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00:00In this day and age, moviegoers have never been more on the ball when it comes to picking up
00:04hidden messages, secrets, or other references squirreled away in their favourite films.
00:09With the ability to pause, rewind, and zoom in on scenes, movie detectives have all the tools
00:14required to uncover even the most subtle of hidden gags. With that in mind then,
00:19although the amount of hidden Star Wars secrets is too long to count at this point,
00:24these are the ones that took a surprisingly long time to be unearthed. I'm Josh from
00:29WhatCulture.com and this is Star Wars' 9 Obscure Movie Secrets That Took Years to Discover.
00:35Number 9. Confirming E.T.'s Link to the Star Wars Galaxy
00:38For many years, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg have hidden references to one another's movies
00:44in their own films. Indiana Jones is famed for its many nods to Star Wars, but when Spielberg
00:50released E.T. the Extraterrestrial, fans of Star Wars became ecstatic with the implications of one
00:55particular scene. See, in a moment that saw E.T. seemingly recognising Yoda, actually just a kid
01:02dressed up, E.T. exclaims the word home. So, did this mean that E.T. was from the Star Wars Galaxy,
01:09or was it just a bit of fun? Well, in 1999, Lucas continued to fan the theory's flames.
01:15During the Senate scene in The Phantom Menace, he actually included a group of aliens that looked a
01:21little bit familiar. Now, in Legends, the alien senator that appeared in Coruscant was given the
01:27name Gribleeps, which if you spell out is actually Spielberg spelt backwards. Again, this could just
01:33be another inside joke between two of cinema's greats, but the premise was expanded further when
01:39Holonet News was launched before the release of The Attack of the Clones. The website included a number
01:44of in-universe articles and press releases about the goings-on in the galaxy. Among them was a story
01:50that stated that the Ezocians, E.T.'s species, had funded an expedition to go to another galaxy,
01:56thus explaining how E.T. ended up on Earth, confirming the link between the two films.
02:01Number 8. What was the Millennium Falcon doing in the prequels?
02:05The Millennium Falcon is the most iconic spaceship in all of cinema, no doubt. The scuffed-up hunk of
02:10Corellian junk might not look like much, but you better believe that it's one of the fastest
02:15ships in the galaxy and can even time travel if Han Solo's Kessel Run boast is to be believed.
02:21Now, there were several nods to the Falcon during the prequels that were so brief it would take
02:25several rewatches to catch them, and eagle-eyed viewers to pick up on. Firstly, during The Attack
02:30of the Clones, two Corellian fighters of the same make as the Falcon can be spotted at the
02:35spaceport of Naboo when Anakin arrives with Padme. Now, neither of these were the actual Falcon,
02:40it's just that the freighter model was fairly common at the time. However, another appearance
02:45of the freighter in Revenge of the Sith can be spotted as well, gliding into a spaceport and
02:50Coruscant, and this time it was confirmed to be the ship that Solo would one day obtain.
02:56So, what was it doing at this time you ask? Well, in the expanded universe, it was revealed that
03:01during the Clone Wars, the ship was called the Stellar Envoy. It was used by the Republic Group,
03:06a covert organisation working against Palpatine disguised as a holding company.
03:11Number 7, R2-D2 being a badass. R2-D2 is surely the most popular droid in all of history. Sorry,
03:193PO. And that's more impressive because we never understand what he's saying. But the reaction
03:24that characters have to his series of bloops and bleeps have made him notorious as a lovable
03:29sassbot. We've seen him get our main protagonists out of a number of tough situations. Hell,
03:34whenever there's a garbage chute that needs unlocking or a difficult flight manoeuvre
03:38to perform, R2 is the one to save the day. During the prequels though, the animators had
03:44a lot of fun adding other character nuances to the R2 unit, many of which went unnoticed
03:50for quite some time. I mean, when you've got Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen going
03:54all samurai on a bunch of droids, it's easy to not pay attention to the antics of a rather
03:58unassuming little robot. But if you do pay close attention to R2 in Revenge of the Sith,
04:04he is one feisty little trash can. For instance, during the rescue of Palpatine,
04:09General Grievous escapes, leaving Obi-Wan and Anakin to dish out some lightsaber justice
04:14on the remaining droids. If you watch closely though, you can actually see R2-D2 lending a
04:19hand by tripping up an unfortunate droid as he tries to flee.
