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00:00When it comes to a franchise as impossibly gargantuan as Star Wars, it's only inevitable
00:05that mistakes are going to abound, and with the series fanbase being as passionate as they are,
00:12they're of course gonna love pointing them out. And while Star Wars certainly has its fair share
00:17of honest-to-god mistakes, from the iconic Stormtrooper head bump to more basic continuity
00:22errors and lore inconsistencies, what at first appears to be a mistake isn't always the case.
00:28Sometimes, supposed mistakes are actually completely intentional on the part of George Lucas,
00:33other directors, and various cast and crew members working on the movies.
00:37So buckle in folks and get that hyperdrive calculating. I'm Ewan from WhatCultureStarWars,
00:42and here are 10 Star Wars movie mistakes that were totally intentional.
00:45Number 10. Jango Fett Hits His Head. Star Wars Episode 2, Attack of the Clones.
00:52Let's kick things off with a bit of a softball entry. In Star Wars Episode 2, Attack of the Clones,
00:57when Jango Fett pleads Obi-Wan Kenobi and boards his ship Slave One, look closely,
01:02and you can see the ship's door smack him in the head as he enters.
01:05Was the Ciccais de Muir Morrison simply clumsily hitting his head in an on-set prop?
01:10Of course not. It was an intentional gaffe included in the film by director George Lucas,
01:15as a nod to the infamous Stormtrooper mistake from 1977 Star Wars.
01:19In the original movie, a Stormtrooper memorably hits their head when entering a control room,
01:24a mistake that George Lucas and his army of editors seemingly missed during production.
01:29The mistake took on a life of its own in the years and decades that followed,
01:32as it became widely known among even casual Star Wars fans,
01:35enough that Lucas evidently decided to pay tongue-in-cheek homage to it in Attack of the Clones.
01:40If you're still somehow not convinced the mistake was deliberate,
01:43look closely at Jango Fett during the Battle of Geonosis later in the film,
01:47and you'll see a small dent in the top of his helmet.
01:50Number 9. Luke's Force Kick Star Wars Episode 6, Return the Jedi
01:55Here's a supposed mistake that a lot of Star Wars fans love to point out.
02:00When Luke Skywalker helps rescue Leia from Jabba the Hutt,
02:03he kicks one of Jabba's goons in the face, or rather doesn't.
02:07Look not so closely, and you'll see that Luke's foot doesn't connect with the blaster-wielding enemy's face.
02:12It's not even close.
02:13And while it's reasonable to assume that this is simply a case of poor fight choreography or awkward camera placement,
02:19that's actually not it at all.
02:21Storyboards for the sequence reveal that it was always meant to look like this,
02:24with Luke using what's now semi-jokingly called a Force Kick to knock the soldier out.
02:28The staging is inelegant, and it absolutely looks wrong,
02:32but aside from the weapon in the minion's hand being different in the final film,
02:36it was seemingly executed precisely as intended.
02:39Hilariously, even Mark Hamill himself recently tweeted about the shot,
02:42dubbing it his quote,
02:43widely celebrated, perfectly executed Force Kick.
02:46Number 8.
02:47Greedo Lives!
02:49Star Wars Episode 4, A New Hope
02:51Everybody knows that bounty hunter Greedo is killed by Han Solo early on in A New Hope,
02:57but over the years, many fans have pointed out a supposed continuity error
03:01that implies that Greedo miraculously survived.
03:04Roughly two minutes after his death,
03:06a character looking almost exactly like Greedo can be seen wandering around Mos Eisley,
03:12prompting conspiracy theories that his race, the Rodians, possess a secret regenerative ability.
03:17But the answer is so much more simple than that.
03:20This is just another Rodian walking around Mos Eisley.
03:23Sure, it's a tad suspect that he's wearing the exact same outfit as Greedo,
03:28but remember that when we first meet Jabba the Hutt,
03:30he's surrounded by three Rodians who are also wearing the same getter.
03:34Clearly, they're all just shopping at the exact same place,
03:37and they're too stubborn to change.
03:38Star Wars lore keeper Pablo Hidalgo straight up confirmed it himself.
03:42Quote,
03:43Those are the Rodians aren't Greedo,
03:45but clearly Rodians aren't that creative or individualistic when it comes to wardrobe.
