Another interesting trivia. When training aboard Millenium Falcon with helmet on, Luke is constantly saying that he cannot see anything. What many people do not know is that this WAS NOT acting. Mark Hamill was legitimately complaining about not being able to see anything because of the helmet. George Lucas thought this was perfect for character who was just starting his training and therefore told camera crew to start filming. Hamill had no idea he was being filmed until after he took helmet off. That shot of Hamill legitimately complaining about not being able to see anything is the one that appears in the movie.
They added too many highly improbable coincidences. Vader being Luke's father worked. But making Leia Luke's sister was stupid. It also made Vader interrogating and going along with Leia's execution order, without realizing she's his daughter.
I agree that Cushing earned every penny and more. Grand Moff Tarkin is my favorite character out of all the trilogies. I can't wait to see him in The Bad Batch series.😊 According to Cushing, he was originally to play Kenobi and Christopher Lee was to play Vader but, schedules didn't work out. Cushing played Tarkin, Guinness played Kenobi and, Lee would play Dooku in 2002 & 2005.
Anthony Daniels also had a hell of a time when he needed the bathroom, as he need to ask for help removing enough of the suit so he could go... it got to the point that he just ate and drank very little so he wouldn’t need to get those urges while in costume.
Meanwhile no one ever talks about how R2-D2 was played by a real midget and he would get left in the costume for hours because the cast forgot someone was inside. One time he was passed out from a heat stroke since they were filming in Africa for the Tatooine scenes
@@Lawrence_Talbot Only certain standing R2-D2’s are suits though, if you can see tubes coming from his feet at an angle and going into his body, that’s the one with Kenny Baker (and later Jimmy Vee) inside. Many others are remote controlled, especially the ones with the third leg down.
@@briansullivan5908 they fixed a lot of the issues for RoboCop 2 (the repaired RoboCop for most of the film is the new suit, which is also a different color), but Peter Weller still refused to return for a third movie.
The problem with greedo shooting first isn't that it looks bad or that han is less cool. The problem is that the whole point is that han was a no good scoundrel who only looked out for number one, but by the end of the film he's the guy who comes back to help out Luke in the trench run.
Star Wars and Spaceballs. Two of my favorite movies (series). You know you are good if a spoof is made, especially such a good one as by Mel Brooks. The only analogy I have here is Michael Jackson and Weird Al Yankovic. You know you reached cult status if you have equivalently cult status parodies.
@@geoffroi-le-Hook I believe it was a request by Lucas that no Spaceballs mechandise should be produced alongisde the movie. So Brooks used this as an in-joke in the movie itself.
Van Helsing and Dracula both played characters in the star wars franchise. Peter Cushing rather famously played the vampire hunter Van Helsing opposite Christopher Lee's Dracula in Dracula 1972. Cushing and Lee were also good friends. I imagine that Lee found it an honor to associated with his late friend's role when he was asked to portray Count Dooku.
I never understood George's reasoning about not wanting to cast Harrison Ford because he was in American Graffiti and yet he auditioned Cindy Williams who had a bigger part in Graffiti and scenes with Harrison.
Peter Cushing refused to wear boots in his role as Moff Tarkin and insisted upon wearing his own personal slippers on set. As such, Tarkin is only shown from the knees up.
Lol!, Lucas only taking a $100,000 salary in exchange for sequels and merchandising. a slam dunk for fox. They figured the movie merchandising wouldn’t be good. I had damned near every toy made after seeing episode 4. The rush to buy Star Wars toys was wild back then. I even had the stars trading cards. They came in a pack with gum. I gotta go out on the garage and find the action figures and other crap from back then. None of its in any packaging, but a lot of it is in good shape still.
I remember having some of the cards. I distinctly recall a lot of cool little details you could see in the cards that were not shown or couldn't be made out in the film. I liked other toys, but my older brother was huge into the star wars toys.
One thing too Tom Selleck and if I remember right Butt Reynolds turned down part of Solo. Also when it was a trailer at the movies Mark Hamil was at a theater and saw the trailer coming out this summer and some guy yelled out "Coming out this summer and will be on late night TV this fall!" Everyone laughed yet it was on the big screen in the Fall! Boy did they never forgot it! Star Wars still going strong!
john williams obviously takes a great bit of inspiration from gustav holst, the dude who wrote the planets suite. why on earth would you not hire that man for a space film?
The rating issue is also rumored to be a reason for Greedo shooting first. Supposedly, the MPAA were about to slap a PG-13 on the Special Edition and Lucas, wanting to keep his PG, made Han shoot in self defense to avoid the rating being raised.
Didnt know that DePalma helped write the crawl..also Willow got made because Lucas promised the Ewok cast that had an idea for a film that they could all be in
Here's another fun fact about Brian De Palma, him and George were casting Carrie and Star Wars at the same time to save on cost, which is why so many women auditioned for Leia, because they were also auditioning for Carrie.
I knew some of them, but some were a real surprise. I would love for someone (Disney?) To release the original trilogy as it was before George remasterised everything. It would be sooooo great to see it again in its "purest" form.
Its "purest form" was on a rushed master print. It wasn't properly cleaned, or properly stored by Fox. When Lucas made the special editions (in order to trial technology for the prequels which revolutionised cinema for the second time) they had to take the master apart and scan every element of the composite before recreating the movie. What you actually had in the projection at the time would look like shit today. So what you want doesn't exist, and never did. But you can buy a laserdisc of the theatrical cut. Of course, it won't look as good as you remember it would have or could have been, because the mind is a hopelessly flawed machine.
To see it in its original form, just buy an old VHS tape. That low res quality is what Star Wars looked like in 1977, and that is how everyone saw it back in the day. If you want the "authentic" experience, be my guest.
I understand what you mean, and would've liked, I dunno, two different versions. One that was JUST remastered (fixing things like many of the space shots going from light to dark to light from frame to frame, and Obi-Wan's lightsaber momentarily disappearing while fighting Vader) and another remastered with his extra stuff.
I was there in '77, and the lines were unimaginably long, stretching for block after block. We got to the vicinity in late afternoon, and by the time we shuffled close to the window of the box office it was already dark and the stars had come out. Quite appropriate timing, really. After all these years I still remember that evening like it was no more than a few weeks ago!