04:236. Who was the bearded rebel on Endor?
04:27This is something of a controversial and hotly debated topic in the Star Wars fandom,
04:31and it relates to a much loved character from the animated shows Clone Wars and Rebels.
04:36Now this whole thing started when Return of the Jedi came out back in 1983, and that's because
04:41included in Han Solo's strike team to disable the Death Star shield was an older gentleman
04:47rebel fighter with a very distinctive white beard. Fans speculated over this character for a good
04:53while, and in 2002, he was officially given the name Nick Sant. But with the advent of Star Wars Rebels,
04:59which sees Captain Rex sporting a bushy white beard as well, many began speculating that the
05:04characters were one and the same. Even Rebels creator Dave Filoni believed that Rex and Nick
05:10Sant were likely to be connected. I mean, why else would a seemingly old man be included in an elite
05:15strike team? Hell, Filoni even toyed with the idea of making it canon. So when it came to wrapping up
05:21Rebels in 2018, Filoni did indeed confirm that Rex fought on Endor, but left the link between him and
05:27more ambiguous. Maybe it was Rex, or maybe great big bushy beards just became a new fashion statement
05:33in the galaxy. Number 5, how did the Millennium Falcon end up in Blade Runner? Blade Runner changed
05:40the game when it came to special effects. CGI was still in its infancy when Ridley Scott made his
05:451982 cinematic exploration of a dystopian future, and therefore relied heavily on the use of practical
05:51effects. The film is really one of the most sophisticated and creative examples of in-camera
05:57trickery ever, combining matte paintings with live-action footage and highly detailed scale
06:03models. With all of these tools, Scott was able to create an aesthetic that became the gold standard
06:08for dystopian sci-fi. The director also famously went over budget making this movie and was forced
06:14to skimp wherever possible. The special effects department were forced to get highly creative then,
06:19which often meant taking props and models from other movies and utilizing them to create a futuristic LA.
06:25So as well as several other models from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the prop guys also raided the
06:31Star Wars set. When Dangerous Days making Blade Runner came out in 2007, it shed light on the
06:37fascinating process of moviemaking, and it was revealed that a model of the Millennium Falcon wound
06:43up being altered to resemble a futuristic building. All they did was turn it frontside up, add a bunch of
06:49extra antennas and then shoved it into the background of a shot. Number 4, Richard Armitage is in the
06:55Phantom Menace. More than 10 years after the release of The Phantom Menace, Richard Armitage got his big
07:01break in the Hobbit trilogy, starring as the dwarf king Thorin Orkinshield. It was around this time then
07:07that people started noticing a certain background extra from the Star Wars prequel trilogy. When The
07:12Phantom Menace was released in 1999, no one would have thought to notice the nondescript Naboo fighter pilot in
07:19the background of a scene. I mean, after all, this was Armitage's first ever feature role. Even the actor
07:24himself said he had trouble spotting himself in the movie after apparently having his only line cut and his
07:31part reduced significantly. But the point is, he is there. And his appearance at all is a little bit ironic in
07:37hindsight. As the guy who made a name for himself playing a dwarf, the actor actually claimed he was only hired here
07:43because he was quote, tall and lanky. So after the actor became something of a household name, he
07:49revealed that he had briefly appeared in Star Wars and eagle-eyed fans began scouring the movie for
07:54him. He can be hard to spot, but his distinctive features can be spotted peering over the soldier
07:59of Padme's handmaiden during the Naboo-Gungun alliance talks. Number three, the Ark of the Covenant
08:05is hidden on the Millennium Falcon. We're well aware of the many Star Wars references in Indiana Jones.
