10 Awesome Facts about Star Wars

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This is my list of some of my favourite Star Wars facts. I reference checked all of these and they are accurate. I hope you'll enjoy the presentation and share your favorites with me! I also have to say this - fact number 9 was extremely ironical, but I don't want to spoil anything. Anyway, I'll just say it is related to Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Content source: http://star-wars-7.blogspot.com/2014/09/10-awesome-star-wars-facts-you-didnt-know.html

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10 AWESOME STAR WARS FACTS#9 is the most ironical thing you’ll read all week!

Fact #1

Carrie Fisher practically became a sex symbol when she wore the famous gold bikini (also known as the slave outfit or metal bikini).

This you already know, but did you know that the costume often wouldn’t behave itself?

In fact the scene had to be reshot a lot of times because Carrie Fisher refused to use ‘tit tape’.

Fact #1

Fact #2 The Death Star II as seen in The Return of the

Jedi was much bigger than the first world destroy. In fact it was so much bigger that it was 460% larger than the first.

Fact #3

During the production of the “Revenge of the Sith” director George Lucas had developed a very nasty cough, which he recorded and used as General Grievous’ hacking bark.

Fact #4

Did you ever wonder where the idea for those furry little Ewoks came from? In video games you usually see Wookies during the battle of Endor, but the movie had these little Ewoksinstead.

Well, you might have guessed - originally an army of Wookiees was intended to help the Rebellion forces on Endor. However, director Lucas opted to use a smaller furry animal instead – and the Ewok was born.

Fact #5

Composer Sir John Williams turned to a 13th Century Welsh manuscript for the chanting in his composition ‘Duel Of The Fates’.

He translated the lines ‘Under the tongue root a fight most dread, and another raging, behind in the head’ into Sanskrit.

Fact #6

By the time the Star Wars movies reached Episode VI this was an extremely popular franchise and everyone wanted to find out the latest leaks about the new movie .

As such it was during filming of Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi, that the production team decided to film under the working title of Blue Harvest in order to keep curious fans from attempting to get on-set

Fact #6 - Bonus

Family Guy’s Blue Harvest is a hilarious spoof that took it names for this event.

Fact #7

By contrast, do you know what the working title for Episode II was? Well, believe it or not, it was "Jar Jar’s Big Adventure“!

Fact #8

When Lucas realized how massive Episode III was going to be he called in Spielberg to help him with certain sequences – including the epic lightsaber duel between Anakin and Obi-Wan.

Fact #9

The prequels were very notorious for their over-use of special effects. Episode III: Revenge of the Sith was especially notorious in this regard as the film contains over 2,200 digital effects shots. In contrast, this is more than the total sum contained in Episodes I and II.

The irony of it all: Despite all the effects that Lucas worked so hard on to make Episode III epic, this remains the only Star Wars film not to receive an Oscar nomination in the "Best Visual Effects" category.

Fact #10

When you were watching the asteroid sequence in The Empire Strikes Back did you notice a shoe and potato floating in outer space for no reason? Take a look at the image bellow:

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All of these facts are taken from the following link:

http://star-wars-7.blogspot.com/2014/09/10-awesome-star-wars-facts-you-didnt-know.html