I saw the thumbnail and thought: "That is not Carrie Fisher." Than I recognized her "Wait, what? That is Ripley herself Sigorny Weaver. She was concidered for the role as Princess Leia?" Then I watched this video ande got the confirmation. I mean Weaver played a badass in the Alien-movies but I also think, that Fisher was the better choice (Rest In Peace Princess). Because Weaver was too much of an badass to fit in this role at this time. And Fisher gave her role as Leia (besides the badassery) the needed layer of vulnerability. And she did it perfectly.
#6 does raise an interesting question in how much Star Wars as we know it would have been different, had Disney been backing it from the very start, and not just from 2012 onwards.
12:15 We're not sure what the noise is you made ("an-jal-acka huss-ton") when you showed Angelica Huston on screen but it was nowhere near how her name is actually pronounced "an-jeh-luh-kuh hyoo-stn". An easy mistake as the Huston family have only been in the film industry since 1929
Yes pronunciation, or accuracy, is not a strength of this channel. They often mispronounce words from the script they're reading. The Blade Runner videos being a particularly funny example.
I can believe that GL probably did say something like wanting an instantly recognisable shape, and also that its designers probably likened it to a hamburger as it was taking shape. So I suppose these two merged to create the legend.
Actually, the story of Alec Guiness hating this movie was mostly an urban legend. While Guiness indeed was not happy with his role in the movie and especially most of his lines, since he, as he said himself, didn't understand most of it, he later claimed that he enjoyed working with the rest of the cast, especially Harrison Ford, of whom he previously didn't have good opinion as an actor but changed it during shooting. He also later changed his perception of the movie, especially after receiving tons of fan mail telling him how much joy the movie brought to so many people.
Yep. He was a big theater/Shakespearean actor and was more so disappointed that despite all of that he is immortalized for playing an old man that dies in the first 1/3 of a film. That being said, he never hated Star Wars and came to love the recognition it brought him
@@ihadathoughtonce1016 Try reading my comment again. I didn't say it wasn't a source for power. I said it's not THE power source. It FOCUSES the power. The power to turn the light saber on is the diatium power cell. Yes once a light saber is ignited it keeps going on It's own. However WITHOUT a power source it can NOT ignite. Which in any scientific term means it's NOT the power source!!! Google it for yourself.
i wouldnt have had an issue of karen allen or jodi foster had taken leia from carie fisher but i love fisher and can't complain with what she brought to the table
Peter Cushing filmed most of his scenes either in his socks or slippers as the boots he was given were ill fitting and caused him discomfort. This is why most of his scenes are filmed from waist up.
1977; my older brother n his mates go to see "A New Hope", he comes back and says to me "You won't believe the film that I just saw!" So the next weekend; he took me to see it, n while he stood in the upstairs queue, I walked over n looked out the window down at the traffic! 22 years later; my mom had said the she wanted to see R2 D2 in the new Star Wars movie. We happened to be by a cinema in the town we were visiting. So we went in and while she stood in the upstairs queue; I walked over n looked out the window down at the traffic! Then I realised what had just happened!!! 😳
and thats another thing i dont get that people say about star wars: "Its obviously aimed at children." Is it? Realy? What makes you think that? See i remember a movie series containing complex moral issues (Like Slavery), a reimagening of important historical events (fall of the roman republic). I remember decapitations, i remember maimings, torture (TORTURE!), horrific scenes of war (like pilots burning to death in their cockpits), horror and trauma. What with this is "Obviously aimed at children"? Is it because it contains things that you have also seen in Disney movies, like swordfights and "wizards". Is it because it sells alot of toys? Yea the toys are somewhat aimed at children. Not exclusively, but sure, some are. Others are not. Just because you sell merchandise does not make it toys. But much merchandise are toys. Sure. There are toys for Alien franchise. are those movies then obviously aimed at children? Can someone explain this statement, because i dont get it.
You're going off the deep end here. Children range in ages. The target audience from the beginning was supposed to be adolescent boys to early 20-somethings. That's why Luke Skywalker was played by Mark Hamill instead of someone who resembled an actual man. It was so teenage boys and very young white men could see themselves as a potential hero, too. It's also why the majority of original fans hated the most recent trilogy. From their perspective, a young scrawny white male was no longer the hero-type, which meant their fantasy was under siege.
Han never shot first, shooting first implies a second shot. Hashtag Only Han Shot, not Han Shot First. Plenty of imperials didn't shoot first, what makes Greedo so special Once read that the gal in the deleted Tosche Station scene was George's second choice to play Leia if Carrie Fisher turned it down. "Don't worry about it wormie." She beat out all those other names 😯
@@joenesvick7043 well now that it's been put out there for the world to see Disney will now attempt to fire us due to us using our freedom of speech lmao.
6:50 I would have loved seeing what Jerry Goldsmith would have done doing the theme music for SW. I think if anyone could have done better. It was him.
Williams is more of a shall-we-say borrower. That can be annoying whenever you do recognise to which original pieces his cues are "homages", but his musical knowledge and scoring abilities are top-notch, so in the end he creates enormous variation and dynamism in his work. Goldsmith was an actual composer. He had his own voice, and his recognisable lyricism often worked against the director's desire for "just some exciting battle music here". JW would just rip off Stravinsky in such cases (geniuses only steal from the best!) whereas JG would be coerced into ripping off his own earlier work.
4:40 Star Wars - a new hope the severed arm (in the Cantina scene) ..but they still managed to make it a 'U' rating (U = universal) in the 1970's/80's etc. As did Empire! However, we are more conservative with censorship these days. Which is why, they now have e a 'PG' rating.
The original script was supposedly much darker than the movie turned out to be. When they were cutting down from 300 pages of the original script, they decided to cut the darkest scenes out. Many of them, however, ended up in sequels and even into prequels.
It's like George Lucas didn't know his own characters - of course Han shoots first! A major subplot of the original trilogy is Han's redemption from cold-blooded killer to hero.
@@michaelrue1400 - which is why I said that Han shot first WAS self-defense. At the same time, it gives the character a moral ambiguity that Luke, say, doesn't possess. Lucas's constant faffing about with the scene shows just how unwilling he is to engage with even the hint that one of his heroes might not choose to play fair.
