1 SUBJECT:
It Gets Lonely In Space
SCENE:
Although not a
blooper, this scene is when the rebel Blockade Runner is
being chased by
Vader's Star Destroyer.
EVENT:
As a joke, movie
makers often put in little things that usually are
never seen in
the movie but at least they know they are there. One such
case is in the
Corellian Corvette at the very beginning of the movie.
If you were able
to see inside the front window of the ship, you would
not only see a
movie poster for _Star Wars IV: A New Hope_, but a
Playboy Playmate
hanging on the wall. There is a photo of this found in
the book _From
Star Wars To Indiana Jones--The Best Of The LucasFilm
Archives_ by Mark
Cotta Vaz and Shinji Hata, copyright 1994 Chronicle
Books, San Francisco.
2 SUBJECT:
R2-D2's Bad Guidance Sensors
SCENE:
When Leia is feeding
R2-D2 the plans to the Death Star, on board the
Corellian Corvette.
EVENT:
After Leia gives
R2-D2 the message for Obi-Wan, R2 starts to roll away.
If the scene had
continued, he would have rolled into the wall and off
the main pathway.
3 SUBJECT:
Quick Moving Trooper
SCENE:
Vader interrogates
on of the rebels on board the Blockade Runner as to
the whereabouts
of the Death Star plans.
EVENT:
Watch the leftmost
stormtrooper. At the beginning of this scene, he
is holding his
blaster at his waist. As the camera cuts to a
different angle,
the trooper is holding the gun up to his chest, and
as the camera
cuts back to the original angle, the gun is back by the
trooper's waist.
4 SUBJECT:
Shy Stormtrooper?
SCENE:
Stormtroopers
are searching the Blockade Runner for any hiding rebels.
EVENT:
The troops are
looking in every corner and the camera cuts to Leia
who pokes her
head out from behind a pillar. We cut back to the
troopers and if
you notice in the bottom left of the screen behind the
foremost "pillar"
there is a white pant leg which sticks out then
disappears back
out of view.
5 SUBJECT:
Forgetful Costume Designer
SCENE:
When the stormtroopers
find Leia hiding in the corridor on the Blockade
Runner, and prepare
to stun her for delivery to Darth Vader.
EVENT:
The lead trooper
says "There's one. Set for stun." He then gets shot
by Leia.
The trooper who then assumes the lead and shoots the stun
blast at Leia
has a different helmet than any other stormtrooper
throughout the
trilogy. On the sides of the helmet, near the bottom,
on the part that
almost looks like air feeder tubes, there are normally
vertical slots
or stripes. The trooper who shoots Leia is missing these
slots.
6 SUBJECT:
Stupid Use Of The Force
SCENE:
During the Blockade
Runner invasion, when Princess Leia is brought before
Darth Vader.
EVENT:
When Vader is
interrogating Leia, the first time we get a full face shot
of him is when
he says, "I want to know what happened to the plans they
sent you."
Look at his neck chain that holds his cape together; it is
on top of the
lip of his collar. The camera cuts back to Leia and then
it goes back to
Vader. Now, the chain has worked it's way underneath
his collar.
As the shot cuts back, Vader yells "Take her away!". Now,
the magic cape
chain has moved yet again, back above the lip of his
collar.
7 SUBJECT:
Blinded By The Light
SCENE:
Any scene featuring
C-3PO.
EVENT:
Mostly visible
during the first half of the movie, the lights in
Threepio's eyes
are off. As evidenced throughout the trilogy, we
are shown that
when his eyes are off, he cannot see, and is blind. If
that is so, how
can Threepio navigate around the desert. It is not
just because the
outside light is brighter than those in his eyes,
because during
the Tusken Raider attack when Luke and Threepio search
for Artoo, when
Threepio is stunned, his eye lights turn on.
8 SUBJECT:
Threepio's Moving Stain
SCENE:
As Threepio walks
past the skeleton of the dragon on Tatooine.
EVENT:
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. This is a result of the
film being flipped
in post production.
9 SUBJECT:
Moving Gadgets
SCENE:
After the Jawas
have captured Artoo in the canyon, and are about to
attach the restraining
bolt before he's put inside the Sandcrawler.
EVENT:
The Jawa walks
up to Artoo and begins to attach the restraining bolt.
Take notice of
the "box" that he attaches it to. The Jawa places the
restraining bolt
in the vertical centre of this box. Then we see a
close up of this
scene, and still, the Jawa welds it to the centre of
the box.
We then cut back to a further away shot, and the restraining
bolt is now near
the very top of that box.
10 SUBJECT:
Kenny Baker, I Can See You
SCENE:
When Artoo first
gets put into the Jawa's sandcrawler and he looks
around at all
the creatures in there.
EVENT:
You see R5-D4,
the red R2 unit, and then right after the SECOND time we
see the red R2,
it cuts back to Artoo. He turns his head around and
you can see the
face of Kenny Baker inside through the bubble on
Artoo's head.
11 SUBJECT:
Quick Growing Plants
SCENE:
The Sandcrawler
has stopped by the Lars residence and we get our first
look at Luke Skywalker.
EVENT:
Luke's aunt Beru
calls for him from down below in the residence. As
Luke runs to the
edge so he can look down to his Aunt, take note of
any vegetation
around him. There is one bush-like plant that we can
see. In
the next shot, we look up at Luke from down inside the crater.
We see Luke, and
there are three or four bushes and plants around him.
When we change
perspective to back above the crater, there is only one
bush again.
12 SUBJECT:
Loose Wiring
SCENE:
Uncle Owen is
inspecting the prospective purchases and engages C-3PO
in conversation.
