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George Lucas allowed his friend Steven Spielberg to help design some sequences during pre-production. This was partly because Spielberg wanted the experience of using the pre-visualization techniques pioneered by Industrial Light & Magic, as he was going to use them for War of the Worlds (2005). It was also because Lucas felt that his roles as writer, director, executive producer, and financier were taking up too much of his time and he needed another director to bounce ideas off.
Spielberg's main contribution was in the climactic lightsaber duel between Obi-Wan and Darth Vader. Eric Bui, a psychiatrist in Toulouse, France, co-wrote a study that diagnosed Anakin Skywalker as having Borderline Personality Disorder. When the authors reported their findings at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association they stated that Skywalker fit the diagnosis criteria: difficulty controlling anger, stress-related breaks with reality, impulsivity, obsession with abandonment and a 'pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of ideation and devaluation.' The first draft of the script also explained the mystery surrounding Anakin's conception. In the confrontation scene between Anakin and Palpatine (where Palpatine confesses to Anakin he is Darth Sidious), he would also explain that he used the technique of his Master, Darth Plagueis, to use the Force to will the midichlorians in starting the cell divisions that created Anakin, even going as far as calling himself Anakin's father. This explanation was later deemed unnecessary by George Lucas and too reminiscent of the big twist from Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and subsequently cut.
Anakin was originally supposed to just watch the entire fight between Palpatine and the other Jedi Masters, with Palpatine even having stolen Anakin's light-saber to do so. The entire fight would have had Anakin debating on which side he was going to choose. They even filmed it, but they figured that Anakin simply watching the fight meant that he had already made his choice, so it was refilmed to the current one. Further, the final fight between Windu and Palpatine was supposed to be an all-over-the-place masterpiece, but due to George Lucas wanting Ian McDiarmid to do as many of his own stunts as possible, it was reduced to, largely, Windu forcing Palpatine down the hallway and then a bit of a scrap in the office before Anakin showed up and both started talking to him. Gary Oldman had agreed to be the voice of General Grievous, but pulled out of the movie because it was being made using actors who are not part of the Screen Actor's Guild, of which Oldman is a member. George Lucas once quit the Writers' Guild, Directors' Guild, and the Motion Picture Association of America over a dispute concerning Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and has not been able to work with Guild actors since.
The role was read by Duncan Young on-set, and finally voiced by Matthew Wood, who, being a Lucasfilm employee, submitted his reading under the name of Alan Smithee. Ian McDiarmid is doubled by a trained stuntman for his light-saber battles and more physically demanding shots, such as when Palpatine scrambles away from Mace Windu.
As with Sir Christopher Lee, computer effects were used to put the actor's face over the face of the stunt double. McDiarmid stated in numerous interviews that he was pleased that his character, even if not himself personally, was finally involved in some action sequences. For the sword fight between Windu and Sidious, however, the demands for camera angles and close-ups meant that stunt coordinator Nick Gillard had to teach the two actors the entire fight sequence, which was then shot partly with the stunt performers, and partly with Jackson and McDiarmid. The final 'Star Wars' movie to be distributed by Twentieth Century Fox, which permanently holds the rights to Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) and hands over rights to the prequel trilogy and the final two installments of the original trilogy to Walt Disney Studios after May 2020, due to the Walt Disney Company's acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012. However, with the recent (as of October 2018) purchase of Twentieth Century Fox by Disney, the ownership could officially change hands sooner, as well as Disney owning the entire film franchise, including Episode IV.
Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) and Kenny Baker (R2-D2) are the only actors to appear in all of the original and prequel trilogy of 'Star Wars' movies. In second place is Frank Oz (Yoda) who appeared in five of the movies, and in third place are James Earl Jones (voice of Darth Vader), Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), and Ian McDiarmid (Supreme Chancellor Palpatine/Darth Sidious) who all appear in four of the movies (unless one counts McDiarmid appearing in the 2004 DVD Special Edition of Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), in which he replaced Clive Revill, and reprised his role as Palpatine). The character of Obi-wan Kenobi also appeared in all six movies, but was played by two different actors, Sir Alec Guinness and Ewan McGregor.
