Revenge of the Sith Easter Eggs

Ant writes "Via TheForce.Net, a StarWars.com article with a great list of Easter Eggs from the third prequel movie, Revenge of the Sith. There were many cameos and hidden images." From the article: " It's tiny, but visible enough to send a warm fuzzy through the hearts of original trilogy fans. In the establishing shot of the expansive Senate docking bays, there's a tiny Millennium Falcon easing into frame. And it's not just a non-descript Corellian freighter; it's on good authority -- namely George Lucas -- that this is the infamous hunk-of-junk before it came into the ownership of either Lando Calrissian or Han Solo."

Comments

huh?

[TheKidWho]

Who you calling a hunk o junk, that baby can do the kessel run in 12 parsecs!

heh

[pocketfullofshells]

I'm just glad they snuck in a Willhelm among all those screams.

hilarious

[vitamine73]

Check out this remake of episode IV:


Grocery Store Wars: The Organic Rebellion

Ah hah!

[EMIce]

I knew it was the millenium falcon! That was so worth the $10.

Additional Easter Eggs

[jounihat]

There's also two Easter eggs not mentioned in the article, because they're very difficult to find. In the first you can see someone in the background mumbling something, which is clearly a decent part of a dialogue. In the second, for one frame, you can see Hayden Christensen actually acting (it's uncertain, however, is it the real Hayden Christensen or just a Hayden Christensen 3D-model).

Re:Additional Easter Eggs

[pg110404]

Easter egg 1 - background mumbling - during normal shooting, background actors are usually asked to pretend like they are talking but not actually make any noise. This allows the boom mic to pick up the main actor's voice more clearly without the distraction of somebody in the background. The background dialogue you hear in this case is more than likely the ad-libbing of the foley sound stage actors.

Easter egg 2 - Hayden's acting - Given 2 hours + of movie time, it's entirely possible he appears to be able to act decently for that one frame through pure random coincidence. A similar concept of a stopped 'analog' watch is right accurate a day.

I think George Lucas got lucky with these two points.

Sith Easter Eggs

[Anonymous Coward]

Milk chocolate or darth chocolate?

Re:Interesting reference...

[Leroy_Brown242]

ooooo, I hadn't heard that one!

Re:Easter Eggs & Christmas Presents

[Anonymous Coward]

yes of course it was. It was released for that very purpose and also to round up a few torrent sites and deliberately make an example of them.

ps Taco can you sort this shit out:

Slow Down Cowboy!

Slashdot requires you to wait 2 minutes between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment.

It's been 5 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment

Re:Pedant time

[Leroy_Brown242]

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=asinine

Re:Interesting reference...

[Richy_T]

The sarcasm thread was a couple of days ago...

YT-1300 vs Millenium Falcon

[janestarz]

As I was discussing with a friend on my regular D&D night, the difference between a YT-1300 Corellian freighter and the Millenium Falcon, is that the MF is slightly...modified, shall we say? It's a YT-1300++, so to speak
I did not know for instance, that the original YT-1300s have seperate jets while the MF has a big semi-ring of motor power block jet thingies.
(Girl going tech/mech here, beware.)

Ah well, Lando did some last minute remodifications when visiting the Second Death Star and scraped the hull a bit, incidentally losing the communications array too.

What do you mean, -3 off-topic? I'm a girl geek, what do I know of topics anyway!

Re:YT-1300 vs Millenium Falcon

[rokzy]

you say "girl" twice for no reason. I don't buy it. either you're a guy with big tits, or a girl with small tits.

Re:YT-1300 vs Millenium Falcon

[eobanb]

Will you marry me?

Re:YT-1300 vs Millenium Falcon

[Scooter]

Yeah - Solo claims that he "made a lot of special modifications myself"

Liar - this is what really happened:-

Xzbit "So this is your ride? What a piece of Junk!"

Han "Yeah - she may not look like much.."