EVENT:
Right before Luke
whines about wishing to go into town to pick up
some power converters,
we see a side/rear shot of Threepio. In this
shot, we can see
a wire running up Threepio's back to the base of
his neck/head.
This wire is never seen again in any part of the
trilogy.
13 SUBJECT:
R5-D4 In Two Places at Once
SCENE:
After Owen buys
R5-D4, the red R2 unit, and it explodes.
EVENT:
As Owen points
to R2-D2 and R2's head turns, you see a shot of the
Jawas prepping
R5-D4 from BEFORE Owen made his purchase.
14 SUBJECT:
Bad Timing
SCENE:
Luke is cleaning
Artoo and a holographic message appears.
EVENT:
When the message
pops up, Leia's hologram says "Help me Obi-Wan
Kenobi, you're
my only hope." The problem here is that the gestures
that Leia makes
are not synchronized correctly with what the message
does the rest
of the time.
15 SUBJECT:
The Hose Is Alive
SCENE:
The holographic
message from Leia is playing for Luke and the droids.
EVENT:
Watch closely
to the items in the background while the message plays.
On the right of
the screen, you will see a coiled up hose. When
Threepio explains
to Luke about how the restraining bolt has short
circuited Artoo,
the hose that was on the right, has moved to the
left of the picture.
16 SUBJECT:
The Disappearing Rag
SCENE:
Right after R2-D2
shows Luke the Leia hologram.
EVENT:
Near the end of
this segment, watch 3PO's sleight of hand. In one
shot, he's holding
a rag, in the next shot he isn't, and in then next
shot ("I'm sorry
sir, but he appears to have picked up a slight
flutter") he has
the rag again, and in the next shot he doesn't.
17 SUBJECT:
Fast Droids
SCENE:
In Luke's garage
after hearing the message from Leia, and is about to
leave to go and
eat dinner.
EVENT:
The position of
Artoo's head changes position instantaneously on
several shots,
as the camer cuts from close-ups to medium shots of
the two droids.
18 SUBJECT:
Aunt Beru the Ventriloquist
SCENE:
Any scene where
Aunt Beru speaks.
EVENT:
If you watch Aunt
Beru's lips whenever she speaks, you can notice that
sometimes her
lips are not moving exactly with her speech. This is
because after
the original theatrical release of the movie, Lucas had
all of Beru's
lines dubbed over. This is reportedly because Lucas felt
that the real
Beru's voice was too low and felt it needed to be changed.
19 SUBJECT:
Luke's Drinking Problem
SCENE:
Owen, Beru and
Luke are eating dinner.
EVENT:
Before Luke walks
into the dining area, Beru is pouring a beverage into
Luke's cup.
The cup is slightly transparent, and you can see she fills
it to about half
way. A few seconds later, when Luke walks into the
scene, Luke grabs
the pitcher and pours the liquid into the same cup
that Beru just
did a few moments before, and it is empty.
20 SUBJECT:
Luke's Cup Keeps Switching Hands
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, it appears
in his right hand.
21 SUBJECT:
Rapidly Moving Suns
SCENE:
Luke storms out
of the Lars dining area upset and walks outside.
EVENT:
Luke walks outside
and stares into the Tatooine sky at the two suns
(Tatoo I and Tatoo
II). As the camera angle changes, the second time
we see the dusk
sky, the suns are clearly in different positions than
they were mere
seconds before. There is even a mountain partially
blocking the lower
of the stars the second time we see it.
22 SUBJECT:
Day AND Night
SCENE:
After it is discovered
that Artoo has run away. Luke and Threepio
run outside to
look for him.
EVENT:
During the conversation
that Luke and Threepio have, you will see
numerous shots
of them from further away, and from medium distance.
During the closer
shots, the sky is much darker than it is during
the further away
shots.
NOTES:
This has been
fixed in the Special Editions.
23 SUBJECT:
Droid Without Power
SCENE:
Luke and Threepio
are discussing what to do about the now missing
Artoo.
EVENT:
Just as Threepio
says "Pardon me sir, but wouldn't we go after him?",
you are able to
see a rope pulling the droid that is "rolling" in
front of them
from right to left.
24 SUBJECT:
Armed attack
SCENE:
Ben has scared
away the Tusken Raiders, and is gathering Luke and the
droids for transport
back to his house.
EVENT:
During the attack,
one of Threepio's arms fall off. His left arm.
However, when
we see Luke pick up the severed arm, it appears to be
Threepio's right
arm.
25 SUBJECT:
You Didn't Lose Your Arm
SCENE:
Ben and Luke are
gathering up the dismembered Threepio.
EVENT:
Luke is on the
right of the screen, helping Ben to pick up Threepio.
If you look just
below the severed shoulder on Threepio as he is
being picked up,
there are a few split seconds where you can see
Anthony Daniels'
(the actor portraying Threepio) arm bent back
behind his body,
trying to stay out of sight.
26 SUBJECT:
Is Threepio On Or Off?
SCENE:
Luke, Ben and
the droids are in Ben's hut and Ben is telling Luke of
his father.
EVENT:
Threepio requests
that he be powered off if he is not going to be
needed, and Luke
complies. But when Ben brings out Anakin's light
saber to show
Luke, when he powers it on, Threepio's head turns to see
it, even though
he is still powered off.
27 SUBJECT:
The Disappearing Wall Hanging
SCENE:
Just after Ben
gets out Anakin's light saber.
EVENT:
There is a "shawl"
hanging on the wall which temporarily disappears,
and then reappears
in Obi Wan's house. It looks like a medium-brown
macrame blanket.
