1. Each actor, whose hero was reliable in the film, was entitled to choose the color of the sword himself. Mostly they took blue, like Anakin Skywalker or Obi-Wan Kenobi, green, like yoda, or red, like Darth Weider or Emperor Palpatin. Only Mais Windu has an unusual purple sword. Actor Samuel l. Jackson considered that such a light sword would look funny.
2. The word "Jedi", which George Lucas called his space knights, is from Japan. “Dzidai Geki” (“Historical Drama”) is a genre in Japanese cinema, which talks about samurai, their legends and real historical events. (For example, the film Takeshi Kitano “Onoii” is precisely the movie and the cinema). Lucas, who was in the Land of the Rising Sun a year before the filming of Star Wars and saw these films on TV, really liked the word “Jiday”, and he transformed it into “Jedi”.
3. All attack aircraft in Star Wars are armed with blasters E11. The prototype for them was the “Sterling” L2A3-a nine-mile-meter pistol-machine gun of the Second World War, used by the British troops. Due to the features of the design of the pistol (and as a result-blaster), you can only hold it with your left hand, so all the attack aircraft in the film turned out to be left-handed.
4. "Star Wars" could be called otherwise. The fact is that the 20th Century Fox film studio was dissatisfied with the name, believing that it was negativity. While working on the film among the crew and actors, a competition for the best version of the name of the picture was announced. But no one was able to come up with anything interesting, and therefore decided to leave the "star wars".
5. Dart Weider was the first hero invented by George Lucas for Star Wars. Vader (Vader) from the Dutch language translates as "father". Dart (Darth) denotes the "Dark Lord of the Sith" (Dark Lord of the Sith). The name of Anakin Skywalker was borrowed by George Lucas from his friend – director Ken Annakin. In general, “Enakin” is the Greek word “enax” in the vinide case, which translates as “lord”.
6. The character Khan Solo George Lucas “copied” from his friend – director Francis Ford Coppola, and Harrison Ford played him. Although, according to the initial idea of Lucas, Khan Solo was supposed to be a green alien monster without nose and gills. In addition to Ford, Kurt Russell, Nick Nolti and Christopher Waken tried to this role.
7. Peter Maikhe, who worked in the hospital as a orderly, got the role of Chubakki due to his huge growth – 2 m 18 cm. This representative of the Vuki race was sketched from the dog of George Lucas Indiana of the breed Alaskinsky Malamut. The language on which Chubacca speaks was made by compilation of sounds made by a polar bear, a badger, walrus and a camel.
8. The most famous robots-P2-D2 (R2-D2) and C-tripio (C-3PO)-could be called A2 and C3, but then George Lucas decided to give droids more “complete” names. According to the director, their names are simply a pleasant set of letters and numbers that mean nothing and does not decipher anything. Si-TRIPIO-a golden droid similar to a person,-Lucas made in the image of a robot from the fantastic film “Metropolis” of 1927.
I. To create a character, Obi-Van mr-play-casino.co.uk Kenobi George Lucas, inspired the film by Japanese director Akira Kurosava “Three villains in a hidden fortress” (1958) and directly the main character of the picture-General Rocule Macabe. That is why the image of the master-chew Obi-Wan Kenobi is so reminiscent of the samurai.
10. The character Luke Skywalker underwent many changes before he became the way he is. First, George Lucas wanted to make him a girl. Then he was thinking that the hatch was a gnome. According to the following version of the director, Skywalker could become a 60-year-old general. Even the name of the hero was originally Luke Starkiller (Starkiller – with English. “Star killer”), and only after the start of the filming of the first film of the film epic “Star Wars-IV: New Hope” he became Skywalker (Skywalker-with English. “Heavenly Wanderer”).
11. George Lucas was very unhappy that in 1983, US President Ronald Reagan announced a strategic defense initiative and called it “Star Wars”. In revenge, the director gave the vice-korov of the trading federation-a greedy, cowardly and evil type-the name Nut Ganrey. Nut translates as "Triton". Ganrei – Anagram of the name Reagan, as well as an anagram of the game: Ray Gun – with English. “Radiation weapons”.
12. The name of the teacher and Jedi Yoda was taken by George Lucas from Sanskrit: Yoddha translated “Warrior”. In “Star Wars-IV, V, VI” iodine was a doll. Lucas was so impressed by the work of Frank Oza, who not only voiced iodine, but also controlled a doll that he spent thousands of dollars on an advertising campaign, trying to achieve a nomination for an Oscar in the category “Best Supporting Actor”. But the film academia refused, considering that the puppeteer is not an actor.
