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00:00From satisfying cameos sneaking into a great many frames, to blatant movie mistakes on
00:06show for all to see, these are those episode 3 facts, easter eggs and brilliant beats slash
00:12blunders you may just have overlooked a long time ago and you know the rest.
00:17Gareth here from WhatCultureStarWars and here are 20 things you somehow missed in Star Wars
00:22Episode 3 Revenge of the Sith.
00:25Number 20 The Millennium Falcon
00:26Revenge of the Sith gets underway with one of the most thrilling space skirmishes the
00:31entire Skywalker saga has ever brought into existence and it's after the dust has settled
00:36on Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi's daring rescue of Palpatine and improvised landing of
00:42an entire cruiser on Coruscant when an iconic ship in its own right glides onto the scene.
00:47If you look closely at the scene depicting the Jedi heroes hopping off a transporter post-fiery
00:52landing, you'll spot Han Solo and Chewbacca's future mode of trusty transport in the
00:56Millennium Falcon landing in the same locale at this very moment.
01:00Lovely stuff.
01:01Number 19 A Foreshadowy Goodbye
01:04Clearly relishing the opportunity to hint at the inevitable fate fans already knew was
01:08on the horizon for the likes of Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi throughout his prequel set
01:13of features, George Lucas was at it again when it came time for The Apprentice to bid farewell
01:18to his master before they went their separate ways early on in Episode 3.
01:22With the troubled youngster being shrouded in shadow during this conversation with his
01:26patient brother-like figure and the latter very much being illuminated by light, it's
01:31clear the Star Wars creator was alluding to what lay ahead for both characters down the
01:35road.
01:36Kenobi's goodbye old friend had long acted as a rather significant beat in its own right
01:41too, with those pretty much being the last words the Jedi Master would utter to his Padawan
01:45before he finally crossed over into the darkness.
01:47And the development of Kenobi later building on this fateful farewell with his heart-wrenching
01:52goodbye, Darth, after their climactic rematch of the century in Obi-Wan Kenobi, has only
01:57made this scene that little more impactful as time has gone by.
02:00Number 18 Obi-Wan Kenobi is quite the prolific pilot
02:04It's not exactly a secret that Obi-Wan Kenobi isn't what you class as the most enthusiastic
02:09fighter pilot in the galaxy.
02:11However, a quick look at Kenobi's Jedi Starfighter of choice, the Etna 2 Actis Class Light Interceptor,
02:16tells the story of a pilot who is much more comfortable behind a steering wheel than you
02:21may have expected.
02:22As seen when the ship is very much parked aboard a Separatist cruiser, Kenobi appears
02:27to have been keeping count of his numerous enemy kills whilst flying the Crimson Bird in
02:32space.
02:33And by looking at the shape of said ship markings, it appears the top rows consist of the number
02:36of droid tri-fighters Kenobi has dispatched, with the bottom being dedicated to the impressive
02:41number of CIS destroyers Providence Class that he's helped take out.
02:45Number 17 It was the first ever PG-13 Star Wars movie.
02:49The visuals of everything from Anakin alluding to the cutting down of innocent children, to
02:54a severely melted Palpatine letting loose UNLIMITED POWER, were enough to guarantee a first for
03:00George Lucas' galaxy far, far away.
03:02As it goes, Revenge of the Sith holds the honour of being the first ever Star Wars feature to
03:07head into theatres with a PG-13 certificate.
03:10Oddly enough though, neither of the aforementioned moments was said to have actually contributed towards
03:14the film being released under this rating, with it being the moment Anakin is burned to a
03:18crisp on Mustafar that was responsible for the eventual PG-13 decision.
03:23Number 16 A Familiar Cyborg Cough
03:26Ever wondered what goes into bringing the disturbing splutters of a deadly cyborg to life on the
03:30big screen?
03:31Well it turns out that all you need is a once in a generation movie maker with a bad chest
03:35infection and a microphone.
03:37With George Lucas himself suffering from bronchitis at the time of shooting and creating the Robotic
03:42Separatist General, the creator decided that his chesty cough wouldn't feel out of place,
03:47tumbling out of General Grievous' artificial body over the course of the flick.