Xzbit "Damm man, you got that right. So.. what IS it?"

Han "It's a Corellian YT-1300 light freighter"

Xzbit "You mean it USED to be! Look at this paint job - is that paint or dandruff ?"

Off to 'Western Spiral Arm Customs!' ....Later, down at the dockyard..

Xzbit "Well, Han Western Spiral have done an amazing job on your YT, and here's ma droid Q to take you round the outside"

Q "When we first got your YT, Han it was so badly beat up, we didn't think it would fly at all.

Now we know you do a bit of smuggling so first we hit you with these Quad turbo laser cannons..

And that's not all: for a really powerful punch, we also added you very own Arakyd Concussion missile tubes!"

Han "No waaay - get outa town - you gave me my own missile launcher?!"

Q "We sure did, right there on your YT. Now, those weapons are great for when you're out on the
sublight highway, but what if some low lifes try and steal your ride from the docking bay? Well check this out: Taim & Bak hooked you up with this neat ventral Auto Blaster. It drops down and
takes out the bad guys."

Han "That is sooo neat"

Q "In fact, we couldn't let this one go without giving you the ultimate smuggler's package, so we
hit you with the Seinar Fleet systems Active Sensor Pulse Generator, a Torplex Fore Deflector
Shield generator, and Carbanti hooked you up with this 29L Electro-Magnetic Countermeasures
package. Not only that but here you got your Nordoxicon Anti-concussion Field generator, a
KaproCorp Acceleration compensator, for those tight turns, a Torplex Tandem Flight Computer with
the Microaxial HyD Modular Navicomputer with optional crop duster program. And round the back we got you a Novaldex Stasis-type Shield generator on the port side, with a Kuat drive-yards shield generator on the starboard side, and an Ion Flux Stabilser with Alluvial damper, and chrome spinners. We also did some boring shit to the engines but we don't talk about that on the show.."

Han "I can't believe what you guys did to my YT! It's the fastest hunk-a-junk in the galaxy
now!"

Xzbit "And that ain't all - check out your interior. Mike tell him what you did.."

Mike "When we got your ship in to the shop Han, you didn't *even* have a stereo, so we hooked you
up with the biggest satellite dish we could find, and a state of the art holographic display
right here in your lounge. And if there's nothing on the TV, it even plays chess!"

Xzbit "Now I know you're wondering where you actually store the stuff you're smuggling - Mike
show Han our special modification"

Mike (lifts floor panel) "Check out your very own smuggling copmpartments!"

Han "Oh. My. God. That is soooo awesome!"

Mike "And if you ever find that you need to smuggle yourself in these, we installed 10 inch
monitors and Holo player right here in the compartment lids, so you can watch movies whilst
hiding out!"

Xzbit "and finally Han, what's a ship these days without strobe lights? Now we want you to stand
out on the approach apron down at Mos Eisley so we hit you with the latest Gelieg 20m-cp
Strobe/C-beams. These puppies will light up the inside of an asteroid!"

Han "This is unbelievable - wait til Chewie sees this!"

Xzbit "Han - you officially bin pimped!"

This really does belong on /.

[Lennavan]

Wow, news about easter eggs in Star Wars? This really is news for nerds.

/me wonders why he read the article anyways

/me wonders why he is writing "/me"

/me has to log off immedi

Re:not seen yet

[IANAAC]

Not surprising that the best line in episode 5 (second in the original), when Leia says "I love you" and Solo says "I know" was not actually in the script. Harrison made it up on the spot. (He seems to do a lot of that, no?)

Certainly better than this outing's

"It's because I love you so much"
"No. I love you more... Pookie"

Well, at least that's what I got out of it.

I mean, has he not been in love since high school?

Re:Interesting reference...

[Leroy_Brown242]

DAMN!

I always miss the good threads.