I'll say, that with the shooting Greedo aside, look at all the other shitty stuff he does! If you take the character as a whole, even until his death, he is a liar, a cheat, a smuggler, a coward, and the list goes on. I'm sure there are MANY reasons he changed that half second of film, and not a damn one is that he has some weird problem with making the character look questionable.
"Angela Cahuston" - I'm really sick of WhatCulture disrespecting actors by purposely mispronouncing their names (it's all to drive 'engagement' in the comment section).
Guessing George Lucas has never been in an actual shootout. When in conflict, it usually comes down to who fires first, will actually get to live, especially in such close quarters as is depicted in "The Star Wars" (yes that is what it was to be called). Shoot first and ask questions afterward/later. Also back in the day, George Lucas actually went on record as saying that "The Journal Of The Whills" was actually conceived as a twelve part story. Interesting fact about Cushing's filming schedule, was that he did it in carpet slippers, due to bad feet no getting on with jackboots, which is why you never actually see him in full, only from the waist up. Lastly I hope that the new "Willow" series is going to be based upon George Lucas' and Chris Claremont's trilogy of books, Shadow Moon (1995), Shadow Dawn (1996), and Shadow Star (2000), and will hopefully be directed by Ron Howard or even Bryce Dallas Howard. That would be cool. My copies of these books is much treasured (and they are better written than that Game of Thrones Rubbish), but I feel my collection is incomplete due to the fact I was never able to find a copy of Weyland Drew's adaption of the original film. Always loved the movie Willow (right from the start), and even have an original theatrical release poster in my collection.
Haha, 14:43 so Star Wars E.p IV didnt premiere in China until The year The First Disney Sequel premiered? Well that explains alot why Disney Star Wars were boycotted in China. They obviously saw the OT within months before Disneys total failure of a trilogy.
I know the "things you DIDN'T know " is clickbait....bit, c'mon, you don't think diehard Star Wars fans don't know at least some of these? Give us a bit of credit.
The idea that Lucas wrote 250 - 300 pages is a myth. George definitely had an array of ideas that were used through out the saga, but Lucas did not like writing and struggled to find a story he was happy with for the first movie, let alone an entire trilogy.
Wrong. Lucas wrote a massive script, realised it was too big to make into a single film, and had to cut it down and rewrite it multiple times to make it work as a 2 hour film. Most of those unused elements ended up in the sequels and prequels. You can read those early drafts he wrote online, there are several different versions. The first full draft ("The Star Wars") was eventually turned into a comic book series, and is vastly different from the final movie.
@@Rocket1377 Aside from the fact that the massive script "rough draft" was only 132 pages-making it twenty-four pages shorter than the final screenplay, and not the exaggerated behemoth he claims-the basic plot is remarkably similar tothe final film.
did anybody know that George Lucas nearly paid for this project with his life? i read in a book that George Lucas suffered severe chest pains and hypertension during the filming .
Most of the vids this channel puts out are either really rehashed or just totally off point. As if they haven't actually seen the films but were told about them.
He didn't split up the script into three, he split it into nine. He really had nine movies worth of material crammed into one script, and his friends made him pick one movie's worth, to avoid disaster.
Funny... People forget George's script heavily inspired TRoS... Yet people say it "Ruins George's vision" TBF we don't know ETF George's vision was, he seems to literally retcon everything.
I think it was more like 9 movies worth of outlines or ideas in his head. I have read elsewhere that in terms of an actual script for Star Wars it was as described in this video. Enough for 3 movies. I don’t think he had at the point fleshed out actual scripts for 9 movies.
@@latewizard301 The main thing that made StarWars so great was that Lucas had friends who could kind of edit him. Once he got powerful enough, it really went down hill. The first two movies were amazing. The third was an episode of the Muppet Show. And we do not talk of the prequels. But sure, it was totally Disney that fucked up StarWars... I think Disney hasn't been worth a damn since Peter Pan, but they've been treating StarWars a lot better than Lucas.
@@ernststravoblofeld yeah I'm gonna have to agree with you (except Peter Pan, cus Pirates of the Caribbean is gold) George's editing would have ruined A New Hope
The problem Anthony Daniels had with not being able to sit in his C3PO costume and had to lean against the wall during breaks, is incredibly similar to problems Jack Haley had with his Tin Man costume in Wizard of Oz. Unlike Daniels, Haley could sit down in his costume, but getting up proved to be a nightmare without being helped by others. Tired of asking for help, Haley simply decided to lean against the wall during all breaks. Daniels said that he was inspired by Haley in his performance as C3PO, despite the two character not having much in common, except both being made of metal.
Lucas wanted Solo to be more John Wayne, and yet the Solo-Greedo shootout is an almost beat-for-beat redo of the scene in Big Jake where Duke “shoots first” through shower doors before the bad guy could fire his gun.
Harrison Ford is a douche. Every character he ever played is Han Solo. Indiana Jones: Han Solo. Air Force One: Han Solo. The Fugitive: Han Solo. Never appreciated what side his bread was buttered on. Then he insists on killing him off in a completely horrid movie by an equally horrid character. Douche.
I knew all of these. Plus 8, is incorrect, David Prowse was told from the start that his voice wasn't going to be used in the final product. Originally Anthony Daniel's voice wasn't going to be used, George Lucas wanted an 'Used Car Salesman' voice. Eventually he was convinced to used Daniel's voice.
Probably because it’s pretty well known in the fandom. I would put it to the equivalent of like how LOTR fans talk about Vigo breaking his toe when he kicked that helmet.
The Kyber crystal was a relic in the original intended sequel called Splinter of the Minds Eye. Luke and Leia ended up being lovers and facing Darth Vader and defeating him. I bought the book long before Empire came
@@Rocket1377 They were not having sexual relationship granted, however this was written long before the sibling idea existed. If it did exist it was not communicated to Foster. It is alluded to in the story they have a great attraction to one another, although Leia refuses to acknowledge her feelings for a majority of the story. By the end of the story they are much closer and Very affectionate.
@@Shadowace724 I have read that leia and Luke being siblings was a hasty rewrite done after TESB when George abandoned plans to do another 4 movies and instead make ROTJ the last movie. In order to more quickly tie up loose ends in the plot this relationship was dreamed up. The backstory of what was intended to be the longer multi movie story arc for the main characters is very interesting.