03:51So every time you hear Grievous let loose one of his notable throat bursts in the flick,
03:55you're actually taking in the coughs of the creator himself after choosing to head into work under the weather.
04:00What a hero!
04:01Number 15 The Death Star Nods
04:03After being spotted in the background on Geonosis during Attack of the Clones,
04:07Chief Palpatine's ominous plans to forge the galaxy's most terrifying superweapon
04:11were once again on show during Revenge of the Sith within the secret Sith's office.
04:16And while the sight of Palp's having a quick scan of his Death Star plans via red hologram,
04:20because why would a Sith in hiding use the blue alternative A, was pretty tough to miss in Episode 3,
04:25there's every chance you overlook the fact that Death Star makes its presence known in his office decor, too.
04:31As Anakin enters the space to converse with his future master,
04:34you'll see the two tables sandwiching him, both boasting what appears to be the image of the eventual space station.
04:40Number 14 More Lucas Family Cameos
04:43George Lucas doesn't half enjoy stuffing his family into his flicks under many a different alien disguise.
04:48Revenge of the Sith was no different, with Katie Lucas rounding off her trilogy of cameo appearances by showing up as
04:54Chi Ikwe Papanoida at the opera Anakin and Palpatine take in during the feature,
04:59and Jet Lucas returning as Panawan Jedi Zet Jukasa,
05:03before getting gunned down by clones in front of Bail Organa.
05:06Only this time, instead of leaving all the fun to his youngsters,
05:09George himself got in on the action,
05:11beside his daughter as Baron Neoluiski Papanoida,
05:14living his best intergalactic life whilst painted in blue during the aforementioned opera scene.
05:19Number 13 A Few Lightsaber Mishaps
05:22With the sheer amount of attention being paid to ensuring the state-of-the-art visual effects were on point,
05:27and the story being told was one able to grip and captivate the masses for years to come,
05:31a few unfortunate mistakes elsewhere were always likely to wiggle into the episode 3 end product.
05:37Most notably on two separate occasions,
05:39it appears the person in charge with continuity and all props on set
05:42dropped the ball a touch when it came to a thrilling lightsaber duel.
05:46First up, when Palpatine is seen battling away with Mace Windu and a number of other Jedi Masters
05:51upon being uncovered as the Dark Lord of the Sith,
05:54the diabolical villain's lightsaber switches from his own distinct variation of the weapon
05:58to Anakin Skywalker's unmistakable hilt.
06:01This was likely due to the fact a scene depicting Palps taking up Anakin's weapon in the battle was later changed up,
06:07but the shot in question was still left in the end product.
06:10Elsewhere as Anakin and Obi-Wan duel on Mustafar,
06:12another bizarre saberswap goes down as the former attempts to impale the latter with his own blade,
06:17before it then appearing to be Skywalker's weapon doing the attempted scorching.
06:21How weird.
06:22Number 12 A Clone Trooper Boxing A Battle Droid
06:25Let it be known that there are more than a few ways to pick off a battle droid in the heat of battle.
06:30If you slow down the action a touch as Obi-Wan hops on his trusty space lizard to chase after General Grievous on Utapau,
06:36a sequence showing off a CGI clone trooper boxing the stuffing out of a battle droid can be seen going down within the chaotic locale.
06:44Turns out some of these Django copies had the eye of the tiger too.
06:47Number 11 Qui-Gon and Anakin Share a Funeral Theme
06:50Music has always acted as a seriously powerful tool in the crafting of many a Star Wars story,
06:56with George Lucas regularly using motifs as a way of foreshadowing a dark fate for a set of characters.
07:02That was definitely the case when it came to the long-awaited introduction of Darth Vader in his final cyborg form late in the day,
07:09with a rather familiar piece of music alluding to a conclusion Obi-Wan Kenobi was having trouble coming to terms with.
07:15With the same music used during the cremation of Master Qui-Gon Jinn being present in the scene involving Vader going on a mad one after hearing of his beloved Padme Amidala being supposedly killed by his hand,
07:25Lucas seems to be musically hinting at Anakin being very much dead and gone in this moment, much like Jinn was in The Phantom Menace.
07:32How deep.
07:33Number 10 A Deliberately Uncomfortable Vader Suit
07:36There's actually a very good reason Hayden Christensen resembled a toddler figuring out how to execute his very first steps during the closing stages of Revenge of the Sith.
