Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith corrections

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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) - 85 corrections

Directed by George Lucas, starring Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid, Jimmy Smits, Natalie Portman, Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Daniels, Christopher Lee, Frank Oz, James Earl Jones, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew

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When Aayla Secura (the female Jedi with blue skin) is killed on Felucia, in the first shot of her, she's holding a lightsabre in her right hand. In the next shot, the same sabre is clipped to her belt, and her right hand is empty. In the following shot, she's holding it again and there's no lightsabre hanging from her belt. (Even if she carries two lightsabres, it offers no explanation for this specific mistake.) [She carries one lightsaber. It's just that she's holding it in her right hand as they're walking, then clips it to her belt between the first and the second shot, just after they stop in front of the droids (there are droids in the foreground if you look closely when they stop). Notice how her hand is on the saber in the second shot, like she just placed it there and is ready to draw it if something happens. Something happens in the next shot, she senses the danger in the Force, and draws it. Just before she is shot, she's holding the saber as if she just unclipped it from the position we saw it in the previous shot. Obviously some time passes between the shots.]

In the scene where Anakin and Obi-Wan rescue the chancellor, the chair that Palpatine is sitting in and the pedestal it's standing on keeps changing position between shots, sometimes dramatically. For example, in the second shot of the scene, the chair and the pedestal are standing in the middle of the floor in front of the great window, in the next shot, they are standing on the right side of the window. [It seems they are changing position because of the angle. In the first and last shot that the chair is visible, we look at it from a distance and from a straight angle. In all the other shots the camera is on the right and that is why it seems to be closer to the right side of the window.]

In the beginning of the great space battle, Odd Ball says, "Set S-foils in attack position" but his mouth is closed. [It is the clone behind him saying this; all clones voices sound alike and it is difficult to see his mouth move.]

When the Emperor tells Commander Cody to execute order 66, it cuts to a shot of the Emperor looking at a hologram of Commander Cody. The device that Commander Cody is holding doesn't project a hologram in the hologram. Yet when Yoda is talking to the Jedi council on Kyahsak, other members, such as Ki-Adi-Mundi appear as holograms inside Yoda's hologram. [Well, it is not important for Cody to see the hologram in the hologram. The recording facility at the emperors end might be focused only at the emporer or might simply not record a holo-projection. It might just be a simplier form of holo-communication for longer distances. Lots of reasons to use different forms of communication detail.] Corrected by Christoph Galuschka

When Grievous arrives on Utapau after the battle with Obi-Wan & Anakin, he talks with the hologram of Sidious in his disfigured state, but this disfigurement is caused by his battle with the Jedi Mace Windu (as he tells an audience himself later in the film)later on in the film. So really Grievous should be talking to the healthy looking and normal speaking Palpatine. [The face of Sidious is not mutated when Grievous talks to him. All we can see of Sidious' face in the hologram is his mouth and chin, which don't look much different after he is mutated compared to before he's mutated.]

When Mace Windu is deflecting Darth Sidious' lightning bolts (force lightning), Sidious says, "Don't let him kill me" but the first three words don't match the movement of his lips. [This is a result of Sidious' face mutating due to the reversal of his force lightning.]

When Obi-Wan and Anakin escape from their bounds and tackle Grievous's bodyguards at the beginning of the film Obi-wan decapitates the last bodyguard. But it still lives and is able to fight him. Later when Obi-Wan drops the huge block on the bodyguards, before he fights Grievous, one bodyguard gets up and goes for its weapon. Obi-Wan kills this bodyguard by cutting off its head. [The bodyguard was already badly damaged from being hit by the block - as such, the decapitation was enough to stop it. In the earlier instance, the guard was otherwise unscathed, so is able to continue functioning despite the loss of its head.] Corrected by Tailkinker

When Mace Windu is talking to Yoda, Ki-Adi-Mundi and Aayla Secura via holograms in the Jedi war room, as he says, "The Jedi Council would have to take control of the Senate in order to secure a peaceful transition.", his lightsabre is visible. A short time later, when he confronts Darth Sidious, he is carrying a different sabre. (He only has one sabre.). [Even if he only uses one saber at a time, there is nothing wrong with Mace Windu owning more than one saber. And since the confrontation with Palpatine happens some time later, he could have switched to one with a different design. Maybe the one he used against Palpatine had some specific functions the other did not?] Corrected by Twotall