Smoldering skeletons, a bloody severed arm, a blasted corps, various frightening creatures, various soldiers killed on both sides, a populated planet destroyed, and a battle station explosion all come to a G rating, but adding “hell” and “damn” puts it over into PG territory?
This differs with what was said at the time. The bloody arm in the Cantina was added to get the "PG" rating. This was brought up when someone asked Lucas why the light saber did not make a cauterized, bloodless wound. A bloody severed arm was also put in the next movie for the same reason.
@@Rocket1377 After doing more research, you are indeed correct, the bloody arm was always there. I was going by what had been widely reported at the time. According to this article, the movie received its PG rating because the film company resubmitted it and specifically requested that rating. www.cbr.com/movie-legends-revealed-did-star-wars-add-a-severed-arm-to-earn-a-pg-rating/
The number one thing to know is in it's theatrical release, the movie name did not contain a subtitle nor an episode name. When they, whom ever the powers might be, decided to change the name also decided to erase my first real date when I took them to opening night of "Star Wars". I have not and will not ever see any of the unnecessary prequels. The original trilogy didn't need any further back story. It just furthers my opinion off Hollywood having nothing original to produce. Rev George
@@Rocket1377 yes he is. He change Hollywood from an auteur to an entrepreneurial model. None of this negates the fact that film names were unnecessarily changed. Rev George
Though not ep IV, the tie bomber was nicknamed “double chili dog.” Slave I’s design was inspired by a street light when the artist was stuck in traffic on his way to work.
#20 has been known for decades. Newer generations (like my nieces) may not be aware of it, but a few years after (or directly after the movies’ release), it was known that Lucas made out like a bandit with the merchandising in order to recoup the cost of his investment. He gambled not only on the return on investment from merchandising, but also with creating the SFX for the movie. That, of course, led to the creation of Industrial Light and Magic, which is still sets a high standard for special effects in films today.
Another interesting trivia. When training aboard Millenium Falcon with helmet on, Luke is constantly saying that he cannot see anything. What many people do not know is that this WAS NOT acting. Mark Hamill was legitimately complaining about not being able to see anything because of the helmet. George Lucas thought this was perfect for character who was just starting his training and therefore told camera crew to start filming. Hamill had no idea he was being filmed until after he took helmet off. That shot of Hamill legitimately complaining about not being able to see anything is the one that appears in the movie.
you mean trivium
I’ve always thought that if George knew Luke and Leia were brother and sister in the first Star Wars he NEVER would have had them kissing.
The rest of the story had 3 and 6 years to be modified. Luke was also originally going to go to the dark side.
Well, I think the saving grace there was that THEY had no idea they were brother and sister.
@@TakersMissy True
But then we wouldn't have the meme of Leah saying "I kissed my brother, twice" - and Cersei Lannister looking smug.
They added too many highly improbable coincidences. Vader being Luke's father worked. But making Leia Luke's sister was stupid. It also made Vader interrogating and going along with Leia's execution order, without realizing she's his daughter.
I agree that Cushing earned every penny and more. Grand Moff Tarkin is my favorite character out of all the trilogies. I can't wait to see him in The Bad Batch series.😊 According to Cushing, he was originally to play Kenobi and Christopher Lee was to play Vader but, schedules didn't work out. Cushing played Tarkin, Guinness played Kenobi and, Lee would play Dooku in 2002 & 2005.
Now I want a Christopher Lee dub over Darth Vader. That would be awesome.
Lee was due to play Tarkin, not Vader
STARWARS...A NEW HOPE!!!!
Peter Cushing also wore slippers for most of the filming because the Imperial boots hurt his feet.
I believe that those "Imperial boots" are WWII era German officer boots, much like their uniforms are modified WWI era German officer uniforms.
Looking stylish always carries a price.
That explains why you cannot see his feet most of the time
I hope there's a blooper somewhere of a full shot of Cushing just padding around in slippers while being all villainous and stuff....
@@drdarkeny that would be awesome 🤣
Anthony Daniels also had a hell of a time when he needed the bathroom, as he need to ask for help removing enough of the suit so he could go... it got to the point that he just ate and drank very little so he wouldn’t need to get those urges while in costume.
Meanwhile no one ever talks about how R2-D2 was played by a real midget and he would get left in the costume for hours because the cast forgot someone was inside. One time he was passed out from a heat stroke since they were filming in Africa for the Tatooine scenes
Same thing happened with the Robo Cop suit.
@@Lawrence_Talbot Only certain standing R2-D2’s are suits though, if you can see tubes coming from his feet at an angle and going into his body, that’s the one with Kenny Baker (and later Jimmy Vee) inside. Many others are remote controlled, especially the ones with the third leg down.
@@briansullivan5908 they fixed a lot of the issues for RoboCop 2 (the repaired RoboCop for most of the film is the new suit, which is also a different color), but Peter Weller still refused to return for a third movie.
@@joermnyc that doesn’t diminish the fact Baker was left to roast in a metal can in the literal African desert.
The problem with greedo shooting first isn't that it looks bad or that han is less cool. The problem is that the whole point is that han was a no good scoundrel who only looked out for number one, but by the end of the film he's the guy who comes back to help out Luke in the trench run.
yes, we call that a pay-off
It also implies, that if Han shot first, he was canny and alert.
The bigger problem. Greedo missed at that range....
@@Me4-gc8qsI bet he misses the toilet too
Related to #17, one of the single best TH-cam videos ever made about Star Wars is called "How Star Wars was saved in the edit" by RocketJump.
I would also add John Williams music also saved it. Probably no movie has been transformed as much when the music was added.
Star Wars and Spaceballs. Two of my favorite movies (series). You know you are good if a spoof is made, especially such a good one as by Mel Brooks. The only analogy I have here is Michael Jackson and Weird Al Yankovic. You know you reached cult status if you have equivalently cult status parodies.
Spaceballs : The Movie! features all that merchandise because Lucas would not allow Brooks to sell any.
@@geoffroi-le-Hook I believe it was a request by Lucas that no Spaceballs mechandise should be produced alongisde the movie. So Brooks used this as an in-joke in the movie itself.
Van Helsing and Dracula both played characters in the star wars franchise. Peter Cushing rather famously played the vampire hunter Van Helsing opposite Christopher Lee's Dracula in Dracula 1972. Cushing and Lee were also good friends. I imagine that Lee found it an honor to associated with his late friend's role when he was asked to portray Count Dooku.
