The weapons aren’t left-handed. It’s normal for a firearm to eject shell casings out of the right side, because that pushes it away from a typical - that is right-handed - shooter. Because of this, and the decision in the original weapon design to have a side-mounted magazine, the mag extends to the left. Of course, some shooters hold onto the mag when firing, leaving their opposite hand on the trigger. And that sense it’s a right handed gun, actually, though that practice is not recommended for shooting.
@@jasonmarin8187 They were under orders to let them escape, so they could fly the Falcon with the tracking beacon on it to the rebel base, thus revealing to the empire the location of the base.
Obi wans iconic line: "That's no moon, it's a space station" isn't popular? I beg to differ. "These aren't the droids you are looking for" He does have a few.
"No banger theme"?? Might I remind you of Binary Sunset, the Cantina Band and the Princess Leia Theme? Not to forget the Death Star Trench Run music, the Fanfares in the End and also the Death Star Disguise Scene music? Iconic themes, often used in other Star Wars media!
The whole Battle of Yavin track is epic, Tie Fighter Attack, the first track Imperial Attack after the Main Title, Princess Leia's theme and The Throne Room are even played in concerts, Cantina Band it's always been a banger, it has versions on other genres like Disco or Rock. BTW two days after your comment, John Williams just turned 91 years old, he makes brilliant works, May the Force be with Him, Maestro!
this was my initial response as well, but listening to the actual text it becomes clear he's referring to one very specific "banger theme" not the lack of one in general
“That’s no moon.” Is incredibly iconic and an intimidating line! “Use the force, Luke.” “The force will be with you, always” “myself, the boy, two droids, and no questions asked.”
That is another reason why I love Star Wars: A New Hope. I have literally watched this movie more times than I can count (I lived in Japan as a Navy Brat and we didn't have English television and I had the Star Wars Trilogy on VHS). I have every line memorized. It is still great to find these little nuggets that even I missed. (by the way, I still watch A New Hope at least 2-3 times a month)
My husband worked at the drive in when Star Wars came out. Somewhere packed away he still has the poster they used in the lobby. Saw the first one dozens of times. And although not much. He got paid to watch it. He worked the box office. Then after that closed he had to watch the lot making sure people didn't get to out of hand. They had the movie several times the three or four years he worked there. At least two weeks each time. Once they had it for at least a month.
I would love a a silly in-cannon explanation like "the Tusken version of the Robot Dance" to justify the jerky movements! To be honest, in the 1970's, I was so happy to see ANY decent Sci Fi/Fantasy/Space Movie that things like the looped Tusken or the Wolfman and Devil costumes in the Cantina didn't bother me a bit. Star Wars was a massive step up from the low-budget space movies and Japanese monster movies that we had available at the time. At least the voices were synched with the lip movements! (Note: as a kid I sometimes tried to imitate my Japanese heroes by moving my mouth out of synch with my speech.... my school teachers did not find this at all funny, BTW).
@@olliehopnoodle4628 Apparently when the final edit started, they realized that they wanted the Sand People to seem more menacing. They only had a second or two of the right kind of clip, so they rocked it back and forth to make it longer.
No iconic line??? How do you explain, "These aren't the droids you're looking for," and, "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”?
There were several less-than-great things in the movie, but compared to other Sci Fi and Space Fantasy movies that came before, Star Wars was pretty impressive. You might find the video "How Star Wars was saved in the edit" interesting since it goes into the details of why the Tusken Raider loop was used.
I was in the British Army and got switched from the SLR to a Sterling SMG (real guns not props) and can say that it’s more likely they switched around the weapon to hide the brass ejection port rather than the magazine port bumping into the actor… as we all know, lasers don’t have brass ejection ports and the gun fired from an open breech so there was a great big gap there with a big assed spring inside. Also the ejection port has a big lip that is almost as big as the magazine port to stop your hand sliding over the port and taking off your fingers with ejected brass. I think it actually did happen with the Sten SMG (the one that came before the Sterling) as it didn’t have a finger guard.
