100 Facts about Star Wars

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Originally posted by Lazerlike42
what is that from

LOL

55. The final time Lucas quietly said, "Cut -- that's a wrap" on a "Star Wars" picture ROTS it was at Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, England. It happened on Elstree's Stage 8, where Lucas did the first soundstage shot for the original film in 1976.

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Originally posted by Lazerlike42
but where ?

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=4001917#post4001917

D'oh!

Star Wars ANH. Han and Luke bring Chewy to the detention block and say that he's a prisoner transfer from Cell Block 1138. An obvious throw out to THX1138.

57. Han grabs Leia's boob in ROTJ

58. Lucas based his now infamous "Order 66" by Emperor Palpatine on the history of Feb. 20, 1942, when President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 1066, interning the Japanese and Japanese Americans until the end of the war and the dropping of the Hiroshima Bomb.

Originally posted by DarkYoda
57. Han grabs Leia's boob in ROTJ

Are you serious? When?

Originally posted by Lord Yoda
Are you serious? When?
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And she's like totally in the moment too! 😆

(heh... that sounded like I was teenage girl 😮 )

Originally posted by Lord Yoda
Are you serious? When?

After she was wounded by the Stormtrooper fire in the forest moon of Endor

A bit late I am (DAMM!)

59. The word ``Jedi'' is derived from the Japanese words ``Jidai Geki'' which translate as ``period drama.'' A period drama is a Japanese TV soap opera program set in the samurai days. Lucas mentioned in an interview that he saw a ``Jidai Geki'' program on TV while in Japan a year or so before the movie was made and liked the word.

60. Lucas intentionally filmed some PT scenes in ways that mirror scenes of the OT.

Like?

Originally posted by Torik_Shai
60. Lucas intentionally filmed some PT scenes in ways that mirror scenes of the OT.

someone should make a list

61. Yoda is the only main character to die of natural causes. 😉

Phantom Menace

62. After Queen Amidala talked to the senate and she causes uproar. You can see a senate pod with three E.T. Senators in it.

63. The sheild reactor inner workings was a small model, using stacks of plastic cups turned upside down.

64. Major Hollywood studios like Universal and Paramount passed on "The Star Wars." Only after rejection from every studio, did Lucas take the script to Alan Ladd, Jr. of Twentieth Century Fox.

65. At the time the scene was filmed only Mark Hamill, George Lucas, and director Irvin Kirshner(sp) knew the true line Darth Vader would say to Luke regarding his father.

66. The line spoken during filming was actually "Obi-Wan killed your father."

67 - General Grievous' cough was provided by Lucas himself.
68 - Mark Hamill voices the lines "The first transport is away... the first transport is away..." in the rebel base on Hoth.

69 - One of the drinks dispensers behind the bar in the Cantina was later recycled and used as the head of bounty hunter IG-88 in ESB.
71 - Wampas were originally conceived as creatures which "swam" through the snow like sharks.