Explaining the Mysterious "Force Ghost" in Revenge of the Sith

Movie mistakes happen all the time. The process of creating a feature film involves so many details that it's inevitable that something wrong will make it to the final print. Usually these mistakes are so small and flash by so fast that the vast majority of viewers will never notice. But in the age of home video with pause and rewind capabilities, movie buffs will find them. Filmmaker Todd Vaziri shows us a few of those details from movies like Aliens, Glory, and Goodfellas, but the one he investigated himself is the real story here.

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith came out in 2005. It was ten years later that fans began discussing a strange artifact during the final battle on Mustafar between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker in which a human figure, which came to be called a force ghost, appeared. It was a complicated scene, and no one at Lucasfilm was able to explain it. But in 2024, Vaziri, who works at Industrial Light & Magic, decided to put in whatever time it took to investigate the glitch. He unearthed the raw footage from the scene before it was composited and discovered who that mysterious figure was and how he got into the movie. You can read that story at FXRant.  -via kottke


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I have, buried away somewhere, a very old VHS of the first Star Wars aka Episode IV. In it, there are at least two scenes - when Obi Wan first comes upon R2-D2 hiding, and again at the destroyed Sandcrawler, where you can see Kenny Baker's face behind that little portal on the front of R2's dome.
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