As a kid, I saw a TV showing of the original Star Wars trilogy (the "original" original, before George Lucas re-edited it in the late 90s) that was hosted by Carrie Fisher. Some of the tidbits she shared about her experiences filming "A New Hope" included her worry that if she didn't lose enough weight that Lucas would replace her with Jodie Foster, that if Anthony Daniels hadn't been cast as C-3PO the other contender for the part spoke with "a very fast Brooklyn accent", that the rest of the cast affectionately referred to Darth Vader actor David Prowse as "Darth Farmer", ("The only thing intimidating about him was his size," Fisher said) and that Prowse had trouble seeing where he was going in the Vader helmet and had to shoot the scene where he comes into Leia's cell to interrogate her several times because he kept hitting his head on the low doorway to the cell.
I saw that documentary too. I loved the part where Carrie Fisher was talking about the famous swing across the chasm with Hamill and feared that Lucas would say something along the lines of: "Too fat.... call Jodie Foster".
Did she also mentioned there how Lucas wouldn’t let her wear a brassiere? “No underwear in outer space,” he told her. She never did forgive him for that. But some of us still thank him for it!
Anthony Daniels' casting as the physical C3PO was never in question, and he played it as a sort of British butler. Lucas had intended for a Brooklyn used car salesman style voice, but it didn't fit Daniels' visuals. They tried various voice actors, including a cartoon "man of a thousand voices" and eventually concluded that Daniels' own voice fitted just fine.
There is also rumor that one of the screen tested actors for the part of C-3PO, was Richard Dreyfuss. Who would go on to costar in George Lucas's "American Graffiti".
I like the fact that for the majority of Peter Cushing's screen time, he was wearing slippers because the production couldn't get his size of boots in time
Only 2 billion deaths? I would have thought one of the most significant industrialized worlds in the galaxy, Alderaan, would have had a larger population.
Not really. The second death star had more people die on it than that, and it was still under construction. People fly those spaceships, and there's thousands of them on the death star. It was a fully operational military base on top of being a weapon.
@@BrianLocke I'm inclined to agree... you can put a lot of people on a station the size of a small moon. I mean, a typical aircraft carrier might have around 1000 personnel aboard. 1.5 million would be 1500 aircraft carriers; certainly enough room on a moon for that many.
One thing I always noticed was that the full size X Wing fighters at the Rebel Base (both before and after the battle) are really new and white looking, but the models used during the Death Star battle are heavily weathered and worn with lots of chipped paint.
Not to mention that all the pilots except Luke have blue markings on their helmets in the hangar but all turn red in space. Apparently, they failed to plan ahead and didn’t realize that the space scenes would be filmed against a blue screen.
@@KevyNova that's because initially this should be the Blue squadron. They filmed the ships with blue markings and then they realised that it wouldn't work against the blue screen, but didn't reshoot the base takes.
My head canon for Leia’s accent was that was her formal speech pattern for political events, and Tarkin was a known political figure so she’d encountered him in more formal circumstances before
I always thought the British accent was posh in-universe too. Hence Imperial officers have British accents, but stormtroopers have American ones. Same with the good guys: British accents for the former general, protocol droid and sometimes the princess, but Luke, Han and Lando have American accents.
There's a bird in the Lars Homestead. I didn't notice until I saw the blu-ray copy. When Owen walks into the circular pit area (one of the last shots of him alive) you can see a bird flying away from the spot above him. When Tarkin was interrogating Leia Peter Cushing's boots were so uncomfortably tight that George allowed him to wear carpet slippers, since the bottom of the frame was well above his knees, though he still needed boots for the wide shots.
In Star Wars Rebels Capitan Rex wears a stormtrooper helmet and is incredibly inaccurate till he shouts he can't see in it then throws it off and hits right on target first shot
I noticed the Tuscan Raider's loop in the TV commercial for Star Wars before it was released in theaters. It made me wonder why they used such a cheap trick for what looked to be such a cool movie.
What about: "Your father's light saber... This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster; an elegant weapon for a more civilized age."? Though it seems a stretch to consider a pocket arc-welder that cauterises limbs (and heads) as they are lopped off "civilized".