03:49Costume production notes indicate that there were three Rodians in the cantina all dressed the same.
03:54Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina establishes that one of them was named Dooku.
03:57Furthermore, in Return of the Jedi, we see another Rodian with the same duds,
04:01only this guy's named Beedo.
04:04Number 7, Watto Shouldn't Be Able To Fly
04:07Star Wars Episode 1, The Phantom Menace
04:09Some have noted that junk dealer Watto from The Phantom Menace
04:14shouldn't physically be able to fly due to his relatively light-looking wings
04:18being incapable of lifting his portly body off the ground.
04:22And according to the film's animation director, Rob Coleman,
04:24this was actually something that was discussed during production,
04:27but following some first-hand research,
04:29it was decided that there was in fact no mistake at all.
04:32Coleman said that, quote,
04:33Watto proved a different challenge because of his design.
04:37He's got that huge belly.
04:38I remember some people at ILM, Industrial Light and Magic,
04:41saying because of his wing ratio, he'd never fly.
04:44I happened to be watching one of the science and nature channels,
04:46and there's a documentary on bumblebees,
04:48and a scientist said, quote,
04:49Actually, the wing-to-body ratio is quite confusing,
04:52because technically, they shouldn't be able to fly.
04:54I went back in and said,
04:55the bumblebee has wings that are too small,
04:57so Wano's got wings that are too small.
04:59And by the way, his belly's filled with helium.
05:01Better yet, the common assertion that bees break the laws of physics by flying,
05:05absolute voodoo.
05:07Number 6, Parsecs As A Measurement Of Time
05:10Star Wars Episode 4, A New Hope
05:131977 Star Wars introduced one of the more famously quibbled about moments in the entire franchise,
05:19when Han boasted that the Millennium Falcon was, quote,
05:21the ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.
05:25Except anyone who knows their parsecs knows that a parsec isn't a measurement of time,
05:30but a distance, in turn, ensuring that Han's claim is totally nonsensical.
05:35While it's most often suggested that George Lucas simply screwed up,
05:39or rather lazily used an obscure measurement he figured nobody would take notice of,
05:43a draft of the original Star Wars script obliterates any doubt that the American
05:46graffiti director knew precisely what he was doing.
05:50Immediately after Ford says his famous one-liner, the script follows up with, quote,
05:54Ben reacts to Solo's stupid attempt to impress them with obvious misinformation.
05:58And even in the final film itself, just look at Obi-Wan's face after Han brings up Parsecs.
06:04He looks at him as if to say, that's bad for crap, mate.
06:07Number 5, The Confused Mon Calamari
06:10Star Wars Episode 6, Return of the Jedi
06:12In Episode 6, literally a second before Admiral Akbar says his iconic,
06:17It's a trap! line, keep your eye on the Mon Calamari standing up on the left-hand side of the screen.
06:23Somewhat hilariously, they appear to be a bit confused about the location of the monitor they're supposed to be looking at.
06:29At first, they walk over to the far left side of the frame,
06:31then upon realizing their error, suddenly turn around to face the other way.
06:36While, in practical terms, you can certainly argue that the actor portraying this particular Mon Calamari
06:41was either poorly directed or struggled to see what they were doing while wearing the costume,
06:45there is a persuasive enough in-universe explanation.
06:49After all, the Mon Calamari's eyes are positioned on the sides of their head,
06:53limiting their field of binocular vision and forcing them to turn their head to see objects nearby.
06:58Either that, or they just left something in the other room and had to go get it.
07:01I do that all the time.
07:03Number 4
07:03Padme's Magic Button
07:05Star Wars Episode 3, Revenge of the Sith
07:08Almost immediately following Attack of the Clones' release,
07:11a fleet of fans readily pointed out an admittedly pretty funny mistake about the movie.
07:15When Padme presses the exact same button twice on her space yacht to perform two separate functions,
07:20sending a message back to the Jedi on Coruscant,
07:22and then showing a map on their distance from Geonosis,
07:25it doesn't really make much sense.
07:27While in this case it was absolutely a mistake,
07:29George Lucas evidently heard the criticism loud and clear,
07:33and so decided to have a little bit of fun with Predictic fans by
07:36intentionally repeating the same mistake again in Episode 3,
07:40now with his tongue poking firmly through his cheek.
