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Tribute to Nien Nunb and other Star Wars Bit Parts

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-laugh-at dept.

Nien Nunb writes "This Star Wars feature tries to give the little guys a leg up, like the aforementioned Nien Nunb, who only shows up for one action sequence, but he was copilot of the ship that destroyed the second Death Star. Star Wars is full of forgotten faces like his and you can see all their wretchedness here."

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  1. My favourite bit part by kitts · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Obi Wan and Luke are walking through Mos Eisley, right after they leave the cantina, and they're talking about selling off the speeder. For a brief second, a long, thin pair of legs, stilt-like, walk across the foreground. No picture of the body or the feet. No second pair of legs, as though half a camel just walked through the shot.

    The genius is how the rest of the alien's appearance is left up to the imagination. I mean, what fluke of gravity was that creature?

    More importantly, how does Lucas's creative insight go from that to Jar Jar? He used to have a pretty keen eye for subtle details. Now it's like getting an ice pick through the brain.

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    1. Re:My favourite bit part by nizo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Am I the only one who thought that the jedi master shown briefly in The Plotless Menace with the 6 foot long neck would be toast in any kind of lightsaber duel?

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  2. Porkins? by grub · · Score: 4, Interesting


    "Stay on target...Stay on target!" Porkins
    "I've got the death sentence on 12 systems!" scumbag in cantina
    "flubbablorgafthstuknirmblaaaa.." Greedo in cantina

    Why are the most memorable characters from the first movie or two (or IV and V, depending on your viewpoint)?
    Good thing we have these gems to counteract the Jar Jar/Nsync crap.

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  3. Hopefully in the future it reads: by Nathdot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Forgotten Characters:

    No. 1 - "That Little Kid Who Played Anakin and said 'Yippee' A Lot"

    I'd like to forget but I just can't.

    :)

  4. Originally seen a *year* ago on x-entertainment by schussat · · Score: 4, Informative
    This story was featured nearly a year ago at x-entertainment (see that link for the story without the page-by-page popups).

    -schussat

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    1. Re:Originally seen a *year* ago on x-entertainment by Nick+Number · · Score: 3, Funny

      This story was featured nearly a year ago at x-entertainment (see that link for the story without the page-by-page popups).

      Aha! I was just thinking this sounded like an XE article. Postings have tapered off there lately, but at one time I was reading that site every day. My favorite is Mr. T and Undertaker Ice Cream: Recipe for Disaster. It had me falling down laughing...at work unfortunately.

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  5. To the ultimate Star Wars "hero"... by xTK-421x · · Score: 5, Funny

    My namesake, TK-421.. The ill-fated stormtrooper who gets shot by Han Solo, and ends up with a bad transmitter...

    TK-421 Fan Club

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    1. Re:To the ultimate Star Wars "hero"... by merlyn · · Score: 3, Informative

      In the novelization of "Star Wars", this character is actually written as "THX-1138", a tip of the hat to Lucas' prior film. Instead the number "1138" shows up as "prisoner transfer from cell block 1138", a few minutes later.

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  6. the torture by Alien54 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Only here would we find the referance to Chewbaccas Father, but we also have the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special, with Carrie Fisher singing

    The torture of it all.

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  7. "You rebel scumm!" in ROTJ by dpilot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Takes the cake for me, as far as bit parts go. You can tell the guy always wanted to get into movies, and this was his BIG CHANCE. He crammed as much of his life as possible into those three words. But ya know, three words just doesn't have enough space to pack that much into, especially those three.

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  8. Matt needs to get some fact straight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting
    "Thirdly, and most importantly....the voice. Do you have a friend with a really, really annoying laugh? The kind of laugh that entices thoughts of saliva slobbering and just general unpleasantness? The kind of laugh that literally keeps you from saying something funny in fear? Well, Nien Nunb doesn't have that laugh. He has that VOICE - he talks like that CONSTANTLY. What's more? LANDO UNDERSTANDS EVERY WORD HE SAYS. Fine, Lando's been around the block a few times, he's pretty well travelled. But COME ON FOLKS, WHY ON EARTH WOULD LANDO TAKE THE TIME TO LEARN THE IMPOSSIBLE LANGUAGE USED BY THE MOUSY SLAVE MINERS OF THE PLANET SULLUST?!!!"

    Nien Nunb spoke swahili, and when the movies were shown in africa, audiences were know to standup and chear when that scene came on.

  9. 1,000 herds of elephants by Captain+Zion · · Score: 3, Funny
    Nien Numb... I know this guy. He's the one that, after blowing up the second Death Star, declared that "1000 herds of elephants were standing on his feet."

    That happened because Lucas based the alien languages in real (obscure) languages, and Mr. Numb's is based in some African dialect that translates to this bizarre elephant statement.