Star Wars

According to researches, the sound of a TIE fighter combined roar of the young elephant and the sound of a car speeding on a wet highway.

Working on the script, George Lucas had consulted with a world famous scholar of mythology, Joseph Campbell.

Lucas found it difficult to get funding for this movie, most studios believed that nobody would want to watch it.

American Directors Guild (DGA) didn't like that in the beginning of the film there was the usual credits. They ordered Lucas to recut the film and add captions in the beginning. Lucas refused, saying that it will ruin the plot of the film. The American Directors Guild fined Lucas, who paid them and immediately left the DGA.

The ship "Millennium Falcon" was coined by Lucas in a diner: hamburger with pickle seemed a good model for the creation of the spacecraft.

Everything new is well forgotten old: many elements of "Star wars" borrowed from earlier paintings. For example, the characters Obi-WAN Kenobi and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 are quite similar to the heroes of the Japanese film "Kakushi toride no san akunin" (1958), where a samurai warrior saves the Princess with the help of two petty crooks. The appearance of the droid C-3PO was copied from the robot from the cult film Metropolis (1926). The final fight is taken from "Dam Busters, The" (1954), but even closer it is to a similar scene in "633 Squadron" (1964). The final scene honoring the heroes of the virtually frame by frame copied from the "Triumph des Willens" (1934).

The word "Jedi" comes from the Japanese "Jidai Geki", which means "historical drama" in Japan called TV series about the times of the samurai warriors. Lucas mentioned in an interview that I watched "Jidai Geki", when he was in Japan, and he liked that word.

Initially, for the role of Princess Leia was taken by sissy Spacek, but when Carrie Fisher refused to appear Nude in "Carrie" (1976), they exchanged roles. Another candidate for the role of Princess Leia was jodie foster.

First on the role of Han Solo was invited to Burt Reynolds, but he dropped out of the competition

Room episode and subtitle "a New hope" was not in the original version of the film. They were added later when re-release of the film to indicate the sequence between the first "Star Wars" and "Empire Strikes Back, The" (1980).

The scene of departure of a space capsule from the ship Leia is the first work Industrial Light

The scenes on Tatooine were filmed in Tunisia, where there is a place called "Tatacon" ("Tatahouine"). Some of the interiors of the house Luke was shot in the hotel of Tunisia, but its appearance — a real house in the village of Matmata, full of caves and craters.

During the scene in the trash compartment of mark Hamill so long held your breath when diving under water that he had burst a vessel on his face. The subsequent shooting was done with only one hand.

For a certain period of the making of the film, the future prospects seemed so discouraging that it was proposed to remove the special effects and turn it into a television series.

George Lucas began work on the script in 1974.

For the role of Han Solo auditioned Kurt Russell.

The most famous robots R2-D2 and C-3PO could be called A2 and C3, but then George Lucas decided to give the droid more full names. According to the Director, their names — just pleasant to the ear set of letters and numbers that means nothing and doesn't stand for anything.

In 1980, three years after the first film epic "Star wars IV: a New hope" (1977), made the first pictures of Saturn's moon Mimas, which was very similar to the "Death Star" from the movie of George Lucas. Astronomers tend to believe that a similar dent on Mimas — crater formed as a result of collision of a celestial body with a huge asteroid. George Lucas has not commented on this post.

The character Luke Skywalker has undergone many changes before it became what it is. At first George Lucas wanted to make his little girl. Then was thinking that Luke was a dwarf. According to the following variant of the Director's Skywalker could become a 60-year-old General.

Chewbacca was modeled in the image and likeness of the dog Lucas, Indiana. Not only the appearance, but the name of this dog was glorified for centuries: in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" (1989) father of Indiana Jones clarifies the mystery of his son's name: "actually his name is Jones, that's our dog's name was Indiana." Indiana father's name was Henry Jones. Henry was constantly called Indiana "Junior", it means that as father's name was Henry, and this is stated at the end of the film.

A special edition of the film had a duration of 125 minutes.

At the end of filming the first series of Star wars mark was in a serious car accident, which greatly hurt face. Therefore, in some of the final episodes of the General plan filmed understudy, and large, you can see that the actor's face is a little different from what it was in the beginning is the effects of cosmetic surgeries.

The name of the droid R2-D2 dates back to the time when Lucas filmed "American graffiti." Sound editor Walter Murch said that he is responsible for the utterance which sparked the name for the droid. March requested a second coil, the second dialogue, eng. Reel 2, Dialog Track 2, in abbreviated form "R-2-D-2". Lucas, who was at that time in the room working on the script for Star wars, heard the request and, hearing transcript, said "great name."

"Vader" in Dutch means "father".

Han and Luke "move" Chewbacca from cell block 1138: link to the movie "THX 1138" (1970), Director of which was George Lucas.

Scenes involving Luke and his friend Biggs was cut from the film. Biggs was a young pilot who left the Imperial Academy and joined the Resistance. Luke mentions it, telling your aunt and uncle about his desire to enter the Academy

All the scenes with the spaceships were filmed with hand-made layouts. For the final scene, with the destruction of the death Star, as a tunnel has been created, the size of the layouts.