When Count Dooku drops the platform on Obi-Wan, Obi-Wan's lightsabre is nowhere to be seen, but when Anakin goes to pick him up, it is lying on the floor next to him. [That is because Obi-Wan is lying on the saber. It becomes visible when Anakin moves him.] Corrected by Mortug

After Anakin is accepted on the Jedi Council, Ki-Adi-Mundi says, "What about the droid attack on the Wookies?", but the words are heard before his lips start moving. [It's hard to see but under his moustache you can see his lips move through the whole sentence.] Corrected by Mortug

When Samuel L. Jackson says, "I don't think the boy can handle it, I don't trust him," his lips don't match his dialogue when he says, "I don't trust him." [After watching the scene several times i can tell his lips match.] Corrected by Mortug

In the scene where Anakin is holding onto the ledge in the elevator shaft, with Obi-Wan holding onto Anakin, Palpatine is holding onto Obi-Wan's ankle. When they decide to jump down, Palpatine lets go of Obi-Wan's ankle to free fall. In the very next shot, Palpatine is magically holding onto Obi-Wan's ankle again. [He was able to grab on to Obi-Wan's ankle when they were falling.] Corrected by Mortug

After Obi-wan and Yoda arrive at the Jedi temple to find all the slain Jedi, there is shot of them standing together, a pile of 'younglings' on the floor. One small boy, his face to the camera, visibly twitches and blinks as Obi-Wan remarks that, 'even the younglings,' were killed. [Every single one of the kids lies perfectly still; none of them as much as blink.] Corrected by Mortug

When Anakin and Obi-Wan activate their lightsabers to battle Count Dooku, Anakin's saber doesn't make any sound when it activates. [It does make a sound. If you can not hear it then your left channel of sound must be disabled. His lightsaber sound comes only from the left channel.]

When Windu and the other Jedi fight Chancellor Palpatine, their original intention is to arrest him. Yet later when Anakin walks in on Windu, Windu says that he has control of the Senate and the Courts and is too dangerous to be kept alive. [That's Mace Windu's decision, and he obviously changes his mind when he sees just how powerful and dangerous Palpatine is with his own eyes. If Palpatine had come willingly, or at least refrained from killing the Jedi, Windu most likely would have tried to subdue him peacefully.] Corrected by Twotall

What the heck happened to Yoda between the trilogies? In Episode III, he was strong, wise, solemn, like Mace Windu. But when Luke meets him in Episode V, he's nearly insane. He says to Luke, "Away put your weapon, I mean you no harm." while cowering to Luke's blaster. Yoda is a Jedi Master & very strong in the Force. Why is he nothing like he was in the 1st trilogy? [Yoda is faking it in "Empire." It is a test to see how Luke reacts to a small, silly, harmless creature and how long Luke's patience would last. Observe when Luke fails this test and throws down his dinner, exclaiming "I'm wasting my time," how Yoda's behaviour changes instantly to the old, wise Jedi master.] Corrected by Twotall

In the scene when Yoda and Obi-Wan take out the clones guarding the Jedi temple watch the last clone that Yoda kills. The wound appears on the clone but Yoda's Saber didn't quite touch it. [The clone trooper shoots at Yoda, and Yoda deflects the laser bolt, which hits the stormtrooper and causes the wound.]

When Aayla Secura, the blue-skinned female Jedi, is killed, in the first shot, she's holding her lightsabre in her right hand (look closely in the lower left hand corner). In the next shot, the sabre is clipped to her belt, but in the following shot, she's holding it again. [Aayla Secura carries 2 sabers.]

When Anakin and Obi-Wan are fighting on the table in the control centre, you can see the faces of the stunt doubles in some shots. For example, in the shot before Obi-Wan kicks Anakin for the second time, the face of Hayden Christensen's stuntman is obvious. [There were no stuntmen used for this duel, all the fighting was done by Hayden and Ewan. They only used digital images for the superhuman jumping, but no stuntmen.]

When Obi Wan watches the hologram where Anakin takes a bow to the Emperor, Anakin can be seen in front of the Emperor. Later in that scene, Anakin is left to him. [This is two different conversations with the Emperor. We don't see the second conversation between Anakin and the Emperor, except on the hologram.]