In the original release on 35 or 70mm film you couldn't because the overall brightness of the scene is darker. All of the video releases had to have the brightness boosted a lot to make up for the crappy video quality of the tvs back in the late 70s to mid 2000s. Unfortunately even the newer hi def video releases still boost brightness which reveals too many things that shouldn't show if viewed/projected at the brightness of 16fl (the film projection standard.)
She dropped the accent due to the seriousness of the situation (destruction of a planet). She has the accent at the beginning of the movie. The accent is part of her political role. Queen Amidala did the same thing
The reason Alderan’s defenses didn’t do anything against the Death Star is because IT WASN’T A GIANT MIRROR!!!!! If it HAD been that…the Death Star would have blown itself up xD
If they had spent all that money on the Death Star without it being capable of overcoming ordinary planetary defences... well, the Senate would not sit still for that.
Bit of trivia for you about the Stormtroopers. a lot of them were from 24 Support Squadron, Royal Engineers (they were in all three OT films as well as playing German soldiers in the Indian Jones films) They were very familiar with the SMG and it was them that switched to left handed
I always assumed Leia switched to a British sounding accent when talking with Tarkin because in Star Wars, most people in the core worlds and the more influential worlds, and especially in the Imperial Senate and the higher ranks, would have had that accent, and thus as a member of the Imperial Senate from Alderaan, she was simply accustomed to using that accent when speaking with Imperial officials.
I learned about the IG-unit heads & Luke & Han's impromptu dialogue only a few years ago, but I happened to noticed the Tusken footage rocking back & forth a while ago
They've written off Mark's utterance as the incomplete sentence "There she is!" more like "There she-- " and is cut off by her embrace. Every time I rewatch it (recently, a day after finishing Andor, I rewatched Rogue One and A New Hope) I listen for the line. Almost every time I hear it, it does sound more like "There she-- ".
1:17 What?!! "Mos Isley Spaceport: never has there been a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious." "These aren't the droids you're looking for." I hardly ever get to use the first one, but the second gets quoted frequently!
Or those were the Force sensitives, or the only people outside that could see the beam or even just the people who knew the death star wars attacking, the sky turning green wouldn't cause terror it would cause confusion unless you knew what it meant
So Darth Vader only had 8 minutes of screen time? Well, when you think of Hellraiser I'd say the majority of people immediately think of the wonderfully iconic image of Pinhead (or, as he was known in that film, "Lead Cenobite") but HE only had about 5 minutes screen time. My point? if you're badass you don't need to always be there . . .
According to Wiki, "the population of the Death Star was 1.7 million military personnel, 400,000 maintenance droids, and 250,000 civilians, associated contractors and catering staff." If that's really the case, Luke committed a supreme act of mass murder, putting him up there with Pol Pot! As Han Solo liked to say, "I've got a bad feeling about this."
Kevin Smith's "Clerks" has a great discussion about the first (ANH) and second (ROJ) Death Star, and the morality of destroying either, especially if the contractors assembling the second one were considered innocents.
1. Make a scifi movie with ground-breaking special effects that raise the benchmark for every scifi movie that follows. 2. Stretch an action scene by running it backwards and forwards a couple of times.
Gareth = sexy hunk! Enough said there. The only version of Star Wars (No, Not A New Hope... Star Wars!) i watch is the De-specialised version of the original release i saw in 1977. Anything else is like painting the Statue of Liberty pink, covering the Eiffel Tower in glitter or adding even worse special effects to the tacky skyline of Hong Kong.
What about the escape pod the droids escape in in the first minutes of the movie... when they climb in the side of the pod facing the ship is a set of doors they climb through to get into the pod, when you see the pod leave the ship from the perspective of the ship those doors magically turn into four small rocket motor nozzles and then the view flicks to inside the pod where the double doors and then four rocket thruster nozzles are now a large window for the droids to look back at the ship they just left.
