Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones corrections

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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) - 70 corrections

Directed by George Lucas, starring Anthony Daniels, Christopher Lee, Ewan McGregor, Frank Oz, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid, Kenny Baker, Natalie Portman, Samuel L. Jackson, Temuera Morrison

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When Anakin is enraged because his mother has just died, he kills the first Tusken Raider. It falls over dead but there is no mark from Anakin's lightsaber. [The reason there is no mark on the Tusken's body is because Anakin decapitates it and the cauterized part of the neck is not visible.]

In the Norwegian version of the film, when Padme falls out of the ship on Geonesis, Obi-Wan says: "We have a job to do" (because Anakin wants to go down and pick her up). The subtitles also say: "We have a job to do". The problem is that the subtitles are Norwegian, so it should say "Vi har en jobb aa gjoere." [A mistake made by the Norwegian subtitlers, not the movie makers.]

In the scene just after Obi-Wan jumps out of the window onto the ASN-121 Assisin Droid You see Captain Typho and some others walk into Padme's room but how did they know to come. [R2D2 was programmed to alert everyone if anything happened in her room. The captain was obviously alerted when Anakin and Obi-Wan ran into the room.]

When Mace Windu gets off of the Gunship and starts to run into battle you see him being shot at but it is only after he looks to see if troops are following him that he starts to deflects the shots. [He is only deflecting the shots that come close to him. He knew those shots were going to miss him otherwise if those shots had hit him, he obviously wouldn't be still standing.]

When Anakin and Obi are in clone ship chasing Count Dooku, Anakin says "Shoot him down " but the pilot say "We're out of rockets." But when Padme falls out and the Jedi have an argument, look on the wing: there are 4-5 air to air rockets. [They are not air to air rockets because they look different and the rockets feed from the wings not under the wings.]

In the shot where Count Dooku's electric bolts (force lightning) strikes Anakin, Anakin's light sabre is on. In the next shot, it is off, even though we never heard the sound of it being turned off. The electric bolts would not be enough to block the sound out completely. [It IS possible that the sound would be drowned out by the loud electric bolts. ]

At the point when Padmé falls out of the ship on Geonosis, Anakin turns to look out of the door after her. As he does so you can briefly see he is wearing a wristwatch with a silver bracelet on his left wrist. [It's not a wristwatch and bracelet,it's the remains of the manacles he was wearing in the arena on Geonosis.]

In the arena battle, the crab-like creature seems to be a complete rip off of the Lurker, from StarCraft - click here to see it. [Paying attention to the detail, they are different.]

The Jedi who throws the lightsabers to Anakin and Obi-wan in the Geonosian arena battle is Steve Sansweet, who works for Lucasfilm as an archivist, is an author of Star Wars books and a collector of merchandise. [That is not Steve Sansweet. According to Lucasfilm, those 2 guys are assistant editor Joseph Jett Sally and visual effects editor Nic Anastassiou. This was mentioned in issue 77, page 88 of the "Star Wars Insider", the official fan club magazine.]

When Anakin jumps off the speeder when they are chasing Zam the assassin and drops to land on Zam's craft, you can see a bulge in the back of his costume that is obviously the shackle which the cable that is holding him is attached to. [There is no cable connected to Haden Christianson (Anakin) in this scene. During the Documentaries on the Episode 2, you can see that Haden Christianson jumps out of the cockpit onto a blue crash mat – no cable required. What appeared to be a bulge on the back of his costume is merely the material of the jacket.]

When Padmé falls from the ship, she's holding her gun, but when she hits the ground, there is no gun to be seen. If she had dropped it, it should have landed near her. [The gun could have simply slipped into the soft sand.]

When Obi-Wan is searching for the planet Kamino in the Jedi Temple library, a space map showing the galaxy and the Rishi's Daedalus is seen. The official Star Wars website says that this is the same galaxy that Luke and Leia can see from the medical ship at the end of Empire Strikes Back. [Bit too tenuous to be trivia].

Watch Obi-wan when he hugs Dex. When he releases, he lifts his hands & arms way too far (and deliberately) away from Dex's shoulders. Because of this awkward motion, it's easy to see that he was hugging nothing, and that Dex was inserted digitally. [Obi-Wan's arms were digitally made. (See the "Clones" DVD) The only real thing kept was the head, so the awkward motion was made by the animators for some reason.]

When Anakin is riding the speeder to where his mother is kept, the speeder has no shadow. [This is simply not true. The shadow is visible.]

Take a look at Obi-Wan's lightsaber. The hilt is exactly the same as it was in The Phantom Menace. ALL hilts are different. If Obi-Wan lost his saber in The Phantom Menace (and believe me, he couldn't get it back after it fell that far) how can he still have the exact same hilt? [Jedi build their own lightsabres and make their own choices about appearance and so forth - Obi-wan has no reason to change, so he's simply built a new one identical to his previous one.] Corrected by Tailkinker

In the introduction, when text flows across the screen, the words "ten thousand solar systems" appear. Strictly speaking, there is only one Solar system - ours. A star with planets is a "star system", our star is called "Sol", hence, the Solar System. This trivial error is made in many sci-fi films, BUT the Star Wars series has never fallen into this error before. Remember Episode IV, where Leia says something like, "The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers" (and that's only one example). So why, why, why has George Lucas allowed such a trivial but irksome error to be made here? [Some people have debated this point, saying that "Solar" from the Latin "Sol", can mean any star system, but it's backed up in the Isaac Asimov book "Nemesis". He knows a thing or two about sci-fi, and in the book a new star is discovered and called Nemesis, and its system is referred to as the "Nemetic system", as opposed to our own "Solar system".] [Tormont Webster's dictionary defines 'sun' as "any star that is the center of a planetary system." "Solar system" is just a 'sun system' (or 'star system with planets') with a Latin derivation. Isaac Asimov is a science-fiction writer, keyword being 'fiction'. George Lucas describes his films as fantasy, not sci-fi, but manages to use science knowledge when correctly calling them solar systems.]

When Anakin and Padmé enter Watto's shop, you can hear someone shout 'CUT'. Another sound was placed over, but it is still there. [As stated in a previous correction - There is indeed a short shout in the background, but it's not obviously "cut" - it could pretty much be any short cry, as could be expected in a market-place environment.]]

98 degrees and various other pop stars and famous actors are some of the Jedi in the big climactic mass battle. You notice that every single member of 98 degrees is shot and killed. [This was a long-running rumour before the release of Episode II, usually revolving around N*Sync. George Lucas has since denied any such cameos, and even a careful viewing of the scene fails to turn anything up.]

When the vehicle sent by Zam the assassin cuts a hole in the window through which the centipeds enter Padme's bedroom, the laser's blue light cutting the circular hole is seen, and then the centipeds enter through it, but no glass is seen falling as a result, nor is it seen on the floor where the centipedes land. [He didn't cut it, he completely disintegrated it.]

Considering the abundance of "hyper-aware" Jedi knights in the arena during the battle against Dooku's droids, why is Padme the one that first notices the arrival of Yoda and the clone army? The Jedi were perhaps focusing on the battle before them, but so was Padme. [She isn't. You can see some of the Jedi hearing something and looking in various directions before Padme looks up. Padme only says anything about it first, if anything demonstrating her lack of "Jedi-ness" - the Jedis didn't need to say anything, as they knew they'd all be aware of the army's arrival.]