20 Star Wars facts by Joshua Weiss https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug en-us 2017-09-19 01:46:08 UTC 2024-11-07 18:49:04 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Playcontrol.png Darth Vader's sinister breathing was recorded by sticking a microphone inside a scuba tank regulator. 144354 https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188732404 2017-09-19 03:49:38 UTC https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188732404 The chewbacca suit smelt bad for the entire movie after the trash compactor scene. 144354 https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188732449 2017-09-19 03:49:58 UTC https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188732449 Luke's last name was originally Starkiller. 144354 https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188732477 2017-09-19 03:50:14 UTC https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188732477 The title used to be Adventures of the Starkiller as Taken from the Journal of the Whills, Saga I: The Star Wars. 144354 https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188732492 2017-09-19 03:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188732492 The millennium Falcon used to be straight and very long instead of a circle. 144354 https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188732523 2017-09-19 03:50:35 UTC https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188732523 The famous lightsaber buzzing whoosh was made by blending the hum of a 35mm film projector and passing a broken microphone cable by the tubes of an old TV set. 144354 https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188732590 2017-09-19 03:51:10 UTC https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188732590 The sound of a screeching TIE Fighter engine was created by combining an elephant's bellow and an auto driving on rainy pavement. 144354 https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188732660 2017-09-19 03:51:45 UTC https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188732660 Mark Hamill made $650,000 plus 0.025% of the movie’s total profit, as well as revenue on re-releases, TV screening and more. 144354 https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188733242 2017-09-19 03:56:31 UTC https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188733242 Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) was originally paid $450 per week for a total of 12 weeks = $5,400 144354 https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188733272 2017-09-19 03:56:42 UTC https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188733272 Kenny Baker's (R2D2) paycheck: $7,810 with no royalties 144354 https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188733296 2017-09-19 03:56:54 UTC https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188733296 In early drafts of the script, R2-D2 could speak standard English, and had a rather foul vocabulary. Although all of R2’s English speech was removed, many of C-3PO’s reactions to it were left in. 144354 https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188733763 2017-09-19 04:00:38 UTC https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188733763 Stunt doubles were not used for the scene in which Luke and Leia swing to safety. Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill performed that stunt themselves, shooting it in just one take. 144354 https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188733949 2017-09-19 04:02:37 UTC https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188733949 Princess Leia and Obi-Wan Kenobi never actually meet within this film. The closest they get to meeting in this film is when she sees him from a distance during the lightsaber duel. 144354 https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188734192 2017-09-19 04:04:58 UTC https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188734192 The Jawas’ language is Zulu electronically sped up. 144354 https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188734431 2017-09-19 04:07:20 UTC https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188734431 Greedo’s language is Quecha, an indigenous South American language, played backwards. 144354 https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188734455 2017-09-19 04:07:30 UTC https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188734455 144354 https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188743001 2017-09-19 05:19:03 UTC https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188743001 144354 https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188745288 2017-09-19 05:36:01 UTC https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188745288 144354 https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188746763 2017-09-19 05:45:27 UTC https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/188746763 144354 https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/189100572 2017-09-19 20:53:16 UTC https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/189100572 144354 https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/189101838 2017-09-19 20:58:19 UTC https://padlet.com/144354/2kogd29vurug/wish/189101838