13. Actress Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) was very worried that her heroine in all three parts of the movie epic, where she appears, goes in long shapeless clothes, behind which her figures are not visible. George Lucas went to Carrie to a concession and in the last film in the stage, when Leia was captured by Jabba Hatt, the actress was exposed as much as possible.
14. The design of the dress of Queen Amidala, which she wears in the film “Star Wars-I: Hidden Threat,” was based on outfits of the Mongol aristocracy. To sew it, costumers needed eight weeks. The prototype of the Amidala spacecraft was the legendary reconnaissance aircraft SR-71 BlackBird. And the pseudonym of Amidaly – Padme – translates from Sanskrit as “Lotus”.
15. In order to most believablely recreate the races in punishment and accident in the film “Star Wars-I: Hidden Threat”, specialists in special effects carefully watched the archive of the Nascar series races and Formula 1.
16. Dzhabba adviser Hatt Biba Fortuna was played by Michael Carter. In the first couple of weeks of filming, it took eight hours to turn the actor into this evil hero. A month later, costumers and make -up artists got up to change the Carter in just 58 minutes. Removing “Biba Fortune” Makeup took 25 minutes.
17. To get the roar of crowds during racing in karas, the sound engineer went to the American football match and recorded the reaction of the fans on the tape recorder. The crying of a three -year -old girl processed on a computer became the sound made by underwater monsters. The sound of the Thai Fiter spacecraft-compilation of the crunch of a young elephant and rustle of tires along a wet road. And the sound of the opening door of the shuttle of Darth Weider – the clang of the grate camera of the prison Alcatraz.
18. Initially, it was assumed that the Millennium Falcon spacecraft will be the form of an elongated cylinder familiar to missiles. But then George Lucas came up with the idea to make him ellip -shaped – in the form of his beloved Hamburger with Maslina.
19. The prototype of one of the largest ships of the AT Empire, capable of moving through thick forests, deep snow and desert sands, were the lifting cranes used in ship ports. In order for these gigantic steps to look realistic, the creators of the picture have been watching the elephants for a long time, whose gait was “appropriated” as a result of their “AT AT”.
20. Several times the heroes have to break through the asteroids. The creators of the film approached the objects flying in space creatively. In “Star Wars-V: The Empire Replies Back” among asteroids, you can see a soaring boot and potato. And in the Star Wars-II: the attack of clones "one flying stone block has legs, and the other asteroid is completely made in the form of a cow.
21. The appearance of General Grivus from Star Wars-III: the revenge of the Siths was invented thanks to a bottle of liquid soap. The communicator of the Kui-Gon Genna of Star Wars-I: The Hidden Threat is actually a slightly “modified” female razor Sensor Excel Razor, and among the trash in the spaceship you can see used cartridges from the printer. In the same first episode, you can see aliens similar to creatures from the films “Alien” and “Alien”.
22. The name of the funny alien jar-jar Bincas was invented by the five-year-old son George Lucas. The loyal fans of the Star Wars disliked this funny character, who first appeared in the film “Star Wars-I: Hidden Threat,” because of his comic and cynicism. Laughter for the sake of George Lucas launched a rumor that the next film would be called “Star Wars-II: a big adventure of Jar-Jar”.
23. For each race, its language was invented. So, for example, Evoki communicated in the Tagal language, widespread in the Philippines. Rasa Dzhavosov spoke in Zulusky, accelerated on a computer. Grido from Rodianov’s race was explained to Kechua – the language of the Peruvian Indians, – lost backwards. And Jabba Hatta was borrowed from one of the Vietnamese dialects.
24. Planet Tatuin, on which Anakin Skywalker was born and where his son Luke was then grew up in honor of the real city in Tunisia – Tatuin. Filming, respectively, took place in the same country. But once the film crew almost caused an international conflict. Libya really did not like that they were on their border with a huge number of incomprehensible military equipment, and, considering this a threat, the authorities almost announced universal mobilization. The Tunisian government politely asked Lucas to move into the depths of the country.
25. In 1980, three years after the first film of the film epic “Star Wars-IV: New Hope” (1977), the first photographs of the satellite of Saturn Mimas were taken, which turned out to be very similar to the “Star of Death” from the film by George Lucas. Astronomers tend to believe that a similar dent on Mimas is a crater formed as a result of a clash of a heavenly body with a huge asteroid. George Lucas did not comment on this message