Celebrating the day of Star Wars with 20 interesting facts about the series

Although there are discrepancies between the fans of the legendary saga, there are many who consider the May 4th day of Star Wars because of the phonetic resemblance between the phrase "May the Force be with you", one of the most memorable of the series and the history of cinema, and "May the 4th be with you."

As expected the term has now become one of the most used hashtag day in Twitter and many are celebrating the day of Star Wars in different ways both online and in the real world, celebration of which is of course home also wanted to unite and so this post with facts and trivia, a more familiar than others-about movies.

Without further delay I leave with the promise and any input from you readers in the comments are very welcome as always. Happy Star Wars Day!

Facts and trivia about Star Wars

• In total the series has raised U.S. $ 5,510 million, making it the third most successful of all time

• Star Wars: The Clone Wars is the only film that is not part of the original trilogies

• The first film in the franchise, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope , was released on May 25, 1977 and spent 28 years since then until George Lucas adjourned with Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

• The saga has also suffered many parodies . An example:

• Taught Lucas Star Wars: Episode IV before it was released to Brian de Palma and Spielberg. The first said that the premiere and the second would be an unprecedented success

• In all six films in the series have won 89 awards including Oscars, BAFTA and Golden Globe

• George Lucas has admitted being inspired by all sorts of things to create the Star Wars universe, from the medieval knights to the air battles of World War II passed through such films as Spartacus

• Both the soundtrack of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope as the Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone were conducted by John Williams and there are many who argue that there are many more similarities between the history of both tape

• Among the material that was released over the years about the films, we have from images of the process of filming and production to the first storyboards

• Star Wars is not just the movies, have also created several video games in the series, comics, books, role play or TV series

• In the first film in the franchise there is only one computer-generated scene

• There are several lists that are compiled errors films such as Star Wars the Movie Mistakes to failures Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

• When it began production of the first film this was called "Adventures of Luke Starkiller, as taken from the journal of the Whills, Saga I: The Star Wars"

• In the first film put James Earl Darth Vader voice, Sebastian Shaw, David Prowse face and body

• Only between 1978 and 1986 sold 250 million figures of the characters in the film

• As always imagined to achieve the effect of "difficulty breathing" of Darth Vader in the first film used a diving respirator

• In Star Wars: Episode VI Jabba the Hutt mythical specimen of 10 people required to give life (it was something like a huge puppet)

• The actress Sissy Spacek, who a year earlier had starred in the great film Carrie , was one that chose the role of Princess Leia in the first installment of the series

• The soundtrack to the first tape has been the best selling movie history

• There are dozens of videos of Star Wars that became viral such as the following:

Celebrating the day of Star Wars with 20 interesting facts about the series written in ALT1040 on 4 May, 2011 by elias
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