It is hanging on the left side of the plaster arch
in the house.
Notice it casts a shadow that sticks out to the left of
the shadow cast
by the arch, and just below the circular panel with
the five lights
on it. Right after Ben says "This is the weapon of a
Jedi Knight .
. .," the shawl disappears. After Luke turns off his
saber, it is back.
28 SUBJECT:
Choppy Lightsaber
SCENE:
Any scene where
a lightsaber is ignited or retracted.
EVENT:
During every scene
featuring lightsabers in _Star Wars IV: A New
Hope_, when a
lightsaber is ignited or retracted, the picture
jumps around and
becomes very choppy. This is because special
effects had not
been developed for this very well. What you are
seeing is the
film being stopped, the actors trying to remain
perfectly still,
while the lightsaber hilt is replaced for a
"lit" lightsaber,
which, during filming, was a stick placed in the
lightsaber hilt.
29 SUBJECT:
Nice Reflection
SCENE:
Luke is playing
with his new lightsaber.
EVENT:
After Luke turns
on the lightsaber, he swings it around. Watch
Threepio on the
left of the screen, and you can see the reflection of
Luke's saber as
he swings it. The blooper is that the reflection is
of the solid stick,
and not the coloured light that it should be.
30 SUBJECT:
They Shouldn't Move
SCENE:
In Ben Kenobi's
house when Artoo is playing the holographic message of
Leia.
EVENT:
You'll notice
the small table that Ben and Luke are sitting around, and
Artoo is playing
the message onto. Before the hologram begins, when
we see the table,
there appears to be two small objects resembling
salt and pepper
shakers, as well as a bowl or small kettle. When the
hologram begins,
and the camera's angle changes, the bowl disaappears,
and even the shakers
appear to have moved, albeit subtly. When the
hologram disappears,
the bowl returns to the table.
31 SUBJECT:
The "Floating" Interrogation Droid
SCENE:
As Leia is about
to be tortured on the Death Star.
EVENT:
In Leia's cell,
you can see the crane that they used to make the
interrogation
droid float. This is between the droid and the right
edge of the door.
32 SUBJECT:
The Outrider
SCENE:
Although not a
blooper, this is only noticeable in the Special Edition,
while Luke drives
his landspeeder down the main street of the Mos
Eisley Spaceport.
EVENT:
We see a humanoid
type droid smack down a little annoying flying robot.
Luke's speeder
drives behind this scene from left to right, and the
camera pulls back
as we follow them. From the right, and flying to
the left, near
the top of the screen, you can see Dash Rendar's ship,
the Outrider.
Dash Rendar and the Outrider figured prominently in
George Lucas'
1996 multimedia experience of _Shadows Of The Empire_,
a story taking
place between _Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back_,
and _Star Wars
VI: Return Of The Jedi_.
33 SUBJECT:
A Galaxy HOW Far Away?
SCENE:
Luke and friends
have entered the Cantina.
EVENT:
We cut to the
first wide shot of the bar, which pans from left to
right. In
the top left of the screen, one man in a traditional
looking astronaut
suit walks out from the bar and into view. On
the left shoulder
of this man, you can see what appears to be the
flag of the United
States Of America.
34 SUBJECT:
Empty Headed Alien
SCENE:
Luke and Ben first
walk into the cantina and the camera pans across
the room showing
us the vast diversity of aliens in the bar.
EVENT:
As the camera
cuts around the room, we see a small little "mousy"
alien beg for
a drink at the bar. As he turns his head look closely
at his eyes, as
you can see through one eye and out the other, right
through his head.
35 SUBJECT:
Cantina Characters
SCENE:
When Luke is sitting
at the bar in the Cantina after ordering a drink.
EVENT:
He takes a glance
around the Cantina. The camera then gives us shots
of various aliens.
After the shot that shows a big alien apparently
laughing, they
cut to two blue skinned aliens known as Duros engaging
in a conversation.
One is holding up his hands like he doesn't
understand what
the other one's saying. If you look at their hands,
the one on the
right has big, purple, very alien hands. The one on
the left is wearing
white gloves over human hands.
36 SUBJECT:
Flurry Of Action
SCENE:
Two aliens pick
on Luke and start a fight.
EVENT:
The man with the
crushed in nose pulls a gun out into view and
aims it at the
lightsaber wielding Ben Kenobi. If you look
closely, this
gun has a very long sight along the top of it.
Kenobi attacks,
and Walrus Man's (the other alien) arm is
sliced off.
When we see the severed arm on the floor, it is
near the gun.
The gun, presumably the one that the other man
had drawn, is
missing the sight that was on it before.
37 SUBJECT:
No Coordination
SCENE:
Just after Ben
and Luke bargain with Solo and Chewie for transport
aboard the Falcon.
EVENT:
After Han says
"It looks like someone's beginning to take an interest
in your handy
work," the camera pans over the crowded bar to a pair of
stormtroopers
walking there way. If you look in the middle of the
screen for the
"mousy" alien with the see-through eyes, as he takes
a drink of his
beverage, he clearly misses his mouth and hits his chin
instead.
38 SUBJECT:
That Wasn't Greedo, Was It?
SCENE:
The Greedo/Han
Solo "meeting" at the Cantina.
EVENT:
If you watch by
freezing the frames right before Han blasts Greedo, you
see the actor
who plays Greedo replaced by a really bad dummy that
explodes.
The dummy doesn't even come close to matching the actor
(much thinner,
slightly taller, different jacket, and it's not even
holding a gun!).
39 SUBJECT:
All Terrain Artoo
SCENE:
Our heros enter
Docking Bay 94 to prepare for their voyage to Alderaan.
