Obi wans iconic line: "That's no moon, it's a space station" isn't popular? I beg to differ. "These aren't the droids you are looking for" He does have a few.

So if the Stormtroopers were right handed and their weapons were left handed, that might explain their lack of accuracy

"No banger theme"?? Might I remind you of Binary Sunset, the Cantina Band and the Princess Leia Theme? Not to forget the Death Star Trench Run music, the Fanfares in the End and also the Death Star Disguise Scene music? Iconic themes, often used in other Star Wars media!

“That’s no moon.” Is incredibly iconic and an intimidating line! “Use the force, Luke.” “The force will be with you, always” “myself, the boy, two droids, and no questions asked.”

My favorite fact: Mark Hamill didn't see a single Star Wars movie before making Episode IV.

That is another reason why I love Star Wars: A New Hope. I have literally watched this movie more times than I can count (I lived in Japan as a Navy Brat and we didn't have English television and I had the Star Wars Trilogy on VHS). I have every line memorized. It is still great to find these little nuggets that even I missed. (by the way, I still watch A New Hope at least 2-3 times a month)

Obi wan said hello there ! Iconic line

No iconic line??? How do you explain, "These aren't the droids you're looking for," and, "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”?

"YOU DON'T NEED TO SEE HIS IDENTIFICATION" IS EXTREMELY ICONIC

I was in the British Army and got switched from the SLR to a Sterling SMG (real guns not props) and can say that it’s more likely they switched around the weapon to hide the brass ejection port rather than the magazine port bumping into the actor… as we all know, lasers don’t have brass ejection ports and the gun fired from an open breech so there was a great big gap there with a big assed spring inside. Also the ejection port has a big lip that is almost as big as the magazine port to stop your hand sliding over the port and taking off your fingers with ejected brass. I think it actually did happen with the Sten SMG (the one that came before the Sterling) as it didn’t have a finger guard.

Fun list. I always thought that Tusken Raider loop looked quite hokey and subprofessional.

No theme?!? The opening bars of the Star Wars theme itself is probably the most recognizable movie score in the world!

As a kid, I saw a TV showing of the original Star Wars trilogy (the "original" original, before George Lucas re-edited it in the late 90s) that was hosted by Carrie Fisher. Some of the tidbits she shared about her experiences filming "A New Hope" included her worry that if she didn't lose enough weight that Lucas would replace her with Jodie Foster, that if Anthony Daniels hadn't been cast as C-3PO the other contender for the part spoke with "a very fast Brooklyn accent", that the rest of the cast affectionately referred to Darth Vader actor David Prowse as "Darth Farmer", ("The only thing intimidating about him was his size," Fisher said) and that Prowse had trouble seeing where he was going in the Vader helmet and had to shoot the scene where he comes into Leia's cell to interrogate her several times because he kept hitting his head on the low doorway to the cell.

I knew that Tusken was looped from the first time I saw it in 1977.

My head canon for Leia’s accent was that was her formal speech pattern for political events, and Tarkin was a known political figure so she’d encountered him in more formal circumstances before

I like the fact that for the majority of Peter Cushing's screen time, he was wearing slippers because the production couldn't get his size of boots in time

Only 2 billion deaths? I would have thought one of the most significant industrialized worlds in the galaxy, Alderaan, would have had a larger population.

Thanks for telling me seven things I didn't know. That's better than I expected.

Well done. No messing around, that was a lot to cover in 15 minutes.

20 Things You Missed? More like 20 trivia points.

I don't think that was a planetary shield on Alderan, i think that was a small detail of the atmosphere flash burning away.

He does say one of the best lines "These are not the drones you are looking for"

Ben Burtt was a fraking genius.

One thing I always noticed was that the full size X Wing fighters at the Rebel Base (both before and after the battle) are really new and white looking, but the models used during the Death Star battle are heavily weathered and worn with lots of chipped paint.

Wow the bottom of that barrel must be pretty clean by now lol

In Star Wars Rebels Capitan Rex wears a stormtrooper helmet and is incredibly inaccurate till he shouts he can't see in it then throws it off and hits right on target first shot

There's a bird in the Lars Homestead. I didn't notice until I saw the blu-ray copy. When Owen walks into the circular pit area (one of the last shots of him alive) you can see a bird flying away from the spot above him. When Tarkin was interrogating Leia Peter Cushing's boots were so uncomfortably tight that George allowed him to wear carpet slippers, since the bottom of the frame was well above his knees, though he still needed boots for the wide shots.

I'm surprised there were so few people on the entire planet of Alderaan.

What about: "Your father's light saber... This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster; an elegant weapon for a more civilized age."? Though it seems a stretch to consider a pocket arc-welder that cauterises limbs (and heads) as they are lopped off "civilized".