Is the Mark Hamill's number part referring to telling Threepio to open 326-3827 after almost getting crushed in the garbage masher? Luke was the one who was talking to Threepio on the comlink, why would Han be relaying the number?
I want to say the Krayt Dragon must be the most inconsistent creature in Star Wars. Every time we see one, it looks totally different as far as I can recall. A New Hope, Knights of the Old Republic, The Mandalorian
I’m sure lot of people had noticed this but in NH when Vader is chasing Luke in the trench, there is some light shining in on his helmet and you can see the actor’s eye underneath. Also the color of the helmet eye piece themselves were a dark red but in the following movies (ESB, ROTJ) it got changed to dark black.
Yea yea yea, I saw that the first time I saw it in '77 when it was released. Now, tell me, did you notice the "Wilhelm Scream" emitted by the falling stormtrooper?
Yeah, Vader's costume was given several minor tweaks over the course of the original trilogy. For example in a New Hope the control panel on his chest has only has real lights on the bottom near his belt, none of which blink. The panel became far more illuminated in the two sequels.
fairly sure the troopers hold the guns like that because vader was based off a certain tyrannical leader who believed left handers were superior. might be a stretch but you never know
After the trash compactor scene we see Luke and Han back in their original clothing. But where was it? The body sleeve under the stormtrooper armor doesn't have room for all of that, especially Han's vest.
Sounds like an opportunity for an entire Expanded Universe novel about a utility droid of some kind Our Heroes discover and reprogram "off camera", and thus shove their clothing into in order to retrieve them later, off screen, of course. 8-P
Another gaffe was Luke's hair being all blow dried and styled after the compactor scene. Hamill mentioned it to Lucas, to which Ford replied "Hey kid, it ain't that kind of movie. If they're looking at your hair we're all in big trouble." Also, Hamill was said to have been in a star struck mood with Ford, which annoyed Harrison. Mark was supposedly initially annoyed about Ford calling him "kid" all the time, but got over it as he realized Ford wasn't being mean or degrading by it.
wasnt alderaan the first target of the death star? even though the rebels had the plans i doubt any government actually believed that such a firepower was actually possible. So a planet wide shield seems a bit overkill
In the orig-trig, jedis don't say MTFBWY because they know it IS with you; it's only rebels who say it. It's a shame they changed that for the prequals because it makes the jedi look like they don't know the force that well
I'll take your word for Vader's Theme not being in episode four, but I swear it was on the original soundtrack release. My dad bought it on vinyl after we say it in the theater. (I was eight at the time, so I might be wrong...)
They've written off Mark's utterance as the incomplete sentence "There she is!" more like "There she-- " and is cut off by her embrace. Every time I rewatch it (recently, a day after finishing Andor, I rewatched Rogue One and A New Hope) I listen for the line. Almost every time I hear it, it does sound more like "There she-- ".
So we're just going to ignore the fact that Alec Guinness' Obi-Wan, said the original "Hello there" in this movie?!?! Nah, what do I know, that's not iconic at all.. 🙄🤦♂️
"Alderaan's Shield Didn't Stop the Death Star". Congratulations, you just uncovered the main reason for the Death Star in the first place. A planetary shield could hold up against orbital bombardment indefinitely (cf Episode 5 and the Rebels' ragtag base's small theater shield that effectively ruled out orbital bombardment). A rebelling planet could raise their shield - they would be isolated from the rest of the galaxy except for risky temporary shield openings to allow certain ships through, but they would be safe. For the Empire to truly strike fear in these planets, they needed a weapon that could overwhelm and punch through even the strongest planetary shields. Hence, a giant ship/battlestation with a weapon powerful enough to blast through a shield. And yes, the shield does hold up, temporarily. The beam stops for a few frames and the shield lights up, spreading from the impact point, as it's absorbing and dissipating the energy. It can't keep up and collapses within a fraction of a second, but it's impressive it held up even that long against such an enormous blast.
Im 48; its Star Wars. I saw Star Wars in the theater. Always and only Star Wars. The 2nd film is the Empire Strikes Back and 3rd is Return of the Jedi. 1st is always just Star Wars
