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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) - 38 trivia entries

Directed by George Lucas, starring Ahmed Best, Anthony Daniels, Ewan McGregor, Frank Oz, Ian McDiarmid, Jake Lloyd, Kenny Baker, Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman, Ray Park, Samuel L. Jackson, Terence Stamp (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-fi

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On Corucsant, there is one building that looks like the Chrysler Building in New York. There is also a skyscraper that looks like the project of the mile-high building by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Just before Watto decides to use the chance cube with Qui-Gon, there is somebody working on a podracer behind them. This is in fact Don Bies, the creator and controller of the radio-controlled version of R2-D2.

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When the two Jedis and Jar-Jar make surface in Theed, you can see in the background Nathan Hamil, the son of Mark, being arrested by two combat droids.

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When Anakin takes Padme (Queen Amidala) into his room for the first time, you can see hanging from the wall and ceiling two Nerf Scoop toys painted in metallic silver. They look like the equipment that lacrosse players use but have a shorter handle.

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Actress/director Sofia Coppola plays one of the two maids of Amidala, when she speaks to Senator Palpatine on the hologram.

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Scattered about Watto's junk shop are a number of references to "Star Wars" (1977) and other sci-fi films -2001: A Space Odyssey's probe, and the head and shoulders of the Terminator's metallic skeleton (it could be the kind of medical droid visible at the end of "The Empire Strikes Back").

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Make sure to stay until the end of the credits.

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A scene was made (but not included in the final film) where young Greedo and Anakin get into a fight after the pod race (Greedo accuses Anakin of cheating). Greedo is warned that with that kind of behavior, he could get himself into trouble in the future. And of course, in Episode IV, he's blasted to pieces by Han Solo.

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Before she was cast as Queen Amidala, Natalie Portman had never seen "Star Wars".

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When Anakin is in the Naboo fighter, look closely at the symbols under the astro droid well. The symbols are the same as the one on the Led Zepplin CD "Zoso," one of the designers' favorite bands.

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The vocals during the end celebration (Track 18 on the soundtrack, "Augie's Great Municipal Band") is the same piece of music as the Emperor's haunting theme used in Return of the Jedi, only up-tempo and sung by children. (This has led some people to believe that Palpatine's first name is "Augie" or "Augustus.").

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The ball at the centre of the Trade Federation's droid control ship is a tribute to the Death Star.

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After the shots of Darth Maul releasing his probes we see a shot of people walking around. If you listen carefully to the three Jawas which walk from left to right then you will hear one of them say sh*t.

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When you see Jar-Jar Binks sleeping in Queen Amidala's spaceship, he looks exactly like Ruby Rhod sleeping after the explosion of Fhloston Paradise in "The Fifth Element" (1997).

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The tactic used by the Federation army during the invasion of Naboo capital city is the same used by the German army during the Blitzkrieg.

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At the end, the droid that Jar-Jar pushes over has 4 symbols on its back which look almost exactly like 1138 - yet another reference in George Lucas' films to his first effort.

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Anakin's mother, being a slave, has little identity. Interestingly, "Shmi" in Hebrew means "this is my name".

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In the scene when the Neimodians order the combat droids to capture the Queen, right after you see the Jedis hidden, a droid has DD written on his back: the symbol of Dolby Digital.

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