Was Van Helsing in 1st Hamer version of Dracula which was made in 1960s.
@@andybrace9225 Yes. Cushing's Van Helsing was in the first Hammer Dracula.
I never understood George's reasoning about not wanting to cast Harrison Ford because he was in American Graffiti and yet he auditioned Cindy Williams who had a bigger part in Graffiti and scenes with Harrison.
Peter Cushing refused to wear boots in his role as Moff Tarkin and insisted upon wearing his own personal slippers on set. As such, Tarkin is only shown from the knees up.
I’m old enough to remember seeing the original film at a drive in theater when I was 5.
12:16 "Angela Kah-Hurston". Nice.
Lol!, Lucas only taking a $100,000 salary in exchange for sequels and merchandising. a slam dunk for fox. They figured the movie merchandising wouldn’t be good. I had damned near every toy made after seeing episode 4. The rush to buy Star Wars toys was wild back then. I even had the stars trading cards. They came in a pack with gum. I gotta go out on the garage and find the action figures and other crap from back then. None of its in any packaging, but a lot of it is in good shape still.
I remember having some of the cards. I distinctly recall a lot of cool little details you could see in the cards that were not shown or couldn't be made out in the film. I liked other toys, but my older brother was huge into the star wars toys.
Not to mention, one hundred thousand dollars, in the mid seventies!?
Grand moff Tarkin was wearing slipper because his boots were not fitted properly.
I was just watching whatculture wrestling
One thing too Tom Selleck and if I remember right Butt Reynolds turned down part of Solo. Also when it was a trailer at the movies Mark Hamil was at a theater and saw the trailer coming out this summer and some guy yelled out "Coming out this summer and will be on late night TV this fall!" Everyone laughed yet it was on the big screen in the Fall! Boy did they never forgot it! Star Wars still going strong!
john williams obviously takes a great bit of inspiration from gustav holst, the dude who wrote the planets suite. why on earth would you not hire that man for a space film?
The rating issue is also rumored to be a reason for Greedo shooting first. Supposedly, the MPAA were about to slap a PG-13 on the Special Edition and Lucas, wanting to keep his PG, made Han shoot in self defense to avoid the rating being raised.
Didnt know that DePalma helped write the crawl..also Willow got made because Lucas promised the Ewok cast that had an idea for a film that they could all be in
Here's another fun fact about Brian De Palma, him and George were casting Carrie and Star Wars at the same time to save on cost, which is why so many women auditioned for Leia, because they were also auditioning for Carrie.
I had understood that even though Lucas produced Willow, Ron Howard had come up with the idea and at least outlined the script.
@@michaelrue1400 Lucas promised the Ewok crew a movie for them and wrote Willow in literature..Howard gave some ideas and directed..nothing more
11:15 “ok let’s build this reactor!”
I knew some of them, but some were a real surprise. I would love for someone (Disney?) To release the original trilogy as it was before George remasterised everything. It would be sooooo great to see it again in its "purest" form.
Not got VHS copies from 97???
Its "purest form" was on a rushed master print. It wasn't properly cleaned, or properly stored by Fox. When Lucas made the special editions (in order to trial technology for the prequels which revolutionised cinema for the second time) they had to take the master apart and scan every element of the composite before recreating the movie. What you actually had in the projection at the time would look like shit today. So what you want doesn't exist, and never did. But you can buy a laserdisc of the theatrical cut. Of course, it won't look as good as you remember it would have or could have been, because the mind is a hopelessly flawed machine.
To see it in its original form, just buy an old VHS tape. That low res quality is what Star Wars looked like in 1977, and that is how everyone saw it back in the day. If you want the "authentic" experience, be my guest.
@@PopeyeBjj86 yes, I have, but they were remasterised to celebrate 20 yrs. I meant the originals as they were in 1977, 1980, and 1983 in the theatres.
I understand what you mean, and would've liked, I dunno, two different versions. One that was JUST remastered (fixing things like many of the space shots going from light to dark to light from frame to frame, and Obi-Wan's lightsaber momentarily disappearing while fighting Vader) and another remastered with his extra stuff.
People stood in line for hours to see the original Star Wars in limited theaters.
I was there in '77, and the lines were unimaginably long, stretching for block after block. We got to the vicinity in late afternoon, and by the time we shuffled close to the window of the box office it was already dark and the stars had come out. Quite appropriate timing, really. After all these years I still remember that evening like it was no more than a few weeks ago!
At my local cinema the queue stretched to the end of the block and round the corner.
Peter Cushing also wore his house slipper while filming
Carrie Fisher was on video saying that it was budgeted like a low budget film
John Wayne 100% shot first in one of his films, cos his opponent was too good to be given any chance.
I saw the thumbnail and thought: "That is not Carrie Fisher." Than I recognized her "Wait, what? That is Ripley herself Sigorny Weaver. She was concidered for the role as Princess Leia?" Then I watched this video ande got the confirmation. I mean Weaver played a badass in the Alien-movies but I also think, that Fisher was the better choice (Rest In Peace Princess). Because Weaver was too much of an badass to fit in this role at this time. And Fisher gave her role as Leia (besides the badassery) the needed layer of vulnerability. And she did it perfectly.
#6 does raise an interesting question in how much Star Wars as we know it would have been different, had Disney been backing it from the very start, and not just from 2012 onwards.
12:15 We're not sure what the noise is you made ("an-jal-acka huss-ton") when you showed Angelica Huston on screen but it was nowhere near how her name is actually pronounced "an-jeh-luh-kuh hyoo-stn". An easy mistake as the Huston family have only been in the film industry since 1929
what did you expect from people like him from the uk, they don't know prorper english or how to really speak it. lol.
Yes pronunciation, or accuracy, is not a strength of this channel. They often mispronounce words from the script they're reading. The Blade Runner videos being a particularly funny example.
The hamburger inspiration for the Falcon is apocryphal. Lucas himself has denied this was the case.
I can believe that GL probably did say something like wanting an instantly recognisable shape, and also that its designers probably likened it to a hamburger as it was taking shape. So I suppose these two merged to create the legend.
Lucas: Leia is gonna marry Han. She can't marry a cold blooded killer.