08:11Temple of Doom opens up in a bar named Club Obi-Wan and the plane at the start of Raiders of the Lost Ark
08:17is labelled O.B.C.P.O. As an added bonus as well, the sound that it makes when taken off is also the
08:23sound the Millennium Falcon makes when the hyperdrive cuts out. But there are also a number
08:28of Indiana Jones callbacks in Star Wars. But bear with us for this one because it does take some
08:33piecing together. So in Raiders of the Lost Ark, C-3PO and R2-D2 can be spotted in the Well of Souls as
08:40Hieroglyphs, where Indy finds the Ark of the Covenant. It was a fun little nod to this other movie,
08:46but it was only the start of the connection. As at the end of the film, the Ark is placed in a cargo box
08:52marked 9906753 and wheeled off into a giant storage container. In the book Star Wars The Force Awakens
09:00Incredible Cross-Sections, a detailed plan of the Millennium Falcon is shown, with an annotation stating
09:06that Han and Chewie had never been able to open a particular cargo module. The module in question was
09:13stamped, you guessed it, 9906753. Seemingly, this confirmed that the indie Star Wars references
09:20weren't just a bit of fun, but the universes were actually linked and the Ark of the Covenant somehow
09:26came into the possession of Han Solo. Number two, L337 is the Millennium Falcon. Now this one is the
09:32most obvious at a glance. I mean, it's explained quite explicitly in Solo, A Star Wars Story, but its
09:38heritage does go a little further back than that, so it's worth talking about here. So, sometimes a
09:43seemingly throwaway line of dialogue can allude to something far more significant. Way back in 1980,
09:50when the Empire Strikes Back first hit screens, everyone's favorite droid punching bag, C-3PO,
09:55made a remark about Han Solo's ship. As we all know, 3PO is fluent in over 6 million forms of
10:01communication. However, he was taken aback when trying to communicate with the onboard computer that
10:06runs through the Millennium Falcon. The line, Sir, I don't know where your ship learned to communicate,
10:11but it has the most peculiar dialect, has usually been interpreted by fans to mean that Solo's ship
10:17has so many modifications that even the onboard computer has a bizarre nature to it. However,
10:23roughly 40 years after that line was first heard, it was given an explanation. During Solo,
10:29A Star Wars Story, the witty proponent of droid rights, L337, was damaged, and her mind was uploaded
10:36into the Falcon as a way to preserve it. 3PO's bemusement in Empire then makes a lot more sense
10:42knowing that he was communicating with Lando Calrissian's robot companion.
10:47Number 1. Attack of the Donuts
10:49Matt Groening loves Star Wars. The amount of Star Wars references in The Simpsons is near
10:54uncountable. So, when George Lucas returned the favor by plastering Homer Simpson in the prequel trilogy,
11:00no doubt the creator of Springfield was all too pleased. But it took a hell of a long time for
11:07Homer's cameo to even be noticed in the first place. After all, who would be looking for Springfield's
11:12most incompetent nuclear power plant employee in a galaxy far, far away? Well, when Yoda arrives with
11:18the clone troopers at the end of Attack of the Clones, he's also apparently recruited the help of
11:23everyone's favorite duff beer enthusiast. And it seems that Homer made a better clone trooper than
11:29he did a safety inspector. While the remaining Jedi are being rescued, a clone dropship swoops in
11:35to provide covering fire. But the pilot of said dropship looks a little bit different to your
11:40average clone trooper. And when you see it, there's no mistaking the yellow bulbous head complete with
11:45the signature brown stubble for anyone but Homer Simpson. So that's our list. I want to know you guys
11:50think down in the comments below. How many of these details did you pick up on already?
11:55And did any of them surprise you as much as they did me? Let us know. And while you're down there
11:59as well, could you please give us a like, share, subscribe, and head over to whatculture.com
12:02for more lists and news like this every single day. Even if you don't though, I've been Josh.
12:07Thanks so much for watching, and I'll see you soon.
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