EVENT:
Everyone walks
down a set of steps to get to the docking bay floor.
Artoo however
is having VERY much trouble navigating the steps, and it
is quite humourous
to watch. As soon as the camera is off him by panning
to the right,
take notice of where Artoo was. He was about halfway down
the stairs.
All of a sudden, Artoo appears, rolling from the left of
the screen.
There is no way he could have made it down the rest of the
stairs that fast
given the trouble he had been experiencing before.
NOTES:
This can only
be seen in the widescreen versions.
40 SUBJECT:
The Falcon's Not Finished Yet
SCENE:
Chewbacca escorts
Luke, Ben, Threepio and Artoo into Docking Bay 94
for their first
glimpse of the Falcon.
EVENT:
The camera pans
from the left of the screen where our heroes enter, to
the right, where
the Falcon is parked. Take note of the top right of
the screen.
The Falcon is missing it's trademark radar dish.
41 SUBJECT:
Fuzzy Dice
SCENE:
Although not a
blooper, it is funny to see. The scene is in the
docking bay at
Mos Eisley, and Chewbacca boards the Millennium Falcon.
EVENT:
When Chewbacca
enters the cockpit to sit down, he brushes his head on
two small objects
hanging from the ceiling which resemble a pair of
dice. These
dice are never seen again throughout the trilogy.
42 SUBJECT:
Again And Again And Again
SCENE:
Stormtroopers
barge into the docking bay at Mos Eisley in an attempt
to stop the Millennium
Falcon's escape.
EVENT:
The troopers come
into the docking bay, and one of them yells "Stop
that ship."
We cut to a shot of Chewbacca, and then back to the
entryway of the
docking bay. A trooper in the centre of the screen,
at the back, and
running from left to right begins to fall when a
shot hits the
ceiling directly above him. He falls down on his
knees, and then
on his face. We cut to a shot of Han, then back to
the troopers.
We just see the blast hit the ceiling, and the same
trooper is already
falling to the ground. Again we cut to Han, and
then back to the
troopers, where we see, yet again, the same blast
hit the ceiling,
and the same trooper falling to the ground.
43 SUBJECT:
Millennium Falcon's Stowaway
SCENE:
After Han runs
into the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon during the
firefight with
the stormtroopers in the Mos Eisley docking bay.
EVENT:
Behind Han and
Chewie, there is a person with a green shirt standing in
the corridor.
A few seconds later he moves out of the shot.
NOTES:
This may be Ben
Kenobi's back, using a cut from a scene later in the
movie, such as
when they make the jump to light speed a moment later.
This blooper is
only found in the letterboxed movie.
44 SUBJECT:
The Falcon's Windows
SCENE:
Any shot with
the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon.
EVENT:
There is an inconsistency
in the number of "window frames" in the
Millennium Falcon's
cockpit. The cockpit features a single circular
window facing
front, with a rim of windows immediately around that,
surrounded by
more windows. It is the first rim of windows that has
the inconsistency--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:
_\|/_
45 SUBJECT:
It's A Hunk Of Junk
SCENE:
The Falcon has
just blasted out of the spaceport, and Han realizes
that there are
two Star Destroyers in pursuit.
EVENT:
Han is sitting
in the cockpit and says the line "Stay sharp. Two
coming in."
Han gets up and checks the NavaComputer. When he sits
back down he grabs
part of the "dashboard" as he sits. When he does
this, the entire
control panel tips and lifts up. Not very stable
at all.
46 SUBJECT:
Gloves/No Gloves
SCENE:
The Falcon is
about to make the jump into lightspeed.
EVENT:
Han says the line
"Go strap yourselves in." and mentions that they are
about to jump
into hyperspace. Up until this point, Han had been
wearing gloves.
But when the camera cuts to a shot of the pilots from
behind, and Han
pulls the lever to make the jump, he is no longer
wearing gloves.
47 SUBJECT:
Saber Shadows
SCENE:
Luke is practising
some lightsaber skills on board the Falcon.
EVENT:
As Luke plays
around with the remote, you can see a shadow of the
"stick" used as
the lightsaber against his tunic.
48 SUBJECT:
Vader's Gesturing
SCENE:
There is a scene
where Darth and Tarkin are talking about Leia's
deception over
the rebel base allegedly being on Dantooine.
EVENT:
During part of
the exchange, Darth stops talking, but keeps gesturing
as though he is
saying something. Tarkin doesn't respond to his
comment until
after he stops gesturing. Obviously, they had some
difficulty timing
the voice over with Prowse's movements in this
scene.
49 SUBJECT:
More Cheap Costumes
SCENE:
The Death Star
crew prepares for the capture of the Millennium Falcon.
EVENT:
After seeing the
Falcon being drawn closer to the station, we see
shots of troopers
scurrying to get to their posts. One of those
scenes is four
troopers following a rolling "mouse-bot" on the floor.
The second trooper
behind this mouse-bot has an incomplete helmet.
On a normal trooper,
on either side of their mouthpiece are a
black "button"
or "point". The incomplete trooper is missing the
button on our
right side of the mouthpiece.
50 SUBJECT:
The Falcon Needs Support
SCENE:
The Millennium
Falcon is caught by the Death Star's tractor beam and
is being pulled
on board the station.
EVENT:
As the Falcon
enters the hanger bay of the Death Star, watch the
bottom centre
of the ship as it passes through the hanger door. The
edge of the door
is lit with a white light, but as the ship passes
through, the light
is "broken" by the vertical pole that was used to
hold the model
of the ship.
