The Star Wars franchise began in 1977 with A New Hope, which is was retroactively named
in 1981.
It quickly became a massive worldwide pop culture phenomenon, and remains so to this
day, with a slew of new Episodes, and spin off films, being released.
So, it shouldn’t be much of a surprise that the films have quite the collection of outtakes
from over the years, including bloopers.
So today, we’re counting down some of our favourites with our list of the top 10 star
wars bloopers!
We’ll be looking at bloopers from within episodes 1 to 8 with no specific focus on
any generation, so there’s something for every Star Wars fan!
Let’s jump in.
10 Slap Reel Starting off our list with a blooper from
the more recent The Last Jedi, we’ve got the outtakes from ALL OF THE SLAPS that Poe
gets dished via General Leia.
While it’s pretty self explanatory, for those of you unfamiliar with what goes into
movie magic, every shot in every scene requires multiple takes - often for variation, to perfect
a camera move, to adjust something in the frame, or to redirect actors.
It’s run of the mill, but when it comes to blocking that requires getting slapped
like poor Oscar Issac here, well, it’s probably not the most fun.
That being said, we do get a great slap reel out of it, and I’m sure being slapped by
the great Carrie Fisher would have been pretty epic, to say the least.
9 Aliens Struggling The Catina scene in A New Hope is absolutely
iconic, and features a ton of memorable aliens and characters.
Upon entering, there are various shots of some of those creatures interacting within
the space.
While they aren’t the main focus, they do add to the detail and the world, making it
much more compelling.
Turns out interacting wasn’t the easiest task for some of these extras playing these
aliens though - in this blooper, two extras have a bit of difficulty keeping up a fake
conversation with one another.
8 Word Jumble In this blooper, Peter Cushing, who plays
Tarkin, stumbles on his line - an aggressive piece of dialogue towards Carrie Fisher’s
Princess Leia.
Except the line doesn’t go as planned, and he stumbles over it, ending with Fisher breaking
into a smile.
Not so evil now, eh?
7 Obi Wan having some trouble Ewan McGregor is a man of many talents.
But sometimes, those talents don’t include climbing.
Or balancing.
Here in this outtake from the chronologically earlier Star Wars films, specifically episode
3, Ewan, who plays a younger Obi Wan in the franchise, is acting in a scene where his
character shoots General Grevious.
After his shot lands, he’s supposed to hop up onto the platform, but can’t quite manage
to get his footing.
6 Baby BB8 What may perhaps be the cutest blooper EVER,
this outtake from The Last Jedi features Rose, who is primarily off screen, opening up a
door to discover new fan favourite robot BB8 behind it.
But it’s not just BB8 - the robot is joined by a miniature version of itself!
To which actress Kelly Marie Tran gasps and excitedly asks where did he come from!
You can also hear someone in the background making a joke exclaiming that BB8 had a baby.
5 Anakin Tumbles In a scene from Star Wars episode 2, Hayden
Christensen’s Anakin, whose romance with Natalie Portman’s Queen Amidala has been
flourishing, gets up from her bed and races out of the room.
Except, instead of doing this smoothly, he collides with members of Padme’s entourage
- who were likely cued to enter the scene a bit too earlier - causing him to slip and
fall while the others awkwardly run into her room, causing Portman to burst out into laughter.
Needless to say, that take definitely didn’t make it into the final cut.
4 R2D2 falls down From Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace,
we have this scene in which our characters are on Naboo.
During the take, R2D2 is moving forward behind the cast, who are standing still listening
to Rugor Nass speak.
But unfortunately the little guy’s leg gets caught on the terrain, causing him to tumble,
and Jar Jar Binks actor Ahmed Best to jump up when it hits his legs.
And it happens twice.
Luckily, for the outtake, Jar Jar was rendered in, in case you were wondering.
3 Palpatine’s Troubles In this outtake from Return of the Jedi, Palpatine
seems to be having some trouble, Or rather, his special effects are.
After a few lack lustre flashes spark off and the rest of the effects don’t kick in,
Vader comes up behind him and comically lifts him up into the air.
It’s at this point that Palpatine gets stuck on his wires, flipping the actor upside down
and dropping his hood, revealing his bald cap and a full head of hair underneath it.
2 Harrison Ford Forgets His Line When an actor forgets their line, what should
they do?
Well, as far as Harrison Ford is concerned, pretending to eat part of his costume is the
answer.
In this hilarious blooper, after Chewie gives Han a big ol slap on the back, Ford completely
forgets what he’s supposed to say, and instead, sticks part of his head piece in his mouth.
1 Stormtrooper troubles Stormtrooper humour amongst the Star Wars
fandom often features some of the best fan driven jokes.
Not to mention the relentless Stormtrooper jokes that have made their way into pop culture,
including the likes of Robot Chicken.
While the films themselves gave us a certain amount of fodder for those laughs, bloopers
like these only fuel the fire, as this group of Stormtroopers in this clip from A New Hope
seem to be having trouble making their way through a whole blasted out in the shape.
In addition to that, when they do manage to make their way through, balancing is no easy
act.
The best part is, it happened multiple times in different shots of the same scene.
In this one, we can see Chewie and Han Solo dirtying the frame, Han in his stolen Stormtrooper
armour, as the effect goes off, disorienting the storm troopers, who are slowly shuffling
out of the hole in the ship, making their ‘death falls’ seem a little more staged
than they should be.
Perhaps the funniest part is watching the line of storm troopers awkwardly try to make
their shots more convincing.
There we go!
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