Feature : Revenge of the Sith trivia trove
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I tried to type out the original content since is not to lengthy and additionally i added picture related to the article i source from other sites to increase your reading pleasure , the article is originally written by Newpaper journalist Tan Dawn Wei which began like this:
It's been an incredibly long wait. And an incredibly journey. But George Lucas has finally come full circle with the mother of all sagas after almost 30 years - hos outer space opus. Starwars, will start playing its last chapter on 19 May, when 20,000 cinema printsin 40 languages are unleashed upon the world.
Even with US$115 million( $189m) spent making this final film and another $95m marketing it, Lucas should have little trouble recouping his money.
As it is, every magazine and every paperhas gone to town about how Revenge of The Sith marks the end of an era.
But there's the other stuff you want to know about Epsiode III:
BYE BAI
No need to look out for Bai Ling's few second of fame as Senator Bana Breemu. - she ended up on the cutting room floor. Is her upcoming spread in Playboy to blame? The 34 year old thinks so. She tearfully told the New York Post that Lucase probably didn;t approve of her shoot for adult magazine.
But Papa Lucas has rubbbished the actress claims saying" My daughter is in that samce scene....(She)was cut as well. My other daughter was in another scene and that was cut too."
So the girls are out, but the boys - including Lucas himself - survived the chops. The director has cameo as blue-faced baron Papanoida at the Galaxies Opera, where Anakin Skywalker goes to have a tete-a tete with supreme chancellor Palpatine.
But blink and you'll miss him.
His so, Jett also makes an appearance as a young Jedi Padawan who is gunned down by clone troopers outside the Jedi temple.
Colour Me Bad
The final duel between Obi-wan Kenobi and Skywalker will be the only scene in the entire series when two characters cross the same-coloured lightsaber.
Hayden Christensen and Ewan Mcgregor spent 2 months trainng for it, and fight coordinator Nick Gillard two years putting it together before Lucas shot it in 4 days..
Darth Buff
Christensen put on 11kg for Ep3 by eating six meals a day. But he couldn;t make up for his kack of height. Lucase has to resort to camera tricks to make him look taller when decked out as Darth Vader- the actor is 12.7cm shorter than David Prowse, who played Darth Vader in the original trilogy. Speaking of the Dark Lord, the first scene in which skywalker becomes Darth Vader happen just eight days before the end of the entire shoot.
When those on the set heard the all-important scene was being shot, almost a thousand people showed up outside the soundstage.
Various Vaders
Christensen has to share Darth Vader credits with five other people. Prowse was the man inside the suit for the first three films; James Earl Jones the booming voice for all the films with Vader; Bod Anderson the man with the moves for the duel scene s in Ep V and VI, and Jake Lloyd the young Anakin.
Just Shoot Me
They were made three years apart, but lucas allowed a short scene for Ep3 to be shot in Tunisian desert while shooting Ep2 so that the team didnt have to return for repeated shoot.
The scene is said to be the one in which Obi Wan delivers the infant Luke Skywalker to his aunt and uncle in tatooine. Ep3 is also the only starwars film shot entirely in the studio. Scenes of Thailand, China, Switzerland were used as background plates for the wookiee planet Kashyyyk.
Return to Revenge
The title, Revenge of Sith, is based on the initial name given to esp 4, which was revenge of the jedi.
Lucas said he had purposely leaked out the name for esp 4 to foil bootleggers. He also said a fan worth his salt would've known it to be false because a Jedi would never seek revenge
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