51 SUBJECT:
MORE Cheap Costumes
SCENE:
The Imperial scanning
crew has boarded the Falcon and been knocked
out. Han
yells down "Hey down there, could you give us a hand
here?"
EVENT:
Two troopers look
at each other, and then go up the ramp to the
Falcon.
The trooper on the left of the screen, when he turns his
back to us, is
missing the canister on the small of his back that
all other stormtroopers
have. This is the stormtrooper armour that
Luke wears during
our hero's assault to the detention block.
52 SUBJECT:
Quick Scans
SCENE:
Our heros are
in a Death Star control room while Artoo scans their
computer network
to find where the tractor beam can be disabled.
EVENT:
After Artoo locates
where the tractor beam can be disabled, the scene
cuts to Ben saying
"I don't think you boys can help." Look directly
behind Ben to
a display showing a red "sensor beam" sweeping a circle
over a schematic
of the Death Star.
Immediately we
cut to a shot of Ben saying "I must go alone", and the
sensor beam is
almost half way around the schematic. If you notice
the speed in which
this beam sweeps in previous shots, there is no
way that the beam
could have travelled that far around the picture
in such a near
instant time frame.
53 SUBJECT:
Camoflauge Costume
SCENE:
Han, Luke and
Chewbacca wait for an elevator down to the detention
block.
EVENT:
There is a wide
shot from above showing the three wait for a lift.
From the left
of the screen, you see an officer walk by who is wearing
a grey shirt.
We then cut instantly to a closer shot of the three,
and the man walking
by our heros is wearing a black shirt.
54 SUBJECT:
Say Cheese!
SCENE:
As Han looks for
Leia's cell number and speaks into the intercom in the
detention area.
EVENT:
Just after Han
shoots the control panel and yells to Luke, look over
his shoulder on
the left of the screen. You will notice two racks of
security cameras
hanging from the ceiling, untouched, even after our
heroic trio very
thoroughly destroyed them all.
55 SUBJECT:
Shells for Laser Ammunition?
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 shootouts they used blank bullets (so they would
know when they
were shot, and they would simulate "kickback") which
ejected spent
cases as if they were real bullets.
56 SUBJECT:
Magic Hair
SCENE:
During the cell
bay shootout, and Leia gets lippy with our heros.
EVENT:
Leia says "This
is some rescue". Notice that a little piece of hair
has slipped out
of the buns and is loose on her forehead, on our left
hand side.
The camera cuts to Han, and then back to Leia. The loose
piece of hair
is miraculously tucked back into the bun.
57 SUBJECT:
Restocking The Weapons
SCENE:
Our heros are
battling in the corridor of the detention block.
EVENT:
Luke uses the
comlink to call up to the droids in the Death Star
control room to
ask how to get out. On the right of the screen, next
to the red and
black computer panels, there is a gun rack, which is
stocked with three
blaster rifles.
Later on in the
movie, when the stormtroopers barge into the control
room with the
droids, the gun rack has four rifles in it.
58 SUBJECT:
Chewie's Deja Vu
SCENE:
During the shootout
in the detention area, Leia shoots a hole in the
grate leading
to the trash compactor.
EVENT:
Leia tosses her
blaster to Luke and jumps in and Chewie begins to
follow and places
one foot in the hole. The camera cuts away to Han
shooting down
the hallway. The camera cuts back to the wookie who is
again walking
towards the compactor and places the same foot in the
hole again.
59 SUBJECT:
Flimsy Grating
SCENE:
Han has blasted
a hole in the grate leading to the trash compactor, and
our heros are
jumping through.
EVENT:
Han is the last
one to jump through, and as he jumps through the hole,
his foot hits
the alleged metal grate, however, you can see it giggle
as Han passes
by.
60 SUBJECT:
Moving Blaster Burns
SCENE:
In the trash compactor
after Han jumps in.
EVENT:
When Han lands,
he fires his blaster at the door in an attempt to open
it. The
blast hits the door on the left, and creates a dark grey
discolouration.
In the next and subsequent scenes, the blaster burns
disappear, reappear
and move all over the door.
61 SUBJECT:
Speak Up Luke!
SCENE:
After you hear
the roar of the Dianoga in the trash compactor and right
before he is pulled
under.
EVENT:
Luke turns his
head and moves his mouth, but nothing comes out. It is
quite easy to
read Luke's lips saying "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.
62 SUBJECT:
Quick Change Leia
SCENE:
Luke gets pulled
underwater by the trash compactor beast and our
heroes wait for
him to resurface.
EVENT:
Leia and Han wait
nervously for their friend to come out of the
water. The
camera cuts to Leia as she leans to our left against some
garbage.
The camera then goes in for a close-up of Leia who is now
leaning forward
and to our right, with no time to change between the
camera shots.
63 SUBJECT:
Stormtrooper's Low Clearance
SCENE:
When Luke, Leia,
Han, and Chewie are inside the trash compactor, in the
Death Star.
EVENT:
After the compactor
has started and Luke is yelling into the comlink,
the camera cuts
to C-3PO's comlink sitting on the table, and then to
the security door.
The door opens and Stormtroopers walk in. The
trooper behind
and on the right of the lead trooper hits his head.
64 SUBJECT:
The Incredible Shrinking Stormtrooper
SCENE:
Artoo and Threepio
are found by the imperials in the control room.
EVENT:
One stormtrooper
hangs back to guard the door which is low enough for
someone to hit
their head on. The camera cuts to a different angle
and there is all
of a sudden plenty of clearance between the trooper's
head and the bottom
of the door.
65 SUBJECT:
Space Age Metal
SCENE:
Right after
we hear Threepio say "Use the comlink? Oh my, I forgot."
