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Trivia: On Corucsant, there is one building that looks like the Chrysler Building in New York. There is also a skyscraper that looks like the project of the mile-high building by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Trivia: At the end of the film, when Yoda speaks to Obi-wan in Theed Palace, look outside over Obi-Wan's right shoulder. There are three great birds looking like Draco in Dragonheart. ILM did the special effects for the two films.

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Trivia: The opening title crawl was inspired by the Flash Gordon serials, which was partly what inspired George Lucas to write Star Wars.

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Trivia: When the Death Star explodes, there is a view from the forest moon of Endor. Many bits of debris fly around. One of them, at the bottom right, is doll-shaped.

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Trivia: One of the droids in the arena battle has 1138 written on his back. (01:55:00)

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Trivia: This film was supposed to be called "The Vengeance of Khan". They changed the title because of the rumor that "Return of the Jedi" was going to be called "Revenge of the Jedi" and released the following year.

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Trivia: On the Death Star, just after Darth Vader speaks to the stormtroopers, one of them, in the background, moves and looks stupidly around him while the others are straight.

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Trivia: In the version released in 1980, Emperor Palpatine was voiced by Clive Revill, but was played by an old woman with makeup and a fake monkey eyebrow bump. In the 2004 DVD (and in "Return of the Jedi"), he is voiced and played by Ian McDiarmid, who played the Emperor in later films.

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Trivia: The spectator crowd in the chariot race scene was partially made up of small wood models.

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Trivia: When Rafe has crashed in the English Channel, he breaks the glass of the cockpit and it makes a hole in the shape of a heart.

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Trivia: The uniforms of Alliance pilots resemble the uniform of US Navy pilots in the 60's and they were made with racing pilot's clothes. They also have distress rockets on their ankle like Luftwaffe pilots in the second world war.

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Trivia: The sound of Luke's landspeeder was made with the recording of the sound of a Highway in Los Angeles mixed with a vacuum cleaner.

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Trivia: The Ewoks' language is a mixture of Tibetan, Nepalese and Mongol.

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Trivia: Qui-Gon Jinn calls Queen Amidala's spaceship a Nubian model J-327. 327 was the number of the landing pad where the Millennium Falcon landed on the first Death Star in episode IV and on the Cloud City in episode V. Supposedly this number also appears in "American Graffiti" (1974), a film George Lucas directed.

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Trivia: In the scene when the Neimodians order the combat droids to capture the Queen, right after you see the Jedis hidden, a droid has DD written on his back: the symbol of Dolby Digital.

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Trivia: When the two Jedi and Jar-Jar make surface in Theed, you can see in the background Nathan Hamil, the son of Mark, being arrested by two combat droids.

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Trivia: Actress/director Sofia Coppola plays one of the two maids of Amidala, when she speaks to Senator Palpatine on the hologram. She received a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst Supporting Actress for the role.

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Trivia: The water-like screen on the Neimodian spaceship is the same as in a Flash Gordon movie.

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Trivia: In some shots of the Mos Espa Arena, the public is made with coloured Q-Tips.

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Trivia: In the pursuit scene on Coruscant, when the two speeders are diving, you can see an X-Wing pursued by 3 TIE fighters in the ground's traffic. (00:16:14)

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