I don't know how this one didn't make the cut

[pteaxwa]

Silent film star wars

Another Easter Egg I found

[Council]

If you hit up-down-up-left-A-B-B-A when you see the Lucasfilm logo, you see an extra splashscreen.

And also it changes directors to Spielberg.

Re:Interesting reference...

[EnronHaliburton2004]

Towards the end of THX 1138, as the characters approach the city shell, and there are some shots of the guards picking up wierd lifeforms. There's a bunch of radio chatter during which one of the guards says "I think I hit a Wookie back there".

Another overlooked easter egg....

[jdgeorge]

If you look carfully during the "touching scene" between Anakin and Padme, you'll see the wet paper bag that Hayden Christensen was unable to act his way out of.

Re:What bothered me about Anakin's downfall

[Anonymous Coward]

Sure it is war, but when do you condone killing women and children in a coup?

What a sexist comment.

Re:What bothered me about Anakin's downfall

[ankhank]

You're seeing the problems with the Force 1.0 universe -- it's a binary, two-bit universe. Everything's black and white, morally speaking.

Universe 2.0 is 8-bit and has grayscale morality.

Re:What does Regular Old Telephone Service

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder what the psychiatrists would make of us three then eh?

A steady source of income.

Re:What bothered me about Anakin's downfall

[Rob_Bryerton]

Universe 2.0 is 8-bit and has grayscale morality./i>

You're either with us, or against us, or.... well, 254 other things

Two-bit universe indeed ;)

The Millennium Falcon Cameo

[Badmovies]

Six degrees of separation my butt! From what Lucas has shown us, it is more like one or two in the "Star Wars" universe. Between the droids being around young Anakin and now the Millennium Falcon showing up, I have lost track of how many times things are tied in together. I am surprised that the Ewoks did not turn out to be Chewbacca's midget children that he never knew about.

Re:The Millennium Falcon Cameo

[interstellar_donkey]

Pfft!

I am surprised that the Ewoks did not turn out to be Chewbacca's midget children that he never knew about.

Everyone knows the Ewoks are a race of midget wookies.

Also, if you really pay attention, you learn the following things:

Yoda is Chewbacca's father.

While technically, yes, Anikin was "conceived" by the midicholorides or whatever the heck they're called, the real reason Anikin's mom was so vague about his conception was that she was having an affair with Watto at the time.

The real reason why Jar Jar was kicked out of the secret underwater city is because he was gettin' it on with Padame, an act strictly prohibited by the Gungan. However since they're pretty much all stupid, the gungans only description for sexual miconduct is "being clumsy". Proof of this is found in Episode II's tortured romantic discussions between Skywalker and Padame when she talks about her first boyfriend, and finalized by a split second shot in Episode III when Padame shoots Jar Jar one of "those" knowing looks.

If you pay close attention to the Millennium Falcon in Episode III, you notice that it is NOT the same ship they used in Episodes IV-VI. It's actually the original TOY they released to the general public back in the early 80s. This way, Lucas and his merchindising buddies can say that they toys everyone bought back in the 80s was actually a model of the ship in Episode III, and they should all go out and buy a new Millennium Falcon if they want the REAL Ep IV-VI toy.

Episode III is also the first Star Wars where we discover that people a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away sometimes suffered from terrible gas pains. This was shown by the expressions on Palpatine's face many times in the film (at first I thought it was bad acting, but later learned it was just gas).

Re:Too late

[NanoGator]

"I wish they'd told me that before I'd seen the movie three times..."

It's not their fault you missed em all three times!

Re:What bothered me about Anakin's downfall

[cpt kangarooski]

Sure, try it sometime.

Re:What's Wrong with New "Star Wars" Trilogy?

[AndroidCat]

Bah! If Captain Kirk had been there, he would have had Spock and McCoy whip him up a super-charged shot with the same stuff, and once his midideloreans hit 88, you'd see some serious shit!

Re:It's you!

[FosterKanig]

Of course he's disturbed. You shouldn't use so much tongue.