EVENT:
The camera cuts
back to our heroes in the trash compactor. Leia
grabs a metal
pole to try and brace the walls. Watch her left hand as
she grabs it.
It actually "crunches" momentarily when she clutches
it, and when she
loosens her grip, it returns to normal suggesting a
VERY weak metal
not even worth trying to brace the wall with.
66 SUBJECT:
Indecisive Chewie
SCENES:
While our heroes
are trapped in the trash compactor, after Han speaks
the line "One
thing is for sure, we're all going to be a lot thinner."
EVENT:
We are shown a
medium close up of Chewbacca who is pushing against the
wall with his
hands. He then turns to our right to grab his blaster.
We are then shown
a shot from further away where Chewie is once again
pushing against
the wall. After a few seconds, Chewie turns around
again to grab
his blaster.
67 SUBJECT:
Make Up Your Mind Chewie
SCENES:
Just before the
droids disable the trash compactor.
EVENT:
We are shown a
wide shot where Chewie is bracing the wall with his
bowcaster and
he is keeping it steady. We cut to a close up of the
wookie who is
pushing against the wall with his hands. Finally we cut
back to a wide
shot where Chewie is once again bracing the wall with
his bowcaster.
68 SUBJECT:
Colourful Trash
SCENE:
Han, Leia, Luke,
and Chewbacca have exited the trash compactor and
begin to compose
themselves.
EVENT:
In the first scene,
if you look past our heros and through the door
into the trash
compactor, you will notice that the contents of the
room are very
dark. Lots of browns and blacks. However, in all the
camera shots afterwards,
if you look through the door, there are
orange objects
on the left side resembling road pylons that were not
there before.
69 SUBJECT:
Quick Hands
SCENES:
Our heros have
escaped the trash compactor. Leia and Han are
exchanging insults.
EVENT:
Keep an eye on
Luke while Leia says "From now on, you do what I tell
you." He
is holding his blaster in his left hand, which is up by
his head.
When the camera cuts to a different angle, Luke's left
hand is down by
his side.
70 SUBJECT:
More Quick Hands
SCENE:
Luke and Leia
are on the bridge that needed to be extended.
EVENT:
Luke throws the
grappling line up and prepares to swing across. Leia
throws both of
her arms around Luke's neck and gives him a kiss. But
when we instantly
cut to a far shot of the pair swinging across, Leia's
hands are clinging
to his waist.
71 SUBJECT:
Who Dressed You Vader?
SCENE:
During Darth Vader
and Obi-Wan Kenobi's lightsaber battle on board the
Death Star.
EVENT:
During a brief
pause in the action, the camera cuts to a medium shot
of Vader while
he speaks the line "You should not have come back."
Vader's chest
plate is backwards in this scene.
72 SUBJECT:
More Saber Shadows
SCENES:
During Darth Vader
and Obi-Wan Kenobi's lightsaber battle on board the
Death Star.
EVENT:
On several occasions
you can see a shadow of the lightsabers against
the wall as the
two duel. The instances are too numerous to mention.
73 SUBJECT:
Out of Batteries?
SCENES:
During Darth Vader
and Obi-Wan Kenobi's lightsaber battle on board the
Death Star.
EVENT:
There are several
times when things are positioned just right that you
can see a white
power cord used to light up Ben's lightsaber. This
effect was later
scrapped and the "light" was added in
post-production.
74 SUBJECT:
The Lightsabers Have Lost Their Shine
SCENE:
During Darth Vader
and Obi-Wan Kenobi's lightsaber battle on board the
Death Star.
EVENT:
There are two
or three shots of Ben when his lightsaber had not been
coloured.
As well, after Ben is killed, Vader's light saber is white,
instead of red.
This is because the colouring was added after the film
was made, and
the optical effects crews forgot to add colour to this
one scene.
The white is the actual colour of the rod. The most
notable instance
of this is after Vader slays Ben and we see Darth
Vader from across
the hanger bay. His saber is white.
75 SUBJECT:
The Shadows . . .
SCENE:
When Chewie and
Han arrive first in the hallway leading to the
Millennium Falcon
before the line "Didn't we just leave this party?"
EVENT:
You can see the
shadows of Luke and Leia, who are waiting to run in on
cue right after
Han and Chewie run in.
76 SUBJECT:
Artoo's Weak Legs
SCENE:
In the Death Star
hangar bay, before Luke, Han, Chewbacca and Leia
make a run for
their ship.
EVENT:
Threepio turns
to Artoo and says "Come on Artoo, we're going".
Artoo extends
his third leg and begins to roll. In the next shot,
Han instructs
his party that they too are going to make a break for
the Falcon.
We cut back to Artoo, and if you look at the base of
his legs, his
back two legs appear to be joined by a white bar
which is very
close to the floor.
77 SUBJECT:
Malfunctioning Lightsaber
SCENE:
Ben notices that
our heros are trying to escape, and puts his
lightsaber up
in sacrifice.
EVENT:
When Vader takes
his long sweeping slice to Ben, Vader's saber
passes through
Ben's lightsaber blade slightly above the hilt,
when in all other
occasions, lightsaber blades could not pass
through each other.
78 SUBJECT:
Do It Again
SCENES:
Darth Vader just
slays Obi Wan Kenobi and a firefight erupts in the
hanger bay of
the Death Star.
EVENT:
Everyone except
Luke has taken refuge in the Millenium Falcon. Obi
Wan's spirit instructs
Luke to run, and he does. We see a medium
close up of Luke.
He is holding his blaster with two hands. He
turns, and drops
his blaster down by his side, holding it with only
one hand.