07:45In an effort to showcase the fact that Anakin Skywalker was still coming to terms with his brand new way of being, Lucas went out of his way to make the iconic suit deliberately top-heavy by doing things like making the legendary helmet particularly weighty.
07:58And this very much helped give off the impression that Skywalker wasn't too accustomed to his new suit in the debuting of his new look.
08:05Number 9 Hayden Christensen Packed On The Weight For Anakin
08:08Speaking of Hayden Christensen being put through the ringer when artificially breathing some life into Anakin Skywalker slash Darth Vader in Revenge of the Sith,
08:16it wasn't simply a case of the disturbed Jedi actor rocking back up to set in the same physical form he had for Attack of the Clones when the time came to shoot this prequel closer.
08:25With Lucas wanting Christensen to resemble more of an intimidating force throughout the third episode, the actor was tasked with piling on some pounds and bulking up for his return.
08:34And after putting away a reported six meals a day in the lead up to shooting, Hayden was said to have piled on a whopping 24 pounds by the time he hulked up on the big screen in 2005.
08:44It often goes overlooked just how jacked Christensen genuinely got for this final prequel showing, and this shift from 160 pounds to 185 pounds no doubt aided him during those aforementioned Heavy Vader sequences too.
08:58Number 8 More Visual Effects Were Short Than Any Other Prequel
09:01George Lucas most definitely doubled down on his love of all things computer generated when it came to blasting his prequel adventures into hyperspace.
09:09And while the Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones were clearly not lacking in the CGI and VFX department,
09:14coming in with a jaw-dropping 1,950 and 2,200 visual effects shots on screen respectively,
09:21Revenge of the Sith took things to another level entirely in 2005.
09:25Boasting a frankly insane 2,400 visual effects shots throughout,
09:30it's often forgotten that Episode III easily sits as the most effect heavy flick in Lucas' back catalogue.
09:36Absolutely blowing the more humble 360 uses of visual effects seen in A New Hope back in 1977 out of the VFX waters.
09:44And according to visual effects supervisor John Knoll,
09:47even The Force Awakens only came in with just under 2,000 visual effects shots.
09:51Number 7 C-3PO's Frustrating Armor
09:54Despite not exactly stealing the show and his few fleeting appearances in the trilogy closer,
09:59Anthony Daniels' C-3PO actually played host to one of the most unexpected dilemmas.
10:03The crew behind Revenge of the Sith had to overkill him.
10:07That being the fact his unmistakable golden armour just so happened to reflect a set stuffed with vibrant green and blue screens.
10:14With this in mind, the VFX squad behind Episode III were forced to repaint all of 3PO's armour in post manually
10:21whenever he arrived on the scene to comfort Padme Amidala.
10:24This means every time you spot Daniels neurotically jolting around the scene within the flick,
10:28you're actually taking in some of the most subtle and soul-crushing CGI ever pumped into the galaxy.
10:33Number 6 Only 10 Men Wore Wookiee Suits
10:36The return of one of the most cherished fur balls the original trilogy had to offer,
10:40only this time alongside the rest of his fiery race, brought with it some of the most inspired costume design of its time.
10:46All in all though, Chewbacca's re-emergence beside a fleet of other passionate and courageous Wookiees on Kashyyyk
10:52only ever saw a grand total of 10 dudes boasting the hairiest torso in the galaxy throughout shooting.
10:57So how was George Lucas able to successfully build one of the most ferocious armies ever to charge into battle within the Star Wars universe?
11:04Well, yeah, you guessed it.
11:06After he'd thrown this lucky 10 souls into their Wookiee get-up, Lucas and his VFX team were able to duplicate the growling figures in post-production
11:14after repositioning the actors on multiple occasions during a number of takes
11:18and adding them back into the shot at a later date to make it look like there were more Wookiees present.
11:23You can never have too many, can you?
11:25Number 5 The Second Highest Grossing Movie of 2005 Worldwide
11:30For the most part, it's usually safe to assume that if a year is boasting a brand new release from one of the biggest
11:35and most loved franchises ever to be unleashed on a movie theatre, said 12-month period won't likely see any other flick surpass its overall box office haul.