Leia: *Shoots stormtrooper in no hesitation when he says "Set for Stun"*
Actually, the story of Alec Guiness hating this movie was mostly an urban legend. While Guiness indeed was not happy with his role in the movie and especially most of his lines, since he, as he said himself, didn't understand most of it, he later claimed that he enjoyed working with the rest of the cast, especially Harrison Ford, of whom he previously didn't have good opinion as an actor but changed it during shooting. He also later changed his perception of the movie, especially after receiving tons of fan mail telling him how much joy the movie brought to so many people.
Yep. He was a big theater/Shakespearean actor and was more so disappointed that despite all of that he is immortalized for playing an old man that dies in the first 1/3 of a film. That being said, he never hated Star Wars and came to love the recognition it brought him
I’ll come clean. The 1 spot ACTUALLY broke me!
The Kyber Crystal did NOT become the power source.
yes it did
@@ihadathoughtonce1016 Try reading my comment again. I didn't say it wasn't a source for power. I said it's not THE power source. It FOCUSES the power. The power to turn the light saber on is the diatium power cell. Yes once a light saber is ignited it keeps going on It's own. However WITHOUT a power source it can NOT ignite. Which in any scientific term means it's NOT the power source!!! Google it for yourself.
@@Jason4422Daddybear ok
I would like to see an unedited Star Wars with Prowse's voice, mostly cus we'll get a 77 mention of the word "Sith" and "cosmic force"
i wouldnt have had an issue of karen allen or jodi foster had taken leia from carie fisher but i love fisher and can't complain with what she brought to the table
there is something very wrong with the audio quality here
Ben Burtt recorded old women on the isle of Sicily for the voices of the Jawas, Sicily is just across the sea from Tunisia
Peter Cushing filmed most of his scenes either in his socks or slippers as the boots he was given were ill fitting and caused him discomfort. This is why most of his scenes are filmed from waist up.
Mace Windu at 13:12
I am picturing George Lucas just said aw fuck it Harrison you are Han solo now
1977; my older brother n his mates go to see "A New Hope", he comes back and says to me "You won't believe the film that I just saw!"
So the next weekend; he took me to see it, n while he stood in the upstairs queue, I walked over n looked out the window down at the traffic!
22 years later; my mom had said the she wanted to see R2 D2 in the new Star Wars movie. We happened to be by a cinema in the town we were visiting. So we went in and while she stood in the upstairs queue; I walked over n looked out the window down at the traffic!
Then I realised what had just happened!!!
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Lmao Eminem’s ex was almost kissing her brother in a galaxy far far away
and thats another thing i dont get that people say about star wars: "Its obviously aimed at children."
Is it? Realy? What makes you think that?
See i remember a movie series containing complex moral issues (Like Slavery), a reimagening of important historical events (fall of the roman republic). I remember decapitations, i remember maimings, torture (TORTURE!), horrific scenes of war (like pilots burning to death in their cockpits), horror and trauma.
What with this is "Obviously aimed at children"?
Is it because it contains things that you have also seen in Disney movies, like swordfights and "wizards". Is it because it sells alot of toys?
Yea the toys are somewhat aimed at children. Not exclusively, but sure, some are. Others are not. Just because you sell merchandise does not make it toys.
But much merchandise are toys. Sure.
There are toys for Alien franchise. are those movies then obviously aimed at children?
Can someone explain this statement, because i dont get it.
You're going off the deep end here. Children range in ages. The target audience from the beginning was supposed to be adolescent boys to early 20-somethings. That's why Luke Skywalker was played by Mark Hamill instead of someone who resembled an actual man. It was so teenage boys and very young white men could see themselves as a potential hero, too. It's also why the majority of original fans hated the most recent trilogy. From their perspective, a young scrawny white male was no longer the hero-type, which meant their fantasy was under siege.
@@devilsadvocate7486 ... and you think Im of the deep end.
Han never shot first, shooting first implies a second shot. Hashtag Only Han Shot, not Han Shot First. Plenty of imperials didn't shoot first, what makes Greedo so special
Once read that the gal in the deleted Tosche Station scene was George's second choice to play Leia if Carrie Fisher turned it down. "Don't worry about it wormie." She beat out all those other names 😯
Greedo is not an imperial, smartass.
They sure made it clear that Han had the only shot in the Han Solo story when he shot Beckett.
@@iank6174 but he's still a bad guy, why don't the imperials shoot first
@@Jason4422Daddybear I could just see George attempting to special edition that with Beckett shooting first had he still owned Lucasfilm lol 😝
@@joenesvick7043 well now that it's been put out there for the world to see Disney will now attempt to fire us due to us using our freedom of speech lmao.
6:50 I would have loved seeing what Jerry Goldsmith would have done doing the theme music for SW. I think if anyone could have done better. It was him.
Williams is more of a shall-we-say borrower. That can be annoying whenever you do recognise to which original pieces his cues are "homages", but his musical knowledge and scoring abilities are top-notch, so in the end he creates enormous variation and dynamism in his work. Goldsmith was an actual composer. He had his own voice, and his recognisable lyricism often worked against the director's desire for "just some exciting battle music here". JW would just rip off Stravinsky in such cases (geniuses only steal from the best!) whereas JG would be coerced into ripping off his own earlier work.
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Star Wars - a new hope
the severed arm (in the Cantina scene) ..but they still managed to make it a 'U' rating (U = universal) in the 1970's/80's etc. As did Empire!
However, we are more conservative with censorship these days. Which is why, they now have e a 'PG' rating.
My dad: a huge star wars fan
Me: casual watcher who's interested in the lore
Did i just see Obi Wans face change at 3:03? Looks strange to me.
The original script was supposedly much darker than the movie turned out to be. When they were cutting down from 300 pages of the original script, they decided to cut the darkest scenes out. Many of them, however, ended up in sequels and even into prequels.
Also there is a comic called the star wars that is based on Lucas's first concept of starwars
It's like George Lucas didn't know his own characters - of course Han shoots first! A major subplot of the original trilogy is Han's redemption from cold-blooded killer to hero.
Not so cold-blooded, it was self-defense even if Greedo hadn't shot because he would have.
@@michaelrue1400 - yes, but legally if Han Shot First, it wouldn't be considered self-defense...even though it was.