We then cut to a further away shot, and see Luke holding
the blaster with
two hands, and then dropping it down to his sides
again!
79 SUBJECT:
Leia's Fast Moves
SCENE:
Everyone except
Luke has moved towards the Falcon's boarding ramp.
EVENT:
Leia runs up the
ramp, and stops, standing behind the ramp support
beam closest to
the camera. As the camera cuts to different angles,
Leia shifts position
from behind the support beam, to beside the
loading ramp,
and back, numerous times.
80 SUBJECT:
Falcon Needs More Support
SCENES:
The Millenium
Falcon escapes the Death Star, and Han notices that
some TIE fighters
are in pursuit.
EVENT:
Han and Luke are
waiting in the gun ports of the Millenium Falcon.
Leia calls over
the comlink "Here they come!". The shot changes to
a rear exterior
view of the Millenium Falcon as the TIEs overtake
her. If
you look at the white engine glow coming from the rear of
the Falcon, you
can see a black vertical bar, which was the support
for the model
used in filming.
81 SUBJECT:
Inconsistency of Hyperspace
SCENES:
After the Falcon
escapes from the Death Star and battles free of the
pursuing TIE fighters.
EVENT:
The last of the
fighters are destroyed and the Falcon jumps to
hyperspace.
We cut back to a conversation between Tarkin and Vader,
and then back
to the cockpit of the Falcon. As Han and Leia speak,
if you look out
the window, there are the plain stars of "normal
space" and not
the fuzzy white of hyperspace, that we see earlier in
the film.
82 SUBJECT:
Mirrored Heroes
SCENE:
Our heroes just
arrive at the Yavin 4 Base and are departing a
transport.
EVENT:
After Leia speaks
the line "We have no time for sorrows Commander" the
camera cuts to
Artoo being unloaded from a transport. The film has
been reversed.
The easiest ways to pick this out is to look at Artoo,
or Han's holster.
It's hanging off his left hip, instead of his
right.
83 SUBJECT:
Poor Plans
SCENE:
During the rebel
briefing conducted by General Dodonna.
EVENT:
The General shows
the rebels the Death Star plans downloaded from
Artoo's memory
banks. The "detailed" plans however are flawed, because
they show the
Death Star's main turret centred along the equator, when
in reality, the
turret was clearly on the northern hemisphere of the
battle station.
NOTES:
This was because
the model of the Death Star used in the film was
changed halfway
through productions for reasons unknown. However, the
computer graphics
had already been made for the original model and it
was either too
late or too expensive (or both) to change them to
reflect the new
model.
84 SUBJECT:
Bad Timing
SCENE:
The Death Star
approaches the rebel base on Yavin IV, while Tarkin
and Vader watch
a viewscreen.
EVENT:
A voice comes
over the intercom and announces that the rebel base
would be in range
in thirty minutes. The screen changes, and shows
a countdown timer,
starting at thirty. As the movie progresses, the
time displayed
on the viewscreen does not match the time announced
by the Death Star
crews.
85 SUBJECT:
Precision Ground Crew
SCENE:
In the rebel hanger
on Yavin before the battle, as Luke prepares to
board his X-Wing
before the battle.
EVENT:
The shot consists
of a matte with two ranks of X-Wings superimposed
on top, one shot
small the other large. If one watches the movements
of ground crew
closely, the large frame action is repeated a few
seconds later
in the smaller superimposition.
86 SUBJECT:
Pilots Switching Helmets
SCENE:
The rebel pilots
scramble in the hanger bay to get to their ships in
preparation of
the Death Star attack.
EVENT:
With the exception
of Luke, every pilot you see boarding a ship, or
running frantically
through the hanger is shown holding a very clean
white helmet.
The only markings on these helmets are blue "rebel"
logos, similar
to the ones on Luke's helmet. However, once the
pilots are in
flight, we do not see even one pilot wearing the
blue logo covered
helmet.
87 SUBJECT:
Broken Speedometer
SCENES:
The rebel fleet
is on it's way to the Death Star.
EVENT:
We see the fighters
from behind as they approach the Death Star.
Given it's tremendous
size, and the rate at which it is growing
larger to our
view, their rate of approach must be incredible.
Moments leader,
as they are about to begin the attach run itself,
Red Leader calls
"Accelerate to attack speed", and yet, when you
consider their
speed with their surroundings, they are now going much
slower than when
they were on their approach.
88 SUBJECT:
Threepio's Moving Dent
SCENE/EVENT:
Near the beginning
of the movie, C-3PO gets a dent on the left 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 his right
side, and Leia is now on the other side of him. This
is repeated several
times throughout the battle.
89 SUBJECT:
Reversed Red Leader
SCENE:
As the rebel fleet
approaches the Death Star.
EVENT:
Red Leader's microphone
attached to his helmet, switches from side to
side. This
is a result of the film being flipped during post
production.
This happens as he speaks the line "All wings, report
in!"
90 SUBJECT:
Mirrored Luke
SCENES:
During the battle
over the Death Star.
EVENT:
After Red Leader
says the line "Watch it, there's a lot of fire
coming from the
right side of that deflection tower," you will notice
that Luke's microphone
switches over to the opposite side of his
helmet for that
shot.
91 SUBJECT:
Revolving Windows
SCENES:
During the battle
over the Death Star, after the TIE fighters are
launched.
EVENT:
If you watch closely,
you will notice a difference between how the
cockpit window
of a TIE fighter looks from outside (the miniature
model) and from
inside with the pilot's eye view.
