17 interesting facts about the "Star Wars" Bashny.Net

1. What do the R2-D2 and rabbit Energizer? H3> Grant Imahara, engineer of robotics and one of the leading show "Mythbusters", created R2-D2 for the first and second episode of "Star Wars" and rabbit Energizer for commercials.

2. Bravo cer Alec h3> Alec Guinness, the actor, who played Obi-Wan Kenobi, was not a very high opinion of "Star Wars." He even called the film "a fairy garbage." Nevertheless, Mr. Guinness was one of the few participants in the shooting, who believed that the film would be a hit, and bargained currently 2% of the royalties coming to George Lucas. Thus he became a very rich man.

3. In space no panties h3> Carrie Fisher was not wearing underwear in "Star Wars." George Lucas convinced her that "in space do not wear underwear».

4. About unobtrusive h3> Carrie Fisher forced George Lucas to give her a copy of the television movie "Star Wars. A special edition ". Now it includes a movie party at the end, when he is tired and wants to have all gone.

Our audience is the creation of little known, so explained: "A special edition" was filmed with the financial support of General Motors in 1978, when just released episode IV and nobody has understood will become "Star Wars" hit or not. The plot tells the story of how Chewbacca tries to return home to celebrate with family national holiday. Family at this time looks different TV shows, musicals and tolerate oppression from Imperial (and who knows what is worse). At the end of the film Carrie Fisher sings.

In general, the space opera turned into a drama. George Lucas, trying to wash away the shameful stain from the reputation, has made repeated attempts to buy and destroy all copies of the special issue, so please Fischer was for him a separate trial.

If you still do not fully understand why Fischer method to get rid of the guests works flawlessly, just look spetsshedevr themselves.

5. Clever h3> While they were shooting the episode "The Empire Strikes Back," the actor playing the role of Darth Vader, was ordered to pronounce the phrase "Obi-Wan killed your father" instead of "I am your father," so that even the actors do not know how it ends .

6. Damn bold h3> While working on the fourth episode of "Star Wars" George Lucas paid the penalty, and resigned from the Directors Guild, the Guild to circumvent the requirement of standard credits. Subtitled "Episode IV: A New Hope" appeared only in 1981, four years after the release of the film. Yes, it is two things in one.

7. Oh, Ewan! H3> While filming fight scenes, "The Phantom Menace" Ewan McGregor is constantly imitated the sound with which the laser swords cut through the air. George Lucas explained the actor many times that the sound then add special effects experts. Ewen said, "Sorry, got carried away again».

8. It is useful when the word "shotgun" sounds too boring h3> In the universe of "Star Wars" there is a conventional firearm. It is called "pulevik» (slugthrower). Such weapons prefer headhunters for supremacy over the blasters.

9. Topher, I do the installation h3> Topher Grace, star of "That '70s Show," has mounted the first three episodes in a movie that fans of the saga recognized better than the original.

10. A successful bid h3> George Lucas was sure that the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" will work at the box office more "Star Wars", so he suggested to Steven Spielberg, director of "close contact", to exchange 2, 5% of the profits from the rental. Spielberg gets its 2, 5% today (see how he smiles).

11. "Fox" exactly this regret h3> The film company "Fox" gave all rights to souvenirs based on the original trilogy of George Lucas not to raise his salary because managers do not expect the "Star Wars" become such a popular phenomenon. < br />

12. "Star Wars" can change a person's life h3> After watching "Star Wars" in 1977. James Cameron he threw a career and truckers took to conquer the film industry. He won the "Terminator," "Alien," "Terminator 2", "Titanic," "Avatar».

13. "Synchronized" cameo h3> George Lucas has allowed members of the group 'N Sync played a cameo role in "Attack of the Clones" to please their daughters. From the final version of the movie scene was cut.

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14. What's in a name h3> George Lucas proved himself as an amateur literary device 'descriptive names. " Vader means "father" in Dutch. Name Description Sanskrit means "fighter».

15. And it's true h3> The Brazilian version of "Star Wars," the name of Count Dooku had to be changed to "Dukan", t. To. Dooku Portuguese word meaning "ass" or even "give in the ass».

16. In what order to review all the series at once? H3> In order Machete, presumably for better viewing of the saga. The intrigue is tied in episodes IV and V, then go prequels as a flashback (except episode I, his can be skipped), and together the story relates the episode VI. The procedure was proposed by Rod Hilton in his blog. Rod - developer programs in Ruby and Java, so that in the absence of logic, it is difficult to accuse.

17. Altruist smuggler h3> On the role of Han Solo auditioned Burt Reynolds, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Jack Nicholson, but charismatic smuggler eventually played Harrison Ford. During the shooting of "A New Hope", he received only 10 000 dollars. As originally designed, Solo was Bolotnikov from the planet Dagobah, so all this parade of stars could not have taken place.







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