A New Hope" was in the #1 slot. <*> 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... <*> When Luke is tumbling in the air shaft near the end of Star Wars V, "The Empire Strikes Back", there is a very short scene (before he gets dropped out the bottom of Bespin) where you can see his right hand. <*> 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. <*> Star Wars VI, "Return of the Jedi" was originally scripted as "Revenge of the Jedi" <*> When R5-D4's head pops open when 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 nowwhere near R2. <*> in ANH, 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 prowses movements in this scene. - - - - -- - -- - - - - - - - | | | | | | |[ APPENDIX I ]| | | | | | | - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - The Star Wars Drinking Game I am including this as it has bits of trivia in it, and it is rather funny. This is an edited version of the original post along with other people's additions. Unfortunately, I don't know who it was that made the first version of this game (hints would be appreciated). To play the Star Wars Drinking game, you will need: <-> The Star Wars Trilogy on tape (one movie for a short game) <-> An ample supply of your favorite beverage (milk, right?) <-> A really good sound system, so the explosions seem to happen all around you. Kapow! (optional) Begin by inserting your weatherbeaten "Star Wars" videotape into the big slot on your VCR. Dim the lights for dramatic effect, and play the tape. The game begins right as "20th Century Fox" appears on the screen. Once the game has begun, you watch the movie for the listed events. Every time one of them occurs, everybody takes a sip of their drink Drink when: <-> Someone has a bad feeling about this. <-> It's their only hope. <-> An entire planet is described as having one climate. <-> Somebody gets choked. <-> a woman other than Leia is on screen <-> An old Jedi starts to ramble about the Force. (Vader counts.) <-> Somebody's hand gets cut off. <-> A gigantic technological marvel explodes in a single blast. <-> There is a tremor in the Force. <-> It's not someone's fault <-> One or more heroes are almost eaten by a Thing <-> A Jedi is much more powerful than he looks <-> Someone exclaims "No!" <-> Someone does something apparently suicidal that turns out to be a good idea <=> Twice if it's not Han <-> Someone wears the same outfit in all three movies--it counts if they change at the end <-> Someone is mind-controlled using the Force <-> People kiss <-> A good guy wears white or a bad guy wears black <=> Twice if a bad guy wears white and a good guy wears black (for uniforms, only the first person on screen counts) <=> Three times if someone hovering in between wears gray <-> Every time you find yourself talking to the people on screen <-> An elaborately made up alien has no lines <-> Someone or something tries to get money from Han <-> Some ship crashes into something after being hit. <-> Someone has a light saber duel (includes just using light saber) <-> An Ewok dies, and the camera lingers longer than it did when the Death Star exploded, killing billions of people. (Fourteen seconds. Count'em.) <-> It is Luke's destiny. <-> Luke whines. <-> Luke discovers a long-lost relative. <-> Luke fights monsters or savages. <-> Luke does some nifty acrobatic flip. <-> Luke teeters on the brink of a chasm. <-> Luke is upside-down <-> Luke and Lando are in the same place at the same time <=> Twice if they speak to each other <-> Luke's parentage is Foreshadowed <-> Luke refuses to take someone's advice <-> Luke yells "Artooooo!" <-> Leia insults somebody. <-> Leia wears an outfit that covers everything except her face and hands <=> Twice if it covers her neck <=> Three times if she's almost totally nude <-> Obi-Wan Kenobi materializes for a guest appearance. <-> Obi-Wan Kenobi plays detective. ("...Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise.") <-> Han brags about the Millenium Falcon. <-> Anybody insults the Millenium Falcon. <-> Something doesn't work on the Falcon <=> Twice if it's the hyperdrive <-> Yoda uses bad grammar. <-> Yoda talks like a fortune cookie. <-> R2-D2 gets thrashed. <-> R2-D2 plugs into the wrong socket and his head spins around. <-> C-3PO loses a body part. (Take two drinks if he is completely dismembered.) <-> C-3PO informs us of just how many forms of communication he's familiar with <-> A Rebel pilot is of a race other than white <=> Twice if they're non human (co-pilots count) <-> A Rebel Pilot says "Nice Shot..." <-> A Rebel Pilot says "I've been hit..." <-> Tarkin brags about the Death Star. <-> The Emperor cackles evilly. <-> The Emperor has foreseen something. <-> Vader runs into one of his kids and doesn't recognize them <=> Twice if he tries to kill them <-> Boba Fett talks. <-> Stormtroopers shoot everywhere but where they're aiming. <-> Stormtrooper armor proves useless. <-> Any Imperial Ship is destroyed <-> A TIE fighter explodes for no reason. The game ends when a bunch of Ewoks start dancing. No matter what you've been drinking, you will remember this image. The last person to give up drinking on each cue is the winner. Of course, ties are possible. If at some point you find that no one can successfully operate the VCR anymore, the game may as well be abandoned. | | | | | | |[ SPECIAL ]| | | | | | | And especially for those non drinkers, there is the: THE STAR WARS DRINKING GAME FOR MORMONS The rules are basically the same as the other game but the drinking cues are different. Drink when: <-> Stormtroopers display intelligence, courage, or training in battle. <-> Multiple Ewoks are killed. <-> Fantastic technology is explained. <-> Somebody listens to C-3PO. <-> Somebody cares about the environment. <-> The Emperor acts like a charming politician. <-> A woman is on screen, and an Imperial - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - | | | | | ||[ CONTRIBUTORS ]|| | | | | | - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - I would like to give special 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 li sted here: Name E-mail Address Doug Brod dbrod@eng.clemson.edu Jason Walsh jwalsh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Michael Palencar redfive@ucscb.UCSC.EDU John Hagerman hagerman@ece.cmu.edu Daniel Goldman dgoldman@Xenon.Stanford.EDU Jeff baker jkb@hurricane.ksu.ksu.edu Andy Hofle hofle@cs.utexas.edu kgassner@vax1.umkc.edu Rob Johnson 2559johnsonr@vms.csd.mu.edu Kevin Mitchell kam@genesis.MCS.COM Daniel S. Highlands dh4x+@andrew.cmu.edu Norm Yamane nyamane@nyx.UUCP Scott B. Casteel sbc@po.CWRU.Edu gps108@psuvm.psu.edu byork@desire.wright.edu Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au Nathan Hill nnhill@david.wheaton.edu Ed Hirsh duke@apple.com Mike (Starman) meg5184@hertz.njit.edu Rajiv Udani rku45136@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu Darryll Hobson hobson@mprgate.mpr.ca Todd Chambers todd@goat.geo.arizona.edu Paul Joseph Mitchell mav+@CMU.EDU Michael Clark ae604@Freenet.carleton.ca Bryan Carolan Dunne carolan@owlnet.rice.edu Robert Alan Danforth rd2b+@andrew.cmu.edu Gallandro dkemper@oolong.hacks.arizona.edu Aaron Romanowsky romanow@vorpal.ucsb.edu Dax Shifrel dax@netlink.cts.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- End of file -- <> _ __ ____ ____ [ Amiga Freak ] mhenders@hydra.unm.edu <> <> / | / / / / / / / / / [ Card Addict ] "If it's not letterbox <> <> / |/ / \_/ / / / / / [Jarre Groupie ] it's CRAP!" <> <>/ / / /___X /___/__/__ [Laserdisc Geek] -someone <>