Backstroke of the West Trivia

Here is a page listing much **trivia** for Star War The Third Gathers: The Backstroke of the West.

## Trivia

* As the two images show, the Internet phenomena or meme of Reaching The West Of Reaches cry wasn't solely his cry. His wife, The Plum Of shouted it first after he called her a 'Lier.' So please correct that dear fans.
* Fans always wondered if there would be some background commentary, some bloopers videos or a list of voice actors. Alas, that never materialised. However, recently, Speaker D's voice actor was interviewed. He is Benjamin Norman Pierce. You can view Pierce here. It is also revealed that the voice actor for Reaching The West Of Reaches is Tom Schalk. The full list of voice actors has now been revealed and it is posted on the main page.
* The 'founder' of the actually Backstroke DVD, Jeremy Winterson, was also recently interviewed here and here. The B part may not be heard sometimes.
* According to Jeremy, to access the hilarious bootleg subtitles, you click on 'Englisih Chinese'. See the third image on the right.
* While the original script was translated from English to Hanyu Pinyin and back again to create the hilarious script, there were some cases where the translation did not have any relation to the scene. "Kill these two republics bodyguard" has no relation to the actual line, "Just as Count Dooku predicted." Similarly, the line from Gold, "Exterminate them" has no relation to the actual line "destroyer droids". The best was the line "Behind the person do not push" which was not a translation from the canon script. Jeremy Winterson noticed all this himself. Also when Speaker D said, "very good the ratio is prosperous" that has no relation to the in-canon words and some fan mistakenly think it refers to Ratio Tile.
* The cry Do not want was not the only time Gold or Reaches repeated what his wife said. While discussing the war and The Plum Of was blaming him for starting it, The Plum Of remarked "You say what?" In a later scene, after D The Superior sprouted his nonsense about the dark, Gold repeated what his wife said.
* There is foreshadowing in the script and thus the dub. First Gold tells Space General, "you and not equal to I think severe." Not longer after, the West Emperor aka the D, tell the general, "My new- accepted disciple, younger than him (meaning The), more severe." This explicitly informs viewers who the next disciple is. Of course, in-canon fans already know who he is.
* A second foreshadow is the creation of the Empire of the First Choice from the Gram Republic. The bootleg was found by Jeremy Winterson in around 2005. Years later, in the in-canon movie titled, *The Force Awakens*, we learn of the First Order. So that's how that organisation got its name.
* A third foreshadow is when Ratio Tile states, "disable person must solve" to The Peaceful Is Willing To. Years later, the canon character solves the whole Milky Way conflict in the Original Trilogy.
* The canon and thus the script and dub ends when Blow the Skin says "over". For three minutes there's not dialogue and therefore humour and the next seven minutes are the credits. The humour re-starts with the line, "written by George Lucas."
* Reaching the Rest of Reaches proclaims, " I not elephant you be afraid the **dark world** so." Actress Natalie Portman would later act in a movie titled, *Thor: The Dark World*.
* The canon movie had some political themes but the bootleg script and dub further added political themes. For example:
	+ Allah Gold is elated and openly advocates "less freedom with more wars," which could reflect the Patriot Act and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
	+ A Troopseses reminds his colleague that they are **Republicans** although there is no implication of abortion or gun rights. Perhaps The Plum Of's birth shows she is pro-life?
	+ The D's political enemies, the Presbyterian Church attempt to discredit him by prying into his sex life may be similar to Bill Clinton's sex scandal and the Ken Starr investigations.
	+ The whole story is the Presbyterian Church fighting the West which could reflect the Cold War and the current political and military tensions between Western nations and the People's Republic of China. After all, the chief Elder, Vanquish Is declares, "we must ruin the West."
	+ Reaches tells Ratio if he's not with Reaches, then Ratio is Reaches' enemy. That sounds exactly like what George W Bush Junior line, "Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."
* Unlike the canon movie, characters in the bootleg are in many simultaneous or former romantic relationship with others. Allah Gold with the D, formerly with The, Ratio Tile (therefore implied to be gay) married to The Plum Of (who accuses him of having an affair). Ratio Tile with Gold. The D obviously a gay starting an "unpresented relationship" with Gold and the Presbyterian Church wishing to discover his sexual activities. Space General greeting to Ratio and Gold implied he loves them more than professionally. Even Blow the Skin said, "Take good care of, my kid." It could indicate that R2 is his child or even Gold is although by then Gold became Reaching The West Of Reaches. Senator made Skin his wife even though afterwards we see Senator with a human female wife. The exceptions are Vanquish Is and Text How Big.
* Text How Big came out as an anti-black black Presbyterian Church elder. In an earlier Star Wars spoof titled, Star Wars A Lost Hope, a parody of Revenge of the Sith, the character for in-canon character Windu says, "Why does everything have to be black with you?" to Obi-Wan and "Why am I the only black Jedi on the Jedi council?" Quite the opposite.

The Chinese translation got one line correct. Gold screams, "I need him!" which is the same as in canon.

* As of January 2023, the dub has **10 million views** and **105K likes**!