Many viewers were surprised that General Grievous could be trained in the Jedi arts, much less wield a light-saber. The answer is that when General Grievous was constructed, he was given the blood of Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas, who had a high midichlorian count. With this connection to the Force, General Grievous had no difficulty learning Jedi ways. (This idea was dropped when Disney took over the canon.
It is now accepted that even non-Force-sensitives can learn to wield light-sabers like Jedi with enough time and effort.). The Clone Trooper vehicles featured during the battle on Kashyyyk are the ten-wheeled HV6 Juggernaut armored personnel carriers, while the mini two-legged AT-RT light walkers and the AT-AP pod walkers are forerunners to the Imperial AT-ST mini walkers featured in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). In fact, the Juggernaut (also known as the Turbo Tank) is based on designs for the AT-AT Joe Johnston made for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980). As Anakin settles into Palpatine's viewing box, take a look at box adjacent to the Chancellor's.
It is filled with notable names from Industrial Light & Magic. Seated from left to right (first row) are visual effects producer Jill Brooks, animation supervisor Rob Coleman, visual effects producer Janet Lewin, (and back row) visual effects supervisor Roger Guyett, visual effects producer Denise Ream, and visual effects supervisor John Knoll. If you look at the shots that favor Palpatine during his wistful retelling of the Darth Plagueis yarn, you'll see Knoll sitting over his shoulder.
Over a period of several months, George Lucas approved hundreds of designs that eventually appeared in this movie. He re-wrote entire scenes and action sequences to correspond to certain designs he had chosen. The designs were then shipped to 'pre-visualization' to create moving CGI versions known as 'animatics'. Ben Burtt edited these scenes with Lucas, in order to previsualize what the movie would look like, before the scenes were even filmed.
The pre-visualization footage featured a basic raw CGI environment with equally unprocessed CGI characters performing a scene (typically an action sequence). Steven Spielberg was also allowed to assist the art and pre-visualization department's designs for several action sequences in this movie. Later, the pre-visualization and art department designs were sent to the production department to begin 'bringing the film out of the concept phase' by building the various sets, props, and costumes. To determine the required sets, Lucas analyzed each scene with the staff to see which moments the actors would come in most contact with the set, warranting the set to be constructed. While shooting key dramatic scenes, George Lucas would often use an 'A camera' and 'B camera', or the 'V technique', a process that involves shooting with two or more cameras at the same time in order to gain several angles of the same performance. Using the HD technology developed for the movie, the filmmakers were able to send footage to the editors the same day it was shot, a process that would require twenty-four hours had it been shot on film. Footage featuring the planet Mustafar was given to editor Roger Barton, who was on-location in Sydney, Australia cutting the climactic duel.
All other footage was forwarded to lead editor Ben Burtt at Skywalker Ranch in California. During the production of Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), while on-location in Tunisia, George Lucas filmed one scene intended for this movie, so that he would not have to return to that location. Many fans had correctly guessed that it would be the scene of Obi-wan Kenobi handing infant Luke to his aunt and uncle.
The scene was originally shot without Ewan McGregor (who wasn't required for the shoot in Tunisia). A double was filmed in a wide shot, handing over a doll to Owen Lars (Joel Edgerton).
However, during production of this movie, Lucas decided that Obi-wan should hand the infant to Beru (Bonnie Piesse) instead. The scene was re-shot during production of this movie, with all of the actors filmed separately in front of a greenscreen. Ultimately, no part of the original shot was used. This movie's title refers to the Sith getting their revenge, something to which was already alluded in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).
It is, however, never explicitly mentioned in any movie for what they are actually seeking revenge. In official Star Wars canon, the Sith Order emerged from a group of Jedi who challenged the old doctrine that self-sacrifice and restraint were the way to access the Force. Due to the believe that they could harness its power through their (violent) passions, these Sith Lords were exiled from the Jedi Order. The Sith subsequently banded together according to the 'Rule of Two', a succession of masters and apprentices with the common goal to conquer the Galactic Republic, and to exact their revenge against the Jedi Order for once expelling them. Palpatine/Sidious actually creating Anakin has been a popular fan theroy.