@@drdarkeny I only meant in the eyes of the audience, not the eyes of the law.
@@michaelrue1400 - which is why I said that Han shot first WAS self-defense. At the same time, it gives the character a moral ambiguity that Luke, say, doesn't possess.
Lucas's constant faffing about with the scene shows just how unwilling he is to engage with even the hint that one of his heroes might not choose to play fair.
I'll say, that with the shooting Greedo aside, look at all the other shitty stuff he does! If you take the character as a whole, even until his death, he is a liar, a cheat, a smuggler, a coward, and the list goes on. I'm sure there are MANY reasons he changed that half second of film, and not a damn one is that he has some weird problem with making the character look questionable.
The narration for this channel is trying to be distinctive, but it's off-putting.
"Angela Cahuston" - I'm really sick of WhatCulture disrespecting actors by purposely mispronouncing their names (it's all to drive 'engagement' in the comment section).
Bristol = pirates and farmers?
Good God you butchered Anjelica Huston's name there.
"Marcia" in the U.S. (where she was born and lived) is pronounced "mar-sha." I'm just sayin'...
Interesting you mention John Wayne but not that he acted in the film itself.
It's "Princess", not "General". :-)
20 facts you didn't know because they're not quite accurate.
Guessing George Lucas has never been in an actual shootout. When in conflict, it usually comes down to who fires first, will actually get to live, especially in such close quarters as is depicted in "The Star Wars" (yes that is what it was to be called). Shoot first and ask questions afterward/later. Also back in the day, George Lucas actually went on record as saying that "The Journal Of The Whills" was actually conceived as a twelve part story. Interesting fact about Cushing's filming schedule, was that he did it in carpet slippers, due to bad feet no getting on with jackboots, which is why you never actually see him in full, only from the waist up. Lastly I hope that the new "Willow" series is going to be based upon George Lucas' and Chris Claremont's trilogy of books, Shadow Moon (1995), Shadow Dawn (1996), and Shadow Star (2000), and will hopefully be directed by Ron Howard or even Bryce Dallas Howard. That would be cool. My copies of these books is much treasured (and they are better written than that Game of Thrones Rubbish), but I feel my collection is incomplete due to the fact I was never able to find a copy of Weyland Drew's adaption of the original film. Always loved the movie Willow (right from the start), and even have an original theatrical release poster in my collection.
luke as a dwarf? ..
Hell and Damn made the movie PG but not guns, explosions or blowing up a planet!.
What culture: this lack of a fan base in China helps explain the poor sales of the sequels there.
Fans: you mean their hate for Black people.
Haha, 14:43 so Star Wars E.p IV didnt premiere in China until The year The First Disney Sequel premiered?
Well that explains alot why Disney Star Wars were boycotted in China.
They obviously saw the OT within months before Disneys total failure of a trilogy.
To many adds to enjoy anything
Pez dispenser is actually hotter than Carrie
How can you get a G Rating after cutting off someone's arm with a sword and looking at the severed limb?
It was the 70’s. Violence in kids film was ok. Language and nudity were not. Remember, this was the era when The Exorcist had PG rating.
I know the "things you DIDN'T know " is clickbait....bit, c'mon, you don't think diehard Star Wars fans don't know at least some of these? Give us a bit of credit.
George Lucas is a genius....
NOW Disney decides to cash in on Star Wars....what a bunch of jerks!
12:50-12:53 How can he rip off something from 1999 if his was obviously before 99
They are referring to the Gerry Anderson series Space 1999.
@@geosword6 and they were just worried about the resemblance.
(This Video) Falcon inspired by hamburger.
(Other WhatCulture Video) Falcon NOT inspired by hamburger.
Make up your bloody minds.
The idea that Lucas wrote 250 - 300 pages is a myth. George definitely had an array of ideas that were used through out the saga, but Lucas did not like writing and struggled to find a story he was happy with for the first movie, let alone an entire trilogy.
Wrong. Lucas wrote a massive script, realised it was too big to make into a single film, and had to cut it down and rewrite it multiple times to make it work as a 2 hour film. Most of those unused elements ended up in the sequels and prequels. You can read those early drafts he wrote online, there are several different versions. The first full draft ("The Star Wars") was eventually turned into a comic book series, and is vastly different from the final movie.
@@Rocket1377 Aside from the fact that the massive script "rough draft" was only 132 pages-making it twenty-four pages shorter than the final screenplay, and not the exaggerated behemoth he claims-the basic plot is remarkably similar tothe final film.
did anybody know that George Lucas nearly paid for this project with his life? i read in a book that George Lucas suffered severe chest pains and hypertension during the filming .
"20 things casual viewers didn't know about Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope"
Fixed that for you.
Is this actually 10 things fans all know?!
Like George Lucas was hospitalised because of stress.
Most of the points can be found on IMDB and any that aren't covered are most definitely on DVD/BR extras
Most of the vids this channel puts out are either really rehashed or just totally off point.
As if they haven't actually seen the films but were told about them.
Yeah, George Lucas suffered a heart attack due to stress.
Williams' music for Star Wars was absolute iconic genius and the film would not have been nearly as impactful without it.
George: '"I was thinking we go 2.25%?"
Alec: (Chuckles) "Sure."
Why not make it a cool 5%?
This is not the percentage you are looking for.
He didn't split up the script into three, he split it into nine. He really had nine movies worth of material crammed into one script, and his friends made him pick one movie's worth, to avoid disaster.
Funny... People forget George's script heavily inspired TRoS... Yet people say it "Ruins George's vision" TBF we don't know ETF George's vision was, he seems to literally retcon everything.
I think it was more like 9 movies worth of outlines or ideas in his head. I have read elsewhere that in terms of an actual script for Star Wars it was as described in this video. Enough for 3 movies. I don’t think he had at the point fleshed out actual scripts for 9 movies.
@@latewizard301 The main thing that made StarWars so great was that Lucas had friends who could kind of edit him. Once he got powerful enough, it really went down hill. The first two movies were amazing. The third was an episode of the Muppet Show. And we do not talk of the prequels. But sure, it was totally Disney that fucked up StarWars...
I think Disney hasn't been worth a damn since Peter Pan, but they've been treating StarWars a lot better than Lucas.
