31 Fun, Genius Details That Make The "Star Wars" Movies Even Smarter

Mark Hamill didn't know the twist while filming The Empire Strikes Back.

1. The budget considerations.

The original Star Wars's budget was low enough that they had to get creative when solving problems, like using white gaffers tape to hold together broken stormtrooper armor. from MovieDetails

2. The scar.

In Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), Harrison Ford’s famous chin scar was added to Alden Ehrenreich in order to make him resemble Ford more from MovieDetails

Harrison Ford's real-life scar came about when he was driving to work (pre-fame) and crashed into a telephone pole. He slammed into the steering wheel headfirst, and then he had what he referred to as "inept emergency surgery," leaving the whole ordeal with the scar on his chin.

3. The credits.

In Star Wars Phantom Menace, Jabba the Hutt was an elaborate costume with no actor so they got creative with the credits from MovieDetails

4. The lightsaber sound.

In the First Star Wars movie our Immediately Recognizable Lightsaber Sound was a Mistake...While carrying a tape recorder with a Broken Mic Cable the Shielding had Come Off and the sound was Recorded as he Walked by a Television...the Sound is the Electrical Feedback from the Television's Tube. from MovieDetails

5. The tripping.

R2-D2 trips a battle droid in the background in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) from MovieDetails

6. The John Williams cameo.

Composer John Williams makes a cameo as a bartender on Kijimi, in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019): from MovieDetails

7. The speeder.

In Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), all the wide shots of Luke flying across Tatooine in his speeder were achieved by placing a mirror underneath a version of the prop with a motor and wheels. from MovieDetails

8. The Millennium Falcon seats.

In Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), Chewbacca’s seat in the Millennium Falcon’s cockpit is visibly dirtier than Han’s from MovieDetails

9. The battle droids.

In Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002) the battle droids and clones resemble their makers. from MovieDetails

10. The pink R2 unit.

In “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (2015) a pink R2 unit can be seen on the resistance base with the designation R2-KT. The founder of the 501st fan organization created the droid to watch after his daughter “Katie” who had terminal brain cancer. The droid visits children’s hospitals to this day. from MovieDetails

The 501st Legion is an organization that, in their own words, "is an all-volunteer organization formed for the express purpose of bringing together costume enthusiasts under a collective identity within which to operate. The Legion seeks to promote interest in Star Wars through the building and wearing of quality costumes, and to facilitate the use of these costumes for Star Wars-related events as well as contributions to the local community through costumed charity and volunteer work..."

11. The Raiders reference.

In the background of Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) the golden idol from Indiana Jones: Raiders of The Lost Ark (1981) can be seen. from MovieDetails

12. The oil paintings.

Some of the sets of the first Star Wars trilogy (1977 - 1983) were hand painted with oil paintings on plexiglass panels from MovieDetails

13. The docking bay.

In Star Wars A New Hope (1977) docking bay 94 has a big stylized “94” outside the door that I’ve just managed to notice after 34 years of being a human. from MovieDetails

14. The background gesture.

In Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith (2005), you can see one B1 BattleDroid in the background telling his friend to look at Grievous activate his lightsabers. from MovieDetails

15. The dropped parka.

In Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), Han drops his parka on the floor when he arrives at Starkiller base. When he leaves, Chewbacca hands it back to him, and he reacts with confusion. This part was improvised by Chewbacca's actor Joonas Suotamo, who went off script, confusing Harrison Ford. from MovieDetails

16. The blue squadron.

Star Wars (1977) originally had Red and Blue Squadron attacking the Death Star, but blue conflicted with the blue screens, so it was changed to gold. In Rogue One (2016), Red, Gold and Blue squadron attack Scarif, where Blue Squadron is destroyed, leaving them unavailable for the events in Star Wars from MovieDetails

17. The light and the dark.

In Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005), when Anakin and Obi-Wan speak for the last time as friends, Anakin is standing in the dark and Obi-Wan in the light, representing their status within the Force. from MovieDetails

18. The native planet.

While filming Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), Oscar Isaac requested that his character Poe Dameron specifically be a native of the planet Yavin IV. This is because the scenes on Yavin IV in the original trilogy were filmed in Guatemala, where Isaac is actually from. from MovieDetails

19. The words on the bomb.

Star Wars The Last Jedi (2017) - one of the bombs during the assault has “Han says Hi” written on it from MovieDetails

The words are written in Aurebesh, which is basically the alphabet for the English language in Star Wars.

20. The sandcrawler.

The Sandcrawler in Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) was infact only 2ft long but clever camera work created the giant scale. from MovieDetails

21. The tracking droid.

In Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999) after the pod race you can see one of the tracking droids Darth Maul sent to find the queen in the background while Qui-Gon is talking to Watto. from MovieDetails

22. The festival.

In Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) C-3PO mentions that the Festival of the Ancestors on Pasaana takes place every 42 years. Rise of Skywalker was released 42 years after the original Star Wars in 1977. from MovieDetails

23. The fractured nose and cheekbone.

In the beginning of Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, the injuries sustained by Luke Skywalker in the Wampa attack, were used as an explanation for the injuries Mark Hamill suffered in a car accident in 1977 where he suffered a fractured nose and cheekbone. from MovieDetails

24. The back of the Millennium Falcon.

In Star Wars, the Millenium Falcon's design was made to include several large vents along the back of the model in order to prevent the interior lights for the engine from melting the model. from MovieDetails

25. The anagram.

In Star Wars: Rogue One the planet with the imperial labor camp that Jyn is first held at is an anagram for Obi Wan. from MovieDetails

26. The coughs.

In Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) some of the coughs that General Grievous makes are actually George Lucas’. They were recorded without him knowing, and slipped into the film by Matthew Wood, the sound editor. from MovieDetails

27. The Hidden Fortress.

In the original Star Wars (A New Hope) General Motti is about to say "hidden fortress" when Darth Vader cuts him off with a force-choke. The Hidden Fortress is an Akira Kurosawa film that inspired Star Wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_Fortress#Influence from MovieDetails

The Hidden Fortress is a 1958 film about two peasants who bring a pair of people, who the peasants don't know are a princess and a general, across enemy lines in exchange for gold.

28. The Bad Robot Productions mascot.

Doidsmith, Babu Frik’s lab in 2019’s Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker features many of the droids throughout the series, but also the Bad Robot mascot of JJ Abrams own studio, Bad Robot Productions. from MovieDetails

29. The Force connection.

In Star Wars: Episode III, Anakin's faster retrieval of his lightsaber, during his duel with Obi Wan, shows his stronger connection with The Force as The Chosen One from MovieDetails

30. The C-3PO cameo.

Anthony Daniels, the actor for C-3PO, has a cameo in the club scene of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) from MovieDetails

31. And finally, the twist to end all twists.

In order to prevent the twist of Vader being Luke's father being spoiled in The Empire Strikes Back (1980), the line written in the script and spoken during filming was "Obi-Wan killed your father", with it later dubbed over. Of the main cast, only Mark Hamill was informed before release from MovieDetails