She dropped the accent due to the seriousness of the situation (destruction of a planet). She has the accent at the beginning of the movie. The accent is part of her political role. Queen Amidala did the same thing

When Obi-wan left Luke at the control room, he said, "... and may the force be with you."

I noticed the Tuscan Raider's loop in the TV commercial for Star Wars before it was released in theaters. It made me wonder why they used such a cheap trick for what looked to be such a cool movie.

Listen carefully in Return of the Jedi and you will hear some Jawa sound effects reused as Ewok voices and speaking phrases.

03:34 you can see his eyes for a moment

The reason Alderan’s defenses didn’t do anything against the Death Star is because IT WASN’T A GIANT MIRROR!!!!! If it HAD been that…the Death Star would have blown itself up xD

i didn't miss any of that, because most of it I would have had no way of knowing to begin with

He says hello there

I always assumed Leia switched to a British sounding accent when talking with Tarkin because in Star Wars, most people in the core worlds and the more influential worlds, and especially in the Imperial Senate and the higher ranks, would have had that accent, and thus as a member of the Imperial Senate from Alderaan, she was simply accustomed to using that accent when speaking with Imperial officials.

So Darth Vader only had 8 minutes of screen time? Well, when you think of Hellraiser I'd say the majority of people immediately think of the wonderfully iconic image of Pinhead (or, as he was known in that film, "Lead Cenobite") but HE only had about 5 minutes screen time. My point? if you're badass you don't need to always be there . . .

No theme? Binary Sunset, also known as the music for Luke Skywalker, and the Throne Room are two of the biggest themes of the entire saga!

Bit of trivia for you about the Stormtroopers. a lot of them were from 24 Support Squadron, Royal Engineers (they were in all three OT films as well as playing German soldiers in the Indian Jones films) They were very familiar with the SMG and it was them that switched to left handed

When the team get back from blowing up the Death Star, doesn't Luke yell over to Leia calling her "CARRIE!!" ?

The blaster noise is from a taut steel cable being hit.

Bonus fact. obi wan and vader's lightsabers hit each other 42 times

1.5 billion kills thats alot of XP right there no wonder he became so powerful.

I learned about the IG-unit heads & Luke & Han's impromptu dialogue only a few years ago, but I happened to noticed the Tusken footage rocking back & forth a while ago

Obi-Wan only heard 1 million voices crying out when Alderaan was destroyed. So it would seem that was a very small population of the planet

According to Wiki, "the population of the Death Star was 1.7 million military personnel, 400,000 maintenance droids, and 250,000 civilians, associated contractors and catering staff." If that's really the case, Luke committed a supreme act of mass murder, putting him up there with Pol Pot! As Han Solo liked to say, "I've got a bad feeling about this."

Jango was left handed

"These are not the DROIDS you are looking for." An iconic BEN saying , becoming a popular cultural saying as the franchise became more popular

I would say the “hello there” line is pretty infamous as it is used in the prequels aswell

So we're just going to ignore the fact that Alec Guinness' Obi-Wan, said the original "Hello there" in this movie?!?! Nah, what do I know, that's not iconic at all.. 🙄🤦‍♂️

That dragon skeleton was originally from the movie One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing. You're welcome.

mad about me (the cantina band song) is the best soundtrack in the movie, and covered by the band Ash too!

Excellent job 👏 👍 👌 🙌 😀

fairly sure the troopers hold the guns like that because vader was based off a certain tyrannical leader who believed left handers were superior. might be a stretch but you never know

1:17 What?!! "Mos Isley Spaceport: never has there been a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious." "These aren't the droids you're looking for." I hardly ever get to use the first one, but the second gets quoted frequently!

I certainly did miss that masive yellow arrow.

I noticed the "Wilhelm Scream" emitted by the Trooper as he fell off ledge...

Weren't Stormtroopers clones? So if the original was left-handed all of them would be too.

To that 2+ billion deaths you have to add those added in post when they reissued the original films (so glad I still have the originals on VHS).

Almost 50 years ago... I can't wrap my head around that

What about the escape pod the droids escape in in the first minutes of the movie... when they climb in the side of the pod facing the ship is a set of doors they climb through to get into the pod, when you see the pod leave the ship from the perspective of the ship those doors magically turn into four small rocket motor nozzles and then the view flicks to inside the pod where the double doors and then four rocket thruster nozzles are now a large window for the droids to look back at the ship they just left.

Mark Hamill calling Carrie Fisher by her real name when he returned after destroying the Death Star

1. Make a scifi movie with ground-breaking special effects that raise the benchmark for every scifi movie that follows. 2. Stretch an action scene by running it backwards and forwards a couple of times.