In an earlier draft of the movie's screenplay, the point is made more clearly, with Sidious telling Anakin, 'I arranged for your conception. You could almost think of me as your father.' Later drafts dropped this more blatant declaration, possibly to avoid feeling like a rehash of the famous reveal of Luke's parentage in The Empire Strikes Back. Although it was suggested by Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menance that Anakin was created by the Force, it is implied in Revenge of the Sith that Anakin may have been created by the Sith when Palpatine tells him of Darth Plagueis's ability to create life.
However, this is not made absolutely clear, and may well be Palpatine's way of simply manipulating Anakin by telling him there is a method by which death can be averted. The only Star Wars film in which director Steven Spielberg had some uncredited involvement, in the previous films he visited the sets or attended the projections of each film supporting George Lucas. For this film he directed some sequences, Anakin landing General Grievous' cruiser, Obi-Wan chasing Grievous through Utapau, and wrote some ideas for the climatic duel between Anakin and Obi-Wan, he also worked a few days with the art direction team, so he could teach the young and new members of the crew what a director may ask and what can be done. In the first draft of George Lucas' screenplay, the movie was to open with a huge montage sequence showing the end of various battles of the Clone Wars on seven different planets across the Galaxy. Each planet was to be distinctly different from the other and was described as 'Bridge world', 'Ring World', 'Crystal world', and 'Kelp world' amongst others. This idea evolved into the sequence where we see various Jedi dying at the hands of the Clones on different planets.
Four planets made it into this montage: Mygeeto (Crystal world), Felucia, Saleucami, and Cato Neimoidia (Bridge World). The duels between Anakin and Count Dooku in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) and this movie have a slight similarity between the duels between Luke and Darth Vader in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). In Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Darth Vader severed Luke's arm during their duel, which Luke managed to do back in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). In Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), Count Dooku severed Anakin's arm (who receives a robotic arm after the incident instead of getting his flesh arm reattached), which Anakin manages to do back in this movie (severing both of Count Dooku's arms, and decapitating him soon afterwards). This movie is noticeably much darker than the rest of the franchise, and the first one to be rated PG-13, instead of PG (PG-13 was a new MPAA rating which had been introduced one year after Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) was released), of which has continued to be the case with every movie in the Star Wars saga since.
Notably, this is due to the scene towards the end of the movie, where Darth Vader's body is badly burned by lava, reducing his body to a crispy state without any hair, while he is hanging towards the edge with no legs and only one arm, after losing the climatic duel against Obi-wan Kenobi, which was able to explain why he needed a biomechanical suit, complete with helmet, in order to survive. The sequence of Darth Vader killing the Separatist leaders while Palpatine declares himself Emperor was modelled after the Baptism sequence from The Godfather (1972). George Lucas was an uncredited assistant editor on that movie, and cast members Roman Coppola and Sofia Coppola appeared in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). Sofia Coppola, who played the baby in that sequence, also directed Hayden Christensen in The Virgin Suicides (1999). Corrado Gaipa, who played Don Tommasino, was also the voice of Obi-wan Kenobi in the Italian dubbed version of the original trilogy. This was the last movie in the Star Wars saga to feature disembodiments from non-droid characters until 2017's The Last Jedi. This happened a total of four times in this movie, first with Count Dooku losing both of his arms followed by a decapitation, then with Mace Windu losing one of his arms, then lastly with Darth Vader losing his left arm and both of his legs.
As of 2018, The Last Jedi is the last Star Wars movie to feature a non-droid disembodiment, with Supreme Leader Snoke being cut in half.
Written by: ChefelfEdited by: Jacques & Jen Reasons 81-92Reason #81Asthmatic CyborgsAfter suffering through the beginning of the movie with a coughing, wheezing cyborg, there is clearly a void in my heart that does not get filled until Darth Vader is sealed into his cybernetic suit and takes his first breath. For it is written in the ancient Sith temple of Exar Kun, 'Wherever an asthmatic cyborg shall fall. Another shall rise!' Reason #82'Noooooooooooooo!'
I can't believe this. I simply can't. When Vader finds out the truth (which is actually a terrible lie told to him by Palpatine, depending on your point of view, I suppose) that he had killed Padme in his anger, he goes into a fit of rage and screams, 'Noooooooo!'
As the camera pulls away.When are filmmakers going to learn that you should never, ever, under any circumstances, have a scene where the main character shouts 'Nooooooooooo!' As the camera pulls back? People just keep doing it!