From the outside,
the windows are configured as follows:
|
\ | /
\.^./
/ \
---< >---
\ /
/'v'\
/ | \
|
But when viewed
from the inside of the cockpit, the windows are
arranged like
this:
\ /
-_ \__/ _-
- / \ -
| |
_- \__/ -_
- / \ -
/ \
92 SUBJECT:
Reversed Red Leader . . Again!!
SCENE:
During the battle
over the Death Star, right before Red Leader's
untimely death.
EVENT:
Red Leader's microphone
attached to his helmet, switches from side to
side. This
is a result of the film being flipped during post
production.
93 SUBJECT:
Mistaken Identity
SCENE:
During the battle
over the Death Star after Luke kills the TIE pursuing
Biggs.
EVENT:
Luke now has TIE
following him. Wedge says "I'm on him, Luke! Hold
On!" After
a few tense moments, Luke says "Blast it! Biggs, where are
you?" Didn't
Wedge say he was taking care of the TIE fighter? Perhaps
you could argue
that Luke was getting scared and wished his boyhood
hero to help him
since Wedge was taking so long, but even in the
script Luke says
"Blast it! Wedge, where are you?"
94 SUBJECT:
Mirrored Control
SCENE:
After Biggs' death
and Luke gets shot.
EVENT:
Luke speaks into
his microphone announcing to the control room that
he's alright.
We get a view of one of the controllers who's headset
is on his left
ear. But in the next cut, it's on his right.
95 SUBJECT:
No Wreckage
SCENE:
After Red Leader's
failed attack on the Death Star, and Darth Vader
is in pursuit.
EVENT:
One of Vader's
shots connect, and Red Leader's ship plummets towards
the surface of
the Death Star. We watch this happen from above,
just after Luke
looks out his cockpit window. If you watch this
scene in slow
motion, it is quite noticeable that no wreckage
actually hits
the surface, there is only an explosion. Because the
camera moves very
quickly in this scene, you wouldn't normally
notice this without
slow motion or pausing the picture.
96 SUBJECT:
Gold Five, Who Are You?
SCENE:
When Gold Five
is going on his attack run on the Death Star trench.
EVENT:
Gold Five calls
out, "Gold Five to Red Leader," to which Red Leader's
response is, "I
copy, Gold Leader."
NOTES:
At this point
in the movie, both Gold Leader and Gold Two are dead.
Because we never
see (or hear) from Gold Three or Four (assuming there
is a Gold Three
and Four in this battle) it is possible that Gold Five
is the leader
of the Gold squadron. However, standard military
protocol dictates
that although command can be delegated to others, but
not the position.
The most probable name that he would be called would
be "Acting Gold
Leader" although that cannot be verified.
The only exception
is in the navy, where a Commander is able to be the
commanding officer
on a ship. Although in rank, he/she is a commander,
he/she is referred
to as Captain by all except those ranking higher
than commander.
Furthermore, since
Red Leader presumably ranks higher than Gold Leader
due to the fact
that Gold Leader reports to Red Leader that he is
starting his attack
run. Even if Gold Five was acting commander,
protocol would
dictate that Red Leader refers to Gold Five by his
actual rank, and
not Gold Leader.
Also worth noting
is the fact that in the script, Red Leader says
"I copy Gold Five."
97 SUBJECT:
Instant Windows
SCENE:
Wedge complains
that he is hit, and Luke orders him to head back to
base.
EVENT:
As Wedge leaves
the trench, we cut to a shot of Vader sitting in his
TIE fighter, in
which he orders his wingmen to let Wedge go, and to
stay on the leader.
This shot is from slightly above Vader's head,
and you can see
a window behind him. This window is not shown in
any other shot
of Vader's TIE fighter, and if you look at Vader's
TIE fighter, there
is no window at all on the back.
98 SUBJECT:
Black Space
SCENES:
Luke is making
his trench run with the targeting computer engaged,
and Ben tells
him to turn it off.
EVENT:
If you look out
the rear left and right windows behind Luke, it is
absolutely black
outside. This is unlike all the other times when
you can see a
starfield and the sides of the Death Star trench
flying past the
windows.
99 SUBJECT:
Teleporting TIE Fighters
SCENE:
Han Solo comes
to the rescue of Luke and attacks Vader and his
wingmen.
EVENT:
In the shot where
the left hand TIE fighter is hit and crashes into
Vader's TIE fighter,
if you pause the picture when that scene first
begins, the left-most
TIE fighter is not there for the first three or
four frames, only
to reappear moments into the scene.
100 SUBJECT:
Paper Peanut Gallery
SCENE:
Although not a
blooper, this scene is when our heros walk into the
main room of the
Yavin IV rebel base to receive their medals.
EVENT:
The rebels that
you see on the extreme left and extreme right of the
screen are actually
cardboard cutouts of rebles, in an attempt to
make the room
look more filled.
NOTES:
In versions of
the film before the Special Editions, the colouring
of these "people"
looks a lot more bland in comparison to the real
people in the
scene. In the Special Editions, the colouring has
been touched up
to make them look more real.
101 SUBJECT:
Bad Lip Synch
SCENE:
Leia is about
to hand out the medals at the victory ceremony after the
Death Star's destruction.
EVENT:
We have a close
up of Han Solo and then we cut back to Leia who is
displaying a very
wide smile. She turns to our right to General
Dodonna to get
Solo's medal, but when the camera immediately shows us
a slightly wider
angle, Leia's mouth is closed.
102 SUBJECT:
Credit Where Credit Is Due
SCENE:
The credits -
cast section.
EVENT:
The actor that
played Wedge Antilles is credited as being played by
Dennis Lawson.
The actor's first name however, is spelled with only
one "n", and is
spelled correctly--as Denis Lawson--in the other
movies of the
trilogy.