The imperial march is used in Return of the Jedi also

I want to say the Krayt Dragon must be the most inconsistent creature in Star Wars. Every time we see one, it looks totally different as far as I can recall. A New Hope, Knights of the Old Republic, The Mandalorian

Is missed it ever being called a new hope. It was always just Star Wars

Why is it that Vader's helmet changes from grubby to shiny black and back to grubby in different scenes ?

Gareth = sexy hunk! Enough said there. The only version of Star Wars (No, Not A New Hope... Star Wars!) i watch is the De-specialised version of the original release i saw in 1977. Anything else is like painting the Statue of Liberty pink, covering the Eiffel Tower in glitter or adding even worse special effects to the tacky skyline of Hong Kong.

Most likely the cloned storm troopers were all left handed because they are clones

Fantastic film history.

"The Force is what gives a Jedi Knight his power... It surrounds us, it penetrates us, it binds the Galaxy together..."

"These are not the droids you are looking for"

I was hoping we'd learn why Obi-Wan's cloak didn't get shredded when Vader killed him.

After the trash compactor scene we see Luke and Han back in their original clothing. But where was it? The body sleeve under the stormtrooper armor doesn't have room for all of that, especially Han's vest.

No obi wan said hello there which is the best line now

Is the Mark Hamill's number part referring to telling Threepio to open 326-3827 after almost getting crushed in the garbage masher? Luke was the one who was talking to Threepio on the comlink, why would Han be relaying the number?

I’m sure lot of people had noticed this but in NH when Vader is chasing Luke in the trench, there is some light shining in on his helmet and you can see the actor’s eye underneath. Also the color of the helmet eye piece themselves were a dark red but in the following movies (ESB, ROTJ) it got changed to dark black.

The Death Stars laser overheated the planetary shield and forced a shutdown allowing it to hit the surface.

Calling it right now, I bet I'll know all of these

“The force will be with you. Always.” Is an iconic line. Get your facts straight.

I noticed the Tuscan loop first viewing 🤷🏼‍♂️🤓😎✌🏻

It's just Star Wars... Nothing else.

I still prefer the original 1977 theatrical release version of Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope) which I consider to be nearly perfect, of course George Lucas felt that he needed to do a little fine tuning to it with his digitally remastered version that had changed a few scenes that I feel never needed to be changed.

I'll take your word for Vader's Theme not being in episode four, but I swear it was on the original soundtrack release. My dad bought it on vinyl after we say it in the theater. (I was eight at the time, so I might be wrong...)

wasnt alderaan the first target of the death star? even though the rebels had the plans i doubt any government actually believed that such a firepower was actually possible. So a planet wide shield seems a bit overkill

In the orig-trig, jedis don't say MTFBWY because they know it IS with you; it's only rebels who say it. It's a shame they changed that for the prequals because it makes the jedi look like they don't know the force that well

"Alderaan's Shield Didn't Stop the Death Star". Congratulations, you just uncovered the main reason for the Death Star in the first place. A planetary shield could hold up against orbital bombardment indefinitely (cf Episode 5 and the Rebels' ragtag base's small theater shield that effectively ruled out orbital bombardment). A rebelling planet could raise their shield - they would be isolated from the rest of the galaxy except for risky temporary shield openings to allow certain ships through, but they would be safe. For the Empire to truly strike fear in these planets, they needed a weapon that could overwhelm and punch through even the strongest planetary shields. Hence, a giant ship/battlestation with a weapon powerful enough to blast through a shield. And yes, the shield does hold up, temporarily. The beam stops for a few frames and the shield lights up, spreading from the impact point, as it's absorbing and dissipating the energy. It can't keep up and collapses within a fraction of a second, but it's impressive it held up even that long against such an enormous blast.

That Thumbnail! 😆

1:17 these aren't the droids you're looking for

I thought they were all left handed because they were clones??

The original screenplay is available, and Han's intercom lines are in the script. It's plausible he improvised them during a read through and they got incorporated, but what we saw was clearly rehearsed. Also Carrie Fisher spoke with a British/Trans Atlantic accent throughout the original movie.

Im 48; its Star Wars. I saw Star Wars in the theater. Always and only Star Wars. The 2nd film is the Empire Strikes Back and 3rd is Return of the Jedi. 1st is always just Star Wars

8:00 Han always shoots first in self-defence.

Here's one I bet few people know about. Right before the storm troopers blow the door and enter the ship firing, you hear knocking noises, and the rebels look up to see where those noises are coming from. But the first screening of the movie, special speakers were placed above the audience, so those in the audience also were looking up.

i havent missed any of these

Funny the times that Dart Vader is right next to Princess Leia he does not feel that she his daughter.

3:00 the shield is only there to keep their air in. The empire disabled it because they hacked the security code for the shield. It was 1, 2,3,4

Good stuff loved the original trilogy