It is, by far, the second worst thing any filmmaker can do to a movie, after having a character smile and/or wink at the camera.Some people like the prequels, some people don't. I've come to terms with that. But no one can defend this moment.
Anyone who thinks this scene was well done is just plain wrong. There's no matter of opinion, it's empirically bad.Reason #83'My wife and I will take the girl'After Padme's death, Senator Organa, Yoda and Obi-Wan all sit around and decide what to do with Anakin and Padme's two children. After thirty-five seconds of good, contemplative consideration and debate, they reach a simple decision.
Bail Organa, who's been nothing more than some background scenery before Episode III, decides to open up to Yoda and Obi-Wan by announcing that he and his wife have 'always talked of adopting a baby girl.' It's a rather awkward moment, and it is clear from Obi-Wan's expression that he cares just as much about Bail and his wife's baby plans as he does about Bail himself. The only thing that could have saved this scene would have been Yoda saying, 'Your life's story, we need not. The baby girl, you will have.
Leave it at that, you should. Boring, your talking has become.' I think the longer Yoda's talking continued, the better the scene would have been. Perhaps another movie (Episode III ½) could be made where Yoda continues to talk about how little he cares about Bail Organa done in the style of My Dinner With Andre.Alternately, they could have made a movie in the style of Three Men and a Baby, perhaps called Two Jedi Masters, a Wooden Senator and Two Babies. This could chronicle the hilarious baby hijinks as three inpet 'fathers' with no baby experience try to raise twins.Reason #84Princess Leia?Let's take a look at the possibilities of Princess Leia, movie by movie. Shall we?The Phantom MenaceIn the first movie of the prequel trilogy, we met Luke and Leia's mother, Queen Amidala.
As her name would imply, she was a queen. Moments after being introduced to her character, it was apparent that Princess Leia would be a princess because her mother was a queen. So, that was settled!Attack of the ClonesWait a minute!
She was an elected queen? She's not a queen anymore? But that's stupid. Queens aren't elected! We thought we had it all figured out. Furthermore, how is Princess Leia a princess?
Oh well, I'm sure they'll explain it in the next movie.Revenge of the SithSo, when a senator adopts a baby girl on Alderaan, he reserves the right to call her a princess? Perhaps a better name for Leia in the original trilogy would have been Daddy's littlePrincess Leia.Reason #85Leia's Award-Winning MemoryOne of the most obvious questions that comes up regarding the prequels and how they relate to the original movies is Leia's memory of her mother. In Return of the Jedi, Leia tells Luke that she only remembers images of her mother, that she was 'very beautiful, but sad.' The major question is this: how does Leia remember her mother if she was only alive together with her mother for a total of one minute? The answer to this may be: 'Well, Leia is talking about her adoptive mother, so there!' The answer to that is, of course, that Luke says, 'Tell me about your mother, your real mother.'
Another shoddy apologist answer would be: 'Well, Leia was an exceptional baby and because of the Force she remembered her mother.' This is an even worse explanation, seeing that Luke was there at the time and was actually born first. Being born even a mere twenty seconds earlier than Leia means that he spent a considerable percentage more of his life with his mother than Leia did.At this point, we can only assume that Princess Leia is just really, really stupid and is actually referring to photographs of her mother that Bail Organa showed her while they cruised around in his Ford convertible.Reason #86Padme's Death (Fighting the Prophecy)When are people going to learn to stop fighting prophecies? I, for one, am getting mighty sick of it. How many more times must it happen that someone tries to fight a prophecy and ends up causing the very thing they're trying to prevent? I'm not mystified by this anymore. Sophocles may have had something pretty fresh in 450 B.C.
When he wrote Oedipus, but the whole idea of trying to stop the prophecy but actually causing it to happen is a bit played out at this point. Sure, it's a classic motif (most of Star Wars is), but it makes you wonder why the Jedi are perceived as wise at all.