11:44And while that still was clearly the case domestically when it came to Revenge of the Sith's 2005 release,
11:49the same could not be said for its worldwide release.
11:52None other than those bumbling wizards and witches over in J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World were actually able to capture more attention and dollars
11:59than George Lucas' last prequel outing.
12:02With Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire beating out episode 3 $868 million splash,
12:07with a staggering $895 million made at the worldwide box office.
12:12Either way, 2005 definitely marked the year of the Dark Lords.
12:16Number 4 The Death Count
12:18While it may be stating the obvious a touch, a film boasting the complete and utter massacring of the Jedi Order
12:24comes equipped with a frankly insane amount of death from start to finish.
12:28Just how many droids, Jedi, Sith and other innocent civilians perished over the course of George Lucas' deadly conclusion to his prequel set of flicks though?
12:36Well, according to the list of deaths wiki, when factoring in every battle droid punched to pieces,
12:41Jedi Master blasted out of a window, and heartbroken mother who passed on in childbirth,
12:46a whopping 535,788 entities didn't make it out of this one alive.
12:52Half. A. Million.
12:54In terms of who holds the unsettling honour of most kills in the feature,
12:58you won't be too short to discover Emperor Palpatine taking home the gold,
13:01with his murdering of 9,901 via his Order 66 declaration.
13:07Number 3 The 501st Legion
13:09And with said Order 66 culling in mind,
13:12those obedient stormtroopers seen cutting down many a youngling padawan and master within the Jedi Temple in Coruscant
13:18aren't just any old battalion of duplicate boys.
13:21The clone troopers decked out in undoubtedly awesome white and blue in this harrowing moment
13:25are none other than the 501st Legion,
13:28a group of soldiers commanded by Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano throughout the Clone Wars.
13:33Their on-screen debut in the Star Wars universe via Revenge of the Sith in the first place though,
13:38was actually a way of saluting the real life Vader's fist fan organisation
13:42dedicated to creating screen accurate replicas of some of the galaxy's most legendary costumes.
13:47The organisation, ran entirely by volunteers, has also gone on to help raise millions for charities all over the world.
13:54So this cool canon nod to the folks fighting the good fight in the real world was a sweet touch from Lucas & Co.
14:00Number 2 The tiny amount of antagonist screentime
14:03Both Count Dooku and General Grievous played some rather vital parts in the final chapter of this pre-original trilogy set of tales.
14:10acting as physical pieces of foreshadowing towards Anakin Skywalker's eventual turn to the dark side.
14:15But away from Dooku representing a fallen Jedi,
14:18and Grievous foreshadowing the cyborg body heading Skywalker's way,
14:22you may be shocked to discover that these two despicable fiends were actually only present on screen for a grand total of 8 minutes combined.
14:29Now sure, a large chunk of the narrative is taken up by Anakin's descent into Diagnus,
14:34a process accelerated by Palpatine's villainous on-screen presence for 24 minutes 45 seconds of course,
14:40but it's still interesting to note how big an impact both Revenge of the Sith antagonists had on proceedings,
14:45despite their evident lack of real time to shine.
14:48Number 1 Lightsaber firsts, and onlys
14:51With so many sacred Jedi and Sith weapons being brandished over the feature's massive 140 minute runtime,
14:57it was only natural for a few lightsaber firsts to pop up on the prequel screen throughout Episode 3.
15:03First up, the scene depicting Mace Windu trying to arrest Sheev Palpatine with the help of a group of other Jedi Masters,
15:08holds the honour of being the first and only Star Wars movie scene to possess 4 different lightsaber colours on show during a showdown.
15:16Blue, green, red and purple, naturally.
15:19And another first and only occurrence can be spotted during Obi-Wan and Anakin's fateful Mustafar melee,
15:24with this duel amidst the flames being the only ever Star Wars movie scene depicting two,
15:29in this case blue, blades of the same colour going at it.
15:32And that's our list of any other cool Revenge of the Sith details people have missed over the years.
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15:51I've been Gareth from WhatCulture Star Wars, thank you as always for watching this lovely video today.
15:55Hopefully I'll see you very very soon, but in the meantime may the force be with you and have a good un.
15:59Bye bye!
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