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- From: dkemper@oolong.hacks.arizona.edu (David Kemper)
- Subject: Re: Another error?
- References: <1992Dec29.082547.19859@schbbs.mot.com> <1992Dec30.105457.20662@nic.funet.fi> <30DEC92142927@oolong.hacks.arizona.edu> <1992Dec31.001419.3601@nic.funet.fi>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:43:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.001419.3601@nic.funet.fi>, tapio@nic.funet.fi (Tapio Keih{nen) writes...
- >In <30DEC92142927@oolong.hacks.arizona.edu> dkemper@oolong.hacks.arizona.edu (David Kemper) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec30.105457.20662@nic.funet.fi>, tapio@nic.funet.fi (Tapio Keih{nen) writes...
- >>>- Stormtrooper's head hits the door in ANH (the scene where C3PO and
- >>>R2D2 are 'trapped' in that closet)
- >
- >>This is one of those things that everyone points to as a blooper in Star
- >>Wars. Think about it: it's not. Why COULDN'T a Stormtrooper hit his head
- >>on barging into a room? It's an error on the STORMTROOPER'S part, but a
- >>blooper is something that's logically inconsistent within the movie. This
- >>doesn't qualify.
- >
- >1. Maybe this doesn't qualify. I don't think that it is a blooper in Star
- >Wars. However, I don't think that it was there on purpose - it just
- >looks like a pure accident. No, it is not an error, I admit. But it is
- >one interesting thing in Star Wars, one of the things which makes
- >watching Star Wars interesting for 2785 times or more.
-
- Agreed. I doubt it was intentional either, but neither was the scene where
- Chewbacca scares the mouse robot on the Death Star--that just sort of
- happened during filming and they decided to keep it in.
-
- --Gallandro
-
- "Take it easy, kid. It's only a movie." --Ham Salad, "Hardware Wars"
-