@@ernststravoblofeld yeah I'm gonna have to agree with you (except Peter Pan, cus Pirates of the Caribbean is gold) George's editing would have ruined A New Hope
@@latewizard301 Yeah, Pirates was cool. 😄
When it comes to actual film editing, Marcia Lucas made that movie. She was one of the best. Taxi Driver.
The problem Anthony Daniels had with not being able to sit in his C3PO costume and had to lean against the wall during breaks, is incredibly similar to problems Jack Haley had with his Tin Man costume in Wizard of Oz. Unlike Daniels, Haley could sit down in his costume, but getting up proved to be a nightmare without being helped by others. Tired of asking for help, Haley simply decided to lean against the wall during all breaks. Daniels said that he was inspired by Haley in his performance as C3PO, despite the two character not having much in common, except both being made of metal.
Hamburgers are life savers (robert downy jr) and great blue prints for famous ships ( Millennium Falcon)
Lucas wanted Solo to be more John Wayne, and yet the Solo-Greedo shootout is an almost beat-for-beat redo of the scene in Big Jake where Duke “shoots first” through shower doors before the bad guy could fire his gun.
Harrison Ford is a douche. Every character he ever played is Han Solo. Indiana Jones: Han Solo. Air Force One: Han Solo. The Fugitive: Han Solo. Never appreciated what side his bread was buttered on. Then he insists on killing him off in a completely horrid movie by an equally horrid character. Douche.
@@proto-geek248 Sounds like a you problem.
@@ernststravoblofeld "Sounds like a you problem" What the hell does that mean?
@@proto-geek248 It means you are worked up about pointless shit that nobody cares about.
"If you want to shoot; shoot, don't talk"
I knew all of these. Plus 8, is incorrect, David Prowse was told from the start that his voice wasn't going to be used in the final product. Originally Anthony Daniel's voice wasn't going to be used, George Lucas wanted an 'Used Car Salesman' voice. Eventually he was convinced to used Daniel's voice.
How did you miss the look of Chewbacca being inspired by George Lucas' dog Indiana?
That's something people already know about, the title says 20 things you didn't know about
@@atharvadeshpande1092 I already knew everything mentioned in this video!
@@stevegallo8483 that's good man, I'm a Die Hard Star Wars Fan Too
@@atharvadeshpande1092 those 20 were far from unknown however
Probably because it’s pretty well known in the fandom.
I would put it to the equivalent of like how LOTR fans talk about Vigo breaking his toe when he kicked that helmet.
That "Mind's Eye" crystal was a focus, not a force container. It could magnify and focus one's force power.
*Obligatory I already knew everything snooty comment.*
The Kyber crystal was a relic in the original intended sequel called Splinter of the Minds Eye. Luke and Leia ended up being lovers and facing Darth Vader and defeating him. I bought the book long before Empire came
No, Luke and Leia are not explicitly depicted as lovers in that story. Their dialogue can be viewed as banter between siblings, not flirting.
Splinter wasn't an intended sequel, it was just a book Alan Dean Foster wrote.
@@Rocket1377 They were not having sexual relationship granted, however this was written long before the sibling idea existed. If it did exist it was not communicated to Foster. It is alluded to in the story they have a great attraction to one another, although Leia refuses to acknowledge her feelings for a majority of the story. By the end of the story they are much closer and Very affectionate.
@@Rocket1377 no they aren’t but they clearly are not brother and sister. It’s clear a future romantic relationship is intended.
@@Shadowace724 I have read that leia and Luke being siblings was a hasty rewrite done after TESB when George abandoned plans to do another 4 movies and instead make ROTJ the last movie. In order to more quickly tie up loose ends in the plot this relationship was dreamed up.
The backstory of what was intended to be the longer multi movie story arc for the main characters is very interesting.
21 - Carrie's hair was really wrapped around cinnamon buns.
It really was headphones, like in Spaceballs.
Still my favorite Star Wars movie.
Smoldering skeletons, a bloody severed arm, a blasted corps, various frightening creatures, various soldiers killed on both sides, a populated planet destroyed, and a battle station explosion all come to a G rating, but adding “hell” and “damn” puts it over into PG territory?
That's America for you. Murder and death are fine (as long as there isn't too much blood), but swearing and sex are wholly evil.
This differs with what was said at the time. The bloody arm in the Cantina was added to get the "PG" rating. This was brought up when someone asked Lucas why the light saber did not make a cauterized, bloodless wound. A bloody severed arm was also put in the next movie for the same reason.
@F Jess:
No it wasn't. The bloody arm was always there.
@@Rocket1377 I am going by what was said at the time.
@@Rocket1377 After doing more research, you are indeed correct, the bloody arm was always there. I was going by what had been widely reported at the time. According to this article, the movie received its PG rating because the film company resubmitted it and specifically requested that rating. www.cbr.com/movie-legends-revealed-did-star-wars-add-a-severed-arm-to-earn-a-pg-rating/
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The number one thing to know is in it's theatrical release, the movie name did not contain a subtitle nor an episode name. When they, whom ever the powers might be, decided to change the name also decided to erase my first real date when I took them to opening night of "Star Wars". I have not and will not ever see any of the unnecessary prequels. The original trilogy didn't need any further back story. It just furthers my opinion off Hollywood having nothing original to produce.
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George Lucas/Lucasfilm is not part of Hollywood.
@@Rocket1377 yes he is. He change Hollywood from an auteur to an entrepreneurial model. None of this negates the fact that film names were unnecessarily changed.
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Though not ep IV, the tie bomber was nicknamed “double chili dog.” Slave I’s design was inspired by a street light when the artist was stuck in traffic on his way to work.
Who is "Angelica Hursten" mentioned here??😆
Can you imagine a bunch of Chinese people seeing A New Hope for the first time in 2015 thinking it’s a new film 😂
Very interesting video I loved the original trilogy
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#20 has been known for decades. Newer generations (like my nieces) may not be aware of it, but a few years after (or directly after the movies’ release), it was known that Lucas made out like a bandit with the merchandising in order to recoup the cost of his investment. He gambled not only on the return on investment from merchandising, but also with creating the SFX for the movie. That, of course, led to the creation of Industrial Light and Magic, which is still sets a high standard for special effects in films today.
If you've seen Empire of Dreams, you already know most of these.