07:42When Padme begins her journey to Mustafar,
07:45she again presses the exact same button to take off,
07:47now suggesting the damn thing has three independent functions,
07:51ensuring it makes even less sense than before.
07:53Oh George, you sneaky little rascal.
07:55Number 3
07:56Bombs dropping in space
07:58Star Wars Episode 8 The Last Jedi
08:01The magic xylophone moment of Star Wars discourse.
08:04Remember when people complained about bombs dropping in space in The Last Jedi?
08:08The argument of these geniuses at work is that because there isn't gravity in space,
08:12they shouldn't fall to the targets below.
08:14To that, I counter with who cares,
08:17but the question was paid thought during Episode 8's production,
08:20with Last Jedi's visual effects supervisor, Ben Morris,
08:23taking the time to explain why the scene makes sense in-universe.
08:26We did all go, how do bombs drop in space,
08:30and we sat there for ages,
08:31and then Ryan said,
08:32they're maglev bombs, it's Star Wars,
08:34let's not worry, let's move on.
08:36If you imagine that all of these bombs are actually projected out of that bomber,
08:39and they're travelling in space,
08:41there's no reason on Earth why they wouldn't continue on down and hit the dreadnought,
08:44so we suddenly had the solution.
08:46And beyond that, when we see Paige fall down inside the ship,
08:49it's made abundantly clear that the ship has its own artificial gravity,
08:53and thereby reasonable to assume that the bombs are also influenced by it.
08:57Number 2.
08:58Sebulba's Disappearing Act
09:00Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace
09:02During The Phantom Menace's unforgettable pod racing sequence,
09:06it's been noted that there is a VFX mistake
09:09when Anakin is being closely pursued by his main rival Sebulba near the end of the race.
09:13During the shot where Sebulba's pod is tailing Anakin in the background,
09:17he's not visible in his pod's cockpit at all,
09:19but reappears in the next shot as if by magic.
09:22Even if you ignore the sensible-ish explanation
09:25that Sebulba simply ducked his head down underneath the dashboard for a second,
09:29visual effects supervisor John Knoll actually confirmed
09:32that this wasn't really a mistake on the movie's DVD commentary.
09:35Knoll said,
09:36I figured we could get away with it,
09:38confirming that the VFX team deliberately decided not to bother rendering Sebulba in the shot
09:42because, on the side of the most attentive fan keen to pour over every last frame of the movie,
09:47it would go unnoticed by about 99.7% of viewers
09:50and say the VFX artist the hassle of rendering another character.
09:55And number 1.
09:56All that anachronistic dialogue.
09:59Every Star Wars movie.
10:01Not that this has ever really been on my radar,
10:04but there are words and turns of phrases
10:06that have jarred with a lot of Star Wars fans
10:08because of how earthly they sound.
10:11For instance,
10:12in Empire,
10:13Han says,
10:13see you in hell,
10:14a distinctly Earth-bound human saying if there ever was one,
10:17and in Attack of the Clones,
10:18Dex says to Obi-Wan,
10:20that depends on how big your...
10:22pocketbook is.
10:23There are countless other examples of Earthspeak creeping into the franchise in a distinct way,
10:29but Pablo Hidalgo comes to the rescue once again,
10:32revealing that this has always been an intentional stylistic choice
10:34to filter the actual verbiage of Star Wars through a translator for our viewing pleasure.
10:39In a series of tweets, he said that,
10:42Passing word origins in Star Wars is a tangled ball not worth unravelling,
10:47and the best I am preserving can see is that the whole thing's been translated for our terrestrial benefit.
10:52You can try to create rules,
10:53but in the end,
10:54the vibes win out.
10:56Yes they do, Pablo.
10:57Yes they do.
10:58And regardless of that,
10:59Harrison Ford saying,
11:00then I'll see you in hell,
11:02hits way harder than having him say something like,
11:04I'll see you in the void.
11:06It's just way cooler to say hell.
11:08And those were 10 Star Wars movie mistakes that were totally intentional.
11:12Did any of these ones surprise you?
11:13Let us know down in the comments below.
11:15Just remember,
11:15no disintegrations, yeah?
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11:21Either way,
11:22I've been Ewan,
11:22this has been Wild Culture Star Wars,
11:24and I'll catch you next time.
11:25Bye!
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