Do any of them spend any time reading any of that stuff in their giant library?Reason #87Yoda's Training & Jedi ApparitionsYoda lets Obi-Wan know that he has training for Obi-Wan while he's in solitude on Tatooine. Yoda has heard word from Qui-Gon Jinn and Qui-Gon has apparently 'learned the path to immortality.' This is, of course, an attempt to explain why everyone's favorite Jedi can always reappear as a Jedi apparition after their death.The script and the novel both went into greater detail about how Qui-Gon Jinn communicated to Yoda and explained that he had learned a neat little trick about how to become 'one with the Force' after death. It is a little difficult to swallow since Qui-Gon learned the secret of immortality after he died. But, I guess the Force midi-chlorians move in mysterious ways.Another interesting question raised by this plot element is how Darth Vader seems to learn the same skill.
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Was he Force-eavesdropping on Obi-Wan while he communed with Qui-Gon on Tatooine? Did the Emperor teach him this trick? If so, why didn't the Emperor crash the party that the dead Obi-Wan, Yoda and Anakin had on Endor at the end of Return of the Jedi? Perhaps we will see the Emperor in the newer edition of Return of the Jedi when the six-film DVD set is released. I would fully expect a climax of 20 additional minutes where the three dead Jedi fight the dead Emperor using lightsabers.
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How will it turn out? We'll have to wait and see.Reason #88Captain AntillesIn order to tie things up neatly, Bail Organa quickly hands off the droids, Threepio and Artoo, to Captain Antilles aboard the Tantive IV. Then, to explain why Threepio remembers none of this, he instructs Antilles to have Threepio's memory erased. Jimmy Smits also clearly smirks for the camera as he walks offscreen. Whether he is laughing at the cute little reference to Episode IV, or simply at Lucas's convenient little excuse for why Threepio doesn't remember anything, we'll never know. They don't ask for Artoo's memory to be erased, but apparently Artoo's is erased later, or he just doesn't care to fill in Threepio on what had previously happened.It can be assumed that, at some point in the next twenty years, Bail Organa ordered the memories of others erased, including (but not limited to) Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader, Chewbacca and Boba Fett.Reason #89Padme's Funeral & The NecklaceEarly in the movie, Padme is wearing a necklace that looks suspiciously like the taboo idol that Greg Brady finds when the Brady Bunch goes to Hawaii. Certainly the intention of the Japor Snippet necklace was to bring good fortune, but the effects seem to be much more in line with the necklace that brought nothing but bad luck to the Brady family.Both items can be found in the 'Taboo From Naboo Line' available from Unfortunate Jewelry, Ltd.Reason #90Moff TarkinWhile I appreciate Moff Tarkin's inclusion in Revenge of the Sith, it would have been interesting if he had any sort of function in the government or military before the final seconds of the movie.
He just stands there, quietly saying, 'Hello there. See that out there? You guessed it. That's the Death Star. We're starting work on it right now. We guess it will take around twenty years to complete, but who knows!' As Vader approaches Tarkin and Palpatine, Tarkin sort of sidles away the way a friend may react if his friend's girlfriend approached and they needed to be alone.
'I'll just be over here, readjusting my calibrations on the calibration console if you need me.' Reason #91The Death StarIt's worth noting that the Death Star's construction seems to be done a little differently than the previous construction effort we've seen in Return of the Jedi.
Indeed, they have created some sort of metal skeleton to start with, whereas the Empire decided to just kind of make it up as they went along while building the second Death Star. Furthermore, the skeleton is being created from the shiniest metal ever seen.
Such a shame that they're going to cover up that nice chrome finish with some dull, gray metal!Reason #92Giving Away LukeObi-Wan touches down outside the Lars residence with Luke and hands him off to Beru. Beru just takes him, smiles and then turns her back on Obi-Wan, not saying a word.
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Had Obi-Wan called in advance? Did they know he was coming? Did they know who the baby was?
Owen doesn't even have the decency to meet Obi-Wan, prefering to stand thirty feet away looking at the sunset. To add insult to injury, Owen dismisses Obi-Wan as a 'crazy old man' twenty years later. Thanks for nothing, asshole!Coming Soon!Coming Soon!Coming Soon!Coming Soon!Coming Soon!Coming Soon!Coming Soon!Coming Soon!Coming Soon!Reasons to Hate Star Wars(78 Reasons to Hate!)(64+ Reasons to Hate!)(91 Reasons to Hate!)The Nitpicker's Guide to Star Wars(12 Nitpicks!)(8 Nitpicks!)(17 Nitpicks!)Join the Discussion!