10 Hidden Easter Eggs in Star Wars Movies Description for YouTube
Everyone loves Star Wars, right?
And everyone loves an Easter egg.
So what could possibly be more enjoyable than hunting for Easter eggs in Star Wars movies?
Well, quite a lot actually, but that's not the point!
The point is, there are a lot of Easter eggs in the Star Wars franchise.
Ever since 1977's A New Hope - and all the way up to 2015's The Force Awakens and 2016's
Rogue One - each movie has been teaming with fun inclusions and references that eagle-eyed
viewers love to spot.
Here are ten hidden Easter eggs in Star Wars movies.
Finn's Stormtrooper ID In 2015's The Force Awakens, one of the main
characters was John Boyega's Finn, who starts the movie as a Stormtrooper before reforming.
When he was a Stormtrooper, we heard him being referred to as FN-2187 - the only name he
was ever given - and that number has more significance than you might think.It's actually
the number of the cell block where Princess Leia was held in the very first Star Wars
movie.
Even more interestingly, 21-87 is the name of a short, abstract 1963 Canadian film that
was a huge influence on Star Wars' creator George Lucas when he was a young man.
https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/12/23/10/landscape_movies-star-wars-the-force-awakens-trailer-01.jpghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3C83hzkg7o The Flags Outside Maz Kanata's Bar
Staying with 2015's The Force Awakens, there's a particular Easter egg - or collection of
Easter eggs - that throws back to a number of previous movies in the franchise.
And it comes in the form of a number of flags.We're referring to the flags decorating the exterior
of Maz Kanata's bar, because they all seem to correspond to something from the Star Wars
movies from the past - with many having first appeared during the podrace scene in The Phantom
Menace, for example.
There are also some flags bearing symbols that appear on Boba Fett's outfit from both
The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
E.T.'s Friends In 1999's The Phantom Menace, Queen Amidala
goes to the Galactic Core planet of Coruscant to do some political negotiating, and she
gets involved in a session with the Galactic Senate - the governing body of the Galactic
Republic.The Senate is attended by representatives of different worlds and species from around
the Star Wars universe - but also some from another movie universe.
If you look closely enough, you'll see three members of E.T.'s species - a typical and
classic nod by George Lucas to his close friend Steven Spielberg.
A Trio of Cameos In 2002's Attack of the Clones, there is a
scene in which Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker follow Zam Wesell into a bar - and, in the
bar, a number of Easter eggs can be found, including three in the form of cameos by some
notable people.Two Coruscant security officers acknowledge the presence of the Jedis in the
bar - one of whom is played by an out-of-costume Anthony Daniels, who plays C-3PO, the other
whom is played by Ahmed Best, who plays Jar-Jar Binks.
There is also a cameo by one of George Lucas' children - she plays an alien character with
tendrils on her head.https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2014-05/enhanced/webdr05/6/18/enhanced-18423-1399414619-28.jpghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKxN3EXAkvI The Millennium Falcon
Our final Easter egg from the Star Wars prequel trilogy comes from 2005's Revenge of the Sith
- and it's a fun inclusion that gives a nod to the original trilogy.After Obi-Wan Kenobi
and Anakin Sywalker infiltrate General Grievous' ship, the villain flees from it and the Jedis
crash-land what is left of it on Coruscant.
They are then taken away in a transporter vehicle.
As the transporter goes to land, in the lower right of the screen you can see none other
than the Millennium Falcon (although it is very, very small on the screen)!
Cell Block 1138 We now come to the original trilogy and the
first movie to be released in the Star Wars franchise - 1977's A New Hope - and it's basically
an Easter egg in which George Lucas gives a nod to himself.It comes from the scene in
which Han Solo and Luke Skywalker are in Stormtrooper suits, pretending they captured Chewbacca
in order to save Princess Leia in the Death Star.
When they're asked what they're doing, Luke replies "prisoner transfer from cell block
1138", which is a reference to THX 1138 - the first movie Lucas ever directed.
Mickey Mouse George Lucas happens to be a huge Disney fan
- when he was 11, he was at Disneyland on the day it opened, for example - and what
are Disney known for?
Well, a lot of things actually, but one them is the "hidden Mickey" phenomenon.It should
come as no surprise, then, that there is a hidden Mickey in 1980's The Empire Strikes
Back.
The hidden Mickey can be seen in the background in Cloud City as Luke Skywalker fights Darth
Vader.
Coincidentally, this also turned out to be a foreshadowing of the fact that Disney now
owns Lucasfilm and the distribution rights to the modern Star Wars movies.
The Crowd Surfing Stormtrooper Our final Easter egg from the original Star
Wars trilogy comes from 1983's Return of the Jedi - and this one's nothing more than a
fun little inclusion from right at the end of the movie.
In one of the celebration scenes, just before the Emperor's statue falls down, there's a
crowd of people at the bottom of the screen.
As the camera pans by them to the left, if you look closely, you'll see a Stormtrooper
crowd surfing - which, we're sure you'll agree, isn't something you see every day!
Kelvin Ridge Back to 2015's The Force Awakens now, and
to the scene in which Rey first encounters the droid BB-8.
Rey mentions a placed called Kelvin Ridge.
Kelvin is the name of the movie's director JJ Abrams’ grandfather - and it's one of
his favourite Easter eggs, so it's a name he sneaks into nearly all of his movie projects.Another
example of that came in his first Star Trek movie, in which the starship in the opening
scene was the USS Kelvin.
The Jedi Statue Whether or not you consider this to be an
Easter egg or not, we wanted to include something from the last Rogue One trailer - and this
was certainly a fun inclusion that got a lot of people talking.It's the destroyed ruins
of a gigantic Jedi statue from the holy Force-sensitive planet of Jedha.
It looks absolutely gorgeous, but which Jedi is it?
Obi-Wan Kenobi?
Luke Skywalker?
Someone else entirely?
What does it mean?
We will